Found at this I’m With Cocoa Reddit thread.
Tog has some interesting thoughts on what Apple really should be doing when it comes to improving its interface. I think he’s right on about keyboards having a return and delete key on the lefthand side of the keyboard as well. It really bugs me to have to move my hand from mouse to the keyboard and back when I’m navigating through dialogs.
The new PowerBook G3′s definitely look appealing. Obviously I’m not going to go out and get one since I’ve only had my Lombard for four months now, but I’d love to have one. The good news is that I will get to play with one fairly soon, since I’m ordering one for one of the faculty members in my building.
Well, Apple finally announced the new PowerBooks. The low end model is now a 400 MHz G3 and the high end sports a 500 Mhz G3. Both come with DVD, two firewire ports and the RAGE mobility 128 chipset. Surprisingly enough they seem to have kept the Lombard enclosure.
What is X10 you say? Andy Ihnatko tells all about his new addiction over at Mac Central. I have to admit my curiosity is piqued.
This is completely ridiculous. Linus Torvalds can’t get a green card because of INS beuracracy. But it gets even worse. According to a recent San Jose Mercury article: U.S. immigration law sets aside 140,000 employment-based green cards each fiscal year. But because of the green card backlog, about 40,000 cards were issued in fiscal year 1999. The approximately 100,000 unused spots don’t roll over to this fiscal year, so they’re lost.
It’s just not a good thing when you’re forcing valuable tech workers out of the country when more and more the economy is being driven by the very industry they work for.
Internet Week has a pretty informative article on migrating your existing Windows NT network to Win2k. This is an issue we’ve been exploring here at Gonzaga for a few months now. Thankfully, since my building is highly Mac-centric I only have a few PC workstations and a couple servers to deal with. I will say the Win2k Professional Beta 3 installation on my office PC went very smoothly and it has a fairly obscure network card.
This San Jose Mercury article has the lowdown on all the Super Bowl commercials. And that one with the stupid ad that I couldn’t remember was lifeminders.com.
I was certainly pleased to see this rumor on Apple Insider yesterday. I love my PowerBook and would definitely prefer being able to just upgrade it to buying a new one.
I’m in the process of trying to load Zope on one of my two LinuxPPC boxes. I’m assuming it’s possible, but I haven’t actually seen ppc specific RPM’s anywhere. Looks like I may have to it the hard way.
Apple’s stock is up to a new record price of almost $120 today after last night’s earnings announcement. Here’s some additional info at MacCentral.
Today I found out that we had already received the three iMac DV Special Editions I ordered last week so I’ve been playing with them a bit. The first thing I noticed when trying out the included Bug’s Life DVD was that the Harman Kardon speakers are excellent. I’ll bet with the addition of an iSub it’s just phenomenal.
On a purely aesthetic level the iMac DV SE’s graphite case is very pleasing and because it has no built in fan it’s eerily quiet. It actually made me resent the fan noise of a couple nearby computer’s that I had previously had no problem ignoring.
Looks like I was born in the year of the sound bite.
This David K. Every column over at MacWeek has an interesting comparison of the value of Apple stock vs. Dell stock. 2000 is going to be a fascinating year for Apple with everything they’ve got in the works.
I’ve been working on Filemaker Pro here at work quite a bit in the last few months. Its simplicity and ease of use makes it well suited for various record keeping tasks we have here in the Gonzaga School of Education. There are definitely times when I wish working with it was a little bit more like traditional programming, but overall I’m quite satisfied with it.
It snowed just enough last night to make the morning drive to work a little bit dicey. Thankfully I only live 10 minutes away (under normal conditions of course). I decided to take the freeway thinking it might be a little more clear than the side streets, but the exit ramp ended up being a bigger mess than I anticipated.
This strangely bitter column in mymac.com ripping on MacOS Rumors strikes me as a little bizarre. I definitely read MOSR on a daily basis and although I find it useful and informative I have never been under the impression that it was completely reliable.
The live webcast is working surprisingly well. I guess that Akamai network technology really works. The new iDrive technology is fairly intriguing. Looks like they’re going to be rolling out Mac OS X throughout the next year with sales starting during the summer (presumably around MacWorld).
Wow! MacOS X looks great! Makes me want to run out and become and Apple Developer so I can get the new betas later this year.
The only disappointing item in the presentation was that the Microsoft Rep sounded like IE 5 for the Macintosh won’t be out until the end of January. I guess their official press release will be in a half hour.
One new IE 5 feature that is definitely a good thing is that there is a mode to make pages render at the 96 dpi industry standard and end the micro font rendering woes that occur when reading PC generated pages. I noticed Mozilla build 12 for the Mac does the same thing a while back as well. Standardization is always a good thing!
Here’s a Washington Post review of MacOS 9. I’m not in any particular rush to upgrade from Mac OS 8.6 as it’s been working just fine. I’m much more interested in the MacOS X client that should be coming out sometime next year.
Today I discovered that Axodys is actually a weblog.
More weblogs: Camworld, Hack the Planet, and Memepool.
Carmen(Nichole) is of course on my case to get my site here improved. She is of course right. I need to keep plugging away. Perhaps someday Axodys will approach the stature of the numerous spiffy weblogs out there.
Thanks to my recent acquisition of a new 128MB dimm my iMac is now happily cruising along at 160MB!
