Thursday, July 31, 2003
2 percent of what?
John Gruber thinks that analysts are using the wrong pie to measure Apple's success by. [pMblog
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Ambrosia Software, Inc.: utilities/freebies [0xDECAFBAD
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Another way to create Finder-clickable shell scripts
Don't want to use some convoluted app that works most of the time? Don't have time to find one that you like? Make a shell script ... [macosxhints
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 Wednesday, July 30, 2003
NewsMac: a free OS-X aggregator / headline viewer for OS X that uses a Finder like horizontal view... [hebig.org/blog
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Smile 2.5.6: an alternative AppleScript editor [Der Schockwellenreiter
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 Tuesday, July 29, 2003
The Easy Way Out
OS X Power_User_Monday_Tip_of_the_Week
If you're tired of the same old terminal commands, you may want to try this: Cocktail
[MacMerc.com
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Show Desktop
I've spent hours looking. I've spent hours looking for this feature inside OS X. Turns out you need an app: Show Desktop - the 'Minimize All' for the Mac Generation. (via the Godlike Alf Eaton) [Forwarding Address: OS X
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A Great Mac Utility
Tip of my hat to Howard Rheingold for telling me about a must-have utility that I didn't know about: Dan Gillmor's eJournal
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Use a Linux box as an iTunes music server
Mac OS X Hints has a nice tip on running an iTunes music server on Linux. This isn't just sharing the files via Samba or NFS, it's to enable the music to show up as a shared library in iTunes just like if you were sharing music from another Mac.... [Artima MacOS Buzz
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Stupid AppleScript Games
a collection of thirteen games written in, you guessed it, AppleScript. Classic and Mac OS X versions are available. The X version was updated to version 1.6, while the Classic version remains at 1.5.1. The games included are Blackjack, Crazy Eights, Echo, Eight Ball, Find the Cheese, Fourmation, Guess the Number!, Hangman, Matcher, Pico-Fermi-Bagels, Poker, Rock Paper AppleScript, Scrambler, Tic-Tac-Toe, and War. (Download) [Der Schockwellenreiter
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Xtar - a free backup utility
via MacCentral: HELIOS Xtar for Mac OS X is a free utility that can be used to clone a Mac OS X system disk for backing up and restoring disks, files and folders [Mac Net Journal
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 Monday, July 28, 2003
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 Saturday, July 26, 2003
Blender 2.28 Open Source 3D-Animations-Software for Mac OS X (Download, 2,9 MB) [Der Schockwellenreiter
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Organizing Your Digital Detritus:. From John Robb's Weblog, I'm learning a little — enough to scratch my head about whether this is interesting at all — about this new class of apps that promise, as Robb describes it, to "provide a PC-based organizational system for all the digital data a person accumulates during a lifetime... (to) make sense of the gobs of information we are going to store in our 1 Tb computers in 2006..." There's MyLifeBits, for PCs, which is from Microsoft and which Robb suggests will be seriously flawed by being inflexible and monolithic. DevonThink, so far only for OSX, is a "freeform database with a browser interface that organizes your local data by similarity" and looks pretty interesting to him. And then there's Dashboard, about which all the recent buzz is about.

I'll surely investigate this phenomenon further, but for now I'm dubious about their usefulness to me. Maybe I need to get the terabyte hard drive first or progress further along the continuum to benign senescent forgetfulness (in which case a terabyte-range handheld PC will be more useful to me than a desktop, of course). Robb suggests these will be great for webloggers but I suspect he doesn't mean my style of weblogging.

As Robb asks, "what do we call this category of software" anyway? And, other than the amount of their muscle, how is it different from the heavily-indexed freeform databases (like Ask Sam) or the index-based PC explorers (like Lotus Magellan) I've made use of in my remote past? Here are Dashboard's stabs at answers to both of those questions:

The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time.

While you read email, browse the web, write a document, or talk to your friends on IM, dashboard does its best to proactively find objects that are relevant to your current activity, and to display them in a friendly way.

We call the dashboard an "association engine."

