Thursday, February 7, 2002

OmniGroup has posted OmniWeb 4.1sp39 - the third build of their popular Web browser offered today. This release fixes minor bugs found in sp38... 7:04:00 PM comment

Roxio, makers of Toast Titanium, the CD and DVD burning software for Mac OS X and OS 9.x: "Sorry for the inconvenience, we are in the process of posting Toast 5.1.2 revision 2" If you downloaded the initial installer this morning, dump it. 5:22:22 PM comment

iPhoto Library Manager for OS X 1.0 is a freeware tool for managing multiple photo libraries in iPhoto... 4:32:51 PM comment

Want a laugh after reading my Microsoft rant? It's just one click away: Protest march of Felines Against Flat Panel Monitors... 4:18:50 PM comment

Tired of viruses and bugs? Ditch Microsoft: I have found the best antidote to Internet viruses and computer security concerns is to avoid Microsoft products like the plague 12:59:43 PM comment

Public frowns on Microsoft settlement. In a joint legal brief, the company and the DOJ say half of 30,000 comments are against the settlement, 7,500 are in favor of the deal, and 7,000 express no sentiment either way. [CNET News.com] 12:05:44 PM comment

Many folks on an OS X e-mail list I subscribe to are complaining about problems with the latest updater for Toast 5.1.2. I cannot confirm the problem, but if you encounter a problem with the updater, you are not alone. More on this as it becomes available... 10:54:47 AM comment

The un-vision: What Steve Jobs won't do at Apple is the latest column from ZDNet's David Coursey. It offers his impressions after an hour-long meeting with Steve Jobs. 10:26:33 AM comment

Microsoft Network Security Updater is a 870k free update to combat security concerns with Microsoft Office v. X. On a personal note, this is just one more reason I am holding off on buying the office suite from Microsoft. I have no desire to face daily worries about the latest Microsoft coding bugs opening up my OS X machine to security concerns. The surest way to avoid hackers and Internet viruses is to avoid Microsoft software. It's a feature... 9:56:31 AM comment

OmniGroup has already bumped OmniWeb up to 4.1sp38... 9:28:35 AM comment

DragThing 4.2.1 fixes problems with CarbonLib [MacNN] 9:13:43 AM comment

A follow up on yesterday's notes about Fire and Adium - both third party instant messenging clients that work with AOL Instant Messenger protocols, were no longer working with AIM. Late last night I noticed that my program of choice, Fire, was working with AIM once again. And this morning a Mac Net Journal reader pointed out that Adium is working now as well. The scoop on the reason for the outage appears to be a problem with an AOL server that both of these third-party programs use to access AIM users. I should also note that Adium 1.5b6 has been released, and the changes in this version include a move to a alternate AIM server. We will see if this means Adium can escape the server problems that plagued it yesterday... 9:09:33 AM comment

OmniGroup has released a new sneaky peek version of OmniWeb, 4.1sp37. As always, this is a preview version and not the finalized shipping version of OmniWeb 4.1... 8:54:24 AM comment

PCs Don't Go Gently Into Macworld. Forced to go to Macworld Expo with a Windows laptop, a website editor tries to disguise it as an Apple machine. But the deception ends up attracting more attention than he bargained for. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 8:21:33 AM comment

Mozilla.Org: XML-RPC in Mozilla.  [Scripting News] 8:14:43 AM comment

In shift, BofA to stymie Mac users online. Bank of America customers who use Quicken for Macintosh will lose access to some features starting next week. However, if you're on Windows, it's business as usual. [CNET News.com] 8:12:06 AM comment

Mac Office vulnerable, Microsoft warns. The software titan says hackers could use the product serial number as a weapon to shut down copies of Office v. X on a network or connected to the Internet. [CNET News.com] 8:09:57 AM comment

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