The home away from home for Newton users since 1999.
September 1, 2005
Ken Bush, the president of Newton supplier J & K Sales, has asked me to post the following information. Hurricane Katrina has devasted communities along and near the Gulf Coast. In an effort to provide some support, J & K Sales is auctioning five MessagePad 2100s on eBay. All of the winning bids will go … More
June 27, 2005
The ISP which supplies my DSL connection is changing the IP addresses assigned to its customers. The upside of this is that my ISP (and therefore customers like myself) will be less dependent on a certain unnamed <cough>Telus<cough> monolithic telecommunications corporation. The downside is that I have to change IP addresses on several live servers, … More
January 5, 2005
A couple days after the fact, but still… Here’s looking forward to a year absolutely chock full of exciting and innovative green-glowing loveliness. Hopefully, there’ll be a little bit of the standard Newton community frivolity thrown in for good measure as well. Onward!
December 10, 2004
Oh, the publicity. Thanks to the little nod over at Wired News, we’ve experienced a ten-fold lift in traffic over the past couple of days. Fortunately, the quirky old Cobalt Qube that serves up this site isn’t even breathing hard after all of the fuss. Besides Wired News, who I blame for all of this, … More
December 8, 2004
Leander Kahney is a purveyor of tales and ephemera culled from Mac and Newton communities alike. True to his style, he has just published a Wired News article featuring none other than the Newtons Around The World gallery. Fittingly entitled The Picture of Devotion, it is certainly a fine hat tip to this site and … More
November 29, 2004
I’m completely boggled when supposedly smart people continue in their attempt to reinvent the wheel. Especially when it’s a wobbly wheel in the first place. Yet another pen-based text input system has been developed, this time by the folks over at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Institute (a fancy name for a place that … More
October 31, 2004
The weekly New York Times Magazine includes a column by Rob Walker entitled Consumed. The theme of the column generally involves discussing how particular products affect consumers. The product in focus this week just happens to be our little green friend, and that’s a good thing. Mr Walker paints an appropriately rosy picture of the … More
October 18, 2004
I started messing around with some of the new Blogger template tags the other day and darn it all if I didn’t go ahead and add comments to the news page. You can leave comments on news items dating back to June of this year. Unfortunatelty, Blogger will not accomodate comments for items posted prior … More
October 6, 2004
The always pleasant Adam Tow suggested that I make mention of this recent Slashdot article which discusses the repercussions of last month’s World Wide Newton Conference and the work on the Einstein Emulator project. As with all Slashdot posts, the usual plethora of nerdish bantering ensues.
October 3, 2004
It’s non-stop service improvement weekend here at the Newted Community. The maximum individual message size for email accounts has been bumped up from 2MB to 10MB. This change was implemented due to specific user complaints about the occasional message getting bounced because of the size of an attachment. Quite frankly, 2MB isn’t that big of … More