Maine iBook Program Liked by Students

Overall, the report released this week by the Maine Education Policy Research Institute showed that the laptops are having a positive effect in schools according to this Portland Press Herald article. [Dana Baggett]

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WWDC will have Cocoa & Carbon Application Frameworks Focus: Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is May 19-23 at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. This year the WWDC will have a major focus on Mac OS X's application frameworks:

Application Frameworks. Mac OS X provides two powerful application frameworks for development, allowing developers to make the most of the platform’s capabilities. Cocoa, Apple’s object-oriented framework for creating full-featured Mac OS X applications, provides powerful objects and functions that support rapid development and high developer productivity. The Carbon framework provides an extremely rich set of procedural APIs, giving developers maximum flexibility and access to the built-in functionality of Mac OS X. Session content for this track covers Carbon and Cocoa in depth, as well as Music and Audio; Internet aervices, like WebKit and Sherlock Channels; and User Experience related topics such as how to design for Aqua, leveraging the Address Book Framework, using Apple Help, providing Accessibility, incorporating AppleScript, and more.

Check it out. The early bird registration saves you $300.

Macromedia.com Web Site not Snubbing Safari--New Report: Macromedia posted a progress report on the beta renditions of their fully Flash implemented web site. The report provides some interesting data. Mac users were 11% of all visitors but provided 41% of all comments, mostly (97%) complaining about Safari compatibility. Visitors using Safari accounted for only 0.1% of all visits. Mac users are a "vocal" bunch. The report notes that Macromedia and Apple are working to resolve the remaining issues with Safari. [Brian Nakamoto]