Part of my hesitancy is about that "friendly way". I'd be relieved if I didn't find it intrusive and annoying, even if my machine's performance didn't take a hit. I sound like the computerist version of a luddite, I realize, but I'm reminded of that old Twilight Zone episode in which the aliens arrive promising all sorts of boons to humanity. At the end, just as the world's leaders are about to place their fate entirely in the hands of the aliens, our hero runs up breathlessly to announce that he has just finished translating the aliens' handbook, To Serve Man. "It's a cookbook!!" he stammers. [Follow Me Here...
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Permanently change default read/write permissions. In the office environment in which I currently work, we've had constant problems with OS X's default permissions. Two of us work on one client's files that are stored on an external FireWire drive that is connected to my mach... [macosxhints
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Use an old serial VT100 terminal with OS X
Old VT-100 serial (RS232) terms can often be found for free in the computer trashes of various institutions like universities. I use mine as a terminal in a room away from my main computer location, but it could also be usefu... [macosxhints
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DEVONThink and libots. John Robb linked to DEVONthink which is a free form information manager for MacOS X. It takes a less structured approach than Chandler is trying to take. It looks like you just dump all your information in there and turn it's recognizers loose and it sorts it all out for you.

One thing that I noticed while reading the pages is that Mac OS X has a text summarization service built in. I've been looking for something like that for a long time. I know that the ATG (Advanced Technology Group at Apple) had one of these lying around. This is a great thing to have as a system service. If one of you MacOS X hackers can confirm this, that would be great.

In the process of reminiscing about this, I decided to do some Googling. It turns out that the Open Text Summarization library being used in AbiWord is now up on SourceForge. [Ted Leung on the air
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 Thursday, July 24, 2003
Market Share. Are "industry analysts" finally getting a clue regarding Apple's supposed 2 percent market share? [Daring Fireball
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Use the hidden MPEG2 encoder in OS X. If you have large QuickTime movies eating up your hard drive space, you can easily convert them to MPEG2 using iDVD2 without burning a DVD! You need:iDVD2 or iDVD3 -- Came with some copies of OS X, or it's part of iLife. Qui... [macosxhints
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CD-Linux Knoppix kommt auf den Mac [heise online news
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Secure POP and SMTP email via SSH. Now that I have a laptop and a wireless ethernet card (YAY!), I want to check my email from public wi-fi points like the café down the street. But POP and SMTP send my password in cleartext which I obviously don't want ot... [macosxhints
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Thinking about Thistle. Serious thoughts on the future of Thistle.   To begin, a few facts about Thistle: Thistle is very much in active development, aft... [Irate Scotsman
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Take A Mac Lab On The Road. Since today is Road Warrior Wednesday, I thought this would be appropriate:

"Willow Design has announced a set of cases to fit multiple Titaniums, 14" iBooks, and Clamshell iBooks to make setting up portable Macintosh curriculum labs easier. The cases were designed as a result of customer requests after Willow released its popular 12" iBook MacLab case in December 2002.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc.com
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Security Update 2003-07-23. Software update [MacRumors
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 Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Sparkpod: a Mac-based weblog service. Sparkpod is a new weblog service catering to Mac users. It offers pre-designed templates, RSS generation (not sure which version of RSS) and a 60-day trial offer. The service costs $24.99 per year. [Mac Net Journal
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 Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Sendmail Enabler: Thanks Bernard.Thanks Apple OS X. Spammers, I hope you rot in Hell. [Ernie the Attorney
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Blosxom 2.0 out the door. Congrats to Rael Dornfest on getting version 2.0 of Blosxom, the tiny, perfect GPLed perl-based blogging tool out the door. All this, while he was greeting his second child (another 2.0!). Go Rael!

The biggest change in this latest incarnation of Blosxom is a plugin architecture, allowing the core of Blosxom to remain small, sleek, and simpler-than-pie while providing room for extension and integration. The Blosxom Plugin Registry is already home to some 140 plugins ranging from authentication to Google search, click-through tracking to writebacks (read: combination talkbacks and TrackBacks).

There's also a brand new Blosxom for Mac OS X Installer, the simplest way to get Blosxom on your laptop, desktop, or closet Mac without any of the muss or fuss of installing it by hand. A couple-three clicks of the mouse and it'll skip lightly through the nitty-gritties, installing Blosxom itself, some sample flavours, documentation, and some useful plug-ins.

