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The Django book website (built in Django of course) has been releasing two chapters a week for the last couple of months, currently there are 18 chapters available with more to be announced.
One of the coolest things about the "beta" of the book is the AJAX inline comments that people can leave for the authors. Be sure to click on the little comment bubbles where fellow Django users have expounded and clarified points covered in the main text. [Also, rumor has it that the scripts behind that comment system will be available at some point.]
And finally because I didn't have time to cover as much as I wanted to this week here's a random link list of helpful Django tutorials:
[1]: http://www.djangobook.com/ "The Django book"
* Example models demonstrating [various parts of the model syntax][2].
[2]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/ "Model Examples"
* The Django community is big on open source, and there's an [extensive code repository][5] available.
[5]: http://code.djangoproject.com/ "Django Code repository"
* Sample Project for [integrating Flickr][3] into your Django app.
[3]: http://code.djangoproject.org/wiki/FlickrIntegration "Flickr Integration with Django"
* [FileBrowser][4] is a wonderful file uploading app you can integrate into the Django Admin. It offers nearly all the functionality of an FTP client.
[4]: http://trac.dedhost-sil-076.sil.at/trac/filebrowser/ "Django FileBrowser"
* Tips for [enhancing][5] Django's built-in FreeComment functionality
[5]: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/16/django-tips-hacking-freecomment "B-List: Hacking FreeComment"
* How to [run a Django cron job][6].
[6]: http://slowchop.com/2006/09/17/creating-a-django-cron-job/ "How to run a Django cron job"
* A great tutorial from Wilson Minor (who designed the Admin interface) on [how to create an online portfolio][7] in Django using only generic views.
[7]: http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2006/may/10/are-you-generic/ "Are you generic?"
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One of the common complaints from "switchers" is that Mac keyboards swap the position of the alt and command keys from what Windows users are familar with (they also name them differently, instead of Alt and Windows, Mac calls "Alt" "Option" and the "Windows" key becomes "Apple/Command").
If you'd like to get your familiar Windows key mapping back or if you'd like to use a Windows keyboard with your Mac, Double Command is the ticket.
Double Command installs as a Preference Pane and allows you to remap keys and save the settings on a user or system-wide basis.
Once you have the Double Command Preference Pane installed you can remap keys according to the rules you see in the screenshot below. Personally I just remap Shift-Backspace as a forward delete key, a functionality I got used to because BBEdit allows you to remap it within the application.
If you happen to be one of those people with an [aversion to the Caps Lock key][3] you can map it to an extra Control key.
If you're feeling funky you can even hack Double Command and remap additional keys. As a poster in the [Double Command forum points out][2], the replacement of keys is handled by a file called Substitute.cpp, and all the key code definitions are in a file named MBHIDHack.h. You'll need to look up the key codes on your own and I can't vouch for the success of this method since I've never tried it.
Double Command is free and open source under v2 of the GPL.
[1]: http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/ "Double Command"
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1594710&forum_id=221238 "Remapping other keys"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71606-0.html?tw=rss.index "Death to Caps Lock"
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* Holy Crap. [When Zombie Ostriches Attack][1] in Table of Malcontents.
* Bodyhack has a look at the [current state of cryonic freezing][2]. Apparently for only $28,000 you can turn your corpse into the proverbial ice cube.
* Wired Science bring news of Canadian study that claims multi-lingual skills might help [delay the onset of Alzheimer's][3]. Do computer languages count?
* It's tough to get excited about a refrigerator, but Gadget Lab brings us a concept "[Tree House][4]" fridge that'll knock your socks off.
* 27B Stroke 6 has [The Only European Data Privacy Story You Ever Need To Read][5]. If only I could reclaim all the time I wasted reading those other stories.
* And finally, because we don't want to leave you on paranoid note freaking out about Euro privacy issues, remember no matter what happens: [don't forget the demon][6].
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/morning_thing_w.html "Morning Thing: When Zombie Ostriches Attack"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/preserve_your_b.html "Preserve Your Body Forever: Cheap!"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/language_brains.html "Language, Brains, and Alzheimers"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/the_fridge_of_t.html "The Fridge of the Future"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/the_only_europe.html "The Only European Data Privacy Story You Ever Need To Read"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/foresides_botto.html "Foreside's Bottom: the Demon Trainset"
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* The New York Stock Exchange will be [testing a program][1] later this year to give real-time stock quotes across the internet (pending SEC approval). Google has already said they will [offer the service for free][2].
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-12T073034Z_01_N12186444_RTRUKOC_0_US-NYSE-INTERNET.xml&src=rss "NYSE plans test of real-time Web quotes"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html "Real-time quotes for free"
* AOL is ditching its AOL Music Now service in favor of Napster. The two companies [announced today][3] that AOL signed Napster as its exclusive online music subscription service. Napster was widely rumored to be considering itself on the auction block and may still be headed for some sort of sale.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-12T152632Z_01_N12173561_RTRUKOC_0_US-NAPSTER-AOL.xml&src=rss "AOL signs Napster as music subscription service"
* Earlier this week at the Macworld Conference and Expo, Steve Jobs announced that the iTunes Store would be offering movie downloads from Paramount studios, and now it seems that 71 narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the Sundance Film Festival are also [slated to be distributed through iTunes][4].
