Friday, June 15, 2007

iPhoneChat - iChat for iPhone in JavaScript

iPhoneChat - iChat for iPhone in JavaScript
Here's my second app for the iPhone... instant messaging. Its still a little rough, but check it out. Its server intensive, so I'm limiting sessions to 10 minutes for now. Source is available, though its a little tricky to configure.

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How-To: The Ultimate iTunes Media Server

How-To: The Ultimate iTunes Media Server
Over the last 2 years I've spent a decent amount of time (and money) putting together a home media system that covers most of these topics. Hopefully this (somewhat lengthy) article can help give others in the MacTalk community an idea of how to build what I consider a pretty good stab at the ultimate home media system.

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Yellow Box for Windows Still Exists?

Yellow Box for Windows Still Exists?
Over 10 years ago, during the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X (Rhapsody), Apple promised write-once, deploy everywhere functionality to developers in the then upcoming Mac OS X platform. Yellow Boxes for Intel and Mac OS would in theory make the Yellow Box the premiere choice for cross-platfor...

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Apple updates Windows Safari to Version 3.01 fix some of the security bugs

Apple updates Windows Safari to Version 3.01 fix some of the security bugs
The update is available in their software update program on windows/mac. Maybe they should update their site to say "Our engineers have make safari to be secure from day 4 ;)

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iPhone spotted in public?

iPhone spotted in public?
Could this be the first true and proper iPhone sighting in public? Like, for really reals this time? check out the link for the picture....

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Sweet Unofficial New York iPhone Ad

Sweet Unofficial New York iPhone Ad
A great 1 minute ad on the iPhone based around NYC.

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Safari for Windows Downloads Top 1 Million In 48 Hours

Safari for Windows Downloads Top 1 Million In 48 Hours
Apple today announced (via a news release) that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.

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Why Steve Job's keynote at WWDC 2007 was so boring.... [IMAGE]

Why Steve Job's keynote at WWDC 2007 was so boring.... [IMAGE]
The Joy of Tech provides their invaluable insight on the matter.

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Martin Scorsese used iChat to direct "The Departed"

Martin Scorsese used iChat to direct "The Departed"
According to the interview with visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, Martin Scorsese actually used Apple
’s iChat to direct the final “rat shot” from The Departed.

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Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"

Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"
From the article:
"The web belongs to people, not companies. This world view that Steve gave a glimpse into betrays their thinking: it
’s out-of-date, corporate-controlled, duopoly-oriented, not-the-web thinking. And it’s not good for the web."

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