Scott Yang's Playground

OpenOffice.org has turned 4, since Sun acquired StarOffice on 13 Oct 2000. Being a happy StarOffice user since version 3 on OS/2, it has completely fulfilled my productivity suite need. Happy birthday!

MacSlash reports CherryOS allows Mac OS X to run on an x86, and it claims it would maintain 80% of the speed of the PC. Wow. If that is really the case, there’s no point to have this poorman’s Mac. Update: According to this Slashdot story, CherryOS is nothing but a rip off of PearPC [...]

The Age argues that evangelical Christians have caused Labor to lose last election. At least that’s is why last week I jumped ship to vote for Liberal for the first time.

The Airrider Cleaner – vacuum cleaner with hover-craft style air cushion that makes it nearly weightless while vacuuming. That might actually add a little bit fun for my weekly vacuuming.

Bruce Schneier in one of the interview, talked about the safety of open source verses closed source. Are open source products more secure than closed source? Schneier: It’s more complicated than that. To analyze the security of a software product you need to have software security experts analyze the code. You can do that in [...]

Virgin Electronics has released its own version of 5GB MP3 player packed with features. A cool contender to iPod mini I’ll say, only if it is not that ugly.

Oz iMac has an editorial on “Where is the iTunes Music Store for Australia. It talks about Apple, iPod, iTunes, and on-line music scene in Australia. Interesting read, but still I am waiting for iTMS here.

I watched the movie Down with Love on DVD last night. This romance comedy is about the match between feminist best-seller author Barbara Novak (Rene Zellweger) and woman’s-man journalist Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). It was actually surprisingly funny with quite a bit of parody to the 60′s. The shots were very “colourful”. The acting was [...]

iCook is an utility/kernel patch for Mac OS X Panther to over clock your 750FX G3. People stated that 50Mhz increase can be easy to obtain. Maybe I’ll wait until that there is an utility to overclock my 900Mhz G3 to 1.8Ghz…

Returning the coloured iMac! (and iPod, iBook as well!). Except it offers 20 instead of only 5 fruity colours. Costs USD$399 to colourise your existing iBook 12″ though, but it would be something appealing to those who want everything individualist.

Tim Challies shared how he sees the Christianity has been dumbed down to be more appealing to the public. So is the trend of prosperity gospel, as Tim has also mentioned, where it presents the “gospel” in a way that the public wants, i.e. prosperity and blessings, instead of what the public needs, i.e. salvation [...]

SMH: Officer took cash for tip off on child porn raid. NSW police used to be the “best money can buy”. Maybe it still is.

Which one? Hard choice. John is the disciple that Jesus loved, and Mark is a faithful helper to Apostle Peter… Oops. Wrong ones! I am talking about the up-coming Federal electron, which always has been the choice between Labour and Liberal parties. It is in fact is tomorrow, 9th of October, but somehow you just [...]

Open Laszlo – a cool open source web application development platform that compiles the code into Flash to run on the client side. XML is everywhere, and client side can be coded in Javascript.

Since I last blogged about Bloglines‘ new REST style web services, I finally had a chance to sit down and code a little application to scratch my itches. What then, is my itch? Bloglines is probably one of the best feed aggregator that I have ever used. And because it is web-based, my subscriptions are [...]