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If you’re using Safarilicious to export your Safari Bookmarks to Delicious, then you’ve probably been searching for a simple way to access these bookmarks from within your Safari Browser or even the operating system.

Matteo Rattotti wrote a software called ‘Delibar’ which allows to reach your Delicious Bookmarks from within your Menubar. Nifty

Delibar - A cocoa delicious client -

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Not to be confused with its Office line of software, Office is Microsoft’s latest foray into offering web based services.

The service is mainly for the small company of less than 25 people whose IT department is that one guy who took a introduction to computers class in college.

Office Live comes in three flavors of varying prices (all are free in the beta though). First there’s the Basic Live edition (which will remain free even when it goes Gold). This one contains general website development tools, the ability to have your own domain name, like, www.website.com, instead of something like www.bigwebsite.com/thing/ohwow/768865554.htm, five email accounts, and a website traffic report.

The next version of the software…. wait, is this software? It does not install on your computer. I hereby call it “serverware.” The next version is the Collaboration edition. It will cost around $30 once the beta ends and does not add much more to the Basic edition to justify its price.

The last one is Essentials, cost starts at $30 and it adds a whole slew of more email addresses (50), keyword reports, and more online workspace.

I signed up for the service, but since it’s a beta test, Microsoft itself picks who it wants to participate. If selected, I’ll report on the creation process with a self-made website.

Apple recently confirmed that the following poem is included in the Mac OS X for their Intel-based computers:

Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he’d do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don’t steal Mac OS!/Really, that’s way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc.

The poem would become activated if someone attempted to force the OS to run on non-Apple hardware.

It is rather humorous that Apple would try to subdue software pirates with poetry.

In the past, various companies have released free, ad-supported versions of their software to differing degrees of success (such as Opera’s web browser). The Febuary 2006 issue of Smart Computing mentions an internal memo from Microsoft that hints at the possibility of them releasing ad-supported versions of some their most popular software.

Clearly mentioned in the article were Windows, Works, and Money. No mention of Office, which Microsoft is alleged to be developing for Web use. It would be interesting to see where Microsoft goes with this, particualarly on the free version of their Windows XP operating system. Odds are that it will feature rotating ads on the desktop or random pop-up ads that can’t be turned off.

Darwine is a Wine version which runs under Mac OS X. Wine is a compatibility for running Windows programs, it allows for example to use Internet Explorer or Photoshop under Linux. Previous Darwine versions were compiled for PPC but the fact that Windows apps are compiled for X86 constrained the Darwine usage to only PPC-Compiled apps (which are little to none).

Now with Mac OS X for Intel processors, Darwine can finally run X86 Applications, which means: All those Windows Apps and Games which run under Wine for Linux, should soon work under Mac OS X too (Halflife anyone?)

Here’s a screenshot from someone running Winzip:

OSx86 Project - WINE Arrives for Intel Macs
Mac OS X, Wine, Windows, Core Duo, Darwine, Internet Explorer

We previously reported about using .Mac features without having a .Mac account, and now I stumbled upon this article that describes how to configure a Linux or FreeBSD box so it offers iDisk, Backup, iCal etc features for your Mac; meaning: Almost everything .Mac offers, just without using .Mac.
Nice article.

TNPI - Do it Yourself .mac
.mac, iSync, Sync, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin, iDisk, iCal Sharing, Backup

Drerek Yu wrote a usefull article that describes how to create pixelart. His tutorial consists out of 10 steps ranging from tools over shadnig to anti-aliasing. It’s quite interesting, Derek Writes:

Creating pixel art is a skill I picked up because I needed graphics for my games. After a lot of practice, I became rather handy with it, and started to see it more as “real” art rather than just a tool. These days, pixel art is quite popular for gaming and illustration. You can even find it in print magazines, like Wired and Electronic Gaming Monthly!

This pixel tutorial was created many years ago to teach people the basic concepts behind pixel art, but I’ve streamlined it a lot since its first incarnation. There are other pixel tutorials around, but I find them to be overly complicated and too wordy. Pixel art is not a science. You will never have to calculate a vector when doing pixel art.

Derek Yu - Pixelart Tutorial