More specifically, the Mac maker has up and running in its labs several next-generation MacBook Pros that can switch between their integrated and discrete graphics processors automatically, according to people familiar with the matter.
Apple’s chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, according to two people briefed on the project.
The general rule of the internet, is to take everything posted on TechCrunch with a grain of salt, but they seem to believe that Amazon has a plan to give a free Kindle to every Amazon Prime customer. As someone who subscribes to Prime and doesn't own a Kindle, I hope they are right.
Now includes extensions and bookmark synching. I've been using the dev version of Chrome for Mac almost exclusively as my main browser for almost two months now.
Google launches Buzz today which is eerily similar to FriendFeed for those familiar with FriendFeed. For those that aren't, imagine Twitter and Facebook had a baby, add in location aware features and put it in front of GMail's millions of users, and you have Google Buzz. It will be rolling out to all GMail users over the next few days.
Learned about LESS yesterday, even for people who aren't CSS nerds (I'm not) this makes editing CSS a lot more powerful, and is definitely worth a look for every web developer. There is also a handy OS X app to accompany it.
Apple seemed to indicate it would respond with price cuts if demand for the device wasn’t revving up the way it liked.
Maybe all the naysayers who want to wait for the 2nd generation iPad were on to something.
Now it is working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Like a professional human interpreter, the phone would analyse “packages” of speech, listening to the speaker until it understands the full meaning of words and phrases, before attempting translation.
This is a logical step for Google, we'll see just how accurate it is, as Google Voice transcribing can sometimes be, imprecise.
HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.
While not the first attempt to compile PHP code, this comes from one of the largest companies utilizing PHP on the web, so it's one to keep an eye on.
Marco Arment:
The problem, of course, is that before day one, we won’t have iPads ourselves for development and testing.
Based on the state of the current release of the SDK, I don't think Apple will be accepting iPad apps into the store for day one launch.
The iPad is too different, and the day is too early, to make any sort of call on the success or failure of this thing.
I'll save my own review of the iPad until after I've had the chance to own one for a few weeks.
Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software.
Facebook has every reason to have a deep interest in PHP's speed. We'll find out what, if anything, they announce on Tuesday.
Daniel Tenner:
She doesn’t really need a computer in the same sense that I do, though. As a programmer, I need a machine that is powerful, that I can mess with under the hood, that I can do everything with. My mom needs a reasonably priced machine that Simply Works and does all those simple things that she wants to do when she’s at home.
There have been lots of words written about the iPad since its introduction, and if I were to write my own far reaching thoughts on the iPad, it would probably look something like this.
Rory Marinich:
Other companies are selling computers. Apple’s selling magic.
A hosted version of Drupal running on top of Drupal 7 — which is still on an alpha release — Drupal Gardens aims to make Drupal easy for the non-power users. Drupal Gardens hopes to have the service ready for prime time by the end of the year, and while it's not something I would personally use, it looks to be something I would be happy to recommend.