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Newsletter Issue #709July 1st, 2013
There's an old joke, where someone says they aren't paranoid, but they know people are out to get them. Regardless, I sometimes wonder if the people running Apple Inc. are inclined to feel at least a little paranoid because it seems that the tech media, and so-called financial pundits, are out to get them.
Certainly, the quality of some of the criticisms seems especially low. It's not a matter of having a particular opinion, but the lack of respect for facts. You have to wonder how these pundits can make so many obvious mistakes, or just engage in speculation that doesn't make any sense. Even a Google or Bing search can often set them straight.
There's also a remarkable inconsistency to some of these criticisms, such as holding Apple responsible for something, but not criticizing another company for the same alleged shortcomings. So we have claims that Apple can no longer innovate, but what about Samsung?
Of course it comes down to this: Apple clearly has a lot on their plate for this fall, and new mobile and desktop operating systems and rethinking the Mac Pro may be only a part of what we'll see. Once everything is released and ready for download and sale, it'll be easier to see if Apple's choices were appropriate, or they could have done better.
Now on this weekend's episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, commentator Jim Dalrymple, Editor in Chief of The Loop, discussed the decision of Barnes & Noble to stop building Nook tablets, the crazy rise and fall of Apple's stock, and the double-standard tech and Wall Street analysts apply whenever they cover Apple Inc.
Veteran tech author Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus admitted defeat because OS 10.9 didn't use the code name "Bobcat," not made seriously of course. He also gave you his early reaction to OS X Mavericks, and to the promise of the next Mac Pro, Apple's tubular workstation, which is expected to be released some time this fall.
On the security front, Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo.com, talked up his company's "anonymous" search engine, which respects your privacy and doesn't track your search requests.
Tech journalist Rob Pegoraro, who writes a weekly column for USA Today, reviewed Republic Wireless, a prepaid cellular service that switches between Wi-Fi and a traditional wireless network to offer unlimited text, voice and data for $19 per month. He also covered efforts by tech companies to push back against NSA surveillance and FISA gag orders, and the prospects for the next TV standard, 4K, or Ultra HD, to succeed in a highly saturated market.
On this week's episode of our other radio show, The Paracast: Gene and Chris present Kevin D. Randle, who returns to The Paracast to discuss his appearance before the recent Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, and his recent book, "Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups." This wide-ranging interview will cover the latest news about the Roswell "Dream Team" investigation, why theories about Ancient Astronauts may be the result of misinterpreting the original cases, and ongoing research into cattle mutilations.
Now Shipping! The Official Paracast T-Shirt! We're taking orders direct from our new Official Paracast Store, where you can place your order and pay with a major credit card or PayPal. The shirts come in white, 100% cotton, and feature The Paracast logo on the front. The rear emblem states: "Separating Signal From Noise." We've also added a huge selection of additional special custom-imprinted merchandise for fans of our show.
Apple is great about setting expectations. So recent OS X releases have each had over 200 new features. Why not 150? Why not 300? Well, evidently 200 sends the appropriate marketing message, although the numbers might be fudged just a little bit.
Certainly, if you look at the full feature sets of Lion and Mountain Lion, they do exceed 200, sometimes by a decent margin. But there are features and there are features, such as adding something to the menu bar, or an extra command that may or may not be useful. So in Mountain Lion, for example, Apple added the awkward Command-Shift-Option-S keyboard shortcut for Save As. Some might have preferred that Apple return to Command-Shift-S. In addition, the Share button and Share sheets, although they are merely variations on a theme, count as separate features.
However, there are also 15 features specifically designed for Mac users in China. So does that mean that rest of the world only got 185 new features? No, because there were a couple of dozen extra features in the list that gave Apple plenty of breathing room. So the phrase "more than" was quite correct, even if some of the ones included were, at best, minor enhancements. Apple doesn't rate the worth of each new feature.
So I do expect that, when the entire feature set of Mavericks is released, it will indeed total more than 200. I also expect that Apple will cheat just a little bit to exceed that number, since that's par for the course. But it does seem as if Mavericks does lots of really good things; it's not just a minor feature update as some would pretend, even though OS 10.9 doesn't look altogether different in most respects when compared to OS 10.8.
I am, for example, encouraged about the possibilities of iCloud Keychain to ease the process of creating, storing and accessing secure passwords across your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Apple also boasts that the passwords are protected by AES 256-bit encryption (yes yet another feature). There's also a password generator that eases the process of coming up with a secure password. You no longer have to rely on the name of a household pet, however unique it might appear to be.
I'm not a current user of multiple displays; one is sufficient for my needs, but the initial reaction across the blogosphere to the Mavericks version is mostly positive. Apple has paid close attention to the needs of the power user here. You wonder why it wasn't done before. Or maybe the OS X engineering team was enamored of linen.
Perhaps the most visible difference is the Finder, which continues to get good and bad ratings depending on your needs. But it's not as if Finder Tabs seems especially unique. You just wonder why it took so long for Apple to get around to adding that function. If it works as fluidly as Apple's claims, routine file management will be simplified. However, I also wonder how long Mac users will have to continue to manage files and folders in the much same way they did in the 1980s, and when something better is going to come along. The Mavericks Finder is still merely getting an iterative change, adding features for which there were already third-party solutions. But what about a dual pane view, being able to manage your files side by side without opening a separate Finder window, as you can with Cocoatech's Path Finder?
In finding ways to enhance the Finder, you think, in part, that Apple might be choosing the low hanging fruit, and if it works well, you'll see more in 10.9's successor next year. Or maybe a totally new approach. After all, the Finder is not getting any younger.
Overall, however, Mavericks strikes me as an upgrade that's very much about adding new functions, but not changing the look and feel very much. Skeuomorphism appears to be history, not that it mattered much in the scheme of things if an app resembled the real life counterpart. But flat is in, so there you go.
I've also read some of the preliminary tests of the Mavericks Developer Preview online, and it does appear that there are genuine performance improvements and useful power efficiencies, just as Apple promises. So battery life on a Mac note-book will be somewhat longer, although any benchmarks published so far are preliminary. It only matters what you see in the final version.
