TagsTagsHerman Cain has launched a website called "CainTruth.com," along with a series of Google advertisements promoting it (they've appeared here at LGF, because Google Adsense serves ads based on keywords in the page's text). CainTruth.com is apparently dedicated to attacking and smearing the women accusing him of sexual harassment, and the ...
Herman Cain, Sexual Harassment, Scandal, Pseudo-Science, Software, Idiocy
MacWorld has a live feed from Apple's WWDC keynote address; some pretty cool software announcements coming today, including iCloud and the new version of Mac OS, dubbed "Lion:" Live Update: WWDC keynote address.
The new feature of the day is an option for registered users to subscribe to a thread of comments, but only receive replies to your own comments. At the bottom left of the comment posting form is a pop-up menu that displays these choices: Not subscribed is the default state. You won't ...
Comments, Email, Software, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs, Tech Note
Registered LGF readers have a new way to keep track of comments: you can now subscribe to an email list for any thread of comments (either a front page article or an LGF user's Page), simply by clicking a checkbox. Any thread that allows comments now has a checkbox to ...
Comments, Email, Software, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs, Tech Note
I have a coding project today: I'm adding an often-requested feature to the LGF Blog that will let registered users choose to receive any new comments posted in a thread via email. This will make it easier to keep track of comments for any threads you're interested in, or any ...
Comments, Email, Software, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs, Tech Note
The new version of the best Javascript library on the web is now available: jQuery 1.4. Resig and his posse are claiming significant performance improvements. After testing with the plugins used by LGF I’m going live with the new version. The only problem I encountered was with BlockUI, which the LGF Blog ...
The curvaceous top of the mouse is a multi-touch surface.Apple’s new Magic Mouse is a very nice mousie indeed. No obvious buttons, no scroll wheel, just a sleek multi-touch surface and some groovy new software that lets you scroll with momentum — similar to the way scrolling works on an ...
Review, Computers, Mouse, Magic Mouse, Amazon, Snow Leopard, Software, mac os x, Apple, Gross Finger Oil
Took the plunge and installed the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, and it went off without a hitch. I had to upgrade three utilities to the latest versions: Snapz Pro X, Default Folder X, and Little Snitch. Apart from that, everything seems to be working beautifully. Yes, I ...
TidBITS has a couple of good articles on the new features — some of them hidden — in the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard: What’s New in Snow Leopard More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard
The latest version of Mac OS X (10.6), Snow Leopard, was released into the wild today as announced earlier this week. My copy is scheduled to arrive Monday so I can’t give you a review yet, but here’s a MacWorld video showing some new features that may not be obvious ...
Apple’s latest performance-oriented version of OS X (10.6), Snow Leopard, will be released ahead of schedule this Friday, August 28, 2009. I’ve already pre-ordered mine, after getting enthusiastic thumbs-up reviews from developer pals with pre-release versions: Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Amazon now has Mac OS X Snow Leopard available for pre-order; the upgrade price if you’re already using Leopard is a very reasonable $29. Apple has announced it will be available sometime in September. Snow Leopard doesn’t add a lot of new features; the emphasis with this new version of the ...
A day after a major security issue was annnounced in the iPhone 3.0 software, Apple has released version 3.0.1: Apple Fixes Serious iPhone SMS Attack. The SMS-based attack described at the Black Hat security conference allows a bad guy to gain complete control of an iPhone by sending a barrage of ...
There’s a new release of Safari 4 (4.0.2) featuring improved stability in the “Nitro” Javascript engine and “the latest compatibility and security fixes” according to Apple: Apple - Downloads - Application Updates - Safari. I have been noticing some Javascript problems with the release version of Safari 4 - sometimes the ...
Apple’s recently-released Safari 4 web browser features a major update to its developers’ tools, and if you have anything to do with designing websites you’ll find some of these new abilities very handy. You can inspect the HTML structure of the page and alter CSS properties on the fly, profile ...
Apple, mac os x, Software, Safari, Web Browser, Javascript, Debugger, Developers
The latest version of the iPhone operating system is now available with some big enhancements. To install the latest version connect your iPhone to the computer, launch iTunes, click on your iPhone in the Devices menu in the sidebar, and use the “Check for Update” button in the iPhone’s ...
Apple’s WWDC conference keynote speech is due to begin at 10 am Pacific time, and it’s being liveblogged at Engadget and Gizmodo. (Looks like Gizmodo’s page is Ajax-driven for auto updates...) Apple’s expected to announce new versions of the iPhone, the new iPhone OS 3.0, and possibly the latest upgrade to ...
OK, so I upgraded to Adobe’s latest version of the Flash plugin recently, version 10. Big mistake. My Intel Mac desktop machine promptly started getting very cranky. Safari slowed down. Video playback was jerky and slow. Other applications were affected too; the excellent utility Keyboard Maestro became almost unuseable, it was so ...
Apple users: run, don’t walk, to your Software Update application and grab the latest update to Mac OS X, with important security enhancements: Apple Unveils Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Safari Updates. The security update for the beta version of Safari 4 is available at the Apple website: Apple - Safari ...
The last official beta version of Firefox 3 is out, it’s supposed to be even faster and most of the bugs are supposed to have been fixed, and it probably isn’t going to change too much more for the final release: Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download.
The fourth beta version of Firefox 3 has been released, with significant speed improvements in its Javascript engine. I’ve been running some simple tests with LGF and it seems to be about twice as fast at some important Javascript operations—for example, looking up page elements by their ID attributes. ...
Let’s have a moment of silence, please, for the demise of Netscape Navigator. The first browser I ever used. Sob. I’ll miss ... actually, no, I won’t really miss it. It birthed the web as we know it. But February 1 marks the demise of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial web ...
In a development that will affect the blogosphere in mysterious and untold ways, the Movable Type blogging application has gone open source.
LGF, Blogosphere, Movable Type, Open Source, Software, Technology, Internet