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Goodbye, Panther, I hardly Knew Ya

Michael Clark — Sat, 14 May 2005 12:40:00 +0000

I’ve been running Panther since just after 10.3.1 came out. It’s been rock solid, a joy to work with, and it’s now been surpassed by OS X Tiger, 10.4. Tiger has a high standard to meet. We’ll see. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

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Aladdin’s MAMP

Michael Clark — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:41:00 +0000

Cool, a stand alone version for the Mac of Apache, Mysql and PHP: MAMP. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

Run DOS on a Mac

Michael Clark — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:14:00 +0000

I’ve never needed to run Windows on my Powerbook, but have needed to run some old DOS programs I wrote. So I would either use the Windows XP machine at work, or my ancient Windows ME machine at home. But today, I found an alternative: DOSBox. DOSBox is a DOS emulator for Linux, Windows (why?), and OS X. Very cool. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

iPhoto Improvement

Michael Clark — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:51:00 +0000

iPhoto needs to be able to do subcategories (sub-albums). I have many albums related to family events, it would be great to be able to hide them when working on an album related to my Travel photos. So I could have 4 or 5 main Albums (Family, Friends, Travel, Work) and then have albums under those (under Family, have Christmas 2002, Thanksgiving 2003, Reunion 2003, Laura’s Birthday 2004, etc…). 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

Boo Apple!! They Killed iPodDownload

Michael Clark — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:34:00 +0000

When I first got my 40GB iPod (3G) this summer, it was great. Except for one small problem. My music was stored on an external hard drive. The music played fine through iTunes while the external drive was mounted. Unfortunately, the iPod was not recognized through the external hard drive’s second FireWire port. I really didn’t want to blow another $35 to get a FireWire hub. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

So I had to have a friend with a ton of free drive space copy all the music to his hard drive, import it all into his iTunes, then we conncted my iPod to his computer. Then we drag and dropped the music to the iPod. After it copied, Josh disconnected the iPod, removed the music from his iTunes, and erased the MP3s from his computer.

Now all I have to do to add new music to my iPod is manually copy the files within my iTunes. But I can’t get the music off of my iPod onto my new Powerbook G4. And what’s going to happen when I get a new iMac G5 later this year? Is Apple expecting me to re-rip all the CD’s I have?

That’s where a very cool program called iPodDownload entered the picture. iPodDownload adds a plugin to iTunes that allows you to copy music files from your iPod to your hard drive. Very cool, should save me a ot of time. So I downloaded it yesterday, figuring I would work with it this weekend. Well, I am glad I got the program when I did. Because Apple threatened this guy’s web site for distributing “unauthorized Apple iTunes® code.”

Thanks, Apple. I paid for these 2,177 songs, either from the iTunes store, or by ripping the CDs I have. You aren’t making any friends by limiting people unreasonably. And I think it is unreasonable to limit people from copying their music between their computers and devices.

Two news articles about this: MacMinute: Apple shuts down iTunes plug-in and MacNN: Apple forces developer to remove free iTunes plugin.

Does anyone know a good contact manager for OS X?

Michael Clark — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:44:00 +0000

My office uses Macs for everything. Almost everyone has a laptop (an iBook or a PowerBook). And everyone is running either Jaguar (OS X 10.2) or Panther (OS X 10.3). And we have a rather large list of people that we need to contact for one reason or another.
For years, we’ve been using Now Contact for managing our contact database. Basically, you have one computer dedicated to function as the main server, and then everyone else in the office has a copy of the database on their comptuer. And each user computer connects to the database every x minutes to send and receive updates. The system basically works.
The problem is the basically.
We need more functionality. Things like Groups (who is on the xxxx mailing list?) When was the last time someone talked to Rep. XXX’s staff? Who last updated this record?
A huge part of the databse problem is simply keeping the information up-to-date. And that’s a training of the user issue that we will have with any solution. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

Eudora 6.1 Scheduling Compactions of mailboxes

Michael Clark — Sun, 09 May 2004 22:34:00 +0000

I have a ton of mailboxes in my various Eudora setups. Every month or so I compact all the mailboxes. I do this by option-clicking on the mailbox info box in the lower left corner of a mailbox. What I remember happening is each box getting instantly compacted. Now it seems that they will be done at some point in the future. I don’t see anything in the preferences, and Google didn’t turn up anything useful (Gasp!). And the useless Eudora/Qualcomm web site didn’t turn up anything about this either. Any ideas? 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

FavIconic

Michael Clark — Sun, 09 May 2004 21:24:00 +0000

While trying to find a way to manage Safari’s icon cache, I found a cool program called FavIconic.
It uses AppleScript to retrieve a site’s web icon and assign it to a .webloc file stored on your Mac.
Very slick. FavIconic. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

It would be nice if FavIconic put in some kind of “no icon available” image when it can’t retrieve
the site’s icon.

ShareClip

Michael Clark — Mon, 03 May 2004 15:51:00 +0000

I just found a really cool free program called ShareClip. It shares text from your clipboard with one other computer, in very near real time. It works on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. I will find this very handy as I continue moving from Windows to the Mac at home. ShareClip. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57