[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_en_mo/apple_sundance "iTunes to sell short films from Sundance"
* The déjà vu of HD-DVD vs BluRay just keeps getting stronger. According to many, the porn industry's preference for VHS was one of the tipping points in its fight against Betamax and now comes word that [the porn industry prefers HD-DVD][5] to BluRay. But will it give HD-DVD the critical mass it needs to overcome BluRay?
[5]: http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/ "The porn industry says HD DVD"
* Notorious Swedish group The Pirate Bay is [seeking to buy][8] the [micronation of Sealand][6] and use it as a copyright-free haven. I think the idea is genius, if implausible -- straight out of a [Neal Stephenson novel][7]. But what's up with pirates buying stuff? Shouldn't they just clench their sabers between their teeth, grab the nearest halyard and attack?
[6]: http://www.sealandgov.org/ "The Principality Of Sealand"
[7]: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/ "Cryptonomicon"
[8]: http://buysealand.com/ "Buy Sealand"
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Now it seems that the Mozilla Foundation thinks a Windows Safari port is a possibility. Buried in yesterday's tentative Firefox 3 [wiki roadmap][1] document is this line: "WebKit may be ported to Windows."
With the announcement of the iPhone the possibility of a Window's WebKit port does seem like it would make sense. After all, it was the popularity of the iPod that brought iTunes to Windows.
A similar argument could be made that Apple is going to need to port aspects of Cocoa to get iPhone to work with Windows. Whether or not that would include WebKit is debatable, but given the iPhone's reliance on widgets, WebKit seems like a good place to start.
Some people think Apple would be better off not porting its software to Windows and keeping the "Mac experience" unique to their own platform, but as Apple becomes less a computer manufacturer and more a device manufacturer it might make more sense to strive for interoperability.
However, the future seems to pointing toward openness and platform agnosticism, not platform dependancies. As one of the more popular topics in Wired's [call for tech trends][3] reads: "It's more important to capture mind-share by spreading your vision far and wide than it is to hold onto it while you try to outdo rivals."
Will Apple embrace this trend and bring more software to the Windows platform?
[1]: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements
[2]: http://img487.imageshack.us/my.php?image=safwins5om.jpg "Fake (probaby) Safari on Windows Screenshot"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/business/ "What Are The Most Important Biz/Tech Trends Of 2007?"
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Pete Stevens was faced with these choices and opted for number three. Using a bit of networking know-how he split his signal into two networks, one trusted and one untrusted. He then messed with various aspects of the untrusted network including rerouting all traffic to [Kittenwar][2] and, my personal favorite, [the upside down internet][1].
Basically the upside down internet involves using iptables to run all untrusted traffic through a proxy server. The proxy server then downloads all the images from a page, inverts them and serves them out of its local webserver.
The results look like the screenshot below from Pete's site. He has the code available if you'd like to do something similar.
[Thanks to the NoEnd List for bring this to my attention.]
[1]: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html "Upside-Down-Ternet"
[2]: http://kittenwar.com/ "Kittenwar"
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Perhaps the best comparison for Django is Ruby on Rails, which is also a web application framework written, regrettably, in Ruby, whereas Django is, thankfully, written in Python. Django pushes what's known as the DRY principle, "Don't Repeat Yourself." As such most aspects of Django are loosely coupled and extremely easy to reuse.
So what is Django? Is it a CMS? Is it a blogging tool? Is it an early twentieth century jazz guitarist? No. No. And yes, but that's not important right now.
Django is a framework built on Python that you can use to build a Content Management System or a blogging tool, but it is not limited to that. In fact Django reminds me a bit of the character in Airplane who always answers the "what do you make of that?" question literally... *Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl...*
You'd be hard pressed to find something in the world of web development that Django can't make. In my own work I've made a blogging CMS, a restaurant menu application, an online store and resort rental reservation system using Django.
So where to get started? Why the official Django website of course. There's a nice [overview][2], an [installation guide][3] and a series of "hello world" type [tutorials][4].
Perhaps the most difficult thing about using Django is getting it installed. While you can run Django with Apache 1.3 and FCGI, I don't recommend it for production work. The preferred method is to use Apache 2 with mod_python, but unfortunately not many web hosts offer that setup for "shared accounts."
If you don't want to pony up for a dedicated server, the Django Wiki maintains a list of [Django friendly hosts][5]. If you're looking to set up a local development server it's not too difficult to do on Mac OS X. Antonio Cavedoni has a [nice tutorial][6] to get you started. (Regrettably I don't know of anything similar for Windows users, but perhaps someone can leave some suggestions in the comments).
I should point out that for simple testing purposes Django includes a built in server which you can use to get started.
