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Safari use up 76 percent

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 17 April 2006 10:06:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

surfinsafarblog That's up 76 percent from last year. And we're still talking about a 3.19% browser market share, according to Net Applications. Of course, as stated on the Surfin' Safari blog, the hope (for Apple) is to see more WebKit-based browsers out there too. You may recall Nokia's S60 web browser is just such a beast. Whether or not a cell phone browser will make a dent in WebKit's market share? I'll let you decide that one. In the end, I can really only hope all this great market share business is going to make some developers out there (you know who you are) work a little harder to make their websites Safari-compatible. List the worst Safari offenders in the comments, and just ignore Google, where everything is beta. Besides, it could be worse: you could be using Opera.

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Quake 4 for Intel Macs available

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 17 April 2006 09:59:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

By Jim Dalrymple - Macworld.com

quake4 Aspyr Media has begun shipping Quake 4. The company said the popular game is shipping as a Universal Binary with support for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macintosh.

In QUAKE 4 gamers take on the role of Matthew Kane, a member of the legendary Rhino Squad, to penetrate deep into the heart of the Strogg war machine and engage in a series of heroic missions to destroy the barbaric alien race. QUAKE 4 begins only moments after the events of QUAKE II, with the Earth’s fleet launching a massive offensive to the planet Stroggos.

As Matthew Kane, gamers invade the alien stronghold, fighting alone, along side other Marines, and in mechanized walkers and hover tanks as they encounter the Strogg and their disturbing amalgamations of man and machine. Quake 4 is built using id Software’s DOOM 3 technology and the competition modeled after the feel of QUAKE III Arena.

The game is rated “M” for “Mature” by the ESRB. QUAKE 4 is available now for $49.99 through Aspyr’s Website.

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Denver Gets Free Wi-Fi

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 17 April 2006 09:53:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

Although not as grand as Google and Earthlink's venture to blanket San Francisco in free Wi-Fi, Denver unveiled a free wireless network in its downtown area on Monday. The service, which was coordinated by Kiva Networks and Verbena Design, is said to be one of the first larger-scale free public Internet access projects in the country, according to CBS 4 Denver. The network is available along the LoDo 16th Street pedestrian mall and around Skyline Park.

Tamara Door, CEO and president of the Wi-Fi project partners, commented "Culture and commerce are enhanced by people's access to information and we are excited that residents, visitors, students and business people will have another amenity on the mall and in Skyline Park."

The network is named "DowntownDenverWiFi," and should be easy to find anywhere along the 16th Street mall.

My Take
I only put this in here because I live in Colorado. Unfortunately (for me anyway) I rarely get to LoDo. Still, it's nice to see Denver take the initiative to get this service setup.

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BusinessWeek Ranks Apple Top Innovator

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 17 April 2006 09:14:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

BusinessWeek's 2006 list of the top 25 most innovative companies, and Apple is at the top of the list. Apple earned its number one status again thanks to the success of the iPod. Innovation consultant, Larry Keeley, commented "To launch the iPod, Apple used no fewer than seven types of innovation. They included networking (a novel agreement among music companies to sell their songs online), business model (songs sold for a buck each online), and branding (how cool are those white ear buds and wires?)."

After Apple, the top five innovators are Google, 3M, Toyota, and Microsoft.

The list is derived from a survey of more than 1,000 senior managers from around the world.

My Take
Ummmm.... Microsoft is number five? How the hell is THAT possible? They've never INNOVATED ANYTHING!!! Everything they have, everything they've done, and everything they are, they owe to other innovative companies. I dare ANYONE to post here and let me know something that Microsoft ACTUALLY created, developed, or innovated themselves.

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Toying with Keynote 3 textures

post from Mac 911 Weblog on 17 April 2006 03:00:00 PM. © Mac 911 Weblog

Want more Wood from your Keynote 3 presentation? Here's how to get it.

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Changing TextEdit's Margins

I am big into doing more with less, and threw Office out years ago. As such, I have made TextEdit my writing and note taking tool of choice.

One thing that bugs me however is it's inability to change the margins from the default 1 inch all the way around.

Is there a way to change these settings, other than editing a blank .rtf file header and then saving that file as stationary. Ideally I would like to be able to change things at will.

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