Apple has no choice but to switch to Intel. In June 04 I reported that Apple notebook technology was being stymied by IBM's inability or unwillingness to create a mobile PowerPC chip with better thermal requirements. The current chips just run too hot. With the simple confirmation from Apple last year that the 2.5GHz, G5… Continue reading Apple has no choice but to switch to Intel

Government may adopt EU constitution without vote. PARTS of the European Union constitution could still be implemented, even though there will be no British referendum on the treaty, the government conceded yesterday. [The Scotsman]

Apple+Intel Post Annoucement Second Thoughts. OK, so with the planned leak, the keynote wasn't a blow but a confirmation. What is everyone watching this really missing? The lack of surprise by developers. Not in the switch to Intel, the lack of surprise that Apple has been planning this for some time. Most competent developers would… Continue reading Apple+Intel Post Annoucement Second Thoughts

Laptops are mobile devices, too. Something I've been wondering about is why laptops aren't really treated as mobile devices, in any interesting way. Laptop manufacturers tend to treat them as portable desktops, and people interested in “mobile device design” focus on PDAs, cell phones, and the like. Now that laptops outsell desktops, it's worth treating… Continue reading Laptops are mobile devices, too

Small is the new big. Big used to matter. Big meant economies of scale. (You never hear about “economies of tiny” do you?) People, usually guys, often ex-Marines, wanted to be CEO of a big company. The Fortune 500 is where people went to make… a fortune. There was a good reason for this. Value… Continue reading Small is the new big

Macintosh to Intel?. John Gruber of the Daring Fireball has, as usual, the best analysis of the latest super-heated Apple-to-Intel rumors. He wrote about this about a week ago when the rumor was more rumorish than it is currently. It might be at bona-fide leak stage now.This O'Reilly Radar post on the topic has some… Continue reading Macintosh to Intel?

A 30,15, or 5 minute read (you choose!). What a neat little inventory over here. What can you add to the list?   [Jason Womack]

Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security. Recently there have been a bunch of news articles about how lousy counterterrorism security is in the United States, how billions of dollars have been wasted on security since 9/11, and how much of what was purchased doesn't work as advertised. . . . There are a lot of morals… Continue reading Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security

Dashboard Widget for Unix 'Remind'. A few months back Mike Harris wrote us up a great article on Remind, a very cool and flexible little UNIX app for tracking date-based events. If you enjoy Remind and are using Tiger (OS X 10.4), checkout Nick Vargish’s Remind Widget. Gives you all the power of Remind in… Continue reading Dashboard Widget for Unix 'Remind'

Sajax Simple AJAX Toolkit And ColdFusion. Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework, and it supports ASP, ColdFusion, Io, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby backends. Steve Smith of Ordered List has posted an update to the ColdFusion code to support POST variables (in addition to the already support… Continue reading Sajax Simple AJAX Toolkit And ColdFusion