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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.
ncFTP is a powerful command line FTP tool for OS X 10.3. Really useful if you are trying to do client side FTP scripting on the Mac (auto uploading files to a specified FTP server when placed in a specific directory on the the client machine is what I'm doing.)
Finally got outside yesterday for a good while. Walked all the way up to the park and met Mr. Wilson at the top of the reservoir. What do you figure, about 5 miles? Not very much, but when you've been sitting in front of the computer for a couple years it feels pretty good. A little stiff today, but not as bad as I feared.
I love walking in the city. I didn't have a particular direction in mind when I set out. I was just walking in a straight line, and then when I'd come to a Don't Walk I would choose either left or right and continue straight until the next Don't Walk. Pretty fun. I ended up just west of Columbus Circle before I abandoned that plan.
Come on spring time...
366K photo of the earth taken from the Mars rover Spirit.
The Lifeblog software runs on a PC and, when a phone is connected to the machine, sucks down all the images, text and multimedia messages stored on the handset.
It will then populate a timeline with the information arranging it chronologically and annotating it with tags the phone records about when and where something was done.
The software works out where someone was using codes that uniquely identify cell phone base stations.
Images from digital still or video cameras can also be added to the collection of information.
"You want to keep everything so you can get a nice overview," said Mr Lindholm "so you can decide what you really want to keep or delete."
Very early stage software that allows (sort of, so far) the Treo 600 to record video clips. Woohoo.
Download. TreoCentral discussion.
Looks pretty sure we'll get to 2 megapixel cameraphones this year. Nice looking phone, too. It runs Windows CE, though which I'm pretty sure gives me hives.
2.1 MP is what my first digital camera was. Plenty good for everything but printing at very large sizes (do people really do that?)
If you use iTunes (on OS X) you probably want to download this. It does a few things, but most notably it allows you to play/pause iTunes with a key combination (option + space by default, but configurable,) no matter what application is currently active.
Sure, it's a little thing, but when the phone rings I can now pause iTunes with one key combo without first going to the dock and bringing iTunes to the front. And actually, that's not such a little thing. Mmmm, global hot keys.
Motorolla has been going crazy lately releasing new cell phones. Here are some pictures of the new MPx-300. Interesting screen hinge, obviously. People are really worked up about this phone, but for once I'm not so sure. Seems maybe almost too clever.