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Monthly Archives: April 2003
OS X software I like
What I like about OS X is that there is extremly good, well crafted and well designed software (at affordable prices). Just to name some: Proteus, Snapz Pro, NetNewsWire, Tinderbox, BBEdit, Spring Desktop, Transmit, Launchbar.
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Interfaces for aggregators
Dave Winer thinks Radio Userland has a better interface for reading RSS feeds: RSS readers that work like Usenet readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order. Of course I disagree. I was turned off by Radio Userlands [...]
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Trackback for Manila
Dave Winer is working on Trackback for Manila. Trackback is an automatic reverse linking between weblog entries and was first introduced by MovableType.
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Rendevouz for Windows
There is someone called Bob Bradley working on a implementation Rendezvous for Windows. It is a technology that allows self-configurating TCP/IP-networks and -services. It was outlined by many people under the codename ZeroConf and Apple is the first major OS vendor to include it in MacOS X.
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FmPro Migrator 1.24
FmPro Migrator – Migrates FileMaker to MySQL and Oracle (including images). [freshmeat.net]
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A weblog-based content architecture for business
Dave Pollard has posted a blog entry on using weblogs in business. In it, he outlines an enterprise-wide architecture model for using weblogs as a source of intranet content. Quote: As weblog tools become more powerful and flexible, open sourcing of weblog add-ons increases, and RSS and XML technologies advance and become standard, the justification [...]
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Typo3 – a first look
I took a first look into Typo3 today. I tried to add a user and create a page. I think it is a powerful system, but the user interface is just ridiculous. It’s really something a feature fanatic developer can come up with. Contribute is nice (and an OSX version is ahead), but it is [...]
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Web Browser gets 10
Is it really ten years? Yes it is. So much happened and I almost forgot the times when there was no Internet at all. Most of the time I was wired and I have seen all the browsers come and go, learned HTML from 1.0 (and stopped caring about new formats when the cost/profit ratio [...]
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Manila moves forward
Jake Savin is moving forward with Manila. Very good. It was just few weeks ago that I noted Manila was not updated for quite some time. Lawrence Lee is very responsive to the community if there are ideas how to improve. He also offers quick help if there are problems. What is very encouraging here [...]
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Weblogs & Knowledge sharing
»Seb of Seb’s Open Research published his Weblogs & Knowledge sharing surevy over the weekend. Too much infor for me at the mo but well worth a deeper look later.« [James Farmer's Radio Weblog]
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MacOS 10.2.5 Update out
I just checked the software update control panel and found the 10.2.5 update to MacOS X is out from Apple.
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Weblogs In Education
David Carraher: »Two current shortcomings of education could could be addressed through weblogging technologies. The former is highly problematic throughout K-12; it is not a major problem in graduate school. The latter remains a problem at all levels.1. Constraints on Students As Active Producers of Knowledge2. There is a firewall around the classroom« David Carraher [...]
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G5 coming
This article is suggesting Apple could probably introduce a G5 processor on the next Worldwide Developer Conference. The G5 chip is a 64 Bit processor and it will offer “performance that will be in the upper reaches of any CPU”. An because AMD does not control the OS their CPUs are running Apple might be [...]
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Peter Merholz about weblogs
Peter Merholz is back after some month of abstinence. He needed a timeout from blogging: I was also growing increasingly frustrated with the echo chamber effect of weblogs. A meme drifts out there, and then 38 different people post their take on that meme, and they all link to each other, and, as a reader, [...]
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PictureMe
PictureMe is just the missing link between iPhoto and the MacOS X addressbook. You can add addressbokk portraits from any picture file via drag&drop. I always wondered why Apple did not include that into iPhoto from the beginning. It’s so obvious.
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Domains of Design
This document defines the three terms information design, interface design and interaction design.
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Processing
The Design By Numbers project from John Maeda seems to have a successor: Processing. »The Processing project was created to introduce a new audience to computer programming and to encourage the audience of hybrid artist/designer/programmers. It integrates a programming language, development environment, and teaching methodology into a unified structure for learning.« Unfortunatly it seesm to [...]
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Phoenix
I just gave Phoenix for OS X a try. It seems to be a very nice browser, stripped down to what a browser should have. Mozilla got such a bloated heavy beast. Phoenix still consumes more than twice as much RAM than Safari and still more than Mozilla. It also has some bugs and interface [...]
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Towards Designing for Adaption
Dan Hill about adaptive design. I think he is spot on with this presentation about what design means if everything gets dynamic, multi-purpose, interoperable and connective. These are characteristics that have not been there before and it has already changed how design works.
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