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TidBITS advises tinkering with TinderBox
TidBITS: Light Your Fire with Tinderbox. Matt Neuburg digs into the capabilities of TinderBox...which just happens to be the program I am investigating in more depth this week...
9:44:21 PM 
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Microsoft's fake switcher
Dave Winer and others are doing a great job of following the story of Microsoft's fake switcher story that ran earlier today. MS posted a page about a woman who supposedly switched from the Mac to Windows XP, but it has since been discovered that the woman pictured on the page, which has since been removed from Microsoft's site, is a model and the photo appears in a image library. Check Scripting News for links to the ugly truth in all of its Microsoft goodness...
Links: Google's cache, and a thread about the fake switch on Slashdot.
3:24:39 PM
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Best of the Mac Survey underway
Low End Mac is running its Best of the Mac Web Survey #4, and Mac Net Journal is one of the 100 sites being ranked in the survey.
9:28:31 AM
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Need an alarm to Pester you?
Pester 1.0 Released. Nicholas Riley: “Pester is a simple alarm clock and timer for Mac OS X. Use it to remind you to catch the bus or attend an upcoming meeting. It is modeled after xalarm in functionality—though not in interface design.” [ranchero.com]
9:04:10 AM
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Paul Andrews on the Mac-Linux connection
Seattle Times columnist Paul Andrews writes about the large numbers of Unix and Linux users who are switching to OS X in Apple-Linux merger powers 'Mac' switch.
8:38:16 AM
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Why pay for Eudora?
I am enjoying my return to using Eudora under Jaguar, but I am wondering something. The advertising supported free version of Eudora is so unobtrusive that I wonder if the folks who created the program are shooting themselves in the foot by moving to this method to support its full-featured email application? I know I will never click on an ad in Eudora...If I keep using Eudora I will pay though. We as Mac users more than the users of any other platform need to be sure we pay for shareware. All small software developers deserve our support, but on the Mac this is an even greater need since we all love having high-quality choices for all of our applications rather than buying the straight Microsoft party line like many of our Windows-using friends...
8:31:04 AM
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Catch up day
Today is my first full work day with my PowerBook back, and so I am playing some catch up - updating OS X apps ranked by category, updating my own apps to make sure I am up to date with my favorite OS X programs, etc. Look for more posts than usual on MNJ today.
7:52:15 AM
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Recent notable software updates
Found on Macupdate:
7:43:17 AM
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More on IBM's new PowerPC chip
IBM Promises Muscle for the Mac. Big Blue announces a processor to power a new line of Macintosh computers. The chip is designed to put Macs neck-and-neck with Intel's Pentium line -- and even start new 'computing wars.' By Robert McMillan. [Wired News]
6:10:36 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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