- My town, Atlantic Beach was covered for the second time in six months in the New York Times Real Estate section this past Sunday: Village That Doubles as Resort [nytimes.com registration required].
- Tomorrow I’ll be at the Apple Seminar Series Driven by Design in NYC seeing the latest offerings from Adobe, Quark, Extensis and HP.
- I gave in an ordered an iSight, Amazon’s got ‘em for 139 and they qualify for free shipping. Rationalization for the purchase: “Wel I’ll need to be familiar with the technology in case a client has one.” (I use that excuse way too often.)
- Ken Bereskin, Apple’s Product Manager for Mac OS X has moved and resumed his OS X weblog, now covering panther: Ken Bereskin’s “Panther” Weblog
- Worth reading: Do we all need a personal system administrator? [via diveintomark.com] if only to find out just how vulnerable Windows systems are when left to themselves
- Note to self: get the details on All Consuming, it looks interesting.
Monthly Archive for October, 2003
Panther goodies [via diveintomark] from codepoetry:
- Obscure Panther Features
- Panther’s Major Text Services Upgrade [extremely cool]
Be sure to de-authorize any rights managed software (Macromedia Studio MX2004 and iTunes come to mind right away) before updating your OS (Panther or otherwise).
Macromedia Studio MX2004 has a bit of a quirk with archive and install upgrades. The following two links should help:
Mark Pilgrim has put together a few observations on Panther (that is if you consider 100 screenshots and 11 pages a few).
I chose the archive and install process for Panther on the iBook and everything went smoothly. It’s running really fast on this 900MHz machine. Preview is extremely useable now for both PDFs and image files (thankfully, useful keyboard shortcuts have been added). I haven’t run into any incompatible apps yet (I’m keeping my fingers crossed). X11 and a few other miscellaneous installers are on Disc 3. I still need to install Developer XCode tools and give them a whirl. Oh and in case you were wondering, Exposé is incredible (although initially the finger acrobatics necessary to invoke the feature can be a touch intimidating).
I don’t know how, but my copy of Panther OS X 10.3 arrived today. One day five hours and 12 minutes ahead of the official release according to the countdown timer on Apple’s front page. More details later.
Gillette has apparently begun using the “crack” method of acquiring customers. When I got home tonight I found a package in my mailbox containing a Gillette Mach3 Turbo razor along with the initial blade. They’re banking on that if you shave with it once, you’ll be hooked for life and forever be buying blades from them (where the real money is). Not that they’re wrong, I already own a Mach3 and can’t say a bad thing about the shaves I get from it. The only negative thing I could say about the Mach3 is that I wish the blades were less expensive. And there my friends is the proverbial rub. The cost of customer acquisition with a loss leader like sending the razor with one blade via USPS is nominal compared to the lifetime of profits a blade-buying Mach3 customer will generate for them.