Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Another word of thanks Thanks today for the donations from John Busteed and Andrew Smith. The positive feedback is a great boost for Mac Net Journal - and it will make it a lot easier to keep up with the throughput charges for the site! 10:47:41 PM comment

So, are Script and script the same? Or was the Apple tech note wrong? Reader Disputes AppleCare Technote about Script Editor. The tech note stated that there was no difference in the two types of compiled script options. From Mike Harris: "From what I understand, 'Compiled Script' (initial capitals) is the script stored in the data fork. "compiled script" is the script stored as a resource in the resource fork. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 10:44:18 PM comment

NetNewsWire Lite hits final candidate 1 NetNewsWire Lite 1.0fc1. This final candidate release fixes some bugs and adds a ton of sites to the sites drawer. Check out the change notes. [ranchero.com] 6:02:20 PM comment

More on Switchers Switcher Stories Follow Up. After Tim O'Reilly posted his article, "Mac OS X Switcher Stories," he discovered that many people wanted to keep the conversation going. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 5:11:52 PM comment

Are there any good telephony apps for OS X? MacSlash: Telephony Apps For OS X? 12:33:00 PM comment

Fixing Word problems under Mac OS X 10.2 Mac OS X Hints: Fix Word unexpected quits in 10.2 11:39:03 AM comment

Mail.app isn't the only program losing email In reading mail today on the X4U mailing list I see that least one user of Eudora 5.1.1 under Jaguar has also seen that program lose email, and it is good to remember that even the ages-old email application Eudora is a very young application under Mac OS X. 11:34:25 AM comment

'Free' applications can cost you a bundle The recently leaked release notes for Mac OS X 10.2.1 reveals a critical bug in Mail.app that illustrates how you get what you pay for when choosing "free" applications over more mature shareware or commercial programs. 11:01:08 AM comment

From 2.5 million to 100,000 users is...success? Apple plays up .Mac subscriptions. The company says 100,000 people have signed up for the online service. That pales in comparison with the 2.5 million for the earlier iTools service. [CNET News.com] 10:25:19 AM comment

MNJ moves to ninth on the all-time Radio blog list I am amazed to see that Mac Net Journal is now ranked ninth in the all-time list for hits for Weblogs using the Radio Userland software, with nearly 150,000 hits since I started using Radio 8 in January. 10:19:49 AM comment

Wow...a great radio documentary on the Web soon I spent the last hour listening to a great radio documentary from KUOW FM here in the Seattle area. "Orca Odyssey" looks at the state of the quintessential Pacific Northwest whale today and human interactions with the whales from their days of capture in the 60s and 70s to the efforts to help the whale Springer this spring. The story should be available for online listening soon here: KUOW.org. 10:07:19 AM comment

From the redundancy department In Script Editor Saving, Two Choices for Compiled Script.. When you choose Save As or save a script for the first time, you see two choices for the format: compiled script, Compiled Script - The choices produce identical scripts. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 7:08:20 AM comment

100,000 pay for .Mac membership MacCentral notes Apple: .Mac membership swells to more than 100,000. Why Apple is touting this number is hard to understand. Yes, it is a sign of pure profit for Apple, but 100,000 is a drop in the bucket. 7:03:09 AM comment

Today's notable software updates Found on Macupdate: Wacom Tablet Driver X 4.75a3 - Latest update to the driver for most Wacom graphics tablets. Xounds X 1.3 - Shareware from Unsanity that adds appearance sounds to OS X. Activity & Expense Tracker Plus X 1.4.2.1 - A shareware personal time management application. Small Business Tracker Deluxe X 1.4.2.1 - Track business time, expenses, contacts and more. TakeNotes X 1.3.2 - A shareware floating windows notepad app. Mail.app Conduit X 0.3.1 - A conduit for transfering mail from Mail.app to Palm. Bookends X 7.2.3 - Reference management and bibliography shareware. 6:31:29 AM comment

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