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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...
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]
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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]
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- 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]
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- 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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