Book Reviews
![]() The last posting on the first day of keeping this weblog was about Matlab 6.5 on Mac OS X. After several other postings I edited the texts into a review of Matlab. Much later a received a copy of Mathematica 4.2, and wrote a review of it as well. Writing about Matlab was a nice start for this weblog, because that writing task combined the professional (easier for me) with the informal. It has been interesting to write a public notebook, and this has helped me to maintain my English.
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![]() There is a new blogging application for the Mac OS X, called iBlog: "iBlog is an elegant desktop blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your personal blogs a breeze. Unlike other blogging sytems, You don't have to be an expert database administrator or a perl programmer to setup and use iBlog. You can preview and publish your blogs to your iDisk with a single click of a button."
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![]() I have made quite a few modifications to the weblog theme, and there still remains a lot to be done. However, I think this theme will do for the moment. The colormap is not quite what I like, and the fonts need some tuneup, but the basic layout is about the way I want. However, I have to check the result with some other browsers besides OmniWeb and Mozilla-based Chimera.
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![]() Scripting News points to iBlog sites: "Ryan Schroeder, Alwin Hawkins, Adam Curry."
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![]() Apple Ahead Of Pack In Eliminating Spam: "The strength of OS X's spam-filtering ability is proprietary technology, something called "adaptive latent semantic analysis" that comes out of Apple's research group." (Seattle Times via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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![]() Major Improvements Needed For Mac OS X's Mail Application: "Mail has some rather major annoyances, as well as more minor flaws that get in the way of my computing activities and goals." (Applelust.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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![]() John Robb's Radio Weblog writes: "Ken is making the case that I should switch to Apple for all of my business needs. It really does look slick."
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![]() Chimera 0.6 Released: "Chimera is a simple, small and fast browser for Mac OS X that has a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. Version 0.6, released on Nov. 4, has many stability improvements; upgrading from 0.5 is strongly recommended. The main new feature in this version is the saving of website passwords in Keychain." [MacMegasite]
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