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September 27, 2003
.Mac freebees
Your .Mac membership now provides you with a free VersionTracker Plus membership (or a discount of half the Pro version), iBlog and USD 30 off a SmatDisk FireWire drive.
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September 26, 2003
Apple's new logo
Just weeks before the , and according to an article in Wired, Apple has updated its logo to a brushed aluminum Apple visible in Panther's "About Box".
One of the world's most recognizable corporate symbols -- the Apple logo -- is about to get a silvery chrome finish.
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September 19, 2003
The dotmac.info giveaway birthday
dotmac.info offers a special giveaway for its 1st birthday:
dotmac.info is pleased to announce our first birthday!
On September 17th, 2002, dotmac.info was launched with the goal of building a community of .Mac users and helping them "Share their Cool .Mac Stuff!" with the rest of the world. Since then, we've grown far beyond our wildest expectations. To celebrate our first year, we're giving away a slew of prizes, including full-year .Mac memberships and copies of
Synergy from wincent.com
FootTrack from T-Squared Software
Slick Transitions and Effects from GeeThree
iBlog from Lifli Software
TextWrangler and Mailsmith from Bare Bones Software
Entries will be accepted until September 30th, and winners will be announced the first week of October.
http://dotmac.info/index.html/birthday/
Why don't you put your name in the hat by completing the registration form ?
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September 15, 2003
OS half life
My operating system is playing up on me today. They are days like that, when little things go wrong, apps quit, settings disappear - one feels a little out-of-sync, ones OS a little unreliable, unstable - and one doesn't really know why.
It reminds me of a paper I read on Dr Dobbs last year entitled "What scruft is". Unfortunately, I can't find it anymore .. Basically, scruft is what accumulates over time in your computer, slowing it down, making it less reliable and unstable, until you break down and perform a complete OS reinstall.
Mark from diveintomark.org experienced just that this summer, and posted a paper on "How to reinstall XP in 5 hours or less".
Instructive.
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Finder rename bug
This behavior has been annoying me ever since 10.0,
When you attempt to change a filename extension, the Finder warns you of the danger of doing so by poping up a modal dialog box. If you choose to go on with the change, you end up in the Finder with your pointer marking a selection (as the mouse button was pressed down - but it isn't!).
I know it just requires an extra click to cancel the selection area, but it bugs me. I've ended up with files moved, or displays scrolled. Bugs me.
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September 13, 2003
G5 skin deep
Still waiting for your desktop new Macintosh ? Or, can't decide if you really want/need one ? Take a look at Bill Noll's G5 blow-up.
[ picked up from kung-foo.tv ]
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September 09, 2003
Apple's Free Online Digital Photography Seminar
Apple is offering a free online seminar on digital photography ("Break through the barrier to digital photography success").
The targeted audience is professional photographers. Topics covered will include:
Safari 1.0 and QuickTime 6 required.
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Apple's new web pages
Not only did Apple launch new iPods and iMacs yesterday, but appear to be coded in XHTML.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Eventhough they don't validate, it's still good news. Lets wait to see if that trend spreads to the rest of the site. I wonder if that has anything to do with the Douglas Bowman/Jeffrey Zeldman buzz ?
A New Arrivals section that sports information about products that have been released for Mac OS X updated twice a week. The products cover not only Apple software and hardware, but keyboards, cameras, telephony products and much more.
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