Link: Wall Street Journal: “iPhones take over the Internet”
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Ben Worthen posts that iPhones were responsible for 0.09% of all Web page views in November. In comparison, all the other mobile Windows-based browsers accounted for only 0.06% of page views. From this, we can deduce the following:
Thanks, Eddie.
Link: 10.5: Use some advanced search features in Mail.app
I’m not sure if this is common knowledge (a couple of quick searches turned up nothing related) or completely obscure, but Mail.app’s search is more advanced than it appears. It seems that you can structure searches using fie…
Link: New report indicates consumers are more interested in “green” electronics
Forrester Research issued a new report today stating that the environmental friendliness of consumer electronics is mattering to more and more people. Turning the interest into sales may prove more challenging.
Link: Wilson Switch instructions
You really only need to read that link if you’ve got a diesel-powered Land Cruiser. :)
Link: QR Codes - Internet to Cell Phone via Camera
An anonymous reader writes “From ITWorldCanada comes an article about a technology that might change the way people use their cell phones in North America: ‘A Toronto-based software developer wants to bring Quick Response (QR) codes to Canada, and an industry analyst says this may appeal to companies offering products and services to youth.’ McDonald’s restaurants in Japan having been using the codes for over a year to present nutritional information on the cell phones of their customers. QR…
Link: Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Gag Reel
Worth watching.
Link: Run IE on your Intel Mac, if you absolutely have to - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
That could cut my need for Parallels down quite a lot! Still need it to run the Toyota parts catalog and occasionally FrameMaker, but the main thing I use Parallels/IE for is connecting to a client’s virtual server farm…
Link: Adventures in $40 eyeglasses | 43 Folders
After spending almost $400 on my safety glasses/sunglasses (two pairs of lenses, one Rudy Project frame) and being unhappy with both the service and the workmanship on the custom-cut lenses, I’m definitely game to try something new in early 2008 when I replace my current everyday glasses.
Link: New Nerve Gas Antidotes
SoyChemist writes “Scientists from Korea and the Czech Republic have discovered new drugs that can counteract the chemical overload caused by nerve gas. All of the experimental medications belong to a family of chemicals called oximes. Those molecules reactivate the enzyme that is damaged by the chemical weapons. Last year, the FDA approved the first combined atropine and oxime auto-injector for use by emergency personnel. Israel has been providing them to their citizens since the first Gulf…
Link: Does Leopard Have Basic win32 Loading Capabilities?
On the Wine mailing list, there is some interesting information on Leopard’s apparent ability to load basic Windows binaries. “When tracking down a crash in the kernel32 loader test, Dmitry found a bug in the Mac OS loader when Wine tried to load his dummy PE file. Upon further research I found that the Mac loader seems to have its own undocumented PE loader built in. I did some further testing with a Windows binary and got some really interesting results.” The first thought was that this was…