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Apple made sure to tout the fact that Safari has a nifty on its keyboard .com button for easy URL typing, but it seems like they forgot about Mail. As it turns out, Mail does have a .com…
Someone asked me if an app I regularily use does a certain thing by default tonight, and I honestly couldn’t answer him. I realized that, ever since Leopard and a MobileMe update brought syncing of preferences between multiple Macs, all of my apps have behaved exactly the way I want them to between the Mac Pro and the MacBook. I haven’t had to re-set up an app in nearly a year now, so I’m forgetting how some specific features work out-of-the-box.
Technology: it is our gift, it is our curse.
Linkinus with embedded FancyZoom
I love Linkinus, an IRC client, and I just found this handy style tonight thanks to Caltsar in the #Linkinus channel (IRC channel link). Linkinus’ support for rich styles not only allows for the display of in-line photos and videos (check the default Whisper style), but Caltsar’s Teh Dark style brings the slick enlarge pop-up thing to the table.
I know traditional IRC users are probably scoffing at this, and that’s ok. Lots of people fear change, especially when it’s this awesome.
via caltsar
The Epic Battle of puppy vs much larger puppy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A video I spliced together of our ~3.5 year-old dog, Oscar, playing with Maddy when she was just a puppy.
Chicagoist: Around Town: Prop 8 Protest, Round 1: “You have 13 wives. I want 1 husband.”
via clint
Iconfactory : Freeware : Refresh Trek
New celebratory set of folder icons for Mac OS X and Windows, complete with an obligatory CandyBar container.
But in this case Apple really screwed up in our opinion.
So Google was “under the impression” that the app would be available on Friday, despite having “little direct contact with Apple during the review,” and Apple is somehow at fault that the big G prematurely fired off its press rush?
Don’t get me wrong, Apple continues to royally screw up the App Store on a many levels, but this assessment is ridiculous. There may be a conversation around giving major third parties like Google some kind of preferential treatment, but if Google is using the same uninformative tools as every other iPhone app developer, they had no clue when the app was coming. They simply couldn’t wait to get the news out.
Of course, most of this musing is pretty pointless considering the fact that the New York Times piece that broke this news to begin with said the app could be available “as soon as Friday.” Not “definitely, beyond a doubt, stick-a-needle-in-my-eye Friday.” Christ.
Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can - NYTimes.com
It blows my mind that Obama could be the first president to have a notebook on his desk. The fact that Bush reportedly sent all of two e-mails during his 8-year reign of destruction is absolutely astounding.
Despite computers and the Internet arguably being two of the most important inventions of all time, the “highest office in the land” apparently has yet to leverage them even in their most basic forms.
