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Portfolio:here Phone: 512-965-9851Google unveils Nexus One smartphone
Two years ago; the day before the press launch of the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Apple announced the launch of the iPhone. An announcement that overshadowed the rest of the show.
Today it seems that Google have done the same with the announcement of the Nexus One, a mobile phone manufactured by HTC but designed to a Google specification using the Android operating system which is being sold direct to customers by Google.
The phone is being offered in the US either on a contract with German owned T-Mobile, in the UK on the Vodafone network (from later this year) or unlocked for any network for £330. It is available to be purchased right now via the Google website and can be shipped to the UK for around £20.
Popularity: 22% [?]
MagicPrefs for  Magic Mouse
MagicPrefs is a free menubar application for OSX which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse.
It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces , Expose, Dashboard etc.
Touch Sensitivity implements a single point control for a number of factors impacting the algorithms of the taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures.
Tracking Speed adds the ability to increase the maximum mouse speed by a extra 200%.
Also featured is a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test and monitor the way the mouse sees your input.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Duplicate Annihilator
The leading application for dealing with iPhoto duplicates. 
THE EASY WAY TO FIND DUPLICATES IN IPHOTO
Yes nowdays iPhoto protects you from importing duplicates but if you are like me you have managed to do so anyway.
Duplicate Annihilator takes on the time consuming task comparing the images in your iPhoto library using effective algorithms to make sure that no duplicates escapes. When found the duplicate will either be marked with a description of your choice to make it searchable or simply moved to iPhotos trashcan.
KEY FEATURES
- Easily find and annihilate duplicates created internally by iPhoto or during import.
- Compare images using different algorithms to detect and understand differences.
- Detect duplicates using effective algorithms using electronic checksums like MD5 and CRC32.
- Detect duplicates by using file specifik meta data such as filename, dimensions, filesize, Exif creation date or date of creation.
- Delete duplicates upon detection or mark them with a keyword to make them easily found using iPhoto features like search or smart folders.
- Makes your iPhoto slimmer and faster.
- Only uses standard Apple features and API’s. No hacking nor tampering with iPhoto system files.
- Free updates!
Popularity: 11% [?]
Video on iPhone 2G and 3G
Apple has enabled owners of its older 2G and 3G handsets to record video by admitting the new iVideoCamera app to the iTunes store. [as well as the UStream Broadcaster app for 3G handsets - update at foot of post]
Users can now legitimately record, share and save videos without having to ‘jailbreak‘ their handsets.
As reported on the Apple Blog, the app comes in at only 99 cents in the US store, and has similar entry-level pricing in other iTunes stores around the world.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Music Rescue – 4.0.9
Disaster Insurance
Your music library is precious. It contains all those memories of your youth, or that first dance. With an iPod, it helps you work out, keeps you company when you drive and drowns out that noisy train ride into the city. Unfortunately, your music library is fragile. If your computer dies and takes your music with it, you still have your iPod, right? However, iTunes only lets you transfer tracks bought from the iTunes Store back to your new/fixed computer. What about those tracks ripped from CD, or lovingly recorded from your vinyl collection?
Enter Music Rescue – the answer to your nightmare. Music Rescue will copy your music, video, podcasts, audiobooks, audio recordings and notes right back to where they came from, be it iTunes, a custom media server or anything else.
Check it out here: kennettnet.co.uk
Popularity: 5% [?]
Mozilla Firefox – 3.6 beta 4
Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.
- Changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
- The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
- More than 140 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
- This beta is available in more than 60 languages – get your local version.
- Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
- Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
- Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
- Support for the WOFF font format.
- Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
- Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Popularity: unranked [?]
20 Useful Tips, Tricks and Features in Mac Os X 10.6
1. Synchronizing the contacts with your iPhone and Mobile Me was possible in Leopard. Now you will be able to sync your Gmail and Yahoo address books so you can talk to your contacts and get the contact info. Go to the Contact preferences, click the Accounts tab and then click the Accounts tab. Press the configure button and follow the instructions provided.
2. Showing the date in the menu bar can prove to be useful sometimes and it can be done as simple as entering the “Date and Time Preferences†menu and adjusting the settings.
3. Text substitution and auto-correct. When entering text in applications such as Text Edit, Mail, and iChat, you can turn to the build in auto-correct and text substitution tools for a better and faster experience. Text substitutions macros that you can enter and the software will self type a longer phrase (you can define the macros and phrases from the “Language and Text Preferences†window). Control + click in the text entry field for turning these features on or off.
4. Password Delay. If your computer is password protected, when it goes to sleep for a certain time, Snow Leopard will ask for the password. Enter the Security Preferences panel to edit how long the computer has to be in sleep mode before asking for the password. This can prove a quite useful feature.
5. Google and Yahoo calendars. If you have something planned on your Google or/and Yahoo calendars, it can be a good idea to import them into Snow Leopard. Add a new account under the iCall preferences, select the server and you are done.
6. QuickTime X movie editing. Now you no longer have to buy the QuickTime Pro application to be able to edit and convert videos. This can now be done without any fee in QuickTime X. The editing is limited, but sometimes you don’t need more.
