Using iPhoto to create 20" x 30" posters

- Nitesh Dhanjani [10:09:09 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

My Picks from the Emerging Technology Conference
ETech is a fun look at the stuff that will either make it into the mainstream technology business in a couple of years, or will flame out spectacularly. Either way, good sport. Here are my favorite sessions from the conference program.
- Marc Hedlund [11:02:01 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Follow the money!
Medsphere Raises $7.5 Million in Latest Round of Venture Financing And Appoints Larry Augustin as Company Chief Executive Officer
- Kevin Shockey [06:21:25 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Eudora 6.2: better IMAP, better search, and, um, emoticons
I've switched off the smileys stuff, but there's some other worthwhile bits and pieces in the new version of Eudora.
- Giles Turnbull [03:56:25 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

A solution to the American Mobile Phone Technology Gap
Promotional video on the East vs. West cell phone technology gap and Earthlink's new partnership with SK. You can also Google Earthlink + SK
- Damien Stolarz, Damien Stolarz [03:00:54 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Keyboard Shopping for GarageBand
I've always shied away from pianos and such, but GarageBand got me looking at MIDI keyboards. Here's one that actually fits on my desk.
- Derrick Story [02:50:18 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Amazon and A9 re-remix the virtual and physical
Walmart might be in your face no matter where you turn when you’re out and about, but without an Amazon presence, it probably doesn't exist.
- Rael Dornfest [01:24:50 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

More on OpenOffice XML
Peter Sefton's "Hacking Open Office" comes at an energetic time for OOo. I've been pointed to ooo2dbk, a tool for generating DocBook XML from OpenOffice.org documents, which opens up even more XML possibilities. Let me also mention my complementary article to Sefton's, which covers some additional topics such as XML Catalogs.
- Uche Ogbuji [11:33:52 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Cleaning up XLink
XLink takes a small step forward.
- Bob DuCharme [10:27:08 AM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Who's going to make money off podcasting?
People are already making money off podcasting, but they aren't podcasters themselves.
- Jacek Artymiak [09:20:12 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Jakarta Commons moves to Subversion
Commons just moved over to Subversion, it was a large migration that took a few hours, but it looks like we made it. In case you are not subscribed to the dev list, here's instructions for checking out.
- Timothy M. O'Brien [08:31:12 AM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

The Mac/Thinkpad Shuffle
My daughter's new computer arrives. She's thrilled.
- Jonathan Gennick [06:44:25 AM | Discuss (14) | Permalink]

Best Encryption for Mail?
OK, I think it's finally time for me to start encrypting my mail on Mac OS X. The last time I did this was in college and I was using Sun OS (not Solaris at the time). Needless to say, I don't remember much about that. So, I figured I'd turn to the Mac community at O'Reilly Net for pointers on the best tools to use to get my Mail mail encrypted.
- Michael Brewer [06:10:57 AM | Discuss (9) | Permalink]

Firefox versus AdSubtract: How Not to Compete with Open Source
Firefox is an open platform with a large and growing body of extensions that make it useful and customizable far beyond what Internet Exporer has ever provided. AdSubtract was once a useful way to improve IE, but in a world where Firefox exists, it doesn't have much of a future.
- Marc Hedlund [01:39:58 AM | Discuss (4) | Permalink]

CD Baby rewrite : shipping costs are the most complicated thing in the world
Wouldn't it be nice if we would just tell the customer, at time of purchase, "We'll ship this thing you've ordered at the lowest rate possible, and bill you exactly what it turns out to cost." But nooooo.... people want you to PREDICT what it's going to cost!
- Derek Sivers [10:55:39 PM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

CD Baby rewrite : a shipments table!
In 1.2 million CDs sold, I had never thought of "shipments" as a separate table. I always thought of it as attributes of an order, but if we're going to be sending things from multiple locations, we'll have multiple shipments for an order, each shipment with its own attributes, so...
- Derek Sivers [10:42:22 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

CD Baby rewrite : what are gift certificates, anyway?
GIFT CERTIFICATES. I used to think of them as just items in a cart, with a negative balance. But here's another way to think of them...
- Derek Sivers [10:34:26 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

