Updated brushed metal guidelines
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Mac OS X Brushed Metal 1.1 (Default
branch)
Mac OS X Brushed Metal 1.1 (Default
branch)
04/07/2005 02:37 PM
Mac OSX Brushed Metal is an Icewm brushed metal
theme. It's a modified version of 'Smooth
Feelings', and the brushed metal image is from the
GTK theme 'Panther GTK'.
Changes:
The brushed metal titlebar image has been changed so that it doesn't
get broken at the right corner, and the taskbar and menu look better
now.
Intel: Metal in Future Chips = Less
Leakage (updated)
Intel: Metal in Future Chips = Less
Leakage (updated)
11/05/2003 10:58 AMsecuritas writes "Intel is contemplating using metal instead of
silicon in future chips for the 'transistor gate, which controls
whether a transistor is on or ...
QA Framework: Test Guidelines Updated
QA Framework: Test Guidelines Updated
03/06/2004 01:50 AM2004-02-25: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft of the QA Framework: Test Guidelines. One in a
family of QA Framework documents, the draft defines a set of common
guidelines for conformance test materials for W3C specifications. The
group welcomes comments. Visit the QA home page. (News archive)
Techniques for Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines Updated
Techniques for Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines Updated
10/31/2002 01:15 AM30 October 2002: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working
Group has released an update to the W3C Note Techniques for Authoring
Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The document provides references,
techniques and strategies to authoring tool developers who wish to
satisfy ATAG 1.0 checkpoints. Read about the Web Accessibility
Initiative. (News archive)
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
2.0 Working Draft Updated
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
2.0 Working Draft Updated
03/06/2004 01:50 AM2004-02-24: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
has released the second Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0. The guidelines are written to help developers create
accessible authoring interfaces that produce accessible Web content.
Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers. Visit the
Web Accessibility Initiative home page. (News archive)
Updated: ActiveWin.com: Microsoft
Security Bulletin List - Updated
Updated: ActiveWin.com: Microsoft
Security Bulletin List - Updated
06/08/2004 06:38 PMWe have re-updated our Microsoft Security Bulletin List for 2004. Be
sure to check it out to see if you missed any of the 17 bulletins
released this year.
[FLSA-2004:1546] Updated utempter
resolves security vulnerability --
Reissue: updated 8.0 version numbers
[FLSA-2004:1546] Updated utempter
resolves security vulnerability --
Reissue: updated 8.0 version numbers
05/19/2004 11:45 AMJesse Keating (May 19 2004)
18k-metal 1.2.0
18k-metal 1.2.0
11/11/2003 09:23 AMThe 18k theme with a metal look and feel.
Mandrake Metal 0.1
Mandrake Metal 0.1
04/11/2004 10:17 PMA Mandrake GDM theme based on the Mandrake Metal background.
A Fistful of Metal (and then some)
A Fistful of Metal (and then some)
09/03/2004 10:10 AM
Encyclopaedia
Metallum. From
Abortion
Grenade
to
Zombie
Holocaust.
Metal Velcro
Metal Velcro
05/15/2004 12:49 PMHeavy Metal FAQ.
Heavy Metal FAQ.
12/24/2004 12:21 PM
Heavy Metal FAQ.
(More inside.)
A Big Metal Zipper
A Big Metal Zipper
03/14/2005 05:56 PMThe
best piece yet on autolinking. The metaphors are
definitely out of control, but in a good way.
Metal Rubber
Metal Rubber
08/13/2004 11:04 AM
A new material called "Metal
Rubber" may find its way into gadgets of the future due to its unique
ability to be stretched, heated, and generally abused while still
conducting electricity - and still able to snap back into form when
the bending and smacking is over. Apparently the vendor NanoSonic is
being inundated with requests to use the material, which is currently
being produced via a painstaking process that builds up the material
one layer of molecules at a time.
Our dreams of the Terminator condom may finally be realized.
(Thanks, Aram!)
Read - A Limber Future [PopSci via NYOpinion]
heavy metal oil
heavy metal oil
09/13/2004 03:02 PM
The paintings of
Josh Kil.
Click the gallery link.
