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Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 update
Adobe posted an update to its flagship Photoshop program this afternoon, adding more support for Targa files, a better file browser, and better metadata support among a host of other fixes and enhancements detailed in the release notes. Photoshop 7.0.1 is a free update for Photoshop 7.0 users and it is a 15.2MB download.
4:48:48 PM 
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Jaguar begins arriving
Amidst news of delays on some Jaguar shipments, select users who have ordered Mac OS X 10.2 directly from Apple are reporting that they have received Jaguar and are doing their upgrades this afternoon. Andy Smith sent the following to MNJ this afternoon:
"I received my copy of Jaguar today! I ordered from the Apple (for Education) store, with two day shipping. I hope to install it tonight, if I have time."
There should be more meaningful feedback on the upgrade experience and any software or hardware incompatibilities as users start to receive and install Jaguar. Meanwhile, I will be calling my local CompUSA store tomorrow to find out whether I can get a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.2 there on Saturday morning and what time they will open in the morning...
4:11:53 PM
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Tips for creating a Eudora email archive
Mike Cohen offers tips for Archiving Email with Eudora.
Eudora may not be the prettiest or most user-friendly email client, but it has a few very significant advantages: it can handle a large amount of email, since it uses plain text to store email it can't suffer database corruption, and it can search much faster than anything else.
Here's how you can take advantage of it for archiving your email. [MacMegasite] [Mike Cohen: MacOS X]
3:38:13 PM
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FruitMenu 2.5 adds Jaguar compatibility
Unsanity's FruitMenu 2.5 utility brings compatibility with Mac OS X 10.2 to the program that adds functionality to the Apple menu as well as a customizable contextual menu.
11:14:17 AM
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NetNewsWire Lite hits 1.0b15
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b15 improves its RSS discovery feature—it consults its built-in list of sites (that appear in the Sites drawer) when looking for a site’s RSS feed.
You can also now import Blogrolling.com OPML files. It will try to find the RSS feeds for sites that you import.
A bunch of weblogs were added to the Sites drawer. [inessential.com]
11:03:30 AM
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Jaguar shipping delays noted
MacNN has a report this afternoon of readers receiving notice that their Jaguar Family Pack orders have been delayed by up to a week due to high demand. This is the first note I have seen of shipping delays for Mac OS X 10.2...
10:59:40 AM
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What email client will you use with Jaguar?
Do you plan to switch to Apple's Mail program when you make the move to Mac OS X 10.2? Or are the Spam filtering features not enough to lure you to try out the program once again? Send me your Comments through the comment link...
9:07:03 AM
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Pioneer Press offers Jaguar Journal
St. Paul Pioneer Press writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata is on Day Six in his ongoing series Jaguar Journal: A look at Mac OS X version 10.2. Today the series looks at Bluetooth, InkWell and Rendezvous technologies that are all new features in Jaguar. It also notes small changes in the version of Java shipped in Jaguar. Previous reports include:
- Day One dealt with Julio's first impressions of Jaguar, the Spam filtering capabilities of Mail, and an initial look at Bluetooth.
- Day Two offers a look at the new Sherlock 3's capabilities.
- Day Three looks at Jaguar performance on the flat-panel iMac and slight installation problems in Julio's testing.
- Day Four digs into how Julio solved two problems with his installation and tips for backing up before installing Jaguar.
- Day Five examines the capabilities of InkWell and an update on how well Mail's Spam filtering is working for Julio.
7:42:49 AM
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Mozilla problem with Jaguar fixed
The Java issues formerly reported with the Mozilla Web browser running under Mac OS X 10.2 have apparently been fixed in the latest available nightly builds of the browser, according to some already running Jaguar with Mozilla. This is great news! And the speed with which the problem was fixed points out the advantage of an open-source development model. The problem was noted, solved, and released to users in a matter of days. Now that is customer service!
7:02:17 AM
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One ISP's story with the MPAA
Chuck Goolsbee from Digital Forest, the ISP that hosts Mac Net Journal and my other business site for White Rabbit Publishing, posted an interesting note yesterday to the TidBITS Talk mailing list about the MPAA going after his business to shut down an individual user who is sharing "Simpsons" material through Gnutella while connected to Digital Forest.Chuck raises two great legal questions: Can he bill the MPAA for the time in taking action on its behalf? And will he be reimbursed for any lost revenue if he shuts down the offending user? As a Digital Forest user, I worry about the invasion of privacy presented by this enforcement action, as well as about the economic costs of enforcement being passed down to those users who, like me, are not sharing copyright protected materials to the world through a Digital Forest account...
6:47:19 AM
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GraphicConverter 4.4.4 adds new features
GraphicConverter 4.4.4 (Updated 8/22/02) - ($30 shareware) The Swiss Army Knife of graphics programs adds support for exporting directly to Toast in the browser contextual menu, an updated user manual, support for the JPEG 2000 export format on Mac OS X with QuickTime 6 and a host of other enhancements and bug fixes. If you can't afford Photoshop, get this program. I use it extensively with my digital photos, and since I stopped using iPhoto three or four months ago, it is also my photo storage and organization tool of choice. I simply cannot say enough nice things about this program.
6:32:34 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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