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Gdgts Downloadable Chrome OS VMware Image

post from Daring Fireball on 20 November 2009 03:23:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Gdgt has a VMware image of the open source Chrome OS version that Google released yesterday. Engadget put together a video showing how to install and use it. If you’re curious to see it in action (as I was), this is far easier than compiling it from source. Hooray for VMware.

But be warned — this release is far behind the version of Chrome that Google actually demoed during their event yesterday. This open source release is missing much of the cool stuff shown yesterday, and only fully works if you have a special google.com account — presumably only available right now to Google employees. You can get more from watching this aforelinked video than by running this image in VMware.

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TomTom to ship iPod touch-specific car kit

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 November 2009 03:20:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

GPS maker TomTom has revealed a new car mount, one designed exclusively for the iPod touch. The acc...

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Qualcomm demos FLO TV on iPhone

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 November 2009 03:10:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Qualcomm has quietly shown an example receiver that would give the iPhone and iPod touch FLO TV rece...

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Bugs & Fixes: Screensavers in Snow Leopard

post from Mac 911 on 20 November 2009 03:09:00 PM. © Mac 911

After a little wait, many third-party screensavers are now compatible with Snow Leopard. But there are glitches. Ted Landau has details.

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Chrome OS Demo From Yesterdays Google Event

post from Daring Fireball on 20 November 2009 02:48:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

This YouTube video has the demo portion of yesterday’s Chrome OS announcement event. Best tour of the UI I’ve seen.

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YouTube blocking native video API from TV devices

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 November 2009 02:20:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

YouTube drew controversy with word this week that it has begun limiting the use of its native video ...

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Postage

post from Daring Fireball on 20 November 2009 02:20:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

By the way, if you haven’t seen it before, RogueSheep’s Postage is a very slick iPhone app: it’s a simple little “virtual postcard” app with tons of polish and style.

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Barnes & Noble sold out of Nook reader until 2010

Barnes & Noble today signaled that new orders for the Nook reader now won't ship at all in 2009. Th...

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Lost and Mad Men Editor to Keynote 5th Annual FMC
Editor's Retreat

Future Media Concepts has announced that Emmy-nominated editor Christopher Nelson will be the keynote speaker at the 5th annual Editors Retreat in Miami Beach, Florida from January 13-16, 2010. The Editors Retreat will take place at the Deauville Beach Resort Hotel, located at 6701 Collins Avenue in the exotic Miami Beach, Florida. The 4-day, 3-night world-class retreat offers fully-packed days of workshops and classes with discussions and presentations.

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RogueSheeps Postage App Flagged by Apples Static
Analysis Tool

This is admittedly a little technical. But the gist of it is that RogueSheep sort of got screwed by having their app rejected for this. Their app linked to a version of the Three20 framework that overrode, not called, a private API — i.e. it replaced a private method with its own method of the same name. And Postage, the app, wasn’t even actually calling it. Apple’s tool apparently can’t discern the difference, so developers need to be aware of this or risk automatic rejection.

RogueSheep’s Chris Parrish concludes:

Personally, I?d love to see Apple give us access to the analysis tool to run against our own builds before submission. Or if that?s not possible, perhaps a modification to the review process so this automated analysis happens sooner in the process so we don?t lose so much ground in the now 14-day wait for the review process to complete.

Making the static analysis tool available to developers would indeed be helpful. But I suspect it wouldn’t work in terms of game theory. Honest developers could make good use of having access to the tool, to help ensure their projects are free of private API violations. But dishonest developers would use the tool to figure out ways to slip private API calls past the checker. Parrish’s second request, for Apple to run the tool against submissions far sooner in the review process, strikes me as a good and reasonable one.

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