TidBITS#943/01-Sep-08
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As longtime word-processing wonks, we've watched as Google Docs and
others take writing and editing online. But what if you want to work
on something where you don't have Internet access, such as on a
plane? Adam looks at how Google Gears and its new implementation for
Safari give Google Docs offline capabilities. Sticking with the text
editing theme, Adam then digs into Bare Bones Software's latest
release, BBEdit 9.0. Also this week, Glenn Fleishman looks at the
reports of Google's forthcoming Web browser, called Chrome, and the
comics that explain it. In the TidBITS Watchlist, we note the
releases of Final Cut Express 4.0.1, VMware Fusion 2.0 RC1, Apple
ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0, Coda 1.5, and RapidWeaver 4.1.1.
Lastly, TidBITS is hiring at our global headquarters in Ithaca, NY.
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Google Explains Its Forthcoming Web Browser with Comics
BBEdit 9.0 Adds Something for Everyone
How to Use Google Docs Offline in Safari
TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 01-Sep-08
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/01-Sep-08
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9734>
After a summer of feeling utterly overwhelmed despite our best
attempts to work more efficiently and use the Getting Things Done
techniques, we've decided that the most effective way to get things
done is to hire other people to do them. Plus, it's cheaper and
safer than messing about with the time-space continuum.
We're currently hiring for two contract positions: a technology
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necessary tasks that aren't a good use of time for Tonya or me.
These positions will involve regular collaboration and meetings in
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Google Explains Its Forthcoming Web Browser with Comics
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by Glenn Fleishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9754>
Understanding technical concepts, even for those who spend their
days with their "heads inside the computer," as I conceive of it,
can often be a reach. People learn in different ways, and hearing an
explanation, seeing a visual representation, and reading about
something all reach different individuals.
Google decided to hire the talented Scott McCloud to explain in
graphics and words how their new Chrome Web browser differs from all
those currently available. It's a neat idea: in explaining their
JavaScript optimization, for instance, you don't need to understand
what a classless programming language is if you look at the
graphical representation, which is simplified, but entirely
accurate.
<http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/>
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-09/google_comics_pane.png>
The comic was released under a Creative Commons license, and sent
through postal mail to an unknown number of people. Philipp Lenssen
of Google Blogoscoped explains that he received, scanned, and posted
the comic. The site referenced in the comic, www.google.com/chrome,
isn't live at this writing.
<http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html>
<http://www.google.com/chrome>
Chrome's key difference from previous browsers is that each tab in
the browser will run as a separate, sandboxed process to isolate
JavaScript slowdowns and browser crashes to a tab, in much the same
way that multi-tasking operating systems typically prevent one
crashing program from bringing down the entire system.
Google says in this comic that they have vastly improved the speed
of JavaScript by commissioning an advanced JavaScript virtual
machine. In June 2008, the WebKit project announced its own
JavaScript virtual machine optimization project dubbed SquirrelFish.
<http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/>
For pages that feature pop-up windows, whether useful or advertising
come-ons, each tab will capture the pop-ups and enable you to
convert them into freestanding windows.
Security is enhanced, Google says, by disallowing each tab from
writing files or examining data on the hard drive. This is a typical
behavior, and something that Apple and Microsoft have implemented in
some form in Safari 3 and Internet Explorer 8. Google has also
implemented a three-tier hierarchy of trust that it believes will
prevent unintentional privileges being granted to programs or
scripts on Web pages that shouldn't have them.
The browser will also let you shroud a given tab in secrecy - an
"incognito" window - so you can exclude its pages, passwords, and
other details from the browser's cached or saved elements. People
typically use this mode to avoid leaving traces on a shared computer
- often for personal research, viewing unclothed individuals, or
keeping a gift or party secret.
Chrome will be based on WebKit, the same open-source project used as
the fundamental basis of Apple's desktop and mobile Safari and
Nokia's S60 browser, which Nokia will ultimately use to replace all
its current browsers and which is part of the future direction of
the Symbian platform.
<http://webkit.org/>
Scott McCloud is best known for his "Understanding Comics" and
"Reinventing Comics," in which he uses the medium to explain its
past, present, and potential future, a future in which McCloud has
been deeply involved.