I also wonder whether Apple will just go ahead and make Mavericks a free upgrade. Based on the beta version, it appears Mavericks will run on the same Macs as Mountain Lion, and if there aren't many problems with existing apps, this may be a fairly seamless upgrade. But all Apple says is that it will be available for download this fall; download, not for sale. I wonder if that's a distinction with a difference.
The entertainment and consumer electronics industries are notorious for jumping on trends that may promise commercial success, but don't always fare so well in the real world. So when James Cameron's "Avatar," released in 2009, became a huge hit, 3D was in. It had languished over the years with occasional releases, but few paid attention. This time you had a 3D blockbuster that demonstrated to one and all that you didn't need irritating ping-pong effects to create a compelling experience. You just had to make it real.
So Hollywood decided to invest in 3D, sometimes filming a new motion picture from scratch using that format, sometimes adding it during the post production process. Movie theater owners rejoiced, because they had yet another way to increase the ticket price for those who loved spending two hours in a dark room with glasses, assuming they didn't wear them already.
With a saturated market for high definition TV, you can bet the consumer electronics companies were falling over one another in the rush to add 3D to high-end TV sets. There were two schemes: One used inexpensive "passive" glasses, essentially the same as the ones you get at the local multiplex. Others put some of the decoding circuitry in the glasses, making them "active" and expensive. At first, you had to pay up to $150 for a pair. Not all sets came with them standard, or if they did, certainly not enough for a family of more than two. 3D sets were strictly high-end affairs.
But the rush to embrace 3D really didn't happen. Sure, the cable and satellite providers added a smattering of 3D content, and 3D was added to the Blu-ray format, and the new players didn't cost a whole lot more than the older ones. Indeed, if you have purchased a new Blu-ray player recently, it's probably 3D capable unless you have a really old model.
When consumers didn't rush to embrace 3D sets, manufacturers figured out ways to make them cheaper. Only the low-end sets are without 3D nowadays, but it doesn't mean that we are all busily consuming 3D content, what little there is of it. Sure you can buy a 3D movie if you care to pay $10 or more extra for the Blu-ray version. Yes, movie-goers are flocking to the 3D versions of a movie, particularly when the extra dimensional content is added tastefully. But it's not as if that experience is necessarily suited to one's home, particularly with a larger family where the limits in a TV's viewing angle are apt to cause problems.
Some people in the industry believed that 3D would come into its own with sporting events. The ESPN 3D sports channel was launched on June 11, 2010. Some content delivery services, such as Comcast, DirecTV, and Time Warner Cable, were happy to sign up. But ratings remained low. AT&T's U-Verse gave up on ESPN 3D a year later, claiming high costs and low demand.
Just recently, it was announced that ESPN 3D, which is mostly owned by Disney, would shut down by the end of the year because of "limited viewer adoption of 3D services." The straw that broke the camel's back? I'm not sure, because TV makers aren't giving up on the format. With tens of millions of units being built, the cost of the added electronics is not very high, and thus 3D is yet another useless feature to tout on a bullet point list.
Now I have to tell you that I do not know anyone who actually owns a TV set with 3D capability, or perhaps the sets have that feature, but people usually don't notice, or care. That 55-inch VIZIO E551D-AO that I've had for extended testing is passive 3D capable. It comes with a pair of glasses, and VIZIO sent along one 3D Blu-ray, a cartoon, to demonstrate the set's capabilities.
My opinion? Unless you're viewing the picture at an angle, if the 3D encoding process is handled properly, the effect is quite striking. Unlike some sets, you don't see a noticeable dimming of the picture either with glasses on. I watched that cartoon for a while, and called my wife over to see what she thought. "That's nice," she remarked before she walked away to play with our dog.
However, I won't say home 3D is dead. Manufacturers are working on schemes to deliver the same effects without the need for glasses. That, and supporting a decently wide viewing angle, might make the difference. But the age of 3D, outside of movie theaters, just isn't here yet.
And don't get me started about 4K (Ultra HD) TV.
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"What are you doing?" asked City Dog. "Waiting for a friend," replied Country Frog with a smile. "But you'll do."
City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems, illustrated by Jon J Muth; Hyperion Books for Children (June 2010); ISBN 9781423103004; 64 pages;
Book Source: Copy from local library
We're in frog mode this week, hopping and croaking and reading frog books. It all started after bringing home a new Mo Willems' book from the library. I hadn't read any reviews of City Dog, Country Frog before bringing it home from the library to read with my kids. When I see a book by author, Mo Willems, I snap it up without thinking twice and anticipate a fun, lighthearted read. However, with City Dog, Country Frog, Willems takes a completely different direction. Touching, poignant, bittersweet - those are the words that have been used to describe the story about friendship between two unlikely friends, a frog and a dog. They meet one spring day and continue to play together through the seasons, teaching each other new games and finding companionship and conversation. Winter arrives and friendships change, but the big froggy smile remains.
The first time I read the book aloud, my husband was listening in a nearby room. As I finished the book, he walked toward me with a confused, concerned and surprised expression wanting to see the book for himself. It takes a special kind of picture book to get a response from an adult, and this one certainly has that quality. I don't want to say too much, but this book has the power to invoke a deep emotional response in the reader. The passage of time is clearly evident - friendship and loss is dealt with in an original way. The writing is simple, Muth's watercolor illustrations are exceptional. It's a great exploration of friendship and the seasons of life, written in an easy, gentle way for children to interpret in their own way and question.
Related links:
Booklist Online : The Story Behind the Story - Mo Willems' City Dog, Country Frog
We wanted to create our own frog friends, and decided to make painted rock frogs this week. It's an easy craft for all ages. The kids searched for frog shaped rocks outside, colored them green with acrylic paint and added a few yellow speckles (or globs in my toddlers case) for good measure. We found a template online for the feet on ZiggyZoom. I cut out the feet from a sheet of green foam paper. We used Glue Dots to add the wiggly eyes and feet to the body of the frog. We made five frogs in total so we could use them when singing the "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" song.
My daughter thinks her frog needs a rock dog friend. We'll have to work on one of those later, and I'll post it if it turns out.
A Mommy's Adventures hosts the "stART" meme (Story + Art) each week. Hope Is the Word hosts a Read Aloud Thursday link-up as well.
