NCX is an application designed by Simon Bell to mimic the original Newton Connection Utilities functionality in the pre-OS X days. As you can see from the home screen above, it offers tons of options for your Newton data, including backup, package installation, Newton Works import and export capabilities, and Mac keyboard functionality.
Being able to exchange data reliably with an OS X machine is the trickiest part about using a Newton these days.
David Watanabe, creator of the popular NewsFire RSS reader, has announced a new iPhone application called Ski Lodge ( iTunes Link). The application shows off his talent of making bold, sharp design choices, also seen in his other applications, Xtorrent, Acquisition, and Inquisitor.
NewsFire, while now free on the Mac, is expected to show up in the App Store at some point, based on a single teaser Watanabe posted on Flickr. Comments on the image show a strong desire among users:
That’s right, Google’s Little Browser That Could is out of beta, and strutting around town with an official 1.0 label.
Sporting some fancy tricks for Windows users, and based on Webkit, (like Safari, Opera and others) Google’s browser is growing quickly in usage, due to its speed and stability, but still only is used for roughly 1% of all browsing.
It’s hard to believe Chrome has only been out for a few months. PCWorld:
According to the latest smartphone sales numbers from Gartner and Display Search’s netbook sales numbers, 4.7 million iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008 while a whopping 5.6 million netbooks were sold in the same period.
The obvious question: Why this comparison was even made? Every netbook model out there made by dozens of companies outsold two models of the same smartphone- by one company.
Apple has released a slew of firmware updates for the new unibody MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops.
The EMI updater “fixes several issues to improve stability,” while the SMC updater “improves the sensing and accuracy of the MagSafe Power Adapter indicator light, and the battery charge indicator lights.”
As with any firmware updates, be sure to read the directions on how to run the update correctly.
Rob Enderle is a name in technology circles that most people have a strong reaction to. He’s an IT consultant for companies like Microsoft, Dell, Intel, GM, and Ford.
Enderle has recently been on a writing binge of anti-Apple stories.
Here’s one from TechNewsWorld:
Apple remains financially sound with massive reserves, but many of their products are out of line with these hard financial times, and while they likely do have a netbook coming, it will probably arrive too late to help 2008. On the other hand, Dell suddenly appears better positioned for the hard year ahead, with well-timed netbooks and the most aggressive customization program in the market.
Yes, you read that right.
First, some background from The New York Times:
Sun Microsystems and Rackable Systems were the first large hardware makers to embrace the idea of taking all of the servers, storage systems, networking gear and cooling and power units that make up a data center and packing them into a shipping container.
So, where does Dell fit in?
Microsoft has been the main advocate of containers, saying they will form the basis of its future data center designs. Some of Dell’s first containers will go to a new Microsoft data center near Chicago, according to Forrest Norrod, the vice president in charge of Dell’s Data Center Solutions business.
From the halls of a university research lab to the desks of hundreds of millions of computer users, the computer mouse has come a long way. Douglas Engelbart created the first prototypes of the now-familiar device in 1963 at Stanford Research Institute, but he first displayed his creation to the public in 1968 forty years ago Tuesday. During that unveiling, Engelbart presented what some have called “the mother of all demos,” outlining concepts that would presage the next 40 years of computing, including the use of a three-button palm-sized contraption called a “mouse.“
We’re not exactly sure if this is one of the worst marketing ploys ever, or one of the best. All we know for sure however, is that you can bet the bank that you will definitely find an MS DOS shirt added to our wardrobe once this new line kicks off. You hear that Microsoft? Hook it up! Microsoft is reportedly turning to seasoned ad vet Crispin, Porter & Bogusky to help it launch a line of graphic tees brilliantly dubbed “Softwear by Microsoft”. Cute.
If you have the iPhone 2.2 operating system, you can turn off the auto-correction entirely. But that will make things ducking inconvenient, though. The auto-correction in the iPhone is what makes the touchscreen usable and fast when it’s time to write an email or SMS.
Fortunately, TJ Luoma has had a great idea to fix it: You only need to load your favorite swear words as contacts. Remember to put them all in lowercase, and every time you write duck or ducking or motherduckers, the iPhone will not try to correct them.
Ning, the build-your-own-social-network company posted this today on their blog:
We architected Ning so many diverse types of social networks could create their own social space and this is still one of the proudest achievements we have of the service today. It’s from this foundation that we’ve seen Ning grow to hundreds of thousands of social networks and millions of users around the world.
Therefore, the decision we’re announcing today to discontinue our Red Light District is a tough one. However, from a practical perspective, this difficult decision is the right one.
I was poking around Apple’s site, and came across their Public Relations page. It’s not that exciting, really. Just info that gets spun into countless blog posts across the Internet. The oldest release I could find was from 2000*, which is surprising, since the “PR Library” only links to releases from 2003 forward. One thing I found interesting was the last paragraph on the releases from 2000. Remember, this is a year before OS X was released: