We're pretty serious about that mission, including the “universally accessible” part. It means making products that everyone can use – including Mac users. We want to provide great products and services to the tens of millions of Mac users around the world, because it's the right thing to do, and because Mac users inside and outside Google demand it. That's why we've recruited some of the best, most passionate Mac people out there for a Mac Engineering team.
Kind of surprised that there was no mention in the blog posting of SketchUp which has a Mac version that is also available from Google.
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I found this handy little tool over the weekend that allows you to create and automatically maintain photo sets on Flickr based on some selection criteria. For example, I added a new set that shows my top 100 most 'interesting' photos as determined by Flickr's double-super-secret interestingness algorithm.
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I noticed in my access logs that a server purporting to be www.google.com.ua (aka 72.14.221.104 aka google ukraine) was fishing around trying to find a file called show_ads.js in a /capcha.files directory at various levels around my site. Not sure what the hell this is about, but I hope that a) google explains what they are trying to do b) it stops soon.
A bit of poking around indicates that show_ads.js is something to do with google adsense ads. Still doesn't explain why they are trying to put or find the file in relation to some capcha configurations (which I don't have).
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Apple's big pre-photokina announcement today was the release (later this week) of a new version of their Aperture photo software. There are some significant new features. One of the features I am looking forward to is the addition of a plugin API to allow extensions to Aperture. Several companies have already produced export plugins for 1.5 including Flickr and istockphoto.
I just started dabbling with Aperture about a month ago and love how easy it is to get things organized and sorted out when dealing with a virtual pile of files. I really appreciate the fact that unlike iPhoto it does keep full copies of files around whenever you make a simple change to an image. In fact, with the release of 1.5, I can see moving to Aperture as my primary photo organization software.
And a incredible story of drinking and violence from New Zealand. I don't know what is more remarkable, the fact that one guy drank 72(!) beers then drove home or that the other guy that he stabbed had no idea that he was stabbed until he went home and looked in the mirror.
So DailyLit lets you spam yourself with an email containing five minutes worth of reading from a classic book of your choice.
Im not sure that this would work well for me as I am really not fond of reading large amounts of text off of a screen and, in any case, I prefer to do my reading away from my desk. Your milage may vary.
So Mesmerizing time lapse video of over one hundred hot air balloons launching and soaring at the 2006 Reno Balloon Race (via youTube). It's fun to watch the eccentric paths that some of the balloons aloft take.
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Im a bit surprised that I haven't heard more about this (perhaps the hysteria will whip up as we get closer to the date). The gist of it is that with the newly enacted Daylight Savings Time (DST) guidelines older Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) will not adjust for DST properly starting in 2007. The first event will happen on March 11, 2007.
If you have been looking for a reason to upgrade to JVM 1.5, this should do.