The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.
The target developer audience is those who use AJAX, Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash
This appears to be some sort of API that allows integration with IDE’s (like Dreamweaver, I guess), WebKit, ECMAScript, and SQL. A test-drive of it will show its true usefulness. Stay tuned.
Adobe describes it here.
MGTwitterEngine is a Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API. The entire API is covered, and appropriate data is returned as simple native Cocoa objects (NSArrays, NSDictionarys, NSStrings, NSDates and so on), for very easy integration into your own application. MGTwitterEngine is designed for Leopard, but should be just fine on Tiger too.
A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.
“It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer,” said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv.
“It allows the user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively,” she added.
The brain is made up of about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which emit an electrical impulse when interacting. The headset implements a technology known as non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) to read the neural activity.
Read the article at bbc.co.uk.
The best-in-class (imo) video ripper “Hand Brake” has a new, Leopard-only, version with a couple of nice new improvemtns:
Direct download link (MacOS GUI version): Download Handbrake 0.9.2
HandBrake’s Website: here for more flavors and platforms of this release.
Conspicuously missing from their Server Storage pages on the Apple website, is the Xserve RAID product line. Interestingly, if you go to http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/, it redirects you to the Promise VTrack storage product page.Looks like they’re pushing the Promise VTrak product to run their Xsan software on.I guess this is no surprise … Apple’s server technologies have always seemed to be an afterthought, probably to garner support from business IT departments for their product line. OSX Server is definitely been a notch lower in quality of usability from their desktop and portable product lines.I’m glad i dont have an Xserve RAID.
Uh-oh. Some British WoW players are gonna be pissed, eh?From digg.
British bank Halifax blocks WOW subscriptions: “While not some attack or slur upon Blizzard Entertainment the Halifax bank, with the Bank of Scotland as a subsidiary, are blocking automatic monthly payments to the MMO. They cite that World of Warcraft is experiencing high incidences of credit card fraud.
I ran across this video from digg.
Very good PBS video of the cutting edge of UAV development. Get out your Mindstorms and your iPhones.
Six Principles for Making New Things:
Paul Graham:
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
(Via Daring Fireball.)
I was getting really bored of having really shaggy long hair, which i hadn’t had since i lived in New York. So i dyed it black and lopped it off.
My new doo:
This is what it used to be:
Apple, who doesn’t normally do demo versions, is giving up a 30-day version of the new Aperture, Apple’s pro-photographer-oriented version of iPhoto.
The last time i tried Aperture, it took so long to do anything on my Dual G5, that i stopped using it in frustration. Now that i have a new Intel desktop machine it may be alot different.
Read the Cool OSX Apps article about it here.
Download the free trial from Apple here.