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I was planning on writing something fun and light-hearted this week – it's mid-summer, the sun is shining (occasionally), Mainers are grilling and gardening and congregating with friends and family. But the Supreme Court's recent decisions on workers' rights have put me in a distinctly less celebratory mood.
Although they wear robes, Supreme Court Justices are only human, and like many of us, they often leave the hardest decisions until the last minute. The very last week of the Court's term brought a slew of important and long-awaited opinions. The news headlines have focused on two of the Court's biggest decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and invalidating a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
But those were not the only important cases decided in the last week of their term – the Court also decided two major cases on workers' rights, and both weaken protections for workers.
First, in Vance v. Ball State University, the Court addressed the definition of a "supervisor." The distinction between a "supervisor" and a "co-worker" may seem academic, but it can have very real consequences in workplace harassment cases. If the person harassing you is considered a "supervisor," then your employer is automatically liable for the harassment, unless the employer can prove that it promptly and adequately addressed the harassment. On the other hand, if the harasser is considered just a "co-worker," then the employer is only liable if you can show that the employer acted negligently – in other words, that it knew about the harassment and failed to properly address it.
The Court sided with the employer in Vance, deciding that "supervisors" are only those with the power to hire and fire. The Court rejected the employee's argument that the definition of "supervisor" is broader than that, and should include individuals who have the authority to direct and oversee the employee's daily schedule and assignments. The Court's decision makes it harder to hold employers responsible for workplace harassment. And perhaps even worse, it ignores the reality of today's workplaces. Many individuals whom we all would consider to be "supervisors" – people who tell us when to show up for work, what assignments to perform when we get there, and how to perform them, but who do not have formal authority to hire and fire – are now just "co-workers" according to the Supreme Court.
Second, in University of Texas Southwest Medical Center v. Nassar, the Court addressed how employees can prove retaliation claims. Again, the Court sided with the employer, holding that the employee had to prove that his complaint of workplace harassment was the "but for" cause of his termination and not just a "motivating factor" in the decision. In other words, it is not enough for an employee to show that she was terminated because of multiple factors, one of which was retaliation. Rather, the employee must show that retaliation was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. This defies common sense. We rarely act for one reason and one reason alone. If the desire to retaliate is one of the factors motivating a supervisor's decision making, even if not the only one, then our civil rights laws should prohibit those kinds of tainted employment decisions.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who dissented in both decisions, said it best: "Both decisions dilute the strength of Title VII [the Civil Rights Act of 1964] in ways Congress could not have intended… the ball again lies in Congress' court to correct this Court's wayward interpretations of Title VII." Hopefully, Congress will do so—but I'm not holding my breath. Until then, workers' rights have been significantly weakened.
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I am doing something today that we usually do not do, I am taking a few minutes to say thank you to the caretakers of the Oak Grove Cemetery. I want them to know how much I appreciate having a clean, well manicured resting place for my parents. As I come into Morenci, I am impressed by the clean lines and well trimmed lawn. You are doing a great job! Thank you.
– Esther (Hart) Gilbert


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Here is some advice we have for you when travelling.
1. Make sure that your ID has not expired.
Check that your documents, especially your passport, are in order. The required validity varies from one country to another, so always check. This will ensure that you are not denied entry into a foreign country
2. Make photocopies of your documents
Make copies of your travel documents, such as boarding passes and hotel bookings in case you lose the originals.
3. Ask your bank which cards to use
Tell your bank you are going to be travelling before you go. Ask about debit or credit card charges.


text: I finally caught up with the cartoons Chris Ware has been doing. I was avoiding them because of their association with This American Life, a show I hate. The narcoleptic punctuation of host Ira Glass makes me want to slap him on the back of the head. With the show's tempo, it's like being trapped for an hour with a bunch of Dave Eggers' readers in an elevator designed by Errol Morris. And the cutesy stories of irrelevance make a good argument for Maoism. Ugh. Anyway, here's some good artwork (sound is advisedly optional):


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What applications do you want for GNUstep? Add below: (Please check [All GNUstep Applications] before adding)
Old NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP apps: http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/meApps.html
__Frontend for different platform to www.granddictionnaire.com__
Keyboard switcher application
Web browser
Seems to be a popular request :).
- Could Camino (formerly known as Chimera) be the one (after backporting)?
- Apple's Safari web browser uses KHTML and KJS software from the KDE open source project, updated and re-released here, but needs Objective-C++ support in GCC.
-- Hasan --
- I could port OrchidWeb to GNUStep. I'd just need enough examples on developing the views from code to {do it.
Apparently, camino is written in Objective-C++, which GCC can't compile (although Apple is supposed to have contibuted the patch). Until gcc can compile mixed obj-c and c++, it can't be ported. There is a thread about this at [1] (it's in french).
- This seems very close... Stefan has began porting Webcore to GNUstep. Still some way to go, but a great breaktrough. This seems to be the most probable answer to the web browser request.
Project Management app
Something like MrProject. It has to be simple, not overbloated as MS Project.
- Complete with ApplicationServices
- WebBrowser integration
- Using proper NS* classes for HTML retrieval
- Ability to select which Google server (www.google.ca, www.google.co.jp)
- Google News, Google Groups, Google Images too.
- Installer/extractor/viewer for DMG images.
- Create DMG packages
- Useful for OSX source packages
Note: The DMG format is Apple proprietary and undocumented. Basically, DMG support is only available under OSX and its unlikely to change.
Blender has recently (since October 2002) gone GPL. Consisting of porting the Blender GUI/WM abstract library GHOST, using NSOpenGLContext, or a CoreGraphics implementation one day. Objective-C++ might be needed for implementing GHOST, but probably can be worked around easily enough. There is an OSX port, probably using CoreGraphics.
Most of Blender is written in C++ doesn't seem to use CoreGraphics but Apple's GL.
CSS/html editor
A cool html/css editor - emphasis on the css structural side.
Object oriented properties application to CSS element definitions, and insert those properties into HTML in web pages. Don't worry about WYSIWIG - that's what web browsers are for, displaying web pages. Just make a object-oriented CSS/HTML editor.
Maybe port Nexus for that?
