Fiji Hindi Wikipedia
Very amusing.Labels: news
Opinion
Safari 4 Beta
Awesome under the hood, but a disappointment in the UI department. It's a very odd thing to see Apple be the one to blatantly copy features from someone else.Labels: news
Google Earth 5
Google is out with their latest Earth. This time, the highlight is underwater exploration. I don't like to diss on what was probably months of a lot of hard work but Google Earth 5's undersea exploration features do not impress me at all. In addition, it still maintains the very clunky looking Mac OS X UI that it has carried since day one.Labels: news
Layers
Very cool. Captures each on-screen element into a separate layer in a Photoshop file.Labels: news
Clang Static Analyzer Works for iPhone
A few months ago I tried using Clang's excellent Static Analyzer for an iPhone project but it sadly didn't work for some reason. Recently, I tried again with the latest release (1.3.7) and it worked! Since I'm currently working on a large project and just know that I didn't remember to balance all those hundreds of retains with releases, I knew this would come in handy, and it did dig up 10 or 11 very good retain/release errors which were really easy to fix but really hard to find. On the iPhone, these bugs are even more numerous because one tries to avoid autorelease as much as possible, since it's more expensive. And having something like Clang finds bugs for you for free and within seconds is indispensable.Labels: news
HandBrake 0.9.3
HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.The almighty DVD to H.264 encoder just got mightier.
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The Rejection of Podcaster
It's very sad to see Apple turning the App Store into this procrustean system, in which developers, after having working hard and long on their applications, can't even have it pushed out to users and let them decide whether it's worth using or not.Labels: news
Meet the Peek
David Pogue:Feature-listers judge a product by one criterion: how many features it has, no matter how clunky the design... Elegance-appreciators, on the other hand, prefer something that does less, but does it better... Make way for another elegant one-trick pony: a pocket-size doodad called the Peek, which sends and receives e-mail.
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Multiple Item Editing in iTunes 8
One of the features that really makes me a happier human being in iTunes 8 is the inclusion of a much-needed revision to the Multiple Item Information box which now allows all those item attributes to be edited that were added over the course of iTunes 7.0 through 7.7, but which never made it into the Multiple Item box. See screenshots here and here.
On the other hand though, I've found this odd bug in iTunes 8: if I close the iTunes window, switch to another app using Cmd+Tab and switch back using Cmd+Tab, instead of nothingness, I see a big white square. Oh well…
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Borkware Quickies
An immense timesaver that has answers to those annoying parts of Objective-C that you frequently encounter if you're making any kind of comprehensive application but which are egregiously non-intuitive and it would take you ages to find them on your own. The NSScrollView quickie about responding to a scroll view's scrolling made my day.Labels: news
Ms. Dewey
From the bottom of my heart, I hope that, for heaven's sake, this be a preparation for April 1, 2009.Labels: news
VMWare Fusion 2.0 Beta 2
Wow, these guys just don't stop. The amount of features they've added between Beta 1 and Beta 2 is impressive beyond measure. Meanwhile, we haven't heard a peep from Parallels.Labels: news
Finder's Path Bar
I don't know how long this has existed (maybe I've just been blind), but the Finder's been hiding this excellent Path Bar which shows up at the bottom of every Finder window and basically shows a hierarchy leading up to the folder you're currently in. Activate it by choosing the "Show Path Bar" option from the View menu.Labels: news