From the monthly archives:

August 2006

OpenOffice 2 – Mac native

August 30, 2006

It looks like there will be a fully native version of OpenOffice 2.0.for the Mac coming within the next few weeks. This is excellent news, although it’s still worth mentioning that if you want a functional version of OOo 2.0 for Mac right now, NeoOffice works well.

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Google CEO jumps on Apple board

August 29, 2006

Passed on without comment… Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board of Directors [Apple press release on Yahoo]

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A quick review of OpenOffice for Mac

August 26, 2006

One of the occasional complaints that I’ve heard is that there’s no truly native version of OpenOffice for the Mac. The official version requires X11 to be installed, rather than running natively under the Mac’s own windowing environment, and while NeoOffice is a great attempt at getting a more “Mac-like” experience, it often seems to [...]

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River of News redux

August 25, 2006

Scoble: “One thing about innovators…” Mathew Ingram: “Yes, it’s always about Dave” Rogers Cadenhead: “Cry me a news river, Dave” Paul Kedrosky: “Dave Winer rediscovers the Newswire” Kent Newsome: “Let’s all grow up and play nice, shall we?” Technorati Tags: blogging, davewiner, puppy

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An Apple Blackberry?

August 25, 2006

There’s a story over at Guy Kewney’s Newswireless.net suggesting that Apple will bring out a Blackberry. I’d really quite like this one to be true, although I’m not entirely sure that it makes sense from RIM’s perspective. Technorati Tags: apple, blackberry, guykewney

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Is River Of News an advance for readers or not?

August 25, 2006

< p>Doc Searles has a long and interesting post about what Dave Winer’s “River of News” concept is really all about. He makes the point that a lot of those saying “so what?” about it – myself included – are missing the point. My point is that Dave isn’t just coming at this as a [...]

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Apple and Creative settle

August 23, 2006

File under “least surprising legal development of the day”. Apple and Creative have settled their big patent dispute – and it looks like a pretty clear win for Creative. As noted in Apple’s press release: Apple will pay Creative $100 million for a paid-up license to use Creative’s recently awarded patent in all Apple products. [...]

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Joe Wilcox on Writely

August 23, 2006

I’ve been using Writely, the rather slick online word processor, since before it was acquired by Google. Joe Wilcox signed up for the service over the weekend, and he’s impressed: Make no mistake, Writely offers all the basics and easily can meet the “good enough” threshold for many consumers or small businesses. Writely fully responds [...]

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River of what?

August 23, 2006

I’m finding myself utterly, completely baffled over the spreading hype over Dave Winer’s “River of news” reinterpretation of web sites. Doc Searles chimes in with a claim that “The river metaphor makes me look at the supply side of blogging from a whole new perspective.” Dave himself, of course, is piling up the links to [...]

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Is the Mac’s Airport card secure?

August 23, 2006

I’ve largely refrained from commenting on the whole issue of whether Apple’s Airport hardware is vulnerable to the security hole that was demonstrated at Black Hat by Maynor and Ellich, and initially reported by Brian Krebs of the Washington Post. The reason that I’ve refrained is largely because I don’t know enough to meaningfully contribute [...]

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