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/006097625X/?tag=tidbitselectro00>
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060953500/?tag=tidbitselectro00>
Timing on Chrome appearing in a workable form isn't yet known. This
is the best kind of browser war: unlike the monopoly-driven efforts
by a certain firm to kill Netscape Navigator in the 1990s, we're in
a time of browser plenty. Microsoft recently released a second beta
of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows; Firefox 3 for all platforms
appeared not long ago from the Mozilla Foundation, the spiritual
heirs of Navigator; and Apple keeps pushing WebKit and Safari to
have greater speed and more security for Windows, Mac OS X, and the
iPhone and iPod touch. And that's not even considering other
entrants such as OmniWeb, Opera, iCab, Camino, and Flock.
The nice part for users is that with Google's entry, we'll have four
browsers, all of which are intended to be fast, easy, and secure,
and which use three separate rendering platforms (Chrome and Safari
sharing WebKit). This ensures the kind of diversity of evolution
that promotes better software and a lower chance of a single flaw
being exploited in all extant browsers. It also means job security
for Web developers used to tweaking designs to look good in multiple
browsers.
BBEdit 9.0 Adds Something for Everyone
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9749>
Bare Bones Software's BBEdit, one of the longest-standing
applications in the Macintosh world, has received a major update to
version 9.0, adding a number of features that will likely enhance
the productivity of anyone who uses the text editor or currently
relies on a less-capable program. Whether you need a Web authoring
tool, a programmer's editor, a utility for manipulating massive text
files, a writing tool that focuses purely on text, or all of the
above at different times, BBEdit 9.0 has new features that will make
your life easier. Oh, and yes, if you look hard enough, it has
ponies too.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/>
<http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/arch_bbedit9.html>
**Find Modelessly** -- Perhaps the most significant changes to BBEdit
9.0 apply to its much-admired searching capabilities. In this
version, Bare Bones has separated the act of searching for text
within a single file from searching for results across multiple
files. A modeless, resizable Find window provides all the
grep-capable searching power that BBEdit users have long
appreciated. However, if you want to run a search across multiple
files, you'll instead rely on a new Multi-File Search window that's
also modeless and resizable. Multi-File Search can search through
open documents, as well as the contents of disk browsers, recent
folders, BBEdit projects, recent Xcode projects, and even saved
Spotlight searches. There's also an option to colorize grep searches
in the Find window, which should make complex grep patterns easier
to parse.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/BBEdit-Find-window.png>
After all these years, it's great to see Bare Bones setting the old
modal Find & Replace dialog aside ("Thank goodness!" exclaimed Tonya
when I shared this news). But never fear, if you're addicted to the
old interface, or if you frequently want to switch from searching
for text in a single file to searching for the same text in multiple
files, an option brings back the old Find & Replace dialog.
Another related feature that has changed significantly, and for the
better, is BBEdit's Find Differences. In BBEdit 8.5, Bare Bones
added the capability to display which characters within a line were
different between two similar files. That was huge for us, since it
enabled us to use BBEdit in conjunction with the Subversion version
control system to work with TidBITS articles. Though code may have
relatively short lines, a line of prose is a paragraph, and without
knowing what within a paragraph has changed, knowing only that two
paragraphs are not the same isn't particularly helpful. In BBEdit
9.0, Bare Bones has enhanced the Find Differences feature such that
it not only shows the changed lines, and the changed characters
within each line, it also lets you see and replace individual spans
of differing characters within each changed line.
**Browse and Edit** -- BBEdit has long had File Group documents that
enabled you to bring together files and folders from disparate parts
of your hard disk, but file groups were really just an alternative
view of files that already existed in the Finder; you could open,
rename, and delete them, but not much more. Similarly, the program
has long featured Disk Browser windows that showed a view of files
and folders on the hard disk; within a disk browser you could see,
but not modify, the actual content of files. In BBEdit 9.0 both file
groups, renamed Projects, and disk browsers now work the way they
should in providing not just opening and previewing capabilities,
but full editing. Whenever you click a file in the left sidebar of a
project or disk browser window, the file opens in the main window,
fully editable. Double-click a file and it opens in its own window,
just as in previous versions.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/BBEdit-Disk-Browser.png>
For programmers dealing with hundreds or thousands of files,
BBEdit's file groups and disk browser windows were useful before,
and they're far more useful now. For those for whom the previous
features weren't helpful previously, they very well may be now - I
plan to give them a try, whereas I'd never seen the benefit before.
