The World's Greatest Trader. He's the world's best trader, but that's not how he makes his real money. [The Motley Fool]

Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.7. DEVONtechnologies' personal knowledge base and content management environment adds a checkbox option in list, note pad, and outline views, syntax coloring for HTML and XML, zoom in and out, an improved HTML parser, faster updating of database files on quit and autosave, and many other changes. [MacInTouch]

Ximian has an Evolution blog. [Hack the Planet]

EFF: “You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a single copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is passed by Congress.” [Scripting News]

Wi-Fi Hits the Rails. Wi-Fi will show up in passenger trains in the UK and the US: a London to Scotland run and from San Jose, California, up to near the capital of the state: The UK test comes from GNER, a private rail operator, which is using Swedish technology to equip a long run… Continue reading Wi-Fi Hits the Rails

Wi-Fi Not Easy in the Big Easy. Ernie the Attorney files this report from the mean streets of N'awlins: Ernie is a Wi-Fi enthusiast, as he describes in his account of visiting coffeeshops and trolling for Wi-Fi–and engaging customers, staff, and owners. He has nothing to sell, but an idea. I've seen the same concern… Continue reading Wi-Fi Not Easy in the Big Easy

Mach II 1.0 Released!. The 1.0 release of Mach II is now available for download from the Mach II website. There are two new sample applications (Roulette and ShoppingCart) as well as an updated version of ContactManager…. [An Architect's View]

Darwin: A More User-Friendly Direction. Ben Shneiderman. Consumer pressure would push companies to produce improved designs that are more reliable, learnable and usable. Then improved testing would eliminate more of the problems and quality control would become an obsession. When the software was shipped, it would be more likely to work reliably. [Tomalak's Realm]

InfoWorld: Blaster worm spreading, experts warn of attack. A new worm that exploits a widespread vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system continued its spread on Tuesday, making Monday's outbreak the most serious since the appearance of the SQL Slammer worm in January, according to security experts. [Tomalak's Realm]

Information pollution.  Write less is the key message from the August 11 Alertbox. Jakob missed another key recommendation, however: throw away the crap that you have already written. Most web sites could get an immediate boost in usability if they just cleaned up the pollution they have already created.  [ia/ – information architecture news]