Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Sony Network Camera Live now Sony Network Camera SNC-RZ30N IP network color camera with Integrated Pan/Tilt/Zoom 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface 1/6 type 680k pixel CCD with integral 25X auto-focus zoom lens Smooth and quiet pan/tilt mechanism with 16 presets Ceiling or desktop mounting options Remote monitoring from PCs using standard web browser - Microsoft Internet Explorer Simultaneous access up to 50 users See also:  Camera Web  1:03:40 PM    comment []

Sherlock Channel SDK Deliver Powerful Web Services Using Sherlock Sherlock 3 is dramatically better than standard web browsers at retrieving and displaying some of the most practical and useful information available on the internet, like stock news, movie previews, locations and show times, yellow pages listings, eBay auction activity and much, much more. Do you need a host for your next Internet based search application? Do you have valuable data online that your users need to access in an elegant manner? Sherlock channels are the way to go. Beginning with Mac OS X version 10.2, Sherlock uses a powerful, new model for channels that gives channel developers much more flexibility in how their data is displayed. Sherlock channels provide a way to organize search results in a more intuitive and useful way for users by providing a front-end interface for a Web-based search engine or other information database. However, unlike most browser-based searches, Sherlock channels have full control over how search results are displayed and can take full advantage of the rich Aqua interface of Mac OS X. Users can look forward to asking Sherlock to perform more and more services as time goes by. Will some of them be developed by you? 12:06:06 PM    comment []

Mac OS Rumors We have much, much more of this sort of information to dispense in the weeks ahead; in the mean time, next up on our agenda is much discussion of forthcoming Digital Lifestyle devices including Apple's efforts to introduce DLD's for Pictures and Movies -- a Photo Frame smart display in the 10-12 inch range, and a DVD-R/QuickTime-based DLD designed to work with TVs and HDTVs based around the iPod hardware platform....stay tuned! At an unspecified time in the not-so-distant future, Apple will be rearranging the way several of the various Frameworks that make up most of OS X and provide services to application-level processes to improve performance, particularly on multi-processor systems and for clustering of multiple computers -- preferably second-generation Xserve systems with the RAID rack and forthcoming dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet. an Apple-maintained database of hardware drivers for USB and Firewire devices - this could co-incide with USB2 and Gigawire support in new PowerMacs early next year, and would allow OS X to use a Software Update-style driver finder to automatically download and load kernel any required software -- often without a reboot. 11:52:20 AM    comment []

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