Apple News: Review Roundup: Mac email clients
Times are changing for email on the Mac. As more people use universally available Web-based services as their primary email accounts, and as POP accounts from Internet providers gather dust, Mac email clients have begun to morph accordingly. The new contenders focus less on powerful cataloging and search capabilities—most webmail accounts handle those tasks quite well already—and more on lightweight, go-anywhere access. The rise of the Mac App Store has made these clients more affordable and more similar to their iOS cousins.
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Technology News: How Online Comments Are Becoming A Big Business
They almost seem like an afterthought, the comments attached to Internet content. These scribblings may seem like the anonymous musings of the masses, but many corporations are viewing them as a high-powered vehicle to drive lead generation and community building, and funding trends for commenting vendors suggests that this is not afterthought: comments are a very valuable Web business.
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Programming News: Pitfalls of Ruby Mixins
Mixins are Ruby’s way of dealing with the multiple inheritance problem. If inheritance expresses an is-a relationship, the problem occurs when a class is more than one thing. For example, it’s easy to express that an Employee is a Person by making the Employee class inherit from the Person class. But what if Employees are also EmailReporters, who can email their status to their manager? How do you express that?
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Photography News: Control depth of field to isolate subjects
In the fight against distracting backgrounds, your aperture wheel is your biggest ally. Using a shallow depth of field to render your background out of focus will make your focal point stand out (so you’ll need to take care when focusing) as well as enhancing your image with pleasing out-of-focus areas or ‘bokeh’.
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