Getting Involved: Gates vs. Jobs- June 25, 2008 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running a series on Bill Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft. They&8217;re blogging about the piece as well, and in a recent post, they quote an email Gates wrote about usability back in 2003. It&8217;s an interesting read on several levels, but what really strikes me is how unfamiliar Gates seems using his very own operating system and computer. He appears to be mystified by the way core components of Windows behave, how the website functions, and just...http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/06/regarding-involvement-gates-vs-jobs Wireless Hospitals Are Hazardous to Your Health- June 25, 2008 It looks like some wireless systems and devices used in hospitals send out radio waves that can interfere with life-saving hospital equipment: Electromagnetic glitches occurred in almost 30 percent of the tests when microchip devices similar to those in many types of wireless medical equipment were placed within about one foot of the lifesaving machines. These included breathing machines that switched off; mechanical syringe pumps that stopped delivering medication; and external...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_he_me/med_microchip_dangers;_ylt=Al7STuKSIzf5Xk2... Enkoder for Mac OS X 4.0.1- June 13, 2008 I&8217;ve just released version 4.0.1 of the Enkoder. This release fixes a couple of bugs, including: Issues launching the app on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) The fields were out of order when tabbing through them The wrong field took focus when the app launched A possible crash when quitting the app and saving preferences Thanks for your help and patience. linkhttp://hivelogic.com/enkoder/app The Enkoder for Mac OS X Is Back, Too- June 11, 2008 Yesterday I announced the return of the Enkoder Form. Today, I&8217;m happy to announce an all-new (or at least partly new) version of the Enkoder for Mac OS X. Just like the Enkoder Form, The Enkoder for Mac OS X helps protect email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people. But the Mac app is smarter (it can remember previous encodings, for example). And it runs on your very own...http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/06/enkoder-mac-osx-is-back The Enkoder Form Is Back- June 10, 2008 I&8217;m happy to announce that the Hivelogic Enkoder Form is &8211; at long last &8211; back online. The Enkoder is a utility that helps protect email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people. And coming soon &8230; the re-release of the Enkoder for Mac OS X. linkhttp://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form .Mac to MobileMe Transition FAQ- June 9, 2008 Existing users of .Mac will soon be migrated to MobileMe, Apples new Internet service for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and PC. This FAQ provides some details about how current .Mac customers will be transitioned to the new service. The transition will occur in early July when MobileMe becomes available. A change of service email will be sent to your mac.com address when the upgrade occurs. .Mac subscriptions will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe at no additional cost. Better,...http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1932 Last Minute WWDC 2008 Predictions- June 9, 2008 Here are my last-minute predictions for this year&8217;s WWDC announcements. Better late than never, I suppose. iPhone As expected, Steve Jobs will announce a new iPhone. The phone will have the curved shape and hard-plastic shell everybody&8217;s been talking about, and will be available in several colors. It will feature switchable 3G, GPS, both front and rear facing cameras, and video-conferencing capabilities. I expect we&8217;ll probably see two models as well, but I&8217;m...http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/06/last-minute-wwdc-2008-predictions PPC Support in Snow Leopard- June 8, 2008 Mac Rumors is reporting that Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) may support PowerPC Macs after all: The source, who claimed to get ahold of the 10.6 seed, indicated that work has been done on PowerPC drivers which indicates to them that support for the architecture is unlikely to be dropped this time around. I still think we&8217;ll see support for PPC in 10.6, but it&8217;ll be gone for sure in 10.7. More about this in Episode 21 of The Talk Show. linkhttp://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/07/powerpc-support-in-mac-os-x-10-6-after-all/ Regarding RailsConf 2008- June 4, 2008 I had a great time at RailsConf this year. While I thought the talks were high quality, the highlight for me is getting to spend time meeting and talking to &8220;Internet&8221; friends I might only get to see once a year. I thought the focus of DHH&8217;s keynote was great. I&8217;m pleased to see him taking just this kind of approach for his talks. For lack of a better (and less corporate) title, I tend to think of David as the &8220;CEO of Rails,&8221; and I think elevating his talk to...http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/06/regarding-railsconf-2008 |