The Tao of Mac - Applications/Bits on Wheels

Rendezvous SDK for Windows [via]: doesn’t that mean that someone could finally get down to coding a Rendezvous plugin for Miranda? If the Trillian coders managed to do it, then it mustn’t be too hard.

Windowsian friends, imagine: you launch Miranda (or a hypothetic dedicated IM client) and you can directly chat, no setup required at all, with anyone on your local network (family, enterprise of public wifi — even your whole neighborhood with French cable TV+internet). The ultimate weapon for cruising in Starbucks, courtesy of Apple.

By the way, weren’t they supposed to be renaming it to “Bonjour”?

Je rêve, ou depuis la toute dernière Software Update je ne peux plus saisir d’heures au-delà de 19 dans iCal ? Impossible d’entrer au clavier une heure commençant par un 2, et utiliser la souris pour régler les heures de mes horaires télé est inenvisageable.

P.S. Ah, non. C’est uniquement pour la soirée du dimanche 27. Soit c’est un bug bizarre en rapport avec le passage à l’heure d’été, soit c’est un bug encore plus bizarre.

Aggregator Market Share [via] : wow, 55% market share — soon we won’t say “RSS” but “Bloglines.”

Security Through Obscurity (via boingboing.net)

“GeoURL 2.0 (beta) launched today... We've talked about GeoURL before, but it's been so long, and the service was offline (sadly) for much of that time. Of course, the blogosphere is much, much bigger than it was two years ago... I wonder what syntheses we'll see?”

Buy DRM-free songs from the iTunes Music Store (post seems to have disappeared) : “Seems that our good friend discovered that when you buy something from the [iTunes Music Store], the DRM is only added to the tracks after you’ve purchased and downloaded them, which sort of makes sense since they do need to be tagged to your account.”
How on Earth does it "make sense" for iTMS to send the files DRM-free and have the client side process them? If that's true it's just immensely stupid. Or at least lazy. Or some Apple engineers just meant to screw the RIAA.

Engadget - DIY videoblogger teleprompter

AppleInsider : “According to sources who have so far filed accurate reports on Apple’s future hardware plans, the company is feverishly working on a two-button wireless optical mouse that it intends to release.

[…] Insiders warned that anticipation may continue to build for months as the company perfects the product.”

Apple battling scrolling TrackPad woes : “A variety of other complaints include irritably slow mouse tracking, customers receiving shocks from the PowerBooks due to static electricity and TrackPads failing to respond at all for short periods of time. […]

According to sources, the fury of reports has caused concern for Apple, which earlier this week reportedly published an alert bulletin to its retail stores detailing the problem, but asking employees not to acknowledge the issues to customers.”

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VNUnetblog (gee, what a great name, congratulations, that’ll get you nice blog URLs with that, easy to remember) is an opportunity to try Typepad for free, without a time limit, as long as you can live with VNUnet’s design and ads.

Nevermind the couple of bugs, or the lacking default setup (was it too much of a bother to set the right date format and timezone?); in the end I’m rather disappointed by the interface. I shouldn’t have been surprised: I have long thought that a platform’s interface and layout influenced the quality of its users’ posts, but I assumed that Typepad, being so expensive, would be an exception. The price should have been enough to deter everyone but geeks serious about their blogging, and there was no need for such an austere, complex and counter-intuitive interface. Why is it such mess? Why don’t they create a default blog so you can start writing as soon as you registered? Why are options and functionalities scattered and hidden all over the place? The MovableType legacy is much more of a burden than I thought.

I’ll keep on recommending Blogger (with the Blogspot hosting option, because experience showed you’d better not give them you FTP password if it matters to you).

P.S. The Garoo Blog advises that the personal dislike by its editor, Garoo, against the SixApart France subsidiary and its president, Loïc Le Meur, could but does not influence the reporting of this company at the Garoo Blog.

But it’s a bit dumb to have a computer without any audio input. I imagine OS X doesn’t bother to be compatible with the microphones embedded in Logitech’s webcams?

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