Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Via TUAW: the Internet iTunes Registry – – upload the XML dump of your iTunes Library and join the info smorgasboard! On first glance, this seems an awful lot like a variation on what I was talking about recently in “programming serendipity” – – it’s a little too soon for it to be “the lazy […]
Paul Thorrott over at “SuperSite for Windows” posts part two of his Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X “Tiger”, breaking down the key parts that are to give two cents about. Best line out of the whole thing: My educated guess is that Vista won’t be as secure as OS X, however, because […]
Hot on the heels of my last rumination on the subject, the (so-called) rumors start flying about the next Mac mini release being A/V-oriented as something of an Apple PVR/media center device. TUAW and Gizmodo both follow-up on the ThinkSecret post that highlights the “Kaleidoscope” Mac mini as scheduled for release come MacWorld in January. […]
When Apple launched the Mac mini in January, it was done amid all sorts of speculation that it was going to be the “iHome” – – an Apple-branded media center. (Apparently, this is now an annual-ish thing.) Given recent events (i.e., the new iMac with FrontRow and now Microsoft’s Xbox360 launch) I think it may […]
Weird. Almost a week after discussing tags in an Amazon context, I see that they’ve got just such a feature in place. And it seems to be almost exactly what I was talking about, too. Can’t seem to find its release date though, doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the recent press releases.
Forget thieves and blackhats out there pilfering your SSNs, credit card numbers, and all that. Put your fear in the very same institutions that legitimately ask for, need, and SSL your info. A couple years ago I’d had a problem with a particular bank. We’d signed up through MS Money to auto-sync the account details. […]
Via Slashdot: a quickie round-up on Microsoft’s beta release of Office 12, including screenshots, a link to the PC Magazine review and more. …Office 12 introduces a new interface based on tabs that organize sets of functions under headings such as ‘Write,’ ‘Page Layout,’ and ‘Review,’ plus a combination toolbar-and-menu called the ribbon, which displays […]
A nice round-up of the WSIS news/happenings over at Sampo.
A while back, when first exploring launchd, I mentioned the launchd editor from over at codepoetry. Today, however, I saw Lingon featured on TUAW. This is just something that they should have bundled with X.4 in the first place. Well, I’m excited. It seems to be pretty full featured w/ a UI that makes sense, […]
Prompted by this post on TUAW: draggable, re-arrangeable tabs auto-populating RSS bookmark collection (just prompt me when I visit the site “Add feed? Yes – No – Don’t Ask Again”) configurable search tool (different engines or custom search URLs like en.wikipedia.org) “Do you really want to close this window? (13 tabs open)” play nicer with […]