Thursday, September 19, 2002

How to use Entourage with iCal iCal and Entourage. - Here's what you need to do in order to have iCal use Entourage instead of Mail to send email. [Studio Log via AppleScript Info] 1:47:23 PM comment

A great summary of OS X Web browsers Bill Bumgarner: “Rumors abound that Apple is working on iBrowse—a web browser based on the Chimera engine. Maybe, maybe not. However, the market is certainly rife for someone to create a real and working browser on the platform.” [via ranchero.com] 12:49:02 PM comment

Style over substance in new digital cameras Digital camera makers think thin. Nikon and Fuji Photo Film announce sleek new digital cameras, as camera makers continue to emphasize style over technology. [CNET News.com] 12:33:19 PM comment

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0 ships. Congrats Brent! NetNewsWire Lite 1.0 has been posted. It shipped! Major thanks go to everybody who helped with bug reports, feature requests, feedback, links, and so on. Getting to 1.0 has been a great experience for me, working with so many smart and helpful people. Thank you! [inessential.com] 11:13:02 AM comment

Apple profiles 'The Digital Advantage' A promotional page on Apple's site offers a look at three professional photographers and how they have turned digital photography and their Macs into winning combinations. 8:55:08 AM comment

Edit digital photos on your TV? Taking Digital Photos to the TV Screen for Editing and the Works. Digital camera manufacturers operate on a tacit assumption that everyone has a computer for downloading the images from the camera. By Stephen C. Miller. [New York Times: Technology] 8:52:10 AM comment

Interesting iCal add-ons continue to roll out Have Quicktime Player Read Your Schedule for Today (beta test). The script reads all the Calendars in iCal and gets all the current day's events. The summaries of the events are saved as AIFF files along with a SMIL file coded for display in QuickTime Player into the Temporary Items folder. The Quicktime Player launches and should read your day's events in the calendar and display the text. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 8:44:42 AM comment

Today's notable software updates As found on Macupdate: MUMenu X 1.1 - A free menu extra that displays recent Macupdate releases. Fire X 0.31.c - Update to the freeware multi-client chat program that works with AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, and IRC. WeatherPop X 1.5.3 - View current weather conditions in the menubar. WeatherPop Advance X 1.5.3 - View current weather conditions and the forecast in the menubar. TimeCache X 5.0.7 - Track time and billing for projects with this shareware. Norton AntiVirus Updater X 8.0.4 - Update available through the program's Live Update system. PhotoPress 1.0.5 - Demo version of the digital photo printing utility. netTunes X 1.15(630) - Shareware for remotely controlling iTunes from another networked Mac. 6:57:33 AM comment

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