iTunes 8.0 将采用 Magnetosphere 可视化效果？ (2)
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此前，Kevin Rose 曾表示，iTunes 8.0 将增加一种梦幻般的视觉效果，犹如银河中的行星围绕着恒星旋转，周围还有小的闪耀的星星、绚丽的光芒等等，就像置身宇宙之中。 现在有消息表明 Kevin Rose 所描述的视觉效果可能是来自 Flight 404 专门为 iTunes 播放器开发的一款音乐播放时的可视化效果插件 Magnetosphere（磁气圈）。 几个月之前 Flight 404 还免费提供这种插件下载，但现在他们表示，该插件已经卖给了第三方公司，不再提供下载。而购买该插件的公司极有可能是苹果。 下面有两个视频是 Magnetosphere 的音乐可视化效果，苹果可能会再此基础上做一些改进，应用到可能将于 9 月 9 日发布的 iTunes 8.0 上来。但这种视觉效果可能不仅限于“可视化效果”时使用。 更多的 Magnetosphere 音乐可视化效果请点击这里 。
Australia: Rejoice With Store #3 (1)
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Less than three months after the continent’s first Apple store debuted, Australia will celebrate its third retail store with the grand opening of the Chadstone location on September 13th at 10 a.m. The store in a southern suburb of Melbourne will round out coverage in the southeastern region of the country, leaving plenty of room for future stores in Perth, Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide. Tipsters point to future locations in Melbourne itself, possibly along Church ...
Friday Focus: 09/05/08 (1)
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This week on Friday Focus: the most popular color on the planet, blue. After the immense popularity of green (and pink?) during the Web 2.0 wave, it looks like web designs are going back to everyone’s favorite color. And we have a bucket full of examples to prove it. Designs of the Week What makes this website work? It’s to clutter-free and straight to the point (the jobs), and it uses a fun motif (the ...
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Exposé, one of the built-in Mac gimmicks that Windows doesn't have, has been doing great job on promoting Mac to Windows users. Personally, I will invoke my Exposé whenever I saw my Windowish friends approaching me while operating my Mac. It's just "Wow!" for them, though it's as simple as bread and butter for Mac users. Besides being used for attracting attention, we, Mac users, usually use Exposé for the sake of productivity boosting. Exposé ...
How to search via contacts' nicknames on the iPhone (1)
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While the nickname field of Address Book entries does sync to the iPhone, it's not searchable on the iPhone. Also, it's not used as the display name in call lists or SMS chats. I much prefer reading friend's short names or nicknames instead of their full name when they call.The easy solution to achieve that is to turn your friends into companies. Use each person's nickname as the company name, and check the Company box ...
First Look at Cappuccino and Objective-J (8)
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You've probably heard of 280 Slides, which is an exceptionally polished Keynote-like presentation app for the web. The creators, 280 North, today published the framework and language used to create it, called Cappuccino and Objective-J, respectively. I only had a few hours to play with both, so keep in mind this is a very early review...
Shape IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger for iPhone (8)
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Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App StoreAnother instant messenger app for iPhone has been released, joining the ranks of such stalwarts as Pairingo, MobileChat, and AIM for iPhone. Shape IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger for iPhone (click opens iTunes App Store) supports AIM/iChat, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpaceIM. All public IM systems can be connected through the one client, and all messages come into one shared inbox.Shape Services GMBH ...
Add folders to the iTunes library via the command line (2)
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If, like me, you like to make yourself feel all l33t by doing a lot of system and file management on the command line, you'll have been frustrated at least once by failing to be able to add freshly-downloaded MP3s to the iTunes library (once you've salted them away in your carefully-ordered music stash, naturally) via Terminal.Well, be frustrated no more! Here is a handy-dandy AppleScript I wrote to do just that right in the ...
「它来自江湖」：约翰·席拉库萨谈谷歌浏览器 Chrome (4)
