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Thursday, July 1, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Finnish contribution to the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn -- Comment()
Now that Cassini-Huygens mission has successfully entered orbit around Saturn, it is time to see what we can learn about Saturn and the Solar system. Two of the instruments on board were partly developed in Finland: Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) and Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI). Thus, I eagerly look forward to learn about the results of the mission.
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Fighting over Dashboard -- Comment()
Dashboard is generating strong opinions. Dashboard is a new platform for useful widgets included in the next release of Mac OS X, 10.4 aka 'Tiger'. Here are a few selected quotes. Dashboard Vs. Konfabulator: "Apple may hire you to work for them. They may buy your code if they want it. But they will not pay you off just for an idea, nor should they be expected to." [MyAppleMenu] Dashboard Ain't About Little Apps That Apple Creates And Ships With The OS: "Dashboard is like Hypercard, and that's something much more interesting altogether." [MyAppleMenu] That Dashboard thing...: "Apple [...] has to innovate the OS; if there are features that make sense to go into the core OS, they have to go -- ultimately, the user has to win here, not apple, not any individual developer. You can't ask a "typical" user to buy add-on utilities." [Teal Sunglasses]
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Dashboard: web widgets available with the touch of a key -- Comment()
Liberating web sidebars: "[H]ere's another perspective on what Dashboard is (from a browser geek's perspective): HTML sidebar panels liberated from the browser window and placed anywhere on the screen. [...] In other words, like the desk accessories of yore, the sidebar panels in Web browsers are web page accessories that perform basic functions like stock checking, calculators, monitors, alert systems, etc., which brings me to my point: The concept of Web pages as accessories inside a browser has existed for years. [...] A logical way of solving these sidebar panel usability problems is to free those panels from the browser window and make them accessible anywhere on the screen (both invokable and dismissable with the touch of a key)." [Surfin' Safari]
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