Obvious Matter releases DiskLibrary 1.7.4

post from prMac on 15 March 2008 04:06:31 PM. © prMac

DiskLibrary is a fun and easy to use media cataloging application for Mac OS X . DiskLibrary is indispensable if you have a lot of media to keep track of. DiskLibrary catalogs not just your complete file structure, it also creates thumbnails, and stores metadata, for most popular media formats. DiskLibrary is capable of importing export formats from CDFinder, FileFinder, WhereIsIt and DiskTracker.

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Your Companys App

post from Daring Fireball on 15 March 2008 04:04:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nice comic by Eric Burke on simplicity.

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Foot, Meet Bullet

post from Daring Fireball on 15 March 2008 02:44:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Another good flip-side argument regarding the iPhone’s no-background apps policy, from Ian Betteridge:

But more importantly, since when was it the responsibility of the maker of an operating system to prevent poorly-written applications?

What’s wrong with “since now”? A new platform can’t be innovative if it isn’t different.

Of course, you could argue that the phone is a ?mission-critical? piece of equipment and you can?t afford for it to perform badly. But that argument is bunk: all you need to do is allow users to uninstall applications if they find them slowing things down.

Betteridge is correct, but that doesn’t make it bunk. That’s why it’s a trade-off. Yes, there are all sorts of cool things that are possible on a platform where users can install third-party software that enables them to potentially screw up their system. But there are other completely different cool things about a system like the upcoming 2.0 iPhone OS, primarily the fact that no matter what you install from the App Store, you can’t screw up your system.

Imagine a scenario where background apps are allowed on the iPhone this summer. Some typical user buys and installs 10 apps from the App Store. Three of them are background-capable apps, and two of those three are so resource hungry that they have a noticeable drag on battery life. How are typical users — not Ian Betteridge, not me, and probably not you, but typical users — supposed to know which apps are causing the problem? How are they even going to know which apps do continue to run in the background? They won’t. A likely reaction would simply be to regret ever having junked up their iPhone with any third-party apps at all.

Or imagine a situation where a user installs five background-capable apps, none of which, on their own, significantly affect system-wide performance or battery life, but which in combination all running simultaneously, do. They’re all using RAM, all using the CPU, and all periodically using the network. What’s the advice for the typical user supposed to be? “Have fun with the App Store, but don’t install too much crap”?

If you truly demand the right to be able to shoot yourself in the foot with the software you install on your phone — which is a perfectly reasonable desire, and is how things work on the Mac — then the non-jailbroken iPhone isn’t for you.

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Nike+ Sportband unveiled

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 15 March 2008 02:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Nike recently unveiled the Nike+ SportBand, confirming earlier reports that the company would releas...

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M Cubed Software releases Code Collector Pro 1.2

post from prMac on 15 March 2008 02:06:42 PM. © prMac

M Cubed Software has released Code Collector Pro 1.2, the latest version of its flagship application, and the launch of CodeCollector.net. Code Collector Pro allows users to organise, use and share snippets of code they would otherwise have lying around their computer. New in version 1.2 is integration with CodeCollector.net for sharing snippets online, an improved source list, snippet locking and enhanced drag and drop support.

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Foot, Meet Bullet

post from Daring Fireball on 15 March 2008 01:52:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Another good flip-side argument regarding the iPhone’s no-background apps policy, from Ian Betteridge:

But more importantly, since when was it the responsibility of the maker of an operating system to prevent poorly-written applications?

What’s wrong with “since now”? A new platform can’t be innovative if it isn’t different.

Of course, you could argue that the phone is a ?mission-critical? piece of equipment and you can?t afford for it to perform badly. But that argument is bunk: all you need to do is allow users to uninstall applications if they find them slowing things down.

Betteridge is correct, but that doesn’t make it bunk. That’s why it’s a trade-off. Yes, there are all sorts of cool things that are possible on a platform where users can install third-party software that enables them to potentially screw up their system. But there are other completely different cool things about a system like the upcoming 2.0 iPhone OS, primarily the fact that no matter what you install from the App Store, you can’t screw up your system.

Imagine a scenario where background apps are allowed on the iPhone this summer. Some typical user buys and installs 10 apps from the App Store. Three of them are background-capable apps, and two of those three are so resource hungry that they have a noticeable drag on battery life. How are typical users — not Ian Betteridge, not me, and probably not you, but typical users — supposed to know which apps are causing the problem? How are they even going to know which apps do continue to run in the background? They won’t. A likely reaction would simply be to regret ever having junked up their iPhone with any third-party apps at all.

Or imagine a situation where a user installs five background-capable apps, none of which, on their own, significantly affect system-wide performance or battery life, but which in combination all running simultaneously, do. They’re all using RAM, all using the CPU, and all periodically using the network. What’s the advice for the typical user supposed to be? “Have fun with the App Store, but don’t install too much crap”?

If you truly demand the right to be able to shoot yourself in the foot with the software you install on your phone — which is a perfectly reasonable desire, and is how things work on the Mac — then the non-jailbroken iPhone isn’t for you.

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oftware you install on your phone -- which is a perfectly reasonable desire, and is how things work on the Mac -- then the non-jailbroken iPhone isn't for you.

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Another Acid 3 Fix: Ranges and Document Mutation

post from Surfin' Safari on 15 March 2008 01:27:00 PM. © Surfin' Safari

You probably know that the Acid 3 score for nightly builds of WebKit was 90/100 last week. Today it’s up to 91/100 because I fixed our handling of DOM ranges under document mutation.

In older versions of WebKit, if you removed the node at one end of a DOM range from the document, the range would end up with one endpoint in the document and another endpoint outside the document. Ranges aren’t supposed to work that way. Instead, when you modify the document the range is supposed to get “fixed up” so that both endpoints are still in the document.

That’s fixed now and so Acid 3 test 13 now passes. See bug 11997 if you want to know more of the details.

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Nerdfotainment

Rands on the appeal of multi-threaded plot lines:

Nerds are systematic thinkers, which means, for entertainment, we want to exercise our systemic comprehension muscles. We want to stare at a thing and figure out what rules define it. In the case of Lost, Abrams get this. He sprinkles hints of systems within the system of the show. He tinkers with time and with personalities to paint brief glimpses of clues. And then he changes everything because he knows that if we ever feel we?ve figured it out, we?ll bail.

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Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R Review

Two days ago a new gigabyte motherboard a ga-ep35-ds3r, short : ep35, arrived. This as a[...]

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