The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's Audblog
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Requiem for a Machine - The season's hot gadget proves that PDAs are obsolete. By Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin on the Treo 600 as the deathnell for straight-up PDAs...
"To be clear, this is a phone that contains everything you used to buy a PDA for: Palm operating system, a QWERTY keyboard, a bright color screen, digital camera, Web browser, video and MP3 players, instant messaging, desktop-sync software, and more. But the important thing is that it has the form of a phone, not just the function."Just when I get an iPod and am about to go with Verizon's only camera phone, the LG VX6000, this news comes along. If it worked with Verizon, I'd be on it.
[Update...] Looks like Verizon added another camera phone to the mix...Audiovox CDM8900. Decisions.
Wired 12.01: The 100-Megabit Guitar
Greg Milner writes about Henry Juszkiewicz, the owner of Gibson guitar and developer of a digital data transport technology called Magic, Wired 12.01: The 100-Megabit Guitar:
"Open standard or not, Magic is still one man trying to convince everyone else that he has the answer. 'Digital transmission is the future, but I don't know which system will ultimately be the future,' says Barani Subbiah of NetworkSound. Juszkiewicz may go down in history as the wack-job who took Gibson too far down the digital road, but his stubborn determination may at least give the world its first classic digital guitar. "Moving that digital world forward, one power-chord at a time. [Link thanks to Dave]
ONJava.com: Sliding into WebDAV [Dec. 23, 2003]
ONJava.com: Sliding into WebDAV [Dec. 23, 2003]:
"Apache's Jakarta project offers all kinds of great open source resources to Java developers. One of Jakarta's less well-known but extremely useful subprojects is Slide. Slide is composed of a number of different modules, all tied together using the WebDAV protocol. These modules include implementations of a number of useful features such as a WebDAV client library, a WebDAV server library, and a WebDAV-based content management system. Among other uses, these modules give developers the ability to add WebDAV client functionality to their Java applications."
Keeping up on this HTML-based file transfer protocol which will eventually replace FTP, at least for 'embedding' file transfer / content management tasks (file copy, update, check-out, etc.) into web-smart applications.
