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Submission + - FAYT your Mac (and More)

Submitted by Livin Stephen on Friday March 30, 2007 @02:05PM

Livin Stephen writes: At http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text %20System.html Jacob Rus describes how to convert your Macs keyBindings to a V E R Y emacs-ish set — it obviously adds a LOT to to the ones (like ^-A, ^-B, etc) that Cocoa apps already support. To check out what 'adds' might mean... think ^-S. (that'll require a download from http://michael-mccracken.net/ before you begin to believe what you're seeing.) FYI, it IS a year-old article — waiting to be discovered.

Feed Dead dinos no help to emerging mammals (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:13PM

Challenging conventional wisdom

The triumphant rise of the mammals had nothing to do with the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research, published in the journal Nature.

Feed Boeing to test fuel-cell powered publicity plane (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:13PM

Reveals distinct lack of interest in fuel-cells

Boeing's European research centre has developed an experimental fuel-cell-powered manned aircraft, which is about to begin testing.

Feed LG is next major to take a licence to Intertrust DRM (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:13PM

Breaks deadlock around OMA patent pool

LG Electronics has licensed Intertrust's patents for its mobile voice and data products.

Feed Orange puts the Beeb in your pocket (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:13PM

Mobile TV gets 'stenders

L'Orange has done a deal to put selected BBC content onto some of its handsets.

Feed Forget WiMax, Stockholm's got cable to spare (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:12PM

Red Ken, take notes

Column You could not think of a better place to demonstrate the wonders of WiMAX. A district, 84 kilometers across, divided into 24,000 plots of land with open, deep water between each plot. It's the Stockholm archipelago, East of Sweden, and almost every island is inhabited. Intel, Cisco and Stockholm Cable (Stokab) have turned this into the biggest showcase of WiMAX wireless you will find.

Feed ICANN rejects .xxx (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:12PM

Gets back into the content regulation business

ICANN Lisbon In an unusual open board meeting today, ICANN once again rejected the establishment of a .xxx top level domain (TLD). The vote was 8-4 with a single abstention, that of CEO Paul Twomey.

A Chinese Virtual Currency Challenges the Yuan 183

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:11PM from the now-buying-oil-in-wow-gold-thanks dept.

Radon360 writes "A Wall Street Journal article reports that China's fastest-rising currency isn't the yuan. It's the QQ coin — online play money created by marketers to sell such things as virtual flowers for instant-message buddies, cellphone ringtones and magical swords for online games. In recent weeks, the QQ coin's real-world value has risen as much as 70%. It's the most extreme case of a so-called virtual currency blurring the boundaries between the online and real worlds — and challenging legal limits. A Chinese Internet company called Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed the payment system in 2002 to allow its 233 million regular registered users to shop for treats in its virtual world. Virtual currencies are in use in many countries — but nowhere have they taken root more deeply than in China."

Submission + - Useful links, create your own bookmarks

Submitted by

trif ovidiu

on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:01PM

trif ovidiu writes: "An interesting site has just been lunched: http://www.boxlinks.ro/en/ The site is in romanian, but it have support in english too. On this site, user can add his collection of useful links, create his own bookmarks, apply tags, is able to look in other user's collections, and all this in a single place. This service is still young, but the idea is to became a useful collection of links, where user can find the informations they really need. Boxlinks team. http://www.boxlinks.ro/en/"

Submission + - Mac OS X Directory Structure Explained

Submitted by

Jared O'Brien

on Friday March 30, 2007 @12:45PM

Jared O'Brien writes: "If you have ever looked at your Mac's root directory and wondered what some of those other directories are for, you're probably not alone. Mac OS got a whole lot more complex with the advent of OS X, adapting a unix file structure that is largely unfamiliar to Mac OS 9 and Windows users. So just what is /System, /Library, /usr, and all the others for anyway? Here's a brief explanation of each directory as found in Mac OS X. http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/30/mac-os-x-directory- structure-explained/"

Why Microsoft Should Fear Apple 576

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 30, 2007 @11:43AM from the sneaky-fruit dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld's Scot Finnie says that Microsoft should be afraid because Apple has gotten smarter about how it competes. He says that it's the Parallels Desktop software that has been truly transformational for the Mac. Finnie did a simple three-month trial of the Mac last in the fall and realized four months later that he wasn't going back. Since then he's received hundreds of messages from readers who've also made the switch. 'In the end, this is about perception. It isn't about Apple's market share or even its quarterly sales numbers. (Apple's notebook computer sales for the fourth quarter were 4.1% of all portable computer sales, according to DisplaySearch.) What this is about is that Apple is reaching the right people with its product, winning new converts, Windows user by Windows user -- and creating buzz. How do you measure buzz? You don't. It's something that experienced people in this industry can just feel. And that's the condition Microsoft should fear. Because buzz can turn into something much harder to combat than sheer numbers.'"

Submission + - Apple Store in Rome: special preview!

Submitted by

gypeppe

on Friday March 30, 2007 @06:24AM

gypeppe writes: "In a special preview session dedicated to the press Apple has revealed the inside of the first continental european Apple Store. Macitynet is there to show the layout, the design of the 500 square meters shop that marks a new starting point in the marketing policy of Cupertino in the Old Continent. Expect pictures from the location, RomaEst big Mall, the shop and its surrounding, news and interviews in a complete report. See pictures starting from 10 o' clock on this page"

Submission + - iTunes Movies coming in Europe very soon?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29, 2007 @11:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: "According to recent whispers, Apple's iTunes Movies could be on the way for a launch in several European countries very soon." France speculated to be among the first to get it. More on MacScoop.

Submission + - New iTunes "Complete My Album" feature

Submitted by jhfry on Thursday March 29, 2007 @03:59PM

jhfry writes: Tired of buying individual songs, just to find out that you love the artist and want the entire album?
Now you can preview a song or two on iTunes, and then receive credit for those songs when you buy the entire album.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8O5S O9G1.htm

I just wish we could use the credit toward the purchase of the CD from a brick and mortar store. Maybe that's coming soon?

Submission + - Tutorial: How to upgrade Apple Boot Camp install t

Submitted by

d1taylor

on Thursday March 29, 2007 @03:57PM

d1taylor writes: "If you're running an Intel-based Mac, you've probably already installed the great Boot Camp application from Apple and then installed Microsoft Windows XP "just in case". With a new release of Boot Camp from Apple, beta 1.2, you need to upgrade, and this detailed, illustrated tutorial will show you step-by-step exactly how to do just that:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/upgrade_apple_boot_ca mp_bootcamp_install_1.2_beta.html"

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