Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com

II'd be really happy to read ebooks on my iPod Touch. That would be very helpful.

25. Amazon Kindle client/e-book reader

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is half brilliant and half failure. The brilliant part is Amazon’s Internet system, which allows you to easily search for and buy electronic books or periodicals and download them directly to the company’s reader hardware. The failure part is the reader hardware itself, so poorly designed that it practically cries out for Apple to redesign it. Since Apple’s not in the business of doing Amazon’s work for it, how about this instead: Amazon takes the part of Kindle that’s brilliant—its Internet and payment services—and sticks them on a piece of hardware with a design that’s approximately 1 billion percent better than what Amazon’s selling. Will people really buy and read books, magazines, and newspapers on their iPhones? If you’re Amazon, it’s worth a try.

[From Macworld | 25 native iPhone apps we hope to see]

Safari 3.1 was released today for Mac and PC. It still crashes when accessing secure sites through the ISA proxy at work, at least on my Leopard box.

There will be little to no posting for the coming week. I'll be out of town doing an network cutover. Whee!

J.C. put together a nice article describing all that is necessary to implement Wake-on-LAN in ConfigMgr.

We get quite a few questions about enabling Wake-on-LAN (WoL) so I thought I'd post this document that was created by one of our Microsoft Consultants. It's a good overview of what WoL is and how to implement it so hopefully if this is something you're heading towards this will get you started in the right direction.

[From SMS&MOM : ConfigMgr 2007: Implementing Wake-on-LAN (WoL)]

I always thought Monster cables were overpriced, but this is just funny.

Can you tell the difference between music that passed through a pricey Monster stereo Cable, and a coat hanger? A reader forwarded us a post from the Audioholics Home Theater Forum and its author says no.

[From Experiments: Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?]

Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do.

We think that acting in accordance with principles is important, and IE8’s default is a demonstration of the interoperability principles in action. While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue. As stated above, we think it’s the better choice.

[From IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8]