So I've been getting a lot of emails asking for RapidMetaBlog to support other blogging APIs, and so I'm thinking about doing a v2.0 that supports blog servers that don't do the MetaWeblog API. If you have any other suggestions for features or interface, feel free to leave some comments.

Been nice to see a bunch of links come up in Google about it, and since I put it on the Apple Dashboard Downloads page, there has been a lot more people downloading it.

So far I'm definitely planning to add:

• Authenticated Proxy support.
• non-Aqua scrollbars.
• WYSIWIG like editing. (would people prefer an option to compose in straight HTML?)
• Movable Type support

and I'm thinking about adding stuff like:

• editing posts.
• deleting posts.

but I'm not sure whether that starts to go against the whole point of Dashboard… I have been working on a fully featured blog editor like the very very excellent ecto, but with more Tiger Weblog Server specific features, like the ability to actually have the preview look just like your actual post.

Anyway, if people have suggestions, feel free to fire away… I've trackbacked a couple of sites that are commenting on this and some who are still hosting old versions, so hopefully people will get up to date on their versions and some of you who are users will get this…

My aim is always going to be to support blojsom and thus Tiger Weblog Server primarily. A few people have asked for the ability to post an entry in multiple categories, but blojsom doesn't really work that way, so that's probably unlikely to happen, plus I can't think of a nice interface way of doing that.

Oh, and I would like to do localized versions, as there are a few Germans and Japanese using it. If anyone wants to help out with that, just send me an email.

The chicken was ok, but the salad needed some work.

not too bad though.

Perhaps even bigger news than the move to Intel chips… Apple have open sourced WebKit, WebCore, and JavaScriptCore.

You can see more details at David Hyatt's blog, and there is now an OpenDarwin project page at http://webkit.opendarwin.org.

Hopefully this will make the Konqueror developers much happier… but I guess we'll see how that turns out.

So it's official. Apple are moving to Intel processors.

The atmosphere in the SteveNote was hilarious. He came out and said it, and… well imagine a room full of 4000 stunned mullets… OMG as the kids say. If you're watching the keynote stream, look out for the Woz. There were definitely some odd looks on his face…

It certainly leaves a bad taste regarding the Think Secret lawsuit. As Ernest Miller asked Apple and CNet: Where's the Lawsuit?.

It's clear these were deliberate leaks, and the fact that the usual suspects were so silent seems to confirm the rumours of Apple paying them off to keep quiet.

I certainly don't think it's going to be the disaster that a lot of the Mac community seem to be predicting, but I am concerned about audio apps. These are often Carbon, built with Metrowerks, and make heavy use of Altivec, making them the hardest apps to produce fat binaries for. Couple that with the fact that we've already seen a huge shift to Windows for audio production over the last five years or so, and I imagine some of these companies are asking themselves some serious questions about whether they're going to continue releasing Mac versions of their software.

Considering Digidesign haven't even gotten Pro Tools LE running under 10.4 yet, I'm not going to hold my breath for a Mac/x86 version any time soon after release.

Everyone keeps asking about running OS X on non-Apple x86 boxes and running Windows on OS X/x86. I see it like this:

• Apple won't let you legally run OS X on a non-Apple machine.
• People will work out how to do it anyway, but you won't see vendors doing it.
• It might actually increase Apple's mindshare, and force them to concentrate on offering hardware integration advantages
• We'll see something like WINE for OS X/x86. Perhaps that's the only way we'll ever see a decent Exchange client. Be particularly interesting if Microsoft decide to do this, but I'd love to see VMWare for OS X.

Good to see that stalwart of the Australian blogosphere, John Quiggin getting in on the action too.

Oh and I think Daring Fireball has some crow to eat…:)

So after my flight to LA was delayed by two hours, meaning I had to wait around at LAX on standby for 10 hours…. I'm in San Francisco.

Registered for WWDC, about to head out and find a coffee, and then it's off to the MacEnterprise day.

All anyone is talking about is the rumour of Apple moving to Intel… which I just can't quite bring myself to believe. Maybe just in the server line, or in a new not-quite-a-computer-line, but not the desktops surely…

Anyway, at least the WWDC laptop bag is better quality this year… and the t-shirt is nicely subdued for a geek-conference-shirt.

Time to do some shopping and then bone up on CoreData and/or try and sort out RapidMetaBlog so that it can use the system-wide proxy…