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Book Reviews

Monday, February 10, 2003

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X11 for Mac OS X Public Beta v0.2: "Not sure when this was updated on their site, but Apple has posted v0.2 of its X11 for Mac OS X Beta. Dig deeper to view what's new, or head directly to the download page." [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

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Browse local PDFs in Safari: "Mad that Preview.app is turtle slow with PDFs? Well, I have a fix for you, using Safari. First, install Safari and the PDF browser plugin from schubert-it.com. Now, this will let you see PDFs on the web, but what about ones on your hard drive? Safari doesn't know it can open them. Here's how to teach it..." [Der Schockwellenreiter < Sample the Web]

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Linux, Journalism and the Net: '"Use value" (as opposed to "sale value") applications are dark matter to everybody outside the teams doing the work. Changes in those applications don't call for press releases, no matter how profound they may be. Still, the adoption of Linux and open-source development tools and methods causes radical changes in IT infrastructure. There are real stories here.' [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

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DON'T install Virex 7.2 if you use Fink: "The Virex 7.2 package, currently being distributed free to all .Mac members, has a serious conflict with Fink. FINK USERS SHOULD NOT INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Installing it after Fink is installed will damage your Fink installation; installing it prior to Fink will make it impossible to install Fink without damaging Virex." [MacMegasite]

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X11 and OpenOffice on Mac OS X: "X11 for OS X allows you to build graphical Unix-based applications on your Mac. While you may not be a programmer, knowing how to install X11 on your system allows you to run hundreds of programs under X11, including the focus of this article, OpenOffice. Here's how to do it." [O'Reilly Network Articles > A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]

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Apple: It's The Software, Stupid: "It's nice to report a warming of the Microsoft/Apple relationship even as Apple finds it necessary to compete even more aggressively with Microsoft products. This should be an interesting spring and summer for the two companies' shared customers." (ZDNet via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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TigerLaunch: "My latest indispensable utility is Ranchero Software's TigerLaunch. It puts a configurable application menu widget over by your WeatherPop and the system widgets. I just can't get used to relying on pop-up folder menus in the Dock, and TigerLaunch doesn't have that awful delay Dock menus have." [Xspot]