Thursday, April 11, 2002

Image Rodeo helps build Web photo albums Image Rodeo v1.2.5. - A scriptable application for Mac OS X that uses templates to build web photo albums. [MacScripter.net] [AppleScript Info] 11:35:55 PM comment

Google's new API is drawing programmers' interest Steve Zellers is connecting AppleScript to Google.  [Scripting News 3:37:50 PM comment

Office vX fixes coming... Microsoft plans Mac Office fixes. The company will introduce a service pack that fixes bugs but it hasn't solved a bigger problem: creating a Mac OS X e-mail client that can talk to an Exchange server. [CNET News.com] 2:48:53 PM comment

A downfall of the Comments feature on Weblogs Jonathon Delacour noted on April 4, in a post that I just now viewed while reading through his Weblog "the heart of things," that one of his readers who had posted a comment through the Comments feature on his site had received Spam e-mail at the address he used when posting the comment. The bad news here: Comments are being mined for e-mail addresses. Joy... 12:43:42 PM comment

Times writer shows why writers are against Amazon's used book sales Unloading His Books, but Not His Conscience. What does it take to resell a stack of your old books on Amazon.com? And who benefits when you do? By Fred Bernstein. [New York Times: Technology] 11:05:35 AM comment

What can you do with Java Web Start? Mac OS X Hints looks at A reason to launch Java Web Start. [mac.scripting.com] 10:40:35 AM comment

Utility takes snapshots of your desktop for uploading screen dump v1.4. - A simple Macintosh utility to take snapshots of your desktop and upload the picture to display on a webpage. This version includes various enhancements and bug fixes. [AppleScript Info] 10:21:30 AM comment

Rest of the Mac Web survey results rank MNJ Mac Net Journal didn't fare very well in its first appearance in the Rest of the Mac Web survey on Low End Mac. MNJ ranked 41 out of 50 sites in the survey. I didn't do anything at all to promote voting in this survey here on the site, so it isn't likely that many regular readers of MNJ voted in the survey...but hey, at least MNJ was included in the survey this time. I have been publishing MNJ for the last couple of years, so it is good to be noticed... 10:09:31 AM comment

Proteus chat program updated Proteus 1.6.1b4 is the latest release of the multi-protocol chat program from Alien Technology. This update offers new skins to change the look and feel of the program, as well as enhancements to help the program remember your window placement preferences. I am downloading this update today and playing with it a bit after spending the last couple of weeks using Fire as my chat program of choice... 9:24:00 AM comment

Article takes a quick look at OS X Web browsers Newsfactor has a wrap up of the OS X browser scene in Mac Web browsers draw battle lines. By and large, the author agrees with my recent assessments of the browser scene - OmniWeb and Mozilla lead the way in innovating and developing for OS X, Chimera (which had a new version released over the weekend) is looking more promising in its latest preview release, and Internet Explorer is so seldom updated that it takes ages to bring new technologies to the browser. Since I use my Web browser as an information gathering as well as a publishing tool, using Radio 8.0.7, I find myself using two or three browsers at any one time. I still have to use IE for my online work with Lycos, but I also use OmniWeb 4.1b2 pretty much non-stop. Occassionally I use Mozilla, a program that I feel I should use more even though it continues to have some major quirks... 9:15:56 AM comment

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