tin_the_fatty radio weblogphotography is a road long and lonely...(Untitled)- January 9, 2003 Product vs. Service: VoIP Interesting story about some big corporation trying to charge a premium for a cheap service. Analogues of telephone companies and WiFi-service providers were drawn. I am wondering whether charges of the various local companies are too high, and why they claim to lose money over local voice lines.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/09.html#a276 (Untitled)- January 9, 2003 Macworld Expo Comments Continue Safari breaks single day download record for Apple. The browser war is not concluded!http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/09.html#a275 (Untitled)- January 9, 2003 Macworld Expo: Exciting Times The media have been saturated with information on new hardware and software from Apple just announced in Macworld Expo. Apple's new presentation software Keynote is very interesting. I look forward to playing with it and using it. I like the form factor of the 12" Powerbook G4, althou I am not comfortable that it lacks a PCMCIA card slot. I admit that the PCMCIA card slot on my 15" TiBook is unoccupied most of the time, so it is quite possible that Apple's...http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/09.html#a274 (Untitled)- January 8, 2003 Basic Law Section 23 Legislation Demonstration I attended the big rally and demonstration a few weeks ago, and bummed into Po, a good friend who is a student at the Lingnan University down the road from where we live. He was helping the Student Association folks (who did some fine work at the rally demo) to take pictures of participants. I received the following email this morning. &21508;&20301;&26379;&21451;&65306; &20320;&22909;,...http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/09.html#a273 (Untitled)- January 8, 2003 Test of Concept &10065; There are so many things I wish to write about. &10065; The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/08.html#a272 (Untitled)- January 4, 2003 Apple may charge for iApps The rumour is all over the place on the Internet. Apparently Apple will starting charging for the now-free iApps. I use iPhoto and iMovie, especially the former, quite a lot. If I had to pay for them, I probably would, but then I would also look at alternatives, such as the excellent iView Media Pro. As long as the iApps are reasonably priced, I would say it would be good for the platform in the long run, as this would push the users to try and evaluate the iApps as.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/04.html#a271 (Untitled)- January 3, 2003 Tomorrow's World axed after 38 years. Falling audiences prompt the BBC to finally drop its long-running popular science programme from its weekly slot. BBC News Technology UK Edition I am shocked to learn about this. I used to watch this programme all the time during my years in the U.K.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/04.html#a270 (Untitled)- January 2, 2003 NetNewsWire Pro NetNewsWire Pro is a very promising client-side weblog application for OS X. It's still in beta, and there are some rough edges and show stoppers. I am too busy to do a detailed bug report, so I am going to leave it for now, and come back to give it another spin a few revisions later.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/02.html#a269 |