Apple apparently decided to not leave it up to hackers to get Win up and running on their new Intel machines. Check out Boot Camp (for now). I have no desire to run Win on my Continue reading Win XP on the Mac, now officially supported
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Steve Jobs Demos NextStep Release 3
Via the wonder that is YouTube here is a video of Steve Jobs demoing NextStep Release 3.
Note #1 – Keep in mind that Windows 3.1 was pretty new at the time.
Note #2 – Notice how many of these features are in Mac OS X (almost all of them).
Note #3 – Notice the ones that are not (but probably will be soon because they are still well ahead of thier time).
Multi-Touch Interaction Interfaces
Tim & Amy & Tova
Tim and Amy have had their baby. We already knew it was a girl and we already know that they chose the name Tova. That is as much info as I have right now.
Come work with Scottie and Turbo Tim!
Hi Geeks. We are looking to fill a programmer position at Great Clips, Inc. We are located on the corner of 494 & France Ave in Edina. This is where the home office is located. Attached (I hope) you will see a basic job description. If you or anyone you know are interested, please send me a resume to:
scott.scheldberg@greatclips.com
Thanks.
Who’s Got Your Data?
I was going to write a post about web-apps like basecamp, backpack, rucksack, and puptent (did I get those right?), but I then realized it was more appropriate to my work-life. And so I posted it there. Still might be of interest to the geeks here.
Scottie Happenings
Hi Geeks! Just wanted to drop a line and let everyone know that I have finally (with Patrick and Turbo Tim’s nagging.. I mean suggestions) registered scheldberg.com. So now it will be my home base for everything. The main page is not much right now but I have moved my blog over there which is pretty cool because I can play with WordPress and the themes. I have a new email address too so please send all corespondence to my new address. I will send everyone a seperate email with this address. Please read my latest blog entry on making GoogleMail your webmail app without using your gmail account. Cool stuff.
Backpack Gets My Money
Geeks,
I’m an educator. I’m a pretty damn good potter, an avid doityerselfer, and a wannabe geek. But at the end of the day, I’m an educator. But, lately I’ve been struggling with my own levels of productivity.
I know I can get more done during my day at school and at home, but so many things get in the way.
So, when I came to the first GGM over at Patrick’s house and started perusing his journal, his efforts at coming to terms with his org-fu, as he calls it, struck a cord with me. The theme of de-cluttering rings true with me, as does the mantra of less, less, less.
I signed up for a free Backpack account and started using it as my website at school for parents and students to visit for assignment information, extra credit offers, additional information for curious students, etc. I thought I’d give it a try before ponying up the $5 per month that they ask for for a real account. And, happily, that’s lasted me for quite some time.
Here’s one of the uses I came up with: Spanish Immersion Backpack page
But, the ghosts of scattered brains still haunt me.
I emailed the nice people at 37signals.com in response to their offer of a free Basecamp account for educators. They hooked me up and I dived right in, trying to see if this were the tool for me. It’s more than I need. And it’s really geared toward project management and collaboration, which isn’t really waht I need. It’s myself I need to collaborate with most of all!
So now I know what BP can do for me and am familiar enough with it to say that I think it could help in other aspects of my life- Today I made the decision to really give Backpack a try and I upgraded my account. I think there’s money to be made in creating a webapp like Backpack for teachers…
I’ve created pages for different home projects, areas of my professional life including the two thinking-skills initatives I’m leading at school, a text formatting tips page for easy access, and a page dedicated to creating a business for my pottery.
I’m more curious now then ever to see how Patrick is organizing his pages, and I’m wondering if any of you geeks out there are also using Backpack. (If not, just mention my referral number when you sign up ;) )
I suggest we have a GGM centered around organizational tools we all use- tools that really help, rather than bog you down.
WOW! OVER 10 TIMES the capacity of a floppy!
Weird Al’s song, Mr. Popeil, from 1984 spoofs the infomercial culture: “Now how much would you pay Mr. Popeil?”
when I saw this promotional article for FlashDisks “for sharing” it made me think of it.
I wonder just how good of a marketing move this is, given that some people really are still holding on tight to their floppies…
I know I haven’t used one since 1997 (except at work where the cd-burners that come with the Omni-no-brand P.O.S. computers are intentionally locked).
UbuntuBook, ctd.
And yes, it can work. Grant and I successfully installed Ubuntu’s Breezy Badger on a vintage 500MHz iBook. This time we have a filesystem complete with the Nautilus file browser. Online updates downloaded and istalled successfully, too. We were trying to set it up with the latest Firefox browser and Thunderbird email app to use it as a lightweight web station. Does anybody know how to actually install Firefox 1.5 in Ubuntu? Being the ignorant Mac users we are, we were hoping for an installer to do the trick, but we were unable to get that going… Any thoughts?