http://stylemac.onebeat.de Fresh Apple Design & Tech News Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:55:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First a disclaimer, I have been a reader of 2600 for several years and have even been published several times within its pages. However, none of my articles or letters appear in this book. About a month ago, the friendly neighborhood UPS delivery person deposited a giant box on my doorstep. ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/08/28/the-best-of-2600/ Most big newspaper organizations have obituaries written in advance for almost every celebrity, whether or not that person is close to death. This is done so that if a celebrity does die unexpectedly, they can rush in, fill in a few details, and publish the obituary within minutes. Of course, when ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/08/28/steve-jobs-still-alive/ I just read The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain. In the book, Mr. Zittrain states that in the beginning of the computer networks that would eventually form the Internet, computers connected to it would run whatever code or programs they encountered because all there ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/08/25/the-future-of-the-internet/ I just recieved an email from Open Tech's Vice President of online sales and PR that states the following sentence as the sole line in the email: "Open Tech is For sale. This includes all trade secrets and brand equity. Thank you for tour time." For those who have not followed the ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/08/24/open-tech-for-sale/ I recently recieved a copy of Gridlock Economy by Michael Heller. The premise of the book is that too much ownership hurts more than it helps. The core example given in the book is that of a possible cure for cancer or Alzheimers. A drug company wants to make and test ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/08/21/gridlock-economy/ We apologize to our readers for our unplanned disruption of service. The Stylemac domain name expired under our noses and it took us a few days to be able to re-register it. We thank you all for your concern. We are back on the air. http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/08/21/an-apology/ Apple's much anticipated iPhone 2 was released in the US today. As previously reported, the phone is on a 3G network and is half the price of the original iPhone. The iPhone 2 firmware is also available to download from Apple to install on the original iPhone for via the ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/07/11/iphone-2-mobileme-launch/ We wrote about CPU architecture optimized Firefox builds before. Now with the advent of Firefox 3, new builds of Firefox for G5 and Intel processors arrived (due to legal issues they're not called Firefox but Minefield though). Normaly software is build so it runs on all kinds of different processors, so ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/06/23/firefox-g5-intel-optimized-builds-available/ Those of the more OS agnostic might agree that the package management solution for software installation is a great enhancement over traditional means of distribution. Especially when it comes down to open source software, which often needs to be compiled for the underlying hardware, package management can be a salvation ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/06/21/porticus-macports-package-manager-ui/ Neat idea. When designing something, the search for a fitting color palette is always an obligatory important first step. Sites like Adobe kuler help you here insofar as they offer the ability to share beautiful color palettes between users. Mondrianum goes one step further in that it allows to access the ... http://stylemac.onebeat.de/2008/06/21/mondrianum-add-adobe-kuler-palettes-to-your-color-inspector/