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它来自江湖 文：约翰·席拉库萨 原载 Ars Technica，原文在此 今天下午我一直在推谷歌新出的浏览器 Chrome。谷歌之前放出了一部很精彩的漫画，用以解释 Chrome 背后的技术理念和开发动机，看过之后我预料他们做出来的东西一定会很有意思。实际的产品没有让我失望。 此刻我之所以兴奋，主要不是因为这个产品本身，而是因为其背后的方法理念。谷歌的初衷不只是要改进现有的网页浏览器——他们是想从最基本的原则开始重构网页浏览器。 之前的两个成功的浏览器在用户介面上都采取了极简主义态度。和更早的产品比，它们主要是在做减法而非加法。Firefox 是带着一切从简的原则从体态臃肿、日益复杂的 Mozilla 浏览器的残骸中浴火重生的。Safari 的用户介面则比 Firefox 更加苗条优雅。这两款浏览器在从 1.0 向 3.0 过渡时，不但在每个新版本中实现了不少改进，同时也都尽力保持了身材。 就后台而言，两个项目都很成功。无论是对网页标准的支持还是转译页面的速度，Gecko 和 WebKit 这两个转译引擎都是一等一的高手。WebKit 的成功更是令它获得了谷歌的青睐，将其用在了 Chrome 当中。 但就用户介面而言，Firefox 和 Safari 一直都在挣扎：如何平衡不断添加新功能的欲望和对简约性的追求——毕竟后者正是它们的成功秘诀之一。随着版本号一步步跳进，这种压力是在所难免的。这一问题究竟应该如何面对？ Chrome 告诉我们：在谷歌看来，Safari 和 Firefox 的减法做得还不够。举例来说，Safari 的书签菜单里没有分隔符，这在刚推出时是十分大胆的一则减法。说它大胆，是因为这个设计自万维网肇始之初就存在于每一款流行的浏览器中，少了它的浏览器给许多人带来了困扰——包括我。 谷歌在设计 Chrome 时的想法不同。他们并非简单地将现有的浏览器拿来然后去除功能，而是把一切推倒重来。谁说一定要菜单分隔符，谁说一定要书签菜单：谁说一定要菜单栏来着？从零开始。先入不为主。发现自己需要什么功能才往里面加，而且这个功能一定要服从于一个完美的整体设计理念（留待下文详述）。 这就是 Chrome 最令人兴奋的地方：不是因为谷歌新加的某几个功能，不是用户介面上那些一望可知的部分——比如标签页置顶。所有这些都尚有待市场来测试、检验。Chrome 最令人兴奋的地方，是它的设计理念，它背后的哲学，它展现出来的那种毫无顾忌的胆识……那是一种美。 正因如此，今天早些时候我才说 Chrome 是在「催给 Safari 做介面的那些人起床」。倒不是说 Chrome 有某个功能特别棒，或是它的所有功能加在一起就能把 Safari 打得体无完肤。关键在于，终于有苹果之外的公司在介面领域占了一次先机。Chrome 的诞生让 Safari 的介面显得保守，让苹果显得谨小慎微。而从长远角度来说，所谓创新，主要关乎你做了多少次大胆的决定，而非这些决定本身的成败。 如果你了解了谷歌的 Chrome 介面设计背后的动机，所有这些就更值得竞争对手担忧了。这一动机不但在谷歌的用户体验文档里说得很清楚，甚至 Chrome 这个名字本身也作了暗示。【译注一】 从长远角度看，我们把 Chrome 当作万维网的一个带标签页的窗口管理器或是 shell，而不是一个浏览器程序。正如苹果和微软会尽量避免在其操作系统的应用程序的标准化窗框上添加太多东西一样，我们也会尽量避免往 Chrome 的介面中添加太多。 没错，就是它，微软的最大噩梦已经到来。谷歌已经受够了网页浏览器这个小江湖，受够了将自己所有的应用程序挤在一个单一的、往往还不太靠谱的容器里。「真正的」应用程序没必要受这种苦。它们的命运由自己把握。它们的边框（chrome）优雅而时尚。它们不只是寄居在其他应用程序中的内容。它们是主角，是一等公民。 这才是谷歌想做的产品，而它已经意识到，要实现这一理想——要逃离浏览器这个江湖——只有一条出路：自己设计浏览器。作出这个决定想必并不容易，前方的道路也不会平坦。但无论最终结果如何，你都得为谷歌的勇气喝彩。加油，谷歌，给丫们点颜色瞧瞧。（翻译：Lawrence Li） －－－ 译注一：Chrome 在软件领域指软件窗口的边框以及各种功能栏。我第一次看到 Chrome ...
UsingMac - Remarkable Apple Wallpapers (2)
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It's been quite a time since my last Apple wallpapers compilation. And for me, keeping the very same wallpapers sticking on my MacBook display is a great sin, i.e. they could surely degrade my productivity, which has been relatively low before being decayed by continuous distractions. These Apple wallpapers, coming with gorgeous color, would probably make you feel more energetic and cheerful. At least for me, it avoids me from being suspected as "nerd" by ...
Beyond Multi-Touch: Voice, Gaze, Facial Expression Recognition (3)
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Apple's patent applications provide a glimpse into what might lie ahead in our future. For example, we saw an explosion of multi-touch patents in the year before the iPhone's release. And while many of these concepts may never come to market, they ...
[温故1987] Knowledge Navigator (2)
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过去的两天属于 Chrome。围绕它，大家看到了浏览器大战，看到了 Android 接下来的野心，看到了网络操作系统，看到了 G-A-M 三家公司新的竞争合作态势…… 不过，这个时候，与其只顾着向前看，不如停下来，回顾一下20年前，苹果对于未来的期许与承诺。那段在1987年时播出的，一种叫做 Knowledge Navigator 的未来产品的构思，或许才是 Google 和乔布斯在未来真正想做到的（抱歉，我不是故意忘记比尔·大慈善家&诺贝尔和平奖未来得主·盖茨的）。 安静下来，看一下这段只有5分多钟的视频，我们就会知道，科技的未来之路还有很长：
Google Chrome's Full List of Special about: Pages [Google Chrome] (127)
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You already saw Google Chrome's humorous about:internets Easter egg, but reader nettleman points out that Chrome's got several special about: pages that reveal all sorts of interesting information about what's going behind the scenes. Here's the full list, with screenshots. about:memory about:stats about:network about:internets about:histograms about:dns about:cache about:plugins about:version Update: Mawin adds that you can also go to two special pages on a per-site basis. view-cache:[URL] shows you some under-the-hood cache details, and view-cache:[URL] shows ...
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Alexander Williams said:
Oooh, extra crunchy happiness. About pages are the shiznit. Pointedly, though, there's no about:config.
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federico silva said:
Chrome, chrome y mas chrome!
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Josi said:
oooh interweb tubes....
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Rick Umali said:
Yes, I've succumbed. I am reading and posting on Google's Chrome. Nifty "about:" URLs here.
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rpy said:
DNS pre-caching - cool idea. Users get a faster web experience, DNS infrastructure is already distributed enough that it can take the hit. Expect to see this in the next generation of all other browsers.
Google Chrome brought to you in part by a Camino dev (7)
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Filed under: Software, TUAW TipsIf you haven't yet upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, you're probably intimately familiar with the problem of receiving Office 2008 .docx (Word 2008) files; they're not natively supported by Office 2004. If you have updated that older version of Office to 11.5.0 and installed the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac, you'll be able to open .docx files in Word 2004.Both the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update Package ...
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