OmniGraffle clone
(I don't really know what this is, but people have said they want one. Someone please add a description! :)
This is for diagram, UML .... I 'm thinking to write it. But not *right now*. It will have probably a Gorm-feel
OmniGraffle was a clone of Lighthouse Design's Diagram.app, which was a re-working of the NeXT Developer Example Sketch.app, adding rubber-banding / angular connection lines.
OmniOutliner clone
This is a really cool app which can be used for anything. Mostly i think it is used to organise your minds while being creative (some kind of knowledge manager).
The inspiration for this was Jayson Adams' Millennium Software's NoteBook.app, which lives again as the (commercial) program NoteTaker.
A text editor
A simple text editor that can read and write plain or rich text, including both simple word processing functionality (nothing too splashy, like frames) and optional programming features (like syntax highlighting -- not just coloring; controllable tabs; tab v. space indentation, multiple language support). Programming features could be provided by a bundle, but it would be good to for the app to be designed with that bundle in mind.
This editor which is to guarantee me world domination includes a split view where the other pane locates and displays the corresponding end-tag/start-tag when programming.
Ink is not that editor. :)
Softpanorama seems to give a good overview of editors
We have to distinguish between a text editor as programming tool (CodeEditor.app) and a text editor as a word processor (WordProcessor.app?). They are two different approaches to text editing and text processing.
Source code editing view and associated inspector panels and preferences should be provided as a framework, so the SourceView should be reused in other apps. CodeEditor should be only some default wrapper for that framework.
WordProcessor.app sould be an application that extends NSText system. (With easy-to-use paragraph style editing)
How about interfacing with Scintilla? -- Hasan --
A simple DTP application
A simple frame-based application for desktop publishing. Something like Calamus (here is the documentation of tools and modules). Nothing fancy, just application that can lay out frames, control text flow, use paragraph styles and master pages.
I'd rather see TeXView.app come back myself.... I think it's far more feasible (doing a decent page layout app is _hard_ just as Donald E. Knuth). Perhaps better still would be to take advantage of LyX's ``GUI-independence and provide a GNUstep front-end for it, http://www.lyx.org .
No, nothing like LyX or TeX. I have in mind a visual page layout editing tool with features as described above (similar to PageMaker). LyX and TeX are a bit different approaches and should be alternatives to Frame based DTP application.
- Stefan
I think a heavy-weight drawing package w/ page layout features would be a better solution here (this is the workflow I'm using on my NeXT Cube now), then it could be tied into an XML-based workflow in a fashion like to Apple's new Keynote, perhaps in a fashion like to Pages-by-Pages. To describe my workflow a bit---I now use Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube w/ Omega (Unicode-aware TeX variant) for most of my page layout. IME, if a document gets too large to manage w/ Altsys Virtuoso, it might as well go into TeX... Not that I'd mind seeing a replacement for PasteUp.app, I just think that a drawing program is more immediately important / useful.
For simple DTP utility, I'd dearly love to see a re-creation of TouchType.app
- William
Maybe you should take a look at TeXmacs. Looks promising and is in great need of a GNUstep frontend.
- david.
Interesting. I'd seen TeXMacs mentioned on comp.text.tex quite often, but hadn't realized it had gotten as far as it had. Interesting counterpoint to LyX.
- William
One really interesting thing would be to have a fame class which would useful enough so it could be used to put together a simple DTP Application but which would be flexible enough that it could be available to any application - the text control is a standard control for windows managers like MS Windows or Gnome. If there were an equivalent "flowing graphic control", you'd have a powerful building block indeed (note that in MS windows, the text control is actually poor enough that no credible application can built around besides notepad). Also, for a programming text editor, scintilla is great. One thing to consider is that for DTP/HTML editor, what you would want would be a *superset* of the scintilla interface. It would be great to add all the different features in such a way that you didn't have interfaces duplicating each other's functionalities.
-- JosephSolbrig
Painting app (photoshop)
Bitmap drawing app.
Think Photoshop, not Gimp
In fact, forget that. Something new.
Something usable - can do Photoshop, but easy to learn. The Gimp can nearly do photoshop, but who can use it?
It would be great if it consisted of two parts - a very small very useful image viewer/manager (eg gqview) and the actual editor plugin (the big part). So installing image-core would give a very small useful app, then adding image-edit would make it into photoshop.
When opening an image file eg by clicking on it or running image-core thefile.jpg then only the core apps should start, so it starts real quick. If i right-click and choose edit or something .. THEN the other stuff is pulled in.
Or whatever. Just an idea. But makes development path cool. Could also have a vector plugin, or whatever.
Maybe we should wait, when (if?) gimp gets 'gegl'ed (http://gegl.org). then having a decent photoshop like app would be as simple as writing a gui for the gegl foundation. + gives us a nice featureset + plugins!
Maliwan project is aiming to achieve the same goal of GEGL. Right now GEGL isn't even half complete but we can still reimplement it base on GEGL's design. lastlife is waiting for you in irc if you want to discuss the idea. Maliwan is planned to be the heart of the BluTulip which is the actual application.
check SKYRIX libs (Opengroupware).
CVS app
Port CVL
Task management app
Chronographer (lobbying by ludovic) + libical or ~TaskManager (lobbying by Fabien) + libical
Check SKYRIX libs (Opengroupware)
and other instant messengers. check http://freshmeat.net/projects/fireapp/
Like EOModeller.app
Database management
A desktop software (Like PgAccess for example) to manage database. This program could use the GDL2 (Gnustep Database Library). It could be a good exercice and demonstration of this very good library.
Video conferencing software
There's Gnomemeeting (excellent piece of software), but I don't like Gnome too much (all those dependencies).
Update: Gnomemeeting 0.9.6 is supposed to work without Gnome libs (limited functionality).
CronniX - A cron front end
That won't be easily portable, as different OSs use a different cron setup. Eg. BSD has (and uses) both, /etc/crontab __and__ /var/cron/tabs/<username> ...
PfaEdit - A font editor
(This is now called FontForge)
Actually, Cenon (see above) is able to do some limited font editing. Not to knock pfaedit, I use it a lot and think it's a way cool program. Wonder if the two could be merged somehow.
GuileServices / StepTalk Services
On NeXTSTEP there was an application (service?) called [TickleServices|http://www.doubleu.com/TickleServices.html] that allowed you to write your own services in the Tcl language. Something along these lines, but using guile/steptalk would be a nice addition to gnustep.