Later this week I'll post some links to tutorials that help you build more sophisticated applications using Django.
[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/ "Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines"
[2]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/overview/ "Django Overview"
[3]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/ "Installation Guide"
[4]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial1/ "Writing your first Django application"
[5]: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts "Django Friendly Webhosts"
[6]: http://cavedoni.com/2005/django-osx "Installing Django on OS X"
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* The big news today is on Gadget Lab where you'll [find all the latest goodies][1] from the ongoing CES show in Las Vegas.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Gadget Lab"
* Leander Kahney over at Cult of Mac is [predicting a riot][2] at tomorrow's Macworld keynote address. "Expectations for Steve Jobs' keynote speech Tuesday are so unreasonably high that anything less than an iPod-cum-videophone-miniPC that downloads movies wirelessly from the net and projects them on your living room wall with 7.1 surround sound is going to disappoint."
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/macworlds_a_rio.html "Macworld's a Riot"
* Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk has a Wired.com article in which he [lists the seven reasons][3] why the MP3 format is the future of the music industry.
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72412-0.html? "Who's Killing MP3 and ITunes?"
* 27B Stroke 6 [dreams of ACLU and EFF ads][4] on the bottom of airport screening trays (that would be "divestiture bins" for those in the know).
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/the_transportat.html "Screening Bins to Get ACLU ads?"
* Over at Bodyhack, Kristen Philipkoski [wonders][5] if we might need some federal legislation for genetic privacy.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/francis_collins.html "Francis Collins: U.S. Needs Genetic Privacy Protection"
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* Last week I mentioned the Devorak keyboard layout, but now I've discovered yet another alternative to QWERTY -- the [Colemak layout][3]. I agree with the commenter at [Metafilter][4], where I stumbled across the Colemak: "I predict that in 800 years time when all humans live as .hum files running on virtual computers in postbiological cyberspace, our virtual keyboards will still use the QWERTY layout." Old habits die hard.
[3]: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57599 "Like Dorvak, only better"
[4]: http://colemak.com/ "Colemak keyboard layout"
* From the Pew Internet Project & American Life Project's [latest research][2]: "More than half (55%) of all of online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites." People get paid to tell us that?
[2]: http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=134 "55% of online teens use social networks"
* Macworld: The Prequel. Today there's too much hype, too many predictions and too much positive press, [remember when things really sucked][1]?
[1]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html "Wired 1997: 101 Ways to Save Apple"
* Second Life is now [open source][5].
[5]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/07/technology/secondlife.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007010807 "CNN: Second Life to go open source"
* Like porn spam, the [idea of a .xxx domain suffix][6] for porn websites just doesn't seem to die.
[6]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6240725.stm "BBC: Proposal for porn domain revived"
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I was a big fan of Nisus Writer back in the OS 9 days, but Nisus Writer Express just never grabbed me.
The new Pro version promises to bring back some more of the layout features that the old classic version had and introduces some new features as well including support for Table of Contents, Indexing, Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering, and Text Wrap around images.
The pro version also promises support for Word files, though the announcement lists .doc, not the new .docx format. The default file format for Writer Pro is, like Writer Express, .rtf.
The software isn't publicly available yet, but Nisus says a beta test version will be arriving soon and the final version is expected in early spring. We'll be sure to give you the full rundown once it's available.
[1]: http://www.nisus.com/pro/ "Nisus Writer Pro"
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While this is true, a number of savvy readers have written to tell me that there is an [upgrade pack available][1] for older versions of Office which will allow them to interact with the new OOXML formatted documents.
Microsoft's own documentation is a little vague on what you can do with the converters once they're installed, some of the documentation says, "read Open Office XML files" and other in other places the tech notes say read and write. Hopefully the later case is the accurate one.
One thing I haven't seen is whether or not the converters allow you to create new documents in the OOXML format or whether this is simply a way for legacy Office users to interact with documents they might receive from Office 2007 users.
The Mac Business Unit has [posted converters][2] for Office Mac users and there's also a [rumor][3] that Apple's next OS X, Leopard, will have native support for Open Office XML.
I'm currently downloading the Office 2007 demo so I can create some OOXML documents and play around with them in older versions of Office, but in the mean time if you have any experience let your fellow Monkey Bites readers know in the comments below.
[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466 "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word Excel and Powerpoint 2007 File Formats"
[2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2006/12/19/and-we-re-back.aspx "Mac BU blog on Office 2007 compatibility"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2006/12/rumor_leopard_t.html "Cult of Mac: Rumor: Leopard to Support Office 2007 Files"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=wn_technology_5 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
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* The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. From the Blogger Buzz [announcement][1]: "If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free."
[1]: http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/01/blogger-custom-domains.html "Blogger supports custom domains"
* Over at CES, Microsoft and Ford [announced an in-car communication and entertainment system][2] which will be available starting later this year. Check out the [Gadget Lab][3] blog to stay abreast of all the CES happenings.
