| The Ultimate Business Machine Technology, business And, not least, about by: Bernard Teo
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Fri 21 Feb 2003 OSX Browser Compatibility with Banks - Good Times Ahead With Safari?Category : Technology/BrowserCompat.txt For connecting to a bank, Netscape 7.01 and Mozilla 1.2 onwards are currently the only alternatives available for people on OSX. Other browsers, like OmniWeb, Opera and iCab, have very weak support for Javascript and lack that most important piece of software, the bridge between Javascript and the Java applets the banks use to ensure security, called LiveConnect, a technology derived from Netscape. But Safari is proving most compliant in terms of Javascript compatibility. See report - "Javascript in Mac Browsers". Apple has seeded Java 1.4.1 to developers. There is cause to hope that the second part of the equation - LiveConnect support - may be solved. Then we can ditch everything else except Safari, if we want to. PDF WorkflowCategory : Technology/PDFWorkflow.txt Noticed this when Apple released 10.2.4. Came across this bit just now that suggests how one might take advantage of that. PDF Workflow allows you to create, channel and otherwise work with PDF documents, with no need for further human intervention, once you set things up properly. The afore-mentioned little tidbit does something useful with very little work. It hints of further possibilities. Systems integration work on OSX is going to get fun. Thu 20 Feb 2003 WeblogCategory : Commentary/intro.txt After posting something to Me@n a while back (which I repost below, for completeness sake), I got a message from Kian Chai (iceberk@mac.com) asking if I'd like to write something about running a small business with Macs. I think I'd be delighted to, though it may entail a bit of work. For one thing, Macs are suitable for large enterprise, too. It really scales well. I think I can prove it. But let's start small. Ok, so I've set up this weblog on my server by cobbling stuff from a few places which I'll explain more about later. I'll put things on the side bar that people can try. Between the commentary here, and the reference/tutorials at the side, I hope to convey a feel for the power that is latent in the machines we have grown to love, though most people, I gather, still only use them for word and digital media processing. I believe we'll only receive better service as Mac users when Macs return as a force in business (look at this recent article as a sign that times are a-changing). And I'm going to do whatever I can to help make this happen sooner rather than later. Wed 19 Feb 2003 If you want a nice girl, go get a nice computerCategory : Commentary/nice computer.txt I was reading this article in STREATS about how if you want a nice girl (as in pretty, leggy), then go get a nice car. It went on to say how, if you have two guys who are equal in everything, the girl (and her parents) would go for the one who drives the nicer car, say a Beemer or Merc or, omigosh, a Porsche. The expensive car somehow promises wealth, status and all the finer things in life. Now, you may just be wondering how all these have got to do with our beloved Macs. For one thing, Macs have always been compared to BMWs - they're both well-engineered products that smack of good taste. And they're both expensive - kind of, in the case of Macs. But we all know how we Mac-heads somehow don't have it quite so good. Imagine the parents's reaction - "you mean, he can only find work in less than 2% of the companies here". No real wealth prospects there. We all know people who will cast the Mac as being expensive and elitist, while yearning for a Beemer of any hue, even if they have to pawn everything in sight for it. You know, IT managers who wouldn't approve the purchase of Macs. One would have thought that if you feed your mind properly, all the good things would eventually follow. Therein lies the rub. It takes too long. But a really good mind will get you all the things you want in life, even if it takes longer. If people complain about how expensive a Mac is, they should remember just how much their mind is worth. Macs are small change compared to the car price increases. A Mac running OSX is not your grandfather's Mac anymore. It can do everything in the business world better and more elegantly than a Windows machine can, at a lower cost, and you'll have more fun while doing it. This may be arguable before our hero Jobs came back; it's so much truer ever since Jaguar, with its tons of free, powerful, new-economy Unix-derived solutions. Get beyond feeling merely cool. It is now possible to crush your competition in business using Macs, which is the surest thing towards tilting the wealth prospects in your favour. The stakes are high. Just imagine a pretty girl's eyes. Imagine how they light up when she discovers you're a Mac user. |
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