Thursday, June 7, 2007

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  • TUAW loves you: comment often and send us tips

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    We bloggers here at TUAW love writing about Apple stuff. Sure, the thrill of Apple news is a nice perk of the job, but we really blog because of you, our dear readers. Which is why I wanted to point out a few ways in which you can interact with TUAW:
    • Comment on our posts: Gone are the days of verifying comments via email. We have a login system now, and once you set it up you can comment to your heart's content without having to verify it (after the first comment, of course) Remember, we reserve the right to delete comments that are off topic, inappropriate, or belittling of other people. Let's all try and keep TUAW a nice, civil place, shall we?
    • Send us tips: Have a hot piece of Apple news? Just released a new version of your super sweet app? Let us know by using our Tips form. That form emails the TUAW team with your news, and is a great way to call our attention to things.
    Thanks for reading TUAW and if there are things that we aren't doing on TUAW that you think we should, sound off in the comments.
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  • iTunes: Free Thursday

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    As Japan updates its music later than all the other iTunes stores, I'm pleased to finally bring you this Thursday edition of iTunes freebies. This free single is available for those of you readers with Japanese iTunes Store accounts. And, as always, thank you for your patience.

    Japan 今週のシングル: 時間厳守 by サンダーバーム
    無料でお試し頂ける今週のシングルは、2003年に兵庫で結成し神戸を中心に活動中のサンダーバーム。ガガガSPのコザック前田の主催するレーベル、スクーターズベースボールクラブからデビューしたばかりだ。かつてのユニコーンを彷佛とさせるメロディとヴォーカル、独特の世界観を持つ歌詞、ファン激増中のバンドサウンドをまずは聴いてみて。ファーストアルバム「サンダーバームの寝言」から、疾走感のあるロックンロール"時間厳守"を先行フリーダウンロード!

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  • Free DivX Pro license if you act quickly

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    The fine folks over at Macenstein spotted this special deal: a free license for the Mac version of DivX Pro, if you send in your email address today -- a $20 value. I can't see the end-of-offer indication on the site, but I'll take their word for it.

    With the Pro version you get the free player (natch), plus DivX Converter for batch encoding and the DivX Pro codec for export from QuickTime Pro-aware applications. Based on the theory that you can never be too rich, too thin or have too many video compression applications, it's worth checking out.

    Thanks Jonathan & Nik!
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  • Your Mac Stories

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    If you're a Mac user in San Francisco next week we're going to be around to take your picture. In fact, what we'd really like to do is tape your story. We're on a hunt to hear as many Mac stories as possible. What's a Mac story? Anything positive or remarkable about your Mac experience. That time you showed a coworker how they can save as a PDF, or how cool you thought Sherlock was back when it was released, or how the Chooser changed your life. We'll be hovering around Moscone all day Monday through Wednesday and would love to hear the tale.

    And if you're not in San Francisco? Dial up your favorite video-sharing service on the internets and tag the video with TUAW. Post a link below if you like, and we might just feature it one day. Nothing about how you stopped the alien invasion with your PowerBook, OK? Oh, and we're looking for Mac stories, which means we'd rather not have a zillion "my iPod is teh awesomes" videos. The Mac is the truly definitive Apple experience, which is why we're itching to hear how the little platform that could serves you best.
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  • TUAW Tip: Address Book offers a lot of handy contact management

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    Address Book is one of Apple's apps that might seem too basic at first glance to many a user. While this under-appreciation could largely be due to its unassuming name, Address Book offers a surprising amount of useful features, especially in the contact management department. Of course, there are the typical Apple-esque Smart Groups which you can use to automatically and dynamically round up contacts based on any criteria you want (family last names, employers or even notes you add yourself), but check out the Card menu in Address Book and note two options: Merge Selected Cards and (my personal favorite since I play with way too much synching software in the name of TUAW and Download Squad) Look for Duplicate Entries. Those are two great tools for ensuring your contacts only take up one entry each in Address Book (if you only want one entry for each, that is), and I highly recommend using Look for Duplicate Entries if things get out of hand, as it's saved me countless hours after botched synching sessions and wayward synching software had their way with my contacts.


    Importing new contacts cards (usually .VCF files) is nothing very special, but Address Book is pretty smart when you import a card for someone already in you contacts list. Typically, Address Book will catch the potential duplication and offer you four options for managing both the old and new cards. A window will be presented with four buttons along the bottom: Keep Old, Keep New, Keep Both and Update, allowing you to ensure that you don't blow away old data you want to keep for the contact while importing anything new you might need.

