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Treo 650 pictures and specs revealed. Here is the initial thread with the info, although there is no point slogging through all those posts just to get the facts which are summarized here: 1.3 MP digital camera, 320 x 320 screen, bluetooth, removable battery, and possibly push to talk technology.
Here are some pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Is Verizon 1xEV-DO high speed wireless working (unofficially) in Manhattan? "...[W]hen you go to the Triborough area and get over a Gig/Sec reception... Yes... thats right.. you heard it here first...."
OnMyCommandCM is a UNIX CLI and AppleScript executor. Your command may take a clicked object as a parameter so you may perform an action on file, folder or text. A command can be executed in terminal, silently or with output window. But the best part is that you are building your own command, your own Contextual Menu Item. You type your command once and then it is just a click away!And it's free. Very cool.
The second browser war. Nice article on the near future struggle as the web and the desktop OS collide (combine?) This is like the stuff I used to talk about concerning Mozilla and how it was going to change everything because it is not just a browser, but a cross platform application environment. Mozilla is still an important piece, but the great hope is now WHAT-WG rather than XUL.
I think people have to understand this possibility (that the web will, in some important senses, be the future desktop operating system) to understand the potential of google.
Completely unconfirmed, yet believable, iPod rumor:
AirPod.
Summary: airport wireless add-on for iPod.
Attaches to bottom of iPod via dock connector.
Mates cleanly; appears to make the iPod ~1 inch taller.
Powered via 4G iPod's "enhanced" battery.
Requires 4G iPod; earlier models not supported.
Streams iPod audio via AirTunes to Airport Express.
Capable of streaming at line level or with volume control.
Enables wireless iPod syncing.
Includes "pass through" dock connector on bottom, allowing iPod, with AirPod attached, to operate while docked or with other external dock connector power source. Additional dock connector accessories can therefore be "piggy-backed" onto AirPod.
$99
Mini mini sci-fi story (or story idea) CPU's beyond the edge.
From a complete dump of Metafilter's front-page post database back to July 1999 (thanks, Matt!), I extracted the unique domains linked from each entry and added them all up.About what you'd expect except what the heck is boston.com doing so high up?
The Top 50 results are below...
This is not the new G5 iMac that is about to be introduced but I think it is a really nice concept design.
Apple is recalling 28,000 batteries that it shipped with 15 inch Powerbooks:
The recall affects laptops sold since January which contain batteries made during the last week of December 2003 only.When did you buy Bill? Probably worth a look.
The batteries have the model number A1045 and serial numbers that begin with HQ404, HQ405, HQ406, HQ407 or HQ408.
Battletorrent: making BitTorrent "completely effortless for complete neophytes":
Instead of downloading the torrent file, the user downloads an executable that contains a fully functional bittorrent client and the torrent file (say, "The_Grey_Album.torrent"). When the user runs it, the program begins downloading the Grey Album. The user can get files using bittorrent without needing to know or understand what bittorrent is.
Clay Shirkey's The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good. Yet another recap of why radio interference is no longer a problem, and how this should change FCC regulation policy. Very short and to the point for such a complex issue. Best summary yet.
Blobjects to Spimes, Bruce Sterling's 2004 SIGGRAPH speach.
Back from vacation. Little Compton, Rhode Island was beautiful once again. This was my second year at the same location, although over the winter they knocked down the house and built a new one in its place.
I hurt my back and spent much of the week laying on the floor, but oddly this didn't upset me too much. I managed to sit up for the fabulous meals.
Also I left my cellphone on the windowsill one night where it got drenched with rain. When I turned it on I just got a sickly yellow blinking screen. I tried to reboot it a few times over the next couple of days, but never had any luck. Now this morning, after sitting for many days and completely draining the battery, I plugged it in and it appears to work. Occasionally the screen will get this jittery thing, but otherwise it appears okay. I am surprised because the thing got *wet*.
Anyway, it's very nice to be back in the center of the world.
Tor:
The system is based on a concept called onion routing. It works like this: Messages, or packets of information, are sent through a distributed network of randomly selected servers, or nodes, each of which knows only its predecessor and successor. Messages flowing through this network are unwrapped by a symmetric encryption key at each server that peels off one layer and reveals instructions for the next downstream node.
I've always had wildcarding turned on in the main mail account on this domain. This has meant that any mail sent to x at digitalmediatree.com, where x does not match a real mailbox, falls through into the main account where I receive it. This was handy because I would catch misspelled names and forward them to their intended recipients, and also because I could just make up crazy email addresses on the fly knowing that any address I wanted to use would be automatically valid.
But the spam is finally too much. Even with pretty good filters. It had been hovering at around 500 spams a day, but then in the past few days jumped to over 700, and now this morning there were over 2,000 spams waiting for me (that is since late yesterday afternoon!)
So I turned wildcarding off. Any email sent to a nonexistent mailbox at this domain will now bounce. No big deal really, but I thought I'd mention it. And maybe that makes you feel better about your spam problem.
Anniversaries can be tricky to calculate, but by some measures August 14th 1999 is date this site came into being. I'm reminded of this because I needed to renew the domain name before the 14th so as not to lose it. And since I am going to be away next week, I went ahead and did it a few days early. Imagine that. Anyway happy 5th birthday everyone. And thanks for all 15,454 posts and 22,292 comments.
It doesn't include a camera, but the new Siemans SK65 phone has a qwerty keyboard design that looks like it might be a winner.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs successfully underwent surgery for a "very rare" type of pancreatic cancer. The operation was successful and he is recovering and expected back on the job in September. Think Secret has the full text of his email to Apple employees.