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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.
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"Speaking at FlashForward, an annual conference for developers who work with Macromedia's Flash format, Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch said the company would begin soon by offering optimizations to allow Flash MX, its main set of tools for creating Flash content, to work smoothly with Wine, an emulation program that allows Windows programs to run on a Linux PC. Depending on developer interest, the next step would be to produce Linux-native versions of Flash MX and other applications.
"What we've been investigating is, When will it be time to bring our tools to Linux?" Lynch said. "I think it might be happening now." "
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"SWF Movie Player is a free, small and streamlined Flash movie player for Mac OS. Based on the standard Macromedia Flash player for Mac OS X, SWF Movie Player by Eltima Software offers advanced and unique features that allow you to play, rewind, fast-forward and preview SWF files frame-by-frame, and also create and manage playlists, zoom movies in and out, fit to current window size or restore to original one, set playback quality, control Flash security, check SWF file's comprehensive information and lots more."

"Earlier this week, Adobe commented on its plans for supporting Apple’s Intel Macs. While the company initially only released its plans for the Creative Suite and Lightroom applications, Adobe on Wednesday offered further details on some of its other applications, including those recently purchased from Macromedia. [...] Customers of Macromedia applications recently obtained by Adobe are not being left out in the cold. Macromedia applications that Adobe is evaluating for Intel support include Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Basic, Fireworks and Contribute."

"[email protected]: Let's start with the basic question: What was the primary motivation behind the acquisition of Macromedia?
Chizen: Flash.
[email protected]: That simple?
Chizen: The combination of [Acrobat's] PDF [file format] and the Adobe Reader with Flash's SWF [file format] and the Flash Player enables us to create an "engagement platform." Think of it as a layer or a vehicle in which anybody can present information that could be engaged with in an interactive, compelling, reliable, relatively secure way -- across all kinds of devices, all kinds of operating systems."

"There's been a counter on Apple's iTunes Web page since early February that's been ticking up to the music service's 1 billionth download, and sometime last night it happened."

I want to buy a new laptop and it will be powered by a dual-core Intel engine (see video). Yes, a Macbook Pro... but honestly, I'm not sure... ! 2 699 € ! Please add comments to help me taking this decision !

Link. Via slashdot. Related post at slashdot: " Financials Indicate Microsoft Prepping for War".

"Last week, while Microsoft was preparing to announce its Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, CNET obtained an early alpha developer's release of Apple's new Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. While it is grossly unfair to compare a feature-complete operating system from Microsoft with an early build of a new operating system from Apple, we couldn't resist."

"Advancing the world's most advanced operating system"

"Greenpeace has produced a fake Apple site that berates the company for its failure to do more to protect the environment. It says: "A cutting edge company shouldn't be cutting lives short by exposing children in China and India to dangerous chemicals.""

"A total of 15 security vulnerabilities are fixed in the update, which is available on Apple's Downloads page or through its Software Update service. The update fixes flaws in certain features of Mac OS X and Safari, but also Adobe System's Flash Player."

"The quad-core Apple Mac Pro has set new records in PC Pro's benchmarks, in the UK's first independent speed test of the latest Intel-based Mac. The Mac Pro is fitted with two of the top-end workstation-orientated Xeon CPUs. This effectively makes it a quad-core machine, and it's fabulously fast for CPU-intensive tasks, as long as the application in question is able to use them all."

"ANYONE SHOPPING for a new computer in the next six to twelve months is going to have one big headache facing them. (Except for the Mac people, who are happy to buy Macs regardless what is going on in the world). For the "rest of us" – the 90 percent of us that buy PC-based hardware (Well, I could say that's all of us, since the Mac people are buying simplified PCs with better looking cases and a different operating system, but the Mac people would argue not), there are tough choices ahead. If you want to stay on the leading/bleeding edge, Windows Vista will allegedly/supposedly be available in January 2007 and might show up installed on "Windows Vista" optimized configurations around that time or shortly thereafter."

"For every Apple product we see on the shelves, there are dozens that never make it to production. Sometimes, these rare gems surface on the web for us to take a look at, and ponder what might have been. Scouring through the interweb, I've compiled this list of 5 Apple products that only the most hardcore of hardcore MacAddicts have ever stumbled across."