    Combine some of these tricks and tools with the Mail + Address Book tips Merlin Mann wrote about back in April, and you have some pretty powerful tools for managing your contacts and organizing the correspondence you have with them.
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  • 2007 Worldwide Newton Conference to be held in Tokyo

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    WWDC isn't the only Apple-centric conference taking place this summer. The third annual World Wide Newton Conference will take place at the Salon de G in Tokyo, Japan on July 7th and 8th. While the programs are still being finalized, developers Paul Guyot (who ported the Newton OS to a Zaurus handheld) and GNUE are scheduled to talk.

    Registration is now open for ¥3500 (this includes a 2-day passport to the conference, lunch and drinks). While you're waiting, check out these highlights from previous years' conferences.

    Someday I'll attend one of these. But for this year...Tokyo is quite a ways away.
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  • Parallels Desktop 3 officially released

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    After teasing us by announcing a release candidate for beta testers (and a sale that is now over) and posting videos of Quake 4 - a very resource-intensive game - running impressively well in Parallels, this powerful new v3.0 of the leading virtualization suite for Mac OS X has been released. Offering significant new features like we already mentioned, such as the highly-anticipated 3D acceleration (XP for now, Vista to come) and SmartSelect for specifying files types to open in apps across virtualized OSes, this could easily be called the most significant release of Parallels since the advent of Coherence Mode.

    Parallels Desktop 3.0 sells for $79.99 and is ready for download now, with 15-day trial keys are available to those who already used trial keys for previous versions.
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  • Official Apple Quick Tip of the Week podcast

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    We here at TUAW make no qualms about our 'unofficialness.' It is what makes us all so cool (we're cool, right? Right?!). Our very own podcast is full of wit, wisdom, and helpful tips that make using a Mac even more pleasant. There is a new podcast in town, though, and this one is very official indeed.

    That's right, Apple, Inc is serving up a video podcast called 'Apple Quick Tip of the Week.' At the moment 3 episodes are up, though the podcast is lacking album art (what up with that?). The podcast is hosted by Joy (to the right) and Anthony and judging by the soft, soft light it is filmed in I can only assume it is shot on location at the Apple Store in Heaven.

    Thanks, Chad.
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  • Coda 1.0.3 is available

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    The busy folks at Panic have released Coda 1.0.3. We know what you're thinking - that's quite a minor release to highlight on TUAW. We thought so, too, until we saw the laundry list of changes that are a part of this update. Highlights include:
    • Reorder your tabs with drag and drop
    • New ASP / VBScript syntax mode
    • Cold Fusion (CFML) syntax mode
    • Drop a folder on the Dock icon to change the local file list to that folder (cool)
    There's more, of course, and you can get the full run-down here. Coda retails for $99 and requires 10.4 or later.

    Thanks, Nik!
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  • More ecto 3 details, a screenshot and roadmap revealed

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    Adriaan Tijsseling, developer of the Mac OS X version of the ecto blogging client, has been teasing us with sneak peeks and development details for some time now, but he's just posted another more revealing screenshot of ecto3, along with more details and a basic roadmap. Adriaan has touted ecto3 as a complete rewrite from v2, ushering in a new plug-in architecture that should make the app far more extensible.

    Also on the notable changes list is the replacement of the rich text editor by Editable WebKit, a new, more WYSIWYG feature of the engine that is used to power Safari, many other browsers on Mac OS X and even HTML rendering in Apple Mail.

    While Adriaan doesn't have any kind of ETA for a shipping version or even a beta just yet, it does sound like development is wrapping up well. Since support for different blogging platforms has moved to the plug-in format as well, he still has to build support for the latest Blogger (yes, it'll be in ecto3) and WordPress. As a final note, it's always nice to hear a developer using their own product, as Adriaan is using ecto3 "heavily" to try and catch as many bugs and problems as he can before unleashing it in one form or another on the masses.
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  • Twitterrific 2.1

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    You either love or hate Twitter, the simple web phenom that asks, 'What are you doing?' We here at TUAW are unabashedly in the 'love' column, and our love for Twitter is greatly enhanced by the Iconfactory's free Twitter client, Twitterrific.

