Tinkering With Tiger

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Tinkering with tech

Tinkering with tech 03/23/2005 12:44 AM
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tinkering with TinyURL's

tinkering with TinyURL's 11/18/2003 06:59 AM
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New Design Tinkering

New Design Tinkering 04/17/2005 04:38 AM

I'm playing with a new design for this site. My old site was basically a "temple of ego" that covered just about everything I was doing online and when I stripped it all away to start over, I knew eventually I wanted to bring back a bit of the clutter.

I just started working on this CSS monstrosity and it's only applied to the main index page at present, but I hope to refine it over the following week and mold it into something more attractive and orderly. For now, I figured I might as well redesign in public, warts and all.

Oh, and be sure to use Firefox or Safari to view it, IE/win can't understand any of the first-child, first-line CSS nor any of the png backgrounds.

Tinkering with the Tyranny of Copyright

Tinkering with the Tyranny of Copyright 02/11/2004 07:52 AM
Tinkering with the Tyranny of Copyright
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25COPYRIGHT.html

William Fisher, director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, has turned his attention to solving the seemingly intractable conflict between the recording industry and file-sharing music fans. His proposed plan, which would enable the entertainment industry to restructure its business model without resorting to micropayments, could also have ramifications for copyrighted digital text-based content. As a first step, all works capable of being transmitted online would be registered with a central office, which would then monitor how frequently the work is used. The work's creator would be compensated on that basis using funds collected via a tax on various content-related devices, such as DVDs, blank CDs or digital recorders. Fisher agrees that such a radical overhaul of the current system would be difficult in today's tax-phobic political environment, but he says that his ideas have been received with great interest by the music and home video industries whose business models are under siege. Fisher says that the likeliest locale for putting his ambitious scheme to work would be in countries such as Croatia or Brazil, which are neither so developed that they have signed on to international copyright protocols nor so underdeveloped that they are desperate to do so. "The hope is in the rainforest," says Fisher, in countries that "are more like the United States was before 1890, when we were a 'pirate' nation." As to whether such a system would ever work in the U.S., Fisher says perhaps after the various current schemes fail, his approach will be more attractive: "What is involved here is nothing less than the shape of our culture and the way we think of ourselves as citizens."

Microsoft still tinkering with security

Microsoft still tinkering with security 05/07/2004 01:59 AM
CFCN Plus May 7 2004 5:42AM GMT

Microsoft still tinkering with 'secure'
design

Microsoft still tinkering with 'secure'
design 05/06/2004 02:49 AM
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Microsoft still tinkering with
secure-computing design

Microsoft still tinkering with
secure-computing design 05/05/2004 03:24 PM
ZDNet May 5 2004 8:05PM GMT

Tinkering with insides of the
PlayStation console deemed illegal

Tinkering with insides of the
PlayStation console deemed illegal 07/22/2004 09:57 PM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jul 22, 09:45 am GMT

Vatican ponders moral implications of
biotech tinkering

Vatican ponders moral implications of
biotech tinkering 11/11/2003 06:52 PM
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broadband » News » Get More From Your
Router - Tinkering with modified WRT54G
firmware

broadband » News » Get More From Your
Router - Tinkering with modified WRT54G
firmware 02/14/2004 08:03 PM
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/38267 Written by Karl BodeA fairly common VoIP complaint (depending on configuration) has been choppy communications when users are throttling their broadband connection. To that end, users are tinkering with modified router firmware upgrades to incorporate bandwidth management and a host of other free improvements. This thread in our VoIP forum outlines how one user obtained the quality of service he was looking for with a Linksys WRT54G and...

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)

Tiger

Tiger 06/05/2005 11:32 PM
yay. got tiger. foolishly I wandered by the apple store at 5.30 to find a long line of people waiting for them to reopen at 6. Guy comes up to the line and asks the two girls behind me what the line is for. "mac store. they are giving away free stuff!! ipods and you know stuff", they tell him with excited voices. Guy turns around walks a few steps away and then comes back. "Maybe you have a better...

Mac OS X Tiger

Mac OS X Tiger 04/14/2005 07:38 PM

Do you want a quick overview of Tiger check out the info Apple has put out. [Apple]

"Tiger"

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

Where is Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)?

Where is Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)? 04/04/2005 02:16 AM
With April Fool's come and gone, the question remains... where is Tiger? rumors had placed it's announcement on April 1. Subsequent confirmation e...

