Everyone is preoccupied with Conficker. I have one simple question. Hear it hear now. HP may use Android OS for computers, PS2 going to $100. Or is it a joke? Gartner says cloud is getting all the money. American Airlines to put Wi-Fi hotspots in their planes.  Wiki Search killed. They cannot afford to keep it going. Netflix going to $8 month for Blu-ray. Honda making robots that read brain waves. Howard Stern to market the Palm Pre.

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OS X gives you all the tools you need to make a Web site. However, using Apple’s TextEdit, all you see is the text, no syntax highlighting, organization of anything else. Then, a while ago, Coda was released, and gave us a great interface and IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Internet. Now, there is a new kid on the block that directly competes with Coda. It is Espresso by MacRabbit.

Espresso is a one-window app. Everything that can be done is done in its main window. There are three sections to this window: Workspace, Project and Publish. There are also project settings which can be found in the toolbar.

The Workspace section is…well your workspace. This is where you want to put the files you want to work on, or previews of different pages. Instead of having to go through a file structure on the sidebar, you just drag-and-drop important files here, and they’ll stay here. This is also where all previews you generate will go. You can also add a new item to your workspace by going to File>New Tab. If you have a file selected (in the Project section), it will put that file into your workspace. If no file is selected, it will add a blank file to your workspace. To go through items in your workspace, just hit Command-} (Select the next item) and Command-{ (Select the previous tab). To remove an item from this list, just put your moue over it, and then click the (x) that appears. You can also rearrange this list just by dragging. The Workspace is really helpful if you are dealing with many files and many previews, because it provides easy access to the ones you want to access.

The Project section contains all files for your current project. If you click the magnifying glass icon, a text field will appear that allows you to search for files. If you click the wheel icon, you can choose to reveal the current file in finder, delete it, duplicate it, etc. If you use Espresso as it really should be used, you usually won’t need to do much work from the Project section, you will just access files, add files, etc. For small projects, the list of files is very helpful, but for larger ones with complex hierarchies and structures, the Project search makes it extremely easy to find files.

The last section in Espresso is the Publish section. This allows you to easily upload files to an FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 or FTP with SSL server. To set one up, click the Settings toolbar button and then click Add Server. You can then enter the relevant information for your server. Once you have finishes, just click the Save button, and the server will be saved. Your server will then appear in the Publish section of Espresso. When you click on server, there are a couple things you can do. You can just browse and see what files are on the server (just click the Browse toolbar item). You can also do an Update. An Update just updates the copy of the files on the server. Everything on your computer stays the same. You can also do a Merge. A Merge syncs the files on your computer with the ones on your server so the most-up-to dat version of each file is kept. Before you click Publish (which will sync them), you can see what will happen to each file in the Action column. A Mirror is very similar to an Update, except it creates an exact mirror of the files on your computer on the server. The descriptions at the top of the page can get you really confused about the difference between Mirror and Update if you think too much into it. So, just use the names as guides. Mirror and Update are two different things. Based on what you want to do, choose one. It is nice that Espresso has built-in publishing with many SVN-like (Subversion) commands.

Espresso includes support for things called Sugars. These extend Espresso’s CodeSense (they add extra languages). So, Espresso is not confined to XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, it can include any language that has an available Sugar. But, Sugars aren’t just developed by a few people that have the experience, they can be developed by anyone who knows a little XML. But, of course, this doesn’t mean that you have to make your own. You can find an aggregated list at Coffee House. Sugars are great because they allow Espresso to support an infinite amount of languages (you could make your own pointless one even!), but Coda also has a form of them, so this does not lead it too far ahead of the pack.

Along with Sugars, Espresso includes Themes. These can also be downloaded from Coffee House. Themes allow for different syntax highlighting colors. They are similar to those of TextMate or Xcode. Except for the installing part. You have to click Reveal in Finder in the Colors tab of Espresso>Preferences… and then drag the .css file in there. Then, you have to restart Espresso, go back to the preferences and choose it from the list. This isn’t that bad, but it would be nicer if you could just click Instal Theme. Like Sugars, anyone with a knowledge of CSS can easily make an Espresso theme.

