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MacWorld 08

Why isn’t the new software for the iPod Touch free? Will we see updated MacBook Pros with the new processors and the multi-touch trackpad? Will you buy a MacBook Air?

NSCoder Night

I attended my first NSCoder Night at the local DC chapter, initiated by Jose Vazquez. We didn’t get to talk much about Cocoa but that was kind of expected when you first meet new people. Fun! Hopefully, I’ll find some time to attend regularly and sharpen my Cocoa skills. Thanks, Jose!

State of Java on OS X

It’s fairly common these days to hear about how Java on the Mac is doomed. Sure, I’d like Apple to put more emphasis on Java on OS X but I also know that Apple runs a very tight ship and resources are constrained (see how Leopard was delayed to work being done on the iPhone). Despite all this, the Java team at Apple has managed to provide reasonably good release of Java for OS X. Considering how small the team is, it’s quite an achievement. Charles Miller has summed up the situation quite well so next time someone’s hair catches on More >

Woo-hoo!

AFP548 informs us that, starting with 10.4.6, we can resize partitions at last!

Apparently, it only works on Mac Intels… Go figure! On the other hand, I am now the proud owner of an iMac Intel 20″ so I don’t care! These are really nice computers, fast and all. Love it!

In other news, Apple has announced Boot Camp that has everyone and their sister talking (and probably for good reasons too). My two cents? More power to Apple! I am graced not to have to run any Windows-only apps in my daily routine (that, and the fact that I don’t own (yet) an More >

Be and NeXT to be united if Apple buys Palm

Rumors of Apple buying Palm have made rounds of the blogosphere lately… Treo Today gives a couple of good reasons why this would be a good fit for Apple. I would like to add another one that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere so far: the fact that if that buy-out was to go through, it would mean that Be assets and intellectual property would go to Apple since Palm bought Be in 2001. What does this mean? I’m not quite sure but it would at least mean that the two technologies that were at one point considered to be Mac OS’ future More >

Quicksilver gesture recognition

Yes, I know, another Quicksilver post but I couldn’t help it… A couple of days ago, I was looking at the available plugins and saw a new one, called Abracadabra. This turned out to be a gesture recognition engine that can be used as a trigger mechanism. A quick Google search didn’t turn out much information about it but it’s fairly easy to use and as usual with Quicksilver, very cool looking!

Speaking of Quicksilver…

Dan Dickinson has a new (yeah I know it’s actually a month old but I just found out about it) very interesting tutorial on Quicksilver triggers and the new proxy objects. He also brings more details to blacktree.com going dark for a couple of days. Good stuff!