“Mac OS X DP3 is the first developer release to include the Aqua user interface introduced at the recent MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Chances are good that Aqua is the reason you’re reading this article. Love it or hate it, Aqua is an attention getter. But this is Ars Technica, not GUI Eye-Candy Weekly, and cruel fiend that I am, I’m going to start this look at DP3 with some good old-fashioned technical exploration.”

“The Eames Office is a family business dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending the work of Charles and Ray Eames. We feel that all three of those dimensions are important to keeping the office useful and vital. We believe that all of Charles and Ray’s work was the result of a way of looking at the world — a design philosophy and process that is worth sharing in many different dimensions. We also believe that creating wholly new works is as consistent with that philosophy as restoring and distributing classic ones.”

“Macromedia Inc. this week launched a partnership with Intuwave to enable the development of advanced wireless content and services based on Macromedia’s Flash technology. Intuwave, which develops wireless data services and applications, will begin porting the Macromedia Flash Player to the Symbian platform, with the intention of bringing rich, interactive, high-impact content to its wireless devices…”

“The Eames Office is a family business dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending the work of Charles and Ray Eames. We feel that all three of those dimensions are important to keeping the office useful and vital. We believe that all of Charles and Ray’s work was the result of a way of looking at the world — a design philosophy and process that is worth sharing in many different dimensions. We also believe that creating wholly new works is as consistent with that philosophy as restoring and distributing classic ones.”

“With the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26, Richard Saul Wurman began the singular passion of his life: that of making information understandable. Wurman coined the term ‘Information Architecture’ in 1976 and in 1984 he created the TED Conferences — Technology Entertainment Design — and remains Chairman and Creative Director.”

“The work of one of literature’s most famous writers can now be sampled on-line. Using state of the art database technology you can search for any text in any play. The search engine will display a summary of where the text was found with a line of context. From there you can view any part of any play and browse the entire script.”

“An e-zine created to be an amazing resource for women photographers everywhere.”

“When this application [MS RegClean] was originally introduced I downloaded it and wondered about its size. It weighed in then at nearly a megabyte. Similar applications out there were 20KB and hardly more. What was inside this monster? I opened it and looked inside.”