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More computer problems tonight
Well, my PowerBook hard drive feels like new tonight, after errors that couldn't be fixed with the disk directory forced me to erase the disk, reformat, and then reload all of my backed up data. Everything is working! Fingers crossed...
11:05:50 PM 
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NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.2b3
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.2b3. This new beta fixes a bug introduced in the last beta. There was an HTTP connection leak that would cause NetNewsWire to stop being able to read news. Fixed. [ranchero.com]
6:06:24 PM
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Transmit 2.0 reworks FTP program for OS X
Transmit 2.0 for OS X. - Transmit 2 is a scriptable FTP client that has been completely rewritten in Cocoa for Mac OS X. A demo is available for download and a partial feature list is available (found on the weblog of one of the co-founders of Panic). [AppleScript Info]
4:24:45 PM
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MacAddict reviews ThinkFree Office
Is ThinkFree Office worth the $49.95 as a way to access Microsoft Office files under OS X? MacAddict thinks so:
" If you live by Microsoft Office's advanced features, ThinkFree isn't for you. For the rest of us still pining for an OS X version of Word 5.1, this is the next best thing and then some."
3:12:54 PM
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Confirmed: I can edit Radio OPML files with OmniOutliner
This may not be big news if you aren't interested in writing in an outliner, but the new beta of OmniOutliner can read OPML files and then export to OPML with no problems at all. I just used OO to do a little updating to my OS X apps ranked by category ongoing outline...
2:48:10 PM
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Copyright proposal to be revised, may be a win for your rights
News.Com: "A proposal to let copyright owners hack into and disrupt peer-to-peer networks will be revised, a congressional aide said Wednesday." [Scripting News]
2:04:37 PM
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OmniOutliner 2.1.1b1 adds news features
The new beta version of OmniOutliner offers importing and exporting to OPML files, French and Japanese localizations, much faster typing speed in the notes area, a new sort by status menu and a number of bug fixes. Check the release notes for more on specific changes in this version. The outliner is a 1.6MB download, and it remains $29.95 shareware.
Now to start editing my Radio files with OO...
1:55:10 PM
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Some great digital photography tips
Top Ten Digital Photography Tips. You have a digital camera and have recorded the typical shots of family and friends. Now what? Here are ten tips to make your next batch of digital images so impressive that people will ask: "Hey, what type of camera do you have?" Guess what? It's not the camera. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
1:33:20 PM
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Brent on Mail, Chimera, and more
Brent took steps to regain control of his computer. Got a new mail client, browser, and nuked Flash. No more spam, popup windows and annoying ads. Sounds pretty good. [Scripting News]
I should mention that I would probably move to Mail as my email client as well if I was swimming in Spam, but since my ISP Digital Forest uses a Spam killing filter on their servers, I get maybe one or two Spam messages a day. Sure, I have to work to fine tune the filters used on the server end by Digital Forest, but by and large their server-side filters work as well as or better than the filters in Mail, and better yet, the Spam never even goes through the Net's pipes from my ISP to my machine before it is filtered out.
This means I don't have to compromise and use Mail, which has to be one of the slowest email clients available under OS X.
12:33:42 PM
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Net attack fails
Assault on Net servers fails. A distributed denial-of-service attack hits the computers that serve as the address books for the Internet, but the effort appears to have little real effect. [CNET News.com]
6:46:33 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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