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Apple Computer seeded its developers this week with a new build of Mac OS X 10.3.4 Panther, labeled Mac OS X 10.3.4 build 7H56.

"With price-performance, we've seen a lot of interest in our products coming from places we never dreamed we'd seen an Apple logo," Apple director of server software Tom Goguen told MacNewsWorld. "I believe we'll have lots of opportunities -- we'll hit video hard and we'll succeed -- but over the long term, we'll be even more successful outside the video market." Read the analysis at MacNewsWorld. Elsewhere, Apple Computer is preparing its developer forces for yet another run through the jungle with its next Mac OS X build, code-named Tiger.

Apple on Monday released Security Update 2004-05-03 via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane. More info at MacMinute.

The Cocoa Bindings system is a toolset available in Panther which allows you to define relationships between user interface and data objects. This means a lot less code, and a lot more functionality for free. This tutorial walks you through the conversion of a standard application into a bindings application.

Path Finder is a comprehensive file browser for Mac OS X, which combines the best of Apple's Finder (viewing, moving, and manipulating your files) with some powerful, integrated utilities (our review). Path Finder 3.2 is a major new release with lots of new features and changes. On other application releases recently on OSX, Fire 1.0, the multi-protocol IM application, was also released.

Apple this week seeded to beta testers the first pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.3.4. In a seed note, Apple said Version 10.3.4 should provide a performance gain when launching non-prebound applications among many other changes, ThinkSecret reports.

Mac OS X has been able to do COM for quite some time. The thing is, no one has really broadcast this -- until now. You can write COM components that have the potential to run on both Windows and Mac OS X with no code changes. This is another reason for Mac OS X to be considered as a serious platform for enterprise applications.

No OS is perfect, but by combining the ease of use that Windows users expect, and the eminent hackability of the *NIX platforms, OS X makes a great case for a one-size-fits-all solution.

A "Software Update"-alike software, called Renew, automatically fetches information on new versions for third party software you have installed on your Mac.

When we're first learning Cocoa (or Java, or Qt, or any other application framework), one of the early things we address is the Model-View-Controller design pattern.

Fink 0.6.3 (for OS X 10.2.x) and Fink 0.7.0 (for OSX 10.3.x) were released today. These releases includes source and binary packages as well as binary installers.

"Resistance is nearly futile. Three years after Apple introduced OS X, smaller newspapers have hard decisions to make: upgrade to Apple’s OS X, stick with software that is becoming more outdated by the day or move over to a Windows environment." Read the article at NewsAndTech.

Recently I was in the mood for a new laptop, but have been underwhelmed with the selection of wintel machines available and overwhelmed with the number of security patches for XP. I just needed a small, reliable system that worked.

Apple is now officially endorsing OpenAL and has provided a new branch of Mac OS X code which is now in OpenAL's CVS (it requires to install Apple's latest CoreAudio SDK before compiling).