An application/framework for managing printers, printer properties and print queues. (CUPS frontend?)
DivX/XViD/DVD/VCD Player
I see that there was at least an attempt to port mplayer at one point but it seems to be dead. Maybe VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) which does have an OSX version, could be ported.
Abiword (Word Processor)
A port of the Cocoa version of [AbiWord|http://www.abisource.com] would be great, considering a word processor is a pretty vital application, and that Abiword is a pretty good one.
A spreadsheet application would be great for GNUstep. A clone of Lotus Improv or Lighthouse Design's Parasheet would be a nice thing for GNUstep to have.
Pixen (Pixel Art Tool)
[Pixen|http://www.opensword.org] is a decent, open source pixel art tool and there aren't alot of free or professional programs like it. There is also a compliment tool by the same guys for mapping called Reptile.
We're working on a GNUstep port now, in fact.
Growl! (Global notification system)
Growl! uses distributed notification center to display a graphic message on screen. Every application can send messages to it, for example, when new emails arrive, buddies sign in the instant messager, a task end, etc. It is very easy to implement.
Digital Librarian-like
I would really, really like a Digital Librarian for GNUstep. Basically, imagine an application that manage your documents the same way iTunes manage your music or iPhoto your photos... (to take well-known OSX apps as example ;-)
It would provide 1) automatic management of the documents by projects/ideas/whatever metadata 2) index your documents to let you search quickly in it 3) handles bibliography As a postgrad student I have a LOT of articles in PDF/PS/DVI/html on my hard drive, and such an application would be really nice to help managing that.
A Digital Librarian screenshot: A screenshot of Vertex Librarian, a similar program for NeXTSTEP:
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I want;but I heard it is so hard to implementation. :-(
iTunes/Rhythmbox clone
It would be nice to see a music or video player with real music/media management like Rhythmbox or iTunes. iTunes has started to support management of movies and videoclips, so maybe media management is the way to go?


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I must admit I am a sucker for a few things...a good cup of coffee and crafting supplies. Likewise, I am hooked on Jennifer McGuire's YT channel. (Definitely a guilty pleasure during the day!) If I could afford it, I would be EVERYTHING she shows on her channel. After watching her initial video using Tim Holtz's new Mini Ink Blending Tools I wanted them! However, I was pretty bummed because I had just finished purchasing and attaching the old style blending foams to the bottom of every Distress Ink I own! I knew there had to be a simple way to get what I wanted without spending any extra $$. I searched You Tube and blogs no closer to a solution, so I decided to figure it out myself!
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A little over a year ago, I published a list of some of my favorite audiobooks. Since I've listened to plenty of amazing audiobooks since then, I thought it was time I shared a few more of my favorites.
Misery by Stephen King, read by Lindsay Crouse. My one reading tradition is to read a Stephen King book every Halloween, and this past year, I decided to go with Misery. I really enjoyed the story, but I think Lindsay Crouse's narration definitely helped. She somehow managed to create a picture of Annie Wilkes in my mind that wasn't entirely Kathy Bates.
Nutshell by Ian McEwan, read by Rory Kinnear. It's probably not the easiest thing in the world to voice a sarcastic, wine-loving fetus. That's right, the narrator of this book is still in utero. Which is where he overhears his mother and uncle plotting his father's murder.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, read by Tim Robbins. Last year, I wanted to read some Bradbury, and I thought I'd revisit Fahrenheit, since it's been a very long time since I'd read it. Tim Robbin's voice is perfectly suited to this story, and I really enjoyed his narration. If you want to read (or reread) Fahrenheit 451, this is a great way to go.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, read by Thandie Newton. Speaking of celebrity narrators… Thandie Newton is incredible. I'm a huge fan of hers (Westworld anyone?) and I'm a bit obsessed with her narration of Jane Eyre. It was so good, I went out of my way to spend more time in the car, so I could listen to it without getting distracted. And it made me fall in love with Jane Eyre all over again.
Scrappy Little Nobody written and read by Anna Kendrick. I love Anna Kendrick, and was so excited when I saw she was coming out with a book. And even though I got a hard copy, I decided it might be fun to listen to the audiobook, and I was right. If you like Anna Kendrick, this is a must-read, and I highly recommend the audiobook. Because it kind of feels like you're friends, and she's telling you her life story.
Norse Mythology written and read by Neil Gaiman. This is a new release, and I actually just finished the audiobook last week. I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman, especially when he reads his own audiobooks. His voice is nearly as magical as his writing, and it makes every book even better. I loved that this book was short stories about the Norse gods, and it made for a very quick read (listen).
To get two audiobooks free, use this link to sign up for a 30 day trial of Audible. You can cancel at anytime, and you get to keep the books you chose! So there's really no reason not to.
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Example: Classic Map
If you are in Brazil, you're attack options are; Venezuela, Peru, Argentina and North Africa. You can attack any of these countries on your turn but you can't continue past that.
I think it would be great to have this option at the start of a game because I feel this adds another stradegy element to the game.
I also like the way it is now where you can start in Brazil and attack North America, Egypt, Middle East, India and then China. They both have thier pros and cons but like I said, I think it would be a nice option to have when you are starting or searching for a game.
***Another example from page 2 of this thread.
3seven1 wrote:Round 10:
One of the territories I own is Congo in Africa. Congo has 20 attackers on it. I can attack North Africa, East Africa or South Africa.
I attack South Africa and put 5 attackers there to defend incase of an attack from Madagascar.
I also attack North Africa and East Africa and i'm so lucky that I don't lose 1 time so I leave seven attackers in each territory and leave one behind in Congo. 7 + 7 + 5 + 1 is all 20. Now that i've attacked with those armies I can't attack with them again until my next turn.
If I have other territories with multiple attackers I can attack with those too, but only to touching territories.
The way the game is now, I can attack North Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, Central America...yada yada yada until i'm out of armies. I call that chain attacking.
I think this example is a little more clear than my first one. Is it still stupid or do you think this sounds like a good option to have?
Please post your thoughts. Good idea? Bad idea? Why?


