Marc Barrot: macosx

I Dream of NetNewsWire Lite

Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:04:48 GMT

Jon Udell reviews NetNewWire Lite, the RSS reader of choice for all MacOS X users. [read more]

What Is Abstracter ?

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:19:57 GMT

Abstracter is a contextual menu plug-in that summarizes text to the clipboard or a text file. It is multi-lingual too. Yes, including Japanese. Abstracter is Ian Shortreed's latest product at Mercury Software and it rocks mighty hard! [read more]

Shareware 101

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:45:55 GMT

Sanford Selznick: The Do's and Don'ts of Shareware, Part 1. - "... This first installment provides you with some excellent background material and helps you determine the feasibility of moving from the idea stage to creating the foundation for your new enterprise." [in O'Reilly Network via Mac Net Journal]

MSIE X Updates To 5.2.2

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:33:50 GMT

Microsoft Internet Explorer X 5.2.2. - Provides all of the latest security and performance enhancements for Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X, including the security vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-050. It also provides support for the new Quart text smoothing feature provided in Mac OS X version 10.1.5 and later, so text on your screen is easier to read. [via Mac Net Journal and AppleScript Info].

OmniOutliner Update

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:22:46 GMT

Dave Winer: Ken Dow reports that the current version of OmniOutliner can read and write OPML [in Scripting News]. Ok I'm dropping everything and checking this out.

OPML Support Coming to OmniOutliner Soon

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:34:08 GMT

Rob McNair-Huff: Writing on the OmniOutliner mailing list, Brian C. at The Omni Group says: "OPML import and export support is forthcoming. We'll need you guys to give it a look-see when we release 2.1.1 beta 1." [read more]

OmniOutliner News

Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:24:54 GMT

OmniOutliner 2.1 Released [via Brent through Rob]. Cool additional features, but still no OPML support. Click here to bug the OmniBunch.

Site Logging And Monitoring

Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:22:34 GMT

Thanks to Jon Udell for reminding me what "slam" stands for :-) [read more]

omniBugging

Mon, 05 Aug 2002 10:13:18 GMT

Thanks to Marc Barrot for the reminder to bug the Omni folks to add OPML support to their popular Mac outlining program. [Scripting News]

I'm sure Dave's bugging will carry some weight, the Omni folks being such fans of More. Yet, let's all help him. Anybody who wants OPML with OmniOutliner please click here, and say so to the OmniPeople. [read more]

OmniOutliner Update - OPML Support Still Missing

Mon, 05 Aug 2002 08:29:21 GMT

OmniOutliner 2.0b2 adds features. OmniOutliner 2.1b2 (Updated 8/4/02) - The latest version of The OmniGroup's excellent outliner adds a "Save All" menu item, adds Hoist, Unhoist and Unhoist all toolbar items, loads comments from MORE documents into the comments field in OO, and includes several bug fixes and enhancements. [Mac Net Journal]

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Sat, 03 Aug 2002 09:04:54 GMT

Apple releases Security Update 2002-08-02. [read more]

Internet Explorer 5.2.1 for OS X Released

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:10:35 GMT

I've installed Microsoft's latest update to its MacOS X based browser yesterday. [read more]

Apache mod_ssl and openSSH Update For MacOS X

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:29:45 GMT

I've just installed the Security Update, July 2002 edition on my MacOS X machines after reading this [read more]

Who Are ZDNet Readers ?

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:17:34 GMT

Here are the latest statistics from a survey I found on ZDNet: [read more]

Internet Explorer Gets Anti Aliased Fonts

Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:42:31 GMT

I've just installed Microsoft Explorer 5.2 Update for MacOS X 10.1.5 on my laptop.

I can now enjoy Quartz rendered fonts in my browser windows, a nice feature only available in read more]

Chimera 0.3 Is Here

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:52:42 GMT

[img] And it is way faster at rendering anti-aliased text on my Powerbook G4 than version 0.2.8 was. I suppose it uses the upgraded Quartz API provided by MacOS X 10.1.5. The aptly named Chimera is an attempt at the impossible: porting the Mozilla browser code to the Apple Cocoa developing platform.

MacOS X 10.1.5 Update

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:09:43 GMT

[img] I downloaded and installed Apple's latest system update to my main workstation last night. Everything went smoothly, as now seems to be the case with all Apple upgrades, BSD be praised. Mac Net Journal has a good presentation of 10.1.5 features, plus interesting comments. [read more]

Microsoft Office X SR1 Upgrade

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 20:06:40 GMT

I've just upgraded my copy of Microsoft Office X to Service Release 1. I didn't run into any of the problems encountered by some according to Mark Pilgrim: [read more]

Radio More OS X Compatible...

Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:56:19 GMT

... every day:

system.verbs.builtins.radio.upstream.checkForDeletions ... Skip files and folders whose name begins with the '.' character. Mirrors similar code in radio.upstream.uploadChangedFiles. [Radio.root Updates]

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Radio synchTableWithFolder Fixed

Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:44:51 GMT

system.verbs.builtins.file.synchTableWithFolder changed on Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:23:47 GMT: Fix for MacOS X users [Radio.root Updates]

I guess this means that we MacOS X users won't risk being mugged by .DS_Store and his gang any more.

Office X Combined Updater 10.0.3

Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:31:56 GMT

Today is update day on "slam". [read more]

MacOS X 10.1.4 Upgrade

Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:08:29 GMT

Apple does slightly better than Microsoft in their system update description:

Security Update: -- BSD-based TCP/IP connections now check and block broadcast or multicast IP destination addresses.

Among other things, version 10.1 [read more]

Internet Explorer 5.1.4 Update

Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:01:29 GMT

Microsoft really needs to work on their update descriptions, especially when security issues are involved. [read more]

More (sic) Office / Radio Links Ahead on MacOS X

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:25:39 GMT

[img] Omar is cooking s [read more]

Radio Posting From Word X

Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:35:09 GMT

It didn't take long for Omar Shahine to offer a Visual Basic/AppleScript combo to post messages to Radio from Microsoft W [read more]

MacOS and Office Posting

Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:23:10 GMT

Pointing at alternate ways of posting to weblogs from Microsoft Office running MacOS.

Dave is up after midnight pointing at work read more]

MacOS X security update includes openSSH 3.1

Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:35:15 GMT

Apple Security Update released for Mac OS X. [read more]

Mozilla is coming...

Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:08:41 GMT

Everybody and his cousin's weblog is talking about it. [read more]

Aqua interface to syslog.conf

Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:39:01 GMT

Syslog Gen X 1.0. [read more]