Good News for a Change: Humpback Population Rising (May 23, 2008)Source: Wired Top Stories (http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml)
Humpback whales, once hunted to the brink of extinction, are bouncing back in big numbers, a new study says.
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Office Pranks: Change the Default Message on HP Printers (October 19, 2007)Source: Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com)
| Flummox your co-workers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set. The Hackszine blog describes how to customize the Ready prompt on... |
Total Blue AirPort 0.5b - Change the black AirPort menubar icon to blue. (Free) (August 23, 2007)Source: MacUpdate - Mac OS X (http://www.macupdate.com)
| Change the black AirPort menubar icon to blue. |
Will You Change Your Web Site For the iPhone? (June 22, 2007)Source: Slashdot: Apple (http://apple.slashdot.org/)
| An anonymous reader calls to our attention a blog post about the way the iPhone's multi-touch UI will strain the interface conventions of Web 2.0. This looming clash comes clearer as Apple releases more details of the iPhone's UI. Much has been made about the iPhone including Safari to provide a full web browsing experience. But this reader is wondering how compatible certain sites will be with the iPhone's input. From the post: "[Web 2.0-style interaction] makes somewhat heavy use of 'onmouse' events and cursor changes... along with CSS a:hover styles. The iPhone challenges those particular Web 2.0 conventions, though, because it is a device that not only adds support for another pointer, but at the same time eliminates them as interface objects... [T]he user doesn't get to express their attention with the iPhone... They only get to express their immediate action." This reader asks, "What other pitfalls lurk in the multi-touch web? Do any Slashdot readers plan to adjust their sites to ensure they work with the iPhone, and can you think of any similar issues that will crop up with such a different browsing experience?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Microsoft to Change Vista After Google Complaints (June 20, 2007)Source: Google Blogoscoped (http://blogoscoped.com)
| A little background info is in order. A couple of months ago Google made a confidential complaint against Microsoft to the Justice department over Microsoft's indexing software. Google's complaint was that Microsoft doesn't make it easy to turn off the default indexing software in Vista ("Instant Search," which allows you to search your hard drive) if you chose to use a competitor's product like Google Desktop. So you would be wasting system resources by running 2 indexing applications.
Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Google's claims were "baseless". Well it seems that Microsoft and the Justice department have come to an agreement and will make changes to Vista ... |
