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The Post Finder World

   Wired magazine has an article on the evolution of the Macintosh interface and how "Spotlight" will slowly replace the "Finder" http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67774,00.html

Key drivers are

+ more data (to begin  with)
+ more file (data, object) management inside the application (iTunes, iPhoto, MacJournal)
+ faster search engine
+ collapse of hierarchical world view
+ emergence of google mind set

Abby Christopher and Mike Faden, Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders, Wired News, 02:00 AM Jun. 09, 2005 PT
   
Spotted by K C.

Torque Game Engine SDK

Torque is a cross-platform gaming engine with award-winning multi-player network code, seamless indoor/outdoor rendering engines, state of the art skeletal animation, drag-and-drop GUI creation, a built-in world editor, and a C-like scripting language.


http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/torquegameenginesdk.html

eat toxic waste; power my cd player

   bacteria turn waste into electricity at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8134308

Spotted by CJ.

Specs on MacTel Madhines

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506intelxbench.html

"Individuals attending Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference have submitted Xbench benchmark results from Apple's Pentium 4-based Power Mac systems. The benchmarks do not reflect native performance of the 3.6GHz systems, however, but rather provide an indication of how PowerPC-compiled applications will run under Rosetta on Intel-based systems."

I'm looking forward to the performance matrix for

+ Intel/Windows XP
+ Intel/Linux
+ Intel/OS X
+ PowerPC/OS X

And especially for how this will play out in the scientific computing spheres of bioinformatics, computation science, etc.

Spotted by KC.

Ars Technica on MacTel.

KC sent this link to a fairly reflectful article on Apple's planned transition from PowerPC to Intel architecture -

http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050607.ars .

Key elements

+ Steve Job's disappointment in not seeing a G5 chip for the PowerBook line
+ IBM's lack of interest
+ Microsoft has to pay close attention
+ Really, only Geeks care

Missing elements are

+ is the "PC" relevant anymore ? (Is the net the computer? Is google the operating system ?)
+ is the "Mac" relevant anymore ? (Isn't the iPod the next generation computer for the "rest" of us?)
+ ?

Towards the infoWall

One computer, four displays

http://engadget.com/entry/1234000107045919/ shows a nice notebook based "infowall".