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@last Software releases SketchUp 3.1

@last Software releases SketchUp 3.1 01/06/2004 11:53 AM
@Last Software introduced today SketchUp 3.1, the latest release of the company's 3-D design software...

@Last Software previews new SketchUp
extension

@Last Software previews new SketchUp
extension 08/10/2004 10:33 AM
@Last Software is previewing a new pre-visualization extension in their booth at the Siggraph 2004 Expo...

Apple begins shipping iMac G5s

Apple begins shipping iMac G5s 09/13/2004 02:46 PM
Several MacMinute readers report that they have received confirmation from Apple that their iMac G5 orders have shipped...

Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts

Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts 08/05/2004 10:45 PM

Intel Begins Shipping 802.11b/g Module

Intel Begins Shipping 802.11b/g Module 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
Intel Corp. has begun to ship its next-generation 802.11b/g dual-band module, catching up to competitors such as Broadcom Corp.

Apple begins shipping iPod Mini

Apple begins shipping iPod Mini 02/17/2004 03:43 PM
The company says the new, smaller iPod will arrive in Apple stores and authorized retailers at 6 p.m. Friday. The company has also started filling more than 100,000 preorders.

Iomega begins shipping new FireWire REV
drives

Iomega begins shipping new FireWire REV
drives 08/02/2004 12:23 PM
Iomega has begun shipping its FireWire REV drives. These drives offer up to 90GB of storage. Along with being eight times faster than tape drives it costs less (somewhere around half the price of average tape drives).

Data storage leader Iomega has begun shipment of its brand new FireWire version of its Iomega REV drive. The new product, the REV 35GB 1394/Firewire drive, allows Mac users a supposedly powerful, high-performance way to back-up there machines or for large, portable file storage. The REV drive was originally launched back in April, and available in USB 2.0 and ATAPI models. The device got praise from the computer industry and press, and was presented with the "Best of CeBIT America" award. SCSI and Serial ATA models are expected to arrive later in the year.

This new FireWire drive comes in a two-tone design – white and light grey, in order to coordinate with the Mac's other products. That ought to keep fashion-conscious computer-yuppies happy, at least. Each REV FireWire drive will come with a Mac-formatted REV disk, so you can get to work straight out of the box. The disk can apparently be "easily reformatted" for PC users.

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Apple Begins Shipping Xserve G5 to
Customers

Apple Begins Shipping Xserve G5 to
Customers 04/09/2004 04:02 PM

LG Electronics Begins Shipping 3G Mobile
Phones to Hutchison

LG Electronics Begins Shipping 3G Mobile
Phones to Hutchison 06/08/2004 04:27 AM
Yonhap News Jun 8 2004 8:08AM GMT

Toshiba begins shipping XDR DRAM sample
chips

Toshiba begins shipping XDR DRAM sample
chips 12/25/2003 10:10 PM

Apple begins shipping Xsan file system

Apple begins shipping Xsan file system 01/04/2005 11:21 AM
Apple on Tuesday announced it has begun shipping its "high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system," Xsan. “Apple’s pro video and IT customers now have an affordable, high performance SAN file system on Mac OS X,” Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller said. “Together, Apple’s Xsan file system software and Xserve RAID storage hardware deliver a powerful, easy-to-manage, enterprise class SAN solution at a breakthrough low price.” Xsan sells for $999 per client per server and is available immediately through the Apple Store online and Apple Authorized Resellers.

Intel begins shipping first dual-core
chips

Intel begins shipping first dual-core
chips 04/11/2005 11:37 PM
Reuters India Apr 12 2005 4:22AM GMT

Intel Begins Shipping Dual-Core Chips

Intel Begins Shipping Dual-Core Chips 04/11/2005 05:35 PM
In the race to bring processors with dual cores to the market, Intel may have a leg up on rival AMD. The company announced at the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan that dual-core "Extreme Edition" chips have begun shipping to customers and could reach consumers before the end of the month.

Intel Begins Shipping First Dual-Core
Chips (Reuters)

Intel Begins Shipping First Dual-Core
Chips (Reuters) 04/11/2005 03:29 PM
Reuters - Intel Corp. , the world's largest chip maker, said on Monday it has begun shipping the first of a new generation of personal computer microprocessors that combine the power of two chips into one.

On shipping software

On shipping software 12/20/2003 07:16 PM
I learned at an early age the importance of shipping software.

