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Olympus E-P2 confirmed prematurely

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 04 November 2009 05:30:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Olympus' E-P2 Micro Four Thirds camera has been revealed early thanks to a preview posted in advance...

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TypeStyler upgrades for Mac OS X

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 04 November 2009 05:10:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Following a seven-year development delay, Strider Software has released a Mac OS X version of TypeSt...

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BBEdit 9.3

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2009 04:54:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Lots new, as usual, but I like this change best:

BBEdit offers a new behavior: when you ask it to open a folder, rather than creating a disk browser (which allows only one document open at a time), you can ask it to create a temporary project. This provides the multi-document behavior of projects, without requiring you to manage and save a project document anywhere.

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Side-by-Side Comparison of Droid and 3GS Cameras

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2009 04:42:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nice comparison shots from Andy Ihnatko. Remember: megapixels are not an indicator of image quality.

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Planon intros DocuPen Xtreme X-Series

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 04 November 2009 04:40:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Planon on Wednesday introduced its new series of DocuPen Xtreme scanning pens, which includes the X0...

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Rod Begbie on Mockingbird and Cappuccino

post from Daring Fireball on 04 November 2009 04:30:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Rod Begbie pushes back on Mockingbird:

If you load the app, you can see custom scrollbars and navigation, a complete lack of accessibility, non-native controls, and all those other things that cause geeks to hate Flash. What, to the end user, is the benefit of this being done with JavaScript instead of Flash? You can get the patronage of the 0.000001% of web users who don?t have Flash installed? (Sadly, I don?t think Richard Stallman needs many wireframes drawn).

Gruber?s definition of ?true web app? and mine greatly differ. Clue: If it?s completely unusable on the iPhone Safari browser, it doesn?t matter if it?s built in JavaScript, Flash or Microsoft Visual Fortran 2012. It?s not a ?true web app?.

I think there’s merit to using an open web platform that isn’t in the control of a single company, like Flash. Practical merit, not just philosophical merit. No one can hold HTML5/CSS/JavaScript hostage. After loading Mockingbird in Safari 4 (with no other browser windows open), Safari’s CPU usage drops back to 0. With, say, Balsamiq — a Flash app along the same lines as Mockingbird — Safari’s CPU usage never drops below 4 percent, even when idle.

But Begbie has a good point. As I wrote back in February about Cappuccino:

I still think building web apps that look and act like fake desktop apps is the wrong way to go, but if anyone is going to prove me wrong on that, it?s probably going to be these guys.

“Web apps” doesn’t feel like the right term to call apps like Mockingbird, but I’m not sure what would be. “Desktop web apps”? Whatever we should call them, I still haven’t seen one I actually use.

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New Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 04 November 2009 04:25:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Word that Apple had disabled Atom support in a Mac OS X 10.6.2 beta seed may have been premature, an...

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Automatic Duck ships ProDate DV, updates Pro
Import/Export

Automatic Duck has published a trio of new software releases supporting Apple's Final Cut editing to...

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NVIDIA: Intel delaying USB 3.0 chips until 2011

Intel may have stalled adoption of the USB 3.0 standard for as long as two years, NVIDIA spokesman B...

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iSkin Solo FX SE ships with clear, mirror screen
protectors

iSkin has released a new iPhone 3G/3GS case, the iSkin Solo FX Special Edition. The case uses an ope...

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