links for 2007-06-14

Why Bother With Safari on Windows?

There’s only one problem with that scenario — Safari sucks. A lot of Mac users won’t run the browser (I’m one of them), so why would anyone run it on Windows?On my Mac, Safari is buggy and unreliable. It’s always crashing, and it doesn’t offer basic features like remembering all the tabs you have open after you quit (or more likely, after it crashes). Until now, it didn’t even warn you before closing multiple tabs, although the new version of Safari fixes this.

Who in Their Right Mind Would Run Safari on Windows?

I’ve found Safari to be a pain on the Mac and, aside from testing purposes, I run Firefox on the Mac.  I think that after the honeymoon, most will realize that Safari on Windows is just pointless.  How about just selling us OS X as a stand alone OS for the Intel platform.  Now that would be exciting, and real competition for MSFT.

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links for 2007-06-12

Emory Gets Into Print-on-Demand

Print-on-demand books boosted in partnership

Emory is launching a new model for digital scholarship through a partnership with Kirtas Technologies Inc., a maker of cutting-edge digital scanning technology. The partnership will enable Emory to apply automated scanning technology to thousands of rare, out-of-print books in its research collections, making it possible for scholars to browse the pages of these books on the Internet or order bound, printed copies via a fast, affordable print-on-demand service. The project is limited to materials in the public domain.

Amazon will handle the PoD aspects of this project.  The project is not a part of the Google digitalization project, but rather represents a stand-alone effort.  I think this is a better idea than letting Google do it.  Certainly the text will be indexed by Google, but the project remains under the control of the University.  This aspect makes it a scholarly project with roots in archiving and education, not a a quasi-commercial operation that is really rooted in drawing ad dollars.  I hope more universities step up and take these projects in house.

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Apollo Becomes AIR

Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

AIR – Adobe Labs

Adobe has renamed Apollo.  It’s now known as AIR: Adobe Integrated Runtime.  A beta release of AIR replaces the alpha version of Apollo.  You can download the beta here.

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Law School Topsites

A topsites list ranks a group of related sites by popularity. Webmasters join the topsites list and are given a button to put on their site and link back to the topsites list. Aardvark Topsites PHP is a free topsites script built on PHP and MySQL.

Aardvark Topsites PHP – A Free PHP Topsites Script

OK, suppose we put topsite buttons on la wschool websites to see who is most popular?  Would it mirror the rankings we know and love? Would it reflect admissions trends?  size of alumni community?  Something to ponder…

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