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August 17, 2005

OASIS drafts Blueprints for SOA

OASIS has started a new Technical working group to start defining Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) blueprints to facilitate applications being developed or re-factored into platform-agnostic services. The key players are all the same crowd, including BEA, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe Systems, Datapower, Infravio and Software AG. The catalyst documents being used are the blueprints originally developed by The Middleware Company analyst firm who sold the documents to a former employee for $1 as long as they were further developed and released license-free to the world developer community.

Links
SOA Center Service Oriented Architecture Blueprints
OASIS Web Services and SOA Technical Committees List
OASIS Adoption Blueprints TC

Posted by Egon Kuster at 09:35 AM

August 03, 2005

Apple have finally released a 2 button mouse

Mightymouse Gallery Images Mightymousehero20050802 Apple have finally released a mouse that has more than one button. But they could not just create any normal two button mouse, no that would just be easy. What they have created is the Mighty Mouse that takes the standard one button mouse and adds a few interesting things. This includes a pointer on top that allows you to scroll in all directions like the trackpoints you find in the middle of laptop keyboards. The side holders that have been present on the earlier one button mice is now squeezable and acts as a button. But you ask where are the two buttons, well they inferred based on the pressure applied to two sensors at the front of the mouse. So think of the one button mouse that uses pressure to determine which button is being pressed. Pretty funky idea, next is to go to my nearest mac store and try one.

Links
Apple Mighty Mouse

Posted by Egon Kuster at 09:36 PM

August 02, 2005

The Goldfish Hearing Aid

Images Goldfish 5 This is not quite as good as the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy's fictional bablefish that converts speech from one language to any other by just sticking a babelfish in your ear. The Goldfish is based on the concept that real goldfish have a short term memory, the gadget therefore allows you to replay the last 10 seconds of conversation so that you can never miss anything. This is great for the times when you thought you heard something or did not quite understand what someone else said so you replay the conversation.

Links
The Goldfish Hearing Aid

Posted by Egon Kuster at 07:47 PM


	« July 2005 \| Main Page \| September 2005 » August 17, 2005 OASIS drafts Blueprints for SOA OASIS has started a new Technical working group to start defining Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) blueprints to facilitate applications being developed or re-factored into platform-agnostic services. The key players are all the same crowd, including BEA, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe Systems, Datapower, Infravio and Software AG. The catalyst documents being used are the blueprints originally developed by The Middleware Company analyst firm who sold the documents to a former employee for $1 as long as they were further developed and released license-free to the world developer community. Links SOA Center Service Oriented Architecture Blueprints OASIS Web Services and SOA Technical Committees List OASIS Adoption Blueprints TC Posted by Egon Kuster at 09:35 AM August 03, 2005 Apple have finally released a 2 button mouse Apple have finally released a mouse that has more than one button. But they could not just create any normal two button mouse, no that would just be easy. What they have created is the Mighty Mouse that takes the standard one button mouse and adds a few interesting things. This includes a pointer on top that allows you to scroll in all directions like the trackpoints you find in the middle of laptop keyboards. The side holders that have been present on the earlier one button mice is now squeezable and acts as a button. But you ask where are the two buttons, well they inferred based on the pressure applied to two sensors at the front of the mouse. So think of the one button mouse that uses pressure to determine which button is being pressed. Pretty funky idea, next is to go to my nearest mac store and try one. Links Apple Mighty Mouse Posted by Egon Kuster at 09:36 PM August 02, 2005 The Goldfish Hearing Aid This is not quite as good as the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy's fictional bablefish that converts speech from one language to any other by just sticking a babelfish in your ear. The Goldfish is based on the concept that real goldfish have a short term memory, the gadget therefore allows you to replay the last 10 seconds of conversation so that you can never miss anything. This is great for the times when you thought you heard something or did not quite understand what someone else said so you replay the conversation. Links The Goldfish Hearing Aid Posted by Egon Kuster at 07:47 PM