HighPoint RAID system

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 03 July 2008 10:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro gamers have a new high-performance disk system available to them, through H...

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Scenes From a Franchise

post from Daring Fireball on 03 July 2008 09:16:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Khoi Vinh:

In case you didn?t realize it, three years ago, Christopher Nolan brought our long, national nightmare of bad Batman movies to an end. Let?s hope The Dark Knight keeps us in the clear.

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Duarte Reworking Palm UI

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 03 July 2008 08:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

One of the most prominent phone interface designers is now working for Palm for its next operating s...

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Maverick Software games

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 03 July 2008 08:10:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Maverick Software on Thursday announced four new native iPhone applications ñ Comet Cowboy, Yulan Ma...

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TripLog/1040

post from Daring Fireball on 03 July 2008 07:27:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Check out the UI on this upcoming iPhone app from Palm OS developer Stevens Creek Software. This is not a joke. (Via Macworld.)

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How Pixar Created the Wall-E Visual Style

post from Daring Fireball on 03 July 2008 06:18:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Fascinating Animation World Magazine story on the steps Pixar took to make Wall-E look and feel like a traditional film by mimicking the limitations and optics of real-world cameras. Director of photography Jeremy Lasky:

We used a spherical lens as a kind of control to look at depth of field and barrel distortion and the optical breathing you get when you rack from things really close to really far away. It gave us a chance to have something tangible. We used an Arriflex camera with Panavision lenses. We looked at lens flares and how to focus lights in the background. There’s that shot in the truck [his home] when EVE’s looking at the lighter for the first time from WALL-E’s POV and you see the bouquet stretched in the background. And this is the kind of thing we discovered doing those tests.

(Via Daily Kos.)

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Gus Mueller on Adobe Reader 9

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Craptacular.

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Telia reworks iPhone plans

After hitting a steep wall of customer resistance, Telia Sweden is buckling to pressure and is offer...

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Get A Blast From The Past With Old Apps For
Your Mac

There are times ? especially when I sit and wait a few minutes for Office apps to start ? when I sit back reminisce about using Microsoft Word on my old, trusty Mac Plus (and later SE). It was a peppy little program that did word processing very well without all the bloat that we see [...]

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