Friday, March 22, 2002

More painful reading on the Fritz bill Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders. Sen. Fritz Hollings' new bill embeds copy-protection tech in digital hardware devices. But the proposal would have an even bigger impact on the software industry. Programmers, look out. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News] 5:19:58 PM comment

osOpinion offers its top 10 wish list for OS X Ten Mac OS X Suggestions for 2002. Among other things, Apple needs to reestablish itself as a usability pioneer. This means exploring new metaphors for browsing, collecting, recalling and exchanging information, as well as providing for user- and developer-customizable views on file system and other types of data. [osOpinion] 4:19:00 PM comment

Omni Group updates OmniOutliner to 2.0b2 The folks at The Omni Group have been busy. This morning they released OmniOutliner 2.0b2, which enhances a handful of the valuable features revealed with the first beta earlier this week. The Omni Group also released OmniWeb 4.1sp60 last night, and this release is vastly faster than previous versions. I am not sure what they did, but now OmniWeb feels snappier than Mozilla and possibly faster than IE for OS X... 12:27:43 PM comment

A Q&A about your copy rights News.Com: Fighting for your copy rights. Q&A with Joe Kraus. In all of the debate around the DMCA, there were really no consumer groups represented. There just weren't the right people at the table. Personally, what I think we are seeing, certainly from Congress' point of view, are unintended consequences of the DMCA. [Tomalak's Realm] 12:14:41 PM comment

A Radio tutorial: Hot to swap themes Russ Lipton: How to Download and Swap Themes.  [Scripting News] 12:12:47 PM comment

Building a referers page with PHP/MySQL Rolling Referers Page with PHP/MySQL. How to do a page that shows referers for the past 24 hours. (Like the same feature in Manila.) [ranchero.com] 12:10:11 PM comment

What is the best OS X text editor? MacSlash has a discussion underway weighing the pros and cons of different OS X text editors. 9:23:18 AM comment

Where old Macs go to thrive Wired News' Leander Kahney digs up another interesting story from Japan with this profile of what the Mac-obsessed Japanese are doing with old Macs - like an SE 30 converted into an OS X compatible machine. 9:01:15 AM comment

The coolest mouse in the universe PowerBook Central takes a look at some compact and cool Mac accessories from Japan in a wrap up that includes two mice and a tiny 4-port USB hub. 8:54:55 AM comment

The X Files updated MacSpeedZone's fairly comprehensive list of OS X stories and links, The X Files, has been updated. 8:50:53 AM comment

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