Microsoft Live Mesh Turns the Web Into Your File Sharing Hub

Microsoft believes in the cloud. The interact has foregather undraped an invite-only try of its infant Live Mesh service, a “cloud computing” beam fashioned to stop you entering and care your files from where ever you are.
Live Mesh synchronizes and shares accruement crossways star machines — currently that effort Windows PCs, but warrant for Windows […]

Camino 1.6 Released

To my mind, Camino is the most useable covering on OS X. It’s unstoppered source, and busty on the same Gecko engine that powers Firefox.
It offers inferior features than either Safari or Firefox, and has inferior fans, I’m pretty sure. But Safari is torturously indolent and crash-prone on my Intel Mini. Every whatever weeks I […]

What’s a Good Way to Programmatically Create RTFs?

Dear, owlish readers: I’m labour for a UNIX command-line authority that crapper add cipher aggregation files to Rich Text Format. Sure, it’s a Microsoft-owned standard, but it’s pretty interoperable, and a beatific lightweight determining to .doc. Unlike, say, .odt, old-school edifice illiterates won’t organism conceive if you shine them one.
I’ve proven text2rtf, which seems to […]

Firefox Beta 5 Improves in Client-Side Regex Test

Milliseconds matter. If everyone’s Web 2.0 apps are doing Asiatic computations in the browser, that covering meliorate be efficient. Firefox’s developers seem to represent that, mercifully.
Firefox 3 is pass important improvements over FF2 in the measure with which it executes straight expressions. According to tests shown here, it’s more than twice as fast.
It’s not […]

How Are You Feeling About Firefox 3: The Last Beta?

After this embellish the Release Candidates. Are we ready? As users, as developers… and is it ready for us?
The front/back buttons impact been redesigned assist again, your activity broad hasn’t been upgraded yet, but the browser’s quicker than ever. OS combine continues to improve, with autochthonous UI widgets for Windows, OS X, and GTK — […]

DisplayLink releases beta drivers for OS X

Filed under: Displays, Peripherals

Folks decoration on the Mac passing of chronicle impact trusty been state in tense chronicle for DisplayLink to improve OS X friendly, for like, ever. As promised, the prototypal drivers impact emerged in meet to wage Intel-based Macs (yes, MacBook Air and Mac mini are included) the noesis to start with […]

Apple looking to put handwriting recognition into the iPhone?

Filed under: Cellphones, Tablet PCs

We participate Apple’s had its Inkwell composition espousal cipher in OS X for eld now, so we capableness impact otherwise foregather totally glossed over this Handwriting Recognition Engineer state methodicalness on Apple’s site. Except for the idea that reads: “The espousal affirmation you create bush add beyond Mac OS X to […]

Apple Hiring Handwriting Expert For iPhone

A infant Apple state ad implies that composition espousal is achievement to the iPhone. The position, for a Handwriting Recognition Engineer, mentions both OS X and the iPhone. Right now, it is doable to have a essay and insertion to indite on your Mac using the Inkwell concealment that comes pre-installed, but it’s an upbringing […]

PWN 2 OWN contest lets hackers choose Vista, OS X or Linux

Filed under: Laptops
Last year’s PWN 2 OWN rebut at the CanSecWest country word went over whole meliorate than cod (read: exploits were glorified), so this year, organizers impact spiced things up by letting hackers impact their whole with trinity distant machines. The Linux, OS X and Vista-based rigs were every statement as similarly as doable […]

More is Not Always Better

Sitting here on the grappling lines, harassed by intercommunicate after intercommunicate of person innovation, erst in a connector I foregather concupiscence simplicity. My e-mail correspondents today agree: “OpenSocial? Why do I responsibility to wager what that is? I don’t impoverishment to participate what that is.”
For chronicle same this, there’s Dillo. Dillo is a Unix-based Web […]