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This morning I woke up with a chat message from my friend, Jung Jun Hwan from South Korea.
Jung is an editor at South Korea's most popular Mac publication: MacMadang.
I don't speak Korean and he doesn't speak Japanese but he had taught me how we can communicate through machine translation. I have been contributing some articles for their publications but they seem to have been using machine translation for them, too ;-)
Anyway, this morning he had two big news:
1. Web conference
Gen Kanai has recently visited South Korea and wrote a blog post reporting about the skewed web sphere there:
The Cost of Monoculture
There has been some opposition to his claim, but some Korean people took this seriously and they seem to have held a conference discussing the issue. I don't know how this would affect the reality there, but I suppose this is a good start.
If you read Korean, the conference is reported here:
워크샵 발표 자료 및 패널 토의
If you want to read it in Japanese, the machine translation is here:
ワークショップ発表資料およびパネル討議
2.Keynote template
if you use Mac and Keynote, this might be a good news for you, too. MacMadang has recently held a Keynote template conference and they are releasing the winner templates under Creative Commons's "
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs" license.
The Korean article is here:Mac UCC Contest - Keynote 테마 응모작 공개
and its machine translation is here:
Mac UCC Contest - Keynoteテーマ応募作公開
My chat with Chris Stone @ O'Reilly is now on the web.
We talked about how Mac and iPods are percieved in Japan, etc.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/13/a-chat-with-nobi.html
It's been said that Apple TV is running on Mac OS X.
A Japanese web news service, ascii.jp/mac took out the internal HD from AppleTV connect it to a Mac and found it is actually running on "AppleTV OS v10.4.7"; the version number suggest that it is a variation of Mac OS X "Tiger"
The article also tries to boot Mac wth that OS and vice versa but both attempts end in vain.
You can read the article here (in Japanese):
Page 1
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/024/24797/index.html
Page 2
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/024/24797/index-2.html
Page 3
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/024/24797/index-3.html
perhaps, it is easier if you use such serives as babelfish to translate it.
James Brown has passed at age of 73.
It is so sad to see him go.
So many of us loved the way he shouts (and sings), the way he dances and the way he performs his ownself in so many memorable films.
http://technorati.com/search/James+Brown
Perhaps, most of us have believed he would never die.
Perhaps, some of us have even believed the BMW shortfilm was for real.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k-cbiYzlHOk
(I really wish that BMW will publish this film again in hi-rez QuickTime movie format).
Thnak you so much J.B.
You really were the godfather of soul.
Rest in peace!
A Letter to Customers from Gil Amelio
December 20, 1996
Dear Apple customers:
The next chapter in Apple's history begins today.
As you may have already heard, today we acquired NeXT Software Inc. As a result, we are merging the businesses of Apple and NeXT into one operation, owned and managed by Apple. This means that, in a moment, we move to the center of the industry's developments and debates. It means we greatly strengthen our Internet, Enterprise, and software propositions. And it means we complete our commitment to deliver a truly modern operating system to our customers.
It also means that our co-founder Steven P. Jobs, will rejoin Apple, reporting to me. I know I speak for everyone at Apple in welcoming Steve home.
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Yep Gil, it certainly was a new chapter for Apple.
And they have added about a few more chapters since then.
Maybe next year would be the biggest chapter of all.
Happy Holidays!
My good friend, drikin (short name for draft king) has released "Dorio: the SkypeAgent"
Drikin is a very talented engineer working for a 'famous' Japanes ecompany; beside his work at the office, he has been working on the Japanese localization of Freemind. He is also the creator of "Spirited Away."
He is a very talented programmer but he also has a very good instinct about what's cool and what's not.
One such example is the use of Skype's text chat feature.
It doesn't look as nice as iChat but it has one cool feature: you can throw a message to someone even if s/he is offline.
When that person gets online, s/he will receive the message.
If you are chatting with more than three people the log will be automatically supplemented.
That's how many people around me have migrated to Skype.
Just recently Google Talk has announced similar feature, but with Dorio, Skype chat has gone a few step further.
If you know the jargon, dorio is a 'bot' for your Skype chat which let developers write a simple plug-in.
Drikin has provieded a few plugin, but NotifyMail is the best plugin to be used with it.
It will detects keyword and forward the conversation (after the keyword) to any e-mail addresses; you can specify two addresses, so I send one to my mac.com address and the other to cell phone.
What's so cool about this is, if someone is calling me in my absence I can still read what that person is saying on my phone. Some IRC client has this feature but Skype chat was missing it. But now Dorio has fullfilled the gap.
Also available are:
-- "URLlogger" which logs every URL in your conversations.
--"dorio-- the plugin" -- which would add commenst to what you'd say (in Japanese)
-- "TiddlyLog" -- which would log your conversation in HTML with style sheet
-- "Search Command" plugin -- which would display the URL for Search engine result page for specified keywords
If you use Skype chat on a Mac, this is a MUST-HAVE extension.
If you use Skype chat on a Windows, this is another reason for you to get a Mac; you can now run windows on it ;-)
If you use Mac but don't use Skype chat, maybe you should give it a shot.
For now, the documentation for "Dorio" is available in Japanese only. We are looking for your help to do the manual globalization!
The Japanese version of this article can be found here:この記事の日本語版
If you think the new MacBook Pro is all about Intel Core 2 Duo, you are missing a big point.
There is a very tiny but astonishing differences between the new MacBook Pro and the previous one.
See this picture for a few second and see if you can find it:
Those owners of the previous MacBook Pro should notice a tiny dot is missing from the new MacBook Pro.
Yes, with the previous MacBook Pro, there was a dot right next to the iSight built-in camera.
The dot turned into green light when you turn ON your iSight, to tell the camera has been activated.
So does this missing dot means the new MacBook Pro won't tell if the camera is working?
NO.
Here comes the amazing part.
See this picture. Apple DID THE IMPOSSIBLE 'AGAIN':
With the new MacBook Pro, the green light will illuminate from within the aluminum bezel!
You will have to go to Apple Retail Store and see it with your eyes.
But it is a REALLY AMAZING design feature of the new MBP.
You may think there must be tiny holes around that area.
Well, maybe ....
But even if so, the holes are too small to recognize.
When the light is off, you won't be able to tell.
It may be a tiny detail, but Apple is one of the few company who would make things better even at this level.
recorded at my parents
世の中＆Mac業界の動きに関係なくパリに到着。
アムスからの飛行機はAir Franceとのコードシェア便。
ドリンクサービスで、The au lait（ミルクティー）を頼んだら、私だけ（塩っぱい）スナックの代わりに、クッキーをくれました。
気が利いている。
CDGからは、Roissy busでパリ市入り。
今年も６区に泊まります。
フランスSVM Macの編集長、Laurentは、ロンドンにSpecial Eventの中継を見に行きたいけれど、明日からWebサイトリニューアルで忙しくて死にそうとのこと。
とりあえず、これから一段落したらCROCS履いて左岸を散策の予定。アムステルダムとは打って変わって暑いので、体調崩しそう。
Crocs has just opened their second retail store in Yokohama Bay Quarter, a new shopping mall that faces the Yokohama bay; the first retail is in Odaiba and their are several smaller distributors.
If you are Crocs fun, you should go visit YBQ, they have a nice splendid view of Downtown Minatomirai. And their Crocs Japan retail store has Crocs Butter which is only availale through Crocs Japan; it is
a special cleaner for your Crocs (cost about 350 yen).
BTW. Crocs Japan retail is so hard to find, so check out the floor map carefully. The best way to find them is to follow the sign to the rest rooms.
