Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Hidden ad-skipping feature found in TiVo. A specific pattern of keystrokes on a remote control for TiVo digital video recorders enables subscribers to activate a feature making it easier to skip through ads. [CNET News.com] 1:35:36 PM

West, Ward make TV movie about making BATMAN TV series. "Adam West and Burt Ward are reuniting for a TV movie they hope will score bop-socko-pow ratings for CBS. The former co-stars of ABC's BATMAN series play themselves in a comedy-adventure about a plot to steal the original Batmobile from a charity event." Oh, look. Another lead writer who can't pass up using cheesy sound effects. [Comics Worth Reading] 1:32:01 PM

from MacOSRumors Tom Hagopian writes: Do you think that Apple will switch to WebCore for its' Help Viewer? I think Sherlock channels are Java or JavaScript (I'm really not sure, though); will Apple move to KJS for that, too? It certainly would speed a lot of things up. Expect to see a whole lot of this in Mac OS X 10.3, now Apple's primary operating system development effort. OS X 10.2.4 is due out in a couple of weeks, primarily to support the new aluminum PBG4s but also chock full of minor updates and bug fixes, and a 10.2.5 update may be issued later in the winter. Aside from those two minor updates, 10.3 is where much of Apple's development efforts are going right now and a very large part of that is a major new version of Safari designed to run exclusively in 10.3, as well as WebCore-enabled versions of almost every Apple application. Not only will Help Viewer move entirely to WebCore, and Sherlock will adopt at least some of its features, but many of Apple's other software will receive impressive new Web-enabled features made possible by the KHTML-based Web engine. Notably, iTunes will have greater integration with the Web sites of Internet Radio streams, iMovie and iPhoto will gain impressive new integration with .Mac, and the entire .Mac concept will experience [a] quantum leap forward. 9:16:43 AM