Published on
March 30, 2006.
Tags: Apple.
Chax is a great plugin for iChat which provides several options for customizing the iChat interface and behavior, including the latest big improvements – tabbed chat windows and auto-resizing of the contact lists. As the Norwegian localizer for this plugin it happens that I receive questions related to features and possible future improvements. Unfortunately, I’m not exactly the one whom to contact, but it do happen that I can provide some descent answers. This is an attempt of one 
One question which have popped up more than once is the availability of video support between MSN and iChat (via Jabber). As most Mac/iChat users know, iChat provides a great interface for video chat between iChat users (although it is not very tolerant when it comes to bandwidth issues, as far as I have seen). Although iChat has support for video, this support works only between iChat clients due to the way the video streams are sent.
There are some ongoing work in the Jabber community to come up with a way to send video streams between Jabber clients, but this does unfortunately not help that much (since both MSN and iChat uses their own approaches).
There are some other clients/networks which provides this functionality, but I haven’t tested them. The reason for this is that I do not want to have several clients running. Currently I have two, iChat and Skype, and I do not want more clients than this running.
My best bet when it comes to hassle free videoconference between Mac and Windows users is to wait for Skype to finally launch their 2.0 version of the Skype client. This is scheduled to happen in this quarter (April-May-June), and I hope they make this happen.
Jump in joy everyone, the widget has been updated afterall! I have now released a beta of a new release with a new source for the weather data. The are still some clean up to do, but I want to get this release out now in case there still are some fixing to do.
Update: I have now merged all updates of the beta release to a single blog post.
Changelog:
v1.7b5:
- Altered the display/positioning of rain/snow in the forecasts
v1.7b4:
- Added: Display of amount of rain/snow in the forecasts for the next few days.
v1.7b3:
- Fixed: viewing forecasts late in the evening messed up the forecast for the next days
v1.7b2:
- Support for ambiguous placenames. Shows a list of places to select from.
- Checks placename on enter/return in search field
- Further code cleanup
v1.7b1:
- Changed site to collect data from. Was (Storm.no) – Is (http://www.aftenposten.no/vaer)
- Changed from textual display of weather forecast to icon based
- Cleaned up some code (more to do)
- Support for longer forecasts.
Download from the development page!
Published on
March 23, 2006.
Tags: Humor.
I came across this Flash-based game today while browsing the forums at mac1.no. I completed the 15 levels which are available. How long can you resist from shooting that god d**m puppy?
Link: rrrrthats5rs.com » Don’t Shoot the Puppy
After some reconsideration and some nice feedback from forum users at Mac1.no, have I decided to continue the work on my weather widget, despite my earlier post.
I have spent quite some time with it today, and the progress are good. I’m done with the collection of data, but there are quite some graphical adjustments to do.
This bumped up on the front page of digg.com today:
Microsoft Admits Internet Explorer Mistakes:
Bill Gates admits that he made a mistake in waiting to build new innovations in its own browser technology, Internet Explorer. Now Microsoft is answering that challenge and is already looking ahead to the next two releases of IE…
What? Do they admit slow update on IE? To be honest – I still can’t believe that so many still uses that dinosaur browser called IE 6…
I’m currently trying out IE 7 on my Windows pc, but I haven’t peeked much into the features under the hood. Hopefully it is better when it comes to security, but so far the only thing I’m cheering about is the tabs (finally!).
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