Link

Discuss [Boing Boing Blog
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BackJack - an online backup option for Mac users. BackJack is an online backup service for Mac users, now with a version that works on Mac OS X. [Mac Net Journal
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The Omni Group profiled. The Seattle Times profiles Will Shipley and The Omni Group in Omni sees Macintosh future in Microsoft's back yard... [Mac Net Journal
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Dave Rogers: RSS, TInderbox and Your Calendar. [Scripting News
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Assessing 'The Mac Factor'. To keep tabs on one of Microsoft's key adversaries/partners, we've amassed all our Mac-related news and commentaries in a single spot. Check out the Microsoft Watch 'The Mac Factor' page. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley
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Bildchen scripten. iMagine 1.0 (Shareware, US-$ 50) »is a unique 2D graphics engine implemented as an application and functioning as a graphics server and image processor for AppleScript. It is a powerful tool for processing images and can be used to automate the mundane management and sorting of image files. iMagine extends the capabilities of AppleScript by providing many drawing commands and considerable image importing, exporting, manipulating and processing commands. The drawing commands make use of Apple's Quartz and QuickDraw graphics technologies while the image drawing commands utilise Apple's QuickTime multimedia technology. iMagine brings these technologies together for AppleScript writers.«

"notiz" Notiz an mich: Testen! [Der Schockwellenreiter
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 Sunday, July 20, 2003
More Internet. I wonder how I set the handler for nntp: URLs in OS X. The Internet preference pane doesn't have a News tab. The answer is More Internet, a System Preferences pane that allows the user to choose which applications are set as helpers for internet protocols. [Hack the Planet
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NetNewsWire review on itopik
Dan Shafer, who has written an excellent book on CSS, has written a good review of NetNewsWire, the Mac OS X newsreader on itopik.com. Go here. [Harvey Kirkpatrick: itopik.com News
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 Saturday, July 19, 2003
An email alternative for .Mac email. Writing in his Seattle Times column, Glenn Fleishman offers some notes about the text chat options for Mac OS X users as well as an endorsement for the value of .Mac services for some mobile Mac OS X users. [Mac Net Journal
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You Mac fans will love this: Macboy. [The Scobleizer Weblog
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Load-sharing, low-latency RSS with Shrook. Shrook is a kickass RSS reader for the Mac with a lot of fit and finish. Graham Parks, the software's author, released a new version today with a really nice, innovative feature: distributed feed-pulling:

In order to keep each channel as up to date, each individual copy of Shrook would have to load the channel at least every ten minutes. For users, this would obviously have an effect on the performance of their internet connection and computer. For popular channel providers, the hundreds or thousands of RSS readers connecting regularly, around the clock, already represent a huge financial burden (amongst other problems), as most are billed on the volume of data transferred to and from their computers. Checking more often would only make things worse.

So how does it work?

To oversimplify: A central server maintains a database of when each channel was last updated. To keep it up to date, every so often, the server chooses a computer to check for new items and report back. The frequency of this varies from every 5 minutes for popular channels, to every half hour for channels with only one online subscriber, and it tries to use a different computer each time. At the other end, each copy of Shrook checks in with the server every 5 minutes, and if any of its channels are out of date, it reloads them.

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Discuss [Boing Boing Blog
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Enable Disk Copy's expert mode for hidden features. To enable Disk Copy Expert Mode, type the following in the Terminal (found in /Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal):

defaults write com.apple.diskcopy expert-mode 1

Quit the Terminal and launch (or quit and re-launch) D... [macosxhints
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Eliminate duplicate shell commands from history file. If you're using the default terminal shell, you might be annoyed by the fact that repeating the same command with duplicate the entry in the history file.

ie: If you were to type the following commands:

