Monday, September 16, 2002

Palm Plays Its New Hand. When Palm introduced version 5 of its popular operating system earlier this year, it was the latest shot in its battle with Microsoft's Pocket PC to stay competitive in a world of converging, feature-packed mobile devices. Palm officials contend that features in OS 5 make it well positioned to gain more business users and maintain its lead with consumers. [osOpinion] 9:05:08 PM    comment []

Boxes and Arrows: Building the Beast: Talking with Peter Morville. Our biggest area of learning was bottom-up information architecture. The first edition was grounded in the type of top-down processes that come with building a new site from scratch. In the second edition, we were able to draw upon an understanding of how to redesign sites that already contain huge amounts of content and applications. [Tomalak's Realm] 2:24:37 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Enigmail Standard In Mandrake 9.0. AxelTorvalds writes "The Mozilla 1.1 RPMs in Mandrake 9.0 contain the enigmail plugin. It seemlessly encrypts, signs, decrypts and authenticate email with GPG or PGP in the Mozilla Mail client. This is the first major distributor I know of to support enigmail. With this and Evolution and Kmail both supporting GPG and PGP are we at the dawn of that golden age when encrypted email will be commonplace?" --- Update: 09/15 17:26 GMT by T: Borked link fixed. [Privacy Digest] 2:23:23 PM    comment []

Apple In Education: Is Anybody Out There? : MyMac.com via MyAppleMenu [MyAppleMenu] 2:22:11 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Your Rights Online - 60,000 Credit Cards Numbers Stolen Online. robl writes "140,000 credit card numbers were tested for validity yielding about 62,000 valid credit card numbers and $300,000 of fraudulent charges. A good quote: --- "There wasn't a system in place to say, 'you've generated 140,000 charges, that's more than your normal volume.'" --- As Schneier-heads would say, it's a brittle system -- when the security fails, it fails badly." [Privacy Digest] 1:12:49 PM    comment []

I use this on occasion, so I'll have to be a bit more careful in the future... Mozilla Bug Leaks Web Surfing Data : Netscape and other Web browsers based on the Mozilla development project contain a bug that leaks users' Web surfing data, according to a new report. (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 1:10:03 PM    comment []

Wireless Wonder : Getting your computer and phone to talk does require a little of the set-up dance we hate. (Independent via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 1:07:56 PM    comment []

Probably their only saving grace is that I don't have to attempt to refold the stupid thing. This is a typical computer problem, in that the people who are developing the maps and the service aren't actual end users of their service. Route of Problem: Bad Online Maps. Free online map sites are supposed to lead lost drivers from point A to point B without a hitch. So why do so many people complain that sites like MapQuest misguide them? By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News] 1:03:45 PM    comment []

One Man's Retro Mac Revival. Devan Simunovich trucks his collection of 50 compact Macs to raves, where he sets up classic game lounges. He's part of a thriving group committed to dusting off ancient Macs and getting them working again. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 7:24:45 AM    comment []