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Holy cow. Did you know you can cmd-drag background windows in OS X? I can actually imagine that being useful. Looks cool too.
Three blurry long range spy photos of the new unreleased Danger Hiptop: 1, 2, and 3. Although it's hard to be sure from these shots, it looks like the snap around swivel screen has been replaced by a non snap around slide up screen. This is obviously not as cool, since spinning the old one open with a resounding thwock was really excellent. On the other hand, it looks like this lets them make the unit a little less thick which, I will agree, was necessary.
For me it will all be about the camera. And my gut tells me this one is still going to be VGA qualty (although I'm guessing they at least got it *inside* the unit this time.)
Comment spam hasn't really been a problem for us here. Yet. But it is clearly just a matter of time. Sixapart, makers of the hugely popular Movable Type weblog software, are taking a shot at a solution: Typekey. Worth keeping an eye on. Details are a little thin, but it looks like a centralized identity infrastructure run by them, but open to all (with, it appears, some fees if you are including the technology in a non free product.)
I've mentioned these before, but here's a picture of a virtual laser keyboard projected from a prototype Siemens phone.
I'm a little skeptical, but willing to give anything a shot. The keyboard problem is an increasingly problematic one as our devices shrink well past the size where you can include a real keyboard on the device. (I guess the Treo 600 form factor is about as small as you can go with a "real" keyboard - and it's even a little too small.) (via engadget)
Best game mod as computer art ever? Or maybe I just mean I like this a lot.
I think that's the first worthwhile thing I've blogged in a long time. (via kottke)
The calendar in the kitchen at Alias has March 17th marked as 'best day of the year' and March 18th marked as "worst day of the year."
I was talking about wireless data connections at broadband speeds yesterday only to find that not everyone is a true believer (who knew?) Anyway, this is happening. I was saying 2006, but you can see how close we are today (at least if you live in D.C., or San Diego)
Verizon Wireless's BroadbandAccess [EV-DO] is the first wireless data service I've tried that could actually be mistaken for a cable or digital-subscriber-line connection. It routinely got me on the Internet in seconds, downloaded 600,000 bits of data each second and stayed online for as long as I wanted.Will the tree make it to the next age where we carry it around in our pockets all the time? Is that a good or bad thing?
BitTorrent + RSS. This could be very big. I'll try to say something more on it later.
Apple has released OS X 10.3.3. Doesn't seem like much. Mounted network volumes show up in the side bar now, which I think is a good thing. I'll wait a few days as usual to see if people have any problems.
Hopefully this was the hold up on the 970fx machines (although I don't really believe it.)
Uh oh. I just wrote my first AppleScript. That's a built in scripting language that comes standard on every Mac. In 10.3 all the Apple apps, including the Finder (that's the filesystem front end,) are scriptable with AppleScript. Yes, iTunes, Safari, iPhoto, not to mention Photoshop, Quark and all pro apps, are scriptable. You can get your hooks into everything. I knew this, and yet I had no idea. Damn it's powerful. I'm feeling a little dizzy.
The syntax is bizarre, and that's kept me from experimenting. But now I've found some resources on line and I've got one working (and useful!) script under my belt. So watch out, this might get ugly.