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barnskiblog

Barney's blog. Just a load of old shite really.

Sunday, July 25, 2004
youPod. Its all about you... - another belter from our mates at Ronin no Sakurakai.

Thursday, July 22, 2004
CBC News: Monkey hits stride after near-death experience. Maybe we evolved the way we did because of the flu.

Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The Tao of Mac, found whilst looking for something entirely different. Isn't that so often the way?
respect.

Thursday, July 15, 2004
Mozilla Foundation Announces More Open, Scriptable Plugins - lots of cool tech companies join in on the new standard, but there is one notable (and predictable) company absent.......

Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Jackito-TDA, as opposed to a PDA. Thumbs only? - how the hell does that work?

Batman on Film--Cast & Crew info for Batman Begins - a new Batman film, apparently.

Tuesday, July 13, 2004
If you are using Firefox or Mozilla on Windows, you should be aware that there is now some malware targeting them both :(
Note that this only affects Windows users (Mac and Linux are, of course, unaffected), and that Mozilla apps are still way better and more secure than their microsoft counterparts.
See Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded and Mozilla 1.x for latest version downloads and then there is a patch.

Thursday, July 08, 2004
I've posted before about Project Looking Glass from Sun Microsystems - it's a spanky-looking 3D desktop environment.
Anyway, Sun have now Open-Sourced it, and there's an interview with Hideya Kawahara, lead developer for Looking Glass here.
Clearly, I am a big fan of Mac OS X, but there is an interesting reference in the interview:
"Are you looking at integration with the popular windows managers, such as GNOME and KDE?"
"The issues with regard to GNOME/KDE and the profusion of desktop environments are really orthogonal to Project Looking Glass. For example, Mac OS X differentiates between various technology layers -- for example, BSD, Aqua, Cocoa: all are different layers in the overall environment. Similarly, Linux needs to evolve into a more complex environment with different layers. To keep Linux competitive, we need to think about how to move forward into the next generation. The goal here is not to introduce a new desktop model, but to provide the underpinnings for the next generation."
Now, if you saw Steve Jobs showing off Dashboard at the Apple WWDC recently then you'll have noticed how he span a clock widget around and made a change to settings on the back of the widget.
Kawahara mentions:
"As an example, our prototype window manager flips a window over to display a modal dialog on the "back" of the window that owns the dialog."
Now, is it me, or does this all possibly lead us towards a potentially interesting and exciting conclusion?.......

Wednesday, July 07, 2004
The google language tools page. What I particularly like is that if you look under Use the Google Interface in Your Language, you can select many languages, including Klingon, pig latin, hacker, bork bork bork (the Swedish chef, I presume)or even Elmer Fudd. Good work.

Check out this new windows desktop.

I've blogged Adrian LaFond before, about a year ago, but he has done some cool new stuff.

Friday, July 02, 2004
Color in Motion.

CAcert Inc: The Free Community Digital Certificate Authority. Another interesting one for the geeks - free SSL certificates.
Apparently, the Mozilla and Konqueror teams are considering including the root certificate as a trusted CA in future releases of their browsers.
This is one of those things that could really cause a change in the online security industry, if it's executed well. See the article here for a bit more discussion.