New & Noteworthy: REALbasic; iSub price cut; PlayerPro; Opera reviews

REALbasic 3.1b1 is a free maintenance update to REALbasic 3.0 which addresses issues with the newest versions of Mac OS X (those released after the Public Beta).

iSub rebate An instant rebate at the Apple Store has cut the price of the Harman Kardon iSub subwoofer to $59.00.

PlayerPro 5.8 Both the commercial and freeware versions of this music Tracker, Player, and Composer all-in-one application are available. New features include an envelopes function (for linear interpolation), volume is now computed on 16bits, which delivers better sound quality, it has full Appearance Manager support, 68k Mac support was removed, and it was compiled with Carbon compatible headers.

Mac owners offer mixed reviews of Opera in this recent CNET article.