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Saturday, November 2, 2002 |
Eudora 5.2 due soon
Eudora 5.2 coming next week. - Eudora 5.2 beta testing is now complete and the commercial release should be available next week. Let's hope they've improved and enhanced the AppleScript implementation. [AppleScript Info]
I note this news on the same day that I moved my email back into PowerMail 4, which already has better AppleScript capabilities than the venerable Eudora. But that isn't the reason I moved back to PowerMail today. Other than my never-ending obsession with finding the perfect email client, the PowerMail developers have also promised integration with the OS X Address Book in the near future.
6:16:21 PM 
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Another sunny day in the Pacific Northwest
What's wrong with this picture? It is Nov. 2 and the leaves are bright reds, oranges and yellows outside my living room window, but the sun is shining so brightly that you would think it was summer. The reason: We are in the midst of a record-setting dry spell here in the Pacific Northwest. Just 0.63 inches of rain fell in October, according to my weather computer and rain guage, and it was the second-driest October ever in the area. Meanwhile, over the last three months we have had the driest period on record.
Evidence of the lack of and need for rain is everywhere - grass fires burning in November in Western Washington, forest fires still burning in Eastern Washington. It is too early in the season to get completely freaked out by all of this, but without some serious change we are in store for a major drought in this normally damp corner of the U.S.
2:17:06 PM
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Aha! An inexpensive solution to my cracking Pismo case
Wegenermedia.com could be a godsend of a PowerBook parts vendor in the near future, as I deal with the failing plastics on my Pismo PowerBook case. I found a second crack in the case of my well-treated but obviously aging PowerBook this morning, this one on the lower left hand corner of the bezel that holds the LCD. But Wegnermedia sells replacement plastics for both the bezel and the wrist wrest/upper case of the Pismo PowerBook for very reasonable prices.
And so you are thinking big deal because I would still have to take this machine apart in order to put together new parts for the case. Well, I doubt it would be a serious problem. I used to take apart and service my own PowerBook 2400c, and in order to do anything with that machine I had to strip it down to nothing and then carefully put it back together. I imagine the Pismo would be a piece of cake by comparison...
12:34:39 PM
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Site focuses on easing use of OS X in computer lab settings
MacOSXLabs.org is a site devoted to implementing OS X in computer lab settings. I stopped by the site today to take a look at information about the new freeware program RsyncX 1.7c, which adds a graphical user interface to the rsync utility built into OS X that can mirror files, folders, or entire disks from one machine to another, over a network or across the Internet. I am adding RsyncX, which has support for HFS+ disks, to my ongoing outline OS X apps ranked by category...
12:24:41 PM
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CopyPaste X 1.5b2
CopyPaste X 1.5b2 (Updated 11/1/02) - ($20) New in this beta of the multi-clipboard utility is a Paragraph Maker Tool, a Number Paragraphs Tool, and a new English manual that opens inside CopyPaste.
10:43:05 AM
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Adobe to provide Raw processing
Adobe to provide RAW processing. Rob Galbraith is reporting that Adobe will soon be providing a file format plug-in for Photoshop which allows the processing of RAW files from various digital cameras. Adobe provide a sneak preview of this... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
This will be a godsend to some digital photogs.
9:40:24 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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