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Remember Widgets?
Sep 2nd
As I may have noted, I’ve purchased every version of Mac OS X. That means that I’ve been around for some of the less-than-great versions and features and have seen those features eventually get finely tuned to become a seamless part of my computing experience. However there were some features that were perfect from day one, most notable in my books is “Dashboard”– the widget host for the Mac OS X desktop that premiered in Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) in 2005. Whether or not you use, or even know about this, widgets have a long and great history… Read the rest of this entry »
The Computer Solution of the Future: the Toaster Model
May 6th
To summarize the next many paragraphs in just one: A toaster operates for only a limited amount of time (‘3 minutes’), and therefore the efficiency of the code running it (if it’s digitally ran) is irrelevant to your life in the kitchen. So if a computer environment was only evoked for ‘3 minutes’ what does it matter if it leaks memory or bogs down over time, assuming that the reliable running time is greater than ‘3 minutes’.
Ubiquity: the Future of Web Browsing
Aug 27th
The future of the internet starts with this (currently prototype) project. See Ubiquity for Firefox demonstrated here. This is the ultimate usage for the internet.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
