Noisy Powerbook
Tonight my shiny, new PowerBook started making noise. Feel free to give a listen. Hm, WordPress *should* take that link and automatically add anTesting a WordPress blogging widget
I got the widget from Apple of all places.A few items of note today..
Posted by rae in General, development, entertainment, hardware, software, the Net
at 11:26 am on Tuesday, 28 February 2006
tvRSS.netat 11:26 am on Tuesday, 28 February 2006
RSS feeds for specific shows. Well, really feeds for search strings, which means “house” also gets “bleak house”. Oh well. Btw, Pirate Bay has RSS feeds too. Apple’s Rails page
Wow, Apple digs Rails. Cool. I hope their tutorial is as useful as Curt Hibbs’ amazing two-part Rails tutorial [part 1] [part 2] or his followup Ajax on Rails. Slashdot comments point to a QuickTime movie that compares Rails, Zope (Plone), TurboGears, Django and J2EE. I should post a comment about this Rails demo, which is what got *me* hooked on Rails. There are others on this page of screencasts. Dell Linux machines
Oooh, finally someone other than Walmart sells Linux desktops. Although apparently they are loathe to admit it!
Democracy
Posted by rae in development, entertainment, software, the Net, work
at 5:30 pm on Saturday, 25 February 2006
at 5:30 pm on Saturday, 25 February 2006
You’ll need Pyrex, PyObjC and Boost to compile DTV. We use these for linking to C, Objective C, and C++ code. And you’ll need Python 2.4 or later. At least as of 1.3.7, the prebuilt PyObjC binaries do not have proper Quicktime support, so you’ll have to build from source. Download and untar: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyobjc/pyobjc-1.3.7.tar.gzI find it quite funny that I find out this way that Mitch Kapor is involved. Mitch is also behind the project I’m working on, Chandler. One thing the Democracy guys are doing that I wish we were doing is using Trac for everything. I mean, Bugzilla is nice and all, but it’s very 1990’s in a lot of ways, and will probably never make up for that.
A little late-night fun
Posted by rae in entertainment
at 3:31 am on Thursday, 16 February 2006
Remember *.mod files?
No?
Well, save this
and play it in VideoLanClient.
at 3:31 am on Thursday, 16 February 2006
And
there’s always plenty more
where that came from.
It’s amazing what you can fit into a few hundred kilobytes.
Gerry hasn’t seen any X-Men movies!!!
Posted by rae in friends
at 2:28 am on Saturday, 11 February 2006
at 2:28 am on Saturday, 11 February 2006
We must ask him for his Geek badge!
Someone take him to see them.
Now.
Technology Predictions
We are at Hrach’s discussing the future of technology, specifically HD content on disc (i.e. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD).
John is arguing that people will not buy Blu-Ray players (we’re assuming that Blu-Ray wins over HD-DVD, as seems likely)
for at least three years (i.e. February 2009); that is to say, in mass quantities.
At that point, Blu-Ray will be the preferred format for places like video rental stores.
This will be around when Spider-Man 5 comes out.
John says Blu-Ray will be dominant in new PC’s one year after Blu-Ray is released.
So assuming Blu-Ray comes out in April 2006 like we think it is, that would be April 2007.
Iain, Vartan and Jeff think that Rogers and Blockbuster switchover to Blu-Ray will be Christmas 2008.
Iain further said that it will be only one year for computers (i.e. Feb 2007).
*I* think that the switch-over will happen around Christmas 2007.
Feel free to leave comments with your own predictions about when the DVD will die and Blu-Ray will be ascendant.
Chandler 0.6.1 released
Today OSAF released Chandler 0.6.1, an update to its “experimentally usable†calendar. This release fixes a number of bugs that prevented some of our users from downloading and experimenting with the application. The fixes addressed bugs preventing certain calendars from being imported, some sharing errors, and addressing a number of items that support the developer community. A more comprehensive summary and be found in the 0.6.1 Fixed Bugs wiki page.Woo hoo! Get yours now: [Chandler dmg for Mac OS X] [Chandler exe for Windows XP] [Chandler rpm for Linux i386] More info on chandler.osafoundation.org.
vidcast of a drive to work
This is amazing.
Someone who drives from San Francisco to Apple and back each day is putting up
time lapse video
recorded looking out from the front window.
There is one entry where he speeds up the camera to normal for about 20 seconds as he passes
a care on fire.
Someone points out
that we now know where the cummter lives.
We can probably figure out when he is speeding and stuff too.
An interesting experiment in privacy.
I like how the sun glints off the lens in certain bits.
via TUAW
Multitouch User Input demo
The ‘Net is all agog about a new QuickTime movie demonstrating what I would call a “full-hands-on” interface.
The site with the movie is
mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch,
and it’s well worth the watch.
[mirror]
It’s funny - this is the kind of interface Bill Buxton was all ga-ga about, and he was written up in the Star over the weekend.
Apparently he’s at Microsoft now, as part of the research team.
I have to say I was never very impressed by him.
via TUAW,
via Digg