2012-07-12

This Is the Shadow of a Single Atom [Image Cache]

Gizmodo This Is the Shadow of a Single Atom [Image Cache]

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This isn't a wallpaper design from the seventies, or a close-up picture of the sun. Though it might look a little garish in orange, what you're actually looking at is the first ever recorded image of an atom's shadow. More »

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Developers suspect App Store mix-up led to corrupt binaries

AppleInsider Developers suspect App Store mix-up led to corrupt binaries

After some new app updates in the App Store and Mac App Store began mysteriously crashing on launch for a portion of users, a few developers have come to the conclusion that Apple accidentally seeded corrupt binaries of their apps.

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New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess With RNA

Featuring an array of clickable candy-colored pieces, EteRNA looks a little like the popular game Bejeweled. But instead of combining jewel shapes in Tetris-like levels, EteRNA players manipulate nucleotides, the fundamental building blocks of RNA, to coax molecules into shapes specified by the game.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/_klYL7Og4T4/

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How to move your Mac App bought from...: Apple Support Communities

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2736022

iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials

Bink.nu Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials prerelease is available for download.

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials (formerly Windows Small Business Server Essentials) is a flexible, affordable, and easy-to-use server solution designed and priced for small businesses with up to 25 uses and 50 devices that helps them reduce costs and be more productive. Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials is an ideal first server, and it can also be used as the primary server in a multi-server environment for small businesses.

Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials enables small businesses to protect, centralize, organize and access their applications and information from almost anywhere using virtually any device. Additionally, Essentials has the ability to grow as your business grows, providing an elastic solution that allows you to purchase and then perform an in-place conversion to Windows Server 2012 Standard if your business needs change over time.

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MVC extension : Mailto

The Code Project Latest Articles MVC extension : Mailto

Don't write your email in plain text when creating mailto-links

http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/420175/MVC-extension-Mailto

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MVC extension : SubmitButton

The Code Project Latest Articles MVC extension : SubmitButton

extension to create a submit button the clean way

http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/420182/MVC-extension-SubmitButton

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Tune In to the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012

Microsoft Research News and Highlights Tune In to the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012

Selected keynotes and panel discussions will be streamed live from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012, scheduled for July 16 and 17.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/facultysummit2012stream-071112.aspx

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NASA launches iPhone spaceship app in 3D SPAAAAACE!

The Register NASA launches iPhone spaceship app in 3D SPAAAAACE!

Augmented reality puts Curiosity on a sheet of foolscap...

NASA has released an app that allows would-be rocket scientists get up close and personal with the agency's spacecraft.…

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Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked

Slashdot Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked

An anonymous reader writes "Some 450,000 email addresses and associated unencrypted passwords have been dumped online by the hacking collective "D33Ds Company" following the compromise of a Yahoo subdomain. The attackers said that they managed to access the subdomain by leveraging a union-based SQL injection attack, which made the site return more information that in should have. According to Ars Technica, the dump also includes over 2,700 database table or column names and 298 MySQL variables retrieved during the attack."

Let's Do Basic Graphics on the Browser

The Code Project Latest Articles Let's Do Basic Graphics on the Browser

An introduction to WebGL and basic graphic programming using JavaScript.

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Apple has confirmed via its Mountain Lion upgrade page (http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/) that previously published limitations (http://macte.ch/iv08F) on some 64-bit Macs will extend to the final release. This means that several otherwise 64-bit capable MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac Pros will be restricted from upgrading to OS X 10.8 when it goes public later this month for US$29 at the Mac App Store.

According to information found in the recently released golden master (GM), the limitation appears to be related to graphics, reports "ars technica" (http://macte.ch/zz8f5).

http://www.macnews.com/2012/07/12/some-64-bit-macs-wont-support-mountain-lion

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Microsoft: "Post-PC" is the wrong idea

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Microsoft: "Post-PC" is the wrong idea

The Verge has a piece contrasting the Microsoft and Apple diverging views on what Apple calls the 'post-PC world'.

The Microsoft view is there is no post-PC world, just what the company calls the 'PC+' world. Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner discussed this at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.

"Apple makes great hardware," Turner said. "The reality is in the OS we see things differently."

Turner discussed OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and some mixed press reaction to the future of OS X. "We believe that Apple has it wrong," Turner said. "They've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different, the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect."

It contrasts with the view espoused by the late Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. Cook has not endorsed the "one device fits all" approach and thinks there are advantages to a laptop, a desktop PC and a tablet and smartphone, but trying to make a single device do everything is not the way to go. In May, Cook said, "Products are about trade-offs. And you have to make tough decisions, you have to choose. The fact is, the more you look at a tablet as a PC, the more the baggage from the past affects the product." It followed Cook's famous metaphor about merging a toaster and a refrigerator.

Even former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie warned that computing devices would get simpler, and more like appliances.

Of course the differences aren't so simple or as easily delineated. Microsoft wants to continue to sell an OS for desktops, laptops, tablets and phones too, but they certainly seem to believe that the newly announced Surface tablet can be a complete solution for many users.

The only way to see whose argument wins is to watch the evolution of products and sales from both Microsoft and its partners and Apple. Is the PC era over? Or are new form factors just another iteration of the PC? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

Microsoft: "Post-PC" is the wrong idea originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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