Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Eudora 5.2b15 Eudora 5.2b15 (Updated 10/29/02) - ($29.95 to upgrade, $39.95 to buy new) Eudora adds more stability and fixes a number of bugs in this latest release. Among the release notes is this interesting quip: "Disabled don't check on battery pref for OS X, since Apple doesn't give a damn." The new version fixes at least five crashing bugs. 3:06:58 PM comment

iData Pro 1.0.4 iDataPro 1.0.4 (Updated 10/29/02) - ($39.95, $19.95 upgrade from InfoGenie 1.x-2.x; $29.95 competitive upgrade from FileMaker Pro, Now Contact, or iOrganizer) iData Pro has positioned itself as a poor-person's FileMaker Pro. It offers versions for Mac OS X, OS 9.x and Windows for transportable data, and it claims to be lightning fast at searching databases. The new version offers support for synching with Palm PDAs and interaction with Apple's Mail.app. (as excerpted from OS X apps ranked by category) 2:58:25 PM comment

A pair of useful OS X fixes noted TidBITS offers information about a couple of important OS X related fixes: Using VGA Monitors to Fix Blacked-out iMacs and Update Firmware Before Installing Jaguar. 2:48:34 PM comment

AIM, meet ICQ... AIM, ICQ to interoperate. AOL says it will allow its next version of AIM to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the two popular IM services. [CNET News.com] 2:40:36 PM comment

Low-cost Mac backup solutions Low End Mac's Practical Mac column today looks at some low-cost options for doing computer backups. 2:36:50 PM comment

PodNews 3: RSS reading on your iPod PodNews 3 is an aggregator for Apple's iPod. [Scripting News] 2:28:52 PM comment

MacSlash: Apple Triples Server Market Share. This was reported elsewhere yesterday, but it could be interesting to hear comments from server admins and others as to the significance of Apple nearly tripling its share of the server market... 2:24:00 PM comment

Advanced PowerBook adapters from MCE MacCentral: MCE offers new laptop adapters. The company's new adapters work with many older PowerBooks as well as the current state-of-the-art TiBook and iBook machines, and the adapters tout a smaller size and advanced features not offered in other adapters. 2:16:21 PM comment

Consumers are still using film as much as ever, report says Report: Digital photos not bumping film. Despite rapid growth in sales of digital cameras, consumers are using film as much as ever, an IDC report says. [CNET News.com] 2:12:10 PM comment

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