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In "Free wireless Net access for the masses" CNet takes a look at the growing movement of those setting up wireless access points in neighborhoods to share their bandwidth with neighbors and passersby...[posted at 9:07 a.m. PDT]
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- Toast Titanium X 5.1p2 - An update to the preview version of Toast for CD burning under OS X
Apple also offers information about the high-end AppleScript Studio program that is scheduled to be released later this year. Apple also offers more in-depth details about new AppleScript capabilities in OS X 10.1...[posted at 12:31 p.m. PDT] The OS X page at Apple has been updated to reflect the release of 10.1 today as well, including movies of common actions under OS X 10.1 and screenshots...[posted at 12:10 p.m. PDT] AppleLust has unveiled its spin on OS X 10.1 with Welcome to 10.1...[posted at 12:02 p.m. PDT] AOL updates AIM for OS X to fix a few bugs and make it compatible with OS X 10.1...[posted at 10:20 a.m. PDT] Apple to release OS X update Saturday [CNet]...[posted at 10:15 a.m. PDT] In conjunction with the expected announcement of OS X 10.1 later this morning, Microsoft plans to offer a beta version of Word X that will offer a subset of the features expected in the final release of Word. Watch the Mactopia site from Microsoft to grab Word X later today. Macintouch notes that the download should be available around 10:30 a.m. PST...[posted at 8:02 a.m. PDT] MacCentral noted yesterday that the Seattle Times offers a three-part series on Mac virus protection written by Seattle writer Glenn Fleishman...[posted at 7:56 a.m. PDT]
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- Fetch 4.0.1 - An update to the shareware FTP client
It appears that OS X 10.1 will be announced tomorrow, and it should be available in some form by the end of the week. But I still maintain that Apple's lack of information to this point about how we will get our hands on the new system is a mistake. It seems to once again be a case where the engineering achievements of the Apple programmers threaten to be squandered by the ineptitude of the Apple marketing teams...
Adobe announces InDesign 2.0 with native support for OS X and a number of new features, as reported in MacCentral. The desktop publishing software will sell for $699 for a full version or at much lower prices for those upgrading. But be patient...InDesign 2.0 won't actually be available until the first quarter of 2002...[posted at 9:16 a.m. PDT] Workingmac.com takes a look at how you can make sure your business and your Mac network will keep running after a disaster in inetd: Network disaster planning...[posted at 9:07 a.m. PDT] Good news for OS X users who have been waiting to use their Wacom art pads under the "new" system...according to reports, Wacom plans to release a beta driver for its graphics tablets once OS X 10.1 is available...[posted at 9:01 a.m. PDT] Illustrator 10 makes its debut for OS X [MacCentral]...[posted at 8:59 a.m. PDT] Get ready for an official announcement of OS X 10.1 when Steve Jobs speaks at the Seybold conference in California tomorrow. Among the Mac news sites making that speculation are: Macworld UK, MacNN and surely a host of other sites before this day is out. What remains a surprise is how we as OS X users will get our hands on this major update to the system? As of this morning, Apple's Web site still offers no way to pre-order OS X 10.1 and to make sure that you have it on your machine as soon as possible...[posted at 8:55 a.m. PDT]
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- iView MediaPro 1.2 - Update to the graphics and multimedia storage and playback program
Speculation whether Mac OS X 10.1 will hit the streets next week is starting to build, with MacNN weighing in with its thoughts as well as The Register from the UK...[posted at 11:09 a.m. PDT]
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- WhatMask 1.1 - A freeware tool for converting subnet mask types and helping with ip ranges
Wow! I just found the preview of the Nikon Coolpix 5000, a high-end consumer model digital camera from the same makers of my Nikon Coolpix 950. This new model makes the leap to 5 megapixels, and at a price of $1099.95, it is a great deal compared to the 5 megapixel D1X from Nikon, which sells to professional photographers for around $5,000. The PC World review is a bit short on details of the camera, but at first glance it looks promising...[posted at 3:31 p.m. PDT] CreativePage 2.8 is an update to the Web publishing program and HTML editor from PineHill Products...[posted at 10:24 a.m. PDT] Microsoft offers some nice screen shots and additional details about Entourage for OS X on its Office v. X for Mac Web pages. The page does note that Entourage will be available as part of the larger Office package, and there is no mention of Entourage being available as a separate product...[posted at 10:11 a.m. PDT] Mac Night Owl has more in-depth details about the Entourage e-mail and Personal Information Manager features that will be bundled with Office v. X for Mac...[posted at 8:31 a.m. PDT] It appears Microsoft decided to unveil more solid information about the forthcoming release of an OS X version of Office. Named Office v. X for Mac, the software suite is scheduled to be unveiled in November with a price tag ranging from as little as $149 for those upgrading to as much as $499 for first-time owners of Office. CNet has a wrap up about the Office suite and its features, as do a number of other Mac news sites...[posted at 8:19 a.m. PDT]
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- Divx for X 1.1 - A Divx format plug in for Quicktime
Apple is still sending mixed messages. On this day to the week after the traumatic events unfolded in New York and Washington D.C., as the U.S. tries to get back to some resemblance of "normal," my thoughts have been drifting to the pending release of OS X 10.1. Over last weekend we saw news that Apple plans to offer free CDs with the major system update in selected stores, but solid details about where and when are not available. And today, if I as a Mac user know that I want the update as soon as it is offered, the details about how to even pay $19.95 to have a CD shipped to me are cloudy at best. If I go to the Apple OS X Web page, there is no clear link to a page to place an order for OS X 10.1. Can Apple be this clueless? If they want to sell this product, which by most accounts is ready to be released within a week or so, then they need to get their ducks in a row and offer concrete information about how to buy OS X 10.1...
