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Book Reviews

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

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iLike iComic: "Download your favorite web comics, and browse through them offline." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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CERT Quarterly Update: "Since the last regularly scheduled CERT summary, issued in September 2003 (CS-2003-03), we have documented vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Workstation Service, RPCSS Service, and Exchange. We have also documented vulnerabilities in various SSL/TLS implementations, a buffer overflow in Sendmail, and a buffer management error in OpenSSH. We have received reports of W32/Swen.A, W32/Mimail variants, and exploitation of an Internet Explorer vulnerability reported in August of 2003." [Matt Croydon::postneo]

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On Safari: "From a UI standpoint it still leaves much to be desired -- it's a one point oh product and it shows." (Matt Simpson via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

Helping Mac OS X to grow: buy software! -- Comment()
I have found numerous excellent applications for Mac OS X, some free, some shareware, some commercial. Here is a list of my purchases for the year 2003 (in addition to Mac OS X 10.3, of course):

Mellel is an excellent word processor for the humanities. I'm currently writing my first magazine article using Mellel, and so far there have been no complaints from me.
Path Finder is a Finder replacement for the power user. The integration with Safari and Dock could be better, otherwise this leaves Panther Finder behind.
F10 Launch Studio provides shortcuts to applications, and yet another application switcher.
CopyPaste provides numerous clipboards, and helps in moving various bits of data between applications.
iStorm and iChalk make it possible to brainstorm using Rendezvous.
EvoCam provides a nice web camera application for my iSight.
Earthdesk provides a dynamically updated desktop picture of the Earth.
GraphicConverter is my first choice in image manipulation.

I must say I was a bit surprised at the amount of Mac software I have bought this year.