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Excellent choices from this developer include:
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.
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.)
Google Toolbox for Mac released: “Google Toolbox for Mac is a new open source project that joins the Google Data APIs Object-C Library as code available under the Apache license so you can use it in your own projects. Does it sound like I’m quoting a press release? Well, I am a bit. Google Toolbox for Mac is clearly for Mac geeks, but not my particular genre of Mac geek, so bear with me.
As the post on the Official Google Mac…
[read more at MacMerc.com]
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(Via MacMerc.)