Ben and Mena Trott of Six Apart will give a presentation to the Silicon Valley WebGuild on Wednesday, April 14 at 7 PM. Free for members or $5 for non-members….
Category Archives: Software
TypeKey Authentication Services
“TypeKey is a free, open system providing a central identity that anyone can use to log in and post comments on blogs and other web sites.” New service by Six Apart central to Movable Type 3.0….
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Technical Preview Program
Microsoft is making available a public preview of Windows XP SP2 RC1. If you have a Tablet PC, this download provides RC1 of the new Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, codenamed “Lonestar.” Lots of security updates which could impact your applications….
Apple spoken interface for Mac OS X
Apple will introduce a spoken interface as part of the next major relaease of OS X. (via Jason Kottke)…
Mac OS X 10.3.3
Apple today released OS X 10.3.3 via Software Update and standalone installer. Now supports Bluetooth 1.5, AppleTalk Browsing is now on by default, and many more features….
Wired Magazine : The (Evil) Genius of Comment Spammers
Steven Johnson writes in this month’s Wired Magazine about the battle over content spam in weblogs. “[S]pammers weren’t trying to win the attention of the bloggers or their readerships. They were trying to win the attention of Google, like the high school bully beating up the class nerd to impress the homecoming queen. The nerd feels violated, but the truth is that it isn’t really about him at all.”…
Bill Gates, honorary knight
Buckingham Palace is expected to announce tomorrow the planned knighthood of Bill Gates of Microsoft….
Windows XP. Why not upgrade?
Scoble is wondering what Microsoft could do to evangelize Windows XP to users of Windows 98. My comment entry was getting a bit long, so I will post it here instead. Ask the average user and they have no clue when the support life of Windows 98 ends and why that might matter to them. I assume that Windows 98 users are mostly home users. The real question is will my stuff still work, how much will it cost me, and is all this change worth the chance that my stuff will not work as it is supposed to? What…
Bill Gates Distributed Art Patent
Bill Gates today received Patent 6,670,934 for a method and system for distributing art to “multiple display devices within an environment.”…
United States Patent: 6,662,341
Today Microsoft was granted a patent for writing an application in HTML….