Metal Politics
Metal Politics
12/27/2004 09:02 AMProgress - Dec 2004
"black metal nation"
"black metal nation"
02/10/2004 09:26 PMMetal Rubber Jacket
Metal Rubber Jacket
05/13/2004 09:17 PMJANE PINCKARD -- I want a trenchcoat made of this: nano-enabled "metal
rubber", in the lab at NanoSonic Inc. Charged with electricity, it has
the ability to shape-shift. That's right, they're talking about
morphing. Naturally it's being talked about as an application for
military aircraft (booooring) and vaguely for biomedical...
The True Alternative is Metal
The True Alternative is Metal
06/10/2004 01:00 PMOne of the local alt rock stations bills itself as the “true
alternative.” It plays the same thing as every other modern rock
station so...
Metal Gear Acid
Metal Gear Acid
06/22/2004 03:28 PMMetal Mail? Noooooooooo!
Metal Mail? Noooooooooo!
03/11/2003 05:16 PMSpymac reports that
Mail.app is going
metal. It’s a rumor, of course.
But if it’s true, then I say: Noooooooooooooooo!
Metal Interface on Mail?
Metal Interface on Mail?
03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Spymac believes Mail will be Metal
Soulless, Maybe, but Dig the Heavy Metal
Soulless, Maybe, but Dig the Heavy Metal
02/18/2004 09:23 PMWith Captured! By Robots, or C!BR, 32-year-old Jay Vance has created
an entirely mechanical touring rock band.
the best ever death metal band out of
denton
the best ever death metal band out of
denton
12/17/2004 06:41 PM
"Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low
you'll vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme they
simply can't be human!
They're
not."
You cannot dodge
the talons of
hate.
Panasonic RP-HDE70 Metal Earphones
Panasonic RP-HDE70 Metal Earphones
03/25/2005 07:21 AM
Panasonic has some new inner-ear earphones out with
a metal frame named "RP-HDE70." The 8.5mm unit inside has a frequency
response from 10Hz to 23kHz, so no worries about not hearing all the
correct pitches. They'll set you back about 10,000 Japanese clams.
Press Release [Panasonic]
Magic Ink Grows Metal Circuits
Magic Ink Grows Metal Circuits
07/06/2004 08:29 AM
UK Firm QinetiQ is using a
new technique to grow circuits that, besides being relatively cheap,
is also relatively friendly to the environment. In the process a
flexible surface, like plastic, is printed with a special ink, then
soaked in an electroless chemical solution, causing the metal to grow
on the ink. While they won't be growing silicon microprocessors any
time soon, QinetiQ plans to primarily focus on producing large batches
of RFID tags, although other technologies, like Frequency Selective
Surfaces, which can bounce some radio waves and let other through. The
real question is, as usual, when can we use this process at home?
Read -
'Magic ink' that makes metal grow [BBC]
Heavy metal umlaut: the movie
Heavy metal umlaut: the movie
02/01/2005 08:52 PM
Today's
screencast traces the evolution of Wikipedia's Heavy metal
umlaut page. I noticed it when both
Tim
Bray and
David
Weinberger pointed to it, but the page actually dates back to
April 15, 2003.
...Metal Cutlery Returns to the Sky...
(Reuters)
Metal Cutlery Returns to the Sky...
(Reuters)
04/04/2005 08:04 AMReuters - Passengers flying from British airports
will be able to dine with metal cutlery again when
anti-terrorism rules banning sharp objects on board are relaxed
later this month.
Leaked Metal Gear Solid 3
Leaked Metal Gear Solid 3
05/14/2004 03:25 PMIntel to bring out the metal at 45
nanometers
Intel to bring out the metal at 45
nanometers
11/05/2003 05:58 PMThe company unveiled a manufacturing process for its chips that it
said should boost performance and reduce power losses.
Intel to serve up metal chips
Intel to serve up metal chips
11/05/2003 04:10 AMZDNet UK Nov 5 2003 4:05AM ET
Iraqi heavy metal band
Iraqi heavy metal band
08/18/2004 12:23 PMLooks like they've found those weapons of mass destruction. WSJ
article about Iraqi heavy metal outfit Acrassicauda, and what life is
like trying to obliterate audiences with satanic soundwaves after the
fall of Saddam.
