Hopefully someone out there can assist. I’m looking for the best Windows FTP client available, something that can handle SFTP, easy bookmarking/favorites, collapsible or reduced UI and stable. I’m currently using Filezilla and finding it a real pain in my workflow and would love to find something cleaner/better. Really what I need is transmit, but on a PC.
I saw Ethan’s living room photos and it reminded me of my former home office in Orlando. Green indeed.
In case you missed it, Ethan Kaplan (of Warner Bros./REM fame) had his cool California home featured in recently on Apartment Therapy. Neat piece, great house, cool guy…can’t beat that.
P.S. I got the opportunity to redesign his BlackRimGlasses blog last year and enjoyed the experience.
Yahoo has released a new webdata-RSS mash-up tool to allow users to build custom data aggregating applications and feeds. The new tool, called “Pipes” allows users to take data from several pre-populated sources or from any XML feed and run that data through a slew of filters and operators that ultimately render new views and related data. So in this instance the best web 2.0 interface is really no interface at all (once the pipe is built). Sign-up and play around with it, use the ‘clone’ feature to build off of a pipe someone else has already designed.
if you haven’t seen the Bill Gates’ Newsweek interview I would recommends it. If nothing else just to see how out of touch the guy is with the industry he was so pivotal in establishing. When he was asked for the Vista elevator speech the best he could do was say he wanted to sit down with the customer and explain the new look and features. It’s basically admitting that the value of upgrading is a)not obvious and b)requires some amount of training. It’s not a compelling marketing statement in the least, and particularly disturbing that the recognized head of the business (in title or not) cannot boil down the value of the release in any tangible way. Searching ‘a lot of photos’ is not even remotely close to a compelling reason to upgrade your OS, no matter the platform.
I also think his beefs with Apple are more than laughable, particularly his take on the adoption of Mac features in Vista. “If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is.” Interesting, Jim’s on a boat somewhere, but maybe someday we can read about all of it in his memoirs, likely written on a MacBook somewhere. But if you want to know who the real Bill Gates is I think this quote sums him up pretty well:
“I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn’t have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.”
I don’t know about you, but to me taht sounds like a kid who had his candy taken away. What the hell does any of that even mean, it’s schoolyard nonsense. Really disappointing drivel.
Continuing…
When asked what to expect from the next version of Windows, Gates responded, “Well, it will be more user-centric.” When prompted he clarified that he doesn’t mean the interface will better serve users, but that the users’ profile and home ’stuff’ could possible be more portable and accessed from many machines. Oh and also higher-level built in graphics, so that you can’t possibly dream of having the hardware to support the coolness of their WiMP visualizer, at least not for another few years. The best he can do for whipping us up into a frenzy for the next OS is that you can access your fonts from any machine (seriously he said that) and there will be more intense graphics built-in…stellar.
I like this part…”But the NFL objected to the church’s plans to use a projector to show the game, saying the law limits it to one TV no bigger than 55 inches.” So if I watch on my (imaginary) 60″ plasma screen am I breaking the law? The NFL’s PR team is a quality bunch, pair this with the whole “let’s show a handful games only on the NFL channel” and they are doing a fancy job of making people take a second look at soccer. Well that’s a gross exaggeration (lie), but they still suck.
Congratulations to Jake over at Big in Japan, he’ll be speaking in Stanford at the Community Next conference alongside a rather impressive lot of speakers. Jake was the Community Choice winner. As he would say…rock.
From 1995-2000 I was a student at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Some friends still live there (ahem, Mr. Marshall), it’s a quiet little community in the vast fields of northeastern Missouri. Just blocks south of the campus seven people were found dead this weekend. Current speculation points to carbon monoxide poising from a tuck-under garage, however police are tight-lipped and awaiting the autopsy results from the state medical examiner in Columbia. Sad event, involving small children with all of the victims 23 or younger.
Wanna read something positively negative? Scott Adams (yes Dilbert Scott Adams) posted an entry pushing for folks to vote for California’s Proposition 87. The post isn’t the issue, it’s the comments. Unfortunately Scott found out the hard way that a majority of people who comment on political posts are commenting in the negative, and some with genuine fervor. I agree with Scott’s optimism, but the comments show the level of blind hostility and firing of personal attacks that are all too familiar from neo-cons. Typical, rather than attack the issue or present a positive solution they attack Scott and shoot back with illogical arguments and tangents.
