Practical gadgets win out in poll

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Neowin Poll updated, Results for Doom 3
& HL2 Poll

Neowin Poll updated, Results for Doom 3
& HL2 Poll 01/18/2004 08:11 AM

Practical C++

Practical C++ 02/18/2004 01:34 PM

PHPBuilder: Practical XML in Your PHP

PHPBuilder: Practical XML in Your PHP 12/26/2002 08:53 AM

Practical .NET SOAP

Practical .NET SOAP 11/15/2003 03:17 AM
CNET Nov 15 2003 1:44AM ET

Practical RDF Town Hall

Practical RDF Town Hall 12/13/2003 04:10 PM
Around 30 people attended the Practical RDF Town Hall at the XML 2003 conference this week, watching demos and asking questions.

Practical Query Analyzer 1.4

Practical Query Analyzer 1.4 07/27/2004 04:31 PM
Produces HTML reports on query statistics.

Toyota Stays Practical

Toyota Stays Practical 08/02/2004 02:08 PM
Toyota is racking up huge earnings, but its decision to drop its roadster convertible could be a mistake.

Web Services For Practical Users

Web Services For Practical Users 04/12/2005 10:47 AM

Python and XML: Practical SAX Notes

Python and XML: Practical SAX Notes 08/12/2004 01:22 PM
Uche Ogbuji follows up on some of the practical aspects and implications of his latest Python and XML columns, including SAX and namespace issues.

Practical tips for boozing

Practical tips for boozing 05/07/2004 01:42 PM
Take a slip of paper, draw circles, put in numbers, and put your whiskey on them. Then, you can easily see how drunk you are as you down the glasses.

Strings, some practical advice

Strings, some practical advice 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Now that I've gone off a bit about the structure of strings, you're probably wondering what exactly good is it all? Knowing how things work doesn't necessarily translate to any sort of utility, at least not immediately. (I think it's essential for real understanding, but real understanding is in short supply on so many things...) But some good advice is in order. Like so many things I go on about, keep in mind that this is from the standpoint of a VM designer/implementor--I understand and do infrastructure. I have precious little experience implementing applications, unless you consider something like Parrot...

Practical Guide to Fair Use

Practical Guide to Fair Use 04/09/2005 05:43 PM
briefing book

cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/SignalNoiseBBFINAL.pdf
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Practical Futurist: Comdex then and now

Practical Futurist: Comdex then and now 11/17/2003 03:11 PM
MSNBC Nov 17 2003 1:56PM ET

Practical Music Search 0.0.1

Practical Music Search 0.0.1 12/22/2003 05:32 AM
A real-time music searching utility.

Practical Persona Creation

Practical Persona Creation 02/11/2003 08:55 PM
Don't know what a persona is? Want an interesting and fairly easy way to help you get to know and advocate for your users? Practical Persona Creation is a simple overview, with a few real world examples, of how to create and use personas as well as some ideas to get you started learning about personas and thinking about your user when you design and build Web sites.

C# Primer- A Practical Approach

C# Primer- A Practical Approach 06/29/2004 12:24 PM

XML-Deviant: On Practical Elegance

XML-Deviant: On Practical Elegance 04/06/2005 09:21 PM
In his latest XML-Deviant, Micah Dubinko investigates the hidden meaning behind several permathreads found on the XML-DEV mailing list.

World's First Practical Plastic Magnet

World's First Practical Plastic Magnet 09/01/2004 04:24 AM

"Practical mod_perl" book goes
opensource

"Practical mod_perl" book goes
opensource 12/19/2004 02:59 PM
stas writes : "The complete "Practical mod_perl" book is now available online under the terms of the CreativeCommons "Attribution Share-Alike License". Thanks to all who have purchased our book so far. You can still get the printed version from your...

Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, 2nd
Edition

Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, 2nd
Edition 02/01/2005 09:12 PM

Practical Web Design - Top 15 META Tag
Tricks

Practical Web Design - Top 15 META Tag
Tricks 12/05/2002 10:52 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 5 2002 8:49PM ET

Using WebObjects: More Practical Tips
And Tricks

Using WebObjects: More Practical Tips
And Tricks 01/17/2004 10:39 PM
By Josh Paul (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

Remote RSA Timing Attacks Practical

Remote RSA Timing Attacks Practical 03/13/2003 08:36 PM
David Brumley and Dan Boneh writes "Timing attacks are usually used to attack weak computing devices such as smartcards. We show that timing attacks apply to ...

