Updated MacBook Pros

post from Daring Fireball on 24 October 2011 09:03:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

Faster CPUs and bigger hard drives.

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Apple Tweaks Colors of iPad Smart Covers

post from Daring Fireball on 24 October 2011 09:03:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

They dropped orange (my wife’s favorite) and “tweaked” my favorite, the leather navy one, to be “more navy”. Best news is that they’ve added a nice dark gray polyurethane one — I thought it was somewhat crummy how in the original lineup, the only dark ones were the more expensive leather ones.

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Entourage Email Archive X version 6.0

post from prMac on 24 October 2011 07:15:00 PM. © prMac

Softhing is proud to announce version 6 of Entourage Email Archive X, an utility for archiving emails and attachments you have received or sent using Microsoft Entourage in Mac OS X. EEAX can archive your emails in six different ways with further sub-options. One of the features of EEAX is to archive emails as native Entourage file format. The files with .eml extensions give you the possibility to restore one email or group of emails simply drop them back to Entourage at any time.

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I Finally Cracked It

post from Daring Fireball on 24 October 2011 07:03:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

Marco Arment on the passage in Isaacson’s biography where Jobs tells him he’s “cracked” the problem of creating an Apple-quality TV.

The way to revolutionize the TV market is to cut out all of thelegacy. No cable companies. No broadcast tuners. No channels. NoDVRs. All internet delivery. All on-demand. No commercials.
But that?s an incredibly tall order. Apple can do a lot, butI?m not sure that they can do that, given how much of it isout of their control.

It’s all about content. I don’t even think it’s that hard to imagine a truly game-changing TV from Apple — but such a thing would require massive participation from content providers. I’m not going to hold my breath.

The other thing that’s always struck me is that even if Apple could get a ton of content providers on board with the idea, they’d still have to worry about cable providers because so many of us get our Internet service from a cable company. What’s to stop Comcast from throttling your bandwidth after you drop TV service and pay them for nothing other than Internet service? Ideally the feds would prevent that, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that either.

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Good Point on Amazons New KF8 E-Book Format

post from Daring Fireball on 24 October 2011 06:04:13 PM. © Daring Fireball

Guido Henkel on KF8:

The big problem with the introduction of the KF8 format is thatAmazon is doing a pretty hack job with this, I am very sorry tosay, because, according to Amazon?s announcement and FAQ, noneof the older Kindles will be able to support this format.
Why is this a problem? Well, as a professional eBook formatter,the question for me is, how am I supposed to deal with this?Instead of creating the foundation for one rock solid Kindleplatform that has powerful capabilities, Amazon is now going downthe road of platform fragmentation.

Amazon promises that their tools will convert KF8 files to alternate formats compatible with older Kindles, but as Henkel notes:

Just because KindleGen 2 promises to convert your books, doesn?tmean you should, because the output quality will be dubious atbest. Of course, if you are part of theI-don?t-care-just-make-it-easy, Smashwords-adoring crowd, yes,that might work for you, but if you take pride in your ebook?slayout and formatting, this is not going to fly.

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Market Share Claim Chowder

post from Daring Fireball on 24 October 2011 05:04:10 PM. © Daring Fireball

From a December 2002 CNet piece by Joe Wilcox:

“Certainly by… 2005, possibly by the end of 2003, Linux willpass Mac OS as the No. 2 operating environment,” said IDC analystDan Kusnetzky.

Reads better if you pronounce certainly like Curly from The Three Stooges.

(Thanks to DF reader Steven Klein.)

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Flash Player Access to Your Camera and Microphone
Is Controlled By Adobe

post from Daring Fireball on 24 October 2011 05:04:10 PM. © Daring Fireball

Yet another reason to keep Flash uninstalled in your primary web browser.

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Dick Cavett on Steve Jobs

Dick Cavett:

?How does it feel to be Dick Cavett??
That?s what he said.
What a dumb question, I thought. This guy can?t be very bright.
The ?guy? was named Steve Jobs. Turned out he wasreasonably bright.

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New Promotion Offering Entire Ctrl Publishing
Plug-in Range 15% Off

XChange UK and ThePowerXChange, the sources for extended technology are pleased to announce a new limited-time offer on Ctrl Publishing products for Adobe(R) InDesign(R). Ctrl Publishing are known for delivering Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy plug-ins developed to overcome and defeat time-consuming production obstacles. All products in the Ctrl Publishing product range are included in the promotion.

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KidsMag issue 1 Lite & 2 Lite for iPad - Free

Portegno Apps is pleased to introduce KidsMag issues 1 & 2 Lite with Teo and Bianca, a creative and fun interactive iPad magazine for children age 3 and above. KidsMag is an educational app that combines the simplicity of iPad's intuitive user interface with learning and entertaining benefits of activity books. With this magazine your kids will enjoy a complete learning and entertaining experience. Both in written and in audio form.

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