My first software award

It was 1982, I was barely a teenager, and I was at a computer fair where young geeks from all over Delaware were competing in a programming contest.

We were paired up at random with other geeks. (Early extreme programming?) Our mission: to write a BASIC program that sorted an array of strings.

Each pair had a computer to work on—we were in a room full of Apple II Plus's (or perhaps Apple IIe's). We had a time limit, something like two hours.

I discovered quickly that my co-geek didn’t actually know much about programming, so I just kind of talked to him as I wrote the program.

We faced a big decision right at the start. Should we use the slower, but easier to implement, bubble sort algorithm? My comrade just kind of shrugged and agreed. I laid it on the line: if we do it this way, I said, we won’t win, because it’s too simple. It won’t impress the judges. But at least we won’t be embarrassed: we’ll have a working program.

So I wrote a little program that wasn’t fast but that actually worked to sort an array of strings. After we were finished, I told my Dad I wanted to go home, since there was no way we were going to win. So we left.

But—you can see it coming—we did win. Someone else from my school accepted the award on my behalf. I still have it.

Lesson? Shipping is important.

Showing up

It’s kind of like what Woody Allen said, “90% of life is just showing up.” Software is the same: it has to “show up” first. If it doesn’t ship, it doesn’t exist.

I bring this up because I hear from people and read on weblogs about software that’s pretty cool but that never gets done. It doesn’t make it out into the world. And I often wish I could transfer some kind of magical shipping-energy over to the developer.

I don’t know why these projects, some of them in quite advanced stages, don’t ship. I know what I do: I myself don’t even conceive of not shipping. Once I have committed to a piece of software, I just keep going.

The brick wall of shipping

I actually picture in my head a weird little scene. I see a big field of grass with a line drawn in it, like a line on a football field. And then I picture a giant brick wall moving forward slowly but steadily toward that line. The line is the shipping mark, and the brick wall is the software. Nothing can stop that wall.

Part of shipping is attention to detail. It can get boring, tracking down and finding all the million little things. (Unless you’re a software developer, you may have no idea how much of software development is just about all the little details. It’s housekeeping. It can be overwhelming if you’re not used to it.)

Another part of shipping is making hard decisions. When do you stop? How do you know if a feature can wait until a later release? How do you know which bugs you can live with and which are deal-stoppers?

And another part of shipping is anxiety. What if there’s a terrible bug that doesn’t appear, despite all the testing, until right after it’s released? What if you made the wrong decisions about bug x and feature y?

What you do is just do the best you can—and when you make mistakes, you deal with them the best you can. You get better at shipping software every time you do it. Experience is your teacher.

Trust

Going back to my experience at that computer fair in 1982... I learned another important lesson. It’s not just that shipping is important—I also learned that I could trust myself to look at my resources and the amount of time available and the goal and make a good call. I learned I could trust my judgment. That doesn’t mean I don’t make mistakes—I have and I will. But I think this self-trust is important to shipping software.

(An important point though is that self-trust doesn’t mean don’t listen to other people. The opposite is true. You want as much feedback as possible. The buck stops with you, though.)

Kozio, Inc. Introduces Two New Products;
Colorado embedded systems software
developer saves customers time, money
with ready-to-run manufacturing test and
self-test software for shipping products

Kozio, Inc. Introduces Two New Products;
Colorado embedded systems software
developer saves customers time, money
with ready-to-run manufacturing test and
self-test software for shipping products 07/12/2004 02:14 AM
Kozio, Inc., a developer of embedded systems software, has introduced two new products that provide end-of-production-line manufacturing test and power-on-self-diagnostic test capabilities for manufactured products that use embedded single-board computer systems. [PRWEB Jul 12, 2004]

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SketchUp

SketchUp 08/08/2004 10:57 PM
By Andrew Tokuda, MacAddict (via MyAppleMenu)

SketchUp 4.0

SketchUp 4.0 07/14/2004 03:26 PM
Tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily.

Announcement: SketchUp 4.0

Announcement: SketchUp 4.0 06/10/2004 09:58 AM
The upcoming release of the 3D design exploration tool will include Follow Me (to push or pull a surface along a path), Texture Tweaker (to stretch and manipulate a texture across a continuous surface), Face Me (which makes 2D models of people and landscaping appear to always face the camera), and other new features.

