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Daily Digest for Thursday, Sep 6, 2001

☀️ Earliest posts come first.

Canvas

Daneba has Carbonized their Canvas drawing program. I’m installing it now. Macromedia’s port of FreeHand sucks. IT’s slow and of questionable usefulness. Adobe is MIA. So far Canvas (which I just launched) seems fast. I’ve heard for some time that Canvas had some really powerful features. Looks good so far.

new look

I’ve been wanting a new look for this site for a while, now I have one! The weblog is the only page for now with the new look (changing a whole site in Conversant is a real task!) but eventually I’ll get the whole thing moved over.

Peer-to-peer scientific computing comes to Mac OS X

This is so cool.

“The Piranha feature in Paradise brings easy to use Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing to networks of Mac OS X machines. Piranha delivers performance and throughput gains by tapping into the huge reserves of computational power that is available on most networks. As new computational tasks come and go, Piranha automatically and transparently allocates computational resources to meet the changing demand.”