Well, I can solve one of them for you, without hacking the Touch.
Have a look at FileMark Maker. It is an app that that runs on the Mac and lets you sync and store any.doc,.xls,.rtf,.txt,.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif,.pdf, or.html on the Touch (or iPhone) for offline viewing via Safari. It seems to encode the document actually into the bookmark datastream, which seems a bit hackish - but it works.
It's a joy to use on my Touch, and I've tried it with a 100 page PDF. However long filenames screw up the bookmark display seem to be a bit of a problem, so trim them down a bit before syncing.
I'm just surprised that more people don't seem to know about this app.
I suspect (but really hope it doesn't) come to pass that Apple arranges things so that the only legitimate way to get apps on to the iPhone/Touch is through the iTunes store. It would gel with the way that they have done things in the past with iPod games and would give Apple the power over what was considered a safe, legitimate app. e.g No Skype for you.
The linked page seems to miss out the rather nice, free . Worth a look.
I used logo a lot when I was in my early teens. There was a very very nice implementation for the ZX Spectrum (stop laughing at the back). Not only did it let me have fun with recursion and drawing fractal images, it also had the LISP syntax in full. I probably had more fun extending the language with new commands and writing a pretty decent Eliza program, than I did with the Turtle stuff.
Yours is a intelligent, compassionate and humane response. Mine was selfish and shortsighted. I'm still not sure I'd be able to rise to the standards you set if I ever actually suspected I was in the early stages of dimensia.
I wonder why [some] westerners always come up with their pet projects and think these projects will solve third world problems.
Because said Westerner knows that he can have little impact on international trade policy, but does have a potentially nifty, cheap approach to micro-generation? Don't let me stop you from looking that gift-horse in the mouth though.
Easy. Just ask the student for their graduation date, If the app hasn't reported by then, either terminate or send an e-mail asking if the results are going to form part of their post graduate studies.
Ah, now there you have me. I haven't used newsgroups for a while, and nowadays use the Google interface when I do. However here's a pretty comprehensive list of news readers for OS X. Maybe something will fit the bill.
Every mesh network I've seen employs at least one backhaul to enable Internet connectivity. Now, unless you believe that there will be a wealth of intra-mesh communication that the spooks will want to see, the backhaul is where they will tap.
If the spooks want to monitor IP traffic, they'll just stick a probe or two in at Telehouse or any of the large Colo/Interconnection points or wherever. This project gets the spooks precisely nothing as far as I can see.
I suspect someone's brain probably struggled attempting to parse "Archers Omnibus". As a Brit and a professional writer, I have to say I found the opening few paragraphs needlessly circumlocutory and irksome to read too.
Whether Nokia itself is open, is neither here nor there. The move is good news, IMHO for one reason - it is turning the question of lock-in into a commercial/marketing issue. It's competitors going after it in advertisements for undue lock in and lock-down is going to be more influential than any discussion-board griping. It may drive Apple to revisit the SDK issue off its own bat, but just as important it may provide Apple with valuable ammunition in discussions with AT&T over the degree of control necessary in terms of allowing 3rd party apps.
Oooo - someone's been listening to the music marketing men haven't they? In most cases, a song is a complete work, an album is an arbitrary collection of songs. Yes, there are exceptions. But not as many as you suggest.
Exactly. I'm not too surprised by the news actually. Tiger was the first 10.x release that actually feels slower than its predecessors. Until then each revision gave you a nice speed bump. So Tiger did not go on my wife's G3 iBook, that stayed on Panther. My old 800MHz G4 anglepoise ran fine with Tiger but it wasn't exactly snappy. And then its motherboard went boom two months ago. So now I'm on an Intel Mac.
As an Apple fan, actually it has. What you had before with the Mac was a hardware-OS appliance onto which you were completely free to install whatever applications and utilities you liked. There was no intentional crippling at the application layer. It was *your* device to with as you would.
Today with the iPhone you have a device that "runs OS X" and yet is intentionally crippled to stop you doing what you want with it. I can forgive the earlier lock-in on iPods; they were very limited devices in terms of hardware and OS. Not so the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Well, I can solve one of them for you, without hacking the Touch.
.doc, .xls, .rtf, .txt, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .pdf, or .html on the Touch (or iPhone) for offline viewing via Safari. It seems to encode the document actually into the bookmark datastream, which seems a bit hackish - but it works.
Have a look at FileMark Maker. It is an app that that runs on the Mac and lets you sync and store any
It's a joy to use on my Touch, and I've tried it with a 100 page PDF. However long filenames screw up the bookmark display seem to be a bit of a problem, so trim them down a bit before syncing.
