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Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Office, Microsoft

Goodbye Entourage, Hello Outlook for Mac

Well, it was bound to happen! During a press call today, the Microsoft Business Unit announced that they are working on a version of Microsoft Outlook for Mac OS X. The news comes in tandem with Microsoft providing further details about the next major release of Office for Mac.

Microsoft's Business Unit says the new application, which will replace Entourage when it is released in 2010, will contain a number of great features that will allow "increased productivity across platforms." Some of the highlights include:
  • Built on Cocoa. The application is being constructed from the ground up on Cocoa to make integrating with Mac OS a lot easier.
  • New Database. A high speed file-based database with support for backing up files with Time Machine and Spotlight searching.
  • Information Rights Management. Helps prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have permission.
Outlook for Mac is being built on top of the features released today in the Entourage Web Services Edition including faster syncing and more support for Exchange servers. (If you're a current Entourage user, you can download the Web Services Edition here.)

With the release of OS X 10.6 right around the corner and promising native support for Exchange servers, it's funny to see Microsoft finally waking up and realizing they have got to do something to stay competitive.

Filed under: Developer, Open Source, web 2.0

Cappuccino and Objective-J make for a tasty open-source web app framework

Web applications that function like familiar desktop apps are all the rage these days. Web apps already have the advantage of being accessible from everywhere, but add in a UI that works like something users already know, and you've got something pretty cool. Cappuccino is an up-and-coming way of getting this done, and the code is now all open-source. It's a framework for building apps like this using some tools that are already pretty standard on the web, like Javascript, combined with what's basically a port of Apple's Cocoa APIs, and tying it all together with a language called Objective-J.

Objective-J is to Javascript what Objective-C was to C. As the Cappuccino site puts it, "programs written in Objective-J are interpreted in the client, so no compilation or plugins are required." Beautiful. The developers are pretty clear that Cappuccino is just for apps, not for building websites with "dynamic content," or whatever the kids are calling it these days. Want to see Cappuccino in action? We've actually already reviewed the first great Cappuccino app, 280 North's excellent presentation software, 280Slides.

Filed under: Developer, Macintosh, Freeware

Schnippselchen: manage frequently-used code snippets

Schnippselchen code snippet managerSchnippselchen is a source code management app that lets software developers manage multiple types of code that may need to be reused. The program has a sidebar with a "Categories" section (helpful for separating code by language) and a "Snippets" section for the actual titles of your code snippets. So you could have a PHP category with five snippets of PHP code that run your LOLcats social-network site.

Syntax highlighting is supported for many languages and code types including CSS, Perl, Python, XML, Applescript, and SQL. There is also a "Go to Line" feature and the ability to comment on your snippets (so you can remind yourself what those C functions do).

Schnippselchen can run from a thumbdrive (or iDisk) because your snippets are stored in the .app package; keep this in mind if you remove or update the program.

[Via i use this]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source, Browser Tips

Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 now available

Firefox 3.0Hot on the heels of 2.0, the Firefox team have posted the first Alpha release of Firefox 3.0, "Gran Paradiso". Some of the new features include the use of Cairo as the graphics library, Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS X, and improved SVG specification compliance. Builds are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Before reporting any bugs, make sure to check the Known Issues list, and happy testing!

[Via TG Daily]

Update: As Stuart Parmenter points out in the comments, this is not Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1, but a build of Gran Paradiso using Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 - the rendering engine behind Firefox. My apologies!

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