It'd be easy enough to side-step... just use a progressive image format, stop downloading when you have enough detail... for added niftiness, put a table in the header of dpi->length mappings, so you know when you're done without having to watch the data.
I dunno what PDA you're using, but all the appointments on my Palm and on OS X, and I assume everywhere else allow setting both a time, and an alarm some time relative to the start of the appointment... so, your watch could say '10 minutes till Monday Meeting', or whatever when the alarm rang...
For setting alarms, my PDA is _way_ easier to schedule an alarm on than my watch... I'd be surprised if it was any different... easier still is to type an appointment on my laptop, and sync it over...
I keep thinking that it would be nice to have a wearable computer setup with, say, a laptop in your backpack that displays on your watch, and on a small pda-sized display, etc.
This device could allow for doing something along the lines of dynamically advancing alarms depending on how far away you are from your appointment, but getting that sort of thing right would be involved.
"x" closes the window, just like it does on windows, most apps don't close when you close the last window, though. It makes sense to do this, because you still have access to the apps from the dock, even though there are no more windows left. I don't know if this is new behaviour, I've only really used OS X.
There used to be the apple menu, which did what you are after, but some bright spark decided that the dock would serve as a worthy replacement, and apparently no amount of whining^Wrequests by the users seems to be able to convince apple to put it back.
There's quite a few apple menu replacements available, off the top of my head, I can only recall FruitMenu, however. For a better solution, go google for LaunchBar or perhaps Quicksilver, although spotlight on its own would probably serve well enough already.
The anti-aliasing that gets done on my iBook looks just fine to me, with Tiger, it claims to set anti-aliasing to be appropriate for whatever the main display is, I haven't tested it 'cause there aren't any CRT monitors in the house anymore. There's a setting in one of the control panels for setting the cutoff point for anti-aliasing as well.
I don't know about America, but here in the land of downunder, you can get shirts with two little penguins as the logo. This is in fact the logo for the company that makes said shirts. I assume that they're still being made, seeing that I haven't seen them advertised heavily on TV recently, nor have I checked in a clothes store recently.
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It'd be easy enough to side-step... just use a progressive image format, stop downloading when you have enough detail... for added niftiness, put a table in the header of dpi->length mappings, so you know when you're done without having to watch the data.
I dunno what PDA you're using, but all the appointments on my Palm and on OS X, and I assume everywhere else allow setting both a time, and an alarm some time relative to the start of the appointment... so, your watch could say '10 minutes till Monday Meeting', or whatever when the alarm rang...
For setting alarms, my PDA is _way_ easier to schedule an alarm on than my watch... I'd be surprised if it was any different... easier still is to type an appointment on my laptop, and sync it over...
I keep thinking that it would be nice to have a wearable computer setup with, say, a laptop in your backpack that displays on your watch, and on a small pda-sized display, etc.
This device could allow for doing something along the lines of dynamically advancing alarms depending on how far away you are from your appointment, but getting that sort of thing right would be involved.
"x" closes the window, just like it does on windows, most apps don't close when you close the last window, though. It makes sense to do this, because you still have access to the apps from the dock, even though there are no more windows left. I don't know if this is new behaviour, I've only really used OS X.
There used to be the apple menu, which did what you are after, but some bright spark decided that the dock would serve as a worthy replacement, and apparently no amount of whining^Wrequests by the users seems to be able to convince apple to put it back.
There's quite a few apple menu replacements available, off the top of my head, I can only recall FruitMenu, however. For a better solution, go google for LaunchBar or perhaps Quicksilver, although spotlight on its own would probably serve well enough already.
The anti-aliasing that gets done on my iBook looks just fine to me, with Tiger, it claims to set anti-aliasing to be appropriate for whatever the main display is, I haven't tested it 'cause there aren't any CRT monitors in the house anymore. There's a setting in one of the control panels for setting the cutoff point for anti-aliasing as well.
As computers run off rectified and filtered {2[245]0,110}(*sqrt(2))V DC internally... would it not be just as good to feed them straight DC instead?
I don't know about America, but here in the land of downunder, you can get shirts with two little penguins as the logo. This is in fact the logo for the company that makes said shirts. I assume that they're still being made, seeing that I haven't seen them advertised heavily on TV recently, nor have I checked in a clothes store recently.