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Tuesday, February 5, 2002
 

Contextual Service Menus

Just came across this cool utility that adds the Mac OS X Services menu to the contextual menu in Cocoa apps. Another one of those things that should have really been in the OS from the start. It makes services a lot easier to access.
6:05:02 PM    


David Coursey on the Mac

Coursey Checks In [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

As part of his one month trial switching to the Mac he's posted his observations for the first week. Overall, surprisingly positive.

Check the survey at the bottom though. Either there really is a huge shift going on, or Mac users have been stuffing the ballot box.
3:07:37 PM    



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Introduction to Native XML Databases (xml.com)
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Xindice Users Guide
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XML:DB API Use Cases
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