August 30, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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The current rumor around Mac sites is that Viginia Tech has ordered 1,100 Dual 2.0Ghz G5 machines with gobs of RAM for a supercomputing cluster. Interesting.
This may well be tied to the recently announced delay in the shipping of …
August 27, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I’ve been using F10 Launch Studio a bit. While I think the concept is very solid, there are some issues with the interface that prevent me from using it full time.
1. The order of the groups cannot be rearranged. …
August 7, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Having used Gnome a bit, one of the features I found much to my liking was the method used to show the progress of file copying. Rather than using a chunky, clutterific progress window, the file’s icon label updates (in …
August 7, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Apple appears to be implementing (for Panther) a suggestion of mine (I doubt I am the only one who thought of it) – driving directions from within the Sherlock web services application. What I would like to know is if …
August 3, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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I have been using Greg Schueler’s CornerClick on my iMac. An interesting implementation of Fitts’ Law. While it is true that the corners of the screen have infinite depth, there are only four of them. Using modifier keys is a …