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AppleInsider reports that Apple is considering bringing back matte antiglare displays in the form of an option on more of the company’s Mac offerings. Currently available only as a $50 option on the 17″ MacBook Pro, the report speculates that the 13…

Elixir today is happy to announce Thurly 1.0, a plug-in for Apple Safari. Thurly allows you to shorten long URLs, as well as let you easily post them and more on Twitter, directly from within Safari. With a quick keyboard shortcut, Thurly springs to life automatically shortening the URL of the web page you are on. From there you can copy the shortened URL out to use elsewhere. Paste it into emails, forums posts, blog entries and much more.

MacVide today announced MacVide 3gp Converter 2.7, an update to their mobile video conversion utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, 3gp Converter allows video conversion to mp3 mobile video. All of the most popular formats are supported, and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. MacVide 3gp Converter offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the conversion process.

Yesterday’s release of OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A411 to developers has sent those with access to the new version searching for changes since the last update. Given that the previous seed had occurred only five days earlier, the changes found so far…

I wanted to have all my calendars sync between iCal, Google calendars, and my iPhone. The master copies of my calendars are the Google calendars. To sync them with iCal, I use Google’s free Calaboration application.

To sync with my iPhone, I tried to follow the steps indicated on this page. The problem is that I have several calendars stored on Google. When I opened Safari on my iPhone and went to m.google.com/sync, I got a message that said “This service is not available for your device.” The message was in German, since I am in Switzerland. It turns out that this webpage also allows you to choose a different language. I switched to English, and suddenly the service was available and I could continue setting up my calendars. Now all my Google calendars synchronize to my iPhone.

This follows up on an older hint about changing Safari’s RSS appearance. If you find it hard to distinguish between unread and read articles in Safari’s RSS feeds, or if you’re just tired of looking at pastel shades of blue, you can change the appearance of RSS pages fairly easily. All you need to know is a little CSS. For example, if you want unread articles to be highlighted in an easy-to-spot sage green color, make a plain text file with the following text and save it with a .css extension:

@media screen {	div.apple-rss-unread { 		background-color: rgb(202, 255, 157) !important; 	}}

Save that file somewhere convenient, open Safari preferences, choose the Advanced tab, and use the “Style Sheet” pull-down menu to select the new file as your style sheet. After you restart Safari you’ll see the new colors.

There’s a lot more you can do, if you want to experiment a bit. For instance,…

On my iMac I use a multi-clipboard tool like Jumpcut. Copying multiple items is essential for writing on the Web, especially on hand-held devices where it’s hard to switch between applications. I don’t want to jailbreak my iPhone, so I’m stuck without multi-clipboard abilities for the moment. Here are some options I came up with for copying multiple blocks of text in Safari.

1. Copy the entire article and edit it down after you paste. This is fine, but the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is still another trip to the clipboard.
2. Copy each bit to a Note. As well as it works, the Notes app has to launch each time you switch back to it. If you’re pulling many clippings, this can take a bit of time.
3. Stack URIs and text in Safari’s address bar. Believe it or not you can paste a lot of text into the address bar, but it can’t deal with paragraph breaks. So if all you want is a sentence or two, or URIs from several pages, copy the text, tap on the iPhone’s status …

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

iWebTemplate has announced the addition of new iWeb themes to be used with Apple’s Website building application. iWeb Themes for Business 4.0 includes five new excellent themes: Simplicity, International, Blackout, Time Machine and Flourish. Each iWeb Theme for Business includes eleven templates instead of ordinary eight. The new release extends iWebTemplate’s iWeb themes collection up to ninety one themes. Each iWeb template incorporates a number of different graphic elements.

Macgamestore.com today announced the release of Youda Sushi Chef for the Mac through its web site and digital download service, Mac Games Arcade. The game was created and published by Youda Games. Youda Sushi Chef is a fun time management game. Your main goal is to keep your customers happy and serve them the right dishes in time to reach your daily target. Extra features like reservations and take away orders coming in constantly keep your adrenaline going.

Mac-Chi announces WhoPaste 2.0, a major upgrade to their cutting-edge contact utility for Mac OS X. WhoPaste 2.0 adds significant product extensibility targeted at both world-wide and niche markets; augments existing Daylite support with more data options and match detection; and sports a sleek new user interface. WhoPaste 2.0 continues support for all the leading address books for Macintosh including Apple’s Address Book, Marketcircle’s Daylite, Google’s Contacts, and Microsoft’s Entourage.