7. Upload YouTube clips from QuickTime X. If you want to upload a clip to YouTube, open a video with QuickTime X and press Share on the menu bar. The same menu will enable you to upload movies to MobileMe and convert movies so you can send them to iTunes.
8. Video capture with QuickTime X. You don’t need any other application to capture video from the iSight camera, a FireWire camera or an audio input of your choice. You can also choose to record your screen and save it as a movie.
9. Drive Eject Improvement. Snow Leopard will give you tell you what application is using the drive so you can’t eject it. This is way better than the “busy†warning in Leopard.
10. Recover Trashed Files. In Snow Leopard, the trash will look more like Windows’s Recycle Bin, meaning you can simply click “Put Back†to restore the item to its original location. This beats dragging the file to its location like you had to in Leopard.
11. Time-Zone Detection feature. No matter where you may be in the world, Snow Leopard can detect your location via Wi-Fi hotspots and adjust the clock and the time zone to match your movement.
12. Chinese Characters. Snow Leopard allows you to use the trackpad to enter Chinese characters into a text application by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Space.
13. Quick Shift to 64 bits. Pressing the 6 and 4 keys at the startup, Snow Leopard will start in 64 bit mode. Some applications will run faster, but it may be possible to lose some support. In any case, an interesting shortcut.
14. Mail Event Invitations. When you receive a mail from a friend that invites you to a certain event, giving you the date, iCal will be able to create a new event on your calendar by putting together the information from the message. Thus, you event will automatically show the date and the location if you accept the invitation.
15. Sticky Notes Shortcuts. Probably as a reply to Windows 7’s sticky notes, Apple managed to improve what Microsoft first brought on the market. The cool thing is that you can assign a keyboard shortcut for creating a sticky note with the text you have selected. Quite nice. To set the shortcut, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard).
16. Zoom by touching the pad. A cool feature is that you can make the desktop icons bigger or smaller by pinching the trackpad. If you extend, it will zoom out, if you pinch, it will zoom in. Very fast and very useful when your desktop gets too crowded.
17. Preview Image Importing. There is no need to go to the Image Capture screen just to import photos and edit them. With Snow Leopard, this can be done from the Preview.
18. Quick uppercase/lowercase morphing. When entering text, you can go to edit->Transformations to make the selected text appear in uppercase or lowercase entirely. Another option will capitalize the first letter of each word you selected (useful when writing headlines).
19. Trim Silent Parts. When editing video with QuickTime X, you have the option to select the silent parts from a video and trim them. A nice trick if you like spying on people
20. Open 3D .dae files from preview. Preview brings a fast way of zooming rotating and viewpoint playing animations. You can also print the image out from Preview.
There you go. There are a lot of new features, and a lot more tips and tricks, but these are the most important ones in Snow Leopard.
Popularity: 7% [?]
HandBrake 0.9.4 adds 64-bit support in 10.6
HandBrake has released an update to its self-titled DVD ripping utility. Version 0.9.4 adds support for 64-bit operations for the Mac, including both Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. The 64-bit builds are said to perform approximately 10 percent better than the 32-bit equivalents. The software is also claimed to offer overall improvements in quality, which has been partially attributed progress made with the x264 project.
The latest version also allows users to add subtitle tracks that can be turned on or off, instead of rendering the words permanently into the video. Multiple subtitle tracks can also be included in the same output video.
Users can now test the software settings in a live preview before wasting time on a full encode. The software utilizes a new DVD library, allowing it to read some DVDs that had proven troublesome with the earlier version. Quality-based encoding now ensures that a minimum quality level remains constant, however the file size may be less predictable.
Popularity: 22% [?]
iPhoto 8.1.1 fixes Faces bug
From Yahoo:
On Tuesday, Apple released a minor update to its iPhoto ’09 ( ) digital photography software. The iPhoto 8.1.1. update deals with face-recognition performance and accuracy (to fix a problem introduced with the 8.1 update), book ordering, and iPod touch support.
For iPhoto’s Faces feature, the update resolves an issue that could result in slow performance when displaying suggested matching faces, as well as a problem with some faces being matched incorrectly.
Apple offers an extra bit of advice for those who’ve imported pictures using iPhoto 8.1:
Important: If you imported photos of people while using iPhoto 8.1, there’s an extra step you should take after installing the 8.1.1 update. Select all those photos, Control-click to open the contextual menu, and then choose Detect Missing Faces. This will redetect the faces in those photos and correct any face recognition issues introduced in iPhoto 8.1. You should not quit iPhoto during the Detect Missing Faces process.
The update also resolves an issue that caused book order panel information to be displayed incorrectly in some languages, as well as fixes a problem that caused the icon for iPod touch (2nd Generation) to display incorrectly in the source list.
Apple recommends all users of iPhoto ’09 install this update—although, to be honest, I’ve yet to see a software update that Apple didn’t recommended users install. The update is available via OS X’s Software Update mechanism or by visiting Apple’s support Website.
Popularity: unranked [?]
Uploading photos from iPhoto
In Leopard and Snow Leopard there’s an easy way to upload your photo’s to websites or online emails such as Gmail or Yahoo. Back in the old days you used to move the photos to your desktop, then upload. Now, just scroll down on the left side of your finder window to the Media section and choose Photos. You will be able to view your iPhoto Library just like in iPhoto.
Popularity: 7% [?]