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Quicksilver B58 Released - Application Launcher And Much More
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An Application launcher and much more Quicksilver is described by its developers as a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
Anyone using a computer (and the Macintosh is no exception) spends a lot of time locating files and applications, and then carrying out actions on those items. The Finder is a reasonably good tool for getting a visual overview of the contents of your disk, but it isn't ideal for quickly locating more.
At first glance, Quicksilver is a launcher.
When opened, it will create a catalog of applications and some frequently used folders and documents. Activate it, and you can search for and open anything in its catalog instantly. The search is adaptive, so Quicksilver will recognize which items you are searching for based on previous experience. It also supports abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each. When not in use, Quicksilver vanishes, waiting for the next time you summon it.
Other Actions
Quicksilver's greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting
Quicksilver can be given the ability to understand the data inside of files, allowing you to work with data in new, faster ways. Plug-ins add both new items and new actions, allowing you to run scripts, send instant messages, dial phone numbers, look up words in a dictionary, queue up songs in iTunes party shuffle, and much, much more.
Frequently used commands can be bound to triggers, giving you the ability to execute them immediately by hitting a hot key or using the mouse on a corner or edge of the screen.
Wei Wu Wei - Act Without Doing
In the end, Quicksilver has one very important effect: the effort of frequent tasks fades into the background and you are able to act without thinking. After an adaptation period, Quicksilver becomes an extension of yourself; the process fades away leaving only the results. 1)
1) Thanks to Lao-tze and S. Mitchell
New in version 1.0b58:
Etienne Samson
• Disable Info.plist preprocessing on Plugins.
• Make shell scripts with "additional shebang" info work.
• README: Make real links.
Henery Barnor
• Removed dangling NSLog calls
Michael Guntsche
• Add Core Plugins to Release Build
• Fix to error messages neurolepsy
• Fix droplets by using the 10.5+ NSConnection vending method
• The G in BROWSING no longer gets cut off in the result window
• Menus improved
• Object context menus improved
• Don't show object descriptions in the result window if there's not enough room (rows <34px high)
• Recent Items made Snow Leopard compatible
• Text fields only allow plain text
• Fix bug creating an indexSet from the UI Access plugin
• Fix 10.5 compilation issue
Patrick Robertson
• Fixed bug #35 - Do Not Open At Login Action now working
• Fix bug #34
• Tidying up (forgot to re-add 'else')
• Remove dangling NSLogs
• Fixed relaunch action for fussy apps that did not quit straight away
• Removed a stray brace
• Commented out the loc - locator, path (for bundles) NSLog
• Commented out another NSLog message
Paul Kohut
• Initial loop optimizations
• Update score ranking code
• NSEnumerator - loop optimization
• Merge branch 'NSEnumerators' into B5x
• Issue #39 (bug 262) Fix: Incorrect display of Websearch
• Turn on a couple release optimizations
• Fix issues 26, 47, 57 and 61
• Fix lingering issue PjRobertson found
• Fixed single/double tap Modifier Key Activation
Version 1.0b57:
• Default compiler changed to Clang, Apple's and the Open Source community's next gen compiler. By doing that a 20 to 40% increase in runtime speed was gained while managing a catalog library with approx. 13k items. Quicksilver also feels a lot snappier too. This, of course, is mostly subjective (read: YMMV).
• Actions should now appear localized again where appropriate. (e.g. 'Copy to...' for example in German could also be typed as 'Bewegen nach...' or 'Open' as 'Ouvrir' in French. .lproj folders for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Finish, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish have been included. Mind you, the end result really depends on how Mac OS X handles this in the target language as Quicksilver just asks the OS for the localized representation of some common actions).
• Composed characters like German umlauts (e.g. '') will now show both parts (the letter 'a' and the 'dots'. Previously only letters would show up).
• The broken action menu now shows up with a cross-selection of all enabled actions from the Actions preferences.
