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 Saturday, 29 June 2002
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LiteSwitch X - A freeware application switcher [Mac OS X Hints]
Ooh la la. This one looks very good.
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DVD Has Begun to Take Over. Introduced five years ago, DVD has moved from catching on to taking over. The process is gradual, but everywhere VHS is passing the torch to the new format. By Peter M. Nichols. [New York Times: Arts]Higher quality. Cheaper to manufacture. More stable medium. No brainer.
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Recreating a Golden Age of Radio. Thouseands of items relating to the development of electricity and early radios plus hundreds of radios from the 1920's through the 60's are on display at the American Museum of Radio. By Suzanne Charlé. [New York Times: Arts]
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The Once Dreamy Woods Now Have Big, Bad Wolves. Directed by Richard Jones, the Royal Shakespeare Company's new staging of Shakespeare's tale of a sprite-infested forest takes a darker, more disturbing turn than usual. By Bruce Weber. [New York Times: Arts]
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'You have no idea the evil we do' - MCI insiders break their silence. Meet the High Toll Dept. [The Register]'But by the time you've read these extraordinary emails, you'll be forgiven for concluding that in the name of competition, America is truly at war with itself.'
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In May, iMac sales go away. Inventory goes over the top [The Register]We did
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More useful key combinations [Mac OS X Hints]Rather more cumbersome than having the power key on the keyboard, but it's good to know that it's possible to shut down/restart from the keyboard, especially for those of us who have their CPUs in another room.
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Rod Cardoza followed yesterday's news about Umax's Mac OS X restrictions with an alternative scanning utility
(and VueScan is another option):
Umax Astra users need not worry about this announcement since superior
3rd-party alternatives are available for Umax scanners providing OS X
compatibility. The most outstanding option in my experience, is
SilverFast Ai from LaserSoft Imaging, Inc. [Macintouch]Oooh. So close. My heapy scanner is listed but apparently only works in SCSI mode in OS X. I need USB. Perhaps it will show up eventually.
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Tim Chong writes of a potential FireWire problem, apparently documented in Japanese-language web pages:
"According to this article [FireWire Dead] by
Medical Mac, and this announcement
by Ratoc
Corporation, both articles are pretty long and technical (and in
Japanese), but basically it says that if you plug bus-powered
FireWire devices into a Mac while the Mac's power is on there is a
possibility of the firewire port being damaged.
Just thought the rest of the world should know."
[Macintouch]Yikes. By that description we're talking about iPods as well.
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Display mirroring shortcut for PowerBooks [Mac OS X Hints]Cool.
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Supreme Court justice L'Heureux-Dube retires
One of Canada's greatest female legal pioneers retires from the Supreme
Court of Canada this weekend at the age of 74.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Photo Explorer 2.0 released. Photo Explorer 2.0 is a photo management application that is pitched as the next step up from iPhoto 1.1.1. The application costs $24.95. [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X 10.1.4]
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Checking out WeatherPop Advance 1.1. I am taking a look at the WeatherPop Advance 1.1 program from Glucose Development Corp. The program adds a weather icon to your menu bar under OS X that when clicked offers a drop-down menu with current weather information and forecasts for the next four days, based on your zip code. There is a 14-day demo of the program available, and the shareware fee is just $8... [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X 10.1.4]Hey, this is cute. You can set the temperature to metric and you can type in the name of a city. I see the temp here in Toronto in my tool bar. If I click on the icon I can see many other details about current conditions and a five day forcast.
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Software Errors Cost Billions. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software bugs are not just annoying or inconvenient. They're expensive. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
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Sonic HD. | | We sorted out the problem we were having with the new Sonic HD system. It turned out that one of the two Sonic cards is defective. Pull it out and the things is just fine. But now that we can get the system to boot we discover that I was given a temporary key and that it has expiered. Very nice. How frustrating. At least the end is in site. I'm very much looking forward to getting our whole workflow moved over to this system.
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| | We were headed toward this solution but I got some helpful nudges from the Sonic Users Group mailing list. David Glasser at AirShow Mastering said that he'd had trouble getting his G4 to boot as well and it turned dout to be an HD card. Bingo. Knowing this we could approach our trouble shooting with a direction and much more confidence. Thanks David!
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Europeans Contest U.S. Internet Body. The Internet's key oversight body is coming under fire from Europeans and others who want more independence from the U.S.-based organization. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
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Canada and the United States unveil border plan
Canada and the United States signed an agreement in principle Friday,
allowing them to turn back refugee claimants arriving at each other's
border.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]Gosh, I wonder who'll be turning back more of whose claimants.
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Apple issues security update. In response to recent reports about shortcomings in the security for the versions of Apache and OpenSSH bundled with OS X, Apple has released a Security Update. MacCentral notes the release in Apple Security Update fixes OpenSSH, more, and the MacSlash readers examines the update as well...
The good news about this update...it doesn't require a restart! [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X 10.1.4] 1.6 MB
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Download the July-August issue of La Scena Musicale in PDF format. On the cover: Finnish soprano Karita Mattila [LaScena-Features]
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Dylan Tweney: Broken Trust.  [Scripting News]'A new study shows that software bugs costs us nearly $60 billion every year.
And yet, Microsoft wants you to entrust it with the safekeeping of your computer's processor, memory, and hard drive.'
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Call for U.S. pilot to be court-martialled
At least one of the Canadian soldiers injured when a U.S. jet mistakenly
attacked them in Afghanistan wants the pilot responsible kicked out of
the air force.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] The four Canadian soldiers he killed are no longer in the service.
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U.S. pilots blamed for deaths of Canadians
American pilots broke rules when they accidentally bombed Canadian
soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to separate reports
issued by Ottawa and Washington.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]'It says the Americans showed "failure of airmanship and technique" and a "failure of leadership" when they circled back over the Canadians and dropped a 225-kilogram bomb.'
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John Entwistle, 1944-2002. The Who's bassist (and French horn player and all-around wry humorist) was always that histrionic band's least visible member. But his sly musicianship and blithe spirit gave the Who its soul. [Salon.com]
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The death of Rolling Stone. The magazine that invented rock journalism lost its reason to exist years ago. Now, with a British lad-mag editor taking the helm, it's time to pull the plug. [Salon.com]Ironic given that Salon may be on its last legs. But I haven't even looked through a Rolling Stone mag in years.
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