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/09/10/05/palm.spurs.open.source.apps.web.downloads/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/palmpre-applesm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Palm at a special event tonight staked out its differences with Apple by making key changes to its developer program. The smartphone developer is one of the first after Google to foster open development and said it will dismiss its usual $99 app submission fee for any developer whose webOS apps are open-source. Back end data on app downloads and other sales info will also be available to all dev... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/05/palm.spurs.open.source.apps.web.downloads/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/27/apple.sued.over.dmca.test/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0904/Apple-suedby-odioworks-27.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is in the middle of a new lawsuit that could test the limits of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The lawsuit was filed jointly by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and attorneys representing OdioWorks, the company that runs Bluwiki, a technology forum website that hosted iPodhash, which discussed use of open-source iPod technology. The lawsuit comes in response to Apple's demands that ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/27/apple.sued.over.dmca.test/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/01/oxtender.beta.launched/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0812/oxchange-isync-01.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Open-Xchange is now previewing an iSync connector for its open-source groupware suite, the OXtender for Mac OS X. The beta software allows Mac users to access Open-Xchange servers and groupware e-mail, appointments, documents, contacts and tasks through standard Mac OS X applications like Mail, iCal and Address Book. Using OXtender, groupware data can be accessed and edited within OS X application... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/01/oxtender.beta.launched/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/02/google.chrome.browser/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0809/gchrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google this weekend accidentaly leaked details -- via an online comic book -- on its upcoming cross-platform open-source browser: Google Chrome -- which it claims will deliver a streamlined and improved interface along with performance improvements and security enhancements; the new browser is based on both Apple's Webkit, the core of the Safari browser, and Firefox, the rapidly growing alternativ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/02/google.chrome.browser/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/05/unix.gui.updated/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/portauthority-2.6-05.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Code by Kevin has announced PortAuthority 2.6, an update to its graphical user-interface software for the MacPorts command-line tool for UNIX. MacPorts is an open-source community project that uses the Mac OS X command line, X-11 and Aqua software to bring UNIX to everyday users -- by providing a GUI for users seeking a simple interface over the command line complexity of MacPorts. Utilizing an ap... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/05/unix.gui.updated/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/26/openosx.grass.630/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/grasslogo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Coinciding with its seventh birthday, OpenOSX this week released its latest version of OpenOSX Grass 6.3.0. OpenOSX Grass is based on the longstanding open-source GRASS project (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), a geographical information system that combines 'raster, vector and geo-spacial processing engines into a unified software suite... allowing for the processing of satellite an... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/26/openosx.grass.630/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/10/google.offers.visigami/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0805/10-visigami-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google's Mac Team has released Visigami, an image search application and screen-saver. The open-source application, available under Apache license, can search from three different image sources, including Google Images, Picasa, and Flickr. From within the application, users can specify any image search query and images matching the search will start animating on the screen. According to the docume... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/10/google.offers.visigami/ Sat, 10 May 2008 23:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/09/openofficeorg.30.beta/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0805/9-openoffice3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The OpenOffice.org Community this week released a public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the open-source productivity suite for Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux. The beta release will be the first to run on Mac OS X without X11, but is primarily designed to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org: it is not recommended for production use, acco... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/09/openofficeorg.30.beta/ Fri, 09 May 2008 22:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/29/pooch.176.uses.open.mpi/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0804/29-pooch.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dauger Research has released version 1.7.6 of Pooch (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application) and Pooch Pro clustering software. The clustering technology now taps Open MPI, an open-source MPI implementation found Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" and formed through a partnership between academia, research, and the industry. Pooch merges a modern graphical user interface with supercomputer-comp... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/29/pooch.176.uses.open.mpi/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/20/handbrake.092/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0708/handbrake.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new version of the DVD ripping tool, HandBrake v0.9.2, has been released. HandBrake is open-source utility that converts DVDs into the MPEG-4 format. The new release incorporates many major and exciting changesóincluding full support for the AppleTV Take 2 and the latest iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. This release is only compatible with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5. Also included is support for Dolby Dig... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/20/handbrake.092/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:25:00 GMT