The members of Acrassicauda honed their English by singing along to
black-market Megadeth and Metallica CDs. They developed their stage
moves by copying what they saw on pirated videotapes of American rock
concerts. Now they're learning a different lesson: the difficulties of
reviving culture and entertainment in a society ripped apart by war.
The four members of Acrassicauda, which means Black Scorpion in Latin,
hope they can prove just as resilient. The young men -- Mr. Talal,
bassist Faris al-Lateef, drummer Marwan Mohammad Riyak and guitarist
Tony Aziz -- met as high-school students and formed the band, along
with another member, in 2000. Scions of prominent families, they were
drawn together by their love of Western heavy-metal bands like Slayer
and Judas Priest, which appealed to their feelings of isolation and
disillusionment.
"It's about feeling powerless and lonely and wanting to scream out
because no one else is paying attention to what you're feeling," says
Mr. Lateef, 23, who has spiky hair, a goatee and tinted sunglasses
that he wears indoors. "The songs were sung by Americans but they
could easily have been written by us as Iraqis."
Link (
paid registration
required), more
here
via Channel One News (
Thanks, Ollie)
Metal Goddess Bellydance Troupe
Metal Goddess Bellydance Troupe
08/27/2004 01:51 PM
Met@l Goddess
Bellydancing. That's it, what more do you want. The
entry page rocks, but I found
Crazy Train a more trenchant hermeneutic discourse.
Attakus Metal Collection : R2-D2 And
C-3PO First Shots
Attakus Metal Collection : R2-D2 And
C-3PO First Shots
09/17/2004 04:41 PMAttakus has revealed the pictures of the first
figures from the Metal collection : the unpainted prototypes of C-3PO
and R2-D2. The photos of stormtroopers and Darth Vader should be
available soon.
Released PHP 5 compliant MetaL engine
Released PHP 5 compliant MetaL engine
05/12/2004 01:25 AMA new revision of the MetaL engine that is compliant with
PHP 5 was released. Several classes that compose the different modules
of
the MetaL compiler engine were fixed to make object cloning work under
PHP
5 in parts of the code where object copying was intentional. These
fixes
are important because they make all MetaL engine applications ready
for use
with PHP 5. These applications include Metastorage, a Data Access
Object
(DAO) classes generator tool.
Metal interface spreads to Mail
Metal interface spreads to Mail
03/13/2003 10:15 AMApple’s Mail application will sport an interface similar to iChat and
Safari in an upcoming version, according to recent information sent to
Spymac.
The purported change would see the familiar brushed-metal interface as
the front end to Apple’s free Mail.App – the default mail client in OS
X.
Other Apple products currently using the look include the entire iLife
package; QuickTime; iChat and Safari.
According to one internal tester, the metal interface has appeared in
previously...
Do you have what it takes to be the King
of Metal Knowledge?
Do you have what it takes to be the King
of Metal Knowledge?
08/05/2004 05:33 PM
Metal Quiz Attakus Metal Collection : The Concept
Attakus Metal Collection : The Concept
12/04/2003 11:53 AMAs previously reported,
Attakus
will be including
Star Wars sculpts in their
Metal range.
Figurines will be between 4 cm and 12 cm tall and will have a
non-removable base that will serve as scenery. A diorama in resin to
display all the statues is also in study but has not yet received the
design approval of Lucasfilm. The concept is very similar to their
Peter Pan set but with accurate sculpts. First
finished prototypes are expected in April 2004 and statues should be
available at retail in September 2004. Thanks to the great staff of
Attakus for the infos.
Build Your Own Heavy Metal Server
Build Your Own Heavy Metal Server
05/01/2004 09:34 PMGrok Description matches for Updated brushed metal guidelines
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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 PMTech-Recipes Aug 21 2004 1:52AM GMT
Boot disk saves the day
Boot disk saves the day
01/22/2004 06:54 AMBack in the day, before interconnected networks, I always carried two
or three NetWare client boot diskettes with me when visiting remote
sites. Two or three were needed because invariably someone would fold,
spindle or mutilate at least one leaving me hours from my own desk and
no way to create another. This was also, I might add, before the days
of laptops - or even "portables," that euphemistic word for the
40-pound computer you lugged around in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
XBox dashboard
XBox dashboard
06/06/2005 12:13 AMTake a look at this. What do you see? A personal page, dashboard
on an XBox! This is only possible now that the XBox 360 is designed
for on-line interaction and digital identity.
