The cross-platform nature of Adobe AIR means the iPlayer will work with Open Source and Apple Mac computers "out of the box" on 18 December, said Mr Rose.

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You can get puredata builds and source from here (windows, mac or linux).

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At internal companies meetings, Steve Jobs has been quoted as complaining that Flash software is slow and buggy and the source of an exceptionally high number of Mac computers crashes.

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Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.

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Notifications are also reminiscent of Growl, an open-source alert utility that does much the same thing for many third-party Mac apps.

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Lightroom 5 beta is compatible with Windows 7 SP 1, Windows 8, Mac OS 10.7 or 10.8, and is currently available at the source link below.

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