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Wednesday, September 25, 2002
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IBM DeveloperWorks discuss the XHTML 2.0 draft. [via Visakopu]
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Inside the Crab: A Detailed Look at Supernova Remnants: "Astronomers have gotten the closest, most detailed look ever inside the remnants of a supernova, that's an aged star that explodes and then collapses into itself." [Google Technology News]
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Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit Processor for Macintosh: "Apple Computer Inc. is looking toward a 64-bit future for the Macintosh, courtesy of PowerPC partner IBM." [Google Technology News]
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Second Thoughts About Intel In Macs: "A deluge of reader mail has opened my eyes to some very sound reasons why the Motorola PowerPC chip's days may be numbered." (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] This seems to be a current fixation. I doubt that we'll see this happening in the near future. Would the Mac software vendors be willing to port their codes to Intel-based Macs? And would the users be willing to buy those new versions of software packages?
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PC Mag Recommends iPhoto: "Your best bet is to get a Macintosh," says PC Magazine to prospective digital still camera buyers. (MacNN via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] I have been more than happy with iPhoto. I have only about 200 pictures on my iBook, but in the near future I will buy one of these new digital cameras. Then I'll fill up the hard disk on my iBook, no doubt about it.
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Another quote of Flirting With Mac OS X: "If you have been using Linux for some time and just love its stability and performance, and find it a natural platform for development, you'll feel right at home on the Mac OS X. On the other hand, if you feel at times frustrated by the difficulty with which modern devices (like wireless, DVD, or FireWire devices) work on Linux, then you might find Mac OS X to be what you've been longing for." (Byte via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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RSS revolt: "People appear to be sick of the syndication format wars. Some are protesting, some are creating new formats with new names, others are simply boycotting." [dive into mark] Birthing hurts. I wish this thing would be over and done, and we could more to using these new technologies.
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Get your genome -- Comment()
Get your own genome, feed your hypochondria: "For UK#400,000, a bioresearcher will map your personal genome for you. As geneticists discover more markers for congenital diseases, you can compare them to your genome and learn what you're in for in your lifetime -- heart disease, cancer, baldness, compulsive hand-washing..." [Boing Boing Blog]
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Olympus C-50 Zoom: "... the five megapixel metal bodied successor to the C-40 Zoom. The new C-50 Zoom has a three times optical zoom lens and a five megapixel 1/1.8" CCD." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Searching and indexing weblogs -- Comment()
Mike DeMaria writes: "Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can't possibly live up to their potential." Matt Croydon::postneo comments: "I've been thinking about this for some time now, but I haven't come up with anything concrete. Categories help, but having a spider index your blog and make it searchable, kinda like blogdex or daypop, but on a per-blog basis. This would make information more accessable. Perhaps pingback is the answer, maybe it's not. Weblog tools are still emerging out of nowhere and are maturing every day. We'll get it eventually." It would really help to have a tool (are you listening, kind people at Google?) for searching weblog posts and making indexes of the posts. I have decided to use categories for classifying posts, but this is not a complete solution, especially when you start to have hundreds or thousands of posts.
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Unix guru gives thumbs up to Mac OS X: "Unix guru Moshe Bar is in love with Mac OS X running on a Titanium PowerBook, according to a glowing article at Byte.com. ... he has little love for graphical user interfaces, preferring to work from the regular console with a variety of special tools. However, he says the "Unix is for servers and Windows is for desktops" is no longer true." [MacCentral]
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The greatest Mac application of all time -- Comment()
A story on MyMac.com offers a number of interesting choices for The greatest Mac application of all time. [Mac Net Journal] This is difficult to say. Hypercard? (Which didn't survive.) MacWrite? Adobe Illustrator? (Especially the early versions, up to Illustrator 88.) MS Word 4.0? (With all its faults...) I must say that today I hardly miss the old software. Mac OS X offers new software packages which are better, and the environment of Mac OS X fits me perfectly. So I don't want the good old days to return.
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The Economics of Apple: "Before Steve Jobs retook the reins at Apple in 1997, many in the industry had begun to sound the death knell for the innovative but beleaguered company. But in a stunning turnaround, Apple pulled itself out of a pool of red ink. One key reason for its success is Apple's ability to sell both software and hardware at reasonable margins." [osOpinion] The challenge for Apple is greater than ever. The usability gap between Mac OS X and Windows XP is not as great as the gap between Mac OS and Windows 3 (or Windows 95) was. Of course, Mac OS X is reliable and trustworthy, but still needs polishing. And most of all Apple needs first-class applications.
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Silly Putty Physics Experiment: "Ever drop a massive ball of silly putty from a six story parking garage? Well someone has, and they want to share their experience with you in both photograph and hilarious video form right here. Want to do your own experiment with a massive wad of silly putty? This guy has some suggestions on how to order it." [kuro5hin.org]
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Having a RSS feed -- Comment()
It is good to note that Private Ink has RSS. Previously I was unable to find a way of including the site in my blogroll, because it only supported some kind of blogger-specific blogrolling system. The new RSS feed seems to work nicely. The site also has a long piece about using the internet for communication. I wish all weblogs would carry the address of their RSS feed prominently on their pages. How else are you going to link to them? I believe most of the reading of blogs will happen through the RSS feeds.
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