[2]: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/298729_msft07.html "Microsoft and Ford announce deal"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Wired's Gadget Lab"
* PC World takes one for the team. Editors at PC World signed up for 31 different online services and then tried to cancel them. They then wrote up the [resulting hassles][4] so you can avoid them.
[4]: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128206/printable.html "Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!"
* Yahoo is [rebuilding Yahoo Messenger][5] specifically for Windows Vista. The new software will reportedly be released as a public beta in Q2.
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6147793.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "New Yahoo Messenger Previewed at CES"
* And finally, my personal favorite headline of the day: "[NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it][6]."
[6]: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.html "CNN: NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it"
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I've never used a SlingBox in part because I've never wanted to get things off my TV, I want to get things *on* my TV. The new SlingCatcher does exactly that, it moves content from your PC to your television.
The software bundled with SlingCatcher, dubbed SlingProjector, enables you to wirelessly project your PC's content to your TV. Anything that you can watch on your PC, whether it's YouTube movies or content from the soon-to-be-public Venice Project, can be sent to your TV via SlingProjector.
Along with SlingProjector, the SlingCatcher also features a piece of software called the "SlingPlayer for TV" which allows you to send content from one TV to another without the need for a PC or additional boxes from the cable company.
The appeal for hi-res content like feature films or television shows is obvious, but how is highly compressed video from sites like YouTube going to look on a high-def Plasma or LCD television? So far Sling hasn't given any details on how the software will handle the potential resolution problems.
And it's possible no one will care. According to a Forrester Research study, 80 percent of viewers are uninterested in buying a device to let Internet videos to be viewed on TV sets.
The new Sling device also faces some competition from Apple who are expected to give more details on the "iTV" offering at tomorrow's MacWorld expo.
SlingCatcher will be available "by the middle of this year" and SlingMedia says the price will be under $200.
[Also see Gadget Lab's [coverage][2] of Sling's announcement]
[1]: http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?type=comktNews&storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070108:MTFH74380_2007-01-08_03-00-09_N07305248&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=HybArt-C1-ArticlePage1 "Sling Media to link PCs to TVs"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/sling_extends_r.html "Gadget Lab: Sling Extends Reach"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/slingplayer_for.html "Monkey Bites on SlingBox"
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TextExpander is a preference pane and to use it you'll need to enable the Assistive Devices support (also in the preferences under Universal Access). Once installed, TextExpander runs in the background with a fairly small RAM footprint (currently on my Macbook it's using 12 MB).
I'm a big fan of applications that do one thing and do it well, which is exactly the goal of TextExpander whose "one thing" is replacing text you type with other text (or images). The concept is simple, take chunks of text you type on a regular basis, the canonical example being email signatures, and create an abbreviation. Now when you type the abbreviation TextExpander replaces it with the longer text.
For instance, every morning when I post the reboot I need to embed an image using an <code><img /></code> tag. Typing out the full tag with all the attributes every time would be a pain, so I created an abbreviation in TextExpander and now I simply type my abbreviation, <code>anykey.</code>, and TextExpander jumps in a replaces that with the img tag code.
There's a million ways you could use TextExpander, for instance (from the website):
* Insert standard greetings, text fragments, and signatures — including formatted text and pictures.
* Insert the current date and time in any format you prefer.
* Use editor-independent code templates and have Textexpander position the cursor just where it needs to be.
* Type special characters without having to launch any special characters palette.
* Have TextExpander correct typos automatically.
The last item in that list is what got me addicted to TextExpander. The good folks at Smile On My Mac have [created a nice file full of common typos][2] that you can download and use with TextExpander. Say goodbye to "teh" when you meant "the" and other fat-fingered-typist errors.
My one gripe with TextExpander is that whenever it replaces text that text also gets copied to the clipboard potentially replacing things you might be waiting to paste somewhere else. I use [Butler][3] which includes a multiple entry clipboard so I can always get my text back, but it's annoying nonetheless and something to keep in mind when you evaluate TextExpander.
While I love TextExpander I'll be the first to admit that $29.95 is a bit pricey, but it's on par with other offerings in the field -- most notably [TypeIt4Me][4], which offers vary similar features and costs $27.
[1]: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/ "TextExpander"
[2]: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/autocorrect.html "TextExpander autocorrect file"
[3]: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=butler "Butler"
[4]: http://www.typeit4me.com/ "TypeIt4Me"
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To that end today's Mac software gem is [FotoMagico][2] from Boinx Software which is designed to help you transform a slideshow from boring monotony to something people actually want to see.
FotoMagico is a slideshow app that goes far beyond the limited offerings of something like iPhoto to help you create slideshows your friends might actually sit through.
Here's a quick rundown of the main features:
* Integrates with iLife - use photos from iPhoto and music from iTunes. As of version 1.8 FotoMagico also offers Aperture integration.
* Supports most file formats, everything that QuickTime can read.
* 12 transition methods
* Synchronize slides with music (including your own compositions via GarageBand.
* "Randomize Pan & Zoom" -- for those that want to get things done quickly.
* Add titles to each photo
* Export your slideshow to QuickTime.
