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 Monday, January 21, 2002
Adobe Announces Availability of InDesign 2.0 : "With hundreds of new features important to designers, InDesign 2.0 is more than an upgrade, it represents a revolution in professional page layout and design that will dramatically change cross-media publishing."
9:44:01 PM 
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Saturday, January 19, 2002
AOL in Negotiations To Buy Red Hat : "To counter Microsoft's desktop hegemony, New York-based AOL Time Warner could use the deal to couple its America Online software, the market leader with more than 33 million Internet subscribers, with Red Hat's operating-system technology, sources said." Via What Do I Know
2:08:25 PM
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Friday, January 18, 2002
Usability of OS X : "User input has been influential. I don't think anyone will soon forget the infamous apple-in-the-middle-of-the-menu-bar idea. But, among OS X's massive improvements, there are still many interface enhancements that are absolutely necessary for this OS to thrive." Via myapplemenu
11:06:26 PM
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Jonathan Ive: Apple of the iMac : "It's a long way from a toilet laboratory in Chigwell, north London to the heart of Silicon Valley, California. But in eight years, Jonathan Ive has covered this distance to establish himself as one of the world's most celebrated and sought after designers." Via myapplemenu
10:44:29 PM
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Apple Gives Corporations The Cold Shoulder : "Although Macintosh loyalists were in full force at Macworld, the corporate buyer was noticeably absent from the halls of Moscone. And no wonder. The kinds of products that draw enterprise purchasers were in short supply." Via myapplemenu
10:34:33 PM
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Philips Burns Copy Protection Efforts : "Philips, because of conformity issues, has warned the record labels that the discs are actually not CDs at all and must bear warning labels to inform consumers. "We've made sure they would put a very clear warning that you're not buying a compact disc, but something different," Wirtz said. "We've been warning some labels to begin with, and they've adjusted their behavior." Via rc3.org
8:16:30 PM
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Hints For Accessible Web Design : "Many sites are unusable by visually impaired people simply because they are poorly designed and are written in invalid HTML. People with disabilities have as much of a right to be able to access websites as anyone else, but many designers fail to recognise this. The Web is an information medium, but too many web designers still think of it as a purely visual medium, and are unaware even that visually impaired people can access the web." Via webgraphics
7:39:18 PM
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EIMS 3.1 Offers More Authentication Methods : "Glenn Anderson has released Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.1, the latest version of the popular Internet mail server. EIMS 3.1 offers new Apple Events, performance improvements, Delivery Status Notification information in message bounces, statistics for queue delays/total messages, and support for NTLM (for Outlook/Outlook Express), CRAM-MD5 (POP3), and LDAP authentication."
7:35:00 PM
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Thursday, January 17, 2002
Gates Vows To Plug Holes : "In an e-mail to employees obtained by The Associated Press, Gates referred to the new philosophy as "Trustworthy Computing" and said his highest priority was to ensure that computer users continued to venture safely across an increasingly Internet-connected world."
2:21:58 PM
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink : "Twenty years after it entered the mainstream of American society, recycling is still a partly filled glass. Whether it appears half-full or half-empty depends on if you are collecting the glass or remanufacturing it."
2:19:14 PM
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Apache 2.0: What's New And Who'll Benefit? : "Ironically, all of the developments mean the biggest beneficiary of the release of Apache 2.0 could be Microsoft. Windows users now have a Web server that is specifically designed to support their platform, yet, is more reliable and secure."
2:16:50 PM
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Cool Ideas For Overheated Chips : "Shakouri has developed a micro-fridge the size of a grain of dust. It works by using electrons - instead of freon in conventional refrigerators - to carry thermal energy away from a chip's hot spot and dissipate it into the environment."
2:12:31 PM
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Mac Faithful May Resurrect the Tech Sector With Spending : "The tens of thousands of Macolytes who streamed into San Francisco's Moscone Center last week for the annual exhibition, cultural fair, and tent revival are keenly aware that the Mac platform is in the midst of the biggest technological shift in its history." Via myapplemenu
1:57:10 PM
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Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Firm Touts Perfect Compression : "Perfect compression, or even compression of a few hundred times - what ZeoSync claims - would revolutionize the storage, broadband and digital entertainment industry."
2:54:08 PM
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Sony Phasing Out Pen Tablet PCs : "Although the technology and software behind the Pen Tablet could re-emerge in future products, production on the current PC lines has stopped, and plans for follow-up models have been canceled."
2:06:07 PM
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Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Adobe's Foray Into CMS : "A recent exploration of Adobe's foray into server-level content management has changed, or rather, totally eliminated, my concerns about the constraints of using images in templates." Via Evhead
10:15:26 PM
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Graphic Blush: CorelDraw Boxed in Illustrator : "After suffering punishing defeats in the graphics tool market at the hands of Adobe Systems, CorelDraw 10 suffers the additional indignity of being delivered in packaging designed with archrival Adobe Illustrator." Via MacNN
9:07:34 PM
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Privacy Flaw Continues To Dig IE Hole : "New privacy-enhancing controls in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 can be rendered useless by a long-known security flaw in Windows Media Player, a security expert says." Via News.com
8:13:25 PM
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Worm Poses as Outlook Update : "A new computer worm masquerading as a software update from Microsoft is capable of deleting all files on the hard drive of an infected computer but has so far spread very slowly, an antivirus vendor said Monday."
7:21:08 PM
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Some IE Users Still Vulnerable : "According to the documentation by Oy Online, the file execution flaw is easy to exploit. A hacker needs only to insert the character %00 into the name of a downloadable application to disguise the true nature of a malicious program."
7:19:33 PM
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Flat, Flat, Flat Screen World : "Apple's decision to bundle its bottom-of-the-line computer with the sleek screen is a clear sign of the dropping price and growing prevalence of flat screens. Analysts expect the move will only accelerate the trend."
7:15:30 PM
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Monday, January 14, 2002
Out the Windows : "About three months ago, Ahrenstorff cast his lot with a rabble of loosely allied computer hackers. He loaded a home computer with their free operating system, Linux, and proudly made himself Windows free."
10:09:40 PM
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Mac Deadhead Camps in Style : "Supported by an inheritance, Barcroft has devoted his life to obsessively taping speeches, conference sessions, booth presentations and convention parties. Always managing to secure media credentials for the shows he attends, Barcroft describes himself as a multimedia historical videographer."
2:05:27 PM
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