Archive for September, 2006
« Previous EntriesNew York Times Reader Trumps Adobe Reader
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006The recently released New York Times Reader (http://www.nytimes.com/mem/reader_regi.html) is what the Adobe PDF Reader should be today. Small, data-driven, dynamic, interactive and skinable.
Scott Hanselman states this is a precursor to WPF based RSS readers. I am going to go one further and state this is the future of dynamic publishing for large, paper-based publishers. A [...]
App after App
Sunday, September 24th, 2006Interesting read about the future of Web Applications; and specifically their archetypes, by Matt Webb.
From application design, to application size, location and other bits.
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006Panasonic does a deal with Connexion, specifically so you can GSM/GPRS whilst Qantas flights.
Peter Jackson to direct "The Hobbit" movie? Oh the horror!
Parallels for Mac is now at build 1910. For those who want to keep their feet in both worlds, you can run Windows XP and Vista at the same time.
Vista RC1++ (alias [...]
Oooh, one of my fave movies on Fox Classics
Saturday, September 23rd, 20061955 Strategic Air Command with the late June Allyson and James Stewart.
Essentially a puff-piece of early Cold War movie making.
The depicted B-47 innovated many technologies now common Boeing aircraft.
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SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Deprecated.
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006RIP Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Deprecated equals don't use it. The momentum in the web-world has slowed to grinding halt.
Whilst SVG is a W3C technology, not owned by Adobe, the original specification came from PGML.
Sad, there was much potential for SVG. All it would have taken was Adobe to make a standard programming model and [...]
Desktop metaphor, Gone Wild!
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Some months ago, BumpTop appeared from Anand Agarawala. "Physical Desktop Interface" using physics to replicate and show what will be possible in the future.
Today, Sony has this cool video demonstration of the future of the desktop expanding from the laptop screen to the desktop.
With the emergence of devices such as holographic projectors, the ability [...]
Our Valuable Virtual Meta-verse Future
Thursday, September 21st, 2006In 1988 Mitchell Waite sent me a small paperback to read: Vernor Vinge's True Names. I was a mere, lowly Hypertalk programmer from Adelaide, South Australia. He was an important person.
This book has stuck in the neurons, and now the virtual is becoming real. It really goes to show how hard science fiction depicts a [...]
On10.net
Thursday, September 21st, 2006On10.net.
Microsoft on design; but more than slicing and dicing Photoshop. The big kahuna/picture. More than what it looks initially too.
I am an avid watcher of Google's EngEd videos (eg: Grid-based Integrated Bioinformatics Systems for High Throughput), and Microsoft's Channel9 videos (eg: Model driven development in Dynamics AX); these provide a visual perspective on from people [...]
Acrobat 8 is Universal Binary
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Confirmed from Ali, at Adobe in this blog post. Adobe Acrobat 8.0 is Universal Binary.
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Dancing Sons of Fishermen!
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006Do your Mitochlorians dancing to a Flamenco rythym?
Bryan Sykes, geneticist and author of "The Seven Daughters of Eve" has found that a majority of the Celts emigrated from Spain to the British Isles 6000 years ago.
A central theme of Bryan's research and books is that we are all more closely related to each other than [...]