• The Smart Replace and Replace dialog actions no longer crash Quicksilver and will now actually append numbers via a smart numbering system if a file to be copied or moved already exists at the destination. In order to use the Smart Replace dialog you will need to set the feature level equal to or higher than 3.To do that enter the following exactly into the Terminal and press Return: defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Feature Level" 3
• File operation requiring credentials no longer crash QS after providing the password.
• The Large Type action now keeps the text visible again for prolonged periods.
• Icons associated with custom file actions (e.g. like custom AppleScript actions) are now correctly displayed instead of a generic file placeholder icon.
• AppleScript actions which return something now cause Quicksilver to reappear again ready to use the result for the next action.
• Mouse tracking for triggers ('Mouse entered' / 'Mouse exited') now seems to work more reliably.
• The Extras pref pane no longer has a row spacing issue upon first loading of the associated NIB file.
• Excessive log outputs have been silenced to only occur if certain debugging environment variables are set in order to avoid spamming the Console.
• Dozens of API upgrades like replacing deprecated methods with safer variants or adding declaration names for the new way of handling informal protocols.
• All NIB files were converted to a SCM and collaboration friendly XIB format. A lot of clipping warnings have been fixed.
• Triggers with weird keys (like Function keys) are now displayed again.
• Updated French and German localization.
• Various other housekeeping tasks.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Version for Mac OS X 10.4-10.5 available
Free
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iPaperPad Available In The US Now
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Netmeme today announced that its iPaperPad, which isn't magical or revolutionary, is available for purchase on Amazon.
"iPaperPad is not new, it's a paper pad." Said Netmeme CEO Peter. "It's not that exciting, but it delivers much more bang for your buck than an iPad if all you want to do is impress people in coffee shops or at the workplace."
Starting at just $4.99 for a 25 page paper pad vs. the $499.00 starting price for an iPad, the iPaperPad is a notepad which has the same size and look as an Apple iPad. The iPaperPad is slightly smaller than a standard notepad and providing a more "intimate" experience. Because of its smaller size it is also lighter than a standard notepad and it requires no batteries making it the obvious choice over the iPad for airplane flights lasting over 10 hours.
iPaperPad's un-revolutionary paper surface makes for a traditional experience. You can read and write mail on iPaperPad pages and glue photos onto the paper. The removable pages allow you to create albums and slideshows. By leaving the page bindings intact you can also use the iPaperPad as a flipbook.
There is not an app store with 150,000 apps but the iPaperPad supports all existing writing instruments, scissors, and glue currently compatible with paper technology. This includes any items previously purchased by an iPaperPad customer for manipulating paper. There are no developers currently creating exciting paper manipulating items for the iPaperPad.
This is the only model. When it sells out it's gone. If we can't sell our entire inventory in the US we will try to sell them in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. If we get really desperate we will ship in additional countries, except Greece.
Starting at $4.99
$14.97 for a three pad pack
25 pages per pad. Use one, share two with friends.
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Mophie juice pack air For iPhone 3G & 3GS
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As the world's thinnest rechargeable battery case, the mophie juice pack air is designed to virtually double the time you have to Rock, Talk, Surf and Send with your iPhone 3G or 3GS.
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Buy Macintosh Data Recovery & Get Stellar Wipe (Mac) For Free
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Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery ( v 4.0 ) is a powerful and user-friendly Mac Recovery application that provides complete recovery of lost, deleted or corrupted data including documents, music, videos, pictures, e-mails and PDFs. The read-only Data Recovery Mac software is built with highly graphical user-interface that makes it self-explanatory without any prior technical understanding.
Features of Mac Data Recovery v 4.0
* Designed for Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard and supports snow leopard
* Compatible with HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes.
* Recovers all types of files from your hard drive.
* Recovers deleted files, complete drive or just the files you want to recover.
* Recovers images, videos, pictures, music from digital camera media and iPods.
* Embedded with advance options like Mac Style Find option, user-friendly GUI, fast scanning, and searching of lost, deleted, or formatted FAT volumes.
