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08/03 MSN Sandbox — I just came across this – MSN Sandbox – where you can find various Microsoft goodies which are otherwise not available. Notable is LookOut the search product that MS has recently acquired. Haven’t tried it myself – I prefer X1.
07/31 iTunes Rules — Here’s a nice bit of civic participation: the iTunes Music Store is offering single click, FREE, downloads of the 9/11 Commision Report’s Executive Summary, and of speeches from the 2004 Democratic National Convention. What a great way to make this accessible to us. Thanks!
07/24 Announcing… The BlogBridge Service ;-) — Here’s a sneak preview of something a little bit different. As of the next beta, we will be running a BlogBridge service off our BlogBridge.com site. Initially all it will do ...
07/23 Will Wikis Rule the World? — I was recently asked by a VC friend of mine what I thought of a certain Wiki product. I thought my response to him (with specific product and people references removed) might be interesting. He asked me, “Have you kept track of what’s going on in Wiki-land, and what do you think?” Here’s my **answ...
07/22 Mac OSX not easy to use! — Years ago I was a hardcore Mac fanatic. I was one of the creators of a long-gone early Macintosh application called Jazz. I programmed on a Lisa in 68000 assembly language. As I said, a long time ago 🙂 Anyway, for years I’ve been a PC guy, but still with a warm spot in my heart for Mac. Recently we ...
07/13 [JAVA ONE]Sun answers my question — In severalprevious postsI’ve wondered aloud: “I can see that Sun spends a ton of money on Java. It must be astronomical. What’s the strategy behind that? How do they make money on that?” Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s President and COO, [...
07/12 Scary Software, Part Deux — Continuing my complaintsabout Java Web Start, as if the message displayed on Windows under Java 1.5 isn’t bad enough, here’s what a slightly older version of Java displays on Linux: ![](https://i0.wp.com/s3.media.squarespace.com/production/1075723/12829350/weblogs/a...
07/10 Scary Software — I love those security guys just as much as the next guy but this certificate crazyness is ridiculous. Look at this message that a poor unsuspecting user sees when they try to run a downloaded java application: ![](https://i0.wp.com/s3.media.squarespace.com/production/1075723/12829350/weblogs/arc...
07/10 Java Web Start Sucks Eggs — I’ve written about this before, and after all it is fairly (no, very) esoteric. Java Web Start is Java’s approach to installation and distribution and updating of Java desktop applications. It’s a really nice idea but it just is too full of problems. With a small project like BlogBridge, I guess it saves us some work, and so we use it, warts and all. Anyway, here is a bit that I found that articulatesin great gory detail all the problems. I concur and I suffer with you.
07/10 BlogBridge Beta 2 almost ready — Well we’ve been busy little beavers and are getting ready to release BlogBridge Beta 2. It has quite a few nifty new features! I will write a little more about it tomorrow or Monday. We’ve done a total overhaul of the content of the web site (the look/design is unchanged.) Take a look at our Brand New Web Site An important change in opening the kimono a bit more is that you will find a direct link from our web site to install and run the beta. You are of course invited to join the beta group, but if you just want to play, go for it. Click here to download and run BlogBridge.
07/07 Technical tweak to this blog — In tracking down a ‘bug’ in BlogBridge I discovered that my RSS feed for this blog has abbreviated items, that is, without html and limited to a certain number of words. That’s not what I wanted so with this new posting I should have full items. To test this, this line is bold - And this line is bulletted
07/02 Downloadable Car Horn Sounds!? — Did you know that you (or your teenager) can buy cool new ring tones for their cell phone? They cost a buck or two and are quite the rage, especially in countries other than the US 🙂 You probably knew this. Did you know that this buck or two is actually only good for a month or two of use of the ri...
07/02 [JAVAONE] User Interface Design — Someone whose oppinion I listen to, Karsten Lentzch, recommends these books about user interface design: [Jeff Johnson: GUI Bloopers: Don’ts and Do’s for Designers](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558605827/qid=1088740910/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8578301-0353756?v=glance&s...
07/01 [GEEK/JAVAONE] Java Web Start – still falling short — Java Web Start is a piece of Java platform that’s meant to ease the deployment and updating of Java applications. It’s a great idea, but disappointingly implemented. There were several JavaOne sessions about Web Start. There are some great enhancements coming in Java 5.0 (1.5) A semi-miraculous JA...
06/29 [JAVAONE] Scott McNealy Keynote — I had never heard him speak – He’s a lot of fun to listen to – funny and with a sense of his audience. This was a shorter keynote then yesterday. This wasn’t the kind of rah-rah motivational speech that I was expecting. He did drive home a few points, clearly showing what he was most interested ...