Category: Contemplation

“So TIME asks you: which country poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? North Korea, Iraq or The United States?”

141729 people voted when I clicked. The answer is no surprise to me, but I made a screenshot just in case…

“Kazutoshi Kubota produces a WebCoreHack that succeeds in rendering at least some HTML using Safari framework, WebCore. Small progress on the way to general-purpose HTML rendering in Cocoa apps, even before Apple publishes any documentation.” [Marek’s Weblog]

thinksecret.com has some details and screenshots about iPhoto 2.

Guuui.com: “The user-centred design approach has been taken on from the field of software development to the field of web development. But software applications and web sites are not similar. Thinking of web site visitors as users misses the point, that most web sites have a strategic objective to meet. Balancing users’ needs and strategic objectives requires us to move beyond the boundaries of user-centred design.”

“Discourse Systems is a newsletter and directory of resources about computer-supported consensus building, conflict resolution and decision-making, using Internet groupware, knowledge-based systems and process models of argumentation, deliberation and negotiation. We focus on e-democracy and e-governance applications, for all phases of the policy-making life cycle: agenda setting, analysis, policy creation, implementation (including electronic service delivery), and monitoring.”

I was looking for this: A X11 hints collection when replacing XDarwin with the official distribution. (via Ranchero)

And the German OS X development forum moves again, this time to its own domain. [Marek’s Weblog]

“After downloading Safari today, I was a little surprised to find that the version of Apache which Apple distributes in OS X 10.2.3 does NOT yet support Rendezvous, therefore NO web servers were visible under the Rendezvous section of Bookmarks under Safari. So… I decided to solve that.
mod_rendezvous ADDS RENDEZVOUS SUPPORT to the Apache 1.3.x web server (personal web sharing) built into Mac OS X.”

“Julie Stanford has written an excellent article on using HTML for wireframes and prototypes. In it, she clearly sells the benefits of this approach, and addresses some of the common concerns.” (via schockwellenreiter)

“The idea of printing a light bulb may seem bizarre, but US engineers are now developing an ink-jet printing technology to do just that. The research at the University of California in Berkeley will allow fully assembled electric and electronic gadgets to be printed in one go.”

This german Mac site claims to have reports of Mac users that lost their complete home directory when using Safari for downloading files from the Internet.

I haven’t seen this bug while using Safari, but if that report is true this would really be »keynote stopper« regarding the fact that +300.000 users have downloaded Safari in the first 24 hours (I guess there are now +500.000 users running Safari).

Washington Times: “Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced yesterday he has given new power to the nation’s covert warriors to kill and capture al Qaeda operatives and other terrorists.”

I think there have been very good reasons to control the work of special ops units in the past. I don’t think that has changed much.

John Robb, COO of Userland, and Eliotte Rusty Harold, the Java and XML authority, are notable converts to Mac OS X today. (via Marek’s Weblog)

Chris Langreiter releases 3flex – a mind mapping tool similar to Tinderbox. It is based on Rebol.

Ellen Isaacs, Alan Walendowski, Steve Whittaker, Diane J. Schiano & Candace Kamm about the character, functions, and styles of Instant Messaging in the workplace:

We found evidence of two distinct styles of use. Heavy IM users and frequent IM partners mainly used it to work together: to discuss a broad range of topics via many fast-paced interactions per day, each with many short turns and much threading and multitasking. Light users and infrequent pairs mainly used IM to coordinate: for scheduling, via fewer conversations per day that were shorter, slower-paced with less threading and multitasking.

This cNet article claims to have sources saying Apple is going to charge for its free iApps and/or iApp upgrades. This potentially will encourage developers to come up with cheaper alternatives, but I think the free iApps was one of the striking arguments for PC users to switch to Mac. In the end developers AND Apple will pay a higher price for the customer base that doesn’t grow.