MSRP $148.00
Offer $99.00
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Enjoy A Perfect Music Library With SongGenie
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The new SongGenie takes your music collection up a level. You can automatically search for lyrics on freely accessible web archives and saves them directly in the music file. Or you can browse through a fully configurable web search to look up lyrics without having to type anything. SongGenie detects passages of text on various websites and can apply the found text with a single mouse click. Enjoy a perfect music library with lyrics on your Mac, iPhone or iPod. Add tags, genres and more info to your music files.
SongGenie is an iTunes saver for your Mac. Creating an acoustic fingerprint for all your tracks, SongGenie automatically completes your music collection. You can select any music folders on your hard drive, and even those on external storage. SongGenie's eagle-eye can also detect typos and spelling mistakes.
You can make your Genius playlists a little bit smarter with a fully complete music library. Get even more from your songs using SongGenie's slick integration with album cover art finder CoverScout from equinux.
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Postbox 1.1.3 Update Released
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Postbox Inc. announces Postbox 1.1.3, an update to its flagship email product that provides enhanced support for Mac OS X applications and technologies. Postbox now integrates with the Mac OS X Address Book and iCal and extends search to work with Spotlight, making the entire workflow more efficient and intuitive. Postbox gives users powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize work life, and simply get stuff done. After being named to the industry-leading TechCrunch50 in September 2008, Postbox has continued developing and adding key features to create a powerful and unique email experience.
"Since we launched Postbox 1.0 in September, we've been extremely focused on optimizing the user's workflow, from within Postbox and across the computing environment," said Sherman Dickman, co-founder of Postbox. "We've listened carefully to our ardent Mac users and in today's release, Postbox seamlessly integrates with the applications and technologies they rely on most to get stuff done."
Full support for Mac OS X Address Book and iCal:
Postbox can now directly read and write contact information to the Address Book, providing Mac users with a common contact repository that can be synced with their iPhone or MobileMe service. Additionally, the iCal calendaring application can now use Postbox to send and receive meeting notifications and updates. These integrations happen behind the scenes, without additional user interface elements getting in the way.
Postbox extends search capabilities to Spotlight:
Postbox provides support for Mac OS X Spotlight technology to search through message bodies and message header information such as subject or sender. Spotlight can even be used to search for messages that contain attachments by file name.
"Mac users have very high standards, and are sensitive to even the smallest changes in their workflow," said Scott MacGregor, co-founder of Postbox. "Postbox's support for the Address Book, iCal, Spotlight, and other applications provides our Mac users with a more powerful combination of communications tools and technologies, while preserving the working styles they've become accustomed to."
Bi-directional image exchange with iPhoto and more:
Postbox can now export images received in email directly into iPhoto, and images within iPhoto can now be emailed using Postbox as the preferred email application. Postbox also enhances support for the Safari Web browser, Dictionary application, and drag-and-drop message creation through the Mac OS X Dock.
New in version 1.1.3:
• Several stability fixes
New in version 1.1.2:
- Support for Things (version 1.2.11)
- Support for OmniFocus (version 1.7.5)
- Support for the IMAP COMPRESS extension which makes accessing Gmail faster
- Topics are now exposed via AppleScript
- Migration from Mail.app will now import all of the folders located under "On My Mac"
- Fixed an issue where certain calendar invites from Exchange were not showing up as attachments
- Fixed an issue where the signature was not being placed in the correct place when forwarding
- Fixed an issue where sending to a mailing list could fail
- Fixed an issue where indented text wasn't displayed properly
- Improved automatic detection of account settings for various ISPs
- Incorporated Mozilla Firefox security updates through version 3.5.8.
Postbox 1.1.2 for Macintosh is available for immediate download, either for a free 30-day trial or for purchase. Postbox is on sale for $39.95 (USD) with an additional Lifetime Upgrades purchase option for $24.95.
