wOz

Can't wait to see this one: Wheels of Zeus

The wOz Platform’Ñ¢ system includes an innovative wireless network, a system reference design, and an online service that serve as the foundation for a range of location, status, control, and communications solutions for consumers and businesses. The heart of the wOz Platform is the wOzNet’Ñ¢ network, a unique local wireless network that provides long range and long battery life at a low cost.

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Hallucinogens, not stimulants

You are going to love this comment found in a slashdot thread on the delayed launch of the Apple Music Store inEurope:

« Actually, it's the drugs; the licensing thing is just a cover. No, really. Apple got wind of the fact that most Euros are covered in cocaine [telegraph.co.uk]. Macs are supposed to be associated with hallucinogens, not stimulants. »

WIRED 2013's technolust

If you're accustomed with WIRED mag, you certainly know the Fetish objects section. Cool gizmos avail today. Well WIRED has come up with its 2013 fetish wish list.

Go and take a look and the iPhone (a domain name held by apple, btw), or the roll-up television ..
;)

Confessions of a Designer

Enrique sent me this interesting confession:

My name is Doug, and I'm a recovering Windows user.

A die-hard Mac fanatic that chose Windows over Mac OS in the late nineties, and is reconsidering his dependency on Windows and taking a closer look at Mac OS X..

Should Apple integrate Bochs ?

There's been a lot of talk about Bochs as a possible alternative since Microsoft acquired Virtual PC last month, but one idea published in BusinessWeek got my attention: integration of x86 emulation into OS X. Waow. Mac OS X would become the most versatile OS out there.

Perhaps even as early as the upcoming Panther release (you know, the one after Jaguar OS X 10.2), Apple users could pop a Windows CD or DVD into the drive, and OS X would seamlessly launch Bochs and run the Windows code. In fact, I bet Apple could get this process to run smoothly enough that loading PC software would differ only slightly from launching Mac programs.

If you want to give Bochs a try, download it from SourceForge project page, or check out OpenOSX WinTel 1.0. Interestingly, multiple G4 CPUs can be utilized and are emulated as a single powerful Pentium processor or as dual Pentium Processors. Virtual PC files are compatible, and can copied over from the Finder.

Post your Safari GUI wishes

Dave Hyatt, co-author of Safari and author of the weblog Surfin' Safari, has launched a thread "Your Thoughts Go Here" on what you'd like to see implemented in Safari's next graphic user interface (GUI).

Go ahead, and just let him know. There were 220+ comments when I posted mine..

Update 030208: I removed the direct link to Dave's weblog entry which was closed down due to bandwidth limitations. You can't post comments directly on his weblog anymore, but he'll carry on reading the various trackbacks.

Mail.app smart views

What if Mail.app had "smart views" in a similar fashion iTune has "smart lists" ?

Wouldn't you like to be able to display "All e-mails received today", "Flagged e-mails", or e-mails in relation a specific address, sent out on a specific date/date range, etc. A little bit like Entourage, but much nicer.

They could appear in a tabbed view of the mailbox drawer.

What do you think of that ?

(cross posted on Apple Discussions)