Eye of the Tiger

Eye of the Tiger 03/13/2003 12:53 PM

If you really need to have that extra edge when you play, there's a bizarre new "Focus Trainer" from SportsLink that's supposed to improve concentration and focus before atheletic activity and really get you into "The Zone". It sounds more like a trip to the Laserium if you ask us:

First, find a nice quiet place where you won't be bothered. Put the glasses and headphones on and pick a session. You can choose from 15 of them, ranging from "relaxed calmness" to "anxiety release." Press Start and wait. After a 10-second countdown, you hear a weird noise like a soothing low feedback. It gets louder and then softer, stunted a bit and then drawn out. Then the lights kick in. There are six small, flashing lights that blink furiously on the top rim of the glasses. Shut your eyes, take some deep breaths, and the effect is really strange.

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Mac OS X Tiger on April 29

Mac OS X Tiger on April 29 04/12/2005 11:48 AM
Apple today announced that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger will go on sale Friday, April 29, beginning at 6:00 p.m...

Tiger Knows How to Hunt

Tiger Knows How to Hunt 07/01/2004 10:20 AM
“Besides some under-the-hood improvements, including better graphics and video performance, Tiger has innovations that could change the way people interact with their computers,” writes BusinessWeek’s Peter Burrows. “The most exciting is a new search capability, called Spotlight, for quickly finding and categorizing information on the hard drive.” [Jul 1]

More Mac OS X Builds, 10.3.9, Tiger.

More Mac OS X Builds, 10.3.9, Tiger. 04/07/2005 07:16 AM
Appleinsider reports that Apple has seeded another build of Mac OX 10.3.9 build 7W94 which is expected to be released "imminently". Meanwhile, Appl...

Other News: Best Buy, "Tiger"

Other News: Best Buy, "Tiger" 04/06/2005 12:19 PM
Best Buy starts selling Minis, while a financial analyst predicts "Tiger" will start selling in April.

Tiger In April?

Tiger In April? 03/14/2005 05:45 PM

Tiger JMail 1.0 rc1

Tiger JMail 1.0 rc1 11/03/2003 02:33 PM
A direct replacement for Sun's javamail library.

"Tiger Server"

"Tiger Server" 06/29/2004 02:21 AM

First impressions of Tiger...

First impressions of Tiger... 06/28/2004 04:31 PM

A few first impressions of Apple's upcoming Operating System: Tiger:

• Spotlight - basically an Apple native verstion of Launchbar with a few self-evidently nice features (searching Mail). After using Launchbar for a while I can state without question that it feels like part of the OS after a while, so if the Apple version has the similar ability to run it without using the mouse, then I'll be pretty happy. I doubt Objective Development will be, of course...
• iChat AV - the new version allows you to conference call ten people and video chat with loads of people too. That's pretty cool. I'm pretty bloody impressed by that. It's going to be pretty awesome and totally what I've been hoping they'd do. It fits in really well with some other thinking I've been doing...
• Safari RSS - sites with RSS feeds are marked when you go to them, which is cool, and then you can subscribe to them directly through the interface. I'm not convinced by their interaction design here - I suspect I'll keep using NetNewsWire for the time being - but it's certainly a positive step that can't help but make RSS penetration...
• Dashboard - basically this one is a fucking rip off of Konfabulator and I'm pretty pissed off about it. I'm not a particular fan of the paradigm, but I don't think that's pertinent - unlike RSS feeds and the Launchbar knock-off there doesn't seem to me to be really any reason for building this into the OS, it's not particularly interesting or powerful and it really does seem just like nicking someone else's ideas and lobbing them into your Operating System because you can. Harsh, Steve. Harsh...
• Automator - as far as I can tell this is a GUI for AppleScript, allowing people like me who get scared by even the simplest of scripting languages to automate tasks quickly and easily without ending up dribbling into a cup. My personal jury is out on how useful it'll actually be on a day-to-day basis but that doesn't mean that I'm not impressed. AppleScript for the rest of us?
• VoiceOver - a spoken interface for the Mac. I'm not really qualified to comment on the technology, but certainly the aspiration is good and important and I don't doubt it'll serve Apple well in cracking governmental markets. My only quibble - I'm not so impressed by the little white man they made in Illustrator to put in the logo. He looks a bit lame and ... bendy ...
• .Mac sync - a revised version of iSync with a simpler UI and apparently some developer hooks. It still pisses me off that you have to have a .Mac account to do any syncing across the internet. I can't quite believe that function is worth the $60 a year, nor do I think it's even vaguely conceivable that you couldn't explain to someone how to set up a server to handle that stuff themselves... Seems like a slightly shitty attempt to drill money out of you in an entirely random way...
• Better Unix - neat! I think!
• XCode 2.0 - wish I understood it!
• System Wide Metadata Indexing - this is seriously cool and API'd up the wazoo so hopefully it will start to lay the foundations of the Finder technologies of the future...

