Apple overtakes Dell in UK edu market

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 31 October 2006 08:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Apple has overtaken Dell in the UK education market, but is still No. 2 behind Research Machines. Performing well above the market average, Apple has 14.7 percent of the total PC market for education, according to Gartner research numbers cited by Macworld UK. The market includes laptops and desktop computers, but excludes the server market. Resea...

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Apple releases Xcode Tools 2.4.1

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 31 October 2006 08:05:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Apple today released Xcode Tools 2.4.1 (site not updated), updating the software development toolkit with functionality improvements and fixing a security issue. With the previous version of Xcode, opening a maliciously-crafted DWARF binary with GDB could lead to arbitrary code execution, according to Apple. "GDB, the GNU Debugger, is susceptible t...

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Sam Weinig is a WebKit Reviewer

post from Surfin' Safari on 31 October 2006 08:00:00 PM. © Surfin' Safari

Sam Weinig is now a qualified WebKit reviewer. Sam has done a lot of coding in different areas of WebKit, including large refactoring changes and coding style cleanup, as well as large projects like autogenerating the Objective-C DOM bindings. At this point, he probably knows the coding style guidelines better than most of the existing [...]

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GRASS GIS 6.2.0 updates GIS support

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 31 October 2006 07:55:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

The GRASS Development Team has released GRASS GIS 6.2.0, adding hundreds of new features and support for the latest GIS data formats to the Geographic Information System (GIS). The software is used for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, geospatial data management and analysis, processing of satellite and aerial imagery, and ...

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Miglia, Roxio join forces

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 31 October 2006 07:05:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Digital media software company Roxio today announced a new partnership with Miglia Technology to combine Roxio Toast 7 with Miglia's TVMini and TVMax digital TV devices. The new alliance creates three unique bundles -- TVMini with Toast Basic, TVMini with Toast 7 Titanium, and TVMax with Toast 7 Titanium. The bundles allow users to watch, pause, re...

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Applications Celebrate Halloween Too

post from The Apple Blog on 31 October 2006 06:29:44 PM. © The Apple Blog

Google is famous for updating its logo to celebrate certain events and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they are not the only ones. TextMate, a famous text and source code editor for Mac OS X, celebrates Halloween in a rather pleasant way. First, it updates its Dock icon:TextMate also displays a nice spider [...]

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Ruckus Laptop Bag Collection unveiled

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 31 October 2006 06:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Pacific Design today introduced the Ruckus Laptop Bag Collection, a line of laptop backpacks and messenger bags designed for urban, professional, and student lifestyles. Both the Ruckus Laptop Backpack and the Ruckus Laptop Messenger Bag are up to 30 percent lighter than other similar laptop bags, according to Pacific Design, and are constructed fr...

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Apps: Cheetah3D, Lineform, Hazel

Cheetah3D v3.5 ($100) updates the application for modeling, animation and rendering. Version 3.5 features a completely rewritten parameter system, new priority property to "spline tracking" and "target" tag, loading of PSD textures, an improved .jas file format featuring a smaller size and support new parameter system, and a new antialiasing defaul...

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Blog Comments and Aggressive Spam Filters

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Apple Premium Resellers to open in UK

Both Scotsys and Solutions are preparing to open new Apple Premium Reseller Stores in the UK as the busy holiday shopping season draws near. Former Olympic athlete and gold medalist Sally Gunnell will open the new Solutions store on Saturday, November 4th on Brighton Place in the heart of the famous Brighton Lanes. The new store carries the widest ...

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