* Burn your slideshow to DVD or CD.
* Post your slideshow to your webpage.
The process itself is simple, a main editing panel is flanked by two side panels, the right hand panel has three tabs, one for your iPhoto or Aperture libraries (or plain folders if you use another organizational tool), one for your music via iTunes and one for editing and adding features to each slide. The bottom panel is for organizing your photos (it looks like a more refined version of the top-panel slideshow editor in iPhoto)
To get started all you need to do is call up your photos, drag them to bottom pane, arrange them in the order you want and start adding your titles, effects, transitions, music and more. If you're feeling lazy, just select a photo and head to Options >> Randomize Motion.
I was able to successfully make a passable slide showing using ten images in just a few minutes. A little more time and I could have made something worth posting.
Adding audio is a snap, just click the audio tab and browse through your iTunes library to find the perfect background music and drag it onto your slideshow. You can then edit the audio transitions, fade from one song to another and add markers or fade music based on photo transitions, time and more.
Once you've previewed your slideshow and are happy with the results, you can export it as a Quicktime movie, burn it to DVD or even stash it on your iPod.
FotoMagico is a universal binary and was quite snappy on my Macbook.
At $79 FotoMagico isn't cheap, but if you're serious about showing off your photos to friends, the results are worth the price tag. There's also a [five day demo][2] available if you'd like to try before you buy.
[1]: http://www.fotomagico.com/ "FotoMagico"
[2]: http://www.fotomagico.com/demo/ "FotoMagico Demo"
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For the most part Django's speed is just there and it's lightening fast, but there are still some things you can do to improve performance. Django offers four levels of caching via what Django calls Middleware.
Middleware is just a framework of "hooks" that tie into Django's request/response processing. In terms of speed and optimization the Middleware you'd want to look at is the [CacheMiddleware][1]. The actual cache can use any number of systems from the popular [memcached][2] to Django's own cache techniques.
For more information have a look at the [official cache documentation][3].
The second half of this tutorial round-up involves the Django admin interface. Whenever you create a model in Django, Django maps your model to a database and creates all the necessary tables.
Since handling the code necessary create, read, update and delete (CRUD) functionality to get data in and out of your application is a repetitive task, Django offers an automatically generated Admin interface.
All you need to do is enable it via your settings.py file and include the appropriate urls in the urls.py for your project. For more information and some screenshots head over to the [second tutorial on the Django site][4].
But what if you're on a shared host with Apache 1.3 and FCGI? What if your existing shared host provider is isn't capable of a high load site written in Django? Well here's a thought from Jeff Croft -- you could [still use Django for the back-end][5].
Croft outlines how to go about setting up all your sites CRUD functionality via Django and then use another framework or language to handle the front end display (in this case PHP).
Combine that with Django's built in [inspectdb][6] functionality and you could even upgrade an existing project to give it a nice Django back-end.
[2]: http://danga.com/memcached/ "memchached"
[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/middleware/#django-middleware-cache-cachemiddleware "django.middleware.cache.CacheMiddleware"
[3]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/cache/ "Django Cache Docs"
[4]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial2/#explore-the-free-admin-functionality "Explore the free admin functionality"
[5]: http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/jul/14/django-admin-your-php-app/ "Django admin for your PHP app?"
[6]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django_admin/#inspectdb
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* Wired's own Cult of Mac has great piece on the [litigation surrounding Apple's new iPhone][1] and some other company that also uses the name. Let's face it even if Cisco wins, iPhone will always be an Apple product in the public's mind.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/ask_an_attorney.html "Ask an Attorney: Apple and Cisco Will Share 'iPhone' "
* Torrentfreak has an article on the[ MPAA's fake torrent campaign][2]. "The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs try to trap people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. They hire a company to put up fake copies of popular movies, music albums, and TV series." According to Torrentfreak an admin at BTJunkie has figured out a way to find and block the fake torrents.
[2]: http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-caught-uploading-fake-torrents/ "MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents"
* There were rumors earlier this week that OLPC would be selling their budget laptops to the general public with the provision that you buy two, one of which is yours and one of which is donated to someone in need. I for one thought that was a great idea, but [according to Ars Technica][3], the rumor is untrue. However apparently it is one of the options they're considering.
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070110-8593.html "OLPC: no consumer versions planned right now"
* And finally it doesn't have much to do with software or the web, but Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! epic and hacker of the mind, [passed away this morning][4]. Wilson may be gone, but we'll always have the fnords.
[4]: http://robertantonwilson.blogspot.com/index.html "Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11"
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* Cisco is [suing Apple][1] over the rights to the iPhone trademark. Apple was reportedly in talks with Cisco about the rights to the name, but never formally signed off on a deal so Cisco has filed a lawsuit.
* Mozilla [released][2] some semi-official plans for Firefox 3. The list of features in the linked article are broken into three categories, "mandatory," "desirable" and "nice to have." One of the most intriguing things on the list is, "save web pages as PDF files, integrated with history." Hmm. The new target release for Firefox 3 is sometime in Q3 of this year.
