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EA backtracking on claims of simultaneous Mac game releases
Aug 16th
Windows Is Free
Aug 16th
Conspicuously missing from most debate over which operating systems are better is the distortions created by the existence of pirated software. Windows, and Mac OS, are effectively free in the minds of most consumers. Most debate centered around features or stability is eclipsed by the lack of money considerations in assessing user’s needs.
Cool new mobile app from Mozilla: Project Joey sends video to your phone
Aug 16th
This is an application developed by Mozilla that allows you to send video to your phone. From Project Joey: “Project Joey brings the Web content you need most to your mobile phone by allowing you to easily send it to your device.” Seems like a pretty useful tool that will bring all sorts of video and other content to mobile users.
PlusNet wipes 700gb of customer emails.
Jul 12th
Quoted from Plus.Net:
This major incident occurred as a result of human error during work to resolve timeouts when collecting mails, which we reported via service status last week: http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1152295291.htm
As of Sunday morning, things had progressed well, and we were on track to solve the issues with mail timeouts, which had started to occur following our move to a new email storage system.
At 8AM on Sunday morning our engineers were in a position to switch over to use of the new storage solution. As the first stage of this, an engineer was in the process of bringing the new back-up storage More >
Opera 9 Released
Jun 20th
After months (weeks?) of beta, Opera 9 is out of beta and the final version is available to download on the Opera website. Included in Opera 9 is bit torrent support, widgets, and much, much more. Check it out for yourself.
Opera / Download [by Opera]
Next target: microsoft.com
Jun 18th
Google Earth for Linux Released!
Jun 12th
Google Earth has been a popular sattelite imagery program this past year and is available for both Macintosh’s OS X, and Windows. Now Google has released a beta version of its software for the Linux operating system. Download your copy today!
Direct Download [by Google]
Google Earth [by Google]
Stunning review by Jake Jarvis on Vista beta 2
Jun 10th
Jake Jarvis of WireCatcher, a long time OSX fan, has installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on his Dell Inspiron 600m and has wrote a stunning review with a whole lot of screenshots. Jake Jarvis is a great friend of mine and I’d appreciate it if you would check out the review!
Vista Beta 2 Review [by Jake Jarvis]
Digg this Review [by Digg]
Flip4Mac Now Universal
Jun 7th
The universal version of Flip4Mac, the program to allow WMV files to be ran through Quicktime, is now being redistributed throughout a closed beta. Although just a little buggy, you can now play embedded clips on web pages, along with the standard Quicktime player. Unfortunatley, because it is a closed beta, it is not public and you can not get it. Fortunatley, though, there was a brave soul who uploaded it to Rapidshare and you can now download it here. Please note that tech this out! is not redistributing it but only linking to where it is being hosted. Imroved More >
Cyberduck
Jun 6th
Cyberduck is an open source FTP solution for Macintosh’s OSX, featuring a beautifully polished design that anyone will love, along with handy OSX tools integrated, such as Spotlight and Keychains.
Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.
Cyberduck is absolutely free for anyone to use and I highly recommend it, as I use it myself on my iMac and my iBook.
P.S. – Happy 666!
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