ISSN 1496-3221
June 19, 2000
Ever since Clive Bruton boarded up the windows on the FontZone site, I’ve been rather torn up inside by the fact that Microsoft now has the most comprehensive and well-maintained typography news pages around. I mean, it wouldn’t bother me so much if it was some half-assed, token link page surrounded by Word-formatted white papers … More
June 19, 2000
Dad’s need new toys too. Following the tradition of Father’s Day in our house, I not only get the requisite hand-made goodies from my kids, but I usually get something to play with too. This year I got a Hoberman Sphere. If you’ve never played with one of these things, track one down. They are … More
June 17, 2000
You’ve caught me. I’m really only posting something here this morning so I can avoid having to clean out the budgie cage. It’s not that onerous a task, just a pain. The birds deserve a tidy home, but honestly if I had the choice… well, you probably understand. At least they don’t generate as much … More
June 15, 2000
Hey, I finally added permalinks. Big whoop.
June 14, 2000
Need a little late night reading material? I offer you a small selection of particularly intriguing documents that I have stumbled across recently. \r\* Adopting The Aqua Interface — 2.2 MB PDF\r\* Use & Misuse of Metaphor — 320 KB PDF\r\* Adobe Illustrator 9.0 New Features — 1.8 MB PDF\r\* Ameritech Web Page Standards (1996) … More
June 14, 2000
Plunging Into Aqua is another look at the fruity-fresh face of Mac OS X. Apparently the keyboard jockeys over at MacWeek aren’t jiggy enough with Apple to earn themselves a copy of the new system to play with. The article is based solely on “Apple’s public demonstrations, the Mac OS X section on its Web … More
June 14, 2000
Why take life so seriously that it makes your brain hurt, when you can simply crank out genuinely useful software? Turly O’Connor has just taken the wraps off a new version of FinderPop, the indispensible utility that puts your contextual menu on a high-fibre diet washed down with a pint of Beamish. This time out, … More
June 13, 2000
As if we needed another reason to ensure the failure of keystroke recognition… Some bright-eyed keener at the Gartner Group had an extra sip of Sumatran Dark and suddenly realized that you don’t actually need a keyboard to listen to an MP3, do you?
June 13, 2000
The frothing crowd dedicated to protecting digitized intellectual property just took another step towards the stupid bus. A couple of companies are pitching keystroke recognition as a means to identify individual users and potentially verifying ownership of digital content and software installed or executed on their machines. “It’s very difficult for any of these companies … More
June 12, 2000
At work today, we couldn’t quite figure out if this was good news or not. RealNetworks licensed bits of QuickTime for inclusion in its RealServer system. I guess it makes sense for RealNetworks to support as many different media formats as possible, seeing as they have the number one (in terms of market penetration anyway) … More