Archive for April, 2005

Hebrew in the iPod

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Spark Armada by Nir Ofir: We want Hebrew in our iPOD!
Apple does not support Hebrew in iPODs. Edo Mendelson, an Israeli developer has programmed a free application that enables using Hebrew font on the iPOD. “Yeda”, Apple disributer in Israel, doesn’t support any of the iPODs that needs technical support after using his [...]

David Pogue Likes Tiger

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac
NYTimes’ David Pogue likes 2 features of “Tiger” enough to give it the tumbs up.
On Spotlight:
But with apologies to Mac-bashers everywhere, Spotlight changes everything. Tiger is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating [...]

The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)
The stupid West Side stadium
Amen. What a waste of good space. Plenty of room to build apartments to house all the creative types (who give the city the flavor that makes it great) who are being squeezed out by the investment banker types and rent decontrolling.

Bob Mould finishes a new album

Monday, April 25th, 2005

Finished: Boblog. and he shows you pix of a gross burn on his arm, if you scroll down.

The Zoom Quilt

Monday, April 25th, 2005

The Zoom Quilt is a pretty funky flashed-based collaborative art project that consists of different scenes that loop through one another. Most have a sci-fi bent. Somewhere between a moebius strip and an Exquisite Corpse. Somewhat Escher-esque.