Apple loves showing fast CPUs helping Macs win Photoshop duels against PCs. But you’ll gain more speed from using Photoshop effectively, aided by this week’s collection of tips from Iain Anderson. Also in this issue, Jeff Carlson squints at the Palm m505 handheld, DriveSavers aids victims of the 11-Sep-01 tragedy, and the Interface Mafia comes to town. Important releases include Interarchy 5.0.1, Rumpus 2.0, StuffIt Deluxe 6.5, and the Palm m125 organizer.
Palm Releases Palm m125 Organizer -- Adding a bit of spit and polish to its entry-level line of handhelds, Palm has introduced the Palm m125, incorporating the expansion and connectivity features of the Palm m500 series
StuffIt Updates Add File Manipulation Capabilities -- Aladdin Systems has shipped StuffIt Deluxe 6.5, the latest version of the company's venerable package of file compression, archiving, encoding, and manipulation utilities
DriveSavers Donates Free Disk Recovery Services -- Kudos to data recovery service DriveSavers, which is offering free data recovery services to individuals and businesses affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks
Rumpus 2.0 Offers Industrial Strength FTP Server -- Showing no fear of the built-in Unix FTP server in Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server (at least the former of which is notable for lacking MacBinary support), Maxum Development has released Rumpus 2.0, a significant update to the company's high-performance Macintosh FTP server
Interarchy 5.0.1 Fixes Bugs -- Stairways Software has released Interarchy 5.0.1, fixing a number of bugs in the popular Internet file transfer and utility application but adding no new features (see "FTP Disk Feature Highlights Interarchy 5.0" in TidBITS-593)
Interface Mafia Goes After Bad Interfaces -- Macintosh users are unusually informed and opinionated about interface design, and even though Macintosh developers are usually equally as sensitive to the interfaces of their programs, creating good interfaces is difficult work
Even when I'm testing various models of handheld organizers for books and articles I write about Palm OS-based handhelds, I keep my Palm Vx nearby. I have to return devices when I'm done reviewing them, and so far the Palm Vx is the only one for which I've shelled out my own money: it's thin, lightweight, and has enough memory to store the data I need
Adobe Photoshop 6 is the world's leading professional image editor, exhibiting a depth of design and richness of function unequaled in any program I know