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Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
Still more interface changes on Mac Net Journal
I am still playing around with minor elements of the look and feel of this site, including removal of the underlined links for the title of each new post. All of that underlining on the page makes things hard to read and I doubt that it was serving readers very much. If you are a reader who wants to link to a specific post, you still can by clicking on the # sign near the end of the post and copying that URL.
11:46:53 PM 
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The New York Times agrees...it is time to watch our digital rights
NY Times editorial: "These are critical times for establishing the scope of our freedoms on the Internet." [Scripting News]
11:26:04 PM
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Article digs through Java IDEs for OS X
The IDEs of Mac. In this month's Java Programming on the Mac, Daniel Steinberg takes you on a ramble through a handful of Java IDEs for Mac OS X. He looks at JBuilder, jEdit, NetBeans, Project Builder, and IDEA. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
5:48:22 PM
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Yet another Eudora beta
Eudora v5.1b23. - The latest beta version of this popular, scriptable email client for OS X. (Release Notes) [AppleScript Info]
This beta doesn't appear to have an expiration date, and it weighs in at 4.3 megabytes
4:26:36 PM
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IE and the Mac splitting? Or is it just an ad?
No More Microsoft IE Support for Mac?. For the first time in five years, a Mac in an Apple ad is not displaying the Internet
Explorer icon in the OS X dock. Instead, the dock displays AOL's Netscape Navigator icon. [osOpinion]
3:15:02 PM
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MailSmith 1.5.1 - Now we're talking
I have downloaded and am planning to spend some time over the next day or two to evaluate MailSmith 1.5.1 - the e-mail client from Bare Bones Software. From first glance, it appears to offer all of the power and flexibility of Eudora under OS X, but with a much more compact and attractive user interface. The user interface still needs improvements - the windows are large and too clunky, for instance - but I suspect that the marriage of a decent user interface with the intelligent filtering and search capabilities that you would expect from the makers of the fine BBEdit text editor.
Still digging...
An update: It didn't take long playing around with MailSmith to hit my first hurdle - how to send mail through a mac.com account with a different From and Return address than my standard pugetsnd@mac.com. So far it looks like MailSmith falls down on this job that both Eudora and PowerMail can do just fine. This is an interesting hurdle, since Mail.app cannot do this task either...
1:15:53 PM
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F-Script 1.2 offers access to Cocoa elements
F-Script 1.2 released. - It’s an open source “lightweight object-oriented scripting layer specifically designed for Mac OS X object system (i.e. Cocoa). F-Script provides scripting and interactive access to Cocoa frameworks and custom Objective-C objects.” [ranchero.com] [AppleScript Info]
1:05:10 PM
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It is National Library Week!
In honor of the designation, take a break from the computer and visit your local library - you know, the place full of books, reference materials and smart librarians. And check out some library-related Web sites, like The Shifted Librarian (who pointed out last night that this is National Library Week...)
9:28:29 AM
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Today's notable software updates
- OmniGraffle 2.0.1 - Shareware diagramming and charting tool.
- Musashi 3.4b4 - Update to the alternative e-mail client.
- Adium 1.6b1 - This update to the freeware AOL Instant Messenger chat client adds user warning support, better window management and beefier contextual menus.
- PageSpinner 4.0.1 - This release offers incremental improvements and bug fixes for the HTML editor that made the move to OS X recently.
- Charla 1.6 - Yahoo! chat client updated with the ability to save chat sessions as .rtfd files and a plug-in based filtering scheme.
9:26:02 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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