Seriously, why aren’t we using secure email? Interesting /. slug on getting an African-language Wikipedia(s) up and running. “What use is an encyclopedia when literacy rates among a language’s speakers approach zero?” Flickr appears to have streamlined geo-tagging. w00t! Also: Croque-monsier? Look delicious! currently playing: Blonde Redhead “Elephant Woman”
From the “Wow, why didn’t I think of that?” department: The Tao of Mac explains “Yaki” (the “anti-wiki”): …the content store is a folder tree. Each Wiki node is represented my a folder containing a plain UTF-8 text file, with metadata in a pseudo-RFC:2822 format: […] I chose this approach because the file format is […]
Via Macworld: Porn industry may be decider in Blu-ray, HD-DVD battle: The pornography industry, which generates an estimated US$57 billion in annual revenue worldwide, has always been a fast leader when it comes to the use of new technology, according to analysts. Porn studio Digital Playground, which claims to have produced the largest number of […]
Meditating on the MacBook Pro, I commented last week: Again with the Rosetta. Again, Rosetta will catch you where you least expect it. As I mentioned last time around: Office apps worked pretty much as-good-or-better than ever but the Logitech “Control Center” drivers did not play nice. Another paired example: NetNewsWire Lite hums along as […]
About three months ago, I decided to pit my Safari/Mail experience up against Firefox/Thunderbird and see where that took me. Since I spend so much time in a web browser and an email client each day, I want to optimize my workflow as much as possible. I wanted to find the “one client to rule […]
Vermont holds many interesting and peculiar discoveries: I’m overdue on making any conclusions re: Gecko vs. WebKit Monday Top 10 on Tuesday: The “That Was So Last Week” Method (Match all: Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 songs selected […]
Via Gizmodo via Boing Boing: Akihabra News article “2nd hand electronics sales will soon be illegal in Japan”: So from April 1st 2006, ALL electronic products sold in Japan before 2001 will be prohibited from the 2nd hand market! Instantly brings to mind Gibson’s line from Neuromancer re: “…in Japan, cash had been illegal for […]
While reviewing some traffic info and site stats, I noticed that my current leading search phrases are: “Bonjour Firefox” and “Firefox Bonjour”. For those of you who (like me) asked the question: How do I take advantage of Apple’s Bonjour technology AND the well-received Gecko HTML rendering engine? …I have the following advice: Get on […]
Open note to all those working on the “social software product[s]” of “Web 2.0” (or are otherwise pre-gaming for Zeldman’s hypothetical Web 3.0): Semantic equivalents in tagging apps. I don’t think this is anything remotely like a new idea but SERIOUSLY please make your applications smart. And by “smart”, I mean that if you’re going […]
From ’round the web (in this case: MacSlash): Bare Bones’ Yojimbo personal information organizer. What’s this doing that StickyBrain or Voodoo Pad isn’t? Granted, I can’t speak much for StickyBrain. Never used it. Don’t see the point in that kind of system. (Maybe I would if I’d used it?) I’ll stick to Voodoo Pad, which […]