Tuesday, April 23, 2002

OmniWeb bumped to version 4.1sp71 The sneaky peek versions of OmniWeb keep rolling out, with the release of 4.1sp71 today. There is no documentation on this release yet... 5:17:58 PM comment

How to work with Apache modules Apache Web-Serving for Mac OS X, Part 6. Ah, those wonderful, useful Apache modules -- Kevin Hemenway walks you through the various Apache modules that come installed on your Mac OS X system and explains what they do. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 5:05:40 PM comment

More fun and games with Radio 8 I have slightly changed the layout of what I call my living document, OS X applications ranked by category. Thanks to a simple how-to document created by Dave Winer (How to write an HTML page in the outliner), I can now just save the outline I use to create and modify the story over time and automatically render it in HTML using tools that are included in Radio 8.0.7. Cool...now I can get back to writing! 5:03:22 PM comment

Are new PowerBooks in the wings? O'Grady's PowerPage adds to the speculation about a new PowerBook coming soon in New Portables - Spring or Summer? This article comes on the heels of notes yesterday on Macintouch that some shoppers are having a hard time finding PowerBooks in computer stores. The developers conference is around the corner on May 5...could that be the day? 10:22:33 AM comment

Brent Simmons notes the outliner in AppleWorks AppleWorks outliner. Maybe I’m the last person to discover it—there’s an outliner in AppleWorks. And it’s not bad. Imagine my surprise. Here’s a screen shot. [inessential.com] I have used AppleWorks' outliner quite a bit, most recently to create an outline for a book proposal that became our current book project. The outliner works pretty well, and if you want to access an outliner without buying a stand-alone program, AppleWorks' outliner works better than even the outline functions built into Microsoft Word... 10:08:47 AM comment

Sig Software updates Drop Drawers to version 1.5.9 Drop Drawers X v1.5.9. - Drop Drawers is a user-interface enhancement which provides floating pull-out, snap-shut drawers on the sides of your screen to store text, URLs, aliases, scripts, pictures, sounds, movies and anything else. An AppleScript editor and compiler are built-in and stored scripts can accept parameters. Drop Drawers 1.5.9 adds full compatibility with OS X 10.1.4, the ability to have drawers with no tabs, an option not to take keyboard focus when in the background, rearranged drawer menus and many other minor fixes and improvements. [AppleScript Info] 9:56:36 AM comment

A focus on Mac-compatible digital cameras Macworld has posted three articles about digital cameras, featuring Four 4-megapixel cameras from Canon and Olympus, Automatic image processing and color manipulation with the Nikon Coolpix 5000, and a review of the Olympus E20N. 9:30:48 AM comment

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