Close Votes Are a Feature, Not a Bug

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2009 08:40:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Interesting political observation from Rafe Colburn:

Every vote over the minimum necessary to secure passage represents compromises that the Democrats as a group would prefer not to make. It?s not that Nancy Pelosi was lucky to pass the bill, it?s that the Democrats wrote the strongest bill they could that would get enough votes to pass. That?s good strategy.

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SOHO Notes 8 and Organizer 8 bring faster speed,
recording

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 08:15:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Chronos on Monday released updates to its SOHO Notes and SOHO Organizer software. The company claims...

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Why Google Dropped $750 Million on AdMob

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2009 07:42:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

$100 million in annual revenue and growing fast.

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Apple's Wireless Keyboard update supports new
features

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 06:35:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Apple on Monday released a software update for its latest aluminum Wireless Keyboard released this y...

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Apple Releases OS X 10.6.2 Update

post from TheAppleBlog on 09 November 2009 06:07:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

software-update The second minor incremental update for OS X Snow Leopard was released today, and it contains the usual expected bug fixes. It is also is said to contain built-in support for Apple’s new Magic Mouse, and may or may not remove support for Intel Atom processors. If you happen to be using a hackintosh and can confirm or deny whether or not the latest update breaks your system, please comment below and let us know.

You can download the update via Software Update now, or get it directly from the Apple Support site. Here’s Apple’s rather lengthy description of the update, including major bug fixes:

The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:
an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user
issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers
the reliability of menu extras
an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture
an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server
Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing
a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book
an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet
Safari plug-in reliability
general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3874.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

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HP rolls out new budget LCDs, two desktops

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 05:55:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

HP kicked off its week by launching a pair of business-focused LCDs as well as two desktops to match...

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Mac OS X security update addresses list of
vulnerabilities

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 05:25:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Apple on Monday released Security Update 2009-006 for Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems, in...

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MacTimer 3.0 adds new alarms, window themes

BravoBug has launched MacTimer 3.0 with new improvements for the Mac-based timer software. The appli...

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Droid Limited to 256 MB of Storage for Apps

Taylor Wimberly:

The Motorola Droid will be the most powerful Android phone to date when it launches on November 6, 2009. However, the device still features the same shortcomings of all other Android phones. The Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM which contains only 256 MB available for app storage.

Google does not support installing apps to the SD card (and likely never will), so developers are limited in what they can create.

This is another one of those things where I simply don’t understand why Motorola doesn’t follow Apple’s lead and provide ample built-in storage rather than relying on removable SD cards. I just checked, and I have about 1.8 gigabytes of apps installed on my iPhone. Many of the top iPhone games weigh in at 50 or even 100 MB each. My two biggest games alone (Texas Hold’em and Need for Speed Undercover) weigh in at just over 256 MB combined. Just two games.

Did Motorola even look at the size of popular apps in the App Store before releasing this?

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