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August 11, 2005
MSN Messenger for Mac OS adds common features
As MacWorld reports, Microsoft has released a new version of its Instant Messenger for Mac OS:
Among other features, Messenger 5.0 now has tabbed browsing and users can simultaneously access corporate and personal Messenger accounts and set a unique user status on each. The personal tab allows users to instant message with friends and family, while support for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 enables enterprise customers to IM in a security-enhanced manner via the corporate tab with colleagues inside and outside the network.
About a week ago I saw screenshots of the upcoming Internet Explorer for Windows Longhorn, now dubbed Vista (if their lawyers can settle current law suits). It featured tabbed browsing and a couple of other enhancements known from open source browsers such as Firefox. It doesn't really surprise me that Microsoft follows a pattern of what it can do best: Let others invent something, watch how it goes, and once people like it and got used to it, snatch it.
Resources:
Firefox
MSN Messenger
Posted by Henning von Vogelsang at 06:21 AM | Comments (0)
Macromedia Freehand is the first to go
CNet reports:
FreeHand, Macromedia's popular illustration tool, has been omitted from the company's upcoming developer suite, dubbed Studio 8. Macromedia executives cited "extensive research with our customers" as the reason behind the decision, and not its impending acquisition by Adobe Systems--which current sells a competing product called Illustrator. Adobe announced in April that it would buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion. A Macromedia representative said FreeHand will be sold and supported as a standalone product for the time being.
The question I have is: Which one will they keep, GoLive or Dreamweaver? Personally, I have become accustomed to GoLive, only because it has a superior interface and richer functionality. But Dreamweaver is obviously the de facto choice among most web designers, especially beginners and those who like its workflow with Fireworks and Flash. I am curious what will be dropped next, despite Macromedia's efforts to proclaim it has nothing to do with its recent acquisition by Adobe.
Posted by Henning von Vogelsang at 06:00 AM | Comments (0)
August 10, 2005
Oxford Dictionary—Opinionated about twenty something bloggers?
The Oxford Dictionary is implemented in the current release of the Mac OS codenamed Tiger. It is using an odd line for an application example of the word blog in american english. Sure, it's just to show how it is used in a sentence. But how many will mistake this as an explanation? I don't know what they were thinking when they were adding this line. There are obviously better examples to choose from, hopefully considered for an updated dictionary.
The Oxford Dictionary: blog |bläg| noun a weblog : blogs run by twenty-something Americans with at least an unhealthy interest in computers.
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