Google
Yahoo indexes my google hosted blogs (blogspot/blogger) quite well. Google's search fails completely.
Weird.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Friday, November 05, 2004
World Computer Exchange
World Computer Exchange
Donate selected computers. I've got a few to go here.
PS. Blogger was thrashed today -- status.blogger.com has an extensive apology. They've been staggering for weeks.
Donate selected computers. I've got a few to go here.
PS. Blogger was thrashed today -- status.blogger.com has an extensive apology. They've been staggering for weeks.
Thursday, November 04, 2004
iPod Technoporn -- iPod lounge buyer's guide
iPodlounge | All Things iPod
Gizmodo loves it.
As promised several weeks ago, iPodlounge is proud to announce the immediate availability of the iPodlounge Buyers’ Guide 2004 for free download from the links and locations below. It contains the world's first review of Apple's new iPod Photo.
For the unfamiliar, iPodlounge's Buyers’ Guide is a complete, magazine-style guide to everything iPod and iPodlounge, with trustworthy previews and reviews of the very best iPod accessories, guides to getting free iPod software and support, and much, much more. We've designed the Guide so you can print only the pages you want, and give them to your family and friends as very specific holiday "gimme iPod" reminders.
By reader demand, the Guide contains a complete report card of the over 200 iPod-related products that have been reviewed by iPodlounge, and features the incredible art and photography of iPodlounge readers from around the world.
Gizmodo loves it.
OS X Tiger: VoiceOver
MacOSX v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview
How hard will it be to develop applications for children with reading disorders? Awesome.
The Universal Access capabilities of Mac OS X are enhanced in Tiger to include VoiceOver, a new spoken interface. Designed for those with visual and learning disabilities, it reads aloud the contents of documents such as web pages, Mail messages, and word processing files. As an integrated part of Tiger, Apple is providing a set of programming guidelines so that you will be able to make sure that your application can deliver the best VoiceOver experience.
How hard will it be to develop applications for children with reading disorders? Awesome.
OSX v10.4 Tiger: Core Data
MacOSX v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview
I wonder if thi s is the database used by the Spotlight metadata engine. If this datbase were to be used by iPhoto and iTunes ...
An OS supplied set of object-SQL services. Big.
Sigh. Apple is good at marketing to geeks. I'm ready to send them money now ...
Core Data gives you the ability to create a description of your data objects. Once defined, Core Data handles most of the heavy work of managing your data objects, both in-memory and on-disk. This allows you to focus on application logic and avoid the infrastructure work. In short, Core Data is a model-driven object management graph and persistence framework....
In Tiger, Core Data will support three different kinds of files for storage of data:
* A text-based XML file format
* A better performing binary file format
* A high-performance, SQLite-based database file format
Each of these file formats has its strengths. The XML file format is a good choice during the development of an application as it allows you to peek inside the file and see what is going on. The SQLite format will often be the best choice for desktop applications because of its performance characteristics.
I wonder if thi s is the database used by the Spotlight metadata engine. If this datbase were to be used by iPhoto and iTunes ...
An OS supplied set of object-SQL services. Big.
Sigh. Apple is good at marketing to geeks. I'm ready to send them money now ...
OS X Tiger: Automator and other themes
10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview
Tiger's themes seem to be search (Spotlight), metadata (Spotlight database) and end-user extensibility (Automator and Dashboard).
I'm persuaded Tiger should deliver real value to me. I doubt it will work well on my G3 iBook of course, so the real cost is much higher than a $130 upgrade price. It should work well on the new G5 iMacs.
AppleScript has long allowed users to combine the abilities of multiple applications in new and unexpected ways. Automator takes AppleScript's application integration technologies a huge step further. With Automator, end-users can drag-and-drop actions from various applications into a single, saveable workflow. It's similar to writing shell scripts and piping the output of one command-line tool to another with pipes, but with a visual interface.
Tiger's themes seem to be search (Spotlight), metadata (Spotlight database) and end-user extensibility (Automator and Dashboard).
I'm persuaded Tiger should deliver real value to me. I doubt it will work well on my G3 iBook of course, so the real cost is much higher than a $130 upgrade price. It should work well on the new G5 iMacs.
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