Postbox 1.1.2:
http://www.postbox-inc.com
Postbox Store:
http://www.postbox-inc.com/store
Screenshots:
http://www.postbox-inc.com/screenshots
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Serving Sizer Pro Recipe Converter and Cookbook Released for iPhone
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Finding recipes is easier than ever with the popularity of cooking channels, online sources, clubs, and celebrity chefs. However, people often find themselves wanting to make the latest recipe for a different number of guests. Serving Sizer Pro meets this need by easily scaling entire recipes from one serving size to another without having to think about fraction math and saves the recipe to resize again later.
Creative Algorithms is pleased to announce the release of Serving Sizer Pro Recipe Converter and Cookbook, software for your iPhone and iPod touch, that easily scales recipes' ingredients proportionally, based on serving sizes, and saves them for future resizing. Convert a favorite celebrity chef's recipe that serves eight to one that serves a dinner party of five, and later for a group of 17 holiday guests.
Upsize a favorite family recipe to cater for a large crowd. Scale down a six serving recipe to a romantic dinner for two. Translate a recipe from a European cookbook to US weights and measures--easily toggling between Metric and US units. Serving Sizer "is perfect for customizing recipes for families, large groups, or even small ones," writes TheiPhoneMom blog. "It gives you the ability to take a recipe and tweak it to fit your family's size....It's extremely easy to use." The new Pro version adds recipe storage for scaling and re-scaling recipes as needed.
How it works: Enter a recipe by picking ingredients from a list of 500 preloaded ingredients or by adding your own. Pick amounts and units with beautifully designed custom sliders. Enter the recipe's original servings, the desired number of servings, and Serving Sizer Pro accurately converts each measurement, automatically optimizing to the minimum number of steps, such as one cup and one tablespoon, instead of 17 tablespoons. Tap on the recipe index card to read the wholly converted recipe on one scrollable screen, or email it to your friends and family. It's just that simple.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 0.9 MB
Serving Sizer Pro 1.0 is available on the iTunes AppStore at a sale price of $2.99 (USD) in the Productivity category. A lighter version, which converts one ingredient at a time, is also available for $0.99.
Creative Algorithm:
http://creativealgorithms.com
Serving Sizer Pro Recipe Converter and Cookbook 1.0: http://creativealgorithms.com/servingsizer.html
Purchase and Download:
http://bit.ly/aFLGwa
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Dusty Roads Media releases My Spot Pro 1.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch
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Dusty Roads Media announces the release of My Spot Pro 1.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. My Spot Pro lets you tell anyone your spot in the world with a touch of a button. It marks your location and sends the GPS coordinates - and the address, if available - to whomever you choose or to Facebook or Twitter. You can even easily attach a photo or audio clip of where you are and send it to a group, to a friend, or in an emergency, can even send a pre-saved Panic Message to your family or authorities.
As practical apps go, My Spot Pro has you covered. How many times have you been in a bar, or a store, or an office and wanted someone to meet you there? How much time did you spend texting or explaining the address, or giving directions, all while trying to keep quiet in a waiting room or shouting to be heard in a noisy club?
My Spot Pro is the app that lets you tell anyone your spot in the world with a touch of a button. My Spot Pro marks your location and sends the GPS coordinates - and the address, if available- to whomever you choose or to Facebook or Twitter. You can even easily attach a photo or audio clip of where you are and send it to a group, to a friend, or in an emergency, can even send a pre-saved Panic Message to your family or authorities.
Why settle for simple GPS or compass apps? Users can make custom buttons for their family, friends, or bosses when you need to check in from the road. Locations can even be sent with photos or audio recordings to make them even easier for recipients to find. There are plenty of cheap apps with some of the features of My Spot Pro, but none compare to the versatility and ease-of-use of My Spot Pro.
Feature Highlights:
* Find your spot in the world using GPS and Internet access
* Pin your location on Google maps or use an address in your Contacts
* Send customize email messages with your location with up to 20 My Spot buttons
* Find North with one of the two available compass designs
* Post messages directly to Twitter and Facebook
* Add photos and/or a voice to messages
Using My Spot you can easily find and pin your spot in the world. When the app opens it will determine your location using Apple's built in location services. You can also use the address information in your contacts list. Or you can just find your self on the map and pin your location.
