Over at Ars Technica they’ve got a nice write up about Google’s progress in bringing their WebKit-based Chrome browser to the Mac.
Chromium has made huge leaps forward. You can load web pages, follow links, and work (somewhat) with tabs. There’s no support for plug-ins, and the browser remains fairly unstable, leaving as it did a [...]
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Feature I: Rainman
When Charlie Babbit goes home to the Midwest for his estranged father’s funeral, he learns not only that he’s been cut out of his inheritance, but that he has a grown brother, Raymond, who has been sheltered almost all of his life in an East Coast institution for the developmentally disabled. Raymond is [...]
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Free TV—The Unusuals
Detective Casey Shraeger has just been transferred to NYPD’s homicide unit and is instantly thrown into a setting of bullets and dead bodies. As Casey begins her new assignment, she finds that the force is full of secrets, which serves her well since she’s keeping a few of her own. She is assigned [...]
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He’s been called the “dancing Teletubby” and the show’s judges regularly berate him for his utter lack of grace, still Steve Wozniak’s run on Dancing with the Stars is the stuff of legend, because the only reason he’s still on the program—really, his dancing has nothing to do with it—is his huge geek fan base, [...]
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Micro Center is offering some truly killer deals ($200 mail-in rebates) on the current generation entry-level iMac and MacBook. These units are new, not used products built around nVidia’s respected MCP79 chipset + 9400M integrated graphics solution. And, just for giggles, you can also get a last generation 2GHz Mac mini for the previously unheard [...]
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The world + dog celebrated when OpenOffice 3 (OOo 3) arrived on the Fairer Platform™. However, the real open source productivity suite deal on the Mac is and has been for years NeoOffice.
And, now, NeoOffice 3 has arrived after a lengthy beta and it pulls into the station with the following features:
• Based on OpenOffice.org [...]
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The latest sign that development of OS X 10.5.7 is winding down came over the weekend with a fresh seed from Apple that, like other recent seeds, tidies up some loose ends and only has one known issue, incompatibility with Safari 4 beta.
World of Apple, which has published the seed notes, writes:
This build in partcular [...]
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