ISSN 1496-3221
April 20, 2000
With the recent rash of revamped browsers making their debut, an article at Webmonkey entitled Bittersweet Releases offers a bit of used car lot commentary on the current trend of buffing up the browser chrome, hoping that no once notices that the engines are missing. “Through this flurry of activity, though, there is one constant: … More
April 20, 2000
In the self serving, random mention department, I noticed while parsing my referrer log (just try using that line at a party…) that my domain name of the week is “pretty frickin awesome” according to GeekLife. Gosh, I’m feeling so parsed now, I think I’m blushing.
April 20, 2000
A Million Garages is a interesting editorial commentary on Apple’s recent fortunes, the potential threats bouncing up and down on their doorstep, and suggestions on how to avoid any looming disasters. After all, they did just announce a stock split and have all this extra cash to spend. One of the more curious observations… “Somehow, … More
April 19, 2000
InfoNewt, my news bucket of choice covering left-for-dead digital assistants, mentioned that work has resumed on hacking together a WaveLan driver for the Newton. Hiroshi Noguchi of Driver Labo has already reverse engineered code for previously unsupported ethernet cards, and now he’s taking on the same wireless hardware that’s used in Apple’s networkadelic AirPort. Technically, … More
April 19, 2000
German übergeek and street slang is being documented by the publishers of Duden, the official, standardized laws of grammar and spelling. Normally protective and lathered in regulations, it appears that the German populous is now encouraged to add to the lexicon.
April 18, 2000
I had no idea that Charles Babbage designed a computer printer to work alongside his Difference Engine. Pushing my astonishment aside for one moment, apparently he did design one, and a bunch of historical tech wonks at the Science Museum in London built it from the original blue prints over a period of nine years. … More
April 18, 2000
A gorgeous new type site typophile.com has just been launched that will please even the most persnickety fontheads. Lovingly built with a bucketload of Flash by Jared Benson, and chock full of delicious instructional goodness prepared by the one and only Jonathan Hoefler, typophile.com is aiming to be a vast resource of all things technical, … More
April 18, 2000
Need a TLA to go with your TLD? You’re SOL.
April 17, 2000
A brand-spankin’ new creativepro.com redesign and the mighty swoosh that we all know and love takes over their entire navigation header. When will this madness end? Admittedly, they have done a dandy job cleaning up the joint. Overall page layout and organization has been vastly improved. The notes regarding the new look also have this … More
April 17, 2000
Computerworld reports that millions of obsolete PCs enter the waste stream each year. I am convinced that this is the real reason that the calculated market share of Windows-based PCs is so huge. I’ll agree that the raw number of Windows boxes is significantly larger than that of the Macintosh installed based, but the numbers … More