Monday, 24 February 2003
The OS X 10.2.4 Finder seems to be faster at showing the Inspector (command-option-I)—faster enough that I might actually use it. The Info window (command-I) is still as slow as it's ever been in the 10.2.x Finder, sadly…
4:09 PMDavid Brown: MailEdit is a Radio tool that extends the Mail-to-Weblog feature with images, links, categories, post links and titles, and even editing of previously posted posts. David uses it with his Hiptop; yet another tool I need to check out after my exam on Friday.
Friday, 21 February 2003
For all you hiptop IRC users who aren’t so blessed as to have a native client, Brian Gottlieb has written an another AIM to IRC gateway I wasn’t aware of, with multiple channel support. Too much software to try, too little time.
ZOË 0.4 was released today, both producing and consuming RSS. View RSS feeds in your email client via ZOË's built in POP server; view ZOË-stored email messages in NetNewsWire. Even edit messages in ZOË’s store with NetNewsWire’s weblog editor. Scary, but cool.
I haven't actually got it set up myself yet, but here's an image Raphaël sent me of this weblog in ZOË:
and bridged to a message in Mail.app:
As the Borg theme implies, “Resistance is futile”.
Thanks to MacFixIt, I resurrected the internal FireWire ports on my desktop Power Mac G4, which I had given up for dead after a failed tape drive installation attempt back in May. I had tried using the motherboard reset switch before, but apparently it’s key that you hold it down for a few seconds. (I did so several times, just for good measure.)
My med school midterms are in a week, and I have a lot of research work to get done, so Pester 1.1 is having to take a back seat for a while. I may release another beta without fixing all the bugs yet, since I've added several new features. The Read Me file was getting very long, so I’ve built in a “contents” window; thanks to a NSSplitView bug it ended up taking far longer than I expected.
Thursday, 20 February 2003
The color hiptop is coming! The color hiptop is coming! To Europe, at least. The article is amusing in that it suggests the trend towards increased mobile data services is coming from the US; it used to be that we were last to get new mobile technologies. They'd inevitably be cumbersome, overpriced, poorly marketed, and fail. As is, I still would prefer my inexpensive, fast, convenient and easy-to-use grayscale hiptop to the latest expensive, cumbersome, over-featured, color, soon-to-be-obsolete Nokia or Sony Ericsson model.
[Don't think I'm not watching you, Wes. You ripped off my attempted wittiness in Tuesday's blog entry. 
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