“TiVo is God’s machine.”
FCC chairman Michael Powell loves his TiVo. [anil dash’s daily links]
Month: January 2003
Clutter your desktop with Album art
It’s called Clutter . The reason I wrote it is that I find that iTunes organizes stuff too neatly . When I buy music on CD, I keep the newish and in-vogue CDs lying around on my desk or on top of the stereo for a while. Then when I’m deciding what to listen to, … Read moreClutter your desktop with Album art
SafariNoBrush 1.0
SafariNoBrush removes the brushed metal appearance on Apple’s Safari web browser. It also allows you to revert back to the brushed metal appearance at any time if you prefer.
Apple has released Safari 1.0pbv51
Safari Update 1.0 Beta (v51) 1-10-03 This Safari Update is recommended for all Safari users.
Thievery Corporation live on TV!
Set your TiVO if you can’t stay up this late. You can also catch this the day after on Comedy Central. Thievery Corporation will perform “The Richest Man in Babylon” Late Night with Conan O’Brien on January 14, 2003. The performance will feature Notch on vocals should be groundbreaking for latenight TV’s less-than-eclectic musical fare. Check … Read moreThievery Corporation live on TV!
Who had the Worst User Experience?
Let me offer three examples of companies that failed to deliver a good user experience during the holiday season. They failed through a lack of the basic abilities to do thorough design, implementation, quality assurance, and intradepartment communication. Source: ClickZ
SanDisk Wireless SD Card Has Memory
The first Wi-Fi network cards in the Secure Digital Input Output (SD) format will ship soon, and some will contain Flash Memory in addition to wireless connectivity. [802.11 Planet] PalmInfocenter also covers this one
Convert Chimera Bookmarks to Safari
I have not tried this since I went from Chimera through IE to Safari, but this looks like it will do the trick directly.
Handspring, RIM Getting Close
Handspring is reportedly making overtures to Research In Motion that would allow it to place RIM’s Blackberry e-mail software on its Treo communicators. [internetnews.com: Top News]
Do you know how to use email?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people seem to hit reply to all instead of reply on a message sent to a group of people that asks for individual responses. It does not seem like a hard concept… the buttons are clearly marked in most applications as are their respective menu options. What … Read moreDo you know how to use email?
CES: Barrett: sharing digital content is a right
Damn Straight! Consumers have a right to share music, videos, and other digital content that they have purchased between their computing devices, and a commercial model needs to be developed that allows them to do so, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said at the Consumer Electronics Show here Thursday. [InfoWorld]
Scoping out Apple’s Safari
eWeek’s Jason Brooks has written a Safari Review: Maybe the browser wars aren’t over, after all. Last June, Netscape’s expedition into the land of open source bore fruit in the form of Mozilla 1.0, a Web browser that arguably unseated Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer—certainly not in popularity, but in overall excellence. At this week’s MacWorld … Read moreScoping out Apple’s Safari
Adventures in e-Commerce…
Last night I received an email from RedEnvelope which read: Dear RedEnvelope Customer, Due to an error in our arrival notifier system, you may have accidentally been sent a message on 1/8/03 stating that a gift you ordered had arrived at its destination. We were testing our system and mistakenly sent you the message. Rest … Read moreAdventures in e-Commerce…
Yamaha Wi-Fi-based audio system
Expensive, no screen shot yet… Sounds like home media servers are finally beginning to mature, finally! Yamaha Wi-Fi-based audio system: For over $2,000, you can get an 80 Gb music server with CD-R that can broadcast via Wi-Fi to a receiver (included) that has its own 20-watt amplifier and support for external speakers. Extra receivers … Read moreYamaha Wi-Fi-based audio system
Safari: No Tabs No Problem
As I started to use Safari for the first seconds I checked for tabs and pop-up blocking. One out of two covered and while I thought tabs were critical, I am starting to feel otherwise. I realize it is only one day later but I feel good out of tabs again having used only Safari … Read moreSafari: No Tabs No Problem
Garmin announces world’s first GPS handheld
GPS and navigation company Garmin has finally taken the wraps off of their long-awaited GPS-enabled handheld, and it does appear that good things come to those who wait. The Garmin iQue 3600 comes with quite an impressive array of features. [infoSync] You can add Bluetooth through the SD slot… 32MB Ram, jog wheel, beautiful screen…
Everybody talks about Tabbed Browsing…
Could be an interesting path. I wonder what having that preview pane open would do to performance… Certainly seems to impact complex PDF performance in Preview. Everybody talks about Tabbed Browsing (the Mozilla way), so here is my proposal for a Safari tabbed browsing experience. Looks more cocoa than tabs. [JY’s weblog] An interesting alternative… … Read moreEverybody talks about Tabbed Browsing…
Daring Fireball: Safari
This is a great overview on how we got to the Public Beta for Safari along with some good technical background info. Thanks, John! Apple’s Safari marketing is heavily focused on performance, and rightly so. Even in beta, Safari is kicking ass. Application launch times, page loading, JavaScript execution — if you can put a … Read moreDaring Fireball: Safari
Safari a Jaguar in Sheep’s Clothing?
Methinks the keynote announcements of iLife and Safari were not unconnected, or at least on the level of subtext. We (meaning the Mac pundit brigade) have talked about an Apple-branded browser for years, and now that it’s here we are (naturally) distracted by compatibility, standards adherence, bugs, GUI, etc. But let’s step back for a … Read moreSafari a Jaguar in Sheep’s Clothing?
PVR goodness just around the corner
The $99 Home Media Option will be downloadable to Series2 recorders from TiVo in the spring. The new service will allow subscribers to remotely schedule the recording of shows over the Internet. Subscribers will be able to play music and videos as well as view photos from devices connected to the network. The new service … Read morePVR goodness just around the corner