A Practical View of Cisco Services

A Practical View of Cisco Services 06/03/2004 08:32 PM
ZDNet Jun 4 2004 0:46AM GMT

Practical Search Engine Optimization

Practical Search Engine Optimization 07/21/2004 02:30 PM
In this article we cut through the hype and mystery of SEO and offer tips and advice for making your site more search engine friendly that are easy to understand and implement.

A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail
Overload

A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail
Overload 03/14/2005 04:21 PM
A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail Overload
http://hbswk .hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4438&t=srobbins

Stever Robbins offers advice on how to author effective, efficient, and focused business email messages. He also recommends how to read and respond to email. Thoughtful, well constructed and brief responses, which you have taken time to consider before hitting the "send" key, will increase the value of this communications tool. And don't forget that sometimes it is easier to just use the phone. [beSpacif ic March 4, 2005]

Practical Futurist: Daily reports from
Comdex

Practical Futurist: Daily reports from
Comdex 11/19/2003 10:24 PM
MSNBC Nov 19 2003 9:28PM ET

Practical Design of Outlines and Site
Maps

Practical Design of Outlines and Site
Maps 07/01/2002 03:39 PM
"My goal with this site is to make electronically delivered documents far easier and more practical and faster to work with, by expanding beyond the "help topics" design paradigm." (Hypertext Navigation)

Features: SIMILE: Practical Metadata for
the Semantic Web

Features: SIMILE: Practical Metadata for
the Semantic Web 02/01/2005 08:52 PM
Digital libraries and generic metadata form part of the background assumptions and forward-looking goals of the Semantic Web. SIMILE is an interesting project aimed at realizing some of those goals.

Babel offers practical primer for Mac OS
X backups

Babel offers practical primer for Mac OS
X backups 11/07/2003 06:37 AM
The Babel Company today announced that it has put together a primer for approaching the issue of running backups under Mac OS X...

Pogue gives practical praise for iChat
AV, iSight

Pogue gives practical praise for iChat
AV, iSight 12/05/2003 10:09 AM
In his latest column for The New York Times (free subscription required), David Pogue gives high marks to Apple's iChat AV video conference software and iSight, the company's Web cam...

Self-Checkout Faces Practical, Tech
Hurdles

Self-Checkout Faces Practical, Tech
Hurdles 08/06/2004 04:51 PM
Besides trying to function with incompatible databases, self-checkout systems can fail to identify products correctly, and unforgiving interfaces can leave customers frustrated.

Practical Applications: Visio or HTML
for Wireframes

Practical Applications: Visio or HTML
for Wireframes 02/11/2003 10:34 AM
Boxes and Arrows Feb 11 2003 9:47AM ET

Microsoft Research Aims To Blend
Blue-Sky With Practical

Microsoft Research Aims To Blend
Blue-Sky With Practical 04/09/2005 03:54 AM
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Practical Traveler: Glitches in Booking
First Class Online

Practical Traveler: Glitches in Booking
First Class Online 04/10/2005 10:41 AM
Nytimes.com - Sun Apr 10, 06:11 am GMT

Get Seen The Easy Way: Simple, Practical
Search Engine Promotion

Get Seen The Easy Way: Simple, Practical
Search Engine Promotion 06/15/2004 03:29 AM
WebmasterBase Jun 15 2004 7:16AM GMT

Knowledge Management Gets Practical as
Atlassian Announces Confluence 1.2

Knowledge Management Gets Practical as
Atlassian Announces Confluence 1.2 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
Today, Atlassian Software Systems announced the second major update to their knowledge management product, "Confluence - The Professional Wiki." Confluence 1.2 features an enhanced search interface, new ways to explore the content of spaces, threaded comments, image thumbnails and galleries, a new permissions interface and a raft of additional improvements and bug fixes. This is the second major update to Confluence, and once again all existing customers can upgrade for free, thanks to the provision for one year of free upgrades in your license. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Practical Homeschooling - Skills to
Learn Before You Start ! Part ...

Practical Homeschooling - Skills to
Learn Before You Start ! Part ... 01/18/2003 02:43 AM
There are many good search engines. Some people swear by Google; others use Altavista; I like Alltheweb.com but I also use AOL Search, which uses Google. ...

Joshua Drake interview: Coauthor of
Practical PostgreSQL

Joshua Drake interview: Coauthor of
Practical PostgreSQL 08/05/2002 10:44 PM
Recently, Jonathan Gennick sat down with the coauthor of Practical PostgreSQL to talk about the future of this open source database. In this in-depth interview, Joshua Drake, who is also the cofounder of Command Prompt, and a project leader for Mammoth PostgreSQL, touches on everything from a Mac OS X distribution of PostgreSQL to LXP, the XML application server that runs as an Apache module to XML support in PostgreSQL.

