I came across an interesting blog site by TJ Hanton ::: http://tj.hanton.net
Wire-free Electric Power technology
Mobile wise have developed a wireless electric power technology that allows devices such as monitors, palms, laptops, etc. recharge without the use of power cables. It is quite an interesting way of providing power to devices, and brings up interesting ideas on how devices might be powered in the future. ::: www.mobilewise.com
Dave Hyatt's Surfin Safari weblog
Dave Hyatt’s “Surfin Safari” weblog website ::: www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/
A new version of Movable Type is released
Movable Type 2.6 is released ::: www.movabletype.org
With it comes a wealth of new features including new Text Formatting options, support for Creative Commons Licenses, new category features, the built in Sanitize plugin by Brad Choate, for cleaning up visitor-submitted data, a new <MTLink> tag, enhanced options for comments, support for the metaWeblog.newMediaObject XML-RPC method & RSD and finally new database drivers for PostgreSQL and SQLite. More can be found here: www.movabletype.org/docs/mt26.html and www.movabletype.org/docs/mtchanges.html
In addition, Ben and Mena Trott (the authors of Movable Type) are releasing a Pro version with enhanced features from their company, Six Apart. ::: www.sixapart.com/press/six_apart_annou.shtml.
Web Usability for Senior Citizens (65+)
A new Nielsen Norman Group report comments on Web Usability for Senior Citizens. It covers 46 design guidelines based on usability studies with people aged 65 and older. Well worth the read ::: www.nngroup.com/reports/seniors/
The Mobile Content Consortium (MCC) website
The new Mobile Content Consortium website is a group of leading mobile content developers, authors, engineers and designers promoting a higher standard of user experience, content and application design and development for mobile platforms. ::: www.mobilecontent.org
Running Coldfusion MX in OS X
A useful 4 part series in O’Reilly DevCenter on running Coldfusion MX in OS X ::: www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/21/coldfusion_one.html
The PHP Builder website
Another useful PHP resources site – PHP Builder ::: www.phpbuilder.com
Managing content with PHP
A useful AListApart article on Managing content with PHP ::: www.alistapart.com/stories/phpcms/
A new MT Plug-ins website
The Movable Type plug-ins page now have a new home dedicated especially to the development, documentation and resources of MT plug-ins. ::: http://mt-plugins.org
Aussie Aussie Aussie – Australia 3 England 1
Woo hoo we beat England at home in the soccer 3-1!!! ::: http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,5977974-23209,00.html
The demand for better rechargeable-battery technology
An interesting article in Technology Review on the new demanding necessities of portable power, particularly as we embark on a world of wireless devices and portable technology.
With our society largely becoming more populated by Laptop and portable computers, their faster speeds and powerful processors, brighter displays are demanding more and more electrical power. The article comments that “experts say current rechargeable-battery technology hasn’t progressed at the same pace as these other portable technologies, leaving a so-called power gap.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/3001_1122003_3.asp
Update: Technology Review Mag’s articles and section on Better Batteries
Megnut the personal site of Meg Hourihan
Megnut is the personal site of Meg Hourihan the co-founder of Pyra and was co-creator and Director of Development of Blogger until February 2001. http://www.megnut.com
Mobility Matters: Application Design for a Wireless World
An interesting article I came across while reading Klynch.com titled “Mobility Matters: Application Design for a Wireless World” By Chris S. Thomas, Intel e-Strategist.
The article comments on how today’s software is not designed with the mobile user in mind.
ArtsJournal.com – Daily Digest of Arts, Culture and Ideas
ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. It is a great read. ::: http://www.artsjournal.com/