Thursday, January 30, 2003
Keynote Vs. PowerPoint
With Keynote, Apple gives Mac users that haven't yet moved up to Jaguar one more reason for doing so. And for any Mac user who just wants their presentations to look that bit more polished--and have their belief in the Apple's design elegance confirmed--then Keynote is well worth the indulgence. (Forbes via
MyAppleMenu)
12:11:52 PM 
MPEG 1, 2, And Now 4: Shrinking Video Files
What is the difference between the MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video formats? (New York Times via
MyAppleMenu)
10:57:28 AM
iPod Wants To Be Seen And Heard
Apple's portable music player is proving both technologically and fashionably hip. (Bangkok Post via
MyAppleMenu)
10:57:03 AM
Detroit Students To Get Wireless iBooks
The 80 sixth-graders at Detroit's Malcolm X Academy are more eager than usual to head to school these days. So is teacher Jeffrey Robinson. (Mike Wendland via
MyAppleMenu)
10:56:34 AM
Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers
Internet users are mystified by a tricky browser add-on that installs itself without permission and defies attempts to remove it. Some are calling the program the most insidious thing on the Web. By Michelle Delio. [
Wired News]
10:56:07 AM
Anarchist torture chambers: This isn't MX-related, ...Anarchist torture chambers
This isn't MX-related, and I don't remember what linked me here, but it's a fascinating article in The Guardian UK about the psychological tricks used against Franco forces during the Spanish Civil War.
"Beds were placed at a 20 degree angle, making them near-impossible to sleep on, and the floors of the 6ft by 3ft cells was scattered with bricks and other geometric blocks to prevent prisoners from walking backwards and forwards... The only option left to prisoners was staring at the walls, which were curved and covered with mind-altering patterns of cubes, squares, straight lines and spirals which utilised tricks of colour, perspective and scale to cause mental confusion and distress." An anti-usability primer...? [
JD on MX]
10:55:32 AM
Shopping at Sears? Try a Dell
The computer maker wants to see whether shoppers looking at items like television sets, refrigerators and lawn mowers might also take the opportunity to peruse a new Dell PC. By John G. Spooner, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [
CNET News.com]
Hmmm... Sears has tried this several times, most recently with Apple. As far as I know, each try has been a flop. Who says, "Let's get a computer. Let's go to Sears."
10:52:09 AM
O'Reilly Offers UNIX CD Bookshelf v3.0
If you're rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty with Mac OS X's Unix underpinnings, you might be interested in a new reference from O'Reilly & Associates. (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)
10:48:46 AM
Horizontal smileys
Most emoticons are read sideways, vertically, like this: ;-) Here's a list of richer emoticons from Japan, like: (^o^)/ and (-_-)zzzz . [JD on MX]
8:57:36 AM
Ted Turner out at AOL Time Warner
The troubled media company announces a net loss of nearly $100 billion for 2002 and that vice chairman Ted Turner is resigning. By Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
Man. Everybody is on their way out there.
8:55:11 AM
Using Contribute on a GoLive site
This thread from the GoLive list discusses experiences with using Macromedia Contribute to edit content on sites created with Adobe GoLive. Basically, it just works. GoLive's new template structure resembles that of Dreamweaver 4, so you can get basic locked areas in a page. Results should be similar for a FrontPage site, although FrontPage doesn't follow this template scheme and so won't have locking or repeating regions. [JD on MX]
This is pretty interesting. I don't know many GoLive users, but there's just nothing as cool as contribute out there right now for the basic web "contributor".
8:54:18 AM
Telemarketers sue to stop "Do Not Call" list
I can't believe this!! I'm so tired of telemarketers. The other night, it was 8:30, I was tired from a day of traveling and just getting settled in to the sofa when the phone rings. Maybe it's family seeing if we got home all right. No. It's stupid AT&T wanting to discuss their long distance options. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
8:52:06 AM
Apple Activates .Mac Address Book Syncing
While the .Mac page still lists the feature as "Coming Soon," when we logged-in to our Address Book a page asked if we wanted to turn the feature on. (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)
It's about time!
8:49:38 AM
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