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

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.

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.

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.

Yahoo Finance - Macromedia to merge with Allaire. Hmmm. Guess we won't be seeing any support for WebObjects in Dreamweaver. Drat.

but it looks like I'm not oing to be able to get online here. Maybe tomorrow - there's a few Airport networks around that aren't password protected.

Yes, I'm posting this from MacWorld San Fransisco, specifically from the AppleCare/ Apple iServices booth. I think the internte cafe would be more appropriate, but it was full. ;-)

Very funny spec commercial. (Quicktime)

New information, courtesy of X Appeal:

Micropayments discussed by someone who can benefit.

I thought the title for this movie was "Castaway" - noun form... I was glad to see that the correct title is the two-word past-tense verb form, it gives a much dfferent feel. (Am I a freak for noticing the grammatical forms of movie titles?)

A discussion on the virtues of the Desktop Website has begun over at Brian Carnell's site.

4D's WebStar, affectionately known in Mac server circlas as Web*, is coming to "Mac OS X". Right on - WebStar is a bulwark of the Mac community, has been serving pages from Macs for many years, and has a rich history and rich plugin API. This will be a great addition to the Mac OS X software catalog. Way to go 4D.

xml-based-powerpoint-replacement

Aaron Hillegrass, WebObjects Yoda-type, has written a presentation program called BigShow that uses XML as the file format. Mmmm, XML.

"Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." -- Edward Tufte

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Aaron Hillegrass, WebObjects Yoda-type, has written a presentation program called BigShow that uses XML as the file format. Mmmm, XML.

"Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." -- Edward Tufte

Aaron Hillegrass, WebObjects Yoda-type, has written a presentation program called BigShow that uses XML as the file format. Mmmm, XML.

mac-software-on-time

Thanks to "Jim" for the pointer to Atimi, and new Mac development shop. It looks like they offer outsourcing services for other dev shops, and porting services for existing Windows apps. Hope this helps bring more great software to the Mac!

It also looks like they may have some "Mac OS X" experience. Cool.

Courtesy of some guy named Mike: