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Book Reviews

Friday, September 27, 2002

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He Can't Do That!: "That was the immediate, loud, and angry reaction of many who read the recent announcement that, starting January 2003, new Macs will not be able to boot OS 9." (Dr. Dobb's Journal via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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I downloaded the installer for Microsoft Internet Explorer X 5.2.2, but didn't install, because the installer requires you to quit all other applications. And I haven't been using IE for months now, so maybe it is time to get rid of IE completely. I'm currently using OmniWeb 4.1.1, Chimera 0.5 and Mozilla 1.1 for browsing.

Microsoft Internet Explorer X 5.2.2: "Provides all of the latest security and performance enhancements for Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X, including the security vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-050. It also provides support for the new Quart text smoothing feature..." [AppleScript Info] [Mac Net Journal]

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You've got mail: 60 billion a day by 2006: "Onslaught of spam expected to drive market for message filtering." [InfoWorld: Top News]

The spam filter in Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) Mail program has been a blessing. I hope this technology can keep up with spammers. Of course, Mac users are currently a small minority of computer users, so spammers may not be too keen on making their messages bypass this filtering. I hope so.

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I have been using my iBook as a music jukebox. This has some problems, because sometimes I need the iBook elsewhere, and I have been planning to purchase an iPod. Thus it is nice to hear about user experiences. MyAppleMenu points to MP3 As Family Music Tool: "After using an iPod for a couple of weeks, I'm now convinced the category has legs."

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There are other Mac users who prefer Watson to Sherlock. MyAppleMenu ponders Why Watson Is Smarter Than Sherlock: "Watson is engineered to be a platform, while Sherlock is only an application."