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Year Built2005
AreaCotton Ranch and Chatfield Corners
Lot Size0.03 Acres (1,307 SqFt)
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This gorgeous and immaculate home is located in the heart of Chatfield Corners and is completely turn key! It features an open floor plan and attached 2-car garage, open kitchen with stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, fresh paint and a gas fireplace with accents.Relax on the covered front porch or enjoy great outdoor space in the back yard. Take advantage of easy access to the schools, public golf course and pool, Gypsum Recreation Center and surrounding parks.This home is a must see!
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Vyper exo M laptop case full review
My search for a new laptop bag started as soon as the Virgin check-in attendant announced that my hand luggage was too heavy to accompany me on my flight to Boston.
This was the same bag and contents that has travelled with me across countries and seas, continents and oceans many times over. Inside its myriad pockets and sleeves was one 15-inch laptop, a power adaptor, various cables and plug changers, a couple of magazines, two books and an iPod.
Virgin's weight allowance was a mere 6kg. My laptop weighed 2.5kg on its own, and all its parts probably another 1.5kg. That doesn't leave a lot for reading materials, etc – and then, as I dumped books and magazines on non-laptop-lugging colleagues, I started thinking that one of the heaviest parts was the damned bag itself.
This is an ultra-stylish, cool-black semi-rigid ballistic nylon case that features two layers of moulded high-density foam protection and non-scratch fabrics to cradle your laptop. Even the name sounds sexy.
Various models fit 13-, 15- and 17-inch laptops.
There's an intelligent layout inside the case, too, for all those cables and adaptors – plus all that paper and pen stuff that follows us around still.
As the bag opens a full 180 degrees, you can open and use your laptop while it's in its compartment.
The seatbelt-nylon shoulder strap feels like the heaviest part, so you can always take that off and stuff in your pocket for check-in, then return it to the bag once on your way through departures. Without contents the bag weighs just 1.64kg.
In an innovative twist the Vyper Exo comes with something Booq calls Terralinq. Each bag carries a unique identification number that is linked to you once you've registered online. If the bag is reported to Booq as lost and then found, you're quickly put in touch with the finder.


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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Beer 30 Light
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
If you're reading this at three o'clock Friday morning, you're nuts and I'm on a bus. I hope one of us is drinking a paper-bagged 40 of Budweiser, and I further hope it's the one of us who is you. If you're reading about Beer 30 Light in the middle of the night, you need a beer. I just need to sleep through this bus ride back to Boston; I will have packed a celebratory 40 to break out in case I'm still awake at the glorious moment when Hartford gives way to dawn, but in a less imperfect world I will have timed my drinking in such a way as to be resting peacefully on the overnight trip home from a long 12 hours in New York.
I took an early bus down Thursday morning, because I hadn't been in several months and I needed to check in on a couple of friends. My buddy Gus the polar bear is still coping with his partner's passing, and my buddy Maggie the Drinks boss is moving all the way to some other stupid side of the country in a couple of days, so I figured they could both use some moral support and midday drinking companionship. I'm writing this from the past so I can't say for certain how it all went down, but there's a good chance poor Gus just watched me drink a rummed-up Jamba Juice; there's a better than fair chance that Maggie joined me in two glasses of wine at lunch and then stared at her watch while I desserted on a third and a fourth.
Then I had a quasi-professional cocktail appointment that went poorly (let's assume), then I just messed around in bars (let's guarantee) until catching my midnight bus back home (let's hope). It was a good day, probably. The only thing that could have wrecked it would have been a miscalculated alcohol consumption schedule. You never want to get outright drunk on trips like this, because there are too many moving parts to keep track of with a fully fuzzed brain, but you certainly don't want to find yourself totally sober on a middle-of-the-night discount bus, either. It's a delicate balancing act that prevented me from drinking my customary "Hey, I'm going to New York to screw around on a sunny day when normal people are at work!" bourbon on the bus ride down.
There is a proper time and place for nearly everything in life. Mussels and naps are always good, and cold soups and blisters are always bad; just about everything else can enhance the right parties and wreck the rest of them. I regret to inform you that even alcohol fits into this latter and shiftier category. You might think "But of course you should pour Old Crow into the 32-ounce green Gatorade you buy at the bus station on the way to lunch with Maggie," and that is a smart thought on the surface, but no matter how many times I played the day out in my head beforehand, I couldn't come up with a scenario that was improved by being drunk on the highway at noon. No bourbon.
But a pleasant little beer sheen could have smoothed out the ride without greatly increasing the risk that I'd wind up eaten by a polar bear or a Drinks editor, and I'd have given it a shot if I weren't so turned off by dry ice and bus bathrooms. If traveling with a five-pack were more convenient, I would have brought along the remains of the Beer 30 Light sixer sent to me last week by the inaugural inductee into the Bottom Shelf Hall of Fame, the lovely and talented emgroff.
Beer 30 Light is a regionally available super-cheapo pumped out by Cincinnati's Melanie Brewery; mine was mailed from Pennsylvania. The logo features, in addition to the obligatory mountains, a clock on which all four chronological compass points are set to "Beer 30," indicating that it's always time for one of these good boys. Compelling argument, but how's it taste?
Not bad at all! It's got a distinctive metallic fruitiness that isn't as off-putting as it sounds; it enables Beer 30 Light to fake a fresh cleanliness not often found in beers that come from Cincinnati wearing purple aluminum, much less those that throw themselves around for $13 per 30 pack. In fact, I would pay $19 for 30 of these, which makes Beer 30 Light a very good deal (which is not to be confused with a very good beer, but still).
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Lacrosse may be called the fastest game on two feet, one in which open space can disappear faster than David Copperfield during a magic trick and transitions can rival track meets for speed, yet the Dover-Sherborn boys team took a slow and steady approach to its Division 3 state final contest against Cohasset. It worked.
Lacrosse may be called the fastest game on two feet, one in which open space can disappear faster than David Copperfield during a magic trick and transitions can rival track meets for speed, yet the Dover-Sherborn boys team took a slow and steady approach to its Division 3 state final contest against Cohasset.
The Raiders, the defending state champions, used an almost elementary offense on Wednesday. And it worked.
D-S dispatched Cohasset 12-10 at Harvard Stadium, and claimed its second straight state championship.
"They were in the zone so you've got to try to be patient with it and get it moving one way to get some good shots off," said D-S head coach Brian McLaughlin, whose team finishes the season 19-4.
