Mac P2P
Just my bloody luck, I finally get ADSL in and two days later Audiogalaxy gets taken down by the RIAA. Macslash are here to help though with a Post-Audiogalaxy round up of what the P2P community has to offer Mac OSX.
All entries from Jun 2002
27 Jun 2002
Eternal Darkness
If like me you own a Jap/US Gamecube you'll have been suffering from the dearth of A Grade titles from Nintendo since Christmas. Well the flood gates are about to open over the next couples of months with more potential classics on the way than you can shake a stick at. First out of the traps is Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Nintendo's first atempt at taking on the "mature" gaming market. The couple of reviews i've read so far have both used the words "one of the best games we have played..ever", so fingers crossed for when it turns up from DVD Box Office.
The 5k
This years entries are up at the5k.org. Unfortunately it looks like the efforts to shave off those last few bytes have meant an end to any cross-platformification. The current leader of the pack is an awesome windows IE only version of Wolfenstein 3D. This tiny, jerky little bitmap miracle has to be seen to be believed.
I'm not even sure how it's done, it appears to be redrawing a single graphic on the fly and the code looks like javascript. Some of the comments mention xpm and xbm, but googling for those doesn't turn up much other than that they're graphics formats. Can anyone satisfy my curiosity?
Update: I've put a slightly de-obfuscated version of the code here for anyone who wants a look, and click comments below for a little bit more detail on how it seems to be done.
25 Jun 2002
Get Organizized
Here's a gaggle of IA links for you:
- A recent kuro5hin article on backlinks & annotations inspired by the recent blog trend for referrer links.
- A long article from the early days of Wired about pioneering information architect Ted Nelson and his Xanadu project.
- Beta chapters from the upcoming second edition of O'Reillys book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
Lift Off!
Brave little Gumby to pilot Crayola Crayon video rocket into the stratosphere! [via boingboing]
23 Jun 2002
Sun, Surf And Sand
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21 Jun 2002
B-list Bloggers
You know that weblogs have left the domain of geeks and teenagers when Ru Paul gets one. He writes about "cunty she-mails" from "ignorant bitches"! He let's us know he's going to "back that ass up for a high colonic"! I'd swear it was a parody site if it wasn't so nicely put together. [via haddock.org]
17 Jun 2002
Internet Explorer v5.2
Thanks to Apple's OS 10.1.5 now even IE features Quartz rendering. The 7.2 MB download is available here, although the page is a bit vague on details of the improved features.
At the risk of being controversial, does anyone else think Quartz rendered text is actually harder to read and a bit too blurry? (I'll just go dig my asbestos suit out of the cupboard).
Government In U Turn Shocker
The Snoopers' Charter gets delayed. Lets see what they try and sneak through in the second draft.
12 Jun 2002
Open Source Icons
Xicons.com have launched a new Open Source section to their website, the aim of which is to provide free icon designs and resources to OSX opensource developers.
Time To Write To Your MP
Not only are they going to record everything you do, say and everywhere you go online or with a phone in your pocket, but now they're going to let everyman and his dog have access to the information at the drop of a hat. I mean what possible justification could there be for Consignia having access to this data?!? Go on, get writing!
Mozilla 1.1 Alpha
Hot on the heals of Mozilla 1.0 comes an Alpha version of Mozilla 1.1, now including Quartz rendering under Mac OS 10.1.5. Other improvements include DHTML performance enhancements, faster start-up, improved download manager and better drag and drop support. The 17mb download is available here.
On a similar subject I just installed the Orbit 3+1 theme for Mozilla. You'll either love it or hate it, Its possibly a little too colourful and fussy for me but it sure does make a change from the drab themes that ship with the standard installation.
5 Jun 2002
OSX 10.1.5
OSX 10.1.5 is available through the OSX Software Update app. Can't find an installer yet on Apple's website, I'll post a link when i do. Update: Standalone Installer available here.
Touched
Whilst searching for the new Biosphere release Shenzhou (sample) I stumbled across New Order circa 1982 'video 5-8-6' (sample).
4 Jun 2002
Quicktime 6 Public Preview / eMac
Apple has released a public preview of Quicktime 6 on their website. This latest version of Quicktime finally provides MPEG-4 support straight out of the box. Other supported technologies include JPEG 2000 and Flash 5. The OSX installer is a 10MB download. Apple also announced that they will be selling the eMac to the general public as of today, previously it was only available to educational customers.
Neilsen Sells Out
Usability guru Jakob Neilsen, author of the essay 'Flash: 99% Bad' is to help Macromedia sell their decidedly non user friendly Flash software.
2 Jun 2002
The Power Of Metal
Haha! just been on the news: Buckingham Palace caught fire after Ozzy Osbourne finished rehearsing for the jubilee concert. Coincidence, or Ozzy's infernal influence? You be the judge!
MacSlash.com.org
Unbelievable, I don't know if any of you have been following the story of MacSlash losing their domain name, but it seems it's all been down to an iTools email account. Supposedly anyone with a mac.com account has their email pre-filtered, without their knowledge, for spam. Someone in their greater wisdom at Apple has decided to add domain name registration company Dotster to the list of blocked spammers, and thus MacSlash never got their renewal notices and have had their .com domain hijacked by a Spanish guy called Vicente Peiro Crespo. I haven't read the fine print on Apple's iTools conditions but it seems pretty amazing to me that they not you choose what and what isn't spam on your own mail account.
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