Steve Jobs on Time

Looks like Steve is on the cover of Time Magazine (Last time was July 26, 2004) again.

Heres the actual article.

Power Bricks

Simple solution to all the gadgets that have those power bricks:

CSS Techniques

Pete Freitag posts some handy css tips.

Ruby and J2EE

I've noticed a significant increase in the interest in Ruby-on-Rails on the web.

Thankfully, IBM DeveloperWorks gives a brief overview between Rails and J2EE.

Javacast RIP

I spoke to soon about Javacast. Looks like because of priorities its DEAD jim!

Javacast

I've started to quite enjoy the java related podcast called Javacast.
There are focused on developers and they interview interesting people.

This week is was Bruce Tate. He is an author of numerous books including the one I'm currently reading, Bitter EJB.

All Talk

Google are using the jabber protocol, but the've missed the whole point of jabber, which is that it's an open standard. Its server independant.

This means that any server running jabber should be able to talk to any other server. At the moment GoogleTalk is a closed system like AIM, Yahoo or MSN. You need a gmail account to talk. I guess this is there way to make money.

I think will stick with iChat which uses AIM or (*any*) jabber server and Skype. Two closed systems is enough for me. I'm too lazy to sign up each time.

The other rumour is that Apple will release an iTunes phone next Friday. With the iPod saturating the market soo much, I can't see why someone would also get a iTunes phone if they have an iPod. Hmm.

MyEclipse 4.0 released. Here are the new features.

Google Talk

The rumour on the net is that Google will introduce a GoogleTalk tomorrow.
This will be a Jabber IM and allegedly VoIP.

DownloadSquad already (!) has a review, with tuaw.com showing instructions on how to set it up with iChat and your gmail account.

I got it set up no problem... sweet.

Eclipse slow on MacOSX Tiger.

You might not be aware but there is a problem running Eclipse on Tiger (10.4) which for me has made eclipse unusable. It looks like the fine people at Apple have got it sorted in v10.4.3 Build 8F8 (see comment #90).

Fingers crossed it will be coming out soon.

a9 maps

a9 (an amazon.com company) releases a9.com maps. Apparently they use trucks with digital cameras and GPS taking pictures of streets.

Quite slick..

Stanford Entrepreneurship Resource

Stanford Uni has put up some free entrepreneurship teaching resources, which are well worth reading, imho.

They have Larry Page and Eric Schmidt on video talking about google and Guy Kawasaki talking about how to start a company.

I've been a fan of Guy since the early days when he was at Apple and its interesting to watch him speak about a lot of the mistakes entrepreneurs make in the beginning. Being one of the founders for the VC company garage.com means he's probably dealt with a lot of startups and see's how they can go wrong.

Mighty Mouse

Apple now has a 2 button mouse !
Its interesting to see the difference between the original mac mouse and what we have today.

This is off course the real Mighty Mouse. :)

Mochikit

MochiKit is a useful javascript library that even has documentation!

Wil on Delicous

Looks like Mike Matas (from Delicious Monster) will be going to Apple to do user interface and icon design. Sounds great!

There's a great interview on DrunkenBlog with Wil Shipley, one of the founders of Delicious Monster.

In the interview Wil says he enjoyed creating the philosophy pages of Omni. It sure is some good principals to work by.


Nice article on dev about clearing the FUD about JSF on developerWorks.

Google Moon

Today is when Neil Armstrong (July 20, 1969) landed on the moon.
The Apollo Landings, courtesy of Google-Moon.

Cool humanoid robot built at Chalmers University in Sweden.
It has 22 degrees of freedom, stereovision (using a neural network) and can track faces! But by all that is holy, does it have the 3 laws ??? :-)

Attaching internal drives

FireWire DriveDock, allows bare internal ide drives to be attached via firewire. Could be useful for powerbooks.

One data point does not a curve make

Interesting and funny article about the flip-flopping that occurs in the technology industry. I've definitely seen this! :)

Interfaces

I've always been very interested in user interface design. It's probably why I'm a big mac fan. This may be because I was forced to read the Apple User Interface Design specs during my first intern position. (They did technical support for Apple in the UK). I believe that the magic of technology should be hidden behind a veil of simplicity. Think google.


Anyway I came across this and thought it was fascinating. Its a flash project which removes clicks from the user interface and replaces them with guestures. Go take a look and see if you resist not click.

Cool Keyboard

Interesting idea.. the Optimus keyboard. Each of the keys are a display allowing them to programmatically defined. cool !

nice table tag

eXtremeComponents looks like they have a nice custom tag for tables.

If you've ever done any swing programming (especially GridBagLayout), you will appreciate this funny.