Google is your computer
Some interesting ideas are raised in this article
http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-5759958-1.html?tag=nl.e501,
about how the future of the desktop may be changing.
There is a nice description of a piece of the enabling technology, Ajax, that drives google maps and other google sites.
Did you know that bounding boxes were invented in 1998? US Patent 6,243,097
Full story is available at computerworld.com
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,100709,00.html
News is a little bit old but does this indicate a trend for trickling Longhorn functionality into XP ?
Some snippets from microsoft-watch.com
http://www.microsoft-watch.com
After claiming for months it would not issue a new version of its Internet Explorer browser until it shipped Longhorn, Microsoft decides to deliver an IE 7.0.
In a complete about-face, Microsoft has decided to deliver a new, standalone version of its Internet Explorer browser in order to stem potential customer defections due to security and feature concerns.
Microsoft officials for months had been telling customers and partners that Microsoft had no plans to upgrade IE until the company rolled out its Longhorn client operating system in 2006. At the most, Microsoft might introduce some minor downloadable IE add-ons before then, officials said last year. In justifying its decision against upgrading, Microsoft had argued in antitrust cases in both the U.S. and Europe that IE was an inextricable part of the Windows operating system, and no longer a standalone product.
You can follow the trail at The IE Blog
and there’s more interesting reading in the Internet Explorer Wiki at channel9
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerFeedback
Thought here is to use one of the small mp3 devices, such as the iPod Shuffle, to store software documentation in an audio format.
My shuffle holds approx 8 hours of audio in 512Mb memory (£69). Another version is available with 1Gb memory for £99. Similar audio players are available from other manufacturers with varying amounts of memory.
I’m using it to listen to podcasts (see details elsewhere), my current favourite music collection and as a language learning tool.
Can also be used to store audio versions of books etc. and raw data files although I don’t think this latter capability will used much by me …
So I got to thinking whether there is any mileage in recording software documentation in an audio format?
Could also be used a a marketing tool – store up to 512Mb of useful data related to the software – for £69, or cheaper, per seat.
An extract from its wikipedia entry: Podcasting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
“Podcasting” is a web-based broadcast medium. Audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) are made available online in a way that allows software to automatically detect the availability of new files (generally via RSS), and download the files for listening at the user’s convenience.
The word “podcasting” is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. A podcast is like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the internet, and can listen to them at their leisure.
Podcasts differ from traditional internet audio in two important ways. In the past, listeners have had to either tune in to web radio on a schedule, or they have had to search for and download individual files from webpages. Podcasts are much easier to get. They can be listened to at any time because a copy is on the listener’s computer or portable music player (hence the “pod” in “podcasting”), and they are automatically delivered to subscribers, so no active downloading is required.
Any use? Don’t know, I’ll give it a try … currently have a couple, Microsoft News and Apple news from techpodcasts.com
http://www.techpodcasts.com/…/catid,5/Itemid,33/
and using iPodder …
http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php
the premier Podcasting application, allowing users to capture and listen to Internet audio programs anytime, anywhere
podsites - a website for your iPod – or rather a collection of text files and links to other files, including sound and image files, all accessible from your iPod
Read all about it here
So what else can you do on an iPod ?
SLI (Scalable Link Interface) allows your computer to use two video cards etc…..
Noticed a couple of machines using Athlon 64 chips and dual GPUs – Mesh Computers Fireblade SLI, Evesham Duel SLi costing around £1500 – is this the way machines are going?
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