OReilly Webcast: Developing Applications for Palm
WebOS

post from Daring Fireball on 26 February 2009 06:32:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Webcast presentation by Palm CTO Mitch Allen on developing software for the upcoming WebOS.

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Zevrix Solutions automates export to InDesign
Interchange format

post from prMac on 26 February 2009 06:30:00 PM. © prMac

Zevrix Solutions announces the release of BatchOutput 3.5, a new version of its popular solution to automate printing and exporting from Adobe InDesign. The new version adds the ability to automate export of InDesign CS4 documents to the InDesign Interchange file format (INX). With BatchOutput 3.5, users can repurpose multiple InDesign documents to open them with earlier versions with just a click of a button instead of opening and exporting each document manually.

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CopyFlow Gold for InDesign or QuarkXPress free
Screencast Available

post from prMac on 26 February 2009 06:14:00 PM. © prMac

XChange International and ThePowerXChange, the global sources for extended technology worldwide, along with X-Ray magazine, the publication dedicated to desktop-publishing, design, electronic-content creation, pre-press, and printing, are pleased to announce their second TimeSaver:MoneyMaker screencast: CopyFlow Gold for InDesign or QuarkXPress.

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launch2net udpate

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 26 February 2009 06:05:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Nova Media has released launch2net version 1.8.8.4, an update to its mobile Internet connection util...

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doubleTwist Takes Jab at iTunes Tyranny

post from TheAppleBlog on 26 February 2009 06:00:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

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Look out iTunes, there’s a brand new media manager in town, in the form of a public beta just released for OS X. The program is called doubleTwist, and it’s the brainchild of anti-DRM crusader “DVD” Jon Johansen.

Ars Technica had a look at it in length, and it seems to be fairly promising. The idea is the same one behind Pioneers of the Inevitable’s Songbird, namely to provide users with an alternative to Apple’s own iTunes, which is sometimes criticized as having an unnecessarily large memory footprint, among other failings.

The killer feature of doubleTwist, the one which really sets it apart from both Songbird and iTunes, is its ability to sync your media on pretty much any portable device of your choosing that’s capable of playing it back. In fact, doubleTwist supports syncing with literally hundreds of devices, among them the standard heavy hitters like BlackBerry, Sony’s PSP, Nintendo’s DSI, and just about any mobile phone you can think of. Except, and this is the odd part, for the iPhone and iPod, which are currently available for PC users only, though the Mac client with iPhone/iPod support is in private testing.

Curiously, doubleTwist does feature a mandatory sign-up before you can start using it. And, annoyingly, you have to wait to receive a confirmation email and click an activation link before the application will even let you get past an authentication screen. It wouldn’t have been nearly as aggravating if I’d just received the email right away, but I had to wait quite a while to even get started.

Aside from login issues, the program itself is intuitive and easy to use. It can automatically scan all of your drives, folders, and connected mobile devices for any kind of media to build a comprehensive library, organized by where it was found. Unfortunately, doubleTwist is DRM-phobic in its current incarnation, and will not find or recognize any DRM-enabled content, besides iTunes music, which it can presumably play by running Quicktime in the background.

The beauty of doubleTwist from the perspective of someone who hates messing about with conversion software and often gets frustrating results when he does, is its automatic conversion feature when dragging and dropping media to different devices. If the device is one of the many doubleTwist has in its expanding database, your file will either just be transferred to it automatically if already in a compatible format, or converted into a file type the device will recognize. No muss, no fuss. Which is also a limitation, since you have no control over conversion.

I’m not sure it’ll ever replace iTunes as my primary media manager, since I’d miss Apple proprietary features like AirTunes support, but it does help me wrangle my gadget collection a little better, and with a lot fewer headaches. Let’s hope future updates fully realize doubleTwist’s early potential.

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My Safari 1.0 Review From January 2003

post from Daring Fireball on 26 February 2009 05:57:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Me, on the then-one-day-old Safari 1.0 public beta, in January 2003:

Apple?s stated goal is to make Safari the best browser on the Mac. What?s unstated, but clearly their larger goal, is to make it the best browser in the world, period. A noble goal, but clearly reachable. The public beta unveiled yesterday is a remarkable start.

To put how long ago that is in context, Firefox didn’t exist yet, OmniWeb was still using its own custom rendering engine, and the default Mac browser was Internet Explorer. And, more importantly, web browsing on the Mac, using any of the available choices, was significantly slower than browsing on Windows with IE. Times change, huh?

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OWC hard drive dock

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 26 February 2009 05:30:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Other World Computing has released a number of new Voyager hard-drive docking bundles, with storage ...

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Seagate drops Stec suit

Hard drive and flash-based memory maker Seagate announced on Thursday that is has dropped its patent...

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MacBook Air hinges faulty

First-generation MacBook Airs may have a fundamental flaw in their hinge construction, accounts sugg...

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Speed Download 5 released - Turbo-Charged
Download Manager for Safari 4

Yazsoft has announced Speed Download 5.1.2. Overhauled from top to bottom, Speed Download 5 redefines the Mac OS X download manager by combining four amazing products - a turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity - into one small and easy to use application. And now with RSS newsreader integration.

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