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Eudora 5.2b13 released
A new beta version of Eudora is available tonight. There are no release notes online yet for Eudora 5.2b13, but the 3.8MB download...
9:20:48 PM 
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Apple wonders why 'professional' Mac sales are slow
Reading through some notes on Macintouch tonight about today's 4Q02 earnings report from Apple, I find the following:
"Apple sold 180,000 iBooks in the quarter, and 140,000 iPods (including 54,000 Windows iPods), but Power Mac and PowerBook sales continued to be disappointingly "sluggish". Apple thinks the problem is a business slowdown affecting its "creative professionals" market."
A word of advice to the Apple leaders: Make your PowerBook line relevant and less of a compromise and sales will rise. The TiBook is a big compromise (the company that has standardized Wi-Fi can't make its top-of-the-line laptop work well with wireless networks???), and you give up too much to buy an iBook instead. Add the fact that all of the high-end Macs are underpowered in the processor department and it is no wonder sales are sluggish...
9:12:30 PM
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Use Spam Sieve work with PowerMail, MailSmith and others
Mac OS X Hints: Make Spam Sieve easier to use in Entourage. - Anonymous: "I was very exicted about Spam Sieve, but it's a little cumbersome to use in Entourage. Spam Sieve adds Bayesian (as in Jaguar Mail) spam filtering to Mailsmith, Entourage, and PowerMail. I've updated the Applescripts that come with it to make it easier to use, and I thought you might be interested in sharing these ideas with other users." [AppleScript Info]
7:27:42 PM
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Stuffit Expander Security Update
Check the Software Update panel in System Preferences to get the 4.3MB Stuffit Expander Security Update from Apple. The update is a response to a buffer overflow bug discussed in this thread on MacSlash.
6:41:33 PM
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AutoRip uses new Jaguar feature
ScriptBuilders News. - Here's a new ScriptBuilders submission from Jeremy Clark which uses the Jaguar feature mentioned by Ken Bereskin today. AutoRip 0.1b will import songs from a CD automatically if they are not already in the iTunes library. [AppleScript Info]
6:32:55 PM
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TigerLaunch 1.0b5 update released
TigerLaunch 1.0b5. This release has two changes: the menu now highlights, and it puts CodeWarrior and REALbasic project files in the Projects menu. [ranchero.com]
11:21:00 AM
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Using a PC Card to overcome the TiBook's wireless woes
Mac Toters Push Wireless Bounds. Apple's Titanium PowerBook costs more than other Macintosh laptops, but its built-in wireless card isn't up to snuff. For Bay Area Wi-Fi hackers, however, it's not a problem -- it's a project. By Paul Boutin. [Wired News]
7:05:55 AM
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The ridiculousness of advertising
An article on WorldTechTribune offers a short primer on what advertisers don't tell you in ad campaigns like Apple's Switch series in Can Mac users switch to Windows? Yes, but News.com won't believe them. The article caries its own bias, and it seems to be obsessed with every move made by News.com, but it makes some good points.
Although I laughed out loud about the amateurish mistakes made in Microsoft's "fake switch" ad a couple of days ago, the article makes some good observations about the way Apple's switchers are tied to the company and the way that the media has been so enamored of the ad campaign for the underdog computer maker.
7:00:00 AM
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New preference customizes what to do when a CD is inserted
Ken Bereskin offers another in his series of tips about new features in Mac OS X 10.2
There's a new System preference that gives you full control over what happens
when you insert a CD or DVD in Jaguar. The default actions are what most people
expect (open the DVD Player when you insert a video DVD for example), but there
are power user and other scenarios where you might want more control.
For example, let's say you have the world's coolest AppleScript that can backup
exactly the files you want to back up. No problem... Just select Run Script...
from the "When you insert a blank CD" menu and select your AppleScript.
The next time you insert a blank CD, your script will run automatically. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]
6:38:43 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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