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Donna Maurer have a nice article about Usability for Rich Internet Applications (via – Digital Web Magazine).
She list out the key features of typical RIA as;
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Most of Google’s product are windows based and not really for the Mac! It is rumored – Google believes that Apple already does very good with its own products, it is the Windows users that need help. 
However, Google Earth have come out with the Google Earth Mac Version. Google Earth Plus and Google Earth Pro are not yet available for Mac.
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Six Apart, the MovableType Company seem to have got their third round of VC funding, a sum of $12 million. It looks like the Internet Technology is going great guns and is on a much steady move this time. Every circle seem to have some sorta funding or the other, companies being bought, millions of dollars pumped in again.
I don’t really recollect where I heard/read that but somebody said something cool – Have you seen/heard about VC fundings and Angel Fundings in the other areas save the Bay area, the valley, that is where the moolah is. Maybe, he was right.
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Many Thanks to Adobe for the Photoshop CS2 Review Copy. I have been stealing time in between my schedules to test this out for the past one month. Personally, I never felt the need to compare Photoshop with any other Image Editors. Maybe, my exposure to the variety of image editors are conservative but then the few that I tried never matched up to what Photoshop does. My review here may be rather vague and not that professional as I am not a professional Graphic/UI Designer, I tried out the features after reading about them and after consulting our Designer Team.
Photoship CS2 was installed on my Lenovo (erstwhile IBM) Thinkpad R52 Intel Centrino running on 1.86GHz with about 1.25 GB of RAM sporting a screen resolution of 1400 × 1050 DPI displayed on a 32bit color depth. While testing, most of the time it was run as a stand-alone program, sometimes with Microsoft Outlook and Firefox opened.
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Have you been in a situation where Firefox crashed and you lost track of all the tabs that were opened, important ones and you have to fiddle back to your brain to remember them. SessionSaver is a Firefox Extension that saves your last session, you can even have it restored everytime Firefox starts.
It even claims to save windows, tabs, even things you were typing (I haven’t experienced this part of the fun).
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Eclipse Grand Challenge – cut the memory footprint in half with the upcoming 3.2M5 Eclipse SDK milestone.
JAR files are now read more selectively, and thus interesting portions remain in the cache longer without consuming lots of memory. User editing experience is thus significantly improved on large workspaces containing big JARs. As a consequence, our experiments show that the memory requirement for developing Eclipse in Eclipse can be lowered to 128MB only (i.e. passing -Xmx128m to the VM) as opposed to 256MB as currently specified in the eclipse.ini file.
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Adobe had promised about easing the licensing scheme of Flash Media Server with Dynamo, which brings Flash Media Server’s license to more or less like that we had with FlashCom Server, with a bit more flexible option here.
Dynamo have 3 license profiles to choose from
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Open Source Downloads – Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, Flashcom, JSFL.
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37Signals have launched Campfire. Been playing with it since morning, this is a cool one. Simple yet effective. 
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Everyone have blogged about Design Pattern Library and User Interface Library from Yahoo! Developer Network. Let me do my bit for the archive.
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.
Download Yahoo! UI Library
Join Yahoo! UI Library mailing list.
The Yahoo! Design Pattern Library is an evolving set of sophisticated design guidelines for building web pages and applications. The design patterns do not require the Yahoo! UI Library components, although using the UI Library can help you more easily implement the patterns.
The Yahoo! UI Library downloads contains documentations, source files and examples of the various libraries.
While you are at it, don’t forget to read the article, Graded Browser Support By Nate Koechley, Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc.