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Saturday, July 6, 2002 |
Wired helps marginalize the Mac
This kind of article really pisses me off. Wired posted an article this evening called Mac Collecting Like a Religion, wherein writer Leander Kahney claims, "The Mac is more than a computer: It's a community, an identity, a church. Collecting Apple memorabilia is an important part of the Mac psyche."
This is the kind of nonsense article that does a lot to set back the legitimacy of real Mac users - you know, people who actually have a life and work with their computers. The article makes Mac users sound like a bunch of geeks at a Star Trek convention more than users of a growing, legitimate computer used for things like running a business, running a household, or even just for serving as a hub for digital music and video.
I can understand Wired doing this article, because above all other publications it seems fond of pointing out the oddities of those who use Macs, but sometimes it can go just one puff piece too far.
I am not one to argue that every article about the Mac has to be glowing and positive, but I do wish that there were more pieces about cool new uses for the Mac and OS X rather than articles about the Mac being a religion rather than a great computing tool.
One can always wish...
8:30:37 PM 
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Great news for OmniWeb users
If like me you like to use OmniWeb as your main browser, you have surely noticed that the application tends to bog down over time. One major reason is that way that OmniWeb manages downloads. Currently, OmniWeb caches downloads to memory, which can lead to HUGE memory allocations being hogged by OW. Scott at The Omni Group just mentioned on the OmniWeb mailing list that this is a bug that will be fixed soon in a future release of OW. Great news!
Meanwhile, I am doing a couple of things to manage the OmniWeb memory allocation on my system. I restart OW when things seem to bog down, and I avoid using OW for downloading large files unless I am willing to do a restart of the application soon.
2:27:41 PM
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PowerMail 4.0 beta adds new features
PowerMail v4.0b3. - PowerMail 4 is the latest release of CTM Development's scriptable Macintosh e-mail client. This release contains 36 new features and 21 fixes in the areas of Mac OS X-Aqua and OS 9 user-experience, Address Book, advanced POP3 features, IMAP/POP3/SMTP over SSL, text clippings and more. [release notes] [AppleScripts for PowerMail
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I am working with this new beta version now, checking out the new options and features. Look for a more complete write-up about my favorite e-mail client soon...
10:51:30 AM
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