Bagelturf is a "low end" (G5 iMac) Aperture user took his blog postings and reorganized them into a topical view topical view. I love the reuse and refactoring aspect of this, but I'm particularly interested because his configuration is similar to my setup.
I have come to like iPhoto 6 so much, save for its $##% inability to import Libraries, that I'm tempted to wait for iPhoto 7 and extend iPhoto 6 with Adobe Photoshop Elements. On the other hand, the Amazon reviews for Elements 4.0 have been pretty bleak. So I'm looking ...
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Monday, July 03, 2006
Cooking the user: MacBook Pro
Tidbits channels Guy Noir in The Mystery of the Burnt Thighs. These MacBook Pros may have been overheating due to a bug in OS X SMB services. I had a similar heating problem with my iMac due to a buggy Canon print driver. A stuck print job pegged the CPU and just about cooked the iMac.
If my iBook holds up I'll wait for rev. B of the MacBook. I'm not interested in the MacBook Pro.
Update 9/3/09: Many years later Canon printer drivers are still driving OS X users mad and Canon scanner drivers are no better. Don't buy Canon hardware.
If my iBook holds up I'll wait for rev. B of the MacBook. I'm not interested in the MacBook Pro.
Update 9/3/09: Many years later Canon printer drivers are still driving OS X users mad and Canon scanner drivers are no better. Don't buy Canon hardware.
Microsoft's thin client version of Office - via Citrix
Fascinating. Microsoft is offering Office 2007 to play with -- using Citrix. How far away can a Citrix acquisition be? Is this anyting more than a marketing gimmick?
It's way, way, past time that OS X implements a thin client solution -- this is the way most productivity applications should be deployed in the home. It needs to be built into 10.5 as Windows Remote Desktop (shares some heritage with Citrix I think) is build into XP Pro.
It's way, way, past time that OS X implements a thin client solution -- this is the way most productivity applications should be deployed in the home. It needs to be built into 10.5 as Windows Remote Desktop (shares some heritage with Citrix I think) is build into XP Pro.
iWeb: The good, the bad, the ugly
I've been experimenting with iWeb. I publish to a local folder then upload to server. I'll update this. I am using it only for small projects because of 'the ugly'. I don't know of good alternatives on OS X, or for that matter, for XP either [1]. Sandvox is the obvious alternative, but the lack of documentation suggests that its future is very limited. [2]
The good
[2] Documentation is to software as facial symmetry is to humans. It's costly to do and has no obvious immediate survival advantages -- so it's a marker for an optimal genome that can afford to "splurge" on hard to do things. Hence the value in mate selection, or so the evolutionary biologists claim. The pathetic state of Sandvox documentation tells me that, no matter how good it may be, it lacks the capital to compete and survive.
The good
- iLife integration is pretty darned impressive, particularly iPhoto integration.
- Suppose you want to link to a local file. Click create link, then choose the file. iLife copies the file to its store and creates a local reference. Elegant.
- Fixed width pages.
- Does it ever empty out its database store? I opened the package and found lots of unreferenced stuff from deleted pages. Maybe there's a garbage collection? This could get ugly.
- No importing of existing web pages.
- You can't switch templates. The template you start with is the template you live with. (And this is a database driven application?!)
- Template customization is insanely hard.
- Your work is stored in a proprietary data structure. You can't migrate your work easily to other environments.
[2] Documentation is to software as facial symmetry is to humans. It's costly to do and has no obvious immediate survival advantages -- so it's a marker for an optimal genome that can afford to "splurge" on hard to do things. Hence the value in mate selection, or so the evolutionary biologists claim. The pathetic state of Sandvox documentation tells me that, no matter how good it may be, it lacks the capital to compete and survive.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Next generation airfare pricing services
A good set of links in here: Arms race in the [airfare] market: Dynamic vs. predictive pricing.
Google translate now does Korean to English
I think Alta Vista did one of the best early translation services, but it was all western languages. Google Language Tools
now does Korean to English and vise versa. That's new and noteworthy!
Firefox running in XP won't render the Korean output, I'll try on a Mac.
Update: it works fine in both Safari and Firefox in OS X. Ahh, the beauty of a Mac. Incidentally, the all-but-forgotten OS X Sherlock utility also provides a wide range of translation services, including Korean. It's a bit more convenient. If I were using these things I'd keep sentences short, grammar very simple, tense present, and words long and formal. (Longer words tend to have more precise meanings.)
now does Korean to English and vise versa. That's new and noteworthy!
Firefox running in XP won't render the Korean output, I'll try on a Mac.
Update: it works fine in both Safari and Firefox in OS X. Ahh, the beauty of a Mac. Incidentally, the all-but-forgotten OS X Sherlock utility also provides a wide range of translation services, including Korean. It's a bit more convenient. If I were using these things I'd keep sentences short, grammar very simple, tense present, and words long and formal. (Longer words tend to have more precise meanings.)
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