Monday, August 19, 2002

iData Pro 1.0.3 is the reincarnation of InfoGenie iDataPro 1.0.3 (Updated 8/19/02) - ($39.95, $19.95 upgrade from InfoGenie 1.x-2.x; $29.95 competitive upgrade from FileMaker Pro, Now Contact, or iOrganizer) iData Pro has positioned itself as a poor-person's FileMaker Pro. It offers versions for Mac OS X, OS 9.x and Windows for transportable data, and it claims to be lightning fast at searching databases. The Web page says that David Pogue calls it a must-have application. It may be worth checking out. I haven't used it yet. 8:11:35 PM comment

TidBITS highlights iPhoto tips and online payments Today's issue of TidBITS has some good reading, including publisher Adam Engst's iPhoto Power Techniques and his explanation of the new voluntary payment system in PayBITS: Acknowledging the Value of Information. The issue also includes an Update on the Digital Hub vs. Hollywood and a short overview of the New Retrospect Client that offers Xserve and Jaguar compatibility. 7:52:33 PM comment

DragStrip for OS X ships MacVillage: Aladdin Ships DragStrip for Mac OS X [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 7:42:12 PM comment

And now for something completely different Taking a short break from the Mac news, I want to mention that I was quoted in a story today in The News Tribune, in an article about Robert Michael Pyle's book, The Butterflies of Cascadia. The article: Butterfly book nets attention, by Susan Gordon. Since I often post butterfly photos here, I figured I would mention the article for any other Mac fans whose interests also branch to colorful creatures of the summer fields and skies... 4:33:44 PM comment

There could be a hurdle ahead for Pismo users MacFixIt has a report from a Pismo PowerBook user running his machine with 750MB of RAM who had to remove the 256MG chip from the top slot of his PowerBook to get Jaguar to install correctly. I will be able to confirm or deny this report this weekend when I install Jaguar on my machine with its officially unsupported 1GB of RAM... 1:58:11 PM comment

Jaguar incompatibilities I started a new living outline listing the known software and hardware incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.2: Jaguar incompatibilities. This will be updated over time as I find more notes of problems with specific programs and hardware... 12:53:46 PM comment

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b13 released The latest update to the excellent NetNewsWire Lite RSS news reader fixes some crashing bugs and adds to the functionality of the Sites toolbar icon. NetNewsWire Lite is a freeware application. 10:25:07 AM comment

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Get ready for a lot of this... Another Web site mentions that Via Voice does not currently work with OS X 10.2 either, and it offers this email response from the makers of the software: "Thank you for your e-mail. Unfortunately, Via Voice has not been tested on OS 10.2 and is not supported. There is no patch available for the moment." Expect to see quite a bit of this in the coming days and weeks as we move to Jaguar, and it would be wise to think twice about jumping to OS X 10.2 at the first chance if you need to rely on your Mac working as well on Sunday as it does before making the switch to Jaguar. That being said, I plan to move to Jaguar and suffer through the hardships along with a lot of other people on Saturday... 9:18:11 AM comment

Jaguar is fast, but... Jake Savin offers more Jaguar incompatibility notes with third-party hardware and software drivers in Jaguar is fast but.... The incompatibilities he lists: The Logitech USB wireless keyboard he uses has the Command and Option keys swapped in the key mapping, and his Lucent Wavelan 802.11b wireless card with its third-party driver that worked under OS X 10.1.5 will not work with the same driver under OS X 10.2. With these two incompatibilities, he will be waiting to make the full-time move to Jaguar. I am thinking more about the drivers that would be critical for me. Among them, the printer driver I mentioned yesterday for my Samsung laser printer, the Kensington Mouseworks drivers to run my Kensington Expert Mouse Pro, the Microsoft drivers to run my Natural Keyboard Pro, and I am sure there are more. These are just the hardware concerns. Who knows what software that I currently rely on will work properly under Jaguar... 8:32:58 AM comment

GyazMail a new OS X mail client in development GyazMail 0.7.2 (Updated 8/17/02) - (Free) GyazMail is a freeware email client under development in Japan. The program offers POP3 and SMTP support, SSL, MIME, message threading and more. This is yet another program in early development, so use at your own risk. I have not taken a look at the program beyond reviewing the information on the author's Web site. 7:45:12 AM comment

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