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» .Mac becomes MobileMe

Yesterday at the WWDC08 Keynote, Apple announced its new online service that will replace the outdated .Mac. The new service is called MobileMe and is labled as "Exchange for all of us" and I think it really summarises up what it is. MobileMe features a remake of the old .Mac with a much nicer and cooler interface and with push-features as the main advantage point, perfect if you move a lot between different computers or computer and device. It’ll still cost you the "usual" $99/year but now with an increased value.

You can read more about it over on the Apple website.

» Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.3

Apple has announced the availability of Mac OS X 10.5.3 right now in Software Update. The update weighs in at a 420mb and features a lot of fixes. Among the updates are a few fixes for Time Machine and Time Capsule as well as updates to Spaces, Mail, iChat and a few others.

» Tuesday Stuff and Inspiration

It’s being a tough week with a lot to do (and by a lot I actually mean a lot) but there are small things that actually lifts the burden a bit and brings the happiness to the surface instead! One of these things are the message I had received on a forum today when I signed on thanking me for the tutorials available here. I’m very glad many of you find them useful and like them. I promise you there’ll be a lot more coming and I’m planning out some other surprises as well, so stay tuned!

View your sites in IE if you are on a Mac…

I was planning to post this yesterday but I forgot it only to be reminded today of it by a post on a forum I visit (can you tell I go to quite a few forums). Since Internet Explorer isn’t in at least any current versions available for the Mac, all us Mac users have trouble testing our websites using IE. Luckily there are a couple of solutions with these two being the best in my opinion.

•  One way of doing it is installing a copy of Windows using a virtualization program, such as VMware Fusion or Parallels. You can of course also install it using Boot Camp if you want. These will just enable you to power up your virtual machine or boot camp copy, and run the tests in IE. (This is where I find the virtualization programs to be much better since you don’t need to restart the computer.)
• Another way, the way I like much more and that is that you use one of the IE emulators available online. There are a plethora of them out there available and one of them that I use a lot is one called IE Net Renderer available at the link right here, online!

Some Tuesday Inspiration to last for the week!

It’s quite the beginning of the week and we might all need some inspiration to make it though, right Here’s a link to some great awesome photographers!

• Go and check out a very inspirational photographer, Anders Naesset who is an incredible landscape photographer with a lot of really wonderful photography from the country of Norway!
• Also check out one of my good buddies, Juha M. Kinnunen, also a landscape photographer from Finland who takes just breathtaking images. Go and visit his site now!

» Entering Banner Contest!

I decided to enter a swedish banner contest sponsored by Microsoft to promote the Office:mac 2008. If you want to go and vote for me, click here and then rate the banner you see from 1-5 where 5 is the highest The two highest rated each get an iPhone and so does the two Microsoft’s pick and the site editors two picks! So in total there is a full 6 iPhones in the run!