I'm just surprised that more people don't seem to know about this app.
I suspect (but really hope it doesn't) come to pass that Apple arranges things so that the only legitimate way to get apps on to the iPhone/Touch is through the iTunes store. It would gel with the way that they have done things in the past with iPod games and would give Apple the power over what was considered a safe, legitimate app. e.g No Skype for you.
The linked page seems to miss out the rather nice, free . Worth a look.
I used logo a lot when I was in my early teens. There was a very very nice implementation for the ZX Spectrum (stop laughing at the back). Not only did it let me have fun with recursion and drawing fractal images, it also had the LISP syntax in full. I probably had more fun extending the language with new commands and writing a pretty decent Eliza program, than I did with the Turtle stuff.
Yours is a intelligent, compassionate and humane response. Mine was selfish and shortsighted. I'm still not sure I'd be able to rise to the standards you set if I ever actually suspected I was in the early stages of dimensia.
I'm not sure I really want to know, given that there is nothing I can realistically do to avoid a rather grim fate.
Because said Westerner knows that he can have little impact on international trade policy, but does have a potentially nifty, cheap approach to micro-generation? Don't let me stop you from looking that gift-horse in the mouth though.
A Deal will happen, but there is nothing to say that Oracle will be the eventual purchaser.
Easy. Just ask the student for their graduation date, If the app hasn't reported by then, either terminate or send an e-mail asking if the results are going to form part of their post graduate studies.
... the words "in part" in the summary, suggesting that actually possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook is not terrorism.
Ah, now there you have me. I haven't used newsgroups for a while, and nowadays use the Google interface when I do. However here's a pretty comprehensive list of news readers for OS X. Maybe something will fit the bill.
Precisely. Unfortunately for Ballmer, if he had said 'analyse' or 'parse' it wouldn't sound nearly as sexy as 'read'.
I converted from Thunderbird on the Mac to Mail.app on the Mac and never looked back. Give it a shot if you haven't already...
Every mesh network I've seen employs at least one backhaul to enable Internet connectivity. Now, unless you believe that there will be a wealth of intra-mesh communication that the spooks will want to see, the backhaul is where they will tap.
If the spooks want to monitor IP traffic, they'll just stick a probe or two in at Telehouse or any of the large Colo/Interconnection points or wherever. This project gets the spooks precisely nothing as far as I can see.
I suspect someone's brain probably struggled attempting to parse "Archers Omnibus". As a Brit and a professional writer, I have to say I found the opening few paragraphs needlessly circumlocutory and irksome to read too.
Whether Nokia itself is open, is neither here nor there. The move is good news, IMHO for one reason - it is turning the question of lock-in into a commercial/marketing issue. It's competitors going after it in advertisements for undue lock in and lock-down is going to be more influential than any discussion-board griping. It may drive Apple to revisit the SDK issue off its own bat, but just as important it may provide Apple with valuable ammunition in discussions with AT&T over the degree of control necessary in terms of allowing 3rd party apps.
I read Private Eye most weeks. There are few occurrences of "allegedly".
I also have to tell you that The Eye's record in winning litigation is pretty poor.
Oooo - someone's been listening to the music marketing men haven't they? In most cases, a song is a complete work, an album is an arbitrary collection of songs. Yes, there are exceptions. But not as many as you suggest.
While amusing, putting "alledgedly" on the end of something really doesn't protect you. Anything that was actualy libellous would still be prosecuted.
One is a method of distributing software, the other is an ideology.
Exactly. I'm not too surprised by the news actually. Tiger was the first 10.x release that actually feels slower than its predecessors. Until then each revision gave you a nice speed bump. So Tiger did not go on my wife's G3 iBook, that stayed on Panther. My old 800MHz G4 anglepoise ran fine with Tiger but it wasn't exactly snappy. And then its motherboard went boom two months ago. So now I'm on an Intel Mac.
As an Apple fan, actually it has. What you had before with the Mac was a hardware-OS appliance onto which you were completely free to install whatever applications and utilities you liked. There was no intentional crippling at the application layer. It was *your* device to with as you would.
Today with the iPhone you have a device that "runs OS X" and yet is intentionally crippled to stop you doing what you want with it. I can forgive the earlier lock-in on iPods; they were very limited devices in terms of hardware and OS. Not so the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Exactly my strategy. I have Acrobat reader installed but use it about once every two years. The rest of the time I use OS X Preview.
It's OK for you. I got as far as the first two sentences and my brain shutdown with an "unrecoverable non sequitur" error
If he's a manager at PC World, I find it very unlikely that he would have an e-mail address, or know how to connect to it if it existed.