MacRabbit’s Espresso retails for about $80 and you can download a trial from the Web site. It’s Sugars and Themes add a nice configurability option and community part to it. It is $20 less than the other popular IDE on the mac for web development. Of course, you can use a text editor and the Terminal for most features it contains, but it provides a beautiful interface with a very nice and clean environment for developing.

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while I like the idea of it’s smallness, can’t we just do away with the physical keyboard altogether? I mean really, a hinge is just asking to be broken. No?

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Apple Netbook Leak? We Wish

Another Apple Netbook rumour is floating around today. This time it’s in the form of a 10.4″ ultra thin netbook that looks rather nice.

Although it’s highly unlikely that this netbook will be launched by Apple I still decided it was worthy of being posted as it looks fantastic.

Leaked specks in a Russian magazine show that it has no integrated 3G connectivity but it does have wi-fi, 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a GeForce 9400M GPU, 64GB SSD as well as a USB port and a Mini display port. The screen measures 10.4″ and has a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels.

My thoughts are that this is just another fan created photo-shopped image, but hopefully we will find out official news in the next few months.

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Conficker looking at the Conficker virus. Xeon 550 considered transformational. Microsoft is killing Encarta. Turned out to be a fiasco. Video games improve eyesight. WDC buys SSD company, goes silicon. Why not? Look for Orion Moon to Mars launcher. IBM tries to patent the whole idea of offshoring. Mark Cuban fined for Twittering. I read Motley Fools Five Reasons Dell should buy Palm.

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I’ve had a few watch phones in the past, and this looks nice. Similar, but nice. I’d have to see how it performs of course to make a serious comparison.

Hyundai has gone into the phone/watch market with their MB-910. The timepiece not only looks sweet, it is a tri-band GSM phone with a 1.5 x 132 x 176-inch pixel touch-sensitive display. It also has a media player with 128MB memory, Bluetooth capability, a WAP 2.0 browser and of course a full screen clock. The MB-910 is expected to hit the UK first during Q2 at a price of £200 (~$281.00.)

Apple sued over various infringements concerning the iPhone. This will never end. This Saturday is turn off the light day at 8:30 PM. AT&T will act as a cop for the RIAA. Conficker worm aiming at April 1st. Get ready. Fairchild cutting back. The Open Cloud movement begins to develop. MSFT not happy. Fallout 3 wins best game of the year. Best Buy looking good according to experts. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com. Code: Tech.

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Blockbuster doing a deal with TiVo to deliver movies. Cranky Geeks no longer on TiVo. Complaints building in China over censorship of YouTube. PA Sexting girls suing the DA over his threats. Otellini says Intel will buy Sun. New Canon camera. Psybot infects routers. Sun CEO sees open source as a gateway to the clouds. Sprint WiMAX in 10 cities.

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Google changing strategy and adopting the semantic search model. Dell says it will release an iPhone killer. Oh really? iPhone sued over being used as a book reader. Suse Linux 11 hopes to take over data centers. IBM and Wyse getting together to re-introduce thin client computing. Win7 being changed as expected. Red Hat to be bought by Oracle? More 3D theaters coming soon. Steve Pearlman introduces OnLive. I call it Cloud Gaming.

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Sony-Ericsson to stay in place. Apple iPhone all over the news with weird stories and gossip. I reveal it here. Microsoft IE8 flopping. People bailing out already! Dell to Buy Palm? Why mot? Al Gore fuss over his speech. I suspect a publicity stunt. IBM Sun deal seems to be fading. Linux World to become Open Source World. Gartner has dire predicton. You will not like what you hear.

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Cisco to buy vid cam company. MSFT IE8 supposedly great. New iPhone models coming? Someone thinks so. Google backs Sony reader. AT&T to sell iPhones without contracts. Birds dying off, they say. New Mozilla mobile browser. Dell Adamo made in China by Quanta. Apple sells HD now. Safari hacked. IBM-Sun merger called anti-competitive. By who? Sony freezes salaries. Google apps to be shut down by government? Why? Cadillac has Internet in the car itself. Visit: www.Squarespace.com use the code "Tech."

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