Iraq from the soldiers’ points of view. This is interesting, and something that I hope wasn’t overly watered down in the vetting process. Hometown pride moment: the GIs are from the New Hampshire Nat’l Guard (who so need a blog!).
Category: Asides
Leopard runs, Windows open
What if, in OSX 10.5 (Leopard), you could run PC apps natively (Digg)? Without the need for Bootcamp. Yes, that indeed would be neat. I mean, I simply can’t wait to get reacquainted with Microsoft Access again!
Brad Neuberg tackles offline access and permanent, client-side storage for AJAX apps
The man‘s a madman. I can’t even keep up with him. Oh, a snippet from his thorough explanation:
I’ve finally finished; dojo.storage is now done, in beta, and fully open source under a business-friendly BSD license.
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The offline and dojo.storage work together, because whether you are offline or online you can access the same persistent storage, saving data while offline then syncing when online. Expect a dojo.offline and dojo.sync in the future that will provide abstractions for common operations like this. I’m looking for financial sponsors on this if you are interested.
(Emphasis mine).
Pandora out of the box
Dig Pandora but bummed that you have to keep your browser open to enjoy it? Well, no more! With PandoraMan you can now stream your favorite stations outside of your browser. Similar to Pyro, we’re not starting to see the benefits of the opening of Webkit.
How to skin a cat
Want to freshen up the look of Tiger and iTunes? Well, you’ve got at least two options that seem to work reliably well and look simply gorgeous. I personally like Iridium for its simplicity (also for iTunes) and the fact that it’s open source. Still, the fuller featured UNO might also pique your fancy. Both were recently released as Universal Binaries.
CivilNetizen for fileswapping
…Without worrying about “Big Brother” watching you. Looks simple, elegant and secure. Certainly worth a look now that Beta 3 is out w/ Mac support. And hey, they’re built on the Firefox platform and have a blog too!
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Vanity Fair has their first evar Green Issue (guess it’s never too late to go green) and an article you must read. Cliff’s Notes version: “Global warming” is the marketeer’s way of dressing up “oh shit, someday we’re going to be screwed if we don’t deal with this problem TODAY. Katrina’s proves the point; let’s call it like it is: prepare for climate chaos.
Flock 0.5.14 security update released
Flock 0.5.14 is available, merging in security updates from Firefox. Still no universal binary available for Flock yet.
Upcoming updates
Nostalgia
Somehow I yearn for the days when the web was one, Apple was considered as much kitsch as niche and Microsoft communicated to people about one thing and one thing alone. Ah, the good ol’ days.
Factory Joe 