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Thursday, September 5, 2002
An exhaustive Jaguar review
Set aside a good bit of time to read through John Siracusa's thorough review of Mac OS X 10.2 or Jaguar. The review on the Ars Technica site picks apart Jaguar more completely than any other review on the Net.

I will skim through it tonight...

Meanwhile, as an indication of what I think of Jaguar, I upgraded Natalie's Pismo to Jaguar yesterday afternoon. So far, it is running without incident and she hasn't commented on any problems or changes. Excellent! 7:52:24 PM comment


Today's notable software updates
Noted from Macupdate:

3:13:57 PM comment


Mac software affected by MS flaw
Microsoft software flaw affects Macs [MacCentral] 12:07:18 PM comment

New BBEdit version recommended for Jaguar
BBEdit 6.5.3. - BBEdit is a scriptable, high-performance HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. It is designed and crafted for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text. This update includes several fixes related to AppleScript and is recommended for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) users. [release notes] [download page] [AppleScript Info] 11:55:39 AM comment

QuicKeys updated to fix Jaguar issues
QuicKeys X 1.5.3. - QuicKeys is an automation utility for Mac OS X. It takes tasks that would normally take several steps and turns them into a simple, one-step shortcut. It provides a variety of scripting options to integrate AppleScript and QuicKeys functions and it allows users to run scripts or control applications that do not support AppleScript. Version changes: Addresses some issues with Mac OS X 10.2. [release notes] [AppleScript Info] 11:51:38 AM comment

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