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/09/09/01/67tb.of.storage.for.7900/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/backblaze.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Backblaze is in the business of providing online backup service and, by extension, wound up in the hardware business. Upset with the high cost of storage devices, the company designed and built it's own 67TB storage modules for about $7867 (materials alone) each. Now, CEO Gleb Budman says Backblaze is giving away the design, hoping the open approach will lead to improvements or inspire a separate ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/01/67tb.of.storage.for.7900/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/06/microsoft.may.adopt.webkit/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0810/steveballmer.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft's well known Internet Explorer web browser may have an open source sibling on its way based on WebKit, of Safari and Google Chrome fame, if statements made by CEO Steve Ballmer are indicative. TechWorld writes that Ballmer, speaking in front of developers in Sydney, answered a question posed by a student, on why Microsoft insisted on dumping money into the rendering platform, rather than... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/06/microsoft.may.adopt.webkit/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/29/openmoko.explores.android/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/openmokoneofreerunner.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Open source handset manufacturer OpenMoko is expected to unveil plans to adopt the Linux-based Android as early as November, under an alleged project name called GTA02. AndroidGuys reports that the project will launch on a similar handset to the Neo FreeRunner, offering users a 400 to 500 MHz processor, with 128MB of SDRAM and 256MB of NAND Flash, as well as A-GPRS and a four-in-one "laser pen".... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/29/openmoko.explores.android/ Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/14/openoffice.30/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0810/14-oo-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />If you need an office suite for the Mac, your choices used to be limited to Microsoft Office 2008 or Appleís iWork. Unfortunately, neither option offered a complete solution. Office 2008 can share the latest file formats with Office 2007 for Windows, but the Mac and Windows versions of Office neither look nor work exactly alike. If youíre already familiar with Office 2007 on Windows, Office 2008 f... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/14/openoffice.30/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/30/java.art.app.and.updater/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/googleandroid-search.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google on Monday unveiled a new open source app called Update Engine to update its various Mac products, as well as Top Draw, a drawing application that constructs images based on JavaScript-based text files. Update Engine not only allows users to update their Google-designed Mac apps, preference panes, and screen savers, but also arbitrary files and root-level kernel extensions. Its open source n... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/30/java.art.app.and.updater/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/04/google.chrome.browser/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0809/4-chrome-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The latest entry in the browser wars is Googleís Chrome, an open source project with a special emphasis on speeding up JavaScript performance. Although a beta of the browser is only available for Windows (Mac and Linux versions are coming soon), the browser already promises a handful of features to separate it from its competitors.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/04/google.chrome.browser/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/02/samsung.sell.symbian.share/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nokian82black.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The last hurdle in Nokia's attempts to buy out the Symbian software firm and make it into an open source group has been passed, as Samsung accepted Nokia's offer to buy out its stake in Symbian, says a Tuesday report. Back in June, Nokia announced it would buy out the shares of the other shareholders for a total of $410 million and then make the Symbian cellular phone operating system open-source,... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/02/samsung.sell.symbian.share/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/26/celtx.screenwriter/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/26-celtx-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />If youíre interested in writing a screenplay, a teleplay, or a stage play, you could use an ordinary word processor. Unfortunately, each script style requires different page margins and formatting conventions. You could take the time to define these formatting styles yourself, or you could just use a special scriptwriting program that does this for you automatically. Rather than pay $200 or more f... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/26/celtx.screenwriter/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/android.and.htc.dream/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0808/googleandroid-bbc.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Android is allegedly closer to release than previously believed, according to one insider who foresees a September 17th, 2008 pre-order date. The news comes after many in the industry pushed the highly-anticipated Google-produced open source operating system back to 2009. T-Mobile is expected to see Android via the HTC Dream (G1), which will supposedly ship in white, brown, and black finishes, and... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/android.and.htc.dream/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/17/adeona.asset.protection/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/17-adeona-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A development team at the University of Washington recently unveiled Adeona ñ named after the Roman goddess of safe returns ñ Open Source security software that parallels functionality of paid services such as LoJack. The dev team claims that the software is privacy-preserving, in that no one other than the owner of the device can track a stolen computer through Adeona. Users are merely required t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/17/adeona.asset.protection/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:25:00 GMT