Monday, October 30, 2006

NY Times: Circulation Plunges at Major Newspapers. [Scripting News] 3:17:54 PM      Google It!.

Scaling the Tufte effect. Reading Edward Tufte's latest opus, Beautiful Evidence, I stopped on page 176 to consider his redesign of a table of data about cancer survival rates, shown (in part) here. As you can see, it's a stack of sparklines, each decorated with data labels. In Tufte's online forum you can find the original table, the redesign, and an assortment of PowerPoint manglings of the data. ... [Jon's Radio] 3:13:39 PM      Google It!.

Apple Unveils Extra Leopard-isms To Developers. devilsecret writes to point out that some of the new Apple capabilities for developers on Leopard have been unveiled. The most interesting parts appear to be the opening of more of iLife to other programs, and the inclusion of Ruby on Rails. [Slashdot] Leopard will also accomodate windowsXP 3:12:25 PM      Google It!.

Seagate to Encrypt Data on Hard Drives. Krishna Dagli writes "Seagate, using their new DriveTrust Technology will automatically encrypts every bit of data stored on the hard drive and require users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the disk drive." [Slashdot] 3:06:24 PM      Google It!.

USB Dongle Records Web, FM Radio. rah1420 writes "Gizmag just wrote about "Instant FM Music," a USB dongle that plugs into your computer's USB Port and records FM and Web Radio stations. You can record the playlist, tag the songs for easy playback, all without that nasty DRM." Nice and cheap, although who knows if the software is any good. That would be a neat device to see hacked for things like MythTV. [Slashdot] 3:03:18 PM      Google It!.