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Ballmer needn't fear the Mac - just yet

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REVIEW | Army of Shadows: Fear(s) of the Dark

Like any omnibus film, the Christophe Jankovic and Valerie Schermann-produced French collection of creepy, crawly cartoon shorts, "Fear(s) of the Dark," succeeds on the strength of its best components. Though it seems that in animation it's easier to convey an "idea" of fear to an audience than impart in the viewer fear itself, the film nevertheless pleasantly lodges in the brain. A persuasive showcase for a handful of contemporary animators, "Fear(s)" is comprised of mostly beautifully designed segments which get exponentially better as the film continues, going deeper and deeper into an ever darkening rabbit hole. Like the famed sixties compilation "Spirits of the Dead," which wisely saved Fellini's astonishing "Toby Dammit" for its just-desserts course, "Fear(s) of the Dark" sends us out on a high, low note.

Ballmer: We can catch Google in five years; we just dont know which five

Speaking to a Silicon Valley audience at the Churchill Club two years ago, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer said the battle to surpass Google in the search market was a five-year job. At the same venue last night, Ballmer said it was still a five-year task, though he didn’t specify if the clock had been reset. As in 2006, Microsoft remains third in the search race, still behind floundering Yahoo, which remains a distant second to Google. The keys to catching up, Ballmer said, are time, lots of money and the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that enabled James T. Kirk to beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario. “You have to redefine the category,” Ballmer said. “We’ve taken some steps in that direction. … You don’t really brute force your way into any market.

Mac Bloggers Sweat the Small Stuff: Tiny iPhone Keypads, Shrinking Flash Prices, Mac Minis

Mac fans holding out for a refresh on the Mac mini will just have to hold out a little longer -- Apple has reportedly confirmed that its product lineup is set in stone at least until the holidays are over. Meanwhile, a resourceful iPhone hacker has made a physical keyboard for the device, and cheapening flash memory could mean bigger hard drives or smaller prices for future Apple products.

Mac Bloggers Sweat the Small Stuff: Tiny iPhone Keypads, Shrinking Flash Prices, Mac Minis

Mac fans holding out for a refresh on the Mac mini will just have to hold out a little longer -- Apple has reportedly confirmed that its product lineup is set in stone at least until the holidays are over. Meanwhile, a resourceful iPhone hacker has made a physical keyboard for the device, and cheapening flash memory could mean bigger hard drives or smaller prices for future Apple products.

Mac Bloggers Sweat the Small Stuff: Tiny iPhone Keypads, Shrinking Flash Prices, Mac Minis

Mac fans holding out for a refresh on the Mac mini will just have to hold out a little longer -- Apple has reportedly confirmed that its product lineup is set in stone at least until the holidays are over. Meanwhile, a resourceful iPhone hacker has made a physical keyboard for the device, and cheapening flash memory could mean bigger hard drives or smaller prices for future Apple products.

CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac

jfbilodeau writes "The fine folks at Codeweavers performed an 11 day experiment in getting Google Chrome working on Linux and Mac. Their efforts resulted in the Chromium proof of concept. 'Not only does this give Mac and Linux users a chance to see what all the hype is about, it also lets the world see just how far Wine has come and how powerful it truly can be. In just 11 days, we were able to bring a modern Windows application across to Mac and Linux.' Caveat: their implementation is free as in beer but not free as in speech."

Google too nimble for Ballmer

While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week was busy defending lackluster Vista sales and reigniting vague Yahoo rumors, he also spent time slamming Google and its Google Apps competitor to Office. Ballmer derided Apps' "flat" adoption rate and lack of feature set. But while the ink had yet to dry on the several press accounts of the tirade, Google quickly and quietly tweaked apps to counter Ballmer's argument.

First Look: Parallels 4 Offers Mac Fans Blazing Fast Windows Virtualization Tools

parallels 4.0The Windows-on-a-Mac virtualization race is heating up again. Parallels has just unveiled version 4 of its virtualization software for Mac OS X, which brings some much-needed speed boosts, better support for top-end Apple hardware, the ability to run Mac OS X Server and some 50 other changes and tweaks.

Unofficial Google Chromium Now Available for Mac OS X, Linux

If you have a Mac OS X or Linux machine and you are dying to try Google's Chrome, keep dying because it's not coming out yet. But if you want to just give it a try, you can grab this version of Chromium, the unofficial version of Chromium, the open-source Google web browser that is the basis of Chrome—and looks exactly like it down to the about box and its most fatal flaw. The Ubuntu flavor above looks nice. Unfortunately, the Mac version looks quite out of place:

How to transfer WMAs and iTunes 8 library from Windows to Mac

It is relatively painless to switch over from Windows to Mac as Mac has support for a lot of commonly used files like Microsoft Word documents, Powerpoint slideshows and Adobe PDF files. So, compatibility is hardly an issue. What you do have to take note of however while switching over to Mac are your iTunes library and WMAs. Note: This tutorial was written under the assumption that you are running the latest version of iTunes ( iTunes 8 ) on both your Windows and Mac.

Google's Antitrust Problems Not Just In The US

As Google not-so-eagerly awaits the US Justice Department's word on whether or not it's violating antitrust laws, it appears that the fear of Google-as-a-monopoly is not just a domestic US issue. There are a bunch of headlines about how Russia's antitrust agency has rejected Google's purchase of an ad agency in that country. Technically, the claim is that Google didn't file the proper paperwork, but the agency made it clear that it's worried about Google becoming monopolistic. Of course, as with the Google-Yahoo deal, it's unclear what the "monopoly" is that's being dealt with here or how people are harmed. It seems like this might just be a general "must fear Google" position, than anything based on an actual problem.

