a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
Note to self: steal this code: “
Just a reminder to me that I want to steal Mark Paschal’s blo.gs RSS ping for Movable Type code and convert all the lovely Python into somewhere between three and ten times as much PHP.
” Source: Phil Ringnalda
I just tried this and things seem to be working… Thanks, Mark!
Microsoft to bump Apple into sync-hole? – Tech News – CNET.com
“As personal computers can synchronize more data types beyond calendar and contacts–as the iPod synchronizes music–we will see more devices proliferate,” Jupiter Research’s Gartenberg said. “For example, a future DVR (digital video recorder), might not record anything directly, but sync the TV shows to your TV for home viewing or to your handheld for the road. All of which can be translated in profits for whoever controls the access points of the data sync.”
iSparx is the extension for your daily work tasks to share information of the Mac OS X Addressbook with others in your network. Now you’re able to search for contact information that are present on any other Mac, running iSparx. Every member of the sharing group named “iSparx” in your Addressbook Application can be searched by others and shared with others.
This looks sooooo good.
Random NetNewsWire screen shot: “This new screen shot of NetNewsWire Pro shows a few different things, including the current states of the Weblog Editor and the Notepad.
A public beta is getting closer and closer. I’m hoping for Monday, but it’s entirely possible it will be later.” Source: inessential.com
Have to love the version number…
Well, if you live in Japan anyway…at least for now.
Apple’s QuickTime phones Japan – Tech News – CNET.com
Apple’s QuickTime is poised to make headway as an audio and video delivery platform for mobile phones in Japan, with new standards-compatible software on its way and a fresh endorsement by leading wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo.
Google Viewer lets you view the web pages of your search results, in a slideshow fashion.
Google Webquotes annotates results with quotes from other sites.
This is a great piece of software that is simple and makes you wonder how you lived without it. Trust me powerbook users… give it a whirl!
A great free WiFi network scanner was recently released called iStumbler. I had been using MacStumbler which is cool too though not as slick as iStumbler. You get a much cleaner picture of what you are looking at with each base station discovered including warchalk icons for security.
Another app, I may just be behind on finding but seems to work quite well is called Acquisition. It’s a gnutella client for OS X and has a simple but elegant interface. Check it out if you are like to search around…
Lastly for the day is RadioFree, also from xlife, the maker of Acquisition. It lets you record internet mp3 streams into files, you can burn or transfer to your iPod.
infoSync : J2ME Jabber on Series 60
Tipic’s new J2ME instant messaging client is based on the open Jabber XMPP protocol, and lets owners of among other Series 60 devices IM with AIM, ICQ, MSNM and YIM users.
O’Reilly Network: iApp Power Play [Dec. 03, 2002]
I realized that many creative people have been influenced by Apple’s consumer marketing that aims to keep things simple in order to appeal to the greatest number of potential customers. But the iApps are better than that. Beneath their tantalizing GUI lurks powerful tools capable of producing professional quality media, especially when used as a group. So let’s take a look at how to get some serious work done with this trio of digital media programs.
If you are in NYC and have the time, this seems like a great way to get an overview of Elements.
This is a good tip that is not too hard to mange with a quick trip to the Terminal…
Mac OS X Hints – Two methods of updating Linksys router firmware
You know it’s there, but where do you start? This article shows you how…
Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1: “O’Reilly Mac OS X command line guru Chris Stone is back with another series to help you get comfy with Jaguar’s Terminal app. He begins by showing you what’s where, and what to do with it once you’re there.” Source: O’Reilly MacDevCenter.com
While windows only for now, the AOL Communicator, which is their pending stand-alone email client looks pretty impressive. It offers much of what Outlook Express has which in my opinion was (when I used Windows) better that Outlook based on rules and UI issues, but goes further. The addition of spam filtering, AOL mail sync and an identity manager make this a communications client to watch.
UPDATE 2/24/03…Just go here and download the OS X installation for jPluck. You will still need Plucker for your Palm.
I have finally gotten Plucker to run on Mac OS X and I wanted to share my experience so others could enjoy this fantastic open-source alternative to AvantGo. AvantGo has not released any information on when or if they plan to support OS X and it has certainly been long enough so time to move on.
The tools:
First you will need to install Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview 6. This is available from Apple’s developer web site which is free to join, but you do need an account. There are libraries within this release that are necessary for this system to work. It may work with Preview 5, but it did not work for me with Preview 4.
Next you need to download the JPluck app which is the Java based Plucker Desktop. It’s available through sourceforge and is an easy download.
The last step is to download the actual Plucker application. This will install locally on your computer and let you choose which language version you want to use on your palm. Once you download and install Plucker it can be found within the Finder by hitting “Apple+Shift+G” and when the box pops up typing in (or pasting) /usr/local/share/plucker. You can then install the app from within the Palm OS Viewer directory (pick the language you want) viewer_en.prc is english. Hotsync it and it is installed.
The how to:
Once you have installed the Java code and hotsynced the Plucker viewer to your Palm you are ready to try out the Desktop. Within the jpluck-1.0-beta3-pr2 Folder (your version number may be different if you do this much later) is a piece named “jpluckx.jar.” This will launch by double clicking it so do that and give it a moment to become active. There is a basic navigation to the app that fortunately provides tips if you hover the buttons. You can open a document and pick the example.jxl file which has a nice array of sites to start with. More can be found from http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?PluckerSoftware though many of those are actually in the example file.
You will have to select a destination directory and to make things easier on yourself, I recommend choosing the installation directory for your Palm desktop. This way when PluckX is through, you can hotsync and then head out, with reading material on your Palm. Since Plucker fully supports VFS, you can choose either the SD folder – /Users/your username/Documents/Palm/Users/username/Files to Install/SecureDigital (SD ) Card or simply one directory back for the basic installation. For now it will have to be two steps as there is no conduit for any platform at this time.
That should do it for you. It works for me and is working well. You might also consider joining the Plucker Mailing list which is where I picked up much of the help I needed…
By selecting more than one message you can forward or reply to those messages through a single message. This is especially helpful when you have attachments spread across a few messages and you want to forward everything to someone else. When you do this, you get the headers, body and attachments from each of the selected messages. Cool!
Macworld Review: Battle of the Browsers: “” Source: MacCentral
For whatever reason I have been keeping tabs on the spam that just keeps on coming and coming. It’s hard not to notice when the same thing gets sent to you repeatedly and I thought it would prove (at least minimally) interesting to report what’s hot in spam. I’d say that in a given day I receive an average of close to 100 spam emails across the 5 email accounts (not including hotmail, yahoo or aol which are totally out of control!) I keep active. Apple’s Mail.app catches about 95% of them and sorts them to my Junk folder for me to scan before I delete.
This list is far from complete and thanks to the spam community can and will continue to grow. I’ve excluded the usual suspects of porn, Nigerian scams, multi-level marketing schemes, 10 Million email addresses and penis enlargement solutions.
The hot subject lines of the week seem to be:
The main sending offenders seem to revolve around the same choice few domains…
There are many, many more.
While it is not a new bug, and also not a consistent one, “crash on forward” issue continues to frustrate me. Seems it only happens when it wants and only seems to effect html emails. There is a work around I am using until this little bug gets squashed… As noted on OSXHints and reported previously you can forward through a cut and paste method…