    We wrote about the Twitterrific 2.1 Beta not too long ago, and now the final version of Twitterriffic 2.1 is available for download. New in 2.1 are:
    • Support for multiple logins
    • Enhanced Applescripting
    • Growl support
    • Dragging of tweets into other apps (it pastes the tweet's permalink into the app)
    And a host of other small enhancements. Twitterriffic 2.1 is free, Universal, and available now.
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  • Apple releases Boot Camp 1.3 beta

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    If you bought one of those brand-new MacBook Pros, you have our envy. You've also got a new version of Boot Camp beta waiting for you. Beta 1.3 adds support for the new MBPs, as well as:
    • Upgraded graphics drivers
    • Improved installer
    • Localization fixes
    • Updated Help section
    Upgrading from a previous version of Boot Camp is pretty easy, but you should follow Apple's instructions closely. You'll need Mac OS 10.4.6 or later, the latest firmware updates and a spare 10GB (at least). Have fun!


    Thanks, Patrick!
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  • Netscape Navigator 9 beta is out

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    There was a time, dear ones, when a giant walked the Web: Netscape Navigator, the browser sovereign, held a massive 80%+ share of the market back in the mid-1990s, until some funny business (where "funny" = "anticompetitive & monopolistic") led to the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The open-sourced core of Netscape 4 led to the development of the Mozilla, Firefox and Camino browsers we all love today.

    Whence the original Netscape browser? The 8.0 release skipped the Mac, but believe it or not, the big N is back: Netscape Navigator 9 beta is available now as a Universal Binary. Under the surface, Navigator 9 is really a rebranded, tweaked and gracefully skinned version of Firefox 2.0 (including add-in compatibility), but nevertheless it's nice to see the green giant back in the saddle.

    Note: TUAW and the Weblogs, Inc. network are corporate siblings of Netscape under the AOL umbrella.
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  • Google Summer of Code kicks off with Camino, Adium, Thunderbird and more

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    Google's Summer of Code is a really cool, really massive project focused on open source that first started back in 2005. It functions on a pretty simple concept: the company gives out grants to student developers (this summer they brought on 900 from a list of 6,200 applicants) to work on open source projects for the summer, and we all subsequently benefit in one way or another. Take a gander through the long list of projects on the menu for this summer, and click on any to see what the goals are.

    Whether or not these goals are met by the end of the summer is another thing entirely, but there are some great projects and features on the list for such apps as Adium, Camino, Thunderbird, Inkscape and much more. Adium, for example, might gain features like basic voice chat, AppleScript and Bonjour support, while a juicy feature on Camino's todo list is Tabsposé, bringing the window management wonders of Exposé (much like the WebKit-based Shiira features) to the more Mac-like alternative to Firefox. In fact, one of the developers involved with working Tabsposé for Camino is blogging the effort, with a few posts already online covering developer-oriented topics like getting caught up with minor details and coding resources, but also including teaser mockups of what Tabsposé might eventually look like.

    Long story short: Google's third round of Summer of Code looks like it will again do some great things for Mac OS X software and open source on a broader scale. Heck, those open source developers are even getting paid, which must be a nice change of pace for some of them. We'll keep an eye on what new features arise from this Google-funded coding powwow at the end of the summer.
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  • Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1 released

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    Adobe's freeware and flagship PDF apps are getting a refresh this week, as Acrobat 8.1 and Adobe Reader 8.1 for Mac are now available through Adobe's download site and via the update option within both programs. New features include the obligatory bug fixes, Adobe3D support in Reader, enhanced Flash and InDesign integration in Acrobat, and a handy-dandy "Send to FedEx Kinko's" button for US users who need to cut down on all-nighters.

    Unfortunately, the aggravation involved in installing or updating Reader 8 has not decreased appreciably since the first round of vehement complaining. The Reader installers are still segregated into PPC and Intel versions, and the machines I updated insisted on downloading 44 MB of updates immediately after installation; that is, when the installation actually proceeded as expected (didn't work on a machine with a managed user account). Ah, consistency!
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  • MacTech's 25 most influential, version 2007

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    MacTech has released their MacTech 25 for the second year in a row-- it's a list of the top 25 most influential people in the Mac community (as selected by the community itself), and it reads like a who's who of people doing great stuff : John Gruber, the suave-looking Aaron Hillegass and Brent Simmons all make return appearances. This year they chose everyone who's ever programmed for MarsEdit (as Daniel Jalkut is happy to say), not to mention both co-founders of Rogue Ameoba, Paul Kafasis and Alex Lagutin.

    Who's missing? Anyone from Apple-- MacTech specifically left them off the list to make sure they didn't hog the Spotlight, so to speak. They say that Apple employees are allowed to be put in the Honorable Mentions section, but as far as I can tell, while Leo Laporte, David Pogue and Merlin Mann all made it, no one from Apple actually did. Better get cracking on those influencing techniques for next year, guys.
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