* Last year I did [an article on ReputationDefender][5] and the main thing everyone (myself included) wanted to know was how ReputationDefender went about protecting your online reputation. While company was always a bit cagey about their methods, now there's an example available. The Consumerist [received a letter][3] (possibly NSFW) from ReputationDefender requesting that a post be removed. The Consumerist has refused to comply with the request and they've posted a copy of the email they received, which is surprisingly benign.
* Greg Kroah-Hartman, author of O'Reilly's *Linux Kernel in a Nutshell*, has made the book [available for free][4] in a variety of formats. Kroah-Hartman writes on the site: "The more people that try this out, and realize that there is not any real magic behind the whole Linux kernel process, the more people will be willing to jump in and help out in making the kernel the best that it can be."
[5]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72063-0.html "Delete Your Bad Web Rep"
[4]: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ "Download Linux Kernel in a Nutshell"
[3]: http://consumerist.com/consumer/evil/ronnie-segev--reputationdefender-can-eat-a-dick-227969.php "Ronnie Segev & ReputationDefender Can Eat A Dick"
[2]: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/01/planned-features-for-firefox-3/ "Planned features for Firefox 3"
[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/10/technology/cisco_apple/index.htm?section=money_technology "Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name"
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The new version of Toast features a long list of enhancements including TiVoToGo, Blu-ray disc burning and more.
Roxio scored an exclusive deal with TiVo to bring the popular TiVoToGo service to the Mac platform as part of the new Toast 8. The functionality mirrors that of TiVoToGo for Windows but wraps it up in a Mac-friendly, iTunes-like interface.
If you'd like to cram all your *Lost* episodes on one disc, the new Toast 8 is the first burning software to support BluRay discs on the Mac.
Wannabe DJs and even real DJs will be happy to know the Toast now supports crossfades, volume normalization and other audio niceties.
We'll give you the full rundown when our demo copies arrive. Until then, here's a video of the Best in show awards with Roxio and the rest of the winners.
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We've been [following Snap][1] [for][4] [some][2] [time][3] and the site continues to grow at an astonishing rate, but nothing pulls in users like good old-fashioned TV exposure. Snap.com's Jason Fields tells us search traffic at Snap has tripled since the CNBC broadcast this morning.
I do enjoy Snap, especially the image search, but I don't know if it's a Google killer. It's not hard to imagine Google buying Snap though. Let us know what you think.
[footnote for CNBC: Repeat after me "I will provide video players with embedding code..."]
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/snap_a_photo_wi.html "Snap.com Image Search"
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/05/snap_ajaxpowere.html?entry_id=1481480 "Snap: Ajax-Powered Search"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/snap_launches_p.html "Snap Launches Preview Anywhere"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/snap_shows_off_.html "Snap Shows Off Resizable Panes"
[5]: http://blog.snap.com/2007/01/11/snapcom-ceo-tom-mcgovern-on-cnbc/ "Snap Blog on CNBC show"
[6]: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=163217679&play=1 "CNBC Video on Snap.com"
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Phone Schmone. Where's the Leopard previews? Release dates? Amazing additional features Jobs promised at the WWDC? Can a million rumors about retiring the Aqua interface really be wrong? *We just don't know*.
What about ILife '07? ITunes? IWork? Rumor has it that some Steveo's presentation used some Keynote features that aren't available to us mortals using the '05 version. It seems reasonable to assume that an iWork '07 must therefore exist, but nary a peep from the big man.
Then of course there was my dream of an Aperture update shot to hell. Something about a spreadsheet app as well. Okay let's be honest I don't care about a spreadsheet app, but still the disappointment is palpable over here at Monkey Bites.
We take some measure of consolation in remembering [this quote][2] (brought to our attention again by [Steven Johnson][3]) from Palm CEO Ed Colligan. When asked about the iPhone, Colligan:
>laughed off the idea that any company -- including the wildly popular Apple Computer -- could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector. We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. <b>"PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."</b>
(emphasis mine)
In the immortal words of Ace Venture: RRREHEHEALLY!
[1]: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ "Apple iPhone"
[2]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/16057579.htm "Palm CEO says, What, me worry?"
[3]: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2007/01/the_iphone.html "THE IPHONE"
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* Cult of Mac's Pete Mortensen writes about the possible [future of the iPod][1], which doesn't seem so cool now that the iPhone is here.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/can_the_ipod_su.html "Can the iPod Survive?"
* Gadget Lab [wants your opinion][2]: was Apple's decision to partner with Cingular a good one?
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/poll_apple_ipho.html "Poll: Apple iPhone on Cingular: Mistake?"
* Thomas Goetz on the Wired Science blog [has the lowdown][3] on a meta study that looks at bias in funded science research.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/pay_for_researc.html "Pay for Research, Get Results"
* Game|Life is at CES where [you won't find much about the PS3][4].
