LucidLink Offers Free Small Office Security Package. It's pretty extraordinary when there's competition for giving away security: On the small-office/home-office (SOHO) end of the market for Wi-Fi security products, there's an increasing trend to just give away products that can help very small number of users in the hopes that those users then adopt the… Continue reading LucidLink Offers Free Small Office Security Package

Adobe + Macromedia + Longhorn. Adobe applications are built with a proprietary platform-independent application framework to support both Windows and Macintosh. I've used it in the past to write plugins for various Adobe products and found them very cumbersome to use. The situation at Macromedia is about the same since they also have to support… Continue reading Adobe + Macromedia + Longhorn

Adobe to Acquire Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal. Adobe, which makes the popular Acrobat and Photoshop programs, said today it had agreed to acquire the multimedia software firm Macromedia. By TERENCE NEILAN. [NYT > Technology]

Traditional conclave has modern twists. VATICAN CITY — Cardinal William H. O'Connell of Boston had made it across the Atlantic and was on his way from Naples to Rome when he got the news: The papal conclave of 1914 had begun and ended, and O'Connell was too late to vote. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch).  online-bookmarks is a bookmarks management system to store bookmarks, favorites, and links on the WWW where they actually belong. It is meant for people who work often with different computers and browsers. It supports multiple users, multiple languages, and has a folder structure of arbitrary depth. Importing and exporting bookmarks from… Continue reading online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch)

An Update on Stuff That's Cool (Like Google's Photo Maps). A “where are they now?” report on Skype telephone calls, Google Maps and access to National Weather Service data. By JAMES FALLOWS. [NYT > Technology]

Jerk CEOs, Part 12,434. The boss of Verizon tells the SF Chronicle: “Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?” [Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.]

Some notes on the building of CodeZoo. Last week, O'Reilly (where I work) launched a new site called CodeZoo, which is a directory of free, reusable components for software projects. The launch was a big success, with an instant Slashdotting and a lot of fantastic feedback from early users, and Jason suggested I write up… Continue reading Some notes on the building of CodeZoo

Ubuntu is Amazing. I'm up late geeking out with with Ubuntu, the Linux distrib that's getting all the attention lately. And deservedly so, it's pretty amazing so far. Why do I say that? Well, because I'm sitting here on my old Toshiba laptop, browsing the web via WiFi on the latest version of FireFox and… Continue reading Ubuntu is Amazing

The Atlantic Goes South. Reading about the Atlantic Monthly's move to Washington, DC, gave me deja vu. Not many people may know, but its offices were two floors up from ours when we operated out of 77 North Washington Street in the North End. [Fast Company Now]