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Archive for June, 2004

Bookmarks, Some Saved up Links

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

First, if you care, I’ve been using my bookmarks quite a lot recently. That is, where I might link to something in this here weblog, I’ve been just adding a bookmark. They last 8 displayed on the side, right under the Google Ads there, or, you can use the URL http://del.icio.us/bushwald, or, you can subscribe […]

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Re: Schwartz to Start Blogging: Busting the ExecBlog Seal

Monday, June 28th, 2004

Here’s the link to his weblog: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/. Modest, eh?
Update: in a funny old-media meets new media moment, eWeek had an article today — after Schwartz started his blog — saying he was thinking of starting on. That is, they didn’t check to see if he had one already. Go media!
Update: see Tim Bray’s background notes […]

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Downloading Horn “tones”

Monday, June 28th, 2004

Schwartz gave a great example of how this may work in practice. At a meeting at an Auto corporation, discussions began around the mobile phone ringtone phenomena, and a younger person at the meeting suggested the possibility of downloading a car horn tone to the car much in the same way. After the immediate laughter […]

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Desktop Search in Tiger (Apple that is)

Monday, June 28th, 2004

In particular, Jobs pointed to Spotlight–a new systemwide search engine that will allow Mac users to quickly search and find any file–whether it’s an e-mail, an application file or a contact entry.
[…]Jobs also introduced improved 20-inch and 23-inch monitors, as well as a new 30-inch LCD, all with new aluminum cases.
Apple lets young Tiger roar

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Re: tablet PC

Monday, June 28th, 2004

Jeff Nolan asks:

why is it that some consumer devices, like the tablet PC, capture the imagination of some really smart and saavy people, yet fail to achieve any measure of commercial success? Is it that tech people are more amenable to the ideosyncracies of new devices, and accepting of their shortcomings? Think about the Newton, […]

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