MarsEdit update

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Daniel Jalkut released an update for his great blog editing software, MarsEdit. Fixes improves how the app works with Safari 5.2 and it prevents a possible hang while parsing Lightroom libraries.

Apple sued over voicemail patents

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Erica Ogg at GigaOm:

Apple is being sued by Brandywine Communications Technologies over multimedia voicemail in its iPhone and iPad products. In the complaint filed in the U.S. district court for the middle district of Florida Tuesday, Brandywine claims that Apple is infringing on two patents it owns related to mobile voicemail.

A patent holding company — I hate that.

Accordion with CSS3

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Anything that uses CSS3 is good with me. Another good example here, although I’m not a big fan of the accordion effect.

Pro Tools SE Jump Start

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Russ starts at the beginning with opening and saving a session, then goes into recording and editing audio, using virtual instruments, built-in effects and exporting your masterpiece for CD and the internet.

I really like the Pro Tools videos at Groove3. This video is a great place to start your Pro Tools training.

Galaxy Note ‘is the most useless phone I’ve used’

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Jonathan Geller:

The phone is too big. You will look stupid talking on it, people will laugh at you, and you’ll be unhappy if you buy it. I really can’t get around this, unfortunately, because Samsung pushed things way too far this time.

But, but, it has a stylus.

iPocketWatch

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The iPW (iPocketWatch) lets you wear your iPod Nano the old school way, on a chain, in the pocket.

Cool.

Dell stock tumbles on weak sales outlook

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Shares of Dell Inc fell more than 7 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday, after the world’s No.3 personal computer maker forecast weak sales for the current quarter.

PlayBook gets email, but it’s still a piece of shit

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Roger Cheng: While RIM touts the ability to get e-mail, it’s actually using Exchange ActiveSync, and not the company’s own secure BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Without RIM’s secure network, the PlayBook’s e-mail access isn’t any better than what can already be … Continued

Microsoft Office for iPad

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Matt Hickey for The Daily:

Word, Excel and PowerPoint files can be created and edited locally and online. But it’s unclear if Microsoft will support other Office apps at launch or at all.

More crap from RIM

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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for RIM:

PlayBook OS 2.0 benchmarks better than any other mobile implementation (just point your PlayBook at HTML5Test.com), and better than every desktop browser, except Chrome 16. It also includes WebGL for accelerated 3D graphics, and with WebWorks, we can free HTML5 code from the browser, let you upload it to AppWorld, and turn that HTML5 website into a revenue generating HTML5 application. How ‘bout them apples?

Two things:

  1. Make sure you’re near a Wi-Fi connection before pointing your PlayBook at any site because it doesn’t have 3G.

  2. You think it’s a good idea to allow developers to sell an app based on an HTML5 Web site? That’s not a plus. People want real apps, not fake shit.

Whitney Houston, Charlie Chaplin items being auctioned

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Highlights of items from Whitney Houston that will be auctioned include a Whitney Houston black velvet dress owned by Houston. The floor length long-sleeve dress has a high collar and is embellished at neck and waist with metallic silver ribbon, black and clear stones giving the illusion of a necklace and belt. (Est: $1,000 -$2,000), a Whitney Houston vest worn by Whitney Houston in the blockbuster film “The Bodyguard,” (Warner Bros. 1992). The fitted vest has a floral pattern in gold, blue and pink, two exterior pockets, shawl collar and four button closure. Purchased by the end of production sale by the film’s set costumer Janet Sobel (Est: $400-$600), and a pair of pearl drop earrings also worn by Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard (Warner Bros. 1992), faux pearl with silver tone bead cap and euro clip with scallop (Est. $600-$800). Other items include jewelry and costumes from Houston’s appearance in film and on stage.Highlights include a Charlie Chaplin iconic cane (Est. $20,000/$30,000) and Charlie Chaplin film worn suit (Est. $20,000/$30,000) and a number of his own personal items including his personal drivers license (Est. $2,000/$4,000) originating from family members and the Estate of Charlie Chaplin. Other highlights include Clark Gable’s riding jacket from “Gone With The Wind,” (Est. $10,000/$15,000), a tuxedo jacket worn by Judy Garland in “A Star Is Born,” (Est. $4,000/$6,000), a Charlton Heston screen worn robe (Est. $30,000/$50,000) and screen worn staff (Est. $20,000/$30,000), screen used tablets (Est. $40,000/$60,000) from “The Ten Commandments,” Marilyn Monroe pantaloons worn in “River of No Return (Est. $20,000/$30,000) and a vintage Christian Dior gown worn by Grace Kelly, known more famously as Princess Grace of Monaco (Est. $10,000/$20,000)

The new Microsoft, Apple OS war

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Tim Bajarin:

From Microsoft and their partners point of view, they are really hoping that history literally repeats itself. Just as Windows was used to bypass Apple in the past, they are “praying” that Windows 8, with its ability to deliver a similar OS and touch UI experience across multiple devices can revive their fortunes and make them relevant again.

I don’t believe it’ll happen this time. Apple is different than the company that fought with Microsoft in 1984 for desktop operating system supremacy. In a way you could say that Microsoft has been trying to build a tablet OS for years and failed. Apple reinvented the way people think about tablets and mobile operating systems and in the process they have won the mindshare and market share of consumers. It seems clear from Windows 8 that Microsoft doesn’t even understand the war they are fighting.

Sandboxing

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Longtime Mac developer Daniel Jalkut writes a great article on Gatekeeper and Sandboxing.