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Tiger Installation Tips

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 07:00:53 GMT

O'reilly MacDevCenter: Everything You Need to Know to Install Tiger

Even Amazon is on the Tiger Bandwagon

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:22:13 GMT

On the front page of Amazon.com this morning:

Way to go, Apple!

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:28:13 GMT

We knew iPods were a hot seller this past Holiday season, but I've been amazed at how many friends and colleagues have been buying iPods, Mini's, and Shuffles since the holidays. Maybe they'll wind up buying a new dual-processor G5 (see previous post).

Thanks a lot, Apple

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:25:50 GMT

I finally helped bring a long time colleague over from the Dark Side to Apple and OS X. He used to be a Mac user in the bad old days, but then switched to Windows out of disgust. He ordered a new dual processor G5 and studio display and added memory and a hard disk. After one week of unreliable behavior Apple tech support told him it was a DOA (dead on arrival). Now, they're sending him a new one of course, but I can't help but feel that the Mother Ship has let me down.

Analyst: Apple Interested in Buying TiVo

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:18:48 GMT

Analyst: Apple Interested in Buying TiVo:

Apple is interested in buying digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer and market leader TiVo, according to a Wall Street analyst. "What we hear on the street is that Apple is interested in their business and that they are a takeout target," analyst Steven Kroll Jr. of Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. told Reuters.

Apple would have been much better off buying Sonicblue, the maker of ReplayTV (currently owned by Marantz) when they were being shopped around several years ago.

How To Read RSS Headlines On Your PalmOS Device

Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:55:25 GMT

I just upgraded to a Treo 600 from my Tungsten C. The always-on internet is handy, and I wanted to be able to read certain of my RSS feeds on the handheld during down time at work so I'd have that much less to read when I'm NOT at work because, like checking e-mail, scanning rss headlines is something that MUST be done before the day's end.

I'm an OS X user and I use the excellent NewNewWire as my RSS reader. After looking at several option, I chose Hand/RSS for PalmOS for $14.95. I chose it because I'm familiar with the company (which used to make Newton software). After installing it I must say I'm impressed with the app all around.

Hand/RSS comes with some channels installed, but I wanted to move my subscriptions from NetNewsWire over. Hand/RSS can import rss subscriptions that are in an OPML file. Although NetNewsWire 2 offers syncing via dotMac, it doesn't use an opml file to do it (it uses a 'SyncSubscriptions.plist.gz' file), so I had to export my NetNewsWire subscriptions as an opml file. The easiest way to import the opml file into Hand/RSS is to make it a memo. That method failed for me, probably because I'm not using the default PalmOS memo application (I'm using MarkSpace Memo Pad). Instead, I uploaded the opml file to my web server, from where Hand/RSS could fetch it via http.

It's a kind of labor intensive way to import the subscriptions, but my rss subscriptions list is mature and doesn't change too much anymore so it's not something that I have to do often.

ClamAV--free virus scanner for OS X (and other OS's)

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:40:47 GMT

Thanks to Greg Pierce, I have found my new virus scanner. It's an open-source project called ClamAV that runs on many platforms, but has been given an OS X front-end by Mark Allan in clamXav. It's well suited to checking e-mail attachments and web downloads which, although posing no threat to OS X users, can infect non-OS X users we pass the files on to (assuming you've turned Microsoft's Office macro support off). Though Mark's port if free, he does encourage contributions.