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January 9, 2001
Just in case you haven’t finished slobbering with a fetishist’s desire over the new gizmos Apple announced today, MacCentral has graciously posted additional helpings of titanium-encased hardware porn captured on floor of MacWorld. Good old Stevie wonder. He did it again, didn’t he?
January 9, 2001
Do you ever get the feeling that there’s no one driving the car at Corel? Sooner or later that vehicle is going to swerve across the median and collide headlong into a tanker trailer full of methylbenzene. Now, as attractive as that outcome sounds, someone over there really needs to start concentrating and just pick … More
January 9, 2001
Gabriel Martin passed along this entomological clarification regarding the description accompanying one of my Behind The Curtain photographs. “Your stick bugs are of the Carausius morosus species, originating in India. C. morosus is a Parthenogenetic species, meaning that the females reproduce without any assistance of the males. They are not Hermaphrodites. Just thought you may … More
January 9, 2001
Excuse me for a moment, while I tune into the stream to watch Steve manipulate his Reality Distortion Field around the masses down in San Fransisco today. Always entertaining.
January 8, 2001
My word, there’s been a lot to talk about since the new year started. I’d better pace myself. I wouldn’t want to pull a muscle or anything.
January 8, 2001
It’s the Simplicity, StupidPalm CEO Carl Yankowski claims that PDAs, specifically his own pocket-sized interest, will shape the future direction of personal computers because of their simplicity. I don’t doubt that handheld devices like the Palm and the Visor, are popular because their are reasonably simple to use and obviously more portable than a laptop … More
January 8, 2001
Thomas Tempelmann has started writing a REALbasic plug-in for accessing the Newton data soup from a desktop computer. This could be the start of something extremely interesting for all of us diehard Newton users, especially in terms of multi-app, cross-platform data synchronization. Woo hoo!
January 8, 2001
Magically changing the tangible stuff into bits and back again. It’s all about the art of analog.
January 8, 2001
Design production snag of the day. I was trying to take a screen capture of the default cursor under Windows without going through the process of searching for and installing some piece of third party software. The solution? Open up the Mouse Properties control panel, click on the Properties tab, and Print Screen the window. … More
January 8, 2001
A show of hands please. When was the last time you used the <acronym>HTML</acronym> tag? MacEdition shares a bite sized bitch about the sorry state of web standards compliance and the people who avoid using the standards that actually work well in modern browsers.