SIGGRAPH: @Last previews SketchUp 4 Film
& Stage

SIGGRAPH: @Last previews SketchUp 4 Film
& Stage 08/10/2004 12:07 PM
@Last Software is using their appearance at this week's SIGGRAPH 2004 trade show in Los Angeles, Calif. to show off SketchUp 4 Film & Stage, a new extension for their SketchUp 4 3D design software designed enable the software to work as a pre-visualization solution for art directors, filmmakers, cinematographers and others working in film and television.

SketchUp 4 3D design tool adds new
features

SketchUp 4 3D design tool adds new
features 06/09/2004 05:38 PM
Developer @Last Software announced on Wednesday that it will present a sneak preview of SketchUp 4.0 in its booth at the AIA National Convention and Expo, to be held June 10-12 in Chicago. The latest version of the company's 3D design tool adds several new features, including Follow Me, which pushes or pulls a surface along a path to create stair railings and similar items; Texture Tweaker, which you can use to stretch a texture or photo across any continuous surface; Face Me, which makes 2D people and landscape elements always face the camera and appear 3D; and more.

Macworld: SketchUp 4 simplifies 3D
sketching, modeling

Macworld: SketchUp 4 simplifies 3D
sketching, modeling 07/14/2004 03:07 AM
@Last Software on Wednesday announced that it's shipping SketchUp 4.0, a new version of the company's 3D design software for Mac OS X and Windows. The software was released as a soft launch some weeks ago, but Wednesday marks the new version's official release, at Macworld Conference & Expo in Boston.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships. 06/18/2004 03:03 AM
Whichever CRM software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever CRM software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your CRM software. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

"Shipping"

"Shipping" 04/08/2005 10:11 AM

Shipping soon

Shipping soon 06/01/2004 03:40 PM
CNET Asia Jun 1 2004 7:07PM GMT

Doom 3 for Mac Shipping

Doom 3 for Mac Shipping 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
Aspyr Media, Inc announced that Doom 3 for the Macintosh started shipping today. According to the press release, the product should be available in...

Chartsmith v1.2 Now Shipping

Chartsmith v1.2 Now Shipping 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
AppleScript users will also find something new in Chartsmith v1.2. An expanded AppleScript dictionary now supports real-time control of axis and chart titles. Chartsmith's AppleScript interface provides users and developers everything they need to fully automate graph production under Mac OS X.

BTO 17" PowerBooks shipping

BTO 17" PowerBooks shipping 03/20/2003 02:10 PM
PowerBook Central reports that customers who ordered build-to-order 17-inch PowerBooks are starting to receive shipping notices...

eyeSignal PND is now shipping

eyeSignal PND is now shipping 08/03/2004 10:59 AM
Lamp Express is now shipping its eyeSignal Personal Notification Device. OS X software and AppleScripts are available as a free download. Lamp Express also announced a "Free-Trial" program, offering a "no-questions-asked money-back guarantee". The "Free-Trial program" is perfect for everyone who would like to see and try out the eyeSignal prior to purchasing one.

Neonode N1 Shipping?

Neonode N1 Shipping? 06/24/2004 07:58 AM

Hey, I heard a rumor that the mythical Neonode N1 phone/mp3 player/camera -- you know, the one that was supposed to start shipping, like, two years ago? -- has started shipping to customers. There's nothing on their site, though, so if anyone would like to confirm or deny the vaporous rumors, feel free.
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Business-Shipping-1.00

Business-Shipping-1.00 12/22/2003 05:34 AM

S'pore seen shipping more PCs in '04

S'pore seen shipping more PCs in '04 05/10/2004 08:22 PM
Singapore Business Times May 11 2004 0:15AM GMT

Business-Shipping-1.05

Business-Shipping-1.05 02/10/2004 10:34 PM

Business-Shipping-0.78

Business-Shipping-0.78 11/12/2003 05:43 PM

Virtual PC 7 Now Shipping

Virtual PC 7 Now Shipping 08/31/2004 05:30 PM
According to the Microsoft website, the Virtual PC 7 Mac Edition with Windows XP Professional is now available for $249. Other flavors of Virtual PC 7...

Doom 3 for Mac now shipping

Doom 3 for Mac now shipping 03/14/2005 06:28 PM
Aspyr announced today that the Mac version of Doom 3 is now shipping and will be hitting retail shelves by March 19...

