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In the November 5 issue of PC Week, Peter Coffee said, "In tests of the prerelease Rhapsody DR1 on a PowerPC-based evaluation system furnished by Apple, PC Week Labs found that Rhapsody's application development facilities live up to the promises that Apple has been making since its acquisition of NeXT Computer Inc. We were able to work with Rhapsody's object-oriented tools to assemble predefined application components and services, and build capable applications with a minimum of new code."
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FOR MAC OS DEVELOPERS
[1]
Four Print-Related Technotes
[2]
A Technote for Driver Developers and Disk Resellers
[3]
Free QuickDraw 3D Sample Code
[4]
Apple Displays Software 1.5.5
[5]
MacsBug 6.5.4a3 Left Off the Developer CD
FOR RHAPSODY DEVELOPERS
[6]
Rhapsody Developer Release Reviews
FOR NEWTON DEVELOPERS
[7]
MessagePad 2100 Offers InfoSpace Information Services
PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS
[8]
QuickTime VR Authoring Studio Now Available
MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES
[9]
A Demo CD for Marketing Rhapsody and Yellow Box Applications
OTHER APPLE NEWS
[10]
Apple's Online Store Brings In a Half a Million Dollars in First 12 Hours
COOL STUFF
[11]
MacTech T-Shirt Design Contest
FOR MAC OS DEVELOPERS
[1] Four Print-Related Technotes
The following technotes should be of interest to those of you who are working on the printing capabilities of your applications.
http://gemma.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1112.html
http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1113.html
http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1114.html
http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1115.html
[2] A Technote for Driver Developers and Disk Resellers
Technote 1116: "PowerBook HD Upgrades and SCSI Disk Mode Compatibility" describes two potential problems when substituting ATA (AT Attachment) hard drives greater than 4 GB into PowerBook models that support the SCSI disk mode.
[3] Free QuickDraw 3D Sample Code
To help promote QuickDraw 3D, Pangea Software is releasing, free of charge, the project source code for the OreoAnimator animation tool. Pangea says that the source code is primarily of use as "a wealth of excellent QuickDraw 3D sample code."
[4] Apple Displays Software 1.5.5
This new version, previously known as AppleVision software, includes these changes to AppleVision 1.5.3:
[5] MacsBug 6.5.4a3 Left Off the Developer CD
MacsBug users will have to go to the Apple web site to download the latest alpha version of MacsBug, since an old version was mistakenly placed on November's Apple Developer Series CD. You need MacsBug 6.5.4a3 if you are debugging Mac OS 8 applications.
FOR RHAPSODY DEVELOPERS
[6] Rhapsody Developer Release Reviews
If you haven't had time to try out the Rhapsody Developer Release yet, read what others have to say about this operating system's capabilities in recent product reviews published in PC Week and the Sydney Morning Herald.
FOR NEWTON DEVELOPERS
[7] MessagePad 2100 Offers InfoSpace Information Services
This week InfoSpace announced an agreement with Apple to integrate its directories and information services into Apple's MessagePad 2100 handheld computer, giving users access to phone numbers, addresses, door-to-door directions, and more.
PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS
[8] QuickTime VR Authoring Studio Now Available
QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, a new professional software application that enables the creation of QuickTime VR (virtual reality) panoramas and objects, is now available in the United States and Canada through retail and mail-order suppliers. The estimated retail price is US$ 395 (US$ 199 for upgrades).
MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES
[9] A Demo CD for Marketing Rhapsody and Yellow Box Applications
QSoft, a division of VVI-DCS, produces a demo CD that includes a section for Rhapsody and Yellow Box applications. QSoft is currently planning a CD version that coincides with the Premier Release of Rhapsody in early 1998 and the Unified Release of Rhapsody in mid 1998. Software manufacturers interested in placing their marketing literature and solutions on the CD can contact QSoft at qsoft@vvi.com.
OTHER APPLE NEWS
[10] Apple's Online Store Brings In a Half a Million Dollars in First 12 Hours
Apple just reported that its new online Apple Store received over 4.4 million "hits" and accepted over $500,000 of orders during its first 12 hours of operation.
http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1998/q1/971111.pr.rel.onlinestore.html
http://store.apple.com
COOL STUFF
[11] MacTech T-Shirt Design Contest
MacTech is looking for a concept or design for a T-shirt that will be given away during MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco, January 6-9, 1998. The designer of the winning entry will receive a five-year subscription to MacTech Magazine and the most current MacTech CD-ROM, which includes all back issues of develop, Apple's technical journal, in THINK Reference format. Submit your T-shirt designs to tshirt-ideas@mactech.com by November 30, 1997, 11:59 p.m. (PST).
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