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On Thunderbird's Compose Window

Good write up on the Mozilla blog about updating the compose window and some of the things changing and being experimented with (and why).

We're currently exploring ways to relieve the pressure, and move on to a saner design for us. I've been working on an experiment that aims at tackling these pain points. It basically consists in replacing the standard XUL compose window with a tab written in XHTML that integrates CKEditor, and doing all the composition process in JS, upto the actual send that takes places in C++.

Ars Reviews iTunes 10

Ars Technica reviews iTunes 10.

Duke Nukem at PAX 2010

Sorry, but I will believe it when I see it on the shelves. Another year, another "Duke Nuke Forever is real!" report.

Wake me up when I can buy it and play it.

Websites For Scifi's Famous Evil Corporations

Nice gallery at IO9 of Websites for scifi's most famous evil corporations, based on real-life corporate websites.

Free Osmos iPhone codes up for grabs on Facebook

Looks like Hemisphere games is giving away Free Osmos iPhone codes on Facebook. Osmos, if you don't know is a very sweet iPhone game that I've blogged about before (and enjoy). Looks awesome on the iPhone 4, but also plays very well on the iPhone 3G.

Greatest geek moments from the 2010 Emmys

Great wrap up of the Greatest geek moments from the 2010 Emmys, which I managed to miss completely.

$0.01 iPhone Cases

FAQ), so it's not really that cheap, but still, a $4 iPhone case where they normally go for the $20-30 range? Hard to beat. Cases don't seem too bad either.

No shipping to Canada sadly, would love to get a review unit up here to see what they're like (hint hint) :)

Apple Keynote Stream Info and Workarounds

Macrumors has a good list of Requirements and Workarounds for the live Apple event that's happening today at 10. As you (as an apple fanboy) probably already know, this is the first time in ages that Apple has provided a live stream of a keynote, potentially putting an end to a fair chunk of the "live blogging" done by such sites as Engadget, GDGT, Gizmodo, etc. This isn't (yet) a crushing blow for it though because a) you can't scroll back a video to see what you've missed (well, you can, but not as easily as scrolling up a webpage to catch the highlights) and b) currently it's only streaming to apple devices (safari on OS/X and iOS devices).

Short story is there's not a simple hack like changing your browser ID string because the stream is using a technology called "live http streaming", which is a "standard" in that it's a standard, but only implemented so far in OS/X and iOS devices. So the live bloggers have another keynote at least.

Update: The workaround of using VLC seems to work nicely, just 'open network location' and paste in the URL. Right now the test URL is

http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8

You'll have to find the "real" URL for the keynote is though, probably on MacRumors or similar. I'll update here with the real URL when I find it.

Update: Here's a rebroadcast on ustream as well as a possible stream (doesn't work for me in VLC though). Best of luck to you guys though...

Unboxing and First Impressions With the Parrot AR.Drone

From Aryk - Unboxing and First Impressions With the Parrot AR.Drone.

WANT!

Flash on Android

Interesting video from Kevin Tofel of GigaOm.com who switched to a Nexus 1 from an iPhone, to see the Flash experience on Android. The tl;dr version is sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and if your claim to fame is "user experience", I can understand why Apple would be against putting it in iOS (even if they could just magically snap their fingers and have it work as well as it does on Android).

Ted Talk - 10 things you didn't know about orgasm

Old but good - Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm. Maybe a bit slow to start, but quite amusing.

Sept 1 Apple Rumor Roundup

9 to 5 Mac has a roundup of rumors for The Music Event 2010. Short story: iPod Touches, new touch screen Nanos, maybe iTV, and a few others.

BlueScreen Screensaver

Link to sysinternals' awesome BlueScreen screensaver. Via this story on DailyWTF.

Digg Update With A List of Upcoming Changes

Digg.com updated to the new v4 of it's software, and the masses cried and whined. Luckily they have A List of Upcoming Changes which will hopefully satisfy people.

Update: Kevin Rose also talks about the company and changes.

webOS 2.0 details

Some interesting stuff in the details for webOS 2.0. Some interesting stuff for sure, but I'm wondering where it will appear, and if whatever device(s) it's on have a chance of gaining market share, with or without the most awesome UI ever. As we've seen time and time again, the best does not always "win" :)