N.E.D. tutorial-video 2.0

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2008 08:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

In brief: There's now a way to constantly monitor Apple Store status, N.E.D. tutorial-video 2.0 has ...

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Refurb iMacs discounted

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2008 07:50:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Apple's online store is offering reconditioned iMacs at especially low prices for a limited time. Th...

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Reflect, Courier cases

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2008 07:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Griffin Technology today began shipping its Reflect and Courier carrying cases for Apple's iPhone. T...

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Tinderbox

post from Daring Fireball on 22 February 2008 06:36:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

My thanks to Eastgate for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Their app Tinderbox is a “personal content assistant that helps you to visualize, analyze, and share your notes”. Features include a wiki, an outliner, and mapping tools to connect and describe the relationship between notes. Top-notch XML and HTML export make it a terrific publishing tool, too. They’ve set up a page full of deals for DF readers — you’ll save at least $35 if you order this week.

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Koobniks AirMail cover

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2008 06:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Shuffleart has unveiled the first photos of its Koobniks - AirMail cover for Apple's MacBook Air (si...

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iToner, Mactracker

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 22 February 2008 06:10:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Default Folder X 4.0.2 ($15) makes it easier for you to manage files by adding features and correcti...

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Just the Internet

post from Daring Fireball on 22 February 2008 06:01:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

One more note regarding the Flash-for-iPhone issue. Several readers have objected to the omission of Flash from the iPhone on the grounds that Apple claims that the iPhone offers the “real Internet”, and since Flash is part of the “real Internet”, that means the iPhone needs to support Flash.¹

I’ve made my case regarding the reasons I see why Apple might not want to support Flash on Mobile OS X. But, for all I know, Flash support is queued up and ready to roll in the iPhone update I presume Apple is getting ready to release alongside the SDK next week. But if I’m right and Flash support is not coming soon, I don’t see any contradiction with Apple’s claims.

Apple’s “Watered Down” iPhone commercial seems to be the source of these objections. Here’s what the narrator says, while we watch someone navigate the front page of nytimes.com in MobileSafari:

This is not a “watered down” version of the Internet, or the “mobile” version of the Internet, or the “kinda sorta looks like the Internet” Internet. It’s just… the Internet.

“It’s just the Internet” is not a specific technical claim. For god’s sake they’re using “Internet” to mean “web”. This is advertising, and the gist of the claim is true. If you think “just the Internet” implies that MobileSafari should support everything Safari for Mac and Windows supports, that means more than just Flash is missing, including Java and Windows Media.

It’s also possible that this sort of phrasing is an attempt to frame the issue in Apple’s favor, by establishing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the only technologies that constitute the “regular” web — that Flash, no matter how common, is non-standard.

I haven’t found a single instance where Apple has used the literal phrase “the real Internet” to describe what it is that MobileSafari supports, but that the phrase readers who’ve emailed me about this tend to use. ↩

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Yahoo sued, court action

Two Detroit-based pension funds sued Yahoo and its board today, the latest event in the escalating M...

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QuickLicense 2.2 released

Excel Software has released QuickLicense 2.2, an update to the Mac and Windows license protection so...

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Doggiebox 1.4 released

Zygoat Creative Technical Services today released Doggiebox 1.4, an update to the company's percussi...

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