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/ps3_booth_promi.html "PS3 Booth: Promise vs. Reality"
* Table of Malcontents has [dug up some YouTube video][5] from, Werner Herzog's *My Best Friend*, which if nothing else, will make you watch *Fitzcarraldo* in a whole new light.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/a_brief_history.html "A Brief History of Klaus Kinski's Conniptions"
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How the heck does Django do it? Well one of the great tools that Django puts at your disposal is something called generic views. Views are simply python functions that get called whenever a browsers requests a page.
There's a myriad of ways to storing and retrieve data in a web application, but date-based structures are pretty common. For instance, the url of this page contains something like '.../2007/01/...' which is a date-based archive.
Rather than requiring that you write your own code every time you build a site that uses date based archives, the designers of Django included some generic views to handle common cases. In this case, were this site powered by Django, which regrettably it is not, but were it, we could pass the date from the url to django in one easy like of code:
(r'(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_month', data_dict),
Okay maybe it looks confusing, but it's really not. The first part is just a regular expression that captures the url and passes it to the generic view <code>archive_month</code>. The last bit is a python dictionary which would tell Django what data model to use for this page.
Another common task web applications perform is displaying a list of content and to this end there is Django generic view for lists.
Which brings us to today's tutorial. Generic views are great, but what if they don't exactly fit your application? Well, it's pretty easy to extend generic views and James Bennet [has a great tutorial on his blog The B-list][1] that runs through the basics extending, tweaking and otherwise making generic views do what you want.
Mr. Bennet also has a number of other very useful and easy to follow django tutorials, try [digging through the rest of his Django archives][2].
[1]: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/11/16/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views "Django tips: get the most out of generic views"
[2]: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/categories/django "The B-List: category: Django"
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I used to ignore the services menu, that menu of universally accessible command shortcuts, because it's cluttered up with junk most of us never use. I'm sure there are people who use the ChineseTextConverter, but for my daily work it just gets in the way. Ditto for RealPlayer, Speech and many others.
Service Scrubber is a simple app that lets you enable, disable and reorganize services and assign keyboard shortcuts. That's it. Remember: do one thing and do it well.
The process is simple, as outlined on the Service Scrubber site:
* Select a service provider (i.e., an application or a service package) to edit its services only.
* Click on a checkbox to enable/disable the corresponding service(s).
* Click on an [i] button to edit a service's features.
* Click on a [left arrow] button to revert a service provider to its original state.
* Once you're done tweaking your services, click the [Save] button to save your changes. Be prepared to authenticate as an administrator.
Service Scrubber is free, though if you like it you could always consider donating.
[1]: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=servicescrubber "Service Scrubber"
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* The Wall Street Journal is reporting that [Apple and Cingular will partner up][1], with Cingular providing service for Apple's new "iPhone" device which is widely rumored to be announced at Macworld. MSM tends not to go in for rumors, but then again you just never know do you?
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-09T110907Z_01_N08419269_RTRUKOC_0_US-CINGULAR-APPLE.xml&src=rss "Apple, Cingular to partner?"
* Microsoft has sent out some contradictory messages over the last few months about BluRay/HD-DVD and Vista, but now says, [according the the Times UK][5], "a substantial number of PCs running the new version of Windows operating system will not be able to play high-quality DVDs." Though that isn't really Microsoft's fault, blame Hollywood and an its DRM love affair.
[5]: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2536050,00.html "BluRay/HD-DVD won't work on all Vista machines"
* Yahoo! has [purchased][4] the blog tracking site MyBlogLog for an undisclosed amount. Rumors of the purchase surfaced way back in November, but today it appears to be official.
[4]: http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/yahoo-buys-mybloglog-for-real/ "Yahoo buys MyBlogLog"
* As we [mentioned last week][2], a Brazilian Judge ordered Google to shut down YouTube. Naturally that isn't going to happen, but as [reported by Reuters][3] and several commenters on our original story, Brazilian ISPs began blocking access to YouTube on Monday.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/brazilian_judge.html "Monkey Bites on Brazilian Judge ordering YouTube to shut down"
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-09T005413Z_01_N08418109_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRAZIL-SEX-YOUTUBE.xml&src=rss "Brazilian ISPs block YouTube"
* And finally: the one thing [you really hope][6] Steve Job's doesn't unveil at MacWorld.
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/one_more_thing_.html "Cult of Mac - One More Thing"
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There's post in [the forums at Ideabox][3] that sums up many users' reactions to the ads: "Never. Put. Ads. In. The. Music. Stream."
But the capped at once per day bit seems to be a change based on [negative][4] [feedback][5] since initially users reported hearing the ad several time a day.
I use Pandora pretty much every day and so far I haven't actually heard the ads, but according to most, the primary ad seems to a 9 second segment for McDonald's dollar Value menu. Some of the negative reaction may be attributable to the advertisement's lack of targeting. After all, what the heck does McDonald's Dollar Value menu have to do with music?
