TUAW Guide: Xbox 360 and Mac

TUAW Guide: Xbox 360 and Mac
In many reviews of the Apple TV, the Xbox 360 was often mentioned as a competing Media Extender product.I thought it would be good to discover the ways in which my two pretty white boxes can work together. In this Guide to Xbox 360 and the Mac, I'm going to discuss some of both the hardware and software compatibilities between the machines.

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Gorgeous Mac-like skin for Google Reader

Gorgeous Mac-like skin for Google Reader
Jon Hicks has created a gorgeous theme for Google Reader. Works in Safari/Firefox/Camino/Opera.

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Don't settle for light speed; take Safari to ludicrous speed

Don't settle for light speed; take Safari to ludicrous speed
Today, Apple's browser of choice is Safari, based in part on the open source KHTML codebase and enhanced regularly through Apple's WebKit project. It's pretty fast, too, but not always. Sometimes, Safari can slow to a crawl depending on a variety of factors such as cache size or network congestion, or even how many tabs you have open at once

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8-core Mac Pro hands-on, Apple NAB booth tour

8-core Mac Pro hands-on, Apple NAB booth tour
Behold, Apple's mammoth, sprawling NAB booth. Ready to show off all the pro apps it announced yesterday, the Apple complex came complete with two demo theaters, dozens of demo kiosks, a few octo-core Mac Pros (which we finally got our hands on for a hands-on -- not that it looks any different)

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Why the Leopard delay is a (somewhat) big deal

Why the Leopard delay is a (somewhat) big deal
In last week's statement, only weeks after vehement denials of the same, Apple said it would postpone Leopard's release from the intended WWDC'07 (second week of June) to October. And this is a bigger deal than what many people make it out to be, because Apple has painted itself, and thereby customers looking to buy their products, into a corner...

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Google creates Google Cocoa data API

Google creates Google Cocoa data API
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.

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The Gems of Apple’s Development Tools

The Gems of Apple’s Development Tools
Apple makes this very accessible with Xcode and their other development tools freely available to anyone who wants them. But even if you
’re not a developer, there are some really cool things buried within the Apple Development Tools. Here are a few of those little gems that I found while poking around the in the Developer directory.

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Product activation sucks

Product activation sucks
"I
’m worried by the fact that a licence I thought was perpetual can be revoked so arbitrarily." This is a story explaining why the RSS reader for Mac OS X called NewsFire has caught some of the Microsoft evil.

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Apple Confirms Resolution Independence in Leopard!

Apple Confirms Resolution Independence in Leopard!
Apple sends WWDC email confirming resolution independence in Leopard.

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Apple Media Center Planned

Apple Media Center Planned
Diagrams suggest that a ‘modular controller’, most likely their new TV squirting device, would sit at the middle allowing you to hook up anything from branded hi-def DVD players, a PVR, a Mac Mini or even their own freeview box.

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