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Tuesday, March 5, 2002 |
New toys: I am spending some down time tonight installing and getting a new organizer program, Palm conduit and an ancillary program up and running after making a software purchase from Chronos. The organizer is Personal Organizer 4.0.2, and the Palm conduit just let me import all of my user data from my Palm Vx into the organizer program with only one annoying hitch (I had to dismiss all of my alarms for events that had data in my Palm.....ugh).
The other Chronos program I paid a discounted bundle price to try out is StickyBrain, sort of a stickies and clippings management program on steroids. I will play with StickyBrain more in the future, but for now, I am up and running with Personal Organizer and I should be free of the annoying data file recognition problems with the Palm Desktop beta...
10:20:28 PM 
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A new essential utility? Location X is a $10 shareware utility that restores many of the Location Manager features that we were used to under Mac OS 9.x. It includes settings for time zone, QuickTime, connection speed, network settings and more. The author's mac.com homepage seems to be pretty busy at the moment, but it does offer a demo version.
Depending on how well this software works, it could be a great addition for PowerBook users. It is safe to bet that these features will be restored by Apple at some point, but who needs to wait when independent software developers are on the job?
5:49:31 PM
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New MNJ channels: I have added a couple of new categories to Mac Net Journal tonight: Wireless computing for information about my pending move to 802.11b wireless networking in my home office and for other wireless news, and Digital photography for notes about new gear and software.
Onward!
5:17:20 PM
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For Frontier and Radio scripters: Brent Simmons is busy already since leaving Userland Software last week. Today he offers a freeware utility for Frontier and Radio scripters on either OS X or Windows: DSFinder. It offers quick access to info about verbs and keywords for scripting.
4:41:13 PM
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Nisus Writer for OS X? Out of curiosity I dug around on the Nisus Web site to check on the current status of Nisus Writer for OS X. The answer: It is still being rewritten as a Cocoa application and there is no timetable for its release.
3:47:00 PM
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About OS X and installers: Bill Bumgarner offers his perspective on installers and their behavior under OS X, along with some tips from his experience, on his Radio site. Bill is the creator of the RadioService application that allows Radio users to post to their sites from Service-aware applications.
3:31:00 PM
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And then...24 hours later: Yahoo Groups recovers from outage. The Web portal restores service to its free e-mail discussion lists after hardware problems knocked out communication lines for millions of members. [CNET News.com]
1:08:40 PM
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Software: OmniGraffle 2.0b9 offers a host of performance enhancements and bug fixes to the charting and organization tool from the Omni Group.
11:19:42 AM
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Best of the Mac Survey: Low End Mac has started its Third Best of the Mac Web Survey. Mac Net Journal is not on the list right now, but many other great sites are. Maybe MNJ will be there in a future survey...
9:41:27 AM
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Senior citizens and Macs: Macslash readers discuss the opportunities and hurdles of using Macs with older computer users. [MacSlash]
8:50:01 AM
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Wireless computing: Paul Boutin: Waiting for Wi-Fi. "Wi-Fi Nation is on indefinite hold, at least until computer-carrying consumers can roam beyond the invisible tether of the base station at the office, or the Airport in the family den. With tens of millions of customers ready to be wireless by next year, and the price of a Wi-Fi laptop dropping below $1,000, why isn't AT&T setting up antennae for us, instead of shutting down its Digital Broadband service?" [Scripting News]
8:31:28 AM
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Outliner history: gRadio transcribed a MacWorld article on outliners from 1987. He says "I am making this article available as a tribute to the quality that once was common in the media coverage of the computing industry. It is here to remind us of a time when there were more choices in available software, and when the computer industry media often took a more critical POV when doing a comparative review of the software." [Scripting News]
8:16:40 AM
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Linux lovers strike back: After last week's ZDNet column where David Coursey declared the Linux-on-the-desktop movement dead and that Linux devotees should move to the Mac and its BSD core underlying the pretty OS X face, it was only a matter of time before Linux folks responded. David Morgenstern offers some of their response in his column: You just TRY to make a Linux lover use a Mac
7:58:17 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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