Apple is sometimes strange too ...
... because you no longer change the standard web browser in the system settings, but in the settings of Safari, I find that quite wild.
Archive 26. May 2005
Delicious Library - yep, it works! Awesome.
Injunction against Google's Mail Service
This absurd ridiculousness and rip-off is taking on increasingly grotesque proportions - as usual in the field of trademark law, it's enough to find a sufficiently strange judge and you can push through any nonsense. Of course, Google is a big company and the other one is a small outfit. But just take a look at the dates of the registration and the allegedly so endangered offer of the small outfit ...
Google is pretty indifferent to me - and they can probably afford the payment that will eventually be due - but this whole nonsense that arises from ridiculous trademark similarities and constructed trademark endangerments is just a form of occupational therapy and alimony for lawyers and nothing else.
But at least Google is now feeling the effects and not the - even in comparison to the small outfit still weaker - users of Google Mail. I still find it disgusting though.
Addendum: there is an interesting history of the development of word marks at Telepolis.
Another addendum: there is a more detailed report about it in the Netzzeitung. What I find particularly cute: the trademark owner claims that he only wants to be left alone. Of course, that's why he has warned a large number of users who have auctioned Google Mail invites on eBay. Typical action of someone who just wants their peace.
Sick Software ...
... is what Epson writes for the scanners under OS X. When you start the software, at some point - after the software has been successfully loaded - a message appears that it cannot be started. Of course, it works perfectly. And if you leave the software running and do nothing, the CPU load is enormous - always around 80% of the CPU is consumed by the waiting software. But if you then initiate a scan, i.e., the software actually does something, the load drops to 10%.
What kind of idiots does Epson actually employ in programming?
Lower Saxony government weakens the influence of the data protection officer
In Lower Saxony, the goats will soon be gardening. It's certainly more convenient that way, especially these public reports and political proposals from the data protection officer, they are really annoying ...
Another Tiger Loss?
My Photoshop 7 no longer opens the file open dialog - it would rather crash. The file browser works, directly opening files also works, but File Open does not - crash. Strange - has anyone else been able to observe this? I have already reinstalled Photoshop, but it didn't help.
More on Spotlight
I need to urgently deal with the indexing issue, whether you can also include remote indexes or an indexer that indexes a database over the Internet. I would like to have my collected postings from my WordPress blog in my Spotlight index. That would be much more practical than opening a browser extra and searching here. And since I use this as a link dump and note blog anyway, I would finally be able to find the things I wanted to remember.
Performance of the Tiger
I was asked yesterday if I notice any difference in performance: yes and no. Yes, because all the display stuff is noticeably faster - especially browsers get their content displayed much quicker. There is a significant improvement here.
No, because the nice - yet useful - features like Spotlight and FileVault (which weren't available in Jaguar) also consume some of the system performance. Especially more intensive memory operations in my home directory are affected. On the other hand, the features are really useful, so I'm happy to pay the performance price.
So overall, the display is faster and the rest is not slower. Considering that I'm two major releases ahead on the same hardware as before (867 Mhz 12" PowerBook with 640 MB memory), this is a good result. The leap over two Windows versions certainly requires more frequent hardware upgrades to remain enjoyable.
Shoebox looks quite nice - a quite clever photo management with similar organization options through categorization as iView offers. I liked the quite high speed while playing around. However, I have already bought much more photo management tools than I can use, so I am practicing self-restraint here.
Spotlight support in VoodooPad
Just found in the VoodooPad bug database: version 2.1 will support Spotlight. Very good - I'm stuffing quite a bit of junk into my VoodooPad. And then I might actually be able to find it again.