Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Technology Review.)
Flock is not the only attempt to unify multiple social networks. Last November, Google released its OpenSocial API, a set of developer's tools for sharing information across a number of social-networking systems, including MySpace. Firefox users also have the option of adding user-created programs that have similar functionality ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
Macworld Lab ran the three new standard iMacs through our customary suite of tests to gauge performance improvements on the previous generation. The new 2.8GHz 24-inch iMac showed a 30-point (13 percent) Speedmark improvement on the previous high-end model, a 24-inch 2.4GHz iMac. However, this new high-end iMac posted ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re still spooked by the idea of viewing headers along with a preview of a message—even without HTML turned on—you can follow this little tip from Macworld’s Gemmeister, Dan Frakes: Give Limit Point Software’s MailCM a try. This is a contextual menu plugin/pref pane that, among other things, ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Engadget continues to do their part in fueling the fire of rumors that we'll see a second edition of the iPhone this summer. First they supposedly touched it themselves, then they nabbed some shape and spec hints, and now they've got yet another set of ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
The world has a lot of unwritten rules: In social etiquette. In baseball. And in buying computers. For years, we have unquestioningly followed numerous unwritten rules when buying a Mac. Like many customs, these rules were once based on a foundation of facts and reason. But in the past ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via Mac Rumors.)
Last year, AT&T limited employee vacation requests between June 15-July 15 in anticipation of the original iPhone launch which took place on June 29th, 2007.
Today, Boy Genius Report publishes another AT&T memo that is again restricting vacation requests, this time between June 15th and July 12th 2008. The ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us -- a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via MacDailyNews.)
Apple has released the fifth beta version of the iPhone SDK which includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.
During Apple's Q2 08 conference call on April 23, CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that the SDK has ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via Ars Technica.)
Another test build of 10.5.3, 9D27, was released last night to ADC members. This comes just one week after build 9D25, two weeks after build 9D23, and three weeks after build 9D20. The release notes included in the latest build indicate that the 10.5.3 update will include well ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
A new site has found it's way into the steidler.network. Play Ball is a tumblelog about the only game that really matters. It's a true tumlelog - a river of news, photos, video, and original insight into baseball. It's hosted with the Tumblr service and, as such, doesn't (yet) allow ...
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