Chartsmith 1.2 now shipping

Chartsmith 1.2 now shipping 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
Blacksmith today announced the immediate availability of Chartsmith 1.2, the latest version of the company's popular charting and graphing application for Mac OS X...

Business-Shipping-1.52

Business-Shipping-1.52 09/14/2004 06:39 PM

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PHProjekt Backup Addon

PHProjekt Backup Addon 04/16/2004 11:42 PM
PHProjekt Backup Addon 0.4.2-CURRENT

Directory Addon for PHPNuke

Directory Addon for PHPNuke 12/31/2003 06:09 PM
Error discovered in README-DIRECTORY

WYSIWYG addon for Coranto

WYSIWYG addon for Coranto 11/11/2003 03:19 PM
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PHProjekt Backup Addon 0.4.3-CURRENT

PHProjekt Backup Addon 0.4.3-CURRENT 06/21/2004 06:44 PM
An addon to backup, manage, and restore PHProjekt databases.

Enchantrix addon for World of Warcraft

Enchantrix addon for World of Warcraft 06/22/2005 02:02 AM
Auctioneer is no longer a dependancy

Look out Quark, here comes Adobe
InDesign CS2

Look out Quark, here comes Adobe
InDesign CS2 04/04/2005 02:25 AM
Adobe announced today the latest version of its layout and design program, Adobe InDesign CS2. This new version improves the speed and efficiency of designers in a variety of workflows from text-intensive book, magazine, and newspaper production to high-end XML-based cross-media workflows. Designers can increase productivity and create more consistent designs by saving graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as Object Styles, which are easy to apply and globally update. Exporting objects with the new InDesign snippets features enables users to easily share or repurpose live InDesign content and layouts from part of a page.

News: Adobe talks: InDesign

News: Adobe talks: InDesign 06/22/2005 02:33 AM
Adobe InDesign marks its five-year anniversary with the release of the latest version included with Creative Suite 2. While InDesign is already the product of choice for many companies and designers, Adobe isn’t resting on its laurels.

Macworld review: Adobe InDesign CS

Macworld review: Adobe InDesign CS 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
InDesign CS is a subtle yet very powerful update to Adobe's publishing flagship. The previous version, InDesign 2.0, introduced most of the key features that made the young program a publishing powerhouse: the word-processor–like table editor, the Photoshop-level transparency features, and highly sophisticated typographic control. This version brings enhancements to many of these features, and it has several sensational new ones, such as nested styles and a much more efficient console for accessing text and object attributes. Although InDesign's interface is still somewhat complex, this is a more capable and more functional InDesign; in due time, this program will easily claim the publishing crown.

Adobe announces InDesign CS PageMaker
Edition

Adobe announces InDesign CS PageMaker
Edition 01/05/2004 02:33 AM
Adobe on Monday announced InDesign CS PageMaker Edition, an InDesign CS extension to help PageMaker users make "a quick and successful" transition to the layout and design package...

Lynda.com releases 'Learning Adobe
InDesign CS'

Lynda.com releases 'Learning Adobe
InDesign CS' 05/03/2004 03:45 AM
Lynda.com has announced the availability of "Learning Adobe InDesign CS," a movie-based tutorial developed for beginning InDesign users interested in learning the basic tools and features of Adobe InDesign CS for page layout and design...

ALAP Releases InEffects 1.0 for Adobe
InDesign

ALAP Releases InEffects 1.0 for Adobe
InDesign 04/22/2004 10:35 AM
InEffects 1.0 is a sophisticated special effects plug-in that brings the special effects power of an image editing program directly to InDesign. While InDesign offers its own drop shadow and transparency features, InEffects expands those possibilities and adds more effects for layering page objects and images, producing brilliant 2-D and 3-D effects.

Adobe working to convert PageMaker users
to InDesign

Adobe working to convert PageMaker users
to InDesign 01/19/2004 03:57 AM
By Dennis Sellers - Adobe's decision to phase out its venerable PageMaker layout application to concentrate on InDesign wasn't made lightly, Senior Product Manager J...

Adobe discontinues PageMaker, offers
plug-ins for InDesign

Adobe discontinues PageMaker, offers
plug-ins for InDesign 01/05/2004 03:41 AM
Adobe Systems Inc. will announce on Monday that the company is discontinuing ongoing development of PageMaker , Adobe's Mac OS 9 page layout application. However, Adobe is not leaving its PageMaker customers without a way to upgrade to InDesign and keep the same workflow they have become accustomed to in PageMaker.

