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Could this be the end of MacWorld?

One big news to close 2008 and to open 2009. Apple announces its last year at MacWorld, and Steve Jobs won’t be delivering the opening keynote. What is really going on?

There’s the economic downturn, the state of Steve Jobs’ health, the succession of the Apple throne, and Apple’s company direction.

MacWorld San Francisco 2009 will be remembered as the tragic one. Adobe was the first major company to pull out of MacWorld, folowed by Belkin. Now Apple announced its last participation at MacWorld.

This could be the end of MacWorld as we know it.

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Perian 1.1.3 is Released

Perian 1.1.3, the open source QuickTime component that adds native support to many popular video formats. Perian QuickTime component also adds extra supports for some AVCHD camcorders.

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Changes in 1.1.3

  • Enabled Indeo 2/3 decodecs
  • Added external idx/sub (VobSub) support
  • Added support for H.264 and H.263 in FLV containers
  • Apple’s decoder now handles Baseline/Main Profile H.264
  • Fix inconsistent importing for multi-channel audio
  • Reduced memory usage for packed streams
  • Added sanity checks on all preferences
  • Fixed crash caused by (among other things) resizing a streaming window

Subtitles:

  • Enabled hack to show subtitles in Front Row
  • Fixed negative values in SSA frz tag
  • Fixed VSFilter bug-compatibility for an
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Rocko Diggs Digg

Carlos Alazraqui, the man behind the voice of Rocko (Rocko’s Modern Life) and the face behind the moustache of Reno 911!’s Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia, diggs Digg. During recent appearance at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco (December 12 & 13, 2008), Carlos was wearing green Digg t-shirt.

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In November 2008, an article titled “The Faces Behind TV’s Cartoon Voices” made Digg front page. Comments like this one and this one show how popular Rocko was. Add Reno 911!’s James Garcia, Family Guy’s Mr Weed, and the Taco Bell Chihuahua to Carlos Alazraqui’s resume, he is a legend.

Rocko is giving the love back to Digg!

Special thanks to Laura for taking the pictures and Carlos for the permission.

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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update

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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.6 update along with Security Update 2008-008 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 on Monday morning.

The 10.5.6 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3194.
For detailed information on security updates, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

The updates can be obtained through Software Updates or Apple Support Downloads page.

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Apple Recommends Amazon Mobile

Drumroll please. Apple App Store Pick of the Week is: Amazon Mobile.

This is something refreshing since Amazon MP3 Store is the closest and best competition to iTunes Store. At this point, Amazon Mobile does not allow direct MP3 download on the iPhone and iPod touch yet.

Let’s see if Apple will let Amazon sells MP3 direct to iPhone and iPod touch.

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is in, Shiretoko is out

Release date: December 8th, 2008

Mozilla.org has officially dropped “Shiretoko” as name for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.

See the new Robot here.

The good folks at Mozilla.org has just released Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Don’t worry because Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is still free (seriously, has anyone paid for Firefox upgrade/updates?)

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Mozilla Firefox is available for Linux Mac and Windows.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

  • This beta is now available in 54 languages – get your local version and let us know if it looks right.
  • A new Private Browsing Mode that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been – perfect for online holiday shopping!
  • New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.
  • New support for web worker threads.
  • The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Removed the new tab-switching & preview behavior based on feedback from Beta 1 users
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Get Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 from:

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