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- Rumors: Docking and Charging by Induction
Filed under: Rumors
Apple Insider uncovered a pretty futuristic Apple patent filing that discusses inductive, optical and wireless devices for transferring data and power without physical contact. The filing talks about how inductive coils, which can be hidden from view, fit more in line with Apple aesthetics (look Ma, no visible ports!) and how they avoid the problem of exposed contacts which can oxidize or get dinged and bent over time. Induction is, as far as I can google, a pretty hot area of technology development, especially for transmitting data and power to implanted devices for bio-medical telemetry. I'm curious to see whether Apple follows through on this filing and what kinds of products get developed.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/rumors-docking-and-charging-by-induction/#comments - DocumentWallet & ReceiptWallet: PDF Managers
Filed under: Software, Productivity
DocumentWallet seems to be the latest in a new category of Mac applications, the PDF manager. Much like Yep (which we covered when it was called kip), DocumentWallet is an iPhoto-like application for keeping track of PDFs. In addition to its library functions, DocumentWallet allows you to scan document into its library with any TWAIN compliant scanner. One nice thing about DocumentWallet is that the PDFs are not stored in some sort of proprietary database, but in the file system (though the same is true of Yep). The maker of DocumentWallet also offers a very similar program called ReceiptWallet that does much the same thing, but focuses on saving receipts rather longer documents, and even includes some rudimentary math functions for keeping track of expenses. Like Yep, Yojimbo, and others, DocumentWallet also adds a convenient Save PDF to DocumentWallet option to the PDF pane of the OS X Print Dialog.
DocumentWallet and Yep are very similar, but there are some differences, perhaps most importantly Yep's focus on tags and DocumentWallet's focus on categories. Which one works better for you will probably depend on how you work, though both are worth a look.
DocumentWallet and ReceiptWallet are $29.95 each (or $44.93 for both) and a 21-day demo of each is available.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/documentwallet-and-receiptwallet-pdf-managers/#comments - Meander Over Your Digital Maps
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends
Meander, which has just hit version 1.5, is an interesting little application that lets you mark out routes on digital maps. For example, you can download maps from Google Maps or Yahoo Maps (though you're not limited to these) and then plot your own route rather than depending on the automated routing (particularly useful when you're on foot or bike). The main interface window is a translucent "Acetate", which you position over a map in a browser window (or even a PDF). You then click the snapshot button to capture the map, and draw your route. By positioning a movable scaling bar over the map scale, Meander will be able to calculate the total distance of your route, or merely the distance between any two points on the map. With Meander it's very easy to calculate distances for walking or to plot particular routes on a map which you can then save as an image file or print out. New in version 1.5 are image attachments for your route, a journal feature, and more.
Meander is $19.99 and a demo is available.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/meander-over-your-digital-maps/#comments - iTunes: Free Friday
If you've never seen Jericho and hate joining serialized dramas mid-way, iTunes just added a free "catchup" episode that provides a recap of the series to date. This is the same recap episode that aired Wednesday night on broadcast TV.
US: Jericho Recap Episode
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Catch up on Jericho during a special recap that chronicles what took place during the first 11 episodes of the series. Jericho is a drama about what happens when a nuclear mushroom cloud suddenly appears on the horizon, plunging the residents of a small, peaceful Kansas town into chaos, leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they're the only Americans left alive. Fear of the unknown propels Jericho into social, psychological and physical mayhem when all communication and power is shut down. The town starts to come apart at the seams as terror, anger and confusion bring out the very worst in some residents.Комментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/itunes-free-thursday/#comments - XServe IP Failover not quite Universal yet
Filed under: Enterprise, XServe
It may not be the most-used feature of Apple's XServe, but IP Failover -- the ability of a standby server to take over the IP address and service responsibilities of a failed primary box -- is vital in enhanced-availability setups and one of the "marquee" qualifications for the use of Apple's iron in BigCorp server rooms. With OS X Server's support for FireWire networking, you can use a single 6-pin FW cable between the two servers as the private 'heartbeat' network that lets the understudy know when the leading lady has slipped on the stairs, so to speak.
Unfortunately, as Ars Technica and MacFixit have explicated (based on a recent Knowledge Base article), there's a problem or two: not only is mixing G5 and Intel XServes in a failover configuration currently verboten, the failover tools don't work on any of Apple's Intel-based hardware. Drat! We can only hope that this is fixed before Leopard Server comes along.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/xserve-ip-failover-not-quite-universal-yet/#comments - What ToDo: GTD, Yet Again
Filed under: Software, Productivity
I have to admit that I've never quite understood the fascination so many people seem to have with the whole Getting Things Done (GTD) meme. Nonetheless, no doubt due in large part to Merlin Mann's advocacy, the GTD thing seems to have become particularly at home on the Mac. And in fact, there are a number of GTD applications already out there or being developed. What ToDo is the latest attempt to cash in on the GTD craze. Frankly not being a devotee of the whole GTD thing I find myself ill positioned to evaluate these different applications, but I assume that everyone in this space must be wary of heavyweight Omni Group's forthcoming entry into the GTD sweepstakes, OmniFocus. So at the risk of starting something, for you GTDers out there, what is your favorite GTD application and why?
What ToDo is $29 and a demo is available.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/what-todo-gtd-yet-again/#comments - Peel: MP3 Blog Client
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, iTunes, Beta Beat
Peel is an interesting application for reading and subscribing to MP3 blogs. What is an MP3 blog (or musicblog) you ask? Well Wikipedia says that a musicblog is simply a blog whose main point is offering MP3s (or other digital audio files) for download (along with commentary). Peel is very self consciously meant to look like iTunes and is designed to integrate with it, allowing you to "add your favorite music directly to iTunes with a click of a button." Peel has two panes, one for managing and downloading the music, and the other for reading the blog postings. Once you download Peel you'll find three musicblogs already subscribed and you can immediately start streaming music from them. It even features Growl support for displaying track information.
The Music Blog Wiki has a musicblog directory which looks like a good place to get started. This seems like it might be a great way for learning about new music. Anybody out there a big musicblog fan? If so, which ones?
Peel is in beta and so a free download for the moment, but will eventually sell for $14.95
Thanks to those who sent this in!
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/16/peel-mp3-blog-client/#comments - Slife 1.0 Awareness Browser
Filed under: iLife, Multimedia, Software, Odds and ends, Internet Tools
Slife is a rather unusual piece of software. I tried it out in its previous incarnation (Onlife), but it has now been released under a new name and seems considerably more polished. Its developer calls Slife an "awareness browser" which "let's you visualize and organize your computer activities like never before." Basically, Slife "observes" your use of applications like Safari, Mail, iChat, iTunes, Word, NetNewsWire, etc., and records what you're doing with them (e.g. what web pages you looked at, the text of your emails, what songs you listened to, etc.). You can then visualize these interactions in a variety of different ways (e.g. one visualization is a kind of scatterplot over time) and go back and see what you were doing on your computer at any given time. In other words, it's sort of like a global history of your computer use, which instead of merely recording what pages you've looked at in your browser, records what you were doing at any given time in a bunch of different applications. You can also search through all of this mess, to find things you were doing, but perhaps lost track of or forgot where you looked at them. Finally, SlifeLabs offers a subscription service called Slifeshare where "you can share your Slife activities such as browsing the web and listening to music with your friends, family or anyone you care about" (I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to do that, but whatever). While something like this is definitely not going to appeal to everyone, Slife has a lot of potential to help you keep track of things you've lost and to understand better how you use your own computer. And since it's a free download, I think it's definitely worth a look.
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