Fantom Drives Ships FireWire CD-RW for Professionals

"Fantom Drives today announced the immediate availability of the new Fantom Drives FireWire 16x10x40 CD-ReWriteable drive with BurnProof Technology. The new drive, which features the award-winning CD recordable technology of Plextor, Inc., features the fastest write, rewrite, and read speed of the Fantom Drives CD-ReWriteable product line. The Fantom Drives FireWire 16x10x40 CD-ReWritable Drive is available immediately from local Fantom Drives retailers worldwide, as well as online mail-order companies for $459 MSRP.

-- Weekend, February 17-19 --

[12:30p 2/19] Macworld Expo Tokyo-- Final "Notes from a Henna Gajin." From the author Lynn Fredricks, "[Here is] the final pre-show article of Notes from a Henna Gaijin. Notes from a Henna Gaijin are about travelling to MacWorld Expo in Tokyo for about the same price as attending the San Francisco show. This article will cover some special events at the show, some great gifts to bring back from Japan, a crash course in Japanese customs and a general wrap up.

[12:30p 2/19] PrintToPDF v2.2 is Out: From the author James Walker, "I have released PrintToPDF 2.2. Changes in this update:

* Added new cross-reference and linking features, with new helper application "PrintToPDF Link Maker".
* Fixed a clipping problem when printing multi-page records in FileMaker Pro.
* Fixed a bug with fully justified text when the resolution was not 72 or the scaling was not 100%.
* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused polygons to draw with the wrong line width.
* Fixed a cosmetic problem: after having selected PrintToPDF in the Chooser, other Chooser information appeared in the wrong font.

If you use PDF files, this shareware application is terrific.

[12:30p 2/19] Cork, Ireland Becoming European Apple Customer Service Center according to this Irish Times article. It started as a manufacturing site and now employs 1200 people with only 400 involved in manufacturing. There are lots of other Apple tidbits in the article. [Dana Baggett]

[10:30p] Update--PowerBook G4 Titanium Issues:

DVD Drive Jams - MacCentral reported that Apple is accepting Titaniums with misaligned DVD drives back for repair. The repair is expected to take about a week.

Static Electiricity Discharge/Freeze - Dan Knight posted more details on his experience with static electricity discharges. It's still a mystery but a zap from/to the case area above the function keys causes the freeze. Elsewhere nothing happens.

[8:30a] OnX v1.7-- 2-Player Tic-Tac-Toe for Mac OS X: From RealMac's Daniel Counsell, "RealMac Software today announced the release of version 1.7 of OnX for OS X OnX is a simple game of tic-tac-toe for two players and we believe it is the first game of tic-tac-toe to be released for Mac OS X. OnX is only $5 USD shareware. It is available from the RealMac Software web site and all major Macintosh shareware ftp sites.