All in all the big news for the operating system is the integration of search and metadata technologies into the heart of the Operating System. The Safari RSS and iChat AV stuff is pretty cool too and everything else looks like tweaks, gimmicks or outright rip-offs. I wonder when it's out?

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Apple has eye of the Tiger

Apple has eye of the Tiger 06/28/2004 02:39 PM
ZDNet Jun 28 2004 7:02PM GMT

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) due in April?

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) due in April? 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
Alongside eMac and iMac updates, ThinkSecret also reports that Tiger will be arriving in April. Tiger has been long anticipated, and previous offic...

Report: "Tiger"

Report: "Tiger" 04/15/2005 09:38 AM
Readers discuss system requirements, Core Image support, PACE copy-control, metadata and Spotlight, Bonjour, the limited-time CD exchange program, plus questions about serial numbers and the new iChat interface.

Tiger Envelopes 0.5.8

Tiger Envelopes 0.5.8 12/09/2003 09:38 AM
An automatic crypto system for almost any email package.

PunchOut 1.0 for Tiger

PunchOut 1.0 for Tiger 04/01/2005 09:56 PM
Bare Bones Software: “Bare Bones Software today announced the forthcoming release of PunchOut, a new integrated backup system which safely records critical user data onto a durable backup medium... The new Advanced Prioritized Retrieval Integration Layer engine uses Spotlight in conjunction with a naive Bayesian reverse classifier to analyze stored data in real time.”

Tiger Gold?

Tiger Gold? 04/01/2005 03:24 AM

Tiger notes

Tiger notes 06/05/2005 11:32 PM
I've upgraded my PowerBook now. First: It's beautiful. Lots of little things have been improved and shined up. Drool-drool. Spotlight is no LauchBar. Great to search your mail and documents, I think. Maybe. Haven't used it enough yet. Not good to launch applications. Fortunately LaunchBar is Tiger compatible. (I'm still using the 4.0beta9 version. There's a 4.0.1 version on their site now). The Cisco VPN client isn't supporting Tiger yet, so I didn't upgrade the PowerMac. Graham says it's supposed...

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger To Be Released
29-Apr-05

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger To Be Released
29-Apr-05 04/18/2005 06:45 PM
Adam C. Engst (~460 words)

Ending the rampant speculation of exactly when Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger would be released, Apple last week announced that its next-generation operating system will be available for sale as of 6:00 PM on Friday, April 29th, 2005, although you can also pre-order from Apple (and other retailers). Tiger will cost $130 for a single user license; the Mac OS X Tiger Family Pack offers a five-user license for $200, and the Mac OS Up-to-Date upgrade package will cost $10 for those who bought a new Mac on or after 12-Apr-05 (this offer ends 22-Jul-05).

Other News: "Tiger" and 10.3.9

Other News: "Tiger" and 10.3.9 03/25/2005 11:07 AM
Think Secret checks the status of Apple's upcoming "Panther" and "Tiger" releases.

Tiger Envelopes 0.5.6

Tiger Envelopes 0.5.6 11/03/2003 04:00 PM
An automatic crypto system for almost any email package.

Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold

Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold 03/31/2005 11:56 PM

Tiger Previewed

Tiger Previewed 06/28/2004 04:31 PM
Steve Jobs has been previewing some of the key features of Tiger at the WWDC in San Francisco. All the new stuff is on the Apple website, but here’s a diluted list :

• iChat AV — updated to include multi-way AV conferencing (with a funky 3D interface).
• Safari RSS — an updated version of Safari to allow reading and management of RSS feeds.
• Dashboard — open & manage Konfabulator-style widgets
• Spotlight — super-fast global search facility. Search through your contacts, iCal diaries and email as well as files.
• Automator — create and deploy actions to perform common routines (in a great looking interface too).
• Xcode 2.0 — updated version of Apple’s IDE (with visual modelling and improved Java support).
• VoiceOver — the much heralded Spoken Interface. A system-wide feature which makes Tiger the most accessible OS available.

Sounds great, but I may save the cash and put it towards one of those gargantuan 30-inch Studio Displays…

Tiger misc

Tiger misc 06/30/2004 02:16 PM
I was just perusing my tiny list of blogs that I visit daily and noticed that Hyatt finally came out...

Tiger Roars As An OS

Tiger Roars As An OS 04/13/2005 07:33 PM

This OS is nirvana for productivity. By Michael Gartenberg, Jupiter Research

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