http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/coverage.of.google.desktop.os.unveiling/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/googlechromeos.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google provided its first public details of Chrome OS at a special event today. Electronista supplied coverage of the just-ended even; all updates are listed in reverse chronological order. Among the news unveiled are the first public view of the OS, that there will be no beta today and that the platform is being open-sourced early as Chromium OS a year ahead of its planned late 2010 release.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/coverage.of.google.desktop.os.unveiling/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/flash.blocking.improved.with.new.features/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/caminosml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Camino Project has released an update to its self-titled browser for Mac OS X. Version 2.0 adds a tab overview feature that allows users to quickly browse all open tabs in a layout preview. Tabbed browsing has also been improved with drag-and-drop rearranging, a scrollable bar, and a dedicated menu listing all of the open tabs.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/flash.blocking.improved.with.new.features/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/software.to.run.html.and.protected.h264.video/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/silversml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft on Wednesday released an early beta version of the upcoming Silverlight software. Version 4 adds a variety of new features including the ability to integrate HTML content within applications, while Google's Chrome browser will also be supported. The company claims performance optimizations allow apps to start quicker and run up to twice as fast as they would with Silverlight 3.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/software.to.run.html.and.protected.h264.video/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/internet.explorer.9.still.early/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/ie9-pdc2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft on the second day of its Professional Developers Conference by providing an early look at Internet Explorer 9. The new browser is just three weeks into development but is already expected to significantly outperform its predecessor. The new version will take advantage of hardware acceleration from graphics chipsets that support D2D in DirectX to offload many of the visual elements of b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/internet.explorer.9.still.early/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/browser.long.missing.from.mac.platform/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/googlechrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google will finally release a public Mac beta of Chrome in early December, says a product manager for the browser, Neil Baum. A Google spokesman has meanwhile declined to offer a specific date, but does note that Baum's timeframe is consistent with promises to release beta software before the end of the year. Developer channel versions have been available since June, but are not recommended for ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/browser.long.missing.from.mac.platform/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/01/windows.share.drops.in.oct.despite.win.7/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/windows7ultimate-photo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The launch of Windows 7 in October did nothing to stop an increase in Mac share online, the latest data from Net Applications shows. Although the Microsoft OS was on sale for nine days last month, Windows' combined share of Internet traffic actually dropped to 92.52 percent while Mac OS X profited directly, reaching a new high of 5.27 percent. Windows 7 did gain share and represents 2.15 percent... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/01/windows.share.drops.in.oct.despite.win.7/ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/timeframe.suggests.accelerated.development/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/googlechrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Mac version of Chrome should be released before Christmas this year, suggests Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The executive made the revelation at a New York press conference, in the middle of answering a question about the browser's overall marketshare. Chrome's share has been disparaged by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who recently called the browser "a rounding error." Microsoft's Internet Explo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/timeframe.suggests.accelerated.development/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/01/netapplications.shows.mac.firefox.gains/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/snowleopard-reviewsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />More than a sixth of all Macs are already running Mac OS X Snow Leopard in just over a month of use, new findings from NetApplications show. On September 29th, the one month anniversary of the release, about 18 percent of all Macs tracked by the stats firm were using some version of Snow Leopard, or 0.91 percent of all computers.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/01/netapplications.shows.mac.firefox.gains/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/also.dismisses.safari.chrome/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/steveballmer-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Windows is regaining some of its marketshare, claims Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "Weíre gaining share. Apple is expensive," Ballmer says in a new interview. "And in tough economic environment, people get it. Their [Apple's] model is, by definition, expensive. And weíve actually held or maybe even gained just a tiny bit of share relative to the Mac in the last 12 months. And itís not really Snow... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/also.dismisses.safari.chrome/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/24/chrome.frame.doubles.security.risk.in.ie.ms/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/googlechrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The recently introduced Chrome Frame plug-in from Google that runs in Internet Explorer 8 has drawn criticism from Microsoft on Thursday. A spokesperson responding to a ZDNet query claimed that Chrome Frame is a security risk as it doubles "the attach area for malware and malicious scripts" by introducing a second web engine. Google's code is also alleged to be less secure than that for IE8 and t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/24/chrome.frame.doubles.security.risk.in.ie.ms/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:05:00 GMT