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- BBC Announces Mac Compatibility for Digital Archive
You might recall that we raised something of a ruckus in these parts about the BBC's plans to open up its full archive online -- and not let Macs in on the game. There was a petition and hand-wringing, and,...
You might recall that we raised something of a ruckus in these parts about the BBC's plans to open up its full archive online -- and not let Macs in on the game. There was a petition and hand-wringing, and, yes, even overt weeping. But it paid off. Yesterday, the BBC announced its iPlayer will be re-engineered to work with Macs. This was all reported by...the BBC.
The BBC's plans for the iPlayer were put on hold earlier this year after its regulators, the BBC Trust, asked the corporation to look at whether the iPlayer should be platform agnostic.
Mr Highfield said Apple's "proprietary and closed framework for digital rights management gives us headaches," but, "it is one of our top priorities to re-engineer our proposed BBC iPlayer service to work on Macs".Unfortunately, you still need to live in the UK to use the service. And the Windows version will still be first. But you win some, you lose some.
(Image comes from the BBC's glorious "Look Around You" series. This was from the Your Vision of 2000 segment. This gem is the iTrak: "I believe that in the year 2000 people will want to carry their music collection everywhere they go, and the i-Trak is the answer. An 8 Track cassette player that runs off a large square blue 9V torch battery (enough for 30 minutes of continuous playback) with leather carry strap, making this unit truly portable." Bless.)
BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC to open up archive for trial
Via TUAW
Pete Mortensen - Interview With Will Friedland, Owner of Largest iTunes Library
I have a pretty big music collection -- I can't come close to fitting even all of my favorite tracks onto my creaky 15GB iPod -- but I have nothing on New York Sun staffer Will Friedland, who allegedly has...
I have a pretty big music collection -- I can't come close to fitting even all of my favorite tracks onto my creaky 15GB iPod -- but I have nothing on New York Sun staffer Will Friedland, who allegedly has the largest iTunes library in the world: 172,150 tracks, taking up 849 gigs and 809.2 days of music. Glenn Wolsey has a fun interview with Will. Obsession is a beautiful thing, sometimes.
Technorati Tags: itunes, world record
Pete Mortensen - What The? DLO Creates iPod Case That's Different!
It takes a lot to surprise me in the iPod accessory market these days. The new DLO Jam Jacket managed it. Amid a sea of seriously generic cases, the company came up with a good way to manage the headphone...
It takes a lot to surprise me in the iPod accessory market these days. The new DLO Jam Jacket managed it. Amid a sea of seriously generic cases, the company came up with a good way to manage the headphone cord of standard iPod headsets. And it's not ugly! That alone puts it ahead of 70 percent of iPod cases.
On the downside it, appears to only work with 30GB models, not the full 80. But it's only $20, so it would be hard to go wrong at the price, anyway.
DLO | Jam Jacket with Cord Management
Via iLoungeTechnorati Tags: ipod, accessories
Pete Mortensen - Mac OS X Skin For Google Reader
The worst thing about using a PC at work is that I don't get to enjoy Vienna, my favorite RSS reader, to keep up with all of my feeds. I miss the interface and I miss the note-perfect feel of...
The worst thing about using a PC at work is that I don't get to enjoy Vienna, my favorite RSS reader, to keep up with all of my feeds. I miss the interface and I miss the note-perfect feel of a great Mac application. Well, Hicks Design has an answer: gReader, a beautiful skin for Google Reader, the search giant's RSS tool. It takes Google's highly adequate, inoffensive cross-platform interface and swaps it out for the latest version of Aqua, right down to the transparent overlays.
And, hell, I'm actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow!
Via Digg.
Technorati Tags: google, rss, software
Pete Mortensen - Google Releases Data APIs for Cocoa
You know what's great about Google? When they do something for Mac, they do it right. Their support comes in late, but it comes in right. This is why I was delighted to see that when Google finally made its...
You know what's great about Google? When they do something for Mac, they do it right. Their support comes in late, but it comes in right. This is why I was delighted to see that when Google finally made its data APIs available to Mac developers today, they did it the right way: An Objective-C Cocoa framework allowing direct access to Google Base, GCal, Blogger and others for any Cocoa-developed apps. Engineer Greg Robbins explains:The native language for Mac OS X applications is Objective-C, and it's our preferred language for Mac application development. To make it simpler for us to write Mac software that interacts with Google services, I created a framework to use Google data APIs directly in Objective-C programs. We are using the framework for our application development, and today we are making the framework available to all developers. The Google Data APIs Objective-C Library joins MacFUSE and Breakpad as open-source development efforts of Google's Mac software team, hosted at code.google.com.
The APIs have been available via Javascript and Java since last year, but it's reassuring to see Google go the extra mile for Mac developers. It all brings the dream of truly pervasive information that much closer. Google is winning, and we're all playing along. But they're just so darned nice about it, you know?
Official Google Mac Blog: Google data APIs connect Cocoa developers to Google
Via Digg.Technorati Tags: google, developers
Pete Mortensen - New Intel Chip Will Rock the Mac Pro Line
As ever, Ars Technica has the best technical coverage of Intel's Developer Forum. For those of us who care less about the details of things like systems-on-a-chip and pinball grid arrays, they always manage to cut to what really matters....As ever, Ars Technica has the best technical coverage of Intel's Developer Forum. For those of us who care less about the details of things like systems-on-a-chip and pinball grid arrays, they always manage to cut to what really matters. Here's what you need to know: The upcoming Penryn chip, the mooted successor to the Intel Core2 Extreme line, is going to absolutely scream at video encoding.
The developmental iron came through with a 221 percent speed improvement on DiVX encoding. That's unheard of in this era. Most of the performance improvements are more linear, but this chip is coming to rock. I'll take four quads, please.
Intel details Penryn performance, new SSE4 extensions:
Technorati Tags: intel, Penryn
Pete Mortensen - Icelandic iPod Found in Snow: Returned to Owner
Sara Blask, staff writer at the Iceland Review, lost her iPod in the parking lot of Iceland's maximum security prison in a town called Litla Hraun. It was found and returned her. The story's a little convoluted, and it doesn't...
Sara Blask, staff writer at the Iceland Review, lost her iPod in the parking lot of Iceland's maximum security prison in a town called Litla Hraun. It was found and returned her. The story's a little convoluted, and it doesn't explain how a white iPod was found in the snow, but basically:
"Turns out his mom works at Litla Hraun and found the iPod amidst snow and garbage in the prison's parking lot. After a couple weeks no one claimed it, so she gave it to her son (the one who emailed me), who charged it up and saw that it was called "Sara Blask." He plugged my name into Google, found my website, and emailed me."
Actually, more interesting is the Iceland Review site, which is nicely designed and full of great photography. I love how the site is so white. Very Icelandic.
(Via TUAW)
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