The only thing that has really knocked me for a loop when I switched over to OS X was the loss of my wireless connection at work. We hafta use a VPN client, and there were lots of problems finding a stable one that folks would want to support, plus issues and controversy about base protocols (IPSec vs PPTP vs both of em), plus support for classic apps...

I am now posting this one from our wireless network. It's good to be able to pack up and move around again, but still be connected. This client (Sorry, I can't name names yet, since it's not officially 'here' yet -- the powers that be around here have let me in on a beta round for using it, to see how more users react to it.) is also so much faster than my wireless connection under OS9 was. Cool bonus. ;-)

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Keola asks for a "Quote Me" macro, to place code that would allow you to click on some hot text that might appear after this post, and if you're a Radio user, it would automatically place all this text in the proper place on your Radio desktop home page so you can use it as part of your own blog post. Sort of the way the news aggregator (or in my case, Mark's Kit news page) allows you to create posts from the news feed items.

When you see a weblog post that you want to quote, you can simply click on the "quote me!" link after the post, and it takes you to your own RU desktop, with the text of that story (links, graphic links and all), placed in the text area for you to edit and comment on before posting to your own weblog.

I have a couple of issues with this. It is exclusionary, in that it only works for Radio sites, and it presumes I want to use that text box for my writing.

I prefer to do my blog post writing in BBEdit, and even have a BBEDit glossary entry that'll wrap the blockquote tag I'm using (for other folks' postings) around a text selection automatically. I also happen to be using Ranchero Software's (Hi Brent!) Frontier/Radio Contextual Menu Plugin, so I can right click on a selection in a browser window, and have the that text sent to a new window in BBEdit. Then when I'm done writing, I just copy+paste into that nasty little text area (nasty because browser text editing sux), create a title, add a link if I wanna, and hit Publish...

Have I mentioned recently how much blogging from OS X rocks? That's because Applescript and Radio allow you to reach in to all kinds of little cracks and crevices to be more productive.

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