Monday, October 14, 2002

eudora I Love Eudora and I Don't Hate the UI the Way Most People Do I found these comments intriguing. I use Eudora for my email on my main machine (G4 w/OSX) and find the ads not only unobtrusive but -- gasp! -- occasionally even interesting enough to get me to click on them. Unlike this guy and most others I've read (including my son-in-law, Jeff Soule, whose views on such things I generally value), I don't find the Eudora UI so bad. Maybe famililarity breads contentment. Why pay for Eudora?. I am enjoying my return to using Eudora under Jaguar, but I am wondering something. The advertising supported free version of Eudora is so unobtrusive that I wonder if the folks who created the program are shooting themselves in the foot by moving to this method to support its full-featured email application? I know I will never click on an ad in Eudora... If I keep using Eudora I will pay though. We as Mac users more than the users of any other platform need to be sure we pay for shareware. All small software developers deserve our support, but on the Mac this is an even greater need since we all love having high-quality choices for all of our applications rather than buying the straight Microsoft party line like many of our Windows-using friends... [Mac Net Journal] 10:59:39 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

linux switchers From 'Crapintosh' to 'Omigosh': OS X Moves Even Some Enemies to Adoption Tim O'Reilly is quoted at the beginning of this encouraing piece. Paul Andrews on the Mac-Linux connection. Seattle Times columnist Paul Andrews writes about the large numbers of Unix and Linux users who are switching to OS X in Apple-Linux merger powers 'Mac' switch. [Mac Net Journal] My son-in-law, Jeff Soule, who's a real Linux-head, is also quite enamored of OS X. 10:56:15 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Yippee! Pure Python Cocoa Apps Now Possible This is great news for those like me who worship at the altar of simplification. The (simple to use) Macintosh and the (simple to program) Python can now marry one another in the presence of the flavorful (but not always so simple) world of Cocoa! I'm going to start learning this stuff right now. I've become a Python addict and although I'm more enamored of working in PythonCard than in pure Python, this development promises the potential to do some interesting GUI stuff while waiting for the wxPython Macintosh port to become finally usable. Fun, fun, fun! Some Cocoa-Python Love [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 10:47:50 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

iMac is PC Mag's Editors' Choice! I try to comment on the news items I post. This one seems not to require any observation other than...of course! Tremor in the Force: iMac is PC Mag's Editors' Choice [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 10:41:52 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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