Nokia releases beta version of MapLoader for Mac

Although the iPhone is quite a popular device these days, it does have some competition from other smartphones, including products from Nokia. Now, Nokia phones probably have a few more integration issues on the Mac than the iPhone does, but the company appears to be working on better Mac compatibility. This week, Nokia released the first beta version of the Mac version of its MapLoader application. Known as Nokia MapLoader for Mac 1.3, the new application is designed to help owners of Nokia devices load maps on their phones.

Why Developers Are Switching To Macs

snydeq writes "Programmers are finding themselves increasingly drawn to the Mac as a development platform, in large part due to Apple's decision to move to Intel chips and to embrace virtualization of other OSes, which has turned Mac OS X into a flexible tool for development, InfoWorld reports. The explosion of interest in smartphone development is helping the trend, with iPhone development lock-in to the Mac environment the chief motivating factor for Apple as a platform of choice for mobile development. Yet for many, the Mac remains sluggish and poorly tuned for development, with developers citing its virtual memory system's poor performance in paging data in and out of memory and likening use of the default-network file system, AFS, to engaging oneself with 'some kind of passive-aggressive torture.

Why developers prefer Macs

When Terry Weaver wants to create .Net applications, he fires up Visual Studio and types away like any other .Net programmer. The setup gets a bit weird when he wants to test how the .Net application might appear to a Mac user visiting the Web site. Instead of starting up another machine, asking a colleague with a Mac, or simply ignoring those crazy followers of Steve Jobs, Weaver just pops over to the browser in another window. That's easy because Visual Studio is running on Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine, which, in turn, runs on his Mac. He has a PC, a Mac, and a Unix development box all in one.

Why some developers prefer Macs

When Terry Weaver wants to create .Net applications, he fires up Visual Studio and types away like any other .Net programmer. The setup gets a bit weird when he wants to test how the .Net application might appear to a Mac user visiting the Web site. Instead of starting up another machine, asking a colleague with a Mac or simply ignoring those crazy followers of Steve Jobs, Weaver just pops over to the browser in another window. That's easy because Visual Studio is running on Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine, which, in turn, runs on his Mac. He has a PC, a Mac and a Unix development box all in one.

Why some developers prefer Macs

When Terry Weaver wants to create .Net applications, he fires up Visual Studio and types away like any other .Net programmer. The setup gets a bit weird when he wants to test how the .Net application might appear to a Mac user visiting the Web site. Instead of starting up another machine, asking a colleague with a Mac or simply ignoring those crazy followers of Steve Jobs, Weaver just pops over to the browser in another window. That's easy because Visual Studio is running on Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine, which, in turn, runs on his Mac. He has a PC, a Mac and a Unix development box all in one.

Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC

Mac clone manufacturer Psystar, which has been sued by Apple for copyright violation, isn't putting all its eggs in the Mac OS market. The Miami-based system integrator has introduced a Linux-based personal computer that sells for just $299.

Mac Clone Maker Psystar Offers $299 Linux PC (Information Week)

Mac clone manufacturer Psystar, which has been sued by Apple for copyright violation, isn't putting all its eggs in the Mac OS market. The Miami-based system integrator has introduced a Linux-based personal computer that sells for just $299. Psystar's OpenLite system ships with the Ubuntu Linux desktop preinstalled, running on a 1.8-GHz Intel Celeron chip with integrated graphics support. Upgrading to a dual-core Pentium chip costs an additional $40. "With unparalleled affordability, this computer can bring Windows computing into every home and office," Psystar boasts on its Web site, even though the system runs Linux, not Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft's Ballmer Defends Windows Vista, Slaps Google

Ballmer, speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here Oct. 16, Ballmer used a familiar Microsoft line in defending Vista. He told the audience that Vista was being adopted faster in both the consumer market and the enterprise than when the company rolled out the XP operating system. Just before the talk, Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and David Smith told the audience that only 10 percent of enterprises have adopted Vista.

Mac, PC, Linux: South Park Style

Here's a little something quirky to start the weekend off. Yes, it "is" yet another spinoff on the ubiquitous "PC Mac" Commercial-"PC Mac Linux"-jokes, but it's got a neat little twist. You'll especially dig it if you're a big "South Park" fan. I'm in and out on that show (likes vs. dislikes equals no opinion on it whatsoever ;), but I still thought this video was pretty clever.

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2

Apple has just released Java Update 2 for Mac OS X. According to Apple, this update "delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and later."

Lame Mac Trojan limps into view

Lamzev-A creates a backdoor on compromised Mac OS-X systems. The malware typically disguises itself as video codec on dodgy websites. Mac users hoping to watch a clip from a grumble flick get infected instead, a trick carried out by the earlier RSPlug Mac Trojan.

Microsofts Steve Ballmer talks about search in the Cloud (Weekend Wrap-up Oct 5 2008)

The truth is, it's just not a level playing field unless you know the secrets of the pros. Yet, the income potential of having your site listed at the top of the engines is just too huge to ignore.

Google Chrome on Linux, Mac

Although Google has not yet released a Mac or Linux version of its Chrome browser, software developer Codeweavers has made a ported version available. Called Chromium, the Windows-only browser uses Wine to run on the Mac, Linux platforms.

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