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Celebrate "One Small Step" + 40 with free Carina astronomy apps

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jul 18th, 2009

On July 20th, 1969, I was an 11 year-old nerd who loved space. Along with billions of other people in the rest of the developed world, I sat in rapt attention in front of the family TV set watching the ghostly figures of Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin taking the first steps on the moon.

Now I'm a nerdy 51 year-old who still loves space. This weekend, my wife and I are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing by presenting an Apollo retrospective at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center near Denver. If you're in the Denver area, drop by at 7 PM on Saturday, July 18th to learn more about the incredible challenges that were surmounted by the U.S. space program to land men on the moon and return them safely to earth.

For the majority of you who aren't in the Denver area, there's another way you can celebrate on Monday, July 20th, 2009. On Monday, Carina Software will offer free download-only versions of their SkyGazer software for Mac OS X on the Carina website. iPhone and iPod touch owners won't be left out of the fun, as Carina's SkyVoyager app will be free on Monday from the App Store.

Be sure to pass along the information to your friends and join in the free fun on Monday!

[via The Mac Observer]

Tags: apollo, astronomy, freeware, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, mac, software, space, stargazing

Filed under: Software, Open Source, Developer

Adobe takes wraps off Apollo, uses WebKit

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Mar 19th, 2007

Adobe today took the wraps off their cross platform desktop application runtime called Apollo. The alpha is now available for download on Adobe labs.

What the heck does this 'runtime' do? It allows web developers to create desktop applications that run on both the Mac and PC using HTML, AJAX, and Flash. This is all well and good, I imagine you saying, but why the heck is this on TUAW? It would seem that Apollo is using WebKit as its HTML rendering engine. You might recall that WebKit is Apple's variant of the Konqueror HTML engine, which powers Safari and is baked right into OS X.

Adobe is using the open source version of WebKit, which is slightly different than the one found in OS X, but they plan on contributing code back to the project. This can only be good for Mac users. The more people that are using WebKit the more pressure companies will feel to support it (I'm looking at you, banks!).

[via Daring Fireball]

Tags: adobe, apollo, apple, webkit

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

Adobe Apollo uses WebKit

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Oct 30th, 2006

If you are not a follower of Adobe you might not be aware of the recently announced Apollo. Apollo is a cross platform runtime that basically allows developers to write desktop applications using Flash, HTML, and Javascript. Sure, that's a cool idea but why am I writing about it on TUAW?

Besides the fact that we can assume that Apollo will run on OS X, the HTML engine that Apollo is using might be familiar to some of you. In fact, you might be reading this post using it right now. That's right, Adobe decided to use Apple's WebKit for Apollo. No matter how you slice it, more people using WebKit is a win for Mac users. Adobe, you might have angered some of us with Soundbooth but you've won me back.

[via Surfin' Safari, screenshot via Ryan Stewart]

Update: Mike Chambers has posted this set of pictures showing an updated version of the above app running in OS X.

Tags: adobe, apollo, apple, webkit

Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Woz and Buzz to take Hydrogen Hummer to South Pole

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Aug 2nd, 2006

Before we dive into the actual story, lets just take a minute to sit back and appreciate just how fantastically bizarre that title is.
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Ok then! Mac daddy Steve Wozniak has announced that in December 2007, he and Moon man Buzz Aldrin (second person ever to set foot on the Moon) will participate in an expedition to the South Pole in which the intrepid explorers will be conveyed by Hydrogen fuel cell powered H1 Hummers.

The Apple co-founder revealed his plans at Stanford University's AlwaysOn conference. The modern day eco-friendly adventure will be filmed using 3D cameras for use in an upcoming James Cameron film. According to Woz, the team has received significant input from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which runs three of its buses on fuel cells.

[via Cult of Mac]

Tags: 11, aldrin, antarctica, apollo, astronaut, buzz, cell, fuel, fuelcell, h1, hummer, hydrogen, moon, pole, south, steve, woz, wozniak

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