echo hello world ech... [macosxhints
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Passing the buck, or 25, to MacSurfer. As a firm believer in passing the buck, in a good way, I just paid $25 for a one-year subscription to Macsurfer's Headline News. The site is still free, but it is looking for support. Sounds familiar. [Mac Net Journal
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An interesting interview with Jeffrey Zeldman. AppleMatters has an interesting interview with Jeffrey Zeldman today... [Mac Net Journal
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Use negative mouse scaling value to improve responsiveness. I know some people are unhappy with the mouse speed settings provided by Apple's Mouse preference pane. There has already been a hint on modifying the preference file directly to achieve more speed. I recently purchased a dr... [macosxhints
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macCompanion Magazine. It’s a new magazine with features, reviews, and so on. It has an RSS feed. [ranchero.com
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iTunes AAC Encoding/Submission Service. Is iTunes now open to indies? [MacRumors
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 Friday, July 18, 2003
moving from windows to os x. Several people I know have recently given up on Windows and have moved to the Mac - specifically OS X. In general most of these folks came from the world of Linux/Windows dual boot machines and the move was straightforward... [tingilinde
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Sherlock gathering dust?. O'Reilly Network: Creating Sherlock Channels [Mar. 25, 2003] (via Google Search: sherlock channels):
...with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, Sherlock is completely overhauled both internally and externally and becomes Sherlock 3. For the first time, Sherlock developers are able to create complete user interfaces that take full advantage of Aqua and Mac OS X. With the increased power also comes new challenges when developing channels: there was a dearth of documentation to help developers create a channel from start to finish. That is, until now.
I was looking for (and found) info on bookmarklets in Safari so I could add a little linkblogging tool to my aggregator. There, I saw Sherlock URLs and realized that the last time I even opened the app was almost 2 years ago. Seems like there's some pretty neat tools here for querying XML-based information on the web using a native OS X UI. Yet I still like my browser best for this sort of thing. But it seems like there's a lot of potential in Sherlock, and a lot of power for developers. Is anyone giving it much attention? [0xDECAFBAD
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Journalling on OS X disks.

Journaling allows the system to recover more easily from crashes and protect against corruption by having a "journal" (a buffer where changes are first made and then afterwards written to disk) and makes recoveries much faster when using tools like fsck.

To enable journaling on OS X Client, use the Terminal command:

% sudo diskutil enableJournal /
Source:

macosxhints – Enable a journaling file system on OS X 10.2.2 Client

[0xDECAFBAD
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Create a location entry dialogue pop-up for Safari. This is an offshoot from the Safari JavaScript Bookmarklets hint. If you like to hide the Address Bar in Safari, you can create a bookmarklet that will allow you to enter a web address into dialogue box (shown on two lines; ... [macosxhints
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Finding Avie. John Gruber on Avie Tevanian’s “inexplicably fanatical antipathy toward HFS file type and creator metadata.” [ranchero.com
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 Wednesday, July 16, 2003
g5 commercial. For those of you waiting for your G5 ... One of the interesting things about the G5 processor is its use of a dual damascene fabrication process. It turns out that Damascus swords pioneered the technique of forge welding two... [tingilinde
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Radio TiVo, On Your Mac [MacSlash
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I've posted a collection of tips for Mac power users and UNIX users just now discovering Mac OS: Mac OS X for Geeks. (Reorganization coming as time permits. Comments welcome.) [Forwarding Address: OS X
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 Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Save embedded objects easily in Safari. Mozilla is nice because if you want to save an embedded movie or flash file from a website, it had a Site Info viewer to you could see all of the files associated with a website. Though Safari lacks an exact duplicate for th... [macosxhints
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A page of useful Safari JavaScript bookmarks. I found an interesting Safari bookmarks page on Apple's site. On this page, they provide some useful JavaScript bookmarks that can communicate with additional applications such as Sherloc.

Here's an alternative version to... [macosxhints
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Enable mod_gzip for Apache. I wanted to get mod_gzip working with my Apache installation in OS X and I figured that other people might want an easy, step-by-step guide for the procedure so I threw one together. For presentation's sake, I've written up ... [macosxhints
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Data loss bug in Mail.app. MacFixIt notes a potentially damaging bug in Mail.app that could lead to data loss for some users... [Mac Net Journal
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The Good, The Bad, and the Avie. A look at Avie Tevanian's legacy overseeing Apple's software engineering. [Daring Fireball
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Für den SysAdmin. This phpMyAdmin installation phpMyAdmin on OSX tutorial has been updated in order to add a MySQL control user and to change the authentication method from HTTP to a cookie-based method. Both of these changes were made to enhance security and should be easy to do retroactively, even if the previous instructions were used to install phpMyAdmin (simply perform step 6 and 10-14). [Der Schockwellenreiter
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 Monday, July 14, 2003
MacWorld: Put Weblogs to Work. Low-Cost Tools Let You Publish Professional and Personal Sites Instantly. [Der Schockwellenreiter
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 Sunday, July 13, 2003
MyOneLineOfCodeBrowser using Cocoa and WebKit 1.0. Martin Simoneau writes on Cocoa Dev Central: “One of the best features of Safari 1.0 is the Web Kit SDK (v1.0). This new Cocoa framework allows you to write a powerful browser with light and simple code. This easy tutorial will guide you in the making of a browser with only one line of Objective-C code.” [ranchero.com
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Petition drive for a Google toolbar in Safari. A group of Mac users has started a petition asking the folks at Google for a Google Toolbar compatible with Apple's Safari Web browser. To learn more or to sign the petition, check the site for Gopple.org... [Mac Net Journal
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 Saturday, July 12, 2003
Oprah swoons over iPod. I, uh, missed yesterday's show, but I'm told that on yesterday's edition of "Oprah," host Oprah Winfrey reviewed her ongoing list of "favorite things" (fashion, beauty, home stuff), and the final item was the iPod. At the end of her spiel on why she liked the device, iPods were handed out to each member of the audience. here is the post-show iPod breakdown on her website, Link to the complete "O List," video, and transcript ("It'll revolutionize your music!") Discuss (via pho list) [Boing Boing Blog
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Think Secret uncovered a perfect example of why IPv6 autoconfiguration is a good idea. [Hack the Planet
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Internet Explorer updated to v5.1.7 for OS 9 only.. IE 5.1.7 is the latest and probably final update for Internet Explorer and is for OS 9 only. This update "resolves security vulnerabilities in previous versions of Internet Explorer 5."

