Friday, June 7, 2002

Author updates tips for configuring Sendmail Update to Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3. When Apple updated Mac OS X from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5, sendmail was part of that revision. The procedure that Chris Stone outlined in his Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 tutorial no longer worked correctly after the update. Here are the fixes to get sendmail up and running again in 10.1.5. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 5:09:47 PM comment

Email utility enhances Eudora filters Eudora utility adds new filter options [The Macintosh News Network] 4:54:19 PM comment

Skins give Audion a new look MacCentral notes that in the effort to maintain a toe hold in the audio player market, today Audion gets a face lift. The collection of 120 new skins is a first step in making Audion relevant in the MP3 player market, and Panic has also announced a new version, Audion 3, is going into beta testing. 3:40:06 PM comment

The threats to Wi-Fi 80211b News writes: Robert X. Cringely writes about the threats to Wi-Fi's band and the nature of interference and the FCC: he's absolutely right on all counts. Steve Stroh will get credit when the day comes that cities light up their night skies with RF systems, and all of our 2.4 gigahertz networks sputter and fail. It won't happen all at once, and we have an exit plan. [80211b News] 3:30:27 PM comment

Navzilla theme makes Mozilla look great! After reading a couple of people's posts about combining the font smoothing capabilities of Silk and the Navzilla theme for Mozilla 1.0 under OS X, I have decided to give a try myself. The combination transforms Mozilla from its fairly clunky interface to looking more like Chimera...cool! 10:24:48 AM comment

Taking a look at Apple's new Web broadcasting software Scot Hacker takes a look at the capabilities and the shortcomings of Apple's free Web broadcasting software that was offered alongside the QuickTime 6 preview version earlier this week in Notes on Apple's new broadcast software on O'Reilly Network. The article itself is interesting, but Hacker also points out that this software is a new Apple entry into a software category that has previously been owned by third-party developers: "Side note: This now counts as another category where Apple is stepping into territory previously owned by 3rd party developers. Only the high-end broadcast software vendors will be able to offer anything Apple isn't already offering. iTunes kills 90% of the 3rd party audio player market, FCP threatens Avid, Mail.app threatens Eudora, Broadcaster threatens CoolStream and LiveChannel. Anyone see where this is going?" It looks like I am not the only person on the Net noting that Apple keeps spreading its software reach into an ever widening number of software categories. 9:17:21 AM comment

Big Cat - a useful contextual menu tool I am sure that I mentioned the release of the freeware Big Cat plugin for AppleScript Beta 1 when it was released by Brent Simmons in March, but today is the first time I have loaded and started using it. This looks like a useful tool, allowing me to do things like run a Google search on any selected text with a simple control-click, or to open a file selected in the Finder in any selected application with a control-click. This is an OS X only tool... 8:24:16 AM comment

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