Adobe halts Stock Photos

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 04 February 2008 03:35:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Adobe will halt all operations for its royalty-free Stock Photos image repository as of April 1st, t...

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The Making of a Lego Brick

post from Daring Fireball on 04 February 2008 03:26:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

BusinessWeek:

The production of Lego bricks is so accurate that only 18 out of 1 million Lego elements produced is considered defective. It’s an astonishing number, considering that 15 billion Lego components are made every year.

(Via Steve Delahoyde.)

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Macintosh Production Up

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 04 February 2008 03:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Bank of Americaís Asian sources claim that Apple has increased production of both desktops and noteb...

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Mozilla locks Firefox 3 B3

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 04 February 2008 03:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

The third beta of Mozilla's upcoming Firefox 3.0 has entered code freeze, says Mike Beltzner, the Mo...

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MS Surface Home Fast-Track

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 04 February 2008 02:40:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Microsoft is accelerating the development of its Surface touchscreen technology for the home after c...

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The iPhones Long-Missing Two-Pane Email Client

post from Daring Fireball on 04 February 2008 02:13:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ryan Block recalls that during the iPhone’s Macworld introduction a year ago, the demo showed a two-pane mode for MobileMail, and wishes Apple would bring it back.

MobileMail is a good enough 1.0, but clearly needs a lot of work, especially for users who deal with a significant amount of email. Two-pane mode, though, isn’t it. My guess is that Apple ditched this mode because they tried it and concluded it wasn’t a good idea within the overall UI of Mobile OS X. It just doesn’t fit from a scrolling perspective alone.

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Keynote X theme released

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 04 February 2008 01:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Divine Fiat has released Keynote X, the company's latest theme for Apple's Keynote presentation soft...

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Out Loud

Presentation advice from Rands:

There is one unforgivable mistake when giving a presentation. You?ve heard it before: ?Don?t read from your slides.? As you?ll see, my approach for presentation development is designed around avoiding this cardinal mistake, and it starts with picking the right tool.

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Intel Silverthorne Details

Intel today supplied additional information about its expected Silverthorne ultra-mobile processors....

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Kodak 5MP Ultra-Small Cam

Kodak today said it had developed a new camera sensor that could allow all phones, not just large mo...

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