Device Requirements:
* Compass functionality requires iPhone 3G
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 1.5 MB
My Spot Pro 1.0.2 is $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category.
Dusty Roads Media:
http://www.dustyroadsmedia.com
My Spot Pro 1.0.2:
http://www.myspotpro.com
Purchase and Download:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-spot-pro/id357984144?mt=8
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SpeakWrite Application for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android
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SpeakWrite, a leading on-demand transcription service, is giving customers one more way to upload dictations, conversations, speeches, photos and other material with this month's launch of its new App for iPhone, Blackberry and Android.
"This new smartphone App makes our service even more user-friendly, as busy individuals 'on the go' can record and upload valuable information from anywhere, anytime using their iPhone, Blackberry or Android smartphones, and still get a written transcript returned to them in a matter of hours."
Already, SpeakWrite's 35,000 customers get professional transcripts typed by trained professionals delivered by email in about three hours, and they can use a variety of methods to record and send material.
This new smartphone App takes SpeakWrite's ease of use to the next level, allowing people to capture audio and photos on their smartphones and upload the content on the spot. For example, an attorney working after hours or outside their office, or an insurance adjuster drafting a report, can describe their findings verbally into their smartphone, insert photos taken on that phone, upload them to SpeakWrite and have the first draft sitting in their email about three hours later.
SpeakWrite is a free Application allowing users to:
Record Audio - Users can record and store any length audio
Transcribe - Users can submit audio files to SpeakWrite, and receive a transcribed document back within a few hours
Dictate + Photos - Users can dictate comments on photos taken with their smartphone, then receive files back with the comments and photos integrated into a single word processing file
Record and Transcribe Telephone Calls - Users can record telephone calls on their smartphone and receive complete written transcriptions of conversations
SpeakWrite customers already use digital and analog recorders, phones (including cell phones), faxes of handwritten notes and other means to have their material recorded for transcription, but with the mobility, flexibility and power of the smartphones, the process just became much more versatile and valuable.
A variety of occupations use SpeakWrite's services including:
• Attorneys - to generate correspondence, pleadings, legal briefs, etc.,
• Adjusters and Appraisers - to document facts and circumstances from offsite locations
Inspectors - to record results of compliance and inspection work
• Authors - to capture ideas as they occur to easily prepare drafts
• Police - for daily reports, investigations, witness interviews, and preparation of necessary supporting legal statements
• Salespersons - to capture the results of sales calls, meetings and customer communications
• Students - for written transcripts of class lectures and term papers
• Anyone - wishing to quickly and reliably capture information and generate written records of them
"We've spent more than a decade developing the systems, tools and processes to quickly and reliably produce transcriptions for attorneys and other users across the country," said Richard Jackson, SpeakWrite's president and CEO. "This new smartphone App makes our service even more user-friendly, as busy individuals 'on the go' can record and upload valuable information from anywhere, anytime using their iPhone, Blackberry or Android smartphones, and still get a written transcript returned to them in a matter of hours."
Founded in 1997, SpeakWrite is the only transcription service that delivers quality on demand transcriptions to clients wherever they are in the world in about three hours, 24/7/365. Dictations, conversations, speeches and other material are processed by trained, background-checked, experienced professionals in the U.S. and Canada using secure technology developed by SpeakWrite. SpeakWrite's 35,000 customers – from legal, insurance, public safety, real estate, construction, state government and many other fields – can use a variety of methods to record, so no special equipment or software is required.
More information is available at:
http://www.speakwrite.com/smartphone
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FreeAppADay.com Lands TowerMadness iPhone App; Acquires iPad Website
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Leading iPhone Application Discovery Portal http://www.FreeAppADay.com , following a successful GDC week, which saw 5 FreeAppAday.com-promoted apps simultaneously land in the overall App Store top 10, is offering today and today only multiple Awards Winner and top rated app TowerMadness for free.