The Symbian OS Virus.. Myth or Reality?
The Symbian OS virus scare... myth or reality?? The press seem mixed on this and from where I stand it appears the mainstream press is content with running item after item scaring the pants off people about yet another worm that can infiltrate a Symbian OS device.
- Glenn Letham [06:16:40 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Virtual Folders in mutt
My email is generally well-organized. I have a lot of different folders and procmail rules that automatically move email to the various categories of email I've set up. Sometimes, though, I can't exactly remember which category a message is in. While mutt, my preferred email client. is great at searching for a term within a folder, it isn't as easy to search all of your email folders at once. I found a few possible solutions to this problem, and ended up rolling my own solution.
- Kyle Rankin [04:26:50 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Google AdWords API beta
As pre-announced by SiliconValley.com last week, Google has opened the doors on its latest Web Service, AdWords API (beta). While I've not had much of a chance to dig into it yet--you can be sure I'm digging in a few minutes from now--the sample code sure put a smile on my face. Let the Hacks begin!
- Rael Dornfest [03:52:55 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Perls of Wisdom
Did you miss Randal Schwartz's columns the first time he wrote them? Or maybe you don't have a wireless web browser with you on the train? Perhaps you need to fly across the Atlantic to impress someone with your knowledge of Perl. Perls of Wisdom from Apress is for you.
- brian d foy [03:46:38 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Hello and Introducing Glenn's SymbianOne Weblog
Hello, I'd like to introduce myself to the community as a new blogger. My name is Glenn and in addition to being the founder of symbianone, I'm also pleased to announce that our popular wireless technology portal is the newest O'reilly network affiliate.
- Glenn Letham [02:31:08 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Interview with "FutureProof" of JHymn
Like it or not people strip DRM from their iTunes music files. Howard Wen has anonymously interviewed lead developer "FutureProof" about how Apple's DRM works, how to rip it out using JHymn, how they build on the work of "DVD" Jon Johansen, and how to upgrade to that new iShuffle safely.
- Steve Mallett [10:02:12 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Open for business
I have just submitted my final copy of my book "The Art of System Modeling" to O'Reilly for a tentative July publication. I have therefore set up this weblog to offer folks the chance to chat with me about the book, and any other topic that seems to be useful. I look forward to reading the various comments of the O'Reilly audience. Thanks!
- Ben Lieberman [08:09:57 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Finding Linux-able hardware information
A reader asked me whether I had any tips for finding Linux-friendly vendors and hardware. I'm sure there are other articles with such tips, but here are the resources I use.
- Uche Ogbuji [07:52:59 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Working over email & IM, Geography & Google
In this age of email, IM, Video Chat, VoIP, forums, wiki, weblogs and such, why does Google need an Open Source Programs Manager within bus-riding distance of their offices? Do others still work like it's the 80s?
- Steve Mallett [05:38:39 AM | Discuss (5) | Permalink]

Program for the Mac? Got .Mac? Now Combine the Two.
Learn more about Apple's new dotMac kit for building .Mac applications for Mac OS X Tiger.
- Chuck Toporek [04:42:28 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Ripe for Remixing
The iTunes music store shakes up "the album". Print-on-demand and Safari U shake up "the book". I've got a hit-list for the next things that need to be remixed.
- Nathan Torkington [11:54:15 AM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Wireless media server without the mini
For now, I'm mini-less. But that doesn't mean I have to live without streaming music and photos from a dedicated server at home -- and all with hardware and software I already have.
- Derrick Story [01:43:39 PM | Discuss (4) | Permalink]

Mac mini: In addition to, not instead of
The real market for Apple's Mac mini is as a second (or third or fourth) computer for those who've always wanted a Mac. Here are 13 ideas for putting the Mac mini to work as a secondary machine.
- Kevin Bedell [03:07:31 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

ReplayTV, the Click of Death and a Happy Ending
After Erica hears the Quantum Click of Death, she upgrades her ReplayTV just in time
- Erica Sadun [07:45:51 PM | Discuss (5) | Permalink]

.Mac Night in London
Apple will be hosting a special .Mac Night at the Apple Store on Regent's Street tomorrow night...look here for the details.
- Chuck Toporek [03:18:32 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

What is the largest text file that Java can read into a String?
My rough calcuations suggest you might have trouble with a string larger than 500,000,000 characters inside Java, or reading in a text file larger than 167 Mbyte, no matter how much RAM you have.
- Rick Jelliffe [05:08:34 AM | Discuss (3) | Permalink]

Mac OS X hanging disconnect
I've had to use my Powerbook's modem twice in the past month, and each time I got a hanging disconnect. Now I know how to fix that.
- brian d foy [04:19:36 AM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

The Python comunity has too many deceptive XML benchmarks
"I can't stands no more." The benchmark politics in Python/XML processing have been heating up, and while there is always room for discussion of which of the many Python/XML packages are faster (as part of overall education of users), I don't think users are served by artificial and mysterious benchmarks. Luckily, with a bit of code, it's very easy to demonstrate some of the problems I complain about.
- Uche Ogbuji [06:17:05 PM | Discuss (34) | Permalink]

CD Baby rewrite : thought process of subsets/limiters solution
A big change I'm adding in the CD Baby rewrite is the ability for the store to be browsing/searching only a subset of its items. This is useful for genre-specific stores, where browsing and searching the catalog would only show you jazz albums. The thought-process took a few rounds...
- Derek Sivers [09:53:06 AM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

CD Baby rewrite : changes in database structure
When switching CD Baby from MySQL to PostgreSQL, it gave me the perfect opportunity to fix some things in our database structure that needed changing. Among many other changes, here are some interesting ones...
- Derek Sivers [08:38:58 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

iWork and Office
Pages is not a Word replacement. It's not supposed to be.
- Giles Turnbull [01:38:02 AM | Discuss (5) | Permalink]