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Flickr Find: Macs in the 51st century
We’ve all heard that Macs retain their value for far longer than equivalent PCs, but who knew Apple keyboards would still be in use in the 51st century? On the most recent episode of Dr. Who, Silence in the Library (which hasn’t aired yet in the US, so I haven’t seen it myself) the good Doctor finds himself in the Library, which is a planet sized library, and he must help as only he can. Scattered across the Library are numerous Apple keyboards, as seen above. They don’t look too shabby for being over 3000 years old.
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Flickr Find: WebKit references Mac OS X 10.6
WebKit, the open source foundation that many Mac apps use to draw HTML, seems to be preparing for some kind of operating system update in the near future.
Intrepid Flickr user factoryjoe posted an image of a screenshot showing a recent WebKit nightly build. In the Frameworks folder inside the application package, there’s an alias named “10.6.” The alias points to the “10.5″ folder immediately above it.
What could this mean? Most likely, there’s a new release of the operating system on the horizon, and WebKit developers are ready to get cracking on it. The fact that the file is a symbolic link and not an actual folder could suggest that development is either very early on at this point, or web services for the next Mac OS X are very similar to Leopard’s.
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Flickr Find: 11,600 horizontal pixels of heaven
What you’re looking at is actually nine computers: five Macs, three PCs and one Linux machine. (Check out the Flickr page, to see what’s what.) According to its owner, it’s all driven with one keyboard and mouse, and switches seamlessly between machines. Incredible.
Thinking about the cable management for this thing makes my head hurt.
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Flickr Find: Twitter in Mac OS X developer tools
An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us — a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS X developer tools for Leopard. “Twitterverse,” when tweaked right, can be used as an OS X screen saver and display all of your friends tweets in a graphical way.
You can find this Quartz composition in the ~/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Compositions/XML/The Twitterverse/The Twitterverse.qtz. If you want to add it as a screen saver, just drag it onto the preview in the “Screen Saver” part of the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane (in System Preferences.app). You can then add your username / password in the screen saver options.
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Flickr find: 1Password icon shows up in the strangest places
If you’re an independent Mac software developer, having a wicked cool icon for your application is both a blessing and a curse. Users will remember you for the sleek, Leopard-ready goodness of your icon … and other unscrupulous marketers will rip you off shamelessly to promote their own products, rather than ponying up for an original design.
The all-time champion victim (self-reported) of icons ripped off is Panic’s Transmit FTP tool; the little truck shows up just about everywhere you could possibly imagine. New to the underground icon market, however, is the 1Password browser-key logo — it may make you think “Hey, I could drive Safari to the supermarket!” but apparently the makers of ProductKeyFinder, a Windows serial number app, found it too delicious to pass up. The purloined product identity is visible on PKF’s eBay sales page and on Flickr. It looks like the packaging has been updated (and the product renamed to Product Key Explorer), so this tale of icon swiping has a happy ending.
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