"The success of our campaigns is well beyond my expectations," says Joe Bayen, CEO at ICS Mobile. "FreeAppAday.com is currently the single most efficient promotional platform which not only ensures maximum exposure but also yields higher sales figures using our monetization strategies which are specifically customized for each of our developer partners."
The site has recently embarked in a more pro-active role within the iPhone developer community by acting as a benevolent consultant on the development and monetization front but by also providing financing through the recently launched ICS Financing branch ( http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/FreeAppADay/news.asp?c=19004 ).
FreeAppAday.com is also actively preparing itself for the launch of the upcoming Apple's iPad. The site recently acquired http://www.FreeiPadAppADay.com, but no decision has yet been made as to whether the site will be merged with http://www.FreeAppADay.com or if it will remain as a standalone website.
FreeAppADay.com is a social networking website built to facilitate iPhone application discovery as well as offer a centralized location for iPhone enthusiasts and developers of polished iPhone applications.
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Google Chrome 5.0.356.2 Beta Web Browser Released For Mac - With Extensions And More
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On Thursday, Google released another updated version (Chrome 5.0.356.2 ) of the Mac beta Web browser
Google Chrome is a beta web browser by Google, created to be a modern platform for web pages and applications. It utilizes very fast loading of web pages and has a V8 engine, which is a custom built JavaScript engine. Because Google has used parts from Apple's Safari and Firefox browsers, they made the project open source.
Google Chrome Blog says:
Since we released Chrome for Mac in beta last December, we've been busy adding new features. Today, after some incubation in the developer channel, we're happy to make some of these features more widely available. The new beta release of Chrome for Mac offers extensions, bookmark sync, and more.
With this new version, you'll be able to install any of over 2,200 extensions (and counting!) currently available in Chrome's extensions gallery. Extensions can add useful, informative, fun, or quirky functionality to the browser. You can manage your extensions by clicking on the Window menu and choosing "Extensions."
For this release, we remained focused on providing a snappy, safe, and simple browsing experience on the Mac. If you haven't tried Chrome on the Mac yet and are curious about its features, this video will take you on a brief tour:
Those of you who use several computers will now be able to keep your bookmarks synchronized between them. If some of your computers aren't Macs, don't worry: bookmark sync works in Chrome for Linux and Windows too. We also added bookmark and cookie managers in a way that feels completely at home on the Mac. For technically-oriented users, our new Task Manager will help you keep tabs on all of your tabs.
If you're not using Chrome yet, you can try all of these new features out by downloading the Google Chrome Beta for Mac. Existing Chrome users should be automatically updated to the new beta within the next day just check the About window and look for version 5.0.307.
For more information, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/y9cd2um
Features:
• Free and installs in seconds
• Fast start-up
• Fast loading
• Fast search - Search the web right from the address bar.
Google Chrome is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Here are a few creative interpretations of Google Chrome's key features:
Speed
Google Chrome loads pages and runs web applications in a snap.
Stability
Google Chrome is built for stability. If an individual tab freezes or crashes, the other tabs are unaffected.
Security
Browse the web more safely with malware and phishing protection built into Google Chrome.
New Tab page
Visit your favorite websites easily from the New Tab page. When you open a new tab, the sites you visit most often are readily available.
Omnibox
Use the Omnibox to type both web addresses and searches in Google Chrome.
Themes
Customize your browser with themes from artists around the world.
Incognito mode
When you don't want your website visits to be recorded in your browser history, you can browse in incognito mode. (A handy feature for planning surprise gifts and birthdays!)
New in version 5.0.356.2:
• We have released Google Chrome 5.0.356.2 to the Dev channel on Windows and Mac to fix an issue where dragging anything with your mouse would freeze the tab
New in Google Chrome 5.0.342.5:
• A lot of improvements to the bookmark bar on the Mac. Note that there's still an issue with folders with a lot of bookmarks. When you open the folder on the bookmarks bar, the list may extend below the bottom of the screen and you won't be able to access the bookmarks at the bottom. A fix is coming soon.
