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Tuesday, November 25, 2003

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John Robb writes: "I have to worry about what Volokh says. I can either publish what I am working on (and alert planners and the public to an impending disaster they need to know about) or stay silent in worry about legal action against me. Very interesting situation. I think I will publish."

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.