Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Sun stumbles with grid service rollout. Citing a lack of computing resources, Sun Microsystems has pushed back the rollout of Sun Grid, an Internet-based "utility" service that has been under development since late last year. [Computerworld News] comment []10:33:01 PM

New iMacs Unveiled [MacSlash] comment []5:44:48 PM

Meet Automator. Matt Neuburg (~960 words) The history of the Mac is paved with Apple's attempts to enable ordinary users to tap the programmable power of their own computers. Apple events allowed applications to tell each other what to do. AppleScript allowed users to harness Apple events in an English-like programming language. AppleScript Studio allowed an AppleScript script to be wrapped in a Cocoa interface. But the Grail has remained elusive. The vast majority of users don't want to deal with a programming language. Pre-written scripts exist, but what if you don't know that, or can't find one that does what you want? The problem is that it's impossible to know in advance what you, the user, would like to do - that's the point of putting programming power in your hands in the first place. By matt@tidbits.com (Matt Neuburg). [TidBITS] comment []1:45:16 AM

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