Alas, BBEdit's FTP/SFTP Browser does not yet share this editable
pane feature, which would be huge for Web developers. It would also
be great to see additional version control interface within disk
browsers, identifying files that had been changed in the repository
but not yet updated, or that had local changes not yet committed
back to the repository.
Because it's possible to have a file open in a project window, in a
disk browser, and in an independent window, BBEdit 9.0 also lets you
change a file in any window and have the changes reflected
immediately in all the others. I can't quite imagine why you'd want
to open multiple views to a particular file intentionally, but the
alternative - keeping track of which window contained which changes
to the same file - would undoubtedly cause fits of uncontrolled
gibbering.
**More Features** -- Though editable panes in Project and Disk Browser
windows and the modeless Find interface are the marquee features of
BBEdit 9.0, there are plenty of other additions. A Scratchpad window
provides a constantly saved place to dump bits of text for editing
or copying into other documents. If you use BBEdit on multiple Macs,
the program can now sync the contents of the ~/Library/Application
Support/BBEdit folder to other Macs via MobileMe - handy for
maintaining the same clippings, text factories, and other settings
between computers. One clever technique - if you have to use BBEdit
9.0 on someone else's Mac temporarily, you can simply copy the
version of the BBEdit folder on your iDisk down to the Mac to
recreate your personal environment.
Also new is text completion, which enables you to type a character
or two, press a key, and select the desired expansion from a pop-up
(text completion can also kick in automatically after a delay in
typing, but I found that a bit overwhelming in normal use). This is
probably mostly helpful for programmers, since BBEdit provides
language-specific expansions pulled from the current document,
nearby documents, clippings, and other sources. BBEdit's built-in
language support is also reportedly improved, particularly for Ruby,
JavaScript, HTML, and Python.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/BBEdit-text-completion.png>
For sysadmins, BBEdit can now read and write bzip-compressed files
(.bz2) such as Leopard's log files, much as it could already work
with gzip-compressed files. And last, but by no means least for
those of us who write for a living, BBEdit windows can now feature a
constantly updated character, word, and line count; clicking it
toggles between counting for the document and for the selected text.
**Upgrade Details** -- Upgrades for registered customers of any
previous commercial version of BBEdit cost $30. New copies of BBEdit
9.0 remain priced at $125, and the educational price remains at $49.
The program is available immediately; there's a fully functional
30-day trial version that's a 15.4 MB download. It requires Mac OS X
10.4 or later, and is a universal binary.
How to Use Google Docs Offline in Safari
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9752>
It's ironic that with all the writing I do, I've never settled on a
single word processor, instead picking and choosing among lots of
different ones depending on the task at hand. Although it's a
mediocre word processor, we've started using Google Docs for certain
sorts of collaborative writing, such as when Tonya and I are working
on marketing materials for Take Control, or when I'm writing an
article for Macworld. Its brilliant collaborative capabilities more
than make up for its minimal feature set, and I have found it better
for my needs than similar products like Zoho Writer and Buzzword,
which don't seem as focused on enabling quick collaboration.
<http://docs.google.com/>
Like all online word processors, Google Docs has one significant
architectural limitation: if you don't have Internet access, your
documents are completely unavailable to you. Google has been working
on eliminating this limitation with a technology called Google Gears
(Zoho Writer and a few other Web apps also use Gears - it's an open
source technology that any developer can implement). Gears addresses
the disconnected problem with a database engine based on SQLite, and
Gears-enabled pages can send and receive data from this local
database cache when offline. When connectivity is reestablished,
Gears synchronizes the changes back up to Google's storage cloud.
Gears has been available for the Mac via the Firefox Web browser for
some time, but Google just released a "beta" version of Gears for
Safari. (Nearly everything Google does is labeled as beta, even
after years of development and millions of users, which makes it
difficult to determine the actual state of the code.) I had tried
Gears with Firefox briefly before our trip to Wales, but I found it
a bit confusing and hadn't come back to it until this Safari
release, which I suspect will be attractive to more Mac users
anyway. The Safari release was quiet, and Google's Gears home page
doesn't yet acknowledge that it's compatible with Safari.
