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New user? Thursday, January 10, 2002
AppleSkinz rock
AppleSkinz -- this rocks! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to do this.
I want a skin for my Lombard G3. The new iMac begs to be skinned. In fact, a skin skin wouldn't look too bad. ;-)
pMachine
pMachine - Blogging plus a lot more!
The "whole lot more" aspects of it seem to mostly be things that Conversant and its weblogging system has done for a year or more. And with Conversant you don't have to maintain your own server. (For some this is a plus, for some it's not a problem)
I'm not a fan of code-in-HTML systems like ASP/CFM/JSP/PHP, so I immediately get that Homer-thinking-of-Patty-and-Selma shudder when I think of having to deal with it.
To be fair, it has a couple gee-whiz features like keeping track of birthdays and... well that's the only one I see, and that's pretty, well, gee-whiz.
And of course the more weblogging software there's out there, the better.
When I finally have another spare moment I'll write about Radio UserLand 8, which is shipping soon, if not today. Which is a good choice of days to ship, since their announcing the SN Blogger of the Year award today too.
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Microsoft caught stuffing the ballot boxes
ZDNet UK: .Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services
This is a pretty common occurance (not just with Microsoft). Anonymous online polls are for the most part, bogus.
Weblogger lunch
A lunch that I (and Damien) thought would be about 4 or 5 people turned about to be about 20 people. I guess a few people linked to where Damien said there'd be a lunch.
It was nice, I met a lot of people I'd never met before, but lunch ended up being a 2.5 hour getaway!!! :-(
We were in the Yerba Beuna park, and a lady with a camera and clipboard came up and asked us if we wanted to be in a Microsoft ad, and they'd pay $500 for a half day's work. :-)
I need the money, but not THAT bad. Not selling out. Nope. (To be honest I couldn't have done it that day anyway)
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
iPhoto.. no scripting dictionary
Brent mentions on mac.scripting.com that iPhoto isn't really scriptable.
I noticed this yesterday when I dragged the app onto Script Editor. No Scripting Dictionary Found... :(
I think there's a good reason for this... you don't want someone scripting iPhoto to do a 1-click purchase of photo prints and hard bound books to their address... especially if you happen to have remote apple events turned on and an easy to guess password. :-)
It's a bummer that it isn't scriptable though. Perhaps in a future version they could ask the user during installation if they want AppleScript support installed, along with an explanation of the consequences... mind you Apple probably wouldn't want to suggest to their users that AppleScript is a security threat.
That said, I really want to find the time to download the iPhoto scripts to see HOW it's doing the scripting!
