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FireFox 9 beta 4 now available for PowerPC

By Luke On Dec 2, 2011 Apple | Retro Mac | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: ,

Thanks again to the TenFourFox development team for continuing to port current versions of Moizilla’s FireFox browser. Mozilla dropped PowerPC support for FireFox over a year ago.

Your web browser is huge because it connects you to so much content, having a current and secure browser that is optimized for your system and updated regularly is crucial and TenFourFox fills that role for PowerPC users. I’m up to my knees in PowerPC and I don’t feel the need to upgrade to Intel just quite yet.

If you want to read about some of the trials and tribulations that the team encountered with this release you can see it at the TenFourFox Development Blog.

You can find system specific builds (G3,G4,G5) from TenFourFox

Apple purchases Lala, but why?

By Luke On Dec 9, 2009 Apple | Media | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: , , ,

lala_logoI’m sure you’re on the same track as me when you think “subscription service”, but I  feel like Apple has other plans for its recent acquisition.

How Lala works. Lala’s Music Mover quickly matches the songs on your computer to Lala’s licensed catalog. Songs you already have and playlists you’ve created are instantly added to your Lala collection for free. The number of songs you can add is unlimited. Lala users have been purchasing the rights to stream their music an unlimited number of times for ten cents per song

As stated above, the idea with Lala is to be able to listen to your music anywhere on the web. Simple sync your home music with Lala and you’re good to go. Whether or not Apple will stick to this business model or not is still unknown, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Here is what others think Apple has in mind for Lala:

“The deal makes sense. It seems inevitable that Apple will eventually launch its own cloud-based streaming music service. And that’s exactly what Lala is — an iTunes in the cloud, with some interesting pricing mechanics.” -TechCrunch

“Other music industry insiders are wondering what Apple is buying exactly. Lala’s licenses for streaming music with the major music labels are not transferable to any acquirer.” -NYTimes

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/04/apple-acquires-lala/

Photoshop.com Mobile App now on iTunes

By Luke On Oct 9, 2009 Apple | iPhone/iPod | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments

Adobe’s new iPhone/iPod Touch app allows you to edit and share your photos on the go. A free photoshop.com account is required. However, signing up allows you to store 2GBs of images online to be edited and/or shared.feat_img

    Editing Features Include:

    • Basic: Crop, Rotate, and Flip
    • Color: Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White
    • Filters: Sketch and Soft Focus
    • Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black and White

    Find out more by going to mobile.photoshop.com/iphone/

      Out Now: Camino 1.6.8

      By Luke On Jun 22, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments

      CaminoCamino, Defined as Mozilla Power, Mac Style. It brings together the best of both worlds. This recent release brings a few new and exciting features to the table.

        • Toolbar Search – Sites with OpenSearch plug-ins are discovered automatically and are easy to add to the toolbar search box
        • Find Bar – The new Find Bar allows for incremental find and puts previous and next buttons right at your finger tips
        • Improved Tabs – The new scrolling tab bars provides easy access to your tabs
        • Auto-Update – When a new release is available, Camino will offer you the option of automatically downloading and installing it

        Other new features include enhanced AppleScript support, automatic feed detection, and session saving.

          To check out all of the new features that Camino has to offer by going to caminobrowser.org/features

            You can download version 1.6.8 of Camino Here.

              Camino 2 Beta 2 Now Available.

              By Luke On Mar 1, 2009 Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: , , ,

              While still not overly stable, the new beta of Camino can give you a good idea of what to expect in the finished product. The Mozilla based web browser for OS X has improved tabbed browsing and also implemented Growl support for download notification.camino Other new features includes:

                • Optional flash animation blocking on a per site basis
                • Tab rearrangement through drag and drop
                • Gecko 1.9 rendering engine for faster graphic rendering and compatibility

                Camino has aspects of both Safari and Firefox which make for excellent usability and even better design.

                If you are interested in learning even more of what Camino has to offer check it out here. Camino 2 Preview

                A few thoughts on Safari 4 Beta.

                By Luke On Feb 27, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: , , , ,

                I have been using Safari Beta 4 for close to 48 forty-eight hours now. While not blowing my mind wide open, it does offer a few useful features.

                  • Cover Flow, while useful in iTunes, finds a way to be even more useful as a web browser feature. Cover Flow in Safari allows you to visually search your bookmarks and history, a welcomed feature for someone like me who tends to forget names much easierfeatures-technologies-webkit-20090217 then faces.
                  • Top Sites. While not being incredibly useful, is in my opinion, much better then a static home page. The ability for it to inform you of which pages have changed since you lasted visited them is a nice RSS-esque feature.
                  • Nitro Engine. While totally having a lame name, it’s always nice to be able to load the many pages of the www just that much faster.

                  So, as LeVar Burton would say:  You don’t have to take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. Apple.com/Safari

                  Google Earth plugin comes to Mac.

                  By Luke On Dec 5, 2008 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 1 1 Comment Tags: , ,

                  The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.

                  Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the Google Earth Browser Plugin for Mac OS X 10.4+ (PowerPC and Intel). The Mac plugin is supported on Safari 3.1+ and Firefox 3.0+.

                  Download here: Google Earth API

                  Full Story here: Google Geo Developers Blog

                  Introducing Vocito, From Google

                  By Luke On Nov 20, 2008 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments

                  At the time of release this app is still limited to participants of the GrandCentral beta. Bummer huh.

                  Vocito is essentially a quick dialer that lets you dial your phone directly from your desktop. Vocito is also integrated into Address Book, QuickSilver, and Automator, and is fully AppleScriptable. The AppleScript connection makes it easy to have Vocito automatically dial your phone from just about any application that supports scripting or Automator actions. For example, you can easily set up your iCal meeting appointment to automatically dial the conference call for you at the correct time.

                  You can find the whole story here: Google Mac Blog

                  While still very fresh, it seems as though once this program takes of it will be very popular and simplify many aspects of our lives.

                  Twitter?

                  By Luke On Sep 22, 2008 Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments

                  Hey everyone. I know you’re all not using twitter, But I think it would be beneficial if I was able to follow all of my readers on Twitter. That way I feel like I will be able to fine tune the site to your liking more. You can either start following my me clicking the pic or navigating to twitter.com/lwestlie, or if you would like you can post your twitter name in the comments below and I will start following you!

                  Thanks and have a great rest of your day.

                  -Luke

                  Why no Chrome for OS X and Linux?

                  By Luke On Sep 6, 2008 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 1 1 Comment

                  Well here is the answer.

                  “One overriding goal we have had from the start has been to build the best browser we can. When it comes to Mac and Linux versions, this means that our goal is not to just “port” a Windows application to these other platforms–rather, our goal is to deliver Chromium’s innovative, Google-style user interface without rough edges on any of them. – In order to make sure Chromium feels right, each platform’s version is being built by people who live and breathe that platform; the engineers working on these versions are long-time Mac and Linux engineers who are just as picky about the details as anyone”

                  You can read the whole story here: Platforms and Priorities

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