One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Saturday, 25 October 2003

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No Viruses on Mac

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg observes, “After growing easier to use for several years, Windows PCs have taken a giant step backward because they are so insecure. Windows is riddled with security flaws, and new ones turn up regularly. It is increasingly susceptible to all kinds of viruses, malicious Trojan horse programs and spyware. As a result, Windows users have been forced to spend more of their time and money supporting their computers … But for consumers and small businesses, there’s a simple way out of this endless morass: Buy an Apple Macintosh computer. There are no viruses on the Macintosh’s excellent two-year-old operating system, called OS X. And the Mac is a terrific computer — as good as, or better than, Windows for the typical computing tasks important to mainstream users.” [Oct 22] [Apple Hot News]

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About SubEthaEdit
SubEthaEdit is a collaborative distributed text editor, combining the simplicity of TextEdit and the power of Rendezvous. It allows to share documents on a local network (with Rendezvous) or on the internet. Every participating user can type simultaneously and see what others are typing. You can even follow others users to see what they are up to.

The idea of collaborative editing is being researched for years, with notable results. But now, for the first time it has been implemented in a way you actually want to use. Using Mac OS X 10.2’s unique Rendezvous feature you don’t have to edit long lists of preferences anymore, configuring servers and clients. It’s as easy as editing a local file, just click the share button and type away. [Mac OS X Hot Downloads]

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After poking around a bit in Panther, it appears at first that the KeyCaps application is missing. Don't worry; it's not, but it's also not a separate application any longer. To see KeyCaps, open the System Preferences appli... [macosxhints]

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Don't know if this is known: If one holds down Command and presses tab, a transparent dock with big icons of running apps appears in the middle of the screen with holding the tab key the cursor runs thru all active apps unles... [macosxhints]

This first part of the post is well known but there are tons of little extras in the comments. Very nice.

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As you may have noticed by now, Exposé is a very powerful addition to OS X. After you've used it a few times, you'll really wonder how you managed all your open windows without it.

But Exposé gets even more powerful if you... [macosxhints]

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Jon Udell: Apple's Knowledge Navigator revisited. During my session at BloggerCon I referred to Apple's famous Knowledge Navigator concept video. I first saw that video in 1988. Today I tracked down a copy and watched it again. It stands the test of time rather well! Certain elements of that vision are now routine... [Tomalak's Realm]

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Safari 1.1 is here. Those of you who picked up Panther can take it for a spin. This release is big step forward from 1.0, chock full of bugs fixes, improvements and UI refinements.

As far as new WebCore features

Enjoy the upgrade and as always send us your feedback (trackbacks preferred). We're listening.

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Updated: 1433 PM UTC OCT 25 2003

Today...Rain with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind southwest 20 km/h. High 9.

Tonight...Periods of rain. Low 6.

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U.S. antiwar rally draws thousands
About 30,000 people were expected to gather in Washington D.C. Saturday to demand an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Bravo. Let's hope the American people are waking up.

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The Champagne was fake, but the relief was very real for long-suffering residents of Queens who gathered to toast the end of their supersonic earaches. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]