Monday, September 30, 2002

Power management and Mac OS X MacSlash: Advanced Power Mangement For OS X. 3:13:35 PM comment

FileMaker Mobile 2.1 ships MacCentral: FileMaker Mobile 2.1 released. 2:30:24 PM comment

How to move a Radio Weblog to another machine One of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of a Radio-based Weblog is that it lives on your own hard drive. But things can get tricky when you need to move your Radio installation from one machine to another. Here is what I did to temporarily move MNJ. [read more] 2:13:59 PM comment

Thanks for the donation! Kudos to Britt Blaser for his donation to Mac Net Journal today. This is the first month in the history of my publishing MNJ that user donations have been a major contributor to the financial success of the site. So far in September you the readers of MNJ have donated $215 to this site! Britt also asked if there are instructions for how to move a Radio installation from one machine to another. I am writing a story about that topic right now, but the nitty gritty details have already been written by Russ Lipton here: How to back up important Radio files. 11:44:22 AM comment

A couple of useful hints Mac OS X Hints offers a couple of items this morning that I found helpful: Print via the SMC Barricade print server Fix Microsoft Natural Keyboard buttons under 10.2 - I didn't experience this problem at all when I moved to Jaguar, but it may help someone else if their buttons aren't working right... 9:57:03 AM comment

Today's notable software updates As found on Macupdate: XSLT Tools 1.0b1 - Allows AppleScript to apply XSLT transformations to XML data. Free. XML Tools 2.5 - Free tools that let AppleScript parse XML data. F-Script Anywhere 1.1.4 - Freeware to embed an F-Script interpreter in any Cocoa application. Synchronize! X Plus 1.1.5 - A shareware tool for doing personal file synchronization and backups. AudioX 2.1 - Shareware for recording audio on your Mac from any source. Sound Studio 2.0.5 - An audio recording and editing tool. Shareware. Keyboard Maestro 1.2 - Update to the application that lets you set hot keys for applications, files, and scripts. Shareware. 8:53:22 AM comment

Good news... I have been able to install the old Mac OS 9.x version of Radio Userland on my PowerBook 3400c, and so far it looks like it will run fine with my MNJ Web site data. The good news: Mac Net Journal will continue to be updated while my Pismo PowerBook is off for repairs. Onward! 7:11:24 AM comment

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