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Tiger Primer: Dashboard

Tiger Primer: Dashboard 07/06/2004 05:12 AM
It's safe to assume that once Tiger arrives we'll be seeing a flood of homegrown Dashboard applications. By Jason Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Apple - Mac OS X - Tiger Preview -
Dashboard

Apple - Mac OS X - Tiger Preview -
Dashboard 06/28/2004 04:55 PM
Dashboard

apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html
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Inside Tiger: A Look at Dashboard
(images)

Inside Tiger: A Look at Dashboard
(images) 07/11/2004 01:37 AM
When Dashboard is active, Widgets are activated via a floating control panel that lists different Widgets. The menu is a rounded bar with the names of the Widgets on them; merely click on the desired Widget and it pops up with a snazzy ripple transition.

Dashboard is most anticipated Tiger
feature

Dashboard is most anticipated Tiger
feature 04/08/2005 12:26 PM
Mac fans are getting keyed up for the immanent launch of Tiger, which, according to Apple, will launch in the first half of this year. Macworld readers were asked: "What Tiger feature are you looking forward to the most?" in an online poll. With 1,532 votes cast it emerged that more than a quarter (29 per cent) were most excited about Dashboard.

The Real Purpose Of Dashboard In Tiger:
Block Longhorn

The Real Purpose Of Dashboard In Tiger:
Block Longhorn 07/09/2004 09:36 PM
By Charles Arthur (via MyAppleMenu)

Creating an Evolution X Dashboard Boot
Disk for XBOX| Installing Dashboard to
HD

Creating an Evolution X Dashboard Boot
Disk for XBOX| Installing Dashboard to
HD 08/20/2004 09:27 PM
Tech-Recipes Aug 21 2004 1:52AM GMT

Mandelson due for EU appointment

Mandelson due for EU appointment 07/22/2004 08:02 PM
Former Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson is expected to be named as Britain's new European Commissioner.

Mandelson defends appointment

Mandelson defends appointment 07/24/2004 06:33 AM
Former Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson says he is the right man to make the EU more popular in Britain.

Mandelson EU appointment: Your reaction

Mandelson EU appointment: Your reaction 07/23/2004 06:07 AM
The former cabinet minister, Peter Mandelson has been named as Britain's next European commissioner. Send us your reaction.

Praise for Thompson appointment

Praise for Thompson appointment 05/22/2004 03:46 AM
The appointment of Mark Thompson as the BBC's new director general is widely welcomed.

WebmasterWorld Makes Key Appointment

WebmasterWorld Makes Key Appointment 12/22/2003 12:37 PM
WebmasterWorld.com Announces Appointment of New Press Secretary, Technology PR Expert to Lead WebmasterWorld.com Conference and Publicity Efforts

Computer and Information Sciences Key
Appointment

Computer and Information Sciences Key
Appointment 04/23/2004 01:31 AM
Scoop Apr 23 2004 5:46AM GMT

Broadata Communications, Inc. Announces
Appointment of CEO and Doing More with
One Fiber…Plus

Broadata Communications, Inc. Announces
Appointment of CEO and Doing More with
One Fiber…Plus 04/18/2005 04:11 AM
Broadata Communications, Inc. (BCI) announces that it has appointed Dr. Freddie Lin as President and CEO of Broadata Communications, Inc., (BCI). Freddie Lin has immediately made his mark by taking BCI in a new direction. BCI is not only expanding and enhancing their existing fiber optic communications products for multimedia communications, enterprise and network service providers, and the broadcast industries worldwide, but they now offer specialized transport and distribution products for copper and wireless infrastructure. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

Apple shows sense of humor on Gore
appointment

Apple shows sense of humor on Gore
appointment 03/21/2003 12:16 AM
Apple has shown that it indeed does have a sense of humor by linking to a very funny report on the company's announcement that it had appointed Al Gore to its Board of Directors...

