I agree completely. Spymac offers most of the same tricks as.Mac, for free. From the welcome email:
Your account includes:
25 MB e-mail account, yourname@spymac.com 250 MB of space to upload pictures in the Spymac Gallery 100 MB free space on Spymac Hosting with WebDAV access Free iCal Hosting (both public and private) Access to the Spymac Forums and Shoutbox Your very own Spymac Blog Access to the Spymac Auctions The ability to create your very own personal Gallery and Forum
Well, I for one have many many gigabytes available to me (on my hard drive); my mailboxes currently take up 31 MB. And I get a fair amount of email every day.
Maybe someone else will see what Google is doing and offer unlimited storage of photos and other stuff (with bandwidth limits, of course) that you can share with others.
I know who can do something like that..... you can. If you need any large amount of space at all, hosting stuff yourself can be a very viable option, if you have broadband. What I'm waiting for is someone to make a package that makes it easy to do so...
Yeah, I've heard of that happening; a friend of mine got his hosting suspended because he used something like 50.2 MB on his 50 MB webspace. How the server allowed him to post that in the first place I'm not sure...
Actually.....Mac doesn't offer a 1GB email package. The 1GB iDisk is what costs $350 (it's much more useful than 1GB of mail, still a ripoff though.).Mac's 200MB mail costs $90/year, for the curious.
Google's in trouble then. If you are referring to other browsers copying this... the impression I got is that that's what this thing is for - "Here's a better history, look, it works, now work it into your browser."
I like the graying out idea for pages that you didn't spend much time on - as long as you can turn it off (or around). On occasion I have to find a page that I just clicked by the first time.
To really guage (sp?) its usefulness TrailBlazer would have to be integrated into a normal browser, and used for an extended period of time... after which point the tester should be asked to find a specific site they visited at the beginning of the testing period. If they can find it quickly, then the concept is a success.
I wonder why they built a browser from scratch (sorta) instead of building it onto Firebird^H^H^H^Hfox or Camino or what have you. It does make it somewhat useless.
I think that's the idea - this is basically a proof of concept, which is why the browser itself is so bare. It's up to some other browser maker (Mozilla.org or Apple, probably) to make it better.
Does anyone know if the tilt function of these mice is supported by OS X? I'd consider getting one at $19.99, although I would have to sacrifice my beloved side buttons... unless they also make a 5-button tilt wheel mouse? *drool*
Actually, the inverse would be more useful for History. How often do you need to go to History to look up Fark or Slashdot? Hopefully "Never" - these sites should therefore be very small in such a window. The sites you need to go to History for are usually the sites you went to once and forgot; those, if anything, should be bigger.
I'd agree, if this weren't built using OS X Panther. This browser history map uses thumbnails (and if those thumbnails aren't resizable, they should be in the next version) and simple arrows,
From the few minutes I tested TrailBlazer with, it seems that they resize automatically when you visit more pages. There is also a "minimum" and "maximum" thumbnail size in preferences, but they don't go lower than 150. At the size I have it right now (about 10 pages), the display fits about 5x3 pages in a relatively small area. As long as the old History is also accessible, IMO this is ready to implement in a browser such as Safari.
I wonder if it would be as simple as copying some.nib files from TB into Safari? I know that iCAR adds a prefpane to iChat that adds functionality - maybe by copying some files from TrailBlazer into Safari's History window file we could already implement this? it's a long shot, but hey... I'll play with it and report back if it actually works.
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Honestly I'd forgotten about that part... but now that you mention it, I do recall "You've got mail! Kupo!" (I only rented FF9)
"Everything on Slashdot today is true" - lirpa sloof
:)
Your sig will be true tomorrow.
That's what Moogles say in every FF since they were introduced - which I think was FF4?
Although, in FF7 they were called Mogs for some reason.
Well, I for one have many many gigabytes available to me (on my hard drive); my mailboxes currently take up 31 MB. And I get a fair amount of email every day.
Maybe someone else will see what Google is doing and offer unlimited storage of photos and other stuff (with bandwidth limits, of course) that you can share with others.
