Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Firefox 1.0 final released: "The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 1.0, the much anticipated final release of the alternative Web browser..." (Via MacMinute.) 6:46:00 AM

Apple outlines mobile strategy at CTIA conference: "Apple's Senior Director of Product Marketing for QuickTime and Graphics, Frank Casanova, recently gave a feature presentation at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2004 conference in San Francisco, Calif. Apple has now posted Casanova's presentation online in QuickTime and MPEG-4 format. Casanova's presentation provides illumination about Apple's strategy for winning a place in the burgeoning mobile multimedia marketplace as a core provider of software and hardware services to content providers, content delivery companies and handset makers." (Via MacCentral.) 6:38:49 AM

Matrix Metering with Digital: "About 18 months ago, I wrote about the problems that come with matrix metering. By evaluating multiple segments of a scene and making exposure decisions for you, matrix steals a degree of control from you. You never really know just how smart it is, what it has taken into account or what it thinks is important. Thus, I've always greatly preferred spot metering. Well, it's time to modify my stance a bit...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 6:36:49 AM

Remotely kill the QuickTime pop-up registration window: "If you administer several Mac OS X 10.3 machines, then like me, you probably ssh in and use the command line to get OS updates like such: $ sudo softwareupdate -i -a; sudo diskutil repairPermissions / Briefly, that ent..." (Via Mac OS X Hints.) 6:33:40 AM

Toshiba withdraws from Digital Camera Market: "Steve's Digicams writes: 'I just had it confirmed via telephone with a Toshiba representative that as of March 2004 Toshiba was officially out of the digital camera business. Nice of them to tell us or their customers - that..." (Via Digital Photography Blog.) 6:33:28 AM

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