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Coda Notes for Safari

In a few weeks Apple will launch the official Safari extensions gallery, so you’d better hurry and go submit yours now. But in the meantime, unofficial Safari extensions websites have flourished all over on the internet.

The current state of Safari extensions? There are a few great ones, lots of cool ideas, hundreds of stupid and buggy userscripts ported to Safari. Last night the Panic team offered an exclusive Twitter preview of their upcoming Safari extension, Coda Notes, which they previewed at the WWDC in June.

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Next Mac Pros and iMacs to Feature USB 3.0, Faster FireWire?

Here’s the daily rumor series: today we’re talking about Mac Pros and iMac, folks. And it’s a pretty good rumor, if you ask me.

HardMac is reporting that the future Mac Pros and iMacs will feature new technologies such as USB 3.0 and faster FireWire, 1600 or 3200. As for release date:

“One of our better sources have indicated that the renewal of the much awaited Mac Pro range is planned for the end of the summer, thus for the ‘back-to-school’ period. For the iMacs they will be a few weeks or a month later at the beginning of autumn.”

If this will turn out to be true, sign me up for that new iMac. Faster FireWire? Please.


SkypeKit Beta Available for MacOS X

Earlier today Skype released the first beta of SkypeKit, its official API toolkit, to Mac OS X and Windows developers. SkypeKit allows you to build applications that plug into Skype’s services without actually forcing the OS to open Skype.app. Indeed, registered developers can use the “Plugged into Skype” logo in their apps.

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