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First x86, now a multibutton mouse?
Apple is full of interesting surprises this year. First they announced they’d be ditching PowerPC in favor of x86. Now, they’ve gone and released a multibutton mouse. But without any buttons. Er… something like that. In place of buttons, it features touch-sensitive capacitive sensors beneath the top shell (ala the iPod) that “detect where your fingers are and predict your clicking intentions”. Or at least that’s according to their marketing speak.
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Stupid people suck!
I hate stupid people. I can accept that the population at large is generally clueless about all things tech, and so I have a fairly high tolerance level when they do annoying newb things. The people that really tick me off are the ones who are clearly in a technical field (say, a whole bunch of people in academia on a FPGA research/education mailing list), and are clearly clueless about very basic concepts such as email…
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Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. Pretty cool. Looks like flickr will let you upload 20M of photos per month, and makes the last 200 you’ve posted visible. Has assorted useful features such as tagging photos, controlling who can see photos, etc. Seems pretty cool. I might just use it some for more temporary stuff (ie stuff I don’t want to archive on the web forever and take up precious space on my webhost).
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Neat! Now maybe I can avoid those destroyers!
Ran across this site recently. Seems pretty cool. They’ve posted a copy of a declassified WWII US submarine manual (well, immediately following the war to be more exact), including scans of all the neat pictures/diagrams/etc and ocr’d text.
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Apple/x86?
I’m a little late in posting this (ISCA ‘05 in Madison and all that rot), but in Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s WWDC he dropped a bombshell… Apple’s dropping the PowerPC and switching to Intel/x86. Engadget has some analysis on the decision, but I guess it largely boils down to limitations they’ve experienced with the PowerPC platform. To recap, Motorola had been making all the PowerPC chips for Apple until their G5 schedule didn’t meet Apple’s needs.
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Tiger X.4.1
As I suspected, the 10.4.1 update for Tiger has been released. Looks like they’ve fixed quite a number of things (seems to have possibly solved some of the crashes/lockups I’d experienced so far… at least, don’t think I’ve had one since I updated).
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Playing tunes on OS X
So it would seem that the release of iTunes by Apple largely killed off the other music playing apps (ie mp3 players). Which is lame because I find the interface a little bulky, doesn’t seem like I can have it sort based on directory structure, and I find it a little annoying that by default it wants to copy all of your music to a “My Music” type folder when you import new stuff.
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Whoops! Dashboard is now officially creepy!
Looks like Tiger’s new Dashboard could use some refinement when it comes to security. Looks like it’s pretty trivial to make a user auto-download a widget when they visit a webpage in Safari, it’ll then auto-install if they’re using the default Safari settings, and then they’ll be running a potentially very obnoxious (and possibly even malicious) widget that’s impossible for average Joe user to remove. With any luck they’ll refine this a bit in 10.
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Java 1.5 on Tiger
Looks like Apples’s released Java 1.5 for Tiger. Not quite sure why people aren’t talking about this (was released same day as Tiger’s “official” release date) since a lot of people had mentioned it being present in the Tiger developer test releases and that it was absent from the final version released to the public. Looks like I can finally see about getting Liberty’s LSE up and running on OS X.
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Adium X 0.80
Looks like there’s a new version of Adium X out. Looks like there’s all sorts of new stuff in this release: Adium 0.80 brings a completely new status system with available messages and invisibility on supported protocols, built-in secure encrypted messaging via Off-the-Record Messaging, the long-awaited file transfer progress interface, customizable built-in Growl notification system support, blocking, customizable service and status icons, full OS X 10.4 compatibility, and much, much more.
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