Eternal Storms (http://www.eternalstorms.at) has updated their flickr client, flickery, for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) to version 1.8. The upgrade adds Google Maps to the search functionality to bring more powerful searches to flickery users.
Read MoreOn this week’s “Tech Night Owl,”Gene Steinberg, the Owl himself, and guests look banishing Google from your Mac, the 2010 Macworld Expo and more.
Author and commentator Kirk McElhearn tells you why he’s working hard to banish Google from his Macs, as he regards the service as potentially harmful to your privacy. That very subject is also covered from a somewhat different point of view by Adam Engst, of “TidBITS” and Take Control Books. Engst also discusses the surprising success of Macworld Expo 2010, which was held without Apple’s participation.
Read MoreQoppa Software, which specializes in PDF tools, has updated PDF Studio (http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html), a PDF editor, to version 6.2. The new version adds PDF review and edit functionality to Google Docs.
The software can now open, edit and save documents directly from and to Google Docs. Additionally, it provides an integrated Google Docs file manager to upload, download and share files or whole folder structures.
Read MoreAt the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Vic Gundotra, who leads Google’s mobile engineering, told journalists that all this talk of Apple and Google breaking up their relationship is unfounded, according to a Reuters” report (http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNLDE61E1CF20100215)
Read MoreWill Apple build its own search engine? Not likely, as the company is getting over US$100 million a year from Google in its revenue share deal, reports “BusinessWeek” (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-getting-more-than-100-million-annually-from-google-for-the-iphone-2010-2) as Google is the default search engine in Safari.
Sure, that’s not a lot of money for Apple, “but it’s enough that it doesn’t make sense for Apple to put considerable resources towards building its own Internet search engine.” Of course, if Apple wanted more money or options, there’s Microsoft and Bing.
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