New iPhoto

January 7, 2004

The possibilities suggested by Apple's new iPhoto announced yesterday is great. I'm wondering, though, will iPhoto have to be running to share photos? Will it's server (almost certainly doing http at some level) run only when iPhoto is running? This is the case with iTunes and it's too bad. It greatly reduces the usefulness of the the application.

iLife 04

January 6, 2004

Apple's iPhoto got a major overhaul today. The demo given by Steve Jobs had over 20,000 photos, great performance, date based organization, easy rating of photos, better slide shows and photo sharing through Rendezvous. iPhoto jumps to version 4.0.

Next Jobs went on to demo iMovie 4. New features include iSight importing, new titles, audio scrubbing and enhanced exporting.

Not to leave out any part of the "i" suite Jobs also revealed the new iDVD 4. Throughout all the applications the Cube transition, as seen in Apple's fast user switching is everywhere. Possibly that indicates the reintroduction of the Apple Cube?

It's cooooold!

January 6, 2004

It's cold out. Like Colorado winters used to be many years ago.... the kind we haven't seen for a few years. There is an interesting change when people read negative numbers. When a weather forecaster on the radio gives the expected low temperatures they normally say 25 and 29 degrees or something similar. When the forecast involves negative numbers they reverse them. They state the low will be between 0 and -6.

Blogs and other media

January 3, 2004

Dave Kopel has a worthy editorial in today's Rocky Mountain News. Coyote Gulch discusses it a bit further. Dave Winer's Scripting News has a consistent theme about the presidential candidates' "embracing" new media but not really understanding it or figuring out new and innovative ways to use the internet. The failure of Colorado's challengers for Campbell's senate seat to find this innovation will be a deciding factor in Campbell's reelection.

I'm not sure I understand

January 2, 2004

I don't really understand the purpose in cancelling flights for security reasons. It seems that the recent spate of cancellations serve to provide potential terrorists with an understanding of how good or bad our intelligence is. The terrorists are being successful in impacting our daily lives. It would seem that if you have good intelligence about a plot that one's best bet would be to equip the plane to handle it. Put air marshals, or their foreign equivalents on the plane, triple check the baggage, take the cargo off the flight. Perhaps airlines should start cargo swapping.

Stella and iThink

January 2, 2004

I'm not sure when it happened, but HPS has released Stella and iThink for OS X. I downloaded the demo of iThink. It has some bugs and quirks, (forward delete doesn't work, and another I can't recall at the moment). But it runs in OS X (10.3) nicely. It must be time to upgrade!

SSX 3

January 2, 2004

Over the years I've had more than my share of computer games. Most get played for a bit and then retired quickly. Our Playstation 2 is far more of a DVD player than a consistently used game system. However, whenever a new SSX game comes out it deserves attention. SSX 3 came out last fall and we got a copy for Christmas. It's even better than the last versions. The impossible uber tricks are even more impossible and impressive. The best elements of the old Winter Games are incorporated with players earning cash to purchase accessories or new tricks. The mixture of challenges and the opportunity

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