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Apple has seeded developers with a copy of the new Safari 4, which adds some new features and is based on a newer version of WebKit. Apple is also rumored to be using the SquirrelFish JavaScript engine which grants for faster Javascript processing.

New to this version of Safari is the ability to save webpages as “Web Applications.” This new feature allows Safari to save pages similar to the way Fluid does. You also have the ability to select how new windows will open (i.e. with your favorite bookmark, blank page, etc.).

One of the biggest “features” is the fact that Safari 4 (along with the new version of WebKit) scored a perfect 100/100 on the Acid3 test. If you are inclined to see what the new version looks like, World of Apple has put some screen grabs on their blog for your viewing pleasure.

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Adium has a sweet new beta version available this morning. If you don’t automatically see 1.3b2 when you check for updates, then make sure you’ve enabled “Update to beta versions when available” under the General tab in the Preference pane.

Several new features have been added, including:

• Enhanced psychic abilities — it opens a chat window as soon as a contact begins typing a message

• Filtered search in the Contact list

• Apple Address Book integration (access under Advanced tab in Preferences)

• Integration with Facebook chat (enable in the Accounts tab under Preferences)

• The latest Growl and libpurple updates

• Additional information (such as “Last Seen” and Apple Address Book notes) added to the Contact Inspector

Fixed issues include the linkification of enclosed URLs, a memory inefficiency, and a pesky tendency for shut chats to suddenly reappear. All told, there are more than 150 improvements and enhancements to Adium, one of the hardest working chat apps out there.

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Network World ran a series of independent tests and discovered that Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses 12 percent less power than Windows Server 2008. The greener operating system by a significant margin? Linux.

As with any benchmarking test, “your mileage might vary” but it’s consistent with other findings that Linux is the greener operating system….

Source:The Open Road

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(Credit: The Atlantic)

It’s not yet on the Web, but In the the July issue, The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” It’s a riff on Carr’s book, The Huge Switch (reviewed here), but covers new ground and has me worried. Carr writes:

The human brain is almost infinitely malleable…James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, states that even the adult mind “is very plastic…The brain…has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions.”

As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”–the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities–we inevitably start to take on the qualities of those technologies.

“Excellent!” you state, “Now I’ll be able to retrieve an infinite amount of information, like Google.” Maybe. Or maybe our capability to retain and process information will continue to dwindle. Remember books? Those were the things we read before e-mail, Web browsing, and Twitter came on the scene.

Talking of Twitter, am I the only one who views it as further evidence of a soundbite culture that struggles even to think beyond 140-character blips?

… Source:The Open Road

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Filed under: WWDC, World wide web Tools, Apple, Leopard, MobileMe

That was a heck of a way to start off WWDC 2008, don’t you think? Just in case you didn’t get a change to read all of our 40 or so posts this day, I thought I would highlight a few.

Be sure to check out our WWDC 2008 coverage page for lots more info.

The Stevenote

TUAW Meta-Liveblog of WWDC 08 Keynote: Our award winning coverage of other sites’ live coverage of the WWDC keynote

iPhone 2.0 firmware will ship in early July, touch users pay $9.95: iPhone users get the 2.0 firmware for free, while iPod touch folks have to pay Apple ten bucks.

iPhone 3G announced: Did you know Apple makes a phone? The new iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 3G, sports faster networking, longer battery life, GPS, and a flush headphone jack. All of that, and it costs much less ($199 for an 8 gig and $299 for the 16 gig model).

MobileMe announced: .Mac is dead, long live MobileMe. Well, at least that’ll be the case on July 11. The .Mac replacement offers up push email, calendaring, contacts as well as Web 2.0 apps for checking said things. It still costs $99 for an individual account and $149 for a family subscription (all subscriptions last for a year).

WWDC Reader Q&A Liveblog: You had questions, and we tried to answer them.

Apple posts video of WWDC 2008 keynote: Watch it in the comfort of your own Mac.

iPhone 3G

3G iPhone: What it means - a look at the hardware: Cory checks out what comes in the iPhone 3G box.

Where can I purchase an iPhone 3g?: Christina whipped up a very cool map showing you all the countries that Apple will be selling the iPhone 3G in.

AT&T talks iPhone 3G plans, apps: AT&T spills the beans about the new iPhone service plans (spoiler alert, they are more expensive) and speaks about the Yellowpages.com app they’re working on.

Confirmed: GoPhone is No Go and in-store Activation only: Erica confirms that the iPhone 3G will have to be activated in store, no more iTunes activations for you! Also, the GoPhone plan won’t be available for the iPhone 3G.

MobileMe

.Mac to MobileMe: what’s the deal?: Apple explains the transition from .Mac to MobileMe for current subscribers.

Get a $30 discount on MobileMe: A little bargain hunting never injured anyone.

What isn’t making the cut from .Mac to MobileMe: iCards will be no more. A nation mourns (or at least a WiFi expert does).

Snow Leopard (aka OS X 10.6)

Apple posts details about Snow Leopard: A press release details some of the features found in Snow Leopard.

Apple posts Snow Leopard website: Even more about Apple’s next cat.

Apple posts Snow Leopard Server information: Some information about the server flavor of Snow Leopard, which will include some very cool new features.

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(Credit: The Atlantic)

It’s not yet on the Web, but In the the July issue of The Atlantic has an exceptional and provocative article by Nick Carr, asking “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” It’s a riff on Carr’s book, The Big Switch (reviewed here), but covers new ground and has me worried. Carr writes:

The human brain is nearly infinitely malleable…James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, says that even the adult mind “is very plastic…The brain…has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions.”

As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”–the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities–we inevitably start to take on the qualities of those technologies.

“Excellent!” you state, “Now I’ll be able to retrieve an infinite amount of information, like Google.” Maybe. Or maybe our capability to retain and process information will continue to dwindle. Remember books? Those were the things we read before e-mail, Web browsing, and Twitter came on the scene.

Speaking of Twitter, am I the only one who views it as further evidence of a soundbite culture that struggles even to think beyond 140-character blips?

… Source:The Open Road

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Top News Archive - Yahoo! Finance

Journal of Computational Finance

FatWallet Forums - Finance

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NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: Services for nonprofits nationwide

California Department of Finance

International Education Finance Corporation

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One of my favorite open-source projects is Puppet, a system used to automate system administration tasks. Think BladeLogic or Opsware…at a fraction of the cost and, according to the Puppet team, at a significant performance and functionality boost. Leading organizations like Google, Stanford University, and more use Puppet.

OStatic talked with Reductive Labs, the company behind the Puppet project, and wrote a great article detailing its promise.

So what can Puppet do for you? It allows system administrators to write “recipes” that define machine functions and maintenance tasks that automate their routine work. Thinking along the lines of cloud or utility computing, Puppet grants you to manage a massive number of systems or virtual machines without doing manual labor or writing small one-off scripts…”The Puppet project was conceived when clouds were on the far horizon, but Puppet solves configuration problems that virtualization potentially multiplies,” stated [the Puppet team].”

In other words, as more services move to the cloud or to complex, virtualized environments, with higher server counts and an ever-increasing cost of downtime, a system like Puppet becomes critical plumbing.

I had the chance to talk with Reductive Labs’ founder, Luke Kanies, recently, and asked about Puppet’s/Reductive Labs’ mission. His answer?

… Source:The Open Road

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