It

Mac Rumors talks about Apple Tablet Patents: A search at the US Patent and Trademark Office reveals a number of new Apple patent applications that relate to the long-rumored Apple Tablet based computer. One of the most relevant: Gestures for touch sensitive input devices - Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sensing device, and identifying at least one multipoint gesture based on the data from the multipoint sensing device. ...

Finalmente! L’esame é fatto (30!) e posso pubblicare la mia tesina. Buona lettura (per chi fosse interessato). Edit 2005-02-05 02:32 - Molti di voi mi dicono che il link non é raggiungibile. Io li ho provati tutti più e più volte. Non so cosa dirvi a parte che mi dispiace e che non dipende dalla mia volontà: a me funziona tutto benissimo. E vi assicuro che, se avete problemi di visibilità, al massimo possono essere problemi di DNS che non ha replicato correttamente il dominio “downloads.detronizator.org” su cui si trovano sia la versione HTML, sia la versione PDF (vi riporto ancora i relativi link). ...

On Geekpatrol.ca there is a comparison between… Mac Mini 1.42 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 167 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM iMac G5 2.1 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 700 MHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 667 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 2.0 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 512 MB RAM DDR2 667 SDRAM Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz 256 KB L2 cache per cpu 2 MB backside L3 cache per cpu 167 MHz system bus 1.75 GB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 768 MB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 512 KB L2 cache per processor 900 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM. Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2.0 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1000 MHz system bus 2.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM Power Mac G5 ‘Quad’ 2.5 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1.25 GHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2 GHz) 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB of DDR 400 SDRAM. Intel Pentium 4c 2.4 GHz HT 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM Intel Xeon Dual 3.2 GHz HT 1MB L2 cache per CPU 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 400 SDRAM … using Geeckbench Preview: a opensource benchmark running on MacOSX and Windows by now. ...

Soon you may be able to execute Gnome/Gtk+ based programs NATIVELLY NATIVELY on Quartz without the X11 Emulation. Someone (thanks to exist) is working on the porting. It may be the incipit of a new era for Open Source software on MacOSX. Take a look at this. One of the most interesting characteristics of Gnome-oriented applications is the coherence between the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) of Gnome and MacOSX. Source: Melablog.it and StyleMac.com.

Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces. This project has Sun behind itself: on Downloadblog there is a post dedicated to a Videocast of Sun Developers about Dojo and Java Studio Creator. The “packages” organization of Dojo is very similar to Java Library: much coherent and clean. ...

Java Openbusiness ha messo online un servizio per poter archiviare il proprio OS Skill e mostrarlo su una mappa che raccoglie le competenze italiane in tale settore. Come c’era da aspettarsi, utilizza Google Maps e le relative api JS. Sembra proprio una cosa interessante ed intelligente da fare: a colpo d’occhio ci si rende conto del fatto che questo fenomeno sembra tutt’altro che “alieno” al contesto Italia. Sorgente, puntoict.it.

Completata! Oggi posso dire di aver definitivamente completato la Tesina. La parte più difficile si é dimostrata essere, come immaginavo, far rientrare tutto in un numero di pagine che non superasse le 20. Ebbene, siamo a 16. Come ho fatto? Modificando per bene i margini del documento generato da Lyx fino ad ottenere il risultato cercato. Ed eliminando la lista delle figure (in fondo sono 7/8, quindi inutile come cosa). Subito dopo l’esame la metterò online. L’esame é previsto per il 31 (se il prof. Russo mi concede di farlo tra i primi 😢 ).

Admittedly the machine is just a proof of concept – it performs no useful function except to self-replicate – but the basic principle could be extended to create robots that could replicate or at least repair themselves while working in space or in hazardous environments, according to Hod Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and computing and information science, in whose lab the robots were built and tested. ...

Marc Liyanage releases the last version of his packaged version of PHP 5.1.2 and PostgreSQL 8.1.2. I don’t know how is the packaged PostgreSQL but… I use the PHP of Marc from 2 years without any problems (excluding personalization to the php.ini file). Thanks Marc for your nice work! ;-) Ah, these packages are made for MacOSX.

The Finder team is seeking an energetic, motivated software engineer to help develop next generation versions of the Finder, the notorious file browser for Mac OS X. You will be responsible for developing new features of an application that is often perceived by our users as the “face of the system”. You will be working on user interfaces spanning various browser views, new advanced search features, navigation and data presentation as well as many other parts of the application. ...