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What is your most 'lived-in' application?
Brent Simmons asks a great question and has some good comments rolling today about Lived-in apps.
Some people might live in Word or Excel. People used to live in HyperCard. (Some probably still do.) Some people live in Frontier. Lots of webloggers probably live in their Web browser. The more gregarious types probably live in their chat program or their email app.
By “live in” I mean the app that feels like home, the app where you spend most of your time. [inessential.com]
My most lived-in apps are Web browsers, but the app I expect to be living in a lot more once my PowerBook is back is TinderBox. We will see how that goes...
5:09:10 PM 
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Use Kung-Log 1.4 to post to MovableType Weblogs
Kung-Log 1.4.2. - Kung-Log is an OS X (AppleScript Studio) application to post to and manage entries of a MovableType weblog. Today's updates address XML encoding issues and add a preference for the date format of the weblog. Comment, ping, and line-break settings are also remembered. [AppleScript Info]
4:45:16 PM
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The good and bad of AppleScript support
The state of AppleScript. John Welch on AppleScript: “AppleScript is one of the most critical technologies on the Mac platform, yet unlike its positive attitude towards other high profile technologies, like WebObjects, Apple seems to be quite divided on AppleScript (AS). I tend to look at this as ‘Good Apple’ and ‘Bad Apple.’” [ranchero.com]
12:25:58 PM
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How UUNet slowed the Net yesterday
How and Why the Internet Broke. A series of circumstances and human errors at network communications firm UUNet on Thursday created a huge Internet slowdown throughout the world. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
10:04:35 AM
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Closing out an odd week at Mac Net Journal
There will be no updates to MNJ on Saturday once again, as Natalie and I head for the hills and across the state to do more research for our book Birding Washington. This time we head all the way up the Columbia River Gorge and then backtrack to the wilderness between Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens, weather permitting.
It will be a welcome break from the computers. This has been an odd week with my PowerBook off for repairs (hopefully it will be back soon...) and me juggling three computers to carry out the work I usually do on one laptop. Updates to MNJ have been fewer and less detailed this week for that reason. Thanks for your patience as readers.
9:27:24 AM
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Is this the golden age of desktop software?
Jon Udell: “It all adds up to one more piece of evidence supporting my hypothesis that we are about to enter a golden age of desktop software. Things have been crashingly dull on that front for many years now. I contend that Web services will revitalize things. Desktop apps aren’t just connecting the user to the local filesystem anymore, they’re connecting the user to the cloud, where all the innovation is happening. How that connection is made is about to become a hugely important piece of the innovation.” [inessential.com]
From my own perspective as a long-time user of Radio 8 to run this Web site, I will weigh in on the side of desktop software. I sometimes have my own problems with Radio, but there is something to be said for controlling my own data and having the ability to - with a little digging - move my installation from one machine to another and keep on going even when the machine that normally holds my data is off for repairs at Apple...
9:18:27 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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