Adobe InDesign CS: Publishing Program
Poised To Topple QuarkXPress

Adobe InDesign CS: Publishing Program
Poised To Topple QuarkXPress 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
XPress's unique strengths have dwindled to a few little-used functions, and InDesign CS is the program that will relegate QuarkXPress to PageMaker's status of a decade ago. By Galen Gruman (Macworld via MyAppleMenu)

Int'l Workshop on Algorithms, Models and
Tools for Parallel Computing on
Heterogeneous Networks

Int'l Workshop on Algorithms, Models and
Tools for Parallel Computing on
Heterogeneous Networks 12/23/2003 05:00 AM
NetLib Dec 23 2003 4:25AM ET

Adobe PageMaker Plug-In Pack: Basic
Add-Ons To InDesign CS Enhance Its
Functionality For Diverse Users

Adobe PageMaker Plug-In Pack: Basic
Add-Ons To InDesign CS Enhance Its
Functionality For Diverse Users 05/19/2004 10:39 AM
PageMaker Plug-in Pack will prove useful to many InDesign users. It adds long-established PageMaker automated-bullet and -numbering tools, as well as options that simplify access to InDesign's various functions. By Galen Gruman, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

'Learning Adobe After Effects 6'
workshop released

'Learning Adobe After Effects 6'
workshop released 12/23/2003 09:33 AM
Lynda.com today announced the release of "Learning Adobe After Effects 6" with Lynda Weinman, a movie-based workshop offering an overview of the standard version of Adobe After Effects 6, including Paint effects, Text Layers and all other fundamental to intermediate features...

'New in Adobe Photoshop CS' workshop
released

'New in Adobe Photoshop CS' workshop
released 02/11/2004 10:53 AM
Lynda.com today announced the release of "New in Adobe Photoshop CS" with Tanya Staples...

CFP 2004: Data mining allowing insurance
companies to do high-tech redlining

CFP 2004: Data mining allowing insurance
companies to do high-tech redlining 04/21/2004 02:20 PM
Birny Birnbaum, Executive Directorfor the Center for Economic Justice in Texas, just gave an astounding presentation at CFP 2004 about how insurance companies are using data mining to do "high-tech redlining," denying coverage or charging excess rates for insurance when...

Leap SE 2.0 turns System Requirements
into Object Models and Data Models,
Automatically

Leap SE 2.0 turns System Requirements
into Object Models and Data Models,
Automatically 08/16/2004 02:37 AM
Leap SE—a CASE tool that generates object models directly from system requirements—now generates a data model as well, dramatically shortening the systems analysis phase of software development projects. [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004]

Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American)

Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American) 07/17/2004 11:22 AM

A friend was complaining about Ronald Reagan yesterday, not completely mollified by his death.  What had Reagan done to bother her, I asked?  She was upset by Reagan's appointments to the Supreme Court, by his inaction on AIDS, and a variety of other domestic issues.  How could she hate Reagan more than Bush? "Bush is out there messing up foreign countries instead of our own."

Despite not having voted for either man, I discovered a strong personal preference for Reagan over Bush II.  Reagan was an American working on American problems.  Maybe he didn't do as good a job as we would have liked, but at least he was trying.  Bush, on the other hand, projects an image of spending all of his time and energy thinking about Iraq and Iraqis.  The only explanation that makes sense is that Bush is actually an Iraqi.  Who other than an Iraqi would be so interested in Iraq?  When W. is not talking about Iraq he is often talking about Jesus so probably he is an Assyrian Christian, one of the groups that lived in Iraq before the Arab invasion (background< /A>).

Perhaps Kerry and Edwards have a chance after all because they are running against a foreigner.

[Note:  there is some chance that Bush is Kuwaiti or Saudi rather than Iraqi.  The owners of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were badly inconvenienced by Saddam.  There was a New York Times article right after the 1991 Gulf War where they talked about how the Emir of Kuwait would marry a 13- or 14-year-old girl every Friday night and then divorce her on Saturday and that this was the kind of lifestyle that American troops were supporting by giving Kuwait back to the Emir--you could understand why the Emir, even with $billions in foreign bank accounts, was so anxious to have his country back.  Still, there were never too many Christians in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia so evidence points back to W. being an Iraqi]

@Last Software begins shipping SketchUp 4.0