An interesting article has been posted on Wired. However, I don’t think people are mutating to cyborgs because of some mp3-players or gadgets. Of course, the iPod is a great toy, but in my opinion basically it’s just a replacement of the walkman which was followed by discman and minidisk. If so, we started our mutation already during the 80′ies using walkmans and completed it being addicted to cellphones in late 90′ies…
Monthly Archive for January, 2005
Recenty I switched to Mozilla Firefox as preferred web browser on my mac. The main reason why I still used Safari was it’s Keychain integration. It’s something very convenient and I’m sure that Firefox will come up with that feature shortly. The high degree of customisation by installing various extensions and themes is why I finally moved to Firefox.
The default Firefox installation looks like a kind of an alien on Mac OS X, so I googled on how to change this behaviour. An excellent guide I found here.I followed not every hint, but achieved a pretty mac-like interface for Firefox:
- Use Arronax’s GrApple themes to get a nicer user interface.
- Install Aqua Firefox Set to Aqua-fy buttons, etc.
- If you’re already using (a free and not feature-overloaded) RSS Reader I recommend Sage with that stylesheet.
- To speed Firefox a little up you might want to try a G4 or G5 optimized build.
Once the Keychain integration is implemented on Mac OS X it definitely will be the perfect browser ;o)
April 10th, 2005 – update:
Totally forgot about Camino! Another browser based on the Gecko HTML rendering engine Mozilla 1.7 but unlike Firefox it’s not ported but built for Mac OS X 
. Camino is no alien on Mac OS X, it integrates smoothly into to the system (fast programm start, UI, features like Keychain access). The only thing missing is RSS support…
Owning an Apple computer it’s almost impossible to ignore the hypes around this company. Usually I try not to get too infected, but this one is a really nice piece:
Thanks to TextLab the first presentation of the Macintosh 1984 at the stockholders meeting is available as Quicktime video (or torrent) on the internet.
Beside the enthusiastic audiance applauding the small box on the stage you should pay special attention to the fact that Steve Jobs is NOT wearing his famous turtleneck pullover. Anyway, Mr. Jobs was and still is doing the finest presentations in the present IT world. What I’m still wondering about is how Apple created this huge hype around the iPod. There was no marketing campaign apart from a few bills in major us und european cities, no TV commercial or something similar. Maybe it’s because of their subliminal product placement in movies and TV series (e.g. Blade Trinity or 24). Well, I’m not a marketing expert just wondering…
PD: According to what I read, the original father of the Macintosh was a guy called Jeff Raskin.
If you’re interested in advanced electronic music you must check out PLAY.FM. It’s a webradio and audio-archive of DJ-sets recorded at the PLAY.FM-studio or in some viennese clubs.
VERY TASTY AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Even rainy days have their positive aspects. See the nice vista we had today from our office.
“A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a (nearly) continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto falling rain. It is a multicoloured arc with red on the outside and violet on the inside; the full sequence is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
(ignore the ugly IBM-building in front)