I wonder if they have xHTML pages and embed their profile info into
the pages? Where's the XFN? I doubt it's there!
This shows why a lower case semantic web approach is too
limiting to solve ALL the challenges of DLAs.
Now don't get me wrong - I'm all into search engines spider the web
and collect all sorts of structured data. I'm all into having
microformat standards for getting all this structured data into
sync.
But to think that this is the ONLY way - is itself a dogma.
We need to make sure that as micro-content evolves - that all forms
of structure, devices and usage scenarios are supported. Not just web
geeks.
So welcome XBox 360 to the on-line world of digital identity.
May the force be with you - and would you PLEASE help save
the Planet Earth for us - from those mean aliens?
Creating your own Bootable Windows XP
CD-ROM and installing XP from boot disk
Creating your own Bootable Windows XP
CD-ROM and installing XP from boot disk
08/01/2004 11:52 AMTech-Recipes Aug 1 2004 3:12PM GMT
neXgen - Opensource Dashboard for Xbox
neXgen - Opensource Dashboard for Xbox
12/13/2003 09:24 AMNexgen 18/9/03 Sources Released
Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox
Dashboard
Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox
Dashboard
09/23/2004 01:54 PM
Apparently the new Star Wars Trilogy DVDs
have an 'Extra Special Features Disc' that, if played on an Xbox, will
modify the dashboard software of the console without requesting the
users' permission. Although this shouldn't affect most unmodded Xboxs,
it does seem weird that a video disc - even one with a game demo on
it, like this one - would modify what is essentially firmware on a
device without at least confirming it with the user first. Caveat
Emperor, I guess.
Read - Star Wars Trilogy DVD Auto-Updating Dash and XBE booting
from video DVD [Xbox-Scene via GadgetM
adness]
Related
Star Wars
Archives [Gizmodo]
Xbox Archives
[Gizmodo]
IBM teams with Microsoft on XBox 2,
Intel (and possibly x86) gets the boot
[UPDATED]
IBM teams with Microsoft on XBox 2,
Intel (and possibly x86) gets the boot
[UPDATED]
11/03/2003 03:59 PMCut Your Boot Time Into ‘Bits’ @
OverclockingHQ
Cut Your Boot Time Into ‘Bits’ @
OverclockingHQ
05/01/2004 03:53 PM10.3: Decrease the amount of time
required to boot
10.3: Decrease the amount of time
required to boot
01/16/2004 11:05 AMApparently Apple introduced a little bug with 10.3.2 where the boot
script doesn't find a file where it's supposed to be. You can fix that
by typing the following command into the Terminal (one long line,
broken with a backsl...
Linux To Reduce Boot Time for Windows XP
Media Centers
Linux To Reduce Boot Time for Windows XP
Media Centers
01/25/2004 12:49 PMThe new Linux-based InstantOn software -- designed to help Windows XP
Media Center Edition PCs boot more quickly -- is aimed at taking
advantage of the power of Intel's Pentium processors, not at fixing
fragmented hard drives. The software integrates into the computer's
BIOS and the operating system.
Calculating System Boot and Installation
Date and Time using Windows Management
Instrumentation
Calculating System Boot and Installation
Date and Time using Windows Management
Instrumentation
06/27/2004 07:09 PMXbox 360 Unites With Real Time Worlds
Xbox 360 Unites With Real Time Worlds
06/24/2005 03:08 PMXtramsn.co.nz - Wed Jun 22, 09:32 pm GMT
News: Diskology shrinks Disk Jockey hard
disk duplicator
News: Diskology shrinks Disk Jockey hard
disk duplicator
03/30/2005 05:41 PMDiskology Inc. on Wednesday introduced a smaller version of its Disk
Jockey, a hardware appliance that duplicates, backs up and diagnoses
hard disk drives. It retails for US$329.
