Monday, January 21, 2002

I'm trying to update the navbar and other preferences items, but neither links nor w3m will correctly submit the form. I wonder what's going on. Time to finish lunch and go back to school. 2:11:52 PM | reply [] Trying out a new theme. It fits better with the design of my Web site. 2:00:04 PM | reply [] I was woken up today by someone sending me an IM on my (new) cellular phone. I didn't realize that my messing around with AIM service on my phone would cause it to send me a "Web Alert" every time I got a message. If it weren't for the airtime charges, it would be pretty nice. 1:34:12 PM | reply [] iView MediaPro 1.4 is out, too. iView MediaPro is a powerful yet elegant application that, unfortunately, has been less than stable on Mac OS X recently. If the final version of 1.4 is anything like the betas I've been using, lack of stability is no longer an issue. To any iView MediaPro users reading this: if you haven't tried cataloging fonts in iView MediaPro, do it! Just drop your fonts folders onto a catalog, and you'll have an easy-to-navigate font list and samples. [Or is anyone reading this at all?] I wish Apple had bought iView MediaPro and turned it into iPhoto, the way they did with SoundJam and iTunes. I have no doubt iPhoto would have been a dramatically better application if they had, instead of the current mess (cluttering your hard disk with strangely named files, copying your photos instead of cataloging in place, slow, inflexible, and buggy). One thing iView MediaPro can learn from iPhoto is the ability to organize incoming media into “rolls”. Last month (before iPhoto was released) I did some work on creating an analog with AppleScript Studio and Apple’s Image Capture, but ran into some bugs that stopped me along the way. I'm waiting for some bug fixes in AppleScript Studio before I can continue. 1:12:24 PM | reply [] Addendum: There's no Mac OS X installer release, but the XFree86 4.2 Darwin PowerPC binaries are here (for Mac OS X 10.1.x). 12:47:04 PM | reply [] XFree86 4.2 appears to be out, but there's no Mac OS X binary release yet. I think I'll wait. 12:44:04 PM | reply [] Manila Envelope 1.0.1 was released today. I should check it out. I got positive results from one ICeCoffEE tester, and sent an email to the other person. The people I really wanted to test it seem not to have downloaded it. An interesting feature of Kuro5hin is well-written but technically inaccurate comments replied to by informed comments. And K5 still is the only place I've actually had someone call me on the phone (to ask my advice, not to flame me) after a comment I posted. The rest of the Internet should be like that. 12:19:55 PM | reply []