2004 reviews: Platforms
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InfoWorld reviews the year in operating systems, including the arrival of the v2.6 Linux kernel.
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Ziff Davis - Easily portable video becomes real; evaluating Microsoft's UI for portable media; what is thought?  &#149; Video: Taking It with You &#149; Gadget of the Month: The Portable Media Center &#149; Thinking About Thinking
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A selection of the best images from the last twelve months
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Columnist Yuval Kossovsky takes a quick glance back at the Mac news of 2004 and then focuses on what's coming in '05. Hint: Keep your eyes on Apple's Xsan technology.
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If anything characterized the world of digital music in 2004, it was Appleâs iPod. Although a slew of music players and online music marts were unveiled by entities other than Apple, no
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Readers remark on the insidious "Wii" and building better bridges. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts.
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A review of the Anna Sui, Brian Reyes, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Philip Lim collections.
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TIME's critics present their lists of the best movies, television, music, books and more from the year 2004
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Reviews of releases by Radiohead, Amplive, Tony Malaby, Kealiâi Reichel and Cachao.
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Companies in various sectors took off nicely in 2004. Here are some that more than tripled.
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As a companion to the podcast version of his review, Matthew Turland has posted his comments in text form over on his blog today.   I received an e-mail recently from a very nice gentleman at Packt Publishing - their representative asked if I would be willing to review one of their books, namely PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects by Shu-Wai Chow. Reviewing books is not something I had done before, so I thought I would give it a good old-fashioned college try.   He mentions the size of the book (and how it's not an indication of the quality) and the basic structure of the book, including spotlights on some of the specific topics covered.
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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Over the last week, I've been writing about the disconnect between flow and rank. Paradoxically, sites that are ranked high don't always deliver a lot of hits when they link to you. On the flipside, there are some sites that are rarely on Top 100 lists, or talked about very much, that deliver substantial flow. Two of them stand out, one a veteran site, and the other a relative newcomer. 1. Daring Fireball is a thoughtful blog written by John Gruber that focuses on the Macintosh. Since I've returned to the Mac in 2005, and have been writing more about Mac issues, I've started getting links from this site, and when I do, they usually send between 1000 and 2000 readers my way. And they're generally interesting people with useful information and ideas. I follow Gruber on Twitter and have learned that he is a Phillies fan and therefore disappointed this year. His posts are interesting there too, and irreverent, which I like of course.  2. A Digg-like memetracker, news.ycombinator.com is in the same league as TechMeme, about 1000 hits for a highly ranked piece. I don't know much about the site, I'm not a regular reader, and I don't know much about the people who visit from this site.
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Tycho:  Orcs and Elves for the DS has a fairly strong mobile heritage, which is to say that some of its presentation is a little two-frame and raw.  If you crave gold and adventure - a common affliction among our people - I think you'll slip past it, and into the retro dungeon crawler at its heart.  It's been reviewed much better on the mobiles than it has been on the portable, but I imagine that people who review games that you play on a phone have a more forgiving palette.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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Reviews of new releases by Manu Chao, Yung Joc, Christian Scott, Just Jack and Chiodos.
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TORONTO, Sept. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of GRIDtoday have awarded Platform Computing, the global leader for enterprise grid software solutions, its inaugural Editor's Choice Award for most innovative grid solution.