Well, Apple has finally decided enough is enough, and publicly sent another Salvo towards Adobe’s broadsides…. Â And Adobe might just be happy about this one. Apple makes hardware video decoding available to developers In 10.6.3, Apple has now made a new “Video Decode Acceleration Framework” available. Â What does that mean? Â Adobe’s number one reason why […]
The register is discussing a study that claims that Steve Jobs was wrong, when he stated: Adobe Flash is Buggy Littered with Security Holes and is a CPU Hog According to tests from the Streaming Learning Center – an online media consultancy that conducts public seminars on the delivery of net video – Flash is […]
Well, if it isn’t one thing, it has to be another…. I’ve been suffering with these errors for a while, and I think I just stumbled upon the trigger… 3/9/10 12:37:56 PM [0x0-0x206e06c].com.ranchero.NetNewsWire[97172] Tue Mar  9 12:37:56 dhcp105-37 NetNewsWire[97172] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window Here’s the thread I just found kCGErrorIllegalArgument errors with Camino 2.0.1.  And […]
Why do installers often ask you to close all your applications before installing a new software package? Â Does it actually matter whether you have open applications when installing new software? It seems the norm these days is for installers/setup programs to request that you close all open applications before initiating the install process for […]
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Here’s a discussion from an Adobe Flash Player engineer, regarding the Macintosh support of Flash, and how Adobe is trying to improve the their Macintosh Support… kaourantin.net: Core Animation.
News Flash…. News Flash…. Researchers on Wednesday published a technical paper in the journal Advanced Materials that describes a solar cell made of abundant materials with relatively high efficiency. The cell can convert 9.6 percent of solar energy into electrical energy, a 40 percent boost over current methods. What makes this more remarkable is that […]
Ars Technica’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks…  He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews… The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company then known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big […]