ui | Jason E. Shao

MacOSX 10.3 “Panther” Coming Out

Oct

8

2003

Apple’s announced that “OSX 10.3”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/ will be released this month on October 24th. The feature set looks quite impressive, and hopefully the speed gains will be as impressive as promised.

iCal and iSync Updated

Oct

8

2003

Apple updated their iCal and iSync software, finally replacing the floating window for event properties with a drawer and fixing the method for entering appointments that span multiple days. In addition, “phpiCalendar”:http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke seems to be progressing quickly, and is now almost at the level of Apple’s own “.Mac”:http://www.mac.com calendar publishing software. The latest .94 builds ...

Netiquette

Oct

3

2003

Netiquette, Online Netiquette UNCENSORED! – Common Courtesies and Social Graces for Newbies and Lazy Netizens is a website that publishes a free monthly newsletter discussing different aspects of internet etiquitte. Things like how to forward email, sending attachments, and other topics. Although sometimes too basic, the items are often of value and worth checking out.

GNOME 2.4 Gentoo ebuild

Oct

2

2003

I’ve been experimenting with “Gentoo Linux”:http://www.gentoo.org, and “GNOME 2.4”:http://www.gnome.org recently. I’ve also played around with “KDE”:http://www.kde.org somewhat. While on the surface I find KDE’s integration and the support of apps for common features like addressbook, etc to be quite appealing, I’ve actually found myself drifting back to GNOME for my day to day tasks. KDE ...

Gentoo Linux & MPlayer

Sep

7

2003

I now have my Gentoo Linux setup almost completely functional. I’ve managed to get graphics, sound, and network sharing working. The only big tasks left are printing, and palm-pilot syncing. *ADDITION:* “MPlayer”:http://www.mplayer.hq is quite possibly the best media player I have ever seen. Both it’s ability to play almost any variety of media file that ...