After taking a 9-6 lead into halftime, the Raiders wasted little time adding to it.
Keaton Stoner took his own faceoff win and put it in the top corner just seven seconds into the second half to push the D-S lead to four. Brandon Jaeger then scooped up his own rebound on the crease and dumped it over the head of Cohasset keeper Evan Yeager (7 saves) to make it 11-6.
"Getting Keaton back about halfway through the season was awesome," said McLaughlin. "He has been great at faceoffs and was great last year, and we missed him at the start of the season."
Cohasset (17-4) made a run late in the fourth quarter, scoring three times in the final three minutes, but it was too little to late as the D-S players rushed the field to celebrate their second state title.
"It's incredible," said senior midfielder Matt Huemme. "It took a lot of work from learning my sophomore year when we came here and lost (5-4 to Weston), and that was pretty much the benchmark of every year which was to get back.
"Last year we won it and this year winning it again was the goal, but it was tough."
The Raiders' offense personified patient in the first half, controlling play for the majority of the 24 minutes. Senior midfielder Russell Mallett put D-S on the board first with a bounce shot stick side with 6:56 remaining in the first.
Huemme followed that up a little under two minutes later when he put home a feed from Jaeger to make it 2-0. The Skippers got on the board when junior attack Colin Whelan ripped a shot past D-S senior goalie Ryan Goodall (9 saves) top corner to make it 2-1 before D-S opened it up.
Jaeger scored the first of his two goals and sophomore attack Matt Davies scored two of his four as the Raiders tallied four of the next five goals to end the first quarter up 6-2. The D-S offense had not been as explosive during the season as it was Wednesday, but the gameplan worked for Huemme and company.
"All season our offense had been shaky now and then," said Huemme. "We really focused on Cohasset's zone and how to beat it and knew we had to be patient, and if we were we could beat it."
Cohasset began to build momentum late in the second quarter, going on a 3-0 run over eight minutes in the frame, but D-S put an end to that. With 20 seconds left in the half, Stoner – who was 12-for-20 on faceoffs – won another faceoff. He pushed the ball to Huemme, who put home the first of his two goals with only four seconds remaining.
"Their faceoff guy was jumping it and winning it and they were running their fast break perfectly," said Cohasset coach James Beaudoin. "When they won a fast break they scored, and when we won one we had to slow it down."


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NFL.com's Jason La Canfora writes that Finley has told teammates he's done for the year. Again, ouch. This hurts.
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It's that damnable SI cover jinx. Packers were on the cover last week.
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Change of topic: Packer put Barnett on IR. He's out for the season.


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Print-n-save endorsements (the short version)
More cash means fewer Council clunkers
D1—Ken Sanchez (unopposed incumbent)
Quarter-cent transportation tax
Live-blog and video from the throwdown we hosted along with other local indie and public media outlets: KNME, KUNM and the New Mexico Independent
The candidates on sex, drugs and rock
R.J. Berry interview and extras
Martin Chavez interview and extras
Richard Romero interview and extras
Write-in candidates: Donna Rowe (mayor) and David Green (D7)
In their own words: Read what hopeful politicians have to say for themselves.
Mayor: Richard Romero, Martin Chavez, Richard (R.J.) Berry and write-in candidate Donna Rowe.
District 1: Ken Sanchez
District 3: Isaac Benton and Alan Armijo
District 5: Michael Cadigan and Dan Lewis
District 7: David Green and Mike Cook
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CONCORD — Population and land use changes in the Granite State in recent decades make research into what those changes mean vitally important to ensuring future generations will enjoy the same quality of life New Hampshire residents do today.
Thanks to a five-year $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of New Hampshire will lead a statewide research and education project that will bring together researchers from around the state to better understand the environment and the complex interactions of the climate-ecological-human system as well as provide critical information for state decision makers. The project also provides new education and training opportunities in science, engineering, mathematics and technology that is necessary for a highly skilled State workforce that advances economic development and employment.
The award was announced Monday by Gov. John Lynch and UNH President Mark Huddleston in a joint news conference, where the focus was on continuing to develop cutting-edge technologies and training a workforce to propel the state forward in technology-based economic development.
Ecosystems in New Hampshire and the surrounding northern forest region provide a wide range of services that are critical to the region's inhabitants. Forests and aquatic ecosystems provide clean water, biomass for timber and energy production, carbon storage, climate regulation, nutrient regulation, and opportunities for recreation and aesthetic renewal. Ensuring that these benefits can be sustained into the future will require improved understanding of basic ecosystem processes and their interactions with changes in climate and land management and a new generation of engineers and scientists educated and trained in this field. Technologies developed as a result of research conducted will be commercialized to spur innovation.
A team of researchers from UNH, Dartmouth College, St. Anselm College and Plymouth State University will bring together expertise from the physical, biological and social sciences. Environmental data will be collected from a statewide network of land-based and aquatic sensors, an aircraft remote sensing system to measure changes in the forest cover, and measurements made by citizen scientists and students monitoring water quantity and quality. Environmental data will be combined with data about housing and demographics; models based on this information will help policy-makers determine the tradeoffs among different land uses, and will inform the development of strategies to adapt to the challenges of changes in land use and climate variability. Partnerships with industry will focus on research and development of new technologies in the areas of energy, biomass, and sensor development.
The project, administered by the NH Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) at UNH and advised by the statewide EPSCoR Committee, includes a substantive workforce development effort with partners at Keene State College, White Mountains Community College, and Great Bay Community College, with science education and research experiences for K-12 teachers and students, and community college faculty and students. Students will receive scholarships to science camp, internships for undergraduate research and transfer incentives to complete a four-year college degree.
Gov. Lynch, UNH president announce National Science Foundation funding to support statewide economic development
CONCORD — Population and land use changes in the Granite State in recent decades make research into what those changes mean vitally important to ensuring future generations will enjoy the same quality of life New Hampshire residents do today.


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A Save The Date card is a great way to allow your guests lots of time to make their arrangements especially for guests who will be travelling to your wedding, a Save The Date invitation is a thoughtful gesture.
