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New version of iTunes released

A new version, 6.0.2, of iTunes has been released. The new point release of iTunes wasn’t mentioned in the keynote by Steve Jobs earlier on tuesday. So far I’ve only noticed one major change, and it’s the addition of a feature called MiniStore. This feature is turned on by default, and it adds a sub-window to the Library browser window, where Featured Artists, Main Categories, New Releases, Top Songs and Top Albums from the iTunes Music Store are displayed in a condensed Music Store view, thus the name MiniStore.

But the MiniStore goes beyond this, showing context sensitive information about the artists from the Music Store, as you browse your music library.

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Apple debuts Intel-powered Macs

Apple today announced the first Intel based Mac computers. Below is a link to a BBC article describing the announcement.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple debuts Intel-powered Macs

The keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Steve showed himself to be a master of suspense, since the keynote had been running for an hour, without any mention of Intel based Macs what-so-ever.

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Wired 13.12: Slacking Off in Science

Wired 13.12: Slacking Off in Science

I was really surprised by this article in WIRED Magazine. For years and years we’ve been told that Denmark is suffering from a “brain drain”, but according to this WIRED Magazine article, based on information from a number of US and international science indicators, for instance the CIA World Factbook; Science and Engineering Indicators, this is not true.

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InteractiveStory.net – Façade New Concept in Gaming

InteractiveStory.net – Façade New Concept in Gaming

InteractiveStory has created an amazing new gaming concept that uses advanced AI to provide a fully interactive experience. I haven’t personally tried it – it’s not available for Mac yet – but from what I heard in HARDDISKEN, the experience is quite amazing, and the feeling you get playing it is very much like a real social experience.

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Welcome to Fullscreen QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality)

Welcome to Fullscreen QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality)

Fullscreenqtvr.com is a collaborative effort between Hans Nyberg of panoramas.dk, and Marco Trezzini of VRMAG.org, the Virtual Reality photography and travel magazine hosted by VRWAY Communication

This is a great site dedicated to QuickTime VR, a technology, that enables the display of 3D panoramas.

QuickTime VR hardly is a new technology, but it’s comming of age, and has, like good wine, matured gracefully. QTVR holds a virtual monopoly on this type of technology. Who remembers AVIVR (or something like that)? Sometimes Microsoft looses.

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More switching evangelism

It’s amazing how many people are warming up to the idea of ditching Wintel and switching to Mac.

What people are taken in by, is the general coolness, engineering and apparent quality of the Apple hardware, but they look baffled by the difference between Windows and OS X, and as I’ve reported before, there IS trouble in Mactopia.

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Computerworld – Orm fælder tysker for børnepornografi

Computerworld – Orm fælder tysker for børnepornografi

Så kan han lære det! Det må være den første gang at jeg har haft positive følelser overfor Internet orme.

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Multi-Language Ajax Frameworks – Ajax Patterns

Multi-Language Ajax Frameworks – Ajax Patterns

As I wrote earlier, I’m beginning to warm up to the concept of the Ajax programming model(s), and with the emergence of multiplatform Ajax frameworks, it looks like now is the time.

The article above, from the great resource Ajax Patterns, contains a list of cross platform Ajax frameworks. I think that especially RIALTO – Rich Internet Ajax Toolkit looks very promissing. For a demo of what you can do with RIALTO check out the demo.

RIALTO – like a lot of the Ajax frameworks – is open source, for RIALTO it’s under an Apache license.

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Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser

Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser

Hmm, I think that I’m getting SOLD on AJAX technology…Gollum is a brilliant application of AJAX that provides a nice, uncluttered wrapper for Wikipedia. Gollum has been localised for a large number of languages, including Danish, and it’s very fast too.

One thing I think is missing is a link to the other language versions of articles, or maybe an automatic “degradation” to a second, or even third, prefered language.

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shevy.dk » WordPress på dansk

shevy.dk » WordPress på dansk

Shevy står for en seriøs indsats for at lokalisere WordPress til Dansk. Kudos og tak.