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Less than 10 days until Jaguar arrives
OK...I too am tired of some of the complaining about Apple's recent marketing guffaws and mis-steps. How about talking about whether you will be an early adopter for Mac OS X 10.2 or Jaguar? Are you planning to get the update on Aug. 24? Or are you one of the lucky few with a new Mac that came with Jaguar? Let's talk about the positives and negatives of jumping on the latest new OS bandwagon. Send me your Comments through the comment link...
9:23:28 PM 
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Site shuts down forums to make a point
The Mac Observer reports about the Web site MacOSX.com and the reason the site owner shut down the site's forums for 24 hours in protest of the negative comments from Mac users.
Is the Mac user community too critical these days? I would say that Apple has made recent moves that have encouraged a backlash. Whether that backlash is deserved or not depends on your own opinion. What do you think?
7:24:01 PM
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Doing the broadband dance
It never fails. Every summer, each year, it seems that I run into problems with whatever broadband connection I have set up for my home office. A year ago, my disgust with the lack of customer service from Qwest.net combined with the news that Qwest was partnering with Micosoft for MSN Internet access convinced me to make the move to a new broadband connection. And since I didn't have many other options, I opted to try the cable access service through Tacoma's Click! Network cable service, a city-owned cable service that we use rather than dealing with BigCo AT&T for our cable at home. My service provider has been great so far since we hooked up nearly a year ago, but lately the connection has been unreliable at critical times - like when I am listening to the Webcast of a company's financial earnings report and frantically typing up notes and suddenly the audio cuts out and I am stuck with a hole in my note taking until I can hook up the phone and connect to everything through dial-up. These random disconnects were rare until this month, when I have had a disconnect just about every day.
Now I am trying to contact and work with Harbornet, my ISP, to fix the problem, but meanwhile I am looking at other broadband connections that may offer more than the limited options of cable connections. With my cable service, I cannot get a static IP address, which I miss because it means I cannot run my own Web server. Mac Net Journal and my business Web site for White Rabbit Publishing are hosted by an excellent company called Digital Forest here in the Pacific Northwest, but of course that carries a $20 per month fee on top of the $50 or so per month I pay for cable Net access.
Here is the rub. I won't deal with Qwest any longer. I don't even want to have my land line phone through them let alone rely on their wires to keep me connected to the Net. So my options are extremely limited. As far as I can tell, all of the DSL providers offering access to my house are using Qwest, and that limits me to the cable service I already have or the cable service from AT&T, and possibly some wireless line-of-sight service that may exist here in Tacoma by now.
What options have others chosen for reliable broadband Net access, or does such a thing even exist? I am starting to wonder...
3:11:38 PM
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Want to be a beta tester?
StuffIt Deluxe 7.0 Public Beta to Test AppleScript Functionality. - "We have an exciting new release in the works, and we have a need for around 100 beta testers to run the new version prior to release to help us to catch and resolve any last minute issue prior to the product's release. In particular, we are looking for volunteers to test the product's AppleScript functionality." [AppleScript Info]
1:53:21 PM
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A trip down HyperCard memory lane
HyperCard memories. Wired News is running two stories, one on how HyperCard is still around, and another on Bill Atkinson's reflections about missing out on networked stacks. They've gotten me thinking about how I came to be a Web and then an XML developer. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
1:06:17 PM
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secureSLEEP password protects your sleeping Mac
secureSLEEP v0.2. - secureSLEEP uses AppleScript to password protect a Mac during sleep. Version changes: Tries to eject all removable media and refuses to go to sleep if some of them are in use. Final security fix: Now launches the screen saver first then goes to sleep. Hence, if sleep mode is reached, the computer is secured. [d/l] [AppleScript Info]
10:16:04 AM
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HyperCard buzz continues
Leander Kahney at Wired News has a pair of articles today that, when combined with the new Alternatives to HyperCard for OS X reader report over at Macintouch, show a continued interest in the venerable programming environment. That is quite a buzz in two days...
HyperCard Forgotten, but Not Gone. Apple is famous for great software, but HyperCard, one of its best, is programma non grata within the company. Remarkably, the 20-year-old programming environment still has a strong following. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
HyperCard: What Could Have Been. Creating HyperCard was one of the greatest achievements of software genius Bill Atkinson's long career at Apple. So why does he think he missed the mark? By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
6:26:30 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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