Thursday, September 26, 2002

A new NetNewsWire Lite beta available NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.1b3. This release fixes a crashing bug when parsing RSS feeds. More changes are listed on the change notes page. [ranchero.com] 9:14:13 PM comment

Will six months be enough to save Net radio? Bill could spare Webcasters from silence. Online radio companies would gain a six-month reprieve from new copyright fees under a bill introduced in Congress. Will it buy them enough time to prevent their shutdown? [CNET News.com] 5:46:06 PM comment

HTML and email don't mix Brent Simmons writes: HTML Mail. I am, like, two seconds away from filtering all HTML email to the trash. It’s spam something like 99% of the time. [inessential.com] Do it! I have not used HTML email for the last year since switching to PowerMail as my mail program, and I tell you that you really don't lose anything by sticking to text that everyone can read, that makes your email virus free, and that simply leaves things like Web pages and photos where they belong....on the Web. 3:06:15 PM comment

Recent software updates As found on Macupdate: Mailsmith 1.5.4 - Update to the text-only email client with powerful filtering capabilities. Snard 1.6.1 - Shareware application launcher that creates worksets. Captain FTP 1.4 - Shareware FTP client. Alarm Clock Pro 5.7 - A tool that lets you use your Mac as an alarm clock. ideaSpiral X 1.5.3 - A shareware word processor built to help organize ideas. Apple Darwin 6.0.1 - Core open source version of the Mac OS X kernel. iCal Calling iTunes! 2.0 - Use iCal to notify iTunes to play a song at a certain time. Opera 6.0b1 - New version of the alternative Web browser. TimeSlice 2.5.1 - Record the time spent on tasks on your Mac. 10:13:28 AM comment

Tips for working with Script Editor AppleScript: Ten Tips and Gotchas for the Script Editor. Many scripters still use the venerable Script Editor despite its many limitations. Following are ten tips that come from my time in using the program... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 7:51:08 AM comment

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.1b2 offers new features NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.1b2. This new beta has two often-requested changes: it remembers the size and position of the split views, and you can tell it (via the General prefs panel) to have URLs open in the background in your browser. (That second feature works only in Jaguar, unfortunately.) [ranchero.com] 7:37:41 AM comment

IE X 5.2.2 addresses more security shortcomings Microsoft Internet Explorer X 5.2.2. - Provides all of the latest security and performance enhancements for Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X, including the security vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-050. It also provides support for the new Quart text smoothing feature provided in Mac OS X version 10.1.5 and later, so text on your screen is easier to read. Internet Explorer 5.1.6 for Mac OS 8.1 to 9.x is also available to address the same security issues. [AppleScript Info] 7:33:46 AM comment

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