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iTunes User Agent

Looks like Apple is testing iTunes 4.9's podcasting support > The next version of iTunes, 4.9 is out grabbing podcasts from site around the web, likely from testers at Apple. Logs are showing a new user agents "Agent: iTunes/4.9 (Macintosh; N; PPC)"

Carmack On The Apple Switch

> We work with Apple, ATI, and Nvidia to make everything run as well as possible. Doom 3 had AltiVec code in it, and there were driver changes to make things work better. The bottom line is that the compiler / cpu / system / graphics card combinations available for macs has just

.MAC 2.0

Because I can say this: .Mac is really cool. It supports 1 to many authentication to .Mac accounts. The publisher needs a .Mac account, but "subscribers" do not need any .Mac account! This enables all sort of groupware applications via the .Mac framework! They said the scale is

New York Times

> Ray Slakinski, an independent Apple developer whose company, iPodderX, makes software for podcasting on the Macintosh, said Apple's strategy would not cause him any development delays. Apple has been reliable in providing developers with tools for smoothing major transitions, he said. "It's a good

OneClickSpec

The PSWG released a draft of a spec [http://pswg.jot.com/WikiHome/DraftPublications/OneClickSpec2] for One Click Subscription. It looks interesting, and I need to spend more time reading to make fully comment. > <rss version="2.0"> <channel> ... <atom:link rel=

iTunes 4.8 and Video???

Ok Folks, I installed iTunes 4.8 and look what it can do now? VIDEO! What does Apple have up its sleeve? This is some pretty cool stuff... but is iTunes the right name for it now? Unless this is just a plan to get people to buy music videos?

IE7?

Scoble [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/15.html#a9442] and Dean [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx] reports: > "...we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer.

WikiHell

As much as I love wikis and use PHPWiki I have to agree with troutgirl [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/69_WikiHateOn.html] that there is a loooong way still left to go in the software. > Now try changing any little thing, and note how this results

Microsoft Has No Issues Releasing Insecure Code

Was listening to one of the IT Conversation's recordings at Gnomedex 4 [http://www.itconversations.com/series/gnomedex2004.html] regarding the future of security (was in the RSS feed, not yet on the main site for some reason) and it was kind of funny to hear that Microsoft

iTMS Canada (again)

As seen on the Mac Rumors [http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/10/20041012011843.shtml] (Page 2) website: > According to one unconfirmed source, marketing materials are being completed for a November 26th announcement of a localized version of the iTMS for Canada. Details are slim, but songs are expected