Perhaps if the ads applied the same intelligence as Pandora's recommendations features they would be less annoying. For instance why not stream ads from music-relevant services. Conrad says that such targeted advertising may be in the cards, "we're always looking for ways to improve our ability to deliver relevant ads that don't detract from the listening experience."
One of the appeals of Pandora for me, aside from its excellent recommendations features, was that the company seemed more personalized than many of its competitors. For instance the tag line on the main site reads: "We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you." I guess I didn't know that conversation would include product peddling, but if it's any consolation to Pandora, if nothing else, at least you know there are a lot of users who are very passionate about your service.
But at the same time of course Pandora needs to make money, otherwise the service will disappear altogether and the company seems to be listening to feedback since they've apparently cut back on the number of ads.
One of the difficulties facing Pandora, as Pete Cashmore [points out on Mashable][6], is that Pandora's service doesn't generate pageviews, which makes it a hard sell for advertisers who still believe that pageviews are tied to traffic numbers.
Still, regardless of the reasoning, the prospect of in-stream ads leaves me a little cold, wasn't the promise of internet radio at least partly to escape from the high ad-to-music ratio of commercial FM?
Let us know what you think in the comments.
[1]: http://www.pandora.com/ "Pandora"
[2]: http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/2007/01/09/pandora-exec-speaks-about-advertisements-in-stream/ "Pandora exec speaks about advertisements in stream"
[3]: http://ideabox.crispyideas.com/article/show/50313 "Never. Put. Ads. In. The. Music. Stream."
[4]: http://jdamer.com/wordpress/2007/01/06/pandora-crosses-the-line/ "Pandora crosses the line"
[5]: http://geeklimit.com/2007/01/08/pandora-gets-commercials/ "Pandora gets commercials"
[6]: http://mashable.com/2007/01/09/pandora/ "Pandora Audio Ads Unwelcome"
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[Recent betas][2] (I'm using build 3120 which is listed as Release Candidate) from Parallels feature something called "Coherence Mode" which enables you to run Windows applications outside the emulation window. Combine that with a Mac OS X flavored theme for Windows and it can be hard to tell the difference between emulated Windows programs and native application running in Mac OS X.
Coherence Mode is in a word, amazing, but also, as several people I've demonstrated it to have remarked, somehow wrong.
I had a little trouble installing Windows though I can't say for sure that Parallels was at fault. For some reason the first time I tried the installation cd got hung up while trying to "install devices," but a second attempt came off without a hitch.
As you might expect, Parallels is a RAM hungry app, not only does Parallels need RAM, but obviously so does Windows itself. With a lot of applications open in both the VM and Mac OS X, Parallels slows down my Macbook (Core 2 Duo with 1 gig or RAM) to a virtual considerably.
So long as I limit myself to working in either OS, and not switch between them too often it's usable and no doubt increasing my RAM would vastly improve performance. Putting Windows in full screen model and ignoring Mac OS X gives me performance speeds that are on par with mid-level PCs.
Perhaps the best thing about Parallels, once you get past the wow factor, is the ability to seamlessly drag and drop files from Windows to Mac and back. Other useful features include Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution, Transporter RC to migrate an existing Windows installation to a Parallels VM, and improved USB device support.
If you're a PC user who's thought of switching to Mac, but you don't want to give up your favorite applications, there's no need to worry -- you can have the best of both worlds.
To be honest I would be surprised if Apple didn't snatch up Parallels at some point since it provides a much better interface for Windows than Basecamp. And I should point out that if you have Windows installed via Basecamp and you'd like to use that partition via Parallels, the latest beta makes that possible.
The previous betas had some problems with Window's licenses that made it difficult to switch back and forth between Parallels and Basecamp, but beta 3 only requires you to re-activate Windows once.
[1]: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/ "Parallels Desktop for Mac"
[2]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate"
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* Nothing is perfect and now that the initial wow factor has faded a little bit, there might be a few things about the iPhone that aren't so great. Our own Gear Lab has a [rundown on potential snags][1] in the dream of cellphone perfection.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/top_5_worst_thi.html "Top 5 Worst Things About The iPhone"
* The final version of [Google Earth 4 has been released][2]. We [reviewed the beta][3] a while back, but the final version has some new features that weren't in that beta such as textured buildings.
[2]: http://earth.google.com/earth4.html "Google Earth 4 - what's new"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/google_earth_ve.html "Monkey Bites Google Earth Version 4 beta review"
* Office 2008 for Mac [has been announced][4]. The Microsoft BU team has a number of Mac only features and claims the software will be available "in the second half of 2007."
[4]: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-09MacworldPR.mspx "Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac"
* [According the Washington Post][5], in an effort to make Windows Vista more secure, Microsoft tapped the expertise of the NSA. From the linked article: "the agency said it has helped in the development of the security of Microsoft's new operating system -- the brains of a computer -- to protect it from worms, Trojan horses and other insidious computer attackers."
[5]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801352.html "For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros"
* And finally, Wired Magazine has a [creepy scenario][6] from Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University, in which he outlines why the internet is doomed.
[6]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=15 "End-Time for the Internet"
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