Now pointlessly enhanced with AI
An Apple A Day Gallery – 2007.11.03
Mac OS X Leopard: Front Row
Front Row is now available on any Macs. Front Row can be activated by using Apple Remote, launching the Front Row.app, or by using the default keystroke Command-Esc.
Previously Front Row only available on Macs with Apple Remote and IR receiver support. Kudos to Andrew Escobar for providing Front Row Enabler; to install Front Row for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.x) on older Macs without Apple Remote and IR receiver support.
An Apple A Day Gallery – 2007.11.02
Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces
Mac OS X Leopard’s Spaces can provide a maximum of 16 “workspaces” (4 rows x 4 columns).
You can assign applications to specific “workspace”.
Firefox 2.0.0.9 is available for download. (read more)
Firefox 2.0.0.9 release notes.
Mozilla Firefox is available for multiple Operating Systems including Linux, Mac and Windows.
Adobe releases Flash Player 9 update for Linux, Mac and Windows.
The build numbers for current official release are 9.0.47.0 (Mac and Windows) and 9.0.48.0 (Linux).
In addition to that, the pre-release version of Flash Player 9 is also available at Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/)
Adobe Labs features prerelease versions of the Flash Player 9 Update software. The release candidate prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content.
This update, codenamed “Moviestar,” includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Flash Player 9, including:
Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
Multi-core support for vector rendering.
Full screen mode with hardware scaling.
Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex framework.
Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) in the Windows plug-in.
The build numbers for the pre-release version are 9.0.98.0 (Mac), and 9.0.64.0 (Linux and Windows)
The Camino Project has just released Camino 1.5.3 to address web compatibility.
Camino 1.5.3 contains the following improvements over version 1.5.2:
- Upgraded to version 1.8.1.9 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine to fix serious web compatibility problems introduced in version 1.8.1.8 of Gecko.
An Apple A Day Gallery – 2007.11.01
Mac OS X Leopard: AirPort
The look of AirPort splash screen is much improved, compared to previous incarnations of Mac OS X. Unfortunately, as many has pointed out, Apple has yet to include the relative signal strength on the Wi-Fi scanner.
For more AirPort utilities, get:
The Examiner says that Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame, has the odds of 1000-1 to become the next San Francisco Mayor. Not sure if this is a joke or something serious.
I for one think that Lars Ulrich should run for Mayor of San Francisco. Should he won, he then had to quit Metallica. This is good because only then Metallica can get a better drummer.
Metallica is currently recording the follow up to “St. Anger” with Rick Rubin as producer. The new recording is tentatively scheduled for February 2008 release.