• A workaround is to use the bookmark menu in the menu bar.
• A lot of improvements to the quality of form Autofill
New in version 5.0.307.9:
• Fixed a tab crash that could be triggered by visiting wordpress.com, http://acid3.acidtests.org/, and many other sites. (Issue 35498)
• Fixed a tab crash in image loading. (Issue 32230)
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later
Platform Support
Intel
Download link:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Video on Chrome extensions:
http://tinyurl.com/yd8ulyf
You can read the Chrome terms of service (EULA) here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac
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Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Intel Notebook CPUs In Tight Supply, Say Sources
Release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update Appears Imminent
How to Zoom Your Browser for a More Readable Web
I Need My Old Files!
Desktop Computer Sales Soared In February: NPD Group
Apple Preps 27-Inch LED Cinema Display, Dodeca-core Mac Pro
Iris Suspends Development, Users Can Upgrade To Acorn For Free
Intel Notebook CPUs In Tight Supply, Say Sources
DIGITIMES' Monica Chen and Joseph Tsai report:
Intel's latest Core i7/i5/i3 series notebook processors are currently facing tight supply....
Intel is giving priority to major clients, and second-tier and smaller notebook players have to wait much longer before receiving supply of the CPUs, the sources noted.
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http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100318PD209.html
Release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update Appears Imminent
Appleinsider's Katie Marsal reports:
Apple on Thursday provided its developer community with a second private beta of its forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard update in as many days, suggesting the software is rapidly approaching a release candidate.
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http://bit.ly/bgmeSt
How to Zoom Your Browser for a More Readable Web
Low End Mac's Steve Watkins says:
Today, we will look at some tools and techniques that are designed to magnify what you see on the screen.
All major browsers have the built-in ability to magnify screen content. The methods and capabilities vary significantly among the various browsers. Let's take a closer look at the leading Mac web browsers: Camino, Safari, Opera, and Firefox....
There are two ways a page can be magnified. The entire page can be zoomed or just the text. In the latter instance, the graphic elements on the page remain static while the text is enlarged. In a text-only zoom, text contained within graphics is not affected......
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http://lowendmac.com/practical/10sw/zooming.html
I Need My Old Files!
MacFixIt Mailbag's Joe Aimonetti says:
A MacFixIt reader writes in to ask us how to retrieve his files from an old 400MHz PowerPC Mac tower - a machine that did not include any disc-burning capabilities. He also states that an external CD/DVD burner did not perform well enough to complete backups of the data. Here are some options to try out so you can get your data safely backed up......
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http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10469341-263.html?tag=mncol;title
Desktop Computer Sales Soared In February: NPD Group
AFP reports:
Sales of desktop computers soared 30 percent in February defying talk that such machines are being made obsolete by laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices.....
Sales of personal computers running on Microsoft Window's operating systems and of Macintosh desktop machines made by Apple both grew in the month, according to NPD.
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http://bit.ly/9rFOJ9
Apple Preps 27-Inch LED Cinema Display, Dodeca-core Mac Pro
Appleinsider's Kasper Jade reports:
Apple is putting the finishing touches on a pair of new products targeted at its professional customers, namely a larger version of its LED Cinema Display and a major update to its Mac Pro workstations, AppleInsider has been told.
Targeted for release by June is the Cupertino-based company's second LED-backlit Cinema Display, measuring 27-inch diagonal and largely resembling a slightly magnified version of its existing 24-inch model, which was introduced to much fanfare back in October of 2008.
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http://bit.ly/bx52iv
Iris Suspends Development, Users Can Upgrade To Acorn For Free
TUAW's Mike Schramm reports:
I never actually used Iris (my image editor of choice is still Pixelmator), but the one-window image editor released a few years ago certainly had its share of fans.
Unfortunately, those fans may be disappointed to hear that Iris' developer, Nolobe, has suspended development on the app.......
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http://bit.ly/aExjlo
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