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Fortune: Ban Powerpoint Now!

Lies to make a VC groan.

[via "Slashdot"] What do you get when CBS engineers, Carnegie-Mellon professors, and a bunch of Mitsubishi robotics geeks get together?

News.com now sports an admittedly spiffy new design, with the seemingly obligatory set of tabs across the top of the page.

This NYTimes article describes Steve Job's recent revelation concerning The Digital Lifestyle, and some of his inspirations.

In the absolute dirth of web resources for scripting Aportis Technologies' BrainForest, I've started brainforest-scripting, a new mailing list for people interested in using AppleScript (or other OSA-compatible language) and Brainforest.

Since things have been slow at work, I've continued on development of the "RSSPuller". It now reads RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.92d2, and RDF 0.9 Simple. The code is also much better factored now, resulting in less debugging time. Thanks to the iDO Script scheduler, it's running (4 times successfully now!) every 30 minutes on my work machine.

RSSPuller script:

After spending time learning just about every other interesting scripting language undet the sun, I realized recently that I had totally neglected a powerful tool, right under my nose: Applescript.

rss-and-outlines

RSSPuller is an applescript applet that works with a fantastic Mac outliner called BrainForest. Brainforest Professional is the desktop version of a Aportis's Palm outliner. BrainForest is also very scriptable, with a flexible object model for manipulating outlines. Here's what you end up with from RSSPuller:

rss-and-outlines tags: "" tp_commentcount: "0" tp_favoritecount: "0" tp_urlid: 6a010534988cd3970b0120a5b3584d970c

RSSPuller is an applescript applet that works with a fantastic Mac outliner called BrainForest. Brainforest Professional is the desktop version of a Aportis's Palm outliner. BrainForest is also very scriptable, with a flexible object model for manipulating outlines. Here's what you end up with from RSSPuller:

OK, I didn't trash Dave before. Now I'm ready to. Dave has made a big deal about RSS 0.91 being his format of choice for content syndication. Now he's developing RSS 0.92 on his own, and writing tools that not only use the new elements of RSS 0.92, but his software has stopped using the tags RSS 0.91 introduced! How are we supposed to join Dave's "flow" if he swaps out features on us?

I know that very few people read this site, but for those who do, I have a question. Today on Scripting News Dave says:

RSSPuller is an applescript applet that works with a fantastic Mac outliner called BrainForest. Brainforest Professional is the desktop version of a Aportis's Palm outliner. BrainForest is also very scriptable, with a flexible object model for manipulating outlines. Here's what you end up with from RSSPuller:

The BBC reviewed several free website Content Management Systems including Editthispage.com, Free-Conversant, and WikiWeb.com.

U2 (!!!) are coming to Washington D.C. - the closest large venue, on June 14th. I am gripped with the need to shell out $85 ea. for tickets.

Dave thinks Apple made the wrong choice in buying NeXT Computer back in late 1996, and basing Mac OS X on it.

I've added a new page to this site - for those of you on slow connections or just think this page is too "heavy", I've created redmonk:fastlog.

At Macworld SF, Steve Jobs layed out Apple's vision for itself and the future of the Macintosh. In a 15 minute section of his keynote, he described the digital lifestyle, where our Macs become "Digital Hubs" that route information and media between the new generation of digital devices that are becoming more and more commonplace.

Don't know when the version changed, but version 0.2 of Aaron Hillegass's Powerpoint replacement BigShow is out and available for download. (Src is here) BigShow is GPL, "Mac OS X" only, and uses XML as an encoding format.