Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Microsoft will still work with Apple MacCentral notes that today Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to Apple. This story should not come as a surprise to anyone. Microsoft makes a ton of money creating applications for the Mac, and with the prices MS charges for something like Office vX, the margins have to be attractive to Redmond's bean counters. Those margins should be particularly attractive since MS really is not innovating anything in its operating system division right now, other than the claimed new commitment to fix the mammoth bugs in current Windows code that provides attractive targets for hackers around the world. 9:33:11 PM comment

OmniGroup unveils memory leak tool for developers OmniObjectMeter 2.0 public beta. Omni Group: “OmniObjectMeter is a Mac OS X application that makes it easy for Cocoa and Unix developers to find and fix memory leaks, excessive memory operations, and prematurely deallocated objects. The end product is faster and more robust applications.” [ranchero.com] 9:25:14 PM comment

Popup Dock works with AppleScripts as well as apps and docs Popup Dock v1.0. - Popup Dock is an application designed to work as an extension of the Dock. Instead of cluttering up the dock with every item you want quick access to you can use Popup Dock for most of them and leave the dock for the few items you use all the time. Popup Dock is not a Dock hack, it is a genuine document based application. Popup Dock also includes built in support for executing AppleScripts. [AppleScript Info] 9:23:03 PM comment

Intel wants to join Apple in the software wireless base station game EE Times: Intel wants to turn PCs into wireless LAN access points. Following Apple's lead again. Lowering the cost of an access point to $100 isn't that exciting anyway, since there are already $100 access points. [Hack the Planet] 7:47:50 PM comment

Backup software updated Synchronize! Pro X 1.1 updated. Synchronize! Pro X v1.1 is a Mac OS X application that allows file synchronization and system backups. New features include priveleges being saved during backups... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 5:35:30 PM comment

A general science story: Possible new kind of matter found Two Stars Have Astronomers Believing in New Form of Matter. An orbiting X-ray telescope has found two bizarre objects that may form a new star class and are perhaps filled with a new form of matter. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Science] 5:15:29 PM comment

Review looks at three small 2-megapixel camera, side-by-side-by-side Digital Camera Resource offers a head-to-head review of the Canon PowerShot S330 Digital ELPH, the Minolta DiMage X and the Nikon CoolPix 2500 in an article I found from a link on Macintouch... 4:36:54 PM comment

More on the environmental effects of old computers MacCentral offers a story today about Apple agreeing to an environmental study that will look at the effects of old computers and the toxic materials in those computers and monitors. 4:15:11 PM comment

Seeking Palm Desktop scripting comments Palm Desktop Scripting Support - Feedback Requested Unoffically. Chris Page, of the Palm Desktop development team, has asked unofficially for feedback regarding AppleScript implementation in the Palm Desktop application. If you are interested in the future of AppleScript support for Palm Desktop, and you have something valuable to offer, this is an excellent opportunity to be heard. [AppleScript Info] 2:06:15 PM comment

Macworld special OS X Buyer's Guide coming MacCentral has a story today about Macworld's OS X Buyer's Guide that should be available in stores soon. Regular subscribers to Macworld will need to note that this new guide is not part of their normal subscription. Subscribers can order the issue from Macworld or buy it in local magazine racks... 2:02:42 PM comment

For Radio 8 users: A tutorial How To Create Shortcuts. Of course you can. Besides, not only does Radio automatically generate Shortcuts for you but Userland has placed another 600 or so (hey, who's counting?) at your disposal. [Russ Lipton Documents Radio] 9:16:12 AM comment

Scheduler 3.1 for Macintosh AppleScript Info notes: Scheduler is a utility that enables you to automate your work by launching applications and Applescript scripts. This version provides support for the scheduling of uncompiled and compiled scripts (previously only supported applets). It also supports the scheduled execution of specific sub-routines with arguments inside of a script, thus allowing you to build a small library of script-based handlers inside of a single script file. [AppleScript Info] 9:08:34 AM comment

Today's notable software updates Default Folder X 1.1.1 - Shareware that enhances open/save dialog boxes SnapperHead 4.5.2 - Utility that allows you to share snapshots of your current computer desktop with others across the Net MoosePad X 10.2 v2A72 - An enhanced replacement for Apple's Note Pad program Valentina X 1.9b7 - An update for the scriptable database management program 9:02:56 AM comment

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