Check Out This Photo From a Microsoft-Hosted
Event

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Notice anything about most of the laptops?

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Inserting a special character in Calc or Excel

post from Mac Production Artist Tips and Scripts on 19 November 2009 11:04:42 PM. © Mac Production Artist Tips and Scripts

Hi.Had a situation recently where I needed to concatenate two columns of text into a single column[...]

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Apple updates Server Admin Tools, Boot Camp
drivers

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 19 November 2009 10:55:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Apple on Thursday released an update to its Server Admin utility for Snow Leopard Server, as well as...

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Big Fish Games releases Drawn: The Painted Tower
for Mac

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Big Fish Games has released Drawn: The Painted Tower, a new puzzle-adventure game for the Mac. Playe...

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Star Trek D-A-C arriving for Mac in December

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 19 November 2009 09:35:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Paramount and TransGaming have announced a December release for a Mac version of Star Trek: D-A-C. T...

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Springy 1.6 archiving software adds 7Z, CAB
support

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Dragan Milic has released Springy 1.6, adding several new capabilities to the archiving software. Sp...

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Ebbinghaus 3.0 flashcard app adds new study
function

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Christian Kienle has introduced Ebbinghaus 3.0, the latest version of the flash card application for...

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Slammer 1.0 offers design layout and geometry
tools

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Ringce has announced the final release of Slammer, a layout and geometry utility for Mac OS X. Desig...

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Sony set to launch online portal for music,
movies, books

Sony on Thursday introduced plans to launch an online portal for music, movies, books, and other con...

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Paul Graham on How the App Store Has Damaged
Apples Reputation With Developers

The hard part about criticizing the App Store is that it doesn’t fit into a black-and-white narrative. It’s not bad or good. It’s both. In fact, it’s more extreme than that — it’s both amazingly good and horribly bad. And, frustratingly, many of us see how the bad parts could be made better without sacrificing the good parts.

This piece by Paul Graham addresses this dichotomy, and tries to make sense of Apple’s seeming blindness to the App Store’s severe problems:

Actually I suppose Apple has a third misconception: that all the complaints about App Store approvals are not a serious problem. They must hear developers complaining. But partners and suppliers are always complaining. It would be a bad sign if they weren?t; it would mean you were being too easy on them. Meanwhile the iPhone is selling better than ever. So why do they need to fix anything?

Later on, Graham captures what it is that gives me The Fear: