Thursday, March 1, 2007

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  • TomTom DUO Integrates with iPod

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    TomTom is one of the leading GPS device makers out there, with its TomTom Go device setting a new standard while back. Now electronista is pointing to a FCC filing revealing the TomTom DUO, a "handheld [that] would have support for a unique USB docking station in the style of a car stereo's faceplate, allowing direct control of iPods." The DUO will also apparently have Bluetooth and a built-in FM transmitter (boo!) to "eliminate cabling in the link between the car, DUO, and Bluetooth-equipped cellphones." This sounds like a great idea (except for the FM transmitter part); it seems like a natural pairing of a car GPS mapping device and the iPod. I just hope it doesn't cost and arm and a leg. Apparently, the device will be officially revealed at CeBIT expo in Germany next month.

    [Via electronista]
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  • Skip the AppleScript with Ruby

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    For a long time now I have been working on learning AppleScript, where "working on" means I bought an AppleScript book that sits on my table accusingly, but I've never actually picked it up and read through it. AppleScript is clearly a powerful and relatively easy way to get somewhat complex tasks accomplished on your Mac; heck with AppleScript Studio you can even write stand-alone applications of a sort. This story on MacDevCenter, however, has given me pause. AppleScript guru Matt Neuburg (who literally wrote, if not the, at least a book on AppleScript) has put up a nice tutorial on replacing AppleScript with rb-appscript, which is "a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications using ordinary Ruby scripts." Now everybody and his brother has been going on of late about how wonderful Ruby is for web development, particularly with Rails using TextMate, so now I have a dilemma. Should I actually try to learn Ruby instead and double my return, as it were? While I think that over, go check out Matt's tutorial and see for yourself how Ruby and Apple events can make beautiful music together.

    [Via MacVolPlace]
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