Saturday, April 26, 2003

m100 Mini-Box M-100 World's smallest mini-ITX computer   Mini-Box is a small, light,  low power, silent yet powerful x86 computing platform, designed for embedded or general purpose computing applications. Mini-box runs at only 12V making the mini-box suitable for applications where small form factor, power consumption and reduced noise levels are a must.  Additionally, the mini-box series are equipped with LCD displays and a customizable 14 key keypad, eliminating the use of a keyboard or mouse. Mini-box runs on Linux, Windows or Windows CE. Read more specs.   Picture Gallery Retail Price: $495.95 OEMs and manufacturers send an email to minibox-oem comments? [] 10:41:08 AM     Wi-Fi Goes Hi-Fi. Om Malik talks about Wi-Fi's future as a consumer electronics standards: I've thought for some time that the most interesting Wi-Fi gear that will emerge this year will be ancillary products that rely on the presence of a Wi-Fi network but have nothing to do with computers or printing. Several audio players, like the cd3o c300 and the HomePod, support Wi-Fi networks, and I expect many more audio and video devices to appear unless the DMCA (in the US) restricts manufacturers' desire to promote fair use. More later on that subject. (I promise it's a coincidence that this week's sponsor is mentioned in the opening paragraph of this article.)... [Wi-Fi Networking News] comments? [] 10:17:28 AM     More Manhattan Wireless Maps. Marcos Lara releases more maps of Manhattan, integrating census data, other details: Public Internet Project researcher Marcos Lara has released a variety of larger maps showing details of where wireless access points are found in Manhattan. He's overlaid census data of income levels, and broken out some interesting maps, such as showing which of Columbia University's access points are visible from the street. Lara has also exposed more of his methodology, such as his driving path.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] comments? [] 10:13:16 AM     Cascading Fisheye Menus. duh way to go Cascading Fisheye Menus. With the replication of a benefit for expanding targets at CHI this year,  I hacked up a fisheye view for Mozilla XUL menulists: The system reads an opml file for convenience.  Demo for Mozilla, Phoenix, Fire%#@$</A> in XUL. Addendum: Benjamin B. Bederson (2000). Fisheye menus. Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. San Diego, California, United States. @CiteSeer.   Respond at netscape.public.mozilla.ui. [Surf*Mind*Musings] comments? [] 9:57:23 AM

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