Archive:October, 2009

Elian Gonzalez joins Cuba’s youth Communists – CNN.com

 

Elian Gonzalez joins Cuba’s youth Communists [From Elian Gonzalez joins Cuba's youth Communists - CNN.com] This is one of those moments that truly put my age back into perception. I’m only 21, but Elian Gonzalez brings up memories from my youth. And now the 14yr old is a member of the Cuban Communists. Not that [...]

Mecca – Another New Browser for Mac

 

Evidently there is another ‘new-generation’ Mac browser being developed currently, in addition to Latitude. Read my interview with the Latitude development team. However, unlike Latitude, Mecca is being developed by the guys who make Fluid, the Mac app that lets you save web pages as individual ‘apps’ to click and run from your Dock. If [...]

Cappuccino, Objective-J, and 280Slides.com

 

The guys from 280 North have been hard at work completing a couple very impressive tasks. First, 280Slides.com is up and running in beta. It’s a simply amazing Keynote knockoff that takes web applications to an entirely new level. Seriously, if more web applications were this easy to use, more of us would be using [...]

Hyperspaces – Leopard Spaces on Steroids

 

With the introduction of Spaces in Mac OS X Leopard, the community mourned the loss of Virtue, a wonderful virtual desktop manager for Panther and Tiger. However, Tony has been hard at work since December 2007 I’ve learned, bringing the features missing from Leopard’s virtual desktops implementation to Leopard with a new application called HyperSpaces. [...]

Twitterific for iPhone

 

I’m a huge Twitter fan and absolutely love Twitterific on my Mac. Craig and the guys from IconFactory have taken great pain in making the iPhone version of Twitterific even better than the desktop version, from the looks of things. [Pictures from MacWorld] Cool features such as placing a link to a picture or easily [...]

ZFS Support in Snow Leopard

 

I don’t think I’ve seen any talk of the announced ZFS support in Snow Leopard Server. It’s still not full read/write support in the client evidently, but I believe full support is still new in the server version. Can anyone else correct me on this? http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/

Twing – New Forums Search Engine

 

Twing.com today announced the debut of its new online community and forum search engine, www.Twing.com. Created to be the Internet’s best resource for helping users search and discover opinions, information and conversations that match their interests, Twing.com includes its own blogs and forums to provide updated community information and an ongoing conversation with visitors and [...]

iCard Service Ends with Introduction of MobileMe

 

The WWDC 2008 keynote today saw the rebranding of the .Mac package, yet again. There are certainly some nice features being added, such as push email, contacts and calendars, revamped web interface, and storage upgrades. You can read more about the MobileMe features here. However, we should take this time to mourn the loss of [...]

Versions Beta Released – Finally

 

For any of those out there wondering if Versions was vaporware like that YouTube client promised forever back, there is a little hope. From the Versions website: Whether you’re a designer, developer, editor or project manager, chances are you already have plenty on your mind. Versions saves you the hassle and makes working with Subversion [...]