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Which Weblog tool to use?
The Weblog Tool Roundup. Webmonkey: “I’ve been running a personal website for about six years now. You should see the ladies’ faces light up when I casually drop that little nugget at a kegger or outside the dressing rooms at Old Navy. Their voices get husky, they twist their frosted curls around suggestive fingers, jot their numbers on my bare chest just in case I need someone to do some ‘freelance QA work,’ you know how it is.” [ranchero.com]
1:54:10 PM 
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Adam Iser: the 19-year-old creator of Adium
MacSlash chats with the developer of the fine freeware AIM chat client, Adium: Q&A With Adium's Adam Iser [MacSlash]
1:30:38 PM
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Update to iView MediaPro coincides with iPhoto "phantom" update
iView MediaPro v1.5. - iView MediaPro can be used as a media browser and organizer, media presentation system, or as a drag-and-drop palette side by side with your favorite media editor, multimedia scripting system, or HTML authoring application. It is fully scriptable using AppleScript. This release includes bug fixes and several enhancements. [AppleScript Info]
11:05:07 AM
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Adium has plenty of enhancements in new version
The alternative AIM chat client Adium has been updated to version 1.6b5, and the update includes a number of enhancements. Most notably, away messages now save properly and a number of memory leaks have been plugged.
10:30:53 AM
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The iPhoto update that wasn't
Yesterday morning all the buzz was about the stealthy release of iPhoto 1.1. But take a look around the Web so far today and you would never know that many sites were once pointing to the updater for iPhoto. Versiontracker removed its link yesterday and Apple never did officially add a link to the updater.So, the question is, what happened? Was this release supposed to be held off until Monday, to coincide with the opening of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference? Or were there serious problems with the update that kept it from wide release? I will keep an eye on the software update sites and on Apple's iPhoto page for the official release of this software, but the only good advice at this point is to hold off on updating to iPhoto 1.1 until Apple officially releases it. Better safe than sorry when you stand to lose either your photo collection or your entire OS X installation...
10:24:21 AM
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New printers take digital photos to a new level
Goliath, Your Prints Are Ready. New inkjet printers offer the ability to make glossy, poster-size pictures at home. Is it time to rush out and buy a high-resolution digital camera? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
10:14:35 AM
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Do the new PowerBook G4's video improvements outweigh compromises?
MacCentral's readers are split in their responses to this article: A look at the PowerBook G4's new graphics hardware. The article details the new graphics capabilities with very little mention of the trade offs - the lack of an IR port on the Titanium PowerBook G4 and that the addition of a DVI port rather than a VGA port on the new machine forces users to not only carry an adapter if you want to connect to a VGA adapter, but also to buy another adapter if they want to connect to a new Apple LCD that uses Apple's proprietary ADC port.
The feedback to this MacCentral article is low-key compared to comments I have read on the PowerList, an e-mail list connected to O'Grady's PowerPage Web site. It appears some folks are pretty excited about the new PowerBook's features, but a lot of people are concerned about the inconvenience and tradeoffs in this new model...
9:13:14 AM
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A look ahead to the Apple developer conference
MacCentral looks forward to Monday's opening of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in WWDC: 'State of the union' to look at hardware, software. Among the highlights of the first day of the conference, developers will get a first look at the next major release of OS X...
8:58:12 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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