Switchers Guide: Moving from Windows to the Mac
Macworld / Harry McCracken
Moving from a Windows PC to a Mac–at the office or at home–presents the same kinds of opportunities and challenges. It requires some up-front effort: Transferring your data from your old machine to your new one, getting your hardware and software to run, and learning your way around OS X, the Mac’s operating system. (For the purposes of this story, when I say “OS X,” I mean OS X 10.6, also known as Snow Leopard.)
But the move doesn’t have to be that hard. In the stories that follow I’ve assembled a quick guide to making the switch as easy as possible. Don’t worry: it doesn’t have to be onerous or time-consuming. And the quicker you get it out of the way, the sooner you’ll be able to get to work on your new Mac.
Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox to all
Ars Technica / Ryan Paul
Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company’s most popular web applications. The search giant has opened the source code of its comprehensive JavaScript library collection and is making it available to third-party developers for widespread adoption. Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools.
