Month: June 2003

Best Offer: Amazon Software Tech. Jeff Bezos wants his company to offer mini-Amazons to companies needing a successful Web commerce tool. The technology that runs the popular shopping site may be its most valuable product offering. [Wired News]

News: WWDC. At his “keynote” presentation to Mac developers today at Apple's WWDC conference, Steve Jobs previewed “Panther”, the next version of Mac OS X, which introduces a new Finder, iChat AV and File Vault encryption, plus Apple's new, $149 video camera and a new development system named Xcode. A new Power Mac “G5” computer,… Continue reading News: WWDC

Jon Udell: “Every day I use Perl, Python, Linux, Apache, Mozilla, Zope, emacs, and countless supporting libraries and tools. But I also use Windows, Mac OS X, MSIE, Outlook, and a bevy of commercial software products.” [Scripting News]

Towering Above the City of Light, 20,000 New Bulbs. After months of casting, bolting, wiring and painting, the latest phase in the lighting of the Eiffel Tower began on Saturday night. By Elaine Sciolino. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

NetNewsWire 1.0.3. In case you didn’t notice from ranchero.com and elsewhere—NetNewsWire 1.0.3 was released late last night. The big new feature is the Combined View, which puts titles and descriptions together in a single pane. I’ve written about it many times here. I’ve also written about the other new feature, the ability to edit LiveJournal… Continue reading NetNewsWire 1.0.3

WWDC and WebKit. One of the reasons I’ve been looking forward to WWDC is to learn about WebKit. There’s a session on using WebKit in Cocoa apps, and that’s the one session I absolutely can’t miss. NetNewsWire needs WebKit. It keeps asking me for it, and I have to say: sorry, not yet. Soon. (Imagine… Continue reading WWDC and WebKit

The Unraveling of an Un-Law Firm. The fallout from the demise of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, which rode the new economy wave, has exposed the resentments that are usually hidden in a law firm. By Jonathan D. Glater. [New York Times: Technology]

NY Times on Corporate Blogs. Blogs are experiencing a boomlet among more sophisticated corporations for reasons explained in an excellent NY Times story: For companies and executives, blogs provide a way to talk informally to customers, vendors and employees. But the so-called blogosphere can also be a minefield. Saying the wrong thing or revealing trade secrets could… Continue reading NY Times on Corporate Blogs

Manatee county evacuates. BRADENTON, Florida (CNN) — Engineers are manually cranking open one of three spill gates on the Lake Manatee dam in an effort to speed drainage from the lake that has reached record levels and threatened Manatee County's riverside and lakeside communities. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Wireless all the way – for Home LANs. The NEW best way to set up a home network. David Coursey: The NEW best way to set up a home network. To which I would add: Make sure you have a high-speed ISP that understands, or at least ignores, your requirements for a home network. Sadly,… Continue reading Wireless all the way – for Home LANs