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p2pnet news | Products:- Are big changes imminent at .Mac?
tuaw.com thinks they are.
“Rumors are flying about major changes coming to Apple’s .Mac online service,” it says, citing a post from Dmitry Chestnykh, CEO at Coding Robots, as the most interesting.
“He went through the iCal Localizable.strings file in the recently released 10.5.3 update and found a number of changes,” says the story, going on, “In particular, he found a lot of evidence that the .Mac brand name is going to be replaced. Apple is apparently using a placeholder %@ which will be dynamically replaced by the new name, whatever that is, when it’s released.”
Chestnykh, meanwhile, says he’s “not in Apple rumors business, but … hell …why not?”
Hints are everywhere in Mac OS X 10.5.3 update, he says, including as examples >>>
iCal’s Localizable.strings file contains the following string:
/* Label of .Mac button in iCal’s General preferences. %@ is the new name of Apple’s online service (was .Mac) (remove -XX02)
Safari has the following lines in its Localizable.strings:
/* Title of .Mac alert sheet, with .Mac brand name subsituted */
“You need a %@ account that has syncing enabled” = “You need a %@ account that has syncing enabled”;
“Almost everywhere ‘.Mac’ has been replaced with %@, which means that the name of Apple’s online service will be inserted programmatically by applications,” Chestnykh state, adding:
“I looked into binaries to find out what the new name is, but it seems like apps take this value from /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Mac.prefPane /System/Library/CoreServices/AOS.bundle (thanks, Mike!), which still has the old name.
“It seems like it will be updated via Software Update once Apple renames .Mac and — boom! — all your apps will have the new name.”
Now you know 
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.Stumble It!
tuaw.com - Big changes coming to .Mac?, May 29, 2008
Coding Robots - .Mac re-branding is coming , May 30, 2008
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