<http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/browse_thread/thread/36537d4f47c5495c>
<http://gears.google.com/>
Gears for Firefox is a Firefox add-on, but for Safari, Gears has two
parts, an input manager (installed in /Library/InputManagers) and an
Internet plug-in (installed in /Library/Internet Plugins). Some
people don't like input managers; if so, stick with the Firefox
version.
**Installation and Setup** -- Until Google officially releases Gears
for Safari, you can't follow the normal installation method, which
is to visit the Gears home page and click the Install Gears button
(do that if you want to install in Firefox now). Instead, download
this disk image and run the installer inside. You'll have to restart
Safari to finish the installation. Gears automatically updates
itself, so when Google releases new versions, you should just get
the updates. You can also verify that the installation has worked by
looking for a Google Gears Settings menu item in the Safari
application menu. But don't choose that just yet. Instead, go to
Google Docs, and at the upper right of the page, click the Offline
link next to your email address to continue the installation process
in a series of dialog boxes.
<http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-osx-opt.dmg>
<http://docs.google.com/>
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Google-Docs-Settings-line.png>
First, Google Gears asks you to enable offline access; click the
Enable Offline Access button. Next, Gears asks if it's acceptable to
store data on your computer (necessary, of course, but nice to be
asked). Select the "I trust this site. Allow it to use Gears"
checkbox and click Allow.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Gears-enable-access-dialog.png>
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Gears-store-data-dialog.png>
Gears then asks if you want to make a desktop shortcut, which isn't
necessary, and can be done later if you want. The desktop shortcut
is actually a small application that's created on your Desktop, but
it doesn't have to stay there. Double-clicking it opens Google Docs
in the Web browser that was your default as of when you created it;
it isn't smart enough to switch if you change your default, but you
can recreate it if necessary. Merely dragging the Google Docs URL
from Safari's address bar to the Desktop to create a .webloc file
provides exactly the same functionality as the Google Docs
application that Gears creates.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Gears-desktop-shortcut-dialog.png>
Once all that is done, Gears synchronizes your data, which shouldn't
take long unless you have a vast number of documents stored in
Google Docs. Subsequent synchronization takes place regularly, and
you'll likely never notice it.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Gears-synchronizing.png>
**Basic Usage** -- If Safari is open, you can just navigate to
http://docs.google.com/ manually, via .webloc file, or via the
Google Docs application that Gears creates. Once there, click any
document to open it, make changes as you would normally, and when
you're done, click the Save & Close button. Keep in mind that you
can edit only word processing documents; spreadsheets and
presentations can be viewed offline but not edited yet.
Google uses only a tiny icon that switches between a green checkmark
and a gray slashed circle to indicate whether you're online or
offline in the main Google Docs file list. Unfortunately, that icon
doesn't update quickly, so even after I disconnected my Mac from all
networks, it claimed I was online for a few minutes before realizing
otherwise. Similarly, when you're in a particular document, a green,
downward-pointing arrow indicates that the document is in sync; a
gray, upward-pointing arrow tells you that there are changes that
need to be saved next time you connect. Maybe it's just because I'm
feeling my way around what it's like to work offline in an online
word processor, but I would have appreciated more obvious status
markers.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Google-Docs-status-icons.png>
Edited documents do get a little "Edited offline" tag next to them
in the Google Docs file list, and shortly after you reconnect to a
network, Gears notices and synchronizes your documents back to the
cloud, erasing the "Edited offline" tag at the same time.
<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-08/Google-Docs-edited-offline-tag.png>
Note that if you choose to install Gears for both Firefox and
Safari, the two don't share the same data store. In other words, if
you make a change in a document in Safari while offline, you won't
see that change in Firefox until the Safari version is synchronized
back to Google Docs. That's not unreasonable, but for those of us
who use multiple Web browsers regularly, it could cause some
confusion.
**Protecting Against Beta** -- My only concern about the pre-release
nature of Gears is that I'd hate to lose a plane ride's worth of
work should something go wrong. I haven't used it much, and although
I haven't had any problems, I do worry a bit, since Gears is saving
to a database, not a normal file that you could extract easily if
necessary.
