bump

space age madness

Space Age Madness
About / Blog / Kungfumaster
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2022 · Log in

You are here: Home / Archives for Apple

NorthWestern Vacation

September 29, 1998 By Robert Occhialini

What a great vacation. I want to write up everything that we did, where we stayed, ate, and played. I will attempt to get to this project as soon as possible.

I really enjoyed every one of the four cities we visited(Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, Vancouver B.C., and Victoria B.C.) Each has its own charm.

The best thing I took away from this vacation was perspective. The eleven days I went without touching any computer equipment realy paid off. It is a really positive thing to get away from the central things in your life for a while. I appreciate things more now than I ever have. I enjoy my job, the people in my life, and I realize how lucky I have been every day of my life.

I am now starting to settle back in. There’s work to be done.(A lot) Also laundry, car repairs and cleaning. I will be up against it this whole week.

Mark McGuire ends up with 70 home runs. Incredible.

My very smart cousin Jim Occhialini is getting married in two weeks. I am traveling to the wedding in Hershey Pennsylvania in two weeks. It will be the first time in years that I will see many of my more distant family members.

I’m a big Yankees fan and enjoying the game currently. Baseball has returned as a part of my life. I didn’t leave as a fan because of the strike or anything, just other interests took the time I devoted to it.

Well I will probably be doing a lot of updating this week so check back often. I hope that I didn’t lose too many of you because of my absence.

Netscape’s Web client has very quietly become very stable in 1998. I know that, one year ago, I complained about stability all the time. I have been using their Preview Release 2 for a few weeks without any major issues.

I have been using Apple’s new MacOS 8.5. I have to say that, if the beta’s are any indication, they continue to take steps in the right direction. It is faster by far, easier to use, incorporates Internet terchnology, and the new implementation of AppleScipt is a screamer. It also looks like Mac User’s will finally have a decent Java implementation to work with.

My playing with Macromedia Fireworks continues. I have a really strong grip on using it now. I think I will move onto another piece of software soon. I am way behind my informal schedule of technologies that I wanted to master in 1998. I can’t believe that it’s already almost October.

Filed Under: Apple, Old, Sports

Emailer Dead

September 4, 1998 By Robert Occhialini

Dreamweaver now has its own Frontier suite as a hook into Frontier authoring. This is getting more exciting by the day.

Iconfactory has some limited edition Batman icons that will only be up for a couple of days.

Mark McGuire needs three home runs in 23 games.

A news item on today’s Macintouch talks about the fact that Emailer, my email client of choice, is dead. It goes on to say that Emailer is not fully compatible with the soon to be released Mac OS 8.5 . I’m really pissed about this. I have 3 years worth of email in Emailer.

On a similar note, Bare Bones released the 1.1 patch for Mailsmith , another email client. It makes it faster, and adds some great features, but I still like the previously mentioned Emailer better.

This type of behavior is too typical of software companies these days. I live in a constant state of concern that I am investing time and money in software products that are doomed.

Filed Under: Apple, Old

In the Valley of Caffeine

December 5, 1997 By Robert Occhialini

After burning the midnight oil arguing interface philosophy with my cat, I am on the coffee horse and typing like a crazed fanatic.

QuickTime 3.0 beta(This link is to Apple’s Preview Page) is pretty interesting. For a long time I’ve felt that the best minds at Apple were on QuickTime development, and they continue to prove me correct. I will definitely be doing my first software review for this site on it, so check back.

Some other QuickTime 3.0 resources:

Get QuickTime 3.0 Preview Software
  • QuickTime 3 looking good
    A good review by MacWEEK, maybe I don’t need to review it.
  • Developers eager to tap power of QuickTime 3.0
    Pretty much a response piece…I would pass on this if you are pressed for time.
  • Featured as a Cool Tool of the Day
  • Download it from here

I also meant to mention GUI Junky, an interface hacking site that looks like it might pick up where MacOver faded…

I will begin porting all of my pages at work over to a new server this weekend. If anyone has any suggestions on moving from UNIX to Windows NT(Netscape Enterprise 3) feel free to drop me a line. I will post any experiences I have to share. 

Filed Under: Apple, Old

Designer’s Studio 1.1

November 17, 1997 By Robert Occhialini

I am an interface addict. That is to say that I can spend hours of precious productivity deciding how I want my desktop to look. I hoard Kaleidoscope schemes on zip cartridges desperately seeking desktop nirvana.

Designer’s Studio 1.1 is the first step towards giving the power to the people. No arcane resource editing by candlelight here. Check it out.

Once again I stay awake bleary eyed and ready to collapse. As if working a ten hour day is not enough.

Filed Under: Apple, Old

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7