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Blimps are Cool too

So I've decided to try an experiment: I'm going to start using Tumbler rather than blogger. Mostly because this blog has changed to my ranting about post and personal issues to links to other things.

So you may want to start reading the tumblr blog instead of this one. I promise I'll post more frequently.

http://blimpsarecool.tumblr.com/

Ball. Park. Gone.

Google's basic goal in life is to drive the cost of everything in the world to zero -- except the one thing Google sells... butt-ugly little text ads.

-- (Fake)Steve Jobs on the Google Android.

Naked Light

Naked light features nodes—simple building blocks in a composition like a images, filters, and sets of brush strokes. Nodes can be arranged in novel ways that layers cannot. And because they are the blueprints for a composition, nodes are infinitely re-editable.

Finally! A node-based still image editor. Looking forward to it!

Growl and Leopard Mail

Growl doesn't work by default under Leopard Mail.app, because of the revised plugin architecture. However, some simple terminal hackery will get it working for you (once you have the growmail bundle installed):

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion -int 3

Cinemator + AppleTV == Dailies System

We haven't completely got all the parts together, but our new low cost dailies system is going to be

Pomsofort's Cinemator and an AppleTV connected to a widescreen TV.

With a few hours of coding (shell scripts wrapped inside Bigcat) to glue it all together and we should be ready to roll. Total cost? Oh, something under $1,000AU.

Every other dailies system I've ever built? At least $1,000+ in people time.... and they suck.

Gmail gets IMAP

IMAP Access is being rolled out to GMail Users.

This has pretty much made my week... (its been a tough week). Curious to see how gmail specific features like archiving and labelling are handled. Well, I hope.

Awe inspriring combination of productivity geekery, apple geekery, and open source geekery.

For Leopard, Apple pulled its iCal development in house, and paired its iCal client with a new calendar server. [...] Apple built a standalone calendar server based on the open CalDAV specification. It also announced plans to release its calendar server as an open source project in the same pattern as the Apache web server.

This strategy allowed Apple to focus specifically on the demands of a calendar server, rather than delivering a single product with a wide scope attempting to do a little bit of everything. It also offers the open source community an alternative to emulating Exchange Server. By offering a standards compliant CalDAV server under the Apache license, Apple can use the best existing email server while also sharing its calendar server to the community and Linux administrators, encouraging the adoption of CalDAV.

-- AppleInsider on iCal 3.0

Just an awe inspriring combination of productivity geekery, apple geekery, and open source geekery.