Monday, November 22, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 11/21/2010



Bandung Hardcore: Great Font for the Mosh Pit
Greetings, typophiles. Prepare to point your culture compass to Bandung, the capital of West Java, and home to bands like Cherry Bombshell, Sonic Torment, and Burgerkill. Why? Because Java's thriving underground music scene is the inspiration behind Bandung Hardcore (free), a font filled with head-banging attitude from Indonesian designer Gilang Purnama.
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The Mac is back
Last month, Steve Jobs took to the stage, most likely for the final time this year, to launch a new version of iLife and new updates to the MacBook Air line. More importantly, he spent a lot of time talking about the product line as a whole, how the Mac and iOS platforms relate to each other and what the future of the Mac might look like with the next generation of OS X, now known as Lion. There’s been a lot of speculation as to what the ramifications of all this are. Here’s my take on what it all means.
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The Macalope Weekly: Apple stories gone wild!
Editors’ Note: Each week the Macalope skewers the worst of the week’s coverage of Apple and other technology companies. In addition to being a mythical beast, the Macalope is not an employee of Macworld. As a result, the Macalope is always free to criticize any media organization. Even ours.
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