Thin MacBook Air is Finally Here

"We've built the world's thinnest notebook - without sacrificing a full-size keyboard or a full-size 13-inch display," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "When you first see MacBook Air, it's hard to believe it's a high-performance notebook with a full-size keyboard and display. But it is."

The notebook integrates a 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, and, according to its technical specifications, comes with a 65-nanometer Core 2 Duo processor featuring 4 MB of L2 cache, an 80 GB 1.8" hard drive as well as 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity. What the Apple guys "forgot" to mention is that the Air appears to be powered by a new breed of processors, the low-voltage Merom-based Core 2 Duo, and not an Ultra Low Voltage Merom like the vast majority of notebook vendors use.

Quex for MAC

It requires only python to install Quex 0.14.2 for mac. Quex is a lexical analyzer generator that produces a directly coded lexical analyzer engine. Those engines are much faster than the table driven engines of the lex/flex family.For convinience, quex parses regular expressions in the traditional lex/flex style. This way switching from flex to quex is made very easy. In addition to the fast analyzer engine, quex provides many advanced features, such a 'lexer modes' that can be inherited and that provide events for mode transitions.

Mode transitions can be allowed and disallowed, one can trigger on indentation events, and many parts of the generated lexical analyzer class can be adorned with own code.

For easier handling of token sequences a fast token queue is implemented that allows to implement lexical analysis directly from sequence diagrams. Also, quex is based on a dedicated buffer handling strategy that is webbed into the lexical analyzer to provide optimal performance.

Quex will generate a complete C++ environment containing the lexical analyser engine, token classes and token queues. With the provided sample applications and documentation it should be possible to get a lexical analyser running within a couple of hours.In essence, quex allows complicated lexical analysis to be described very elegantly. At the same time, simple applications can be written much faster than with traditional lexical analyser generators.

Raptor 1.0

What is a World Wide Warehouse without a trolley? Raptor is a Rapidshare utility that will allow you to search Rapidshare and open all the found links at once, from one single application.This software product was tested thoroughly and was found absolutely clean, therefore it can be installed with no concern by any computer user.However, it should be noted that this product will be retested periodically and the award may be withdrawn, so you should check back on this page from time to time. Raptor 1.0 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. You can download this product in softpedia.

Eco - Dicks in MAC

The Mail on Sunday publication has managed to do something that neither viruses, nor Trojans could ever do: give a hard time Mac users. Everything began with a free DVD that accompanied the publication.The last Sunday's giveaway, the free Jazz Singer DVD, was recorded on a different optical medium, called the Eco-Disk. Half the size of an ordinary optical disk, the Eco-Disk is made of biodegradable materials.

The disk drove the Mac users mad, after they had inserted it into the Apple slot-loading drives. Many of them ignored the small notice printed on both the disk and disc sleeve, that warned Mac users not to insert the experimental optical medium into an Apple slot-loading drive.