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It plays out like a Harlequin Romance for many a Mac user (especially web designers and developers): you have a fairly solid relationship with Safari, on a day-to-day basis. Despite your admiration for Safari’s beauty and speed, though, the siren song of Firefox frequently seduces you away for extended romps, tempting you with a bounty of desirable extensions and themes. Personally, I’ve just decided to make my relationship polygamous, Safari for browsing, Firefox for web development.

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Google has ported Google Earth to the iPhone or iPod touch, and it’s such an impressive app that it deserves an Apple ad of its own.

The interface for Google Earth will be familiar instantly to anyone who has used an iPhone for more than a couple of hours. Upon launching the app, you see a photo of the Earth from space. To zoom in, you can either double-tap or use the “reverse-pinch” gesture on the screen. Swiping a finger left, right, up, or down moves the display in the chosen direction, and a two-finger rotation turns the display clockwise or counter-clockwise. There are icons on the display (see screenshot at right) for search, using your current location, changing settings, and realigning the display to North.

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Accounting is a lot less exciting than watching paint dry, but it’s a necessity for companies. Intuit’s QuickBooks products for Mac don’t get a lot of respect, since Intuit seems to treat Mac owners as second-class citizens. They’re still working on improving their products, however, and have just announced QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac.

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Camino, the best Gecko-based browser NOT named Firefox 3, has just been updated to version 1.6.3. This update, which seems to have rolled in 1.6.2 along with it (at least I never got the 1.6.2 notification, and I use Camino pretty frequently), sports the latest update to the Gecko 1.8.1 branch, including several critical stability and security fixes with better ad-blocking. Plus, it no longer crashes if a pop-up is displayed while dragging a bookmark.

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Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.2, which includes new tools for building web pages for iPhone and iPod touch. Freeway is WYSIWYG website creation software that features a traditional, page-layout approach and omits the need to write any code (unless, you know, you really want to handcraft your HTML).

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Quark Inc. announced QuarkXPress 8 at the Drupa printing exhibition in Düsseldorf today, the latest version of the high-end design tool for Mac and Windows. Many of the changes to QuarkXPress are in the areas of user interface and workflow, which were criticized by many users after the long-delayed release of QuarkXPress 7.

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Mark/Space who expert company on sync software area released a new software Missing Sync for Symbian. As we may understand from software name, it syncs your Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola Symbian OS mobile phones with your Mac. Generally, you can automatically synchronize personal contacts, calendars and tasks, plus your favorite music, photos, videos and files with it.

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Apple continue to update printer drivers todays. They released the Lexmark Printer Driver 1.1 Update yesterday. After Canon, Brother and HP printer driver updates, they released a new update for Lexmark printer users now. It includes new drivers for Mac OS X. As usual, they didnt give more details about it. No one know which models or drivers updated yet.

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The VMWare team has just released the second beta for VMWare Fusion 2.0, the company’s popular virtualization program for the Mac.

The new beta adds a TON of new features than old beta release, as the video above demonstrates. I got a chance to see to VMWare today about the new beta and it is HOT. I’ll be posting a more in-depth overview tomorrow, but until then, here are some of the highlights:
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Apple just released a new update for iTunes. The release indicates that iTunes 7.7.1 “includes fixes to improve stability and performance.” You may recall that the last update for iTunes (7.7) was released on the iPhone 3G release date.

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