NextWest, Inc. Announces Appointment of
Richard De Soto as Vice-President, Sales
and Marketing

NextWest, Inc. Announces Appointment of
Richard De Soto as Vice-President, Sales
and Marketing 09/01/2004 02:41 AM
NextWest, Inc., the leading provider of IP-based business telecommunications and contact center systems, today announced the appointment of Richard De Soto as Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for NextWest, Inc. [PRWEB Sep 1, 2004]

BPMG backs recent growth with Lead
Analyst appointment of Terry Schurter,
“The Voice of BPM”

BPMG backs recent growth with Lead
Analyst appointment of Terry Schurter,
“The Voice of BPM” 08/12/2004 02:23 AM
BPMG today announced that Terry Schurter, Analyst and internationally popular commentator on BPM has joined the organization as BPMG's Lead Analyst, a move backing recent BPMG community growth. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Taming Tiger: Pre-release of Tiger now
available

Taming Tiger: Pre-release of Tiger now
available 01/27/2004 01:21 AM

Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright

Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright 06/27/2004 07:33 PM
My real concern lies with the hundreds of editors who will have to provide pithy, cliche-ridden titles featuring the word Tiger only moments after the keynote ends. By Brian Bailey (via MyAppleMenu)

European Computer Telecoms Ltd. augments
UK engineering team with appointment of
Keith Mathison and Sheraz Ahmad

European Computer Telecoms Ltd. augments
UK engineering team with appointment of
Keith Mathison and Sheraz Ahmad 09/08/2004 03:38 AM
Keith Mathison joins ECT as Vice-Director of Service Operations [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]

Mainframe Entertainment Announces
Appointment of CEO Rick Mischel as CEO
of IDT Entertainment Sales

Mainframe Entertainment Announces
Appointment of CEO Rick Mischel as CEO
of IDT Entertainment Sales 06/22/2004 03:24 PM
BC Technology Jun 22 2004 8:19PM GMT

"Dashboard"

"Dashboard" 06/28/2004 08:15 PM

Dashboard II

Dashboard II 06/30/2004 08:57 PM

I've seen plenty of opinions on "what Dashboard is." Just to prove a point that there are many ways to think about this new feature, here's another perspective on what Dashboard is (from a browser geek's perspective): HTML sidebar panels liberated from the browser window and placed anywhere on the screen. The "Web pages as widgets" concept is really just a logical extension of the Web sidebar panel metaphor.

In a Web browser like Mozilla, for example, the sidebar can be toggled with a key, the panels inside can be viewed, and individual panels can be selected, reordered, managed, and added/deleted. Custom panels can be installed into the sidebar and people have written panels for Mozilla, Opera, etc. that do everything from FedEx package tracking to HTML validation.

In other words, like the Desktop Accessories of yore, the sidebar panels in Web browsers are little Web page accessories that perform basic functions like stock checking, calculators, monitors, alert systems, etc., which brings me to my point:

The concept of Web pages as accessories inside a browser has existed for years.

However the sidebar metaphor suffers from usability problems. The inability to scale up to many widgets as well as being constrained by the browser's window width. It's also hard to view multiple panels at once. The panels are also tied to a particular application (the browser) despite frequently having no connection to the application itself.

A logical way of solving these sidebar panel usability problems is to free those panels from the browser window and make them accessible anywhere on the screen (both invokable and dismissable with the touch of a key). This gives you the real estate you need to really make the widgets useful, lets you show multiple widgets at once, and makes the UI for panel configuration easier, since you have more room to represent the user interface for configuration.

The Dashboard

The Dashboard 07/03/2004 03:13 PM
“Why can’t my computer automatically show me things that will help me with what I’m doing, instead of making me search around for them? The goal of the dashboard is to automatically show a user useful files and other objects as he goes about his day. While you read email, browse the web, write a document, or talk to your friends on IM, the dashboard does its best to proactively find objects that are relevant to your current activity, and to display them in a friendly way, saving you from digging around through your stuff like a disorganized filing clerk. For example, if a friend IMs you and says ‘I can’t wait for our camping trip this weekend!’ the dashboard will show things like your recent emails about the camping trip, your camping bookmarks, and any files or notes you’ve got on your hard drive about camping. Microsoft is biting off us and calls this concept ‘implicit query.’ ” “Friedman…says Dashboard will be ready as early as this summer.”

Dashboard III

Dashboard III 07/02/2004 04:48 AM

Todd Dominey writes about Dashboard in his blog and asks some questions that I'd like to clear up.

A Dashboard widget is a bundle that contains a principal HTML file and any supporting code that the widget requires (be it CSS, JS, images, or native code). A widget can add an optional interface to native code, written in Objective-C, that can be bound into JavaScript and made accessible from the HTML document's JS window object.

In other words, an address book widget could inject a property called "addressBook" into the JS window object of an address book widget's HTML document, and then expose methods and properties on that object that can be invoked from the JS. This effectively allows you to execute native code through the use of this special type of plugin.

