Mark Shuttleworth addresses a range of interesting things in a recent interview, but there are two, in particular, that strike me. First, Mark acknowledges the obvious: The Mac is a better usability experience. Second, however, while placating his upstream developer communities, he also notes that improving on their work is …

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Things have been quiet from MySQL over the past month or so, but today’s Wall Street Journal has an awesome interview with Sun’s Marten Mickos, perhaps the most quotable technology executive on the planet.

I really like how he speaks through community (how to provide incentives, what to …

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Much as I like the idea behind OpenOffice, I’ve never particularly liked the reality. Until now.

As a Mac user, I’ve long relied on Patrick Luby and the NeoOffice team to deliver the power of OpenOffice in a Mac-friendly UI (the native version of OpenOffice has always required the ugly and clunky X11). This day, however, I downloaded OpenOffice Aqua Beta, and find that my old complaints are just that…old.

One of my biggest peeves? OpenOffice for Mac used to lack embedded video support. Not anymore. I was easily able to drop my favorite video clips into a presentation I had just converted from PowerPoint.

The conversion? Perfect. While I doubt OO.org will be able to perfectly convert all of my files, I don’t really anticipate it to do so: Ever tried converting your files between different versions of Microsoft Office? Good luck on finding perfection.

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Filed under: World wide web, Internet Tools, Mac 101

How did we ever get buy without tabbed browsing? Think back to the days of OS 9 and IE 4. Ugh.

JimD at creativebits has shared a cool trick (Firefox and Safari) for swiftly returning to a previously visited website in a new tab, thus preserving the site you’re currently browsing.

This got us thinking of some of our favorite browser tricks, like this one. If you’ve got several tabs open, you can move from one to the other with keyboard shortcuts. In Firefox, it’s Command-Option plus the arrow keys. In Safari, it’s Command-Shift plus the arrow keys.

Quickly jump to the address field with Command-L (both Firefox and Safari). It selects the full text, so you can either just begin typing or hit Command-C to replicate the url. Of course, Safari 3 lets you grab Web Clips and turn them into Dashboard widgets.

Have you got a favorite browser trick to share with newcomers to the Mac?

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OK. I can’t actually call it “Firefox” due to trademark concerns, but a colleague sent me this link to “Minefield,” which is a version of Firefox optimized for the Mac.

Is it any good? Well, according to one user, “Starts up faster, scrolls smoother, resizes windows smoother……

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After writing my rebuke of Sidux, I encountered an excellent post on a similar topic. Ryan Davis writes a cogent attack on software’s tendency to reinvent the wheel. I heartily advocate that you read it.

While Ryan’s critique lingers on open-source software, it’s by no means …

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Filed under: Freeware, Internet Tools

In the past we’ve covered the Mac application Television Shows, which automates starting bittorrents for tv show episodes. Sadly, it hasn’t been updated in a while (though the main page still promises an update soon). However, I recently ran across another application that works in a similar way called ted.

With ted you can select various shows, even see summaries of episodes, then send the torrents off your your favorite bittorrent client (e.g. Transmission). Unfortunately, ted is a cross-platform java application, but it should run fine on any modern Mac.

ted is a free download from sourceforge.

[via Gizmodo]

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Filed under: World wide web, Internet Tools, Beta Beat

The slowness of Flash has long been a complaint on the fairer platform and it finally looks like somebody at Adobe was paying attention. Adobe Labs has released a beta for Flash Player 10 and among the changes is a major speed boost. Indeed commenting on his personal site, one Adobe Flash engineer has gone so far as to say that “this version of the player runs… [the GUIMark] benchmark substantially superior on OSX than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3 times faster” (more details here).

Adobe Flash Player 10 beta 2 is a free download from Adobe Labs. However, they warn that previous version should be uninstalled before updating.

[via MacNN]

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