Friday, May 24, 2002

Weekend reading for Radio 8 users Scott Johnson: The Radio Chapters for the O'Reilly Book.  [Scripting News] 11:17:17 PM comment

Have a great holiday weekend! For those in the U.S. who are setting off for weekends away from home and work on this Memorial Day Weekend, have a great time! Updates to Mac Net Journal will be sporadic over the next three days, since I will be splitting time between home and book research in various places around Washington state. I will resume posting my normal amount of Mac news and commentary on Tuesday, but I am sure there will be things to report between now and then... 6:10:41 PM comment

OmniWeb updated again, now to 4.1b7 OmniWeb v4.1b7. - OmniWeb is a full-featured native web browser for Mac OS X. This release includes numerous changes. [AppleScript Info] 5:21:15 PM comment

What is the cost of switch a school to Windows? MacCentral offers an anecdotal tale in One school's cost of going Wintel. Possibly as interesting as the story are the reader comments at the end of the story... 4:49:05 PM comment

AppleScript to the rescue: Creating a Palm menu Roll your own Palm Menu. - For all those OS X Palm Desktop users who miss the handy Palm menu icon, here's a quick and free way to bake your own. First off we need to do a little AppleScripting. [MacMerc.com] [AppleScript Info] 4:39:34 PM comment

Round up photos into a Web album with Image Rodeo Image Rodeo v1.2.6. - Image Rodeo is a template-based web photo album creator for Macintosh OS X. Changes include: Export AppleScript - You can export the entire database - including captions and source paths - to AppleScript. This script can be run to re-create the database. [AppleScript Info] 4:34:51 PM comment

Advertising on Mac Net Journal As you can see, today I am starting to place selected advertisements on Mac Net Journal. This is part of my effort to make this Web site support itself, in conjunction with donations from readers. If you or your business would like to support Mac Net Journal, please contact me. 12:50:30 PM comment

Article offers a simple way to get started with AppleScript MacTipsCafe.com: How do I write and run an AppleScript program in Mac OS X?. - "The steps below explain how to write a simple Hello World program using nothing more than the Script Editor that is pre-installed with Mac OS X. AppleScript is already built in to the system so there is nothing extra to buy." [AppleScript Info] 12:13:14 PM comment

MacSlash: Where Apple Doesn't Always Play Nice is a discussion following up on the Business Week article of the same name... 11:04:04 AM comment

MacResQ rolls out speedy PowerBook repair MacCentral notes that MacResQ offers same-day pickup for broken PowerBooks. The new program is $50 more than the standard MacResQ PowerBook repair at $149. But that extra cash may be worthwhile if you have a broken laptop that needs fixed ASAP. 8:10:09 AM comment

OmniWeb gets another daily update OmniWeb 4.1sp89 (Updated 5/24/02) - The Omni Group offers another update today, bumping OmniWeb to version 4.1 sneaky peek 89. In my early testing, there are still some rendering problems in this build, but the table bug introduced recently is getting better... 7:02:32 AM comment

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