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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
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Newsforge covers the Nokia 7700: "Nokia, the world's largest mobile telephone maker, is getting awfully close to bringing a handheld, Internet-connected television to the consumer market. The Finland-based megacorporation has launched a new category of handheld product -- called mobile media devices -- which feature Nokia's largest, most colorful display: a 640x320 touch-sensitive screen that renders as many as 65,536 colors. Nokia says these new devices, to hit the market in Q2 of 2004, offer plenty of new opportunity for Symbian, Java, and C++ developers and is now making SDKs available for free download." [Matt Croydon::postneo]
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Hackers: We Cracked N-Gage Code: "Claims that the new mobile gaming device's 'security has been cracked like an egg' surface on the Web, raising the possibility that Nokia's games could be played on cell phones from other manufacturers." [Wired News]
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ITunes Undermines Social Security: "Although perusing other folks' digital music libraries using iTunes can broaden musical horizons, there can be drawbacks. Like being judged for your taste in music." [Wired News]
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Wishing that Apple went away: "It seems to me that most people who use that other kind of computer, the one that gets all the viruses and security threats, treat Apple's new computers as if they don't exist. [...] I think I know why. [...] Many of the folks who use that other operating system treat Apple's computers as if they don't exist because they've put Apple's computers out of their minds. [...] I'm convinced that these people deal with Apple's efforts the same way they treat pesky nephews or obnoxious dogs: They ignore them. They wish they would just go away."
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PathFinder and Watson: good tools for Mac OS X -- Comment()
I have been using Watson instead of the Sherlock tool for two years. Why did I pay for a tool which is included with Mac OS X in a Apple-provided version? Somehow Watson just works better, and does exactly what I want. Two days ago I noticed another program which may be of similar quality: PathFinder. I have been using this replacement of Finder for a bit over one day. I feel this is what Finder should be like. However, PathFinder is not for everyone, and may be slow on older machines compared to the Finder included with Panther. PathFinder is a browser-style tool, not like the Finder in Mac OS 9. For me PathFinder works well, and there are a lot of fine features included. On my PowerBook it works better than on my iBook, because the browser windows work better with larger screens.
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