McCain Rips Off Foo Fighters

post from Daring Fireball on 08 October 2008 11:03:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

You can sort of understand why Republicans repeatedly rip off music from artists who don’t support them — if they stuck to those who did, they’d only be able to play Ted Nugent and shitkicker country songs.

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Googles Open Source Patches to Wine

post from Daring Fireball on 08 October 2008 10:13:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

This idea deserves a full essay, but for now, consider: In the same way that Apple took Mac OS X and Cocoa and shrunk them to serve as a handheld device OS, I think Google could take Android and grow it to serve as a PC OS. Wine would be to Android what Classic was to Mac OS X.

The big win is saying “screw you” to KDE and Gnome and all those crap Linux interfaces and APIs. Start over with something new, cohesive, better, and, most of all, which is not, conceptually, a watered down clone of Windows.

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Apple gets Dock patent

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

Apple has finally obtained a patent on the Dock ñ a holder for open or commonly used applications, d...

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ExpanDrive 1.3 Beta - Funnest Version Yet!

post from The Apple Blog on 08 October 2008 09:29:23 PM. © The Apple Blog

Fans of Magnetk’s ExpanDrive — a great SFTP client for OS X — should definitely go out and grab the latest beta (1.3) of this fine application. For starters, they support plain-ol’ FTP (and FTP/SSL) which, though insecure, is still used in many, many hosting outfits. The developers also tapped into the magic of OS [...]

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Rhino translator for modo

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 08 October 2008 06:30:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Luxology has released a .3DM file translator that will allow modo 302 users to exchange files with R...

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Godfather of Ambient Creates iPhone App

post from The Apple Blog on 08 October 2008 06:25:11 PM. © The Apple Blog

Seemingly not content with having fathered an entire musical genre, pioneered generative music, produced U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name, collaborated with Bowie and generally rubbed-shoulders with a raft of modern music legends, Brian Eno has now released his first iPhone app dubbed Bloom ($3.99).Developed by Peter Chilvers, in collaboration with Eno, the app [...]

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Undercover stolen Mac app

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 08 October 2008 05:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Orbicule has released Undercover 2.5, an update to its theft-recovery program for Mac OS X platforms...

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Apple nixes call center

Apple is scrapping a Colorado Springs call center, which was going to handle increased call volume r...

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BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, Storm
Announced Stateside

The Boy Genius Report brings word of relief in sight for Mac users with BlackBerry. The official Research In Motion (RIM) application BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac will bring all the functionality of BlackBerry Desktop Manager to OS X users.Third party solutions like PocketMac for BlackBerry have filled the void left by RIM’s lack of [...]

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'Brick' MacBook Pro photo

A photo of a new, upcoming MacBook Pro has been leaked online, a report claims. The model is descri...

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