I know who can do something like that..... you can. If you need any large amount of space at all, hosting stuff yourself can be a very viable option, if you have broadband. What I'm waiting for is someone to make a package that makes it easy to do so...
COUGH.
Yeah, I've heard of that happening; a friend of mine got his hosting suspended because he used something like 50.2 MB on his 50 MB webspace. How the server allowed him to post that in the first place I'm not sure...
It's not too hard to copy and paste from a binary to make it look like text.... at least i dont think it is.
Really. They should save gMail for the gnome email app.
Actually.... .Mac doesn't offer a 1GB email package. The 1GB iDisk is what costs $350 (it's much more useful than 1GB of mail, still a ripoff though.) .Mac's 200MB mail costs $90/year, for the curious.
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I wonder if the $2 for a GB takes into account that 90% of the accounts will not grow beyond the first few megabytes.
Don't kid yourself. 1GB can hold a lot of spam.... :)
"Random bluetooth devices", of course. But if I own a BT phone, I want it to see my laptop, and ask to connect to it.
The thing is when a phone I own sees someone else's laptop - I want the phone to make sure it has my permission.
Why couldn't it be Target or KMart?
...sorry, couldn't help it. :)
If they sold it at KMart, it would have to come with KDE.....
It looks like they were just testing phones with this.
If you're interested, I'd suggest running some tests yourself - find some Palms with BT, try to get some data, and see if they ask the user first.
Don't a lot of companies charge something like 10 cents per SMS? This sort of thing could get expensive.
Is it possible to lock down Nokia and that one other company's Bluetooth phones to behave like the Siemens - ask permission?
Or better yet, ask for permission when a new device is detected, and subsequent connections from that same device are automatic?
(Disclaimer - I have never used a Bluetooth phone so I may be completely talking out of my ass.)
I hear the RFID demons attacking again.
They're everywhere.....
IP issues? For caching a webpage?
Google's in trouble then.
If you are referring to other browsers copying this... the impression I got is that that's what this thing is for - "Here's a better history, look, it works, now work it into your browser."
I like the graying out idea for pages that you didn't spend much time on - as long as you can turn it off (or around). On occasion I have to find a page that I just clicked by the first time.
To really guage (sp?) its usefulness TrailBlazer would have to be integrated into a normal browser, and used for an extended period of time... after which point the tester should be asked to find a specific site they visited at the beginning of the testing period. If they can find it quickly, then the concept is a success.
I wonder why they built a browser from scratch (sorta) instead of building it onto Firebird^H^H^H^Hfox or Camino or what have you. It does make it somewhat useless.
I think that's the idea - this is basically a proof of concept, which is why the browser itself is so bare. It's up to some other browser maker (Mozilla.org or Apple, probably) to make it better.
Scratch that, found it. linky
Does anyone know if the tilt function of these mice is supported by OS X? I'd consider getting one at $19.99, although I would have to sacrifice my beloved side buttons... unless they also make a 5-button tilt wheel mouse? *drool*
Actually, the inverse would be more useful for History. How often do you need to go to History to look up Fark or Slashdot? Hopefully "Never" - these sites should therefore be very small in such a window.
The sites you need to go to History for are usually the sites you went to once and forgot; those, if anything, should be bigger.
I'd agree, if this weren't built using OS X Panther. This browser history map uses thumbnails (and if those thumbnails aren't resizable, they should be in the next version) and simple arrows,
.nib files from TB into Safari? I know that iCAR adds a prefpane to iChat that adds functionality - maybe by copying some files from TrailBlazer into Safari's History window file we could already implement this? it's a long shot, but hey... I'll play with it and report back if it actually works.
From the few minutes I tested TrailBlazer with, it seems that they resize automatically when you visit more pages. There is also a "minimum" and "maximum" thumbnail size in preferences, but they don't go lower than 150. At the size I have it right now (about 10 pages), the display fits about 5x3 pages in a relatively small area. As long as the old History is also accessible, IMO this is ready to implement in a browser such as Safari.
I wonder if it would be as simple as copying some
I did that and I don't see the menu option.... but I don't especially care, so thats ok :)