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc.com
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more cool software. Nisus has announced the release version of Nisus Writer for OS X. I loved Nisus back in the OS 7 and 8 days, but the wait for an OS X version was long and I found myself using other tools.... [tingilinde
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 Friday, July 11, 2003
Application icon template. Here's another little gift to help fellow OS X developers whose design skills ... [Irate Scotsman
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AppleScript. A script to display the current iTunes song's lyrics. [Der Schockwellenreiter
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Hydra, VoodooPad, Win 2nd OS X Innovators Contest. Congratulations! Hydra won in the new International category; LaunchBar came in second. VoodooPad won in the U.S. category; Audio Hijack Pro came in second. [ranchero.com
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 Thursday, July 10, 2003
"NaDa" [Daypop Top 40
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WireTap 1.0.0 »is a free product for MacOS X 10.2 or later that allows you to record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. This allows you to record news from Internet radio stations such as the BBC News, sound snippets from your favorite DVD movie, record the audio from a game, or even iChatAV conversations.« (Download, 787 KB) [Der Schockwellenreiter
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Ye Olde OS Poll: observations [Ars Technica
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 Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Intego NetBarrier X and ContentBarrier X. Protect your Mac from the terrors of the 'net and make the Internet a safe place for kids or coworkers with Intego's NetBarrier and ContentBarrier!

This duo of Mac OS X native Internet security applications will tame the power and problems that the most advanced operating system in the world can encounter on the Internet.

Read Brian's reviews to find out more about NetBarrier and ContentBarrier.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc.com
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Auto-remixing Gnutella. NAG is an automated remixer for audio-tracks from Gnutellanet.

N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) is interactive software art for Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP which turns the process of searching for and downloading MP3 files into a chaotic musical collage. Type in one or more search keywords, and N.A.G. looks for matches on the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network. The software then downloads MP3 files which match the search keyword(s) and remixes these audio files in real time based on the structure of the Gnutella network itself.

Link

Discuss

(via Kottke) [Boing Boing Blog
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Apple bloggers.... I got asked this week who at Apple were writing blogs. I knew of a couple, but I didn't think... [Teal Sunglasses
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 Monday, July 07, 2003
Bill Palmer's growing list of Mac-using businesses. Bill Palmer is adding a list of businesses that use Macs to get their work done to his weblog. Excellent! [Mac Net Journal
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 Sunday, July 06, 2003
Mac Wächter. Im wurch.log entdeckt: MacGuardians ist eine Art deutschsprachiges Community-Blog rund um unseren geliebten Äpfelchen-Computer. Leider funktioniert ihr RSS-Feed mit meinem NetWewsWire Lite nicht. Weiß da jemand eine Lösung?

"top 5" [Der Schockwellenreiter
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A Tinderbox Wiki in progress. In an effort to create a Tinderbox resource that works more efficiently than the current user forums, Mark Bernstein has started a Tinderbox Wiki [Der Schockwellenreiter
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"top ten list of Safari problems in a limited area" [Daypop Top 40
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 Saturday, July 05, 2003
How to install UNIX-based applications on Mac OS X. This looks to be an excellent step-by-step tutorial for installing UNIX server applications such as Jabber, Pure-FTPd, and many, many others: [Der Schockwellenreiter
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Detailed Panther Info and Screenshots. More Panther info... [MacRumors
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NASA Benchmarks the New G5 Powermac. sockit2me9000 writes "Well NASA's Langley Research Center recently benchmarked the new G5 dual 2ghz Powermac against a dual 1ghz Xserve, a dual 1.25 ghz ... [Slashdot
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Bill Bumgarner has a n.