Of course, you can always copy the text and work on it in TextEdit
or some other simple word processor, but what I'm considering
instead is using a utility like Keyboard Maestro or CopyPaste Pro
that maintains a clipboard history. Then, every so often, as a
backup, I'd just select all and copy.
<http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/>
<http://www.scriptsoftware.com/copypaste/>
Needless to say, Gears is free, as is Google Docs, and it requires
Safari 3.1.1 or later on Mac OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5.3 or later. Even
if you don't plan to use Google Docs offline much, I'd encourage you
to give it a spin, since it might let you get some work done at a
time when you'd otherwise be dead in the Internet water.
TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 01-Sep-08
---------------------------------------------------------
by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9748>
* Final Cut Express 4.0.1 from Apple resolves a permissions issue
where projects would not open if they contained media not properly
owned by the user. The update also adds easy setups for ingesting
AVCHD footage as well as 720p25 HDV. A pair of Apple Intermediate
Codec sequence presets have also been renamed to more accurately
reflect the resolution of the footage. The update is available only
via Software Update at publication time. (Free)
<http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/Final_Cut_Express_4.0_rn/>
* VMware Fusion 2 Release Candidate 1 from VMware includes a 12-month
subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus to protect Windows against
viruses, supports seven languages, improves the user interface
surrounding snapshots, and fixes a number of bugs. One subtle new
feature of interest to Web developers using Fusion to test Web sites
in Windows: Windows XP normally exposes only the default Web browser
as a valid HTTP application, preventing other installed Web browsers
from appearing. Fusion 2.0 RC1 now works around this, enabling
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera in Windows to be
advertised as HTTP applications, which in turn lets BBEdit find
these applications in its HTML Preview preferences and use them for
previewing HTML documents. (Free until final release, 247 MB)
<http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/fusion>
<http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7452>
* Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 enables users to play Apple
ProRes files through QuickTime. Apple describes ProRes as "a
visually lossless format that provides uncompressed HD quality at SD
data rates. It is an excellent choice for mastering and can easily
be transcoded to distribution formats like H.264. With new support
for playback on both Mac and Windows computers, Apple ProRes can
also be used for review and approval of Final Cut Studio sequences."
(Free, 396K)
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleproresquicktimedecoder10formac.html>
* Coda 1.5 from Panic is a highly significant update to the
single-window Web authoring tool. The most notable new features
include support for the Subversion version control system, the
capability to search for text across multiple files, custom Web
books for your favorite online reference pages, and improvements to
the text clipping feature. Support for AppleScript has been
expanded, a "Reverse Publish" feature downloads remote items, and
tabs now indicate whether files are local or remote. There are
numerous other changes and bug fixes in the program; be sure to read
the release notes. ($99 new, free update, 19.9 MB)
<http://www.panic.com/coda/>
<http://www.panic.com/coda/releasenotes-new.html>
* RapidWeaver 4.1.1 from Realmac Software beefs up the WYSIWYG HTML
authoring tool with support for Leopard's Quick Look feature, an
automatic resizing option for dragged-in images, and easier
publishing of Web sites to MobileMe. There are a number of other bug
fixes and minor improvements. RapidWeaver 4.x requires Mac OS X 10.5
Leopard. ($79 new, free update for 3.6 and 4.0 users, 33 MB)
<http://www.realmacsoftware.com/>
<http://www.realmacsoftware.com/downloads/version-history/>
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/01-Sep-08
------------------------------------
by Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9753>
**App store mail list** -- Where does one go to find the latest
releases in Apple's App Store? RSS and Twitter feeds are available.
(4 messages)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2178>
**MacBook Pro power on airlines** -- Attempting to charge a MacBook
Pro on a flight didn't work, possibly due to the power required to
charge versus the power needed to run the laptop without charging.
(5 messages)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2180>
**Screensaver/Expose issues** -- A reader's screen saver starts and
stops without any indication of the underlying reason. (2 messages)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2184>
**Sleep Problems with Eudora** -- A bug in Eudora is keeping a Mac
from sleeping. (7 messages)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2185>
**VNC on Tiger** -- Readers share their experiences using Chicken of
the VNC under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. (2 messages)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2188>
**Security Concern of an un-commanded start-up** -- An iMac
mysteriously starts itself in the middle of the night. Gremlins? Or
a bug? (6 messages)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2189>
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