The OS X section of MacNN has a review of Quicken 2002 Deluxe...[posted at 10:19 p.m. PDT] Get some SNAX for OS X [MacCentral]...[posted at 5:17 p.m. PDT] KeyboardMaestro is a $20 hot key program for OS X, now in its second beta version. The beta will function until Nov. 15 free of charge...[posted at 3:17 p.m. PDT] A new hybrid Web and e-mail worm similar to Code Red is hitting the Net and slowing traffic in some areas to a crawl today. In an effort to keep my machine from being part of the flood of traffic trying to hit port 80 on Web servers as the worm scans for another system to be infected - this worm cannot infect OS X - I have disabled file sharing and Web sharing on my system for a bit. It may be wise for everyone to do this today if you don't specifically need to share files across Web sharing especially, since Web sharing on OS X is essentially just the Apache Web server running on port 80...[posted at 2:42 p.m. PDT] MacUser offers news about how Apple is working to clear up the Cocoa confusion - how to work with file labeling options seen only by the operating system under OS X...[posted at 9:18 a.m. PDT]
Noted from Versiontracker.com...
- File Buddy 7.0b7 - Destop and file manager and tools beta
- LimeWire X 1.7 - Update to the network file sharing program using the Gnutella network
Apple puts final touches on OS X upgrade [ZDNet]...[posted at 2:22 p.m. PDT] News has been widespread over the weekend that Apple plans to offer OS X 10.1 in a variety of free formats, ranging from free CDs that can be obtained from Apple dealers (I don't know any specific details on this yet, as to which dealers and when) or through the previously mentioned "free" method on a $19.95 CD shipped from Apple. There is still no word about whether Apple will even attempt to offer the update on its Software Update system or via FTP...[posted at 10:45 a.m. PDT] Apple cancels Apple Expo in Paris [MacCentral]...[posted at 10:38 a.m. PDT]
Noted from Versiontracker.com...
- FoldersSynchronizer 2.2 - A tool for synchronizing and backing up folders
I may return to updating Mac Net Journal later today, although I am definitely caught up in this national day of mourning for the victims of the terrorist attacks earlier this week.
I am still too caught up in the news of the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks to worry about developments in the Mac and OS X world today. I am not updating Mac Net Journal today. I am doing some writing on my other Weblog, The Equinox Project... Once again, I offer my prayers and condolences to all of those affected by these attacks.
Due to the attack on the U.S. this morning and the overwhelming gravity of this day's happenings, I am not updating Mac Net Journal today. I am doing some writing on my other Weblog, The Equinox Project... Prayers and condolences to all of those affected by today's attacks.
Finally...after waiting a couple of weeks and spending eh weekend trying to resolve an issue with my new hardware, we in the Mac Net Journal offices are online with a new cable access service that is a bit faster than our old DSL, and best of all, free of the horrible customer service and spotty service from our DSL provider, Qwest! After I have our network running reliably on this cable system for a day or so then I will cut the cord on our DSL service and be paying considerably less for higher speed service. My fingers are crossed that everything keeps going well...
The "Free" OS X 10.1 Update: The Implied Contract & Other Replies [MacObserver]...[posted at 4:17 p.m. PDT]
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- Metroworks Code Warrior Pro 7.0 - The commercial software development package
MacCentral has an article about the new beta version of QuarkXPress 5.0, but beware, this beta is not a native OS X version. Quark is still sticking to the policy that it will release a full 5.0 version of XPress for OS 9.x that can run under Classic in OS X before it will look at moving the desktop publishing application over to OS X. A Carbon version is in the works...[posted at 11:46 a.m. PDT] "Mac OS X is becoming such an integral part of my daily computing that I tend to forget that Apple ever had another operating system," writes Damien Gallop in his MacWrite article about the OS X shell...[posted at 11:42 a.m. PDT] Corel Draw 10 coming to OS X this month [MacCentral]...[posted at 11:37 a.m. PDT]
Noted from Versiontracker.com...
