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Dave Hyatt (one of the lead Apple Safari guys) has an interesting blog about how they are thinking ahead to how the web will handle future high DPI screen resolutions. This is something people who make websites - and especially websites where graphic elements are important - should also be starting to think about. Those 500 pixel wide images look fine on < 100 DPI displays, but are going to be way too small on a 600 DPI screen. Ordinary bloggers probably don't have to get worried or anything, but the tool makers need to start planning.
If you are curious to dig in yourself, start with Hyatt's second post which can act as an intro. Then his original, much longer post which outlines how Apple is starting to think about the options. And then Ars Technica's always enlightening John Siracusa steps back and looks at what this issue means on a larger OS wide scale.
Seagate leaks 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 details. Zoinks!
Thoughts on Nokia's plans to put webservers on their cellphones.
OMG:
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.This applies to new Intel based Macs of course. I knew this was possible, but for a variety of long held reasons I didn't think it would happen officially (and I figured they'd thwart the unofficial mods enough that it wouldn't be attractive to the normal person.) But once again I was wrong. With a few misgivings I am very happy to see this move.
As elegant as it gets
Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.(1) Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don't have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them.
Run XP natively
Once you've completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That's the "alt" key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back to Mac.
I am finally on the home stretch building my new software. This has taken *way* longer than I expected. But I am fairly pleased with it. All features are now present, although there is a lot of tweaking and bug hunting still to go.
Ran across DabbleDB today. It looks very similar to what I am building. Not sure if that is a bummer or not. At the very least I wish I had gone much faster.
Breaking news: our RSS feeds now return the proper if-modified-since and Etag headers. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Google.com was offline today for at least several minutes. Maybe longer. Not sure if this has to do with their big data center move or whether the apocalypse is upon us. It will be interesting to learn what really happened.
Put the entire Wikipedia on an iPod.
My data center just raised my colocation pricing by 50% starting 4/1. Wow. That completely blows my mind. I liked that place but am looking for another provider now.
Multi-touch interaction experiments. Check the top right video. Nice interface!
While not directly related, here's a recent Apple patent application for a gesture controlled user interface. Seems a lot more interesting in light of the video above.