Bill Bumgarner has a nice easy description of setting up ssh tunnels for Apple file sharing (as well as SMTP, IMAP and POP).

It's secure drag and drop, man.

[Forwarding Address: OS X
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 Thursday, July 03, 2003
SmartyPants 1.4 is out. No new features, but lots of small improvements, including much better support for parsing HTML comments and PHP code blocks. See the project page for full details of what's new.

Update: If you downloaded version 1.4 within the first hour or two after it was announced, please download it again. Botched zip archive; sorry about that.

[Daring Fireball
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Ads on Mac Net Journal. I am doing this as an experiment to see if the program can help generate funding to keep MNJ a viable site and to compliment user donations that have kept the site going over the last year. [Mac Net Journal
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Limpet, a subscription exporter for NetNewsWire. Limpet by Dave Taylor is a small C app that generates an OPML file of NetNewsWire’s subscriptions. This is useful for folks who like to automate such things. (Here’s Dave’s weblog.) [ranchero.com
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A Better TextFinder. The TextFinder class (which supplies TextEdit's find and replace functionality) ... [Irate Scotsman
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MulleNewz - RSS Reader Dockling. via Hugos House of Weblog Horror: Netter kleiner RSS-Reader für das Dock unter OS X. Leider zeigt er nicht an, wie viele ungelesene Nachrichten da sind (genauer gesagt merkt er sich garnicht, welche man schon gesehen hat), aber ansonsten ist er sehr nett. Vielleicht krieg ich ja ... [Channel 'mac_os_x'
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MacHack 2003. MacHack experiences [MacRumors
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O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. While I have a good working relationship with O'Reilly, I've covered this topic here before and I figure that, objectively,... [Backup Brain
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 Tuesday, July 01, 2003
How Does Apple's 'Panther' Stack Up?. Does the new Mac OS offer a viable alternative to Linux or Windows? We run down the feature list and interface look and feel to find out. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley
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'Panther' Sneaks In on Little Cats' Feet. While Microsoft's next version of Windows is still at least two years away, Apple's Panther offers a good indicator of where Microsoft is likely to go with 'Longhorn." [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley
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NewsMonster OS X version ETA tomorrow. I heard that the OS X version of NewsMonster, the RSS aggregator/reader was finished so I went to the site and paid for it. Kevin A. Burton, the author was on the #joiito IRC channel so I told him. He told me that there was another bug left in the OS X version that he needed to fix. He offered to give me my money back. I told him just to hurry up with the OS X version. He promised he would do it tomorrow. ;-) Very excited about trying NewsMonster...

[16:15] burtonator | I will fix sifry's bug tonight... then OSX tomorrow
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The Declaration Of Independence From OS9 [MacSlash
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Apple and developers. Tim O'Reilly is trying to start a much needed dialogue about how Apple should support rather than trounce on developers in Apple and developers... [Mac Net Journal
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Dan Gillmor sizes up the G5 and Panther. Columnist Dan Gillmor offers his take on the G5 and upcoming enhancements in Panther, the next version of Mac OS X due for release later this year, in a Q&A interview on ComputerWorld. [Mac Net Journal
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"Pixion brings Web conferencing to the Mac" [Daypop Top 40
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Announcing SS_PrefsController. I've got some new Cocoa source for you today, folks: announcing SS_PrefsControll... [Irate Scotsman
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Ask MacSlash: Favorite Terminal Replacements? [MacSlash
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iTunes Playlist to Blog. While messing around today I wrote a little Python script to post an iTunes playlist to a Metaweblog API enabled blog (like MovableType). I'm toying with the idea of using it to auto-post a top 25 list of songs once per week or something. The script is available here. Here's... [Artima MacOS X Buzz
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Mac Developer Blogs List. Yes there is a list of Mac developer blogs. I actually saw this a while back, but forgot about it.... [Artima MacOS X Buzz
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SS_PrefsController. More from the Irate Scotsman, SS_PrefsController allows you to easily create an iTunes style preferences pane. Looks pretty slick.... [Artima MacOS X Buzz
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