never mind, one day I will get myself a 85mm 1.4 Nikkor
The recent update (Version 92) to BlogsNow will go mostly unnoticed for most people. If you have never clicked on a BlogsNow link then you see a very reduced menu and an intro instead of ads. If you are new to BlogsNow then this should make understanding it easier.
If you are a veteran BlogsNow user and you don’t see the full meny anymore then you probably have cookies disabled.
Update 12/19/05 : looking at my numbers I decided to skip ads entirely for now.
Andreas Pavel invented the Walkman
I knew about this story for so long and told it to so many people that at certain points I wasn’t even sure anymore if it was real or an urban myth.
I am surprised that this is news or a rumor. Of course there will be black laptops from Apple. Or any other color that sells. It was never about ‘apple is the computer maker whos cheap laptops are white’. It was about ‘apple cares about design’.
Apple’s design is alright. It does stand out, since all the other computer makers just make crap.
The only other nice laptop that I saw was an IBM one.
I am not sure if Adobe is that important.
But the underlying question that Apple is indeed challenging Microsoft’s operating system monopoly is interesting. And not news to me.
What I had not realised is the vertical integration depth of all those Office applications and macros arouund it. This will most likely not go away. Ever. Vista will have a chance if all those tiny little visual basic thingies continue to work.
Those IT monsters will not go away. They rather turn the internet off of safety and glue the CDROM drives shut before they try to migrate those tangled webs of IT gopher tape to /anything/ that is different.
update:
simply click on this link.
Works with Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X 10.4.3 and iTunes 6.0.1
Before I thought this was slick:
Again it is so easy:
1. Open iTunes
2. Select “Subcribe to Podcast …” from the “Advanced” menu. ( it really is simple)
3. copy paste:
http://www.vilodex.com/freshvideo.xml
into the window and hit “ok”
Now your computer will make sure that you always have all the latest vilodex videos.
Never have to wait for a download again.
Those videos could be downloaded to an iPod, but they don’t have to.
The files can be found under your home directory:
Music
iTunes
iTunes Music
Podcasts
vilodex
or you copy paste this into a terminal window:
open Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/Podcasts/vilodex/
to get a finder window.
National Geographic had a nice idea.
HP or Canon or any color printer manufacturer should have done this a long time ago. Before yhey should have given you a DVD with lots and lots of images in super high resolution and a decent and fast way of browsing them. Gets you in the habbit of spreading that ink generously. But no, good ole NG had to come up with this one. And it might never dawn on Canon and Co what they are missing out on.
Beats me why HP has not signed deal with deviantart for instance.
elvis elvis
elvis elvis321
elvis elvis123
elvis 1
elvis 12
elvis 123
elvis 1234
elvis 12345
elvis 123456
elvis password
elvis passwd
elvis test
elvis test123
elvis sivle
unix is secure. But only as secure as your passwords: Just came across this lame rootkit on some computer.
Above the passwords that it seems to try for all users it seems to be frequent enough. Pretty lame, but it seems to work.
If you think you are smart and have a password like ‘usermane’ then think again.
I picked up a PSP just after it came out. Finally I got around and upgraded firmware on it. And now there is a web browser. The pairs mode of twexus runs nicely one it. 10 pixels get cut off, but that is fair enough for a website that I wrote three years ago. It actually looks decent. This is what my webserver says in the agent column:
Mozilla/4.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)
when the PSP comes along.