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Friday, April 26, 2002 |
What is up with Real Networks?
The makers of Real Player and its many various forms of Internet media players continue to be a thorn in the side of OS X users, and I am starting to wonder whether this company, which is local to me here in Puget Sound country, even has a clue that it is snubbing a growing group of multimedia-wise users?I am thinking of this tonight because I may start doing some online work that requires me to listen to streaming news reports on either Windows Media Player and/or Real Player. WMP exists on OS X, but there is not way to natively play a Real media file under OS X. Yes, I can load an aging version of Real's software for Classic, but that just doesn't cut it now that we are more than a year into regular consumers using OS X. Real...are you listening? Is there anyone really working at Real? Or do you all think that the high-end Mac users who are working with OS X don't have any real money to pay for your Real products? The lack of any solid announcements about moving this media reader to the hottest OS, which has a slew of developers from the Mac, Unix and Windows world working on cool software, is Real stupid...
6:09:12 PM 
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Tips for designing wirelss-device friendly Web pages
What Wireless Webmasters Need To Know. Webmasters may have things figured out in the wired Internet world, but they still face a
host of challenges in making their handiwork accessible on wireless devices. Markup
language that works just fine for the wired Web can translate into myriad problems for
wireless users: useless links, poorly displayed images and pages that demand too much scrolling. [osOpinion]
5:35:25 PM
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Salon looks at Fritz Hollings' attempts to curb your digital rights
Salon: "Sen. Fritz Hollings is pushing a bill that supposedly safeguards online privacy -- but actually gives intrusive marketers a green light." [Scripting News]
4:05:31 PM
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MacSpeedZone updates its The X Files
A few recent Mac Net Journal articles landed on the latest installment of The X Files, a compendium of OS X related news articles from across the Internet.
2:59:15 PM
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A full-fledged endorsement of easyDNS for managing domains
Friday: Domain Registration Done Right. I was turned on to easyDNS through TidBITS and Adam Engst, its publisher and my friend. I, like most right-thinking people, have been dissatisfied with Network Solutions since 1994. They have never seemed to master the most basic Web technologies: Web-based interfaces, passwords, self-service, databases, etc. It was beyond me that in 1996, they seemed to manage everything through email that was manually entered into databases. It's beyond me in 2002 that you can't seem to get them to perform a single transfer correctly, partly because they rely on a complicated system that involves email. I've tried other domain registrars and been left cold. I won't mention them because none of them demonstrate the incompetence of Network Solutions, but rather just don't quite get it right. I've read a number of articles lately about how Network Solutions has allegedly tried to delay domain registrar transfers to frustrate users when their renewal fees are up. easyDNS is a breath of fresh air. Their site is well-designed and easy to use. They immediately want you to create a single Web-based account accessed over SSL that you use to manage all of your contact information, domains, and payment. They also throw in more ... [GlennLog]
10:12:38 AM
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Which ports should you leave open on your OS X machine?
MacSlash readers respond to the question in a new Ask MacSlash question-and-answer session.
10:07:07 AM
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New PowerBooks coming soon? The rumors continue
osOpinion: "Analysts and resellers alike seem certain that Apple will unveil faster PowerBook G4s next week. "If there is indeed an update coming, it would be the first change to the PowerBook G4 configuration since October 2001.
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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