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Wednesday, March 6, 2002 |
Another minor site change: The main page of Mac Net Journal has been taking too long to load, so I am changing the site to only show posts from the last two days rather than from the whole week. To see older content, just use the calendar interface!
10:20:51 PM 
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Do you want the FBI knowing what you read? Nat Hentoff: "The press ought to awaken the citizenry not only to the FBI's harvesting lists of what 'suspect' Americans read, but also to the judicial silencing of bookstores and libraries that are being compelled to betray the privacy and First Amendment rights of readers." [Scripting News]
5:09:29 PM
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Virtual PC updated: Macslash has a story and discussion underway about Connectix Updating Virtual PC. Will this update make the Windows-on-Mac program speedier under OS X?
5:07:30 PM
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New OS X drawing app: iDraw 1.0 is a new $40 shareware drawing and animation program. Aside from drawing capabilities, the new Cocoa application can also create animations to be saved in SWF or animated GIF formats
4:24:23 PM
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Pocket Quicken conduit: Landware has released Pocket Quicken 2.01r2b3, bringing hotsync capabilities to Pocket Quicken for OS X users. As with other add-on conduits in beta testing under OS X, this program requires that you have the current beta version of Palm Desktop for OS X installed.
4:21:28 PM
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Winter returns to Puget Sound country: Nope...this isn't an OS X note. Just a personal note that the weather forecasters are calling for snow here in the Seattle-Tacoma area in Washington sometime over the next 24 hours. And so, while the sun is shining right now, we could be in for an unusually late snowfall tonight and tomorrow. Cool!
3:28:43 PM
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Comments: Should they stay or go? I am debating removing the Comments feature from Mac Net Journal and instead inviting readers to just e-mail me instread. With e-mail I can distill the comments into something that everyone can read and benefit from. With the Comments, a feature that is barely used right now, the comments are hidden from view and it takes a commitment to click on the link to read what other folks have said.
I am also not enamored of the way having a Comment link on every post adds so much clutter to the page.
What do you think? Should they stay or should they go? 
3:17:42 PM
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Beware: Major time waster...and fun And I thought blogging was addictive! Beware Collapse - click at your own risk! Don't tell anybody at SLS.... [requires Shockwave, via MeFi] [The Shifted Librarian]
11:25:31 AM
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Building a Frontier and Radio directory: Seth Dillingham is doing a directory of Frontier resources, looking for pointers. [Scripting News]
11:12:07 AM
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Give 'em hell, Doc: Doc Searls is on a roll today with his comments about the threat to Internet radio (which I am listening to right now) from corporate heads who want to kill the format and force us all to listen to their bland on-air "talent." Here's a quote from Doc:
"These producers haven't just been trying to use Congress as an instrument for turning the Net into yet another set of pipes in their world wide plumbing system. They've been succeeding. The DMCA was just one step. How long before we have to pay to put up a link or a quote? Don't laugh. That's pretty much what the DMCA does to Internet radio."
This ties right in with my recent sentiments about the recording industry and its attempts to control your digital assets - the CDs you own, etc.
10:31:06 AM
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Changing Mac community: Derrick Story writes on the O'Reilly Networks site about the Changing Mac Community. A follow up on his much read article about what he called the "New Mac user," Story offers selected reader comments and illustrates where things stand today regarding the integration of the Mac and Unix in the almost-a-year-old Mac OS X. Settle down for a good read.
8:19:26 AM
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3D monitors? It'll cost ya: MacCentral takes a look at advances in monitor technology, including Multidimesional monitors for the Mac. Cool stuff, but watch out for the price tag.
8:08:18 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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