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Some very nice interactive and physical projects, I like the public desktop as well as the literal physical re-interpretation of internet related terms, such as search engine.
Acacia streaming patent case started
Does Acacia Own Streaming Media?
Acacia Media Technologies, a division of Acacia Research (Quote, Chart), sued a group of porn producers in the U.S. District Court in Calif. for allegedly infringing on its patents. The company says these patents give it the right to charge licensing fees to anyone who streams media via the Web.
AIM and iChat AV, Interoperable with VIDEO
AIM Video Debuts, Links to iChat
America Online (Quote, Chart) has officially taken the wraps off the new version of its AOL Instant Messenger application, with its much -anticipated video IM feature — and the surprise addition of compatibility with Apple Computer’s (Quote, Chart) iChat AV.
Java and the Mac, a match made in heaven.
oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Mac OS X for Java Geeks
From the Description:
Mac OS X for Java Geeks delivers a complete and detailed look at the Mac OS X platform, geared specifically at Java developers. Programmers using the 10.2 (Jaguar) release of Mac OS X, and the new JDK 1.4, have unprecedented new functionality available to them. Whether you are a Java newbie, working your way through Java Swing and classpath issues, or you are a Java guru, comfortable with digital media, reflection, and J2EE, this book will teach you how to get around on Mac OS X. You’ll also get the latest information on how to build applications that run seamlessly, and identically, on Windows, Linux, Unix, and the Mac.
I’ll get this book if they update it for Panther and XCode and if the sample chapter (QT4Java) is still valid after all of the recent changes that Apple has made.
Perl talking to Apple Apps ala AppleScript
perl.com: Introducing Mac::Glue [Jan. 23, 2004]
The Mac::Glue module provides OSA compatibility and allows us to talk to Mac applications with Perl code. Let’s take a look at how to script Mac tools at a high level in Perl.
Get power even though your computer only has a 4 PIN Firewire plug
FireWire power injector. makes it possible to use bus-powered devices on computers with un-powered FireWire ports
Coding HTML for the Java Plugin
Encountering OBJECT, EMBED, and APPLET Tags With Different Plug-in Versions and Browsers
This section deals with how different versions of Java Plug-in, runing with different web browsers and web browser versions, behave when OBJECT, EMBED, and APPLET tags appear on an HTML page. It presents the various scenarios in table form and then answers some of the common questions developers and users have.
New York Event Listings
Wear your electronics
Wearable Computing Links.. http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/TTTtalk.htm, she is “Helping computers escape from their boxes out into the world! ” and has “Woven Electronic Textile Substrate” information ;-)
Another good site is Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing @ http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/index.html
Which states:
Wearable computers can now merge seamlessly into ordinary clothing. Using various conductive textiles, data and power distribution as well as sensing circuitry can be incorporated directly into wash-and-wear clothing. This paper describes some of the techniques used to build circuits from commercially available fabrics, yarns, fasteners, and components.