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SINGAPORE — MyChinaChannel has linked up with Shanghai Media Group to launch a Mandarin-language rugrats' channel for Southeast Asia, in collaboration with GlobeCast for launch in 2013.
The yet-to-be named channel will feature content in Chinese produced in China by SMG's unit Toonmax and promises more than 1,000 hours of new programs every year in Mandarin, which is the official Chinese dialaect and the one spoken most widely.
The channel will be owned by MyChinaChannel and GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom and a leading global provider of content management services, will manage the on-air creatives, playout and technical services for the channel.
"There is a growing population of Mandarin speakers within Southeast Asia, but there is not enough Chinese content out there, and MyChinaChannel sees great growth opportunities in China-produced, Mandarin-language kids' content," said Melvin Ang, executive director
of MyChinaChannel.
The deal was announced at the Asia Television Forum & Market in Singapore, which is being run in tandem with ScreenSingapore 2012.
The event was officially opened Wednesday by Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information, at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and it features more than 4,000 buyers, sellers and participants from more than 60 countries.
Eight Singapore film directors have been awarded a S$250,000 ($205,338) grant each under the Singapore Film Commission's New Talent Feature Grant, which fosters the careers of local filmmakers. The eight projects were picked from a pool of 25 proposals.
Meanwhile, local shingle Supernova launched the first Singapore-Cambodia co-production, a pic about the sex trafficking industry in Phnom Penh, "3.50," at the fest.
Pic is helmed by Eysham Ali and Cambodia's Chhay Bora, whose "Lost Loves" is Cambodia's entry for the foreign-language category at the Oscars.
In other news from the fest, A+E Networks said it would take over full ownership of AETN All Asia Networks, the Singapore-based company formed as a j.v. with Astro Overseas Limited in 2007.


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24 Hour Privacy.Reduces Energy Costs.
This Gila Frosted White Window Film allows for 24 hour privacy. It is perfect for bathroom windows and door lites.
The film is compatible with standard 1/8 inch (3.2 millimter) clear residential windows including single-pane, dual-pane, and removable storm pane windows.
Width: 12 in Length: 100 ft
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Select a Gila Application Kit for easy installation and maintenance.
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The Obama campaign's digital operations proved to be a crucial point of success that led to the re-election of President Barack Obama in November.
Based on a sophisticated effort and larger emphasis on digital and new media, the Obama campaign engaged supporters and raised an unprecedented amount of money through its digital efforts.
How did the Obama campaign become so effective in the digital realm? Engage, an interactive digital political agency in Washington, D.C., recently published a report entitled "Inside the Cave." It features a 93-page, step-by-step in-depth look at the secrets to the Obama digital team's success.
We've collected 15 of the report's key topics and published them here.
(Note: A special thanks to Engage president Patrick Ruffini for permission to republish parts of the report.)


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This week we examine the pairing of Jordi Embodas's Pona and Cyrus Highsmith's Salvo Sans. Our look will more or less be a quick study in typographic texture, a pairing of coarse and smooth. As I generally do when working with two faces, I line up their styles to get a sense for what's working.
Pona comes off incredibly even-colored, a contemporary pushing along of the great page presence had by late baroque and neoclassical types before it. Note how the rhythm of the stems, overall relaxed fit, and high stroke contrast contribute to a rich, sophisticated, smooth texture.
Add to that the much coarser texture of Salvo Sans's exuberant gestures and near-monolinear stroke. The result is a text that warms to its subheads, and a titles that – though casual – stay on their best behavior.
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From the creators of the original Fallout and many other games, the original Wasteland was what inspired the original Fallout as it is. All you need to do if you want it is to help fund it.
I guess Double Fine's Kickstarter project actually did help kick off what might become a new trend.


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July will finally feel like Summer in Wisconsin
Hazy, Warm & Muggy for today
June gloom is over with hazy, warm and muggy weather on deck for today!
Dew points in the tropical range for today. Maybe hit a local lake to beat the heat with highs reaching to the mid 80s.
A cool front will approach tonight and clouds will begin to fill in this evening. Scattered showers after 9pm will become more widespread after 3am Tuesday morning. No widespread severe weather is expected. But, a few storms may contain brief, heavy rain. Lows hold in the upper 60s tonight.
Showers early tomorrow morning move away as skies become partly sunny. Highs are in the upper 70s with gradually less humid air moving through. A disturbance for tomorrow night may trigger another round of showers and thundershowers.
High pressure for Wednesday and Thursday means sunshine. Highs hold in the low 70s. Warmer air and a chance for showers and storms for Friday afternoon.
Send us your pics of how you beat the heat! firstname.lastname@example.com, my Twitter @seversonsally or our Wisconsin Weather Updates Facebook page.


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SteveS brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 84 Designs von 28 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Platinum Sales Systems
We are a luxury real estate marketing company providing products and services to agents selling luxury homes in the range of a million dollars and up. All of our products and services are on the "Platinum" level, or in other words, a cut above the rest. That's what separates us from our competitors. We have built our name on luxury and how it demands a higher level of attention and detail. Agents come to us because we are known as the service you need to have if you are selling luxury homes. Our products are a mix of cutting edge technology and unique marketing solutions that can't be found anywhere else.
Our target audience is a blend of real estate agents, sellers, and buyers of luxury homes. While the agent is our direct customer, the seller and buyer are the ones who ultimately benefit from our products and services.
I want a total makeover of my current site, which includes our corporate site and certain pages from our member's section. I want to start with the existing content and basically redesign the theme, layout, format, etc. I would like the designer to also add images and graphic elements to the existing content as they see fit to make the site more engaging to the viewer. The copy will remain the same for now, but we may want to change/add some later -- please try to create a flexible design that will allow for those changes and additions.
The designer has full creative control -- however, please keep these points in mind:
- Our projected image must have the look and feel of "luxury". That is what we've built our reputation on and we want to further extend that concept through our website.
- Our main clients are real estate agents (mostly middle-aged), so it can't be too edgy or over the top. I want bold, attractive design that grabs your attention, but still conveys class and "luxury".
- We would expect the winning designer to be available during the implementation phase (post-contest while we are adding the newly designed pages to the site) in case any additional design changes or corrections are required.
Aprrox 20 pages need redesign. A full list will be provided at beginning of the contest, as I do not have room to include here.