New & Noteworthy: WebObjects; OmniWeb; OmniOutliner;
New & Noteworthy: WebObjects; OmniWeb; OmniOutliner;
Apple WebObjects 5.1.2 is out.
OmniWeb 4.1b6 is the latest release of this Cocoa-based Web browser. This update enhances tables and frames, fixes a number of bugs, and adds a number of speed improvements.
OmniOutliner 2.0 adds column types, RTF support, sorting, column checkboxes, summary types, calculated values, each item can have a note that appears in a separate text area below the outline. Auto-numbering of rows is now supported. Several numbering styles are available, and the style may be set on a per-level basis. It also adds new keyboard preferences, support for alternating row colors, column background colors, and bug fixes.
Desktop Carousel 1.0 is a Mac OS X application to change or update your desktop picture at specified intervals.
Apple unifies its open source web presence Apple has consolidated the Apple PublicSource site into the Apple Developer Connection website. The Apple Open Source website, formerly http://www.opensource.apple.com/, is now located at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/. This will provide a single point of entry to Open Source resources, and continue to be the reference CVS repository for all Apple's open source projects, including Darwin. In addition, the Internet Software Consortium will now host a new community web server openDarwin.org to provide project members greater latitude in producing incremental updates or interim releases of Darwin.
Aladdin Systems and Activeworlds Corp may merge Aladdin Systems, makers of the StuffIt products, has announced its intent to merge with Activeworlds, which provides software products and online services that permit users to enter, move about and interact with others in a computer- generated, three-dimensional virtual environment using the Internet.
The MathWorks Announces Support for Mac OS X The MathWorks has announced its intention to make MATLAB available for Mac OS X with the next release of the MathWorks product line. Release is expected later this year. (Thanks, Jonathan Simon, John Hopper, and Geraint Rees.)
Gefen's ex-tend-it DVI HUB doubles DVI signal Users can now connect two digital flat panel monitors - or a combination of monitor and projector - to one computer using Gefen's $599 ex-tend-it DVI Hub.
FireWire Depot introduces more new 1394 products The products include the new CDCyclone 40x12x48 FireWire CDRW, rack mount FireWire removable enclosures, more configurations of the multi-device FireWire enclosure series, and new Oxford 911 based bridgeboards.
US cable operators avoid regulatory heat-analysts From Reuters: "As U.S. cable industry executives arrive in the hot, humid Louisiana bayou for their annual convention this week, the heat is likely only from the temperature and not from regulators, analysts said." More.