Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Compact timeline of global history [Cool Tools] http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000453.php 11:44:48 PM

PC World magazine has honored Groove version 3.0 virtual office software with a 2004 World Class Award for Best Collaboration Tool in the mobile tools category. Comments (0) Comments on this Entry: [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] http://www.suite75.net/blog/mt/Groove/archives/001562.html 11:42:19 PM

If you've been holding off on learning Objective-C because you didn't like the idea of reading a whole book about C first, this tutorial is the solution. If you know what a variable is and know what function is, we can quickly get you up to speed on the subset of ANSI C that you need for use in Cocoa. [Cocoa Dev Central] http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000081.php 11:40:59 PM

Syndicated summaries of web content are more popular than ever before, and the recent explosion of users has prompted some dramatic changes in the world of RSS software. Giles Turnbull takes a look at some of the latest offerings, including PulpFiction, Shrook, and of course, NetNewsWire. [O'Reilly MacDevCenter.com] http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/15/rss.html 11:40:10 PM

rocketjam writes "OpenTextBook.org is a new project to create a free, open text book 'collaboratively written by anyone on the internet', using a Creative ... [Slashdot] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/1651259 11:39:16 PM

Today, Onfolio Inc. launched their namesake product Onfolio, helping to shape and define a new and important category in Internet software -- search information management. Onfolio helps Internet users to easily collect, organize and share their research. The product is built around the idea that 'search' has become the most common Internet activity, yet end-users have had virtually no good tools to help them manage and share all the "micro-content" that they find on the Internet. The product tightly integrates into Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and the Windows desktop, enabling users to capture fragments of content from web pages, email, RSS feeds, and their desktop. In essence, users create content 'collections', personal databases of micro-content that can be organized and searched locally, but then re-composed into reports that can be shared via email, posted as websites, and published as RSS feeds. Forbes.com characterizes it's essential role: "Onfolio faces head-on the problem of information overload, giving Internet users ways to capture and reuse the many tidbits they come across in everyday Internet use." The uses of the product touch anyone who seriously uses the Web, whether for personal or professional use. The Onfolio website has some great usage examples to help spark your imagination. Onfolio was founded by my brother J.J. Allaire, and also led by Allaire co-founders Adam Berrey and Charles Teague. They've done a great job creating an exceptionally useful product that will help all of us become more productive users of information on the Internet. I can personally attest that Onfolio has transformed my relationship with content on the Internet -- I am more in control of the surging amount of micro-content that floods websites, email, RSS feeds and beyond. Thanks guys! [Jeremy Allaire's Radio] http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/2004/03/ 11:37:58 PM

MUGnetwork, today, announced the relaunch of MacDesktops.net, their Desktop Image sharing community. The site had previously been offline due to software problems. With nearly 150 desktop images already, MacDesktops.net features instant desktop publishing, your image is viewable on the site as soon as you submit it. [MacMerc] http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1424 11:34:05 PM

14 Jun 2004: "Imagine for a moment that Windows XP came with Office XP Professional and Visual Studio .NET preinstalled with it. Imagine it was significantly more secure and easier to use. Imagine that it only cost $50 for all of that software. Sun's new Java Desktop System Release 2 is like the bizarro world equivalent of that kind of Microsoft software package. It's essentially in the same league except it doesn't use Microsoft technologies; the operating system is based on GNU/Linux with proprietary [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix] http://RootPrompt.org/article.php3?article=7045 11:33:28 PM

Through the Looking Glass - a perspective on Sun's Desktop Strategy. Sun's Java Desktop has been something of a surpri... [OSNews] 11:29:07 PM

June 15, 2004. Oh, goody, FireFox 0.9 is here. And it's less than a 5 MB download. I have long since switched to FireFox for web browsing. I switched for the popup blocking but I stayed for the tabbed browsing. Here are three reasons to switch web browsers today: You'll get fewer viruses and you'll get no annoying popups asking you if you want to install lame spyware that will ruin your computer forcing a complete reinstall. You can open all your bookmarks in tabs, all at once, and let them download in the background while you read them. You'll help break the Microsoft Monopoly on web browsers. Microsoft took over the browser market fair and square by making a better product, but they were so afraid that Web-based applications would eliminate the need for Windows that they locked the IE team in a dark dungeon and they haven't allowed improvements to IE for several years now. Now Firefox is the better product and there's a glimmer of hope that one day DHTML will actually improve to the point where web-based applications are just as good as Windows-based applications.   [Joel on Software] 11:18:33 PM

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Released. Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released. Release and... [OSNews] 11:16:17 PM