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17 aug. 2006

@apple@

A blog full of Leopard screenshots [via] (what? no, of course we’re not done with that!) that will probably have disappeared before I get to publishing this post (what kind of idea is that, putting that up on Blogger? do you really expect them to resist Apple’s lawyers?): weirdly-styled Preview inspector, Undo Close Tab in Safari (at last!), weird Exposé and Spaces icons (which might only be active on beta versions, I don’t know), and… a 512-pixel Safari icon. Adding to that Iconfactory’s statement to the effect that they don’t want to violate their NDA but huge icons are closer than ever, I might finally begin to believe that resolution independence might actually be coming as soon as Leopard.

 

@apple@

PodTube [via] gets a YouTube video and converts it to iPod- and iTunes-compatible .mp4 format. There already were websites helping you download the raw YouTube videos, but then you had to figure out what to do with those .flv files (even VLC seems to have problems with them). This is much simpler.

iGetMovies on the same page, is supposed to save QuickTime movies straight to your desktop even when they are save-disabled, but doesn’t seem to like my setup.

 

@games@

Gridwars [via]: a Geometry Wars clone running on Windows, OS X and Linux. I’d wondered why everyone seemed so hooked on Geometry Wars, which looked so primitive and uninspiring for a 360 game; now I understand a bit better — but this thing seems to be pretty much unplayable without a console controller.

 

@games@

Valve Studio Tour: Portal is, indeed, a separate game.

One of these days, I’ll have to find an opportunity to try out Half-Life 2 for a minute, though. It’s a bit of a classic, isn’t it?

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