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Great implementation.

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Seems like it’s old stuff.

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“With 250 million iPods, 43 million iPhones, and 32 million iPod touches sold to date, plus the promise of a game-changing iPad, Apple won this year’s vote by the highest margin ever for a No. 1. Two more years as champ and Apple will match GE for most appearances in the top spot.

What makes Apple so admired? Product, product, product. This is the company that changed the way we do everything from buy music to design products to engage with the world around us. Its track record for innovation and fierce consumer loyalty translates into tremendous respect across business’ highest ranks.”

I’d also say: apps, apps, apps.

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“Mozilla has released a second developer preview of Firefox 4.0 which contains a piece of the Electrolysis project. Dubbed “Out-of-Process Plugins,” the new feature will ensure that plugins don’t bring down the entire browser. When a plugin, such as Flash, crashes, the user’s session will stay intact, leaving the plugin to be dealt with on it its own. Firefox will terminate the problematic plugin and then restart it automatically.”

CultOfMac

“Plainview is a web browser with a difference. It’s a full screen browser, lacking any bells and whistles at all except just the one: no chrome, if you’ll forgive the pun.

So all you get is web content from floor to ceiling. Everything else gets hidden away, including your Dock and your Menu Bar.”

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And Gruber nails it:

“Think of this model as like IMAP for iTunes content — it would also allow multiple devices (computer, iPhone, iPad) to remain in sync over the air, rather than the current model where devices need to be tethered via USB to your computer in order to sync. I think this would be fantastic. As it stands now, iTunes customers are responsible for the data integrity of their purchases.”

But then again, let’s look at the whole picture and assume Apple plans to integrate iTunes with the cloud even for mobile devices (and considering Apple’s policy regarding consistency between different experiences, I don’t see why they shouldn’t do so.),bringing over the air syncing for apps and music streaming. Basically, iTunes.  There’s this big elephant in the room once again, AT&T. How are they going to deal with that? Perhaps they’re simply procrastinating the cloud waiting for AT&T to fix their networks? The easiest solution would be to offer the cloud service under wifi only, but that would be a huge limitation. And considering that they wanted the iPad to have a 3G connection (even if many people swear they’ll buy the wifi only version) available at launch, I don’t think we’re gonna see a half sized, desktop-only cloud service. It’s the full thing or nothing.

But what if Apple is thinking about syncing user’s data and preferences over the cloud, and not the files themselves?

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Well, not just for mobile devices:

“Less Framework is a CSS framework for building flexible multi-column website layouts. It contains an eight-column grid optimized for a line-height of 24px, as well as a set of typography presets based on the golden ratio that fit into the grid’s vertical rhythm.

Less Framework layouts work perfectly in Chrome, Safari 3.0+, Firefox 3.0+ and Internet Explorer 7+. They collapse intelligently into a single column in legacy browsers and on small screens.

The best example of Less Framework in use is this very site. Try resizing your browser window or accessing this site with different devices, like your mobile phone.”

Excellent.

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“So what we’re doing in our 2nd generation engine is to combine the best elements of both approaches:

We’re using some chunks of the WebKit JS engine and building a full-method JIT to execute JavaScript code. This should get us fast baseline JS performance like the other engines. And most important, it will be consistent – no more jumping on and off trace and spending a huge amount of time in interpreted code.

We’ll be bolting our tracing engine into the back of that machine code to generate super-fast code for inner loops. This means that we’ll be able to still have the advantages of a tracing engine with the consistency of the method-based JIT.

This work is still in the super-early stages, to the point where it’s not even worth demoing, but we thought it would be worth posting about so people understand the basics of what’s going on.”

If you’re following me on Twitter you should have read that I was thinking about changing my Twitter username.

Now, @storiesofmac has changed to @viticci. So, if you want to mention me be sure to use the @viticci username. You don’t have to re-follow me again.  As for the much requested official MacStories account, we’ve finally activated the @macstoriesnet account we created a while ago.

If you want to follow MacStories’ posts, the stuff I daily discover and my random thoughts about things - you can follow @viticci. If you just want to stay updated with the posts, @macstoriesnet is the way to go.

Enjoy.