The "native code as a service accessible from JS" model should be familiar to anyone who has used XPCOM with XUL. It's essentially the same idea. Extensions to the Firefox browser that contain native code can expose that native code to script as an XPCOM service, and then that object can be obtained from JS and have methods/properties invoked.

Again, when viewed from a certain perspective, this is a competitive Web browser feature that has been fused with Expose. These widgets that might otherwise have had to be inside the browser window as sidebar panels or toolbars have been set free by the brilliant idea of using Expose.

Anyway, some points about this model.
(1) The native plugin code must be owned by root. This means that in order for a Dashboard widget that contains one of these special types of plugins to execute that code, you have to enter a root account password (to chown the plugin code). This plugin code cannot execute, therefore, without the widget being "blessed" just as an application that you might install on your system must be.
(2) This plugin will not be present in Safari or other WebKit applications, and is only accessible from Dashboard.
(3) The dashboard object is also exposed on the JS window object of the HTML document and has methods for "meta-functions" that the Dashboard can execute.

As for many of the animations, fades, slides, etc in the widgets themselves., they simply look so damn cool because of Safari's rich support for CSS3 used in conjunction with DHTML. Do you know what I talked about at WWDC? Image replacement. Sliding doors. Using opacity to create fade effects. CSS3 text truncation. Web standards. All of which are being used to full effect in Dashboard widgets. Our standards support has grown so rich and our engine has become so smooth at effects that people are constantly mistaking pure JS/DHTML/CSS stuff that people are doing for something fancier. I've heard "That's HTML?!" several times in the past week.

Now it is true that we have made many extensions to WebCore, but only in places where there are holes in HTML that must be filled. And even then, we have tried to implement compatible models or to design so that our enhancements could be standardized in the future.

For example, the new WebCore supports all of WinIE's drag events, and that's how drag and drop is done in the Dashboard. So at the same time we added this rich support to WebCore, we also added support for a feature that can now be used in Web pages in a compatible fashion with WinIE. We started with a compatible base and enhanced drag and drop to allow you to dynamically set the drag image and even enhanced CSS with a new drag pseudo-class so that you could re-resolve style on the element while it's being dragged, but at the core, we made sure to pick a practical starting point.

In other examples, we added support for new slider widgets and search field widgets (wrapping NSSlider and NSSearchField respectively). HTML is missing these widgets, and so we had to add them so that Dashboard widgets could use them. But even there we did so in a way that is designed to be compatible with other browsers.

Dashboard

Dashboard 06/30/2004 02:37 AM

I haven't blogged in a long time, primarily because I've been so busy preparing for WWDC (working frantically on my presentation as well as fixes to WebCore to support Safari RSS and Dashboard of course). I'll be talking about both Dashboard and Safari RSS a lot more in depth (primarily from the perspective of all the new open source WebCore features that were added to support these two new features) once I've gotten some sleep. :)

I wanted to blog briefly to clear up what the widgets actually are written in. They are Web pages, plain and simple (with extra features thrown in for added measure). Apple's own web site says "build your own widgets using the JavaScript language", but that's sort of misleading. The widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing.

In other words, each widget is just a web page, and so you have the full power of WebKit behind each one... CSS2, DOM2, JS, HTML, XMLHttpRequest, Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc. I'll have a lot more to say later on, but I thought it important to clear that up right up front, since a lot of people were asking me about it in email and such.

iCal 1.5.2

iCal 1.5.2 01/19/2004 04:15 PM
Organize all the calendars in your life.

Got iCal?

Got iCal? 04/19/2005 11:32 AM
iCal works. I just downloaded the MySQL conference schedule to my Mozilla calendar by going here. Kudos to O'Reilly and Mozilla for making it a seamless (and Outlook-free) experience....

iCal 1.5.5 Now Available

iCal 1.5.5 Now Available 12/19/2004 03:26 PM
Now available via Software Update:iCal 1.5.5 includes improvements in iSync synchronization on computers running Mac OS X version 10.2. iCal 1.5.4 ...

Beyond iCal

Beyond iCal 08/31/2004 04:00 AM
Looking for a better way of getting your iCal calendars online? Interested in a compatible alternative to iCal?

Upload, view and sync your schedule with free picks from this week's episode of Freeloader Friday.

Dashboard Exposed

Dashboard Exposed 06/28/2004 07:52 PM
Apple introduced Dashboard today. Dashboard is an addition to Exposé which gives users quick access to mini-applications called Widgets.Widgets are m...

Practical gadgets win out in poll

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