Friday, July 26, 2002

OpenOffice for OS X Alpha arrives OpenOffice for Mac OS X Goes Alpha. OpenOffice.org has announced an alpha release of the Mac OS X version of its open source office suite. While the software is not a final release, according to OpenOffice.org, the organization presented it as an important milestone in the effort to create free office productivity software that runs on all major platforms. [osOpinion] The software doesn't run on a standard OS X installation yet. It runs under X11, which runs under OS X... 6:39:54 PM comment

Apple has fixed the Webmail problem MacNN notes that Apple resolved the .Mac Webmail security issue 4:45:50 PM comment

NetNewsWire Lite updated NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b4. NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b4 includes new features—aggregate feed, dock menu—and bug fixes. [inessential.com] 4:03:11 PM comment

An alternative to .Mac spending If you have $100 burning a hole in your pocket and you would prefer not to spend it on Apple's .Mac service, the people at The Omni Group are offering a bargain alternative special that ends today. Omni offers its Omni Productivity Bundle, including OmniGraffle, OmniWeb, OmniOutliner and OmniDiskSweeper today for $99.95 - exactly the same price as .Mac. Omni is also offering specials on individual products today, including $5 off on licenses for OmniOutliner (which I finally purchased a few minutes ago), OmniWeb, and OmniDiskSweeper. OmniGraffle has a $10 discount today... 10:06:00 AM comment

Digging into Mac OS X 10.2 Mike Cohen is digging into some of the less obvious new features in Jaguar, or Mac OS X 10.2, in periodic short articles on his MacMegaSite: More Jaguar 6C106 Features. Here are a few more things I've noticed after using Jaguar 6C106 for a while. [MacMegasite] 9:50:41 AM comment

A tutorial for Apple Backup for OS X 1.0 Brad Hopkins has written a tutorial for using the new Backup for OS X program that is part of Apple's .Mac application suite. An interesting line from the article: "A .Mac membership is required for all Users on your system. User A cannot use Backup with User B's .Mac account." 8:53:18 AM comment

A small Mac Net Journal milestone I notice that today Mac Net Journal has gone over the 100,000 visit mark among the wealth of great Radio-based Web sites. Userland offers statistics for Radio sites here. 8:08:48 AM comment

An adventure in ergonomics Can a Mac OS X machine be set up as an ergonomic workstation? The answer is yes, and it doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. I write about the solution I chose in An adventure in ergonomics. 8:00:32 AM comment

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