Saturday, January 18, 2003


From the Keynote Dept:
Keynote Chartjunk.

Matthew Thomas offers a critique of Apple’s Keynote marketing, in the spirit of Edward Tufte. Also, see this transcription by Aaron Swarz and Peter Norvig’s classic Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation.

[Michael Tsai's Weblog]

If I was still doing presentations on a monthly basis, I would probably get Keynote - just to avoid having to deal with Microsoft Powerpoint.

Has anybody else noticed that Apple has changed its directory structure a little bit? I thought that the page for Safari and Keynote would be at http://www.apple.com/products/safari (and /keynote, respectively). Instead they're at http://www.apple.com/safari (and /keynote). It seems to be that way for iTunes as well.

Over the narrow-band I can't do a more comprehensive search, but I always thought it was a /products/xxxxx. Although I may be thinking of BareBones Software.





From the Safari Dept:

Decafbad points to this mockup of Safari with a multiple-pages-in-one-window solution [0xDECAFBAD]

This is really very cool. I like Safari, 'cept it seems to hog screen space.

Of course, Mac OS X seems to do that in general, much more then OS 9. Everything's so much bigger





From the Alpha Dept:

Scoble enters the great Alpha Male debate with tips for girls on how to get one.
[Scripting News]

The original set of posts that started the whole thing is Hally Suitt on Alpha Males

Interesting reading. I've been following Hally Suitt's articles for a while now... itching to read the next one....









From the Oh-Really Dept:

Apple Demonstrates The Script Editor Service. "Script Editor version 2.0 provides a special service to other applications, which support the Services architecture, by allowing them to treat text selected in their open documents as AppleScript scripts."
[AppleScript Info]

Well I'll be. I just tried it and it worked for me.

Possibly very cool.





From the Windows-Like-Unix Dept:

Talk to the GNUWin II Team [Slashdot]

These guys have a collection of GNU software for Microsoft Windows. Useful, if you're living in both those worlds.