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Tuesday, 23 July 2002 |
Canadian computer bag firm Willow Design seems to be making some great cases for what are usually non-portable Macintosh computers. Definitely worth checking out.
They’re not cheap, but I don’t know of any other firm doing similar things. Now even your desktop machines are transportable.
3:57:37 PM 
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A report at MacNN says this: Apple today announced Shake 2.5, the first reincarnation of Nothing Real software, since it purchased the effects company, and the first release of the industry-leading compositing and visual effects software for Mac OS X.
Shake 2.5 is scheduled to be available in August for Mac OS X 10.2—at a suggested retail price of $4,950—and for Linux, IRIX and Windows for $9,900. Yearly maintenance for Mac OS X and Linux, IRIX and Windows is $1,200 and $1,485, respectively.
Interesting strategy. Keep prices for non-Apple operating systems the same, and make the Mac OS X version sooo much cheaper. For that saving you can get a new Mac. Very smart move.
3:37:20 PM
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Some winters in Perth it rarely rains and they are sunny with beautiful long shadows throughout. That kind of intense but amber Perth winter light is my favourite of all to make photographs in.
Some Perth winters are wet and dark and grey all winter long. This winter is a mixture of the two extremes. Today is the first warm, bright and sunny day for quite some time. Otherwise this winter has been terribly English, and glum.
Today has been magnificent, and to perk myself up from feeling so worn out, I got out my Leicas and went for a walk. Marvellous images to be found everywhere, composed of the most mundane things.
On the way back I stopped off at an old photo laboratory on the main street, and dropped off some films to be processed. The place, and the people, look as if they have not noticed the two decades that have passed since I went there last.
The woman behind the counter was unbelievably naïve about the events that have occurred in the world since the mid 1980s. She departed the world a long, long time ago, to stand behind a crumbling counter on a polluted road in the uttermost city on the planet.
3:28:02 PM
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I have to hand it to the guys and gals (if there are any) at Project Seven, the independent American web development firm that makes some of the best Dreamweaver extensions I have come across. They really know what they are doing.
I was ecstatic to discover they had authored one of the best books ever on Dreamweaver—Dreamweaver 4 Magic, but saddened to read at the Project Seven website that they have refused to do another book on Dreamweaver MX. That might have been some book, if they had chosen to write it.
As it is, their current one is one of the most-used books in my collection, and it is beginning to fall apart, something rather difficult to do given how I carefully cover all my books in thick, transparent, Contact plastic. They last in excellent condition for decades like that.
3:19:13 PM
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Consider that last post—three cities in Australia, two nations, four states. Working across such extremes of distance was hardly possible before the Internet.
3:05:10 PM
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I have been burning the candle at both ends for several days here in Perth, trying to make a significant dent in a web design project for a Melbourne client and a Sydney advertising agency.
First the start of the job was delayed, then it was going to be coming much later, then it suddenly arrived at the worst of all possible times. I worked until 3AM this morning, then uploaded it all to the server in the United States for the client and my agency contact to view it at the start of their working days.
They are both pleased enough with it, luckily, and now I must take a break to get some even more urgent and important things out of the way next. I am exhausted.
2:53:56 PM
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This article, Top 100 Power Picks: A look at top influencers, forces, technologies and products in large enterprise computing. in Enterprise Systems ranks Dave Winer as the 16th most powerful person in the field.
12:10:08 PM
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Mark Pilgrim’s excellent series of articles on how to make a more accessible weblog has now been extended to include all types of websites, and has become a web-published book, in PDF and HTML. Well worth the minimal download.
11:58:51 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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