According to WebTrends, Macintosh users account for approximately 2.79% of all web users. So, apparently, we don’t really count. Next time you’re designing a site, just ignore us. After all, we just design the web, we don’t really need to use it.
From ABCNews.com:
‘A tiny motor built into the mouse vibrates and moves the mouse to simulate a number of sensations that correlate to what is on the screen. Its a little tricky to imagine, but think of a raised Braille sentence. That is how every letter or line feels on a Web page with this technology.’
And we need this damn thing? Of course not. You only need Braille if you’re blind. I can’t even conceive of any practical use for this. It’ll just be another stupid technology that clients will want just for the hell of it.
From ABCNews.com:
SACD [SuperAudioCD] boosts the sampling frequency to a whopping 2.82 Mhz. Translated, that means the machine takes measurements of the sound wave 2,822,400 times per second 64 times the rate of a standard CD.
There’s a new type of CD on the market, and as you read above, it’s better than a regular, un-super CD. I’m a little interested, however, in what the actual difference is, sound-wise. I mean, CDs sound fine to me; hell even MP3s sound fine on a decent pair of headphones. This new CD also requires (what is currently) a $1200 player. I dunno. You know that guy down the street with a recording studio in his house, or a $10,000 home entertainment system? He’ll have one. But he’ll still be using Napster, I bet, cause he probably has DSL, too.
Awesome. Sun has made StarOffice open source. Sweet. What a great move. In a few years, it’ll be: ‘Micro-who?’
From CNN:
The newly designed VAIO QR sheds the magnesium-grey outer shell seen on its conventional line of laptops and adopts a blue-black translucent plastic surface that is so dark it is almost opaque.
And with a light grey aluminum pipe surrounding the outer edges connecting into a fold-out handle, it is reminiscent of Apple Computer’s iBook laptop….No plans are in place yet for a wider choice of colors, Sony said.
WTF? Sony might actually be the one to pull this off. Those VAIOs were selling pretty well, as I recall, without the translucent casing. So ‘industry’ analysts will be excited when someone else can sell a translucent computer besides Apple, except they were selling anyway. What a crock. Can NO ONE come up with an idea of their own that sells well? At least they’re not coming in multiple colors (did you ever notice of all the iMac ripoffs, none ever came in yellow, because Apple never released a yellow one?).The writer of this article also misses the translucent point to begin with. ‘The aim is the same — to make laptops a fashion statement as much as portable personal and business information tools. Uh, the iMac or iBook weren’t fashion statements (I won’t go into the well-worn discussion of why the translucency worked on the iMac and not on the HP Pavilion or those ugly-as-fuck pink TVs). Why can’t any of these people get it?
Also, try to find a picture of this damn thing on Sony’s site. It’s impossible. Their’s is possibly the worst navigation system I’ve ever seen. If you try to go to the VAIO section, you end up on a page telling you that the page has moved, and why don’t you try this hideous multiple-dropdown-with-graphics-and-a-go-button-on-the-wrong-side thing?
Maybe I’m wrong. Let me know.
Apple announced today a preview version of QuickTime 5. The coolest thing about it is the OSX window-widgets. I have no idea how they made them act exactly like they do in OSX, but they did. Download it today, or something.
From Wired:“Right now we use bar codes on products in retail stores to track everything,” said Cary Sherman, the RIAA’s senior vice president and general counsel.
“We need the same sort of capability for digital music files, only we need more,” Sherman said. “We need to know how the track is being used as well. Different royalty payments are going to (be) applicable based on how the songs are being used.”
The identification system will be built to incorporate licensing and tracking activities that the RIAA and the major labels believe is important to future of online music sales.
Something tells me there will be a crack for this ‘tracking system’ 2 days after it’s released. Some people never learn. You can’t fuck with our MP3s.
Check this horseshit out: MSLinux.org.
In case you don’t see it at first, this IS a joke site, but brillantly executed. I just don’t want to be there when MS finds out about it
An email from a BBEdit tech support dude:
‘Kevin, we will have a Carbon version of BBEdit available when Apple
ships Mac OS X (final, not beta) and this will be a free upgrade to
BBEdit 6.0.
As for beta testing, we generally cull beta sites from customers who
have regularly reported bugs in the shipping versions or provided other
substantive feedback on the software.’
Kinda sucks, but I hope this trend of free upgrades for Carbonized software continues. I could just see Adobe making you pay through the teeth for Photoshop 6.1 or something.
If you’re using MacOS X, and you’re a little unhappy with the default music player (I mean, it’s nice and all, but the playlist feature leaves a little to be desired), then I would recommend picking up PR2 of Audion from Panic. You can even use your current playlists (just drag ’em on the Audion icon in the Dock; don’t double-click them, or I’m assuming they’ll open in Classic, and no one wants that).
And as a sidenote, if anyone has heard of either Adobe of BareBones carbonizing their software, let me know.