- QuickDNS Pro 3.5.1 - Update to the Domain Name Server software
Macintouch does its first OS X reader report of this month, including notes about the Microtech Snap Shot USB compact flash card reader working under OS X (of particular interest to me with all of the digital images I need to move in and out of my PowerBook 2000 FireWire laptop...[posted at 6:07 p.m. PDT] Mac Night Owl asks the same question that a lot of Mac artists are asking right now: First Macromedia and then Deneba, but where is Adobe?...[posted at 5:48 p.m. PDT] Mac OS X Server wins Web Tools Award [MacCentral]...[posted at 5:44 p.m. PDT] The O'Reilly Web site has an interview with the authors of Learning Carbon, the book about programming and converting Classic applications to OS X...[posted at 5:41 p.m. PDT] Apple Computer sued for alleged patent infringement [Reuters]...[posted at 5:40 p.m. PDT] Can anyone be truly surprised that the Bush administration and its Justice Department are not interested in persuing a breakup of Microsoft? The announcement at the top of the news this morning is a non-event. Everyone knew this outcome about the time that George W. was proclaimed President by the court...[posted at 9 a.m. PDT]
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- VueScan 7.1.13 - Update to the alternate scanner driver software
Count yourself as lucky if you already have Qwest DSL service with your Mac, because starting very soon it will be much harder to get DSL service through one of the largest telephone monopolies in the Western U.S. Qwest has entered a partnership with MSN, and, surprise surprise, there is no way for a Mac to use MSN DSL service. In order to use the more expensive and yet slower MSN service, you have to be running Windows, and it has to be Windows 98 Second Edition or higher at that. This change in the Qwest DSL service along with the horrible customer support offered by Qwest in the wake of the Code Red Worm that hit last month are two of the main reasons that I am about to end my long-term DSL account with Qwest and move to a cable modem access solution for my home network. The cable service should be set up sometime Friday, and I go to pick up the new cable modem tomorrow. With the handful of horrible customer service situations in my past with Qwest, all I can say is good riddance. Now if I could only come up with a reliable option to avoid paying for any Qwest services at all... By the way, I just received e-mail today from Qwest offering their final solution for the problems that Code Red caused for the old Cisco 675 and 678 routers. The solution is pretty involved, including downloading and installing a new firmware upgrade for the Cisco router. But beware if you use NAT or static IPs with your Qwest account, because the solution is even more involved for you...
On the wireless networking front, New York Times writer and Seattle Times Mac columnist Glenn Fleishman makes the following points in a post to a discussion forum for the upcoming Seybold 2001 conference: My strong prediction is that this kind of network changes our relationship to data and computing and starts the path toward ubiquitous computing that allows us to re-orient ourselves away from monolithic computing and sitting-at-a-desk tedium. The $20 question about Mac OS X 10.1 [MacNightOwl]...[posted at 1:08 p.m. PDT] Deneba releases technology preview of Canvas for OS X [MacCentral]...[posted at 1:04 p.m. PDT]
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- Dantz Retrospect client 1.0.425 - Update to the client backup software
Mac OS X security Part Six: Desktop security [MacWrite]...[posted at 10:05 a.m. PDT] Macinstein takes a look at just how OS X fairs in living up to its open source software potential...[posted at 10:01 a.m. PDT] The latest issue of the excellent Mac newsletter Tidbits includes a section called TenBITS, featuring brief overviews of some of the most useful OS X shareware utilities...[posted at 9:59 a.m. PDT] Web Page Design for Designers offers a few good tips and reviews of writing tools for creating Web sites in its September issue...[posted at 9:10 a.m. PDT]
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- StickyBrain X 1.3.1 - Update to the commercial sticky note and productivity application
More grumbling about the pending upgrade to OS X 10.1 and the fact that the "free" upgrade is going to cost each of us $20 to buy a CD-ROM with all the new goodies and an installer. I still contend that Apple needs to post an obvious link on its OS X page for buying this upgrade. $20 isn't going to kill me...[posted at 8:53 a.m. PDT] StarOffice 6.0 for OS X support dropped [MacSlash]...[posted at 8:47 a.m. PDT]
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- WebMiner X 2.0b4 - A new beta of the Applescript add-on that extends its capabilities to Web pages
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