BiTMICRO® Introduces E-Disk® PMC Flash
Disk Module at Military & Aerospace
Electronics East 2004
BiTMICRO® Introduces E-Disk® PMC Flash
Disk Module at Military & Aerospace
Electronics East 2004
05/31/2004 02:13 PME-Disk® PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) Combines Industry Leading Capacity
with Extreme Reliability and Fast I/O for Unrivaled Solid State
Storage in Embedded Systems Applications; IEEE 1386.1 compliant module
delivers up to 10GB of flash storage, burst R/W rate of 66 MB/s,
sustained R/W rates of up to 28 MB/s and 18,000 IOPS [PRWEB May 31,
2004]
10.4: Enable hidden disk image formats
in Disk Utility
10.4: Enable hidden disk image formats
in Disk Utility
06/22/2005 02:23 AMThis is the Tiger version of a previously submitted hint. Basically,
it allows Disk Utility to create disk images in many additional
formats. Some are pre-OS X formats, and some others are new to Tiger.
Plus, there is a stran...
Microsoft sets sights on disk-to-disk
backup
Microsoft sets sights on disk-to-disk
backup
09/21/2004 04:17 PMWhile some users applauded Microsoft's announcement of its Data
Protection Server, others said proven storage backup vendors already
have far more mature products.
10.3: Use Disk Utility to manage disk
images
10.3: Use Disk Utility to manage disk
images
11/10/2003 11:18 PMI don't know if this functionality was already build into 10.2's disk
tools, but Apple's new Disk Utility greatly improves the ease of
working with disk images.
You can drag disk images in the left window pane, just below th...
Revinetix Unveils Volo™ Office Backup
Appliance, Affordable Disk-to-Disk
Disaster Recovery Solution Targeting
Small & Medium Size Businesses
Revinetix Unveils Volo™ Office Backup
Appliance, Affordable Disk-to-Disk
Disaster Recovery Solution Targeting
Small & Medium Size Businesses
06/22/2005 02:42 AMVolo™ Network Backup Appliance Offers Reliability and Speed of
Disk-Based Storage Coupled with Off-Site Archival Support and
Simple-to-Use Admin Software [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]
Auto disk mount without user login
causing disk mount failure
Auto disk mount without user login
causing disk mount failure
03/28/2005 10:01 AMI had the OS X disk automount option enabled so that my external
FireWire disks were mounted when no user was logged into the GUI.
However, it created a problem of somesort in that none of my disk
images would mount any more....
Xbox Next in 2005? 2006?Recent comments
from Microsoft's CEO seem to indicate
that the next Xbox won't be out
Xbox Next in 2005? 2006?Recent comments
from Microsoft's CEO seem to indicate
that the next Xbox won't be out
07/30/2004 05:44 PMGigex Jul 30 2004 9:41PM GMT
Xbox 2/Xbox Next/Xenon to Debut at E3
2005
Xbox 2/Xbox Next/Xenon to Debut at E3
2005
02/01/2005 08:44 PMMS 'to drop' Xbox compatibility from
Xbox 2
MS 'to drop' Xbox compatibility from
Xbox 2
06/22/2004 09:06 AMThe Register Jun 22 2004 1:10PM GMT
As IBM teams with Microsoft on XBox 2,
some see a G5 in the Xbox
As IBM teams with Microsoft on XBox 2,
some see a G5 in the Xbox
11/03/2003 01:26 PMXbox 360 name confirmed for the next
generation xbox
Xbox 360 name confirmed for the next
generation xbox
04/14/2005 06:14 AMDashboard II
Dashboard II
06/30/2004 08:57 PMI'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.
Dashboard III
Dashboard III
07/02/2004 04:48 AMTodd
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"
06/28/2004 08:15 PMThe 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
Dashboard
06/30/2004 02:37 AMI 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.
DVD Doctors Dashboard
DVD Doctors Dashboard
09/23/2004 03:47 PMA heads-up for Xbox owners - the 4th bonus disc in a certain DVD set
that was just released will, without permission, modify the dashboard
software of the console. Not a big deal unless you are one of those
folks who has modded their Xbox (if you don't know what a "dashboard"
is, you probably have nothing to worry about). A thanks to
Gadget
Madness for the tip.
Updated brushed metal guidelines
