SteamSHIFT

TOOOOO Good! Microsoft instant messaging VIA iChat! Won’t go into the how, this is just a heads-up - it can do it; and it works AOK!

I don’t know about you, but I have found that I use Keychain a huge amount. I use it to store passwords (obviously), notes (using the secure notes feature), and serial numbers (again secure notes). In Tiger, Apple have really made the whole application a lot more user friendly with separate panes in the window for different keychains, and for keychain item categories. The latter of these is the real usability bonus, allowing you to see just notes, just internet password, just application passwords and so on. Now all of this functionality might have been there in the Panther version but it certainly wasn’t well laid out.

Finally it’s worth pointing out that with the Quicksilver Keychain plugin, all of the keychain items are available instantly from within QS - very handy for when Safari forgets that it has a password stored!

All in all a nice improvement!

Hey Google, Map This!: “Inventive web developers are taking Google’s online map service to a new level, layering in house sales and apartment rentals, real-time traffic stats and Flickr (tdf) photo tags. By Daniel Terdiman.”

(Via Wired News.)

Golan Levin keynote at Cybersonica: “As promised, here’s my notes on the talk Golan Levin gave during the Cybersonica festival.

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Movie of “Wooden Mirror”

Stunningly beautiful and utterly fascinating. Really worth a look!

Why has it taken so long to create something so necessary that actually LOOKS HALF DECENT?????!!!!

Architectural Devices: Smoke Detector
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A few intros to sites about Locative Media that I’ve been collecting on the way; I must admit that as a subject it isn’t grabbing me the same way that some of the other fields in ubiquitous computing are but it’s always useful to keep a rounded view!

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34 NORTH 118 WEST: “focusing on site specfiic experimental works utilizing digital media, computation, and internet resources”

Knock! Knock! Ubiquitous.: “Commercial Ubiquitous Computing”

Design without Reach