portenkirchner.net » Macintosh http://portenkirchner.net porti's island in the net Wed, 19 May 2010 12:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MischMasch 2008-05-23 http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/23/mischmasch-2008-05-23/ http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/23/mischmasch-2008-05-23/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 21:26:12 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/23/mischmasch-2008-05-23/ Webmonkey was a useful resource for web developers. Back in the ninetees it was started as part of HotWired that was acquired by Lycos in 1999. For a long time it was nothing more than an archive. Now Webmonkey is back, relaunched by Wired based on MediaWiki, making Webmonkey a collaborative project. (Via Jeffrey Veen)

Techmeme, the tech web site aggregating blogs and other news sites, has finally added search.

The New York Times released the beta version of Times Reader for the Mac, a programme with the ability to view the paper offline and with less ads than the web version. Times Reader for the Mac demands the installation of Microsoft Silverlight. So far the reactions are not very positive and there is a lot of criticism on the the use of Microsoft Silverlight.

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/23/mischmasch-2008-05-23/feed/ 0 MischMasch 2008-05-14 http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/14/mischmasch-2008-05-14/ http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/14/mischmasch-2008-05-14/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 21:16:05 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/14/mischmasch-2008-05-14/ Vidlink is a new app by Google, which lets you record movies and upload them to YouTube using the Mac’s built-in camera or many Firewire or USB video cameras. It supports importing videos from other programms too. (Via Official Google Mac Blog)

Apple has three new Get a Mac ads: Group, Pep Rally and Sad Song.

There is a new iPhone interface for Google Reader at http://www.google.com/reader/i/. (Via Official Google Reader Blog)

Google Maps have now two more options, which can show geo-tagged photos provided by Panoramio or geo-coded Wikipedia articles on maps.

Jeremy Keith liveblogged some talks of this year’s XTech conference.

Eye-Fi, the line of WiFi enabled SD cards, added a new member to the family, a card geotagging photos using WiFi triangulation, just like the iPhone and iPod Touch. (Via JeffCroft.com)

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2008/05/14/mischmasch-2008-05-14/feed/ 0 MischMasch 2007-11-13 http://portenkirchner.net/2007/11/13/mischmasch-2007-11-13/ http://portenkirchner.net/2007/11/13/mischmasch-2007-11-13/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:12:13 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2007/11/14/mischmasch-2007-11-13/ There are three new Get a Mac ads: Boxer, Podium, and PR-Lady.

Andy Baio, the founder of Upcoming, that now is part of Yahoo!, is leaving to concentrate on Waxy.org

An article in the New York Times about microblogs, especially Twitter and Tumblr.

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Finally it is official: Apple will ship Mac OS Leopard on Oktober 26th. It will have more than 300 new features.

The iPhone in the UK. The iPhone in Germany. And now the iPhone in France: It will be available November 29th and the carrier will be Orange.

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