Category: software

This new release of Entourage — Microsoft’s e-mail client with personal information management tools — introduces interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server. Exchange Server is used as a collaborative scheduling and messaging tool in business environments. [MacCentral]

It’s out as scheduled (11am EST). Email seems to work fine, Calendar is funky… I can’t get the scheduling to work properly to show available time for people on our network. May be a bug, or just some secret setting we are missing. Other than this addition, HTML messages seem to render a bit quicker though all else seems to remain the same.

So, I can’t help but play with software…

I’ve been messing with Firebird and Mozilla and really think I am beginning to favor Mozilla to Safari as my browser of choice.

Trying to get into the WikiWeb as well… what do you use? I’ve tried Twiki, MoinMoin, SnipSnap, VoodooPad and Tinderbox…

I’ve yet to give Tinderbox a fair shot, but it seems pretty complex and yet comprehensive as well. According to a comment posted by Mark Bernstein, from Eastgate Systems, you can write locally and then move pages back and forth between your system and your hosted wiki.

this is something i’ve wanted to see for a while, and kind of have working in IE… who wants to help him build it? [anil dash’s daily links]

Cool stuff… Can’t wait to see it in Moz.

Mozilla ThunderBird, an enhancement on Mozilla’s mail component, has reached it’s first milestone release. I recommend that everyone at least give it a try, you’ll be surprised.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc]

Indeed – it is quite nice! hard to believe it is only a 0.1 release. Since I’ve switched over to IMAP it is much easier to explore new email clients. This looks like a real winner, even in such an early stage.

I guess I’ll skip doing a right-click MT It! Firebird extension, because Ben Goodger has a far better idea. As I understand it, Web Panels will be Firebird’s version of the Mozilla/Netscape Sidebar. If, like me, you mostly associate that with the AOLish push content and stock quotes that shipped as the default Sidebars in Netscape, it’s time to think again.

[Phil Ringnalda]

Glider Pro is now free. Since Casady & Greene went bankrupt, the rights to the game Glider have reverted to the author, John Calhoun. He decided to make the games available as free downloads from his homepage. [MacMegasite] [dws.]

ROCK ON! Just got an email announcement from Eastgate announcing the release of Tinderbox 2 AND of the Tinderbox Wiki which should be doubly interesting. (I REALLY hope the wiki is a new feature of Tbox. That would make this old geek very very happy.)

[The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]

I’ve been playing with various Wiki systems and while there is a Wiki for Tinderbox, it is not based on Tinderbox itself which tells me that like VoodooPad, it is simply still a local system, that can export to html.

jay’s found a fix that brings back all of the functionality [anil dash’s daily links]

Have to tweak mine right away!

Works as advertised!! Very simple to do…

PocketSensei has released SilverScreen 3.0, an upgrade to the popular application launcher. The new version features a pop-up tools set, customized icons, background images and sounds effects. [PalmInfocenter]

This new Cocoa programming series from O’Reilly starts off by teaching C: “You will learn all the C you need to know to learn Cocoa, and ignore the rest: these lessons will leave out the parts of C that, while useful, are not necessary to know in everyday Cocoa programming.” [Ranchero]

James Strachan points to a script he tweaked (.dmg d/l) to allow AppleScript to extract NNW feeds for reading via PDA. [James Strachan’s Radio Weblog]

Public weblog portability. I was e-mailing with xian about the portability of weblogs…[John Robb’s Weblog]

A great idea and one that is needed! If you’ve moved a blog between systems or hosts, you know what a pain this can be.

Don’t have an aggregator, or want to have access to your subscriptions while on the go at a different system? Bloglines is a very nice (and simple) web based RSS Feed Reader. Takes less than 5 minutes to be up and running. Upload the OPML file from your current aggregator to get started… pretty cool.

Status Symbol 1.0 is a standalone application that can manage your iChat AV status… [MacMinute]

I’ve had a chance to play with this bit (at the bottom of the page) and I have to say it’s pretty cool. You can easily create custom as well as dynamic updates to your IM status.

Another update… my friend on AIM cannot see any messages other than that I look available. This may only be a iChat feature/function.

Google has introduced an advanced news search. Now you can search by source, source location, headline, URL, or date.

[Google Weblog]

The best gets better…

Thanks to an excellent template and write-up from Brad Choate, I now have a new RSS 2.0 template that is most un-funky.

Hopefully those reading this through an aggregator, see the difference. I over-wrote the old one with the same name, so you should just be able to see the revised layout without having to re-subscribe.

Blog Change Bot Blog Change Bot (blogchangebot on AIM) is a blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested in is updated. Subscribe via AIM or iChat to be automatically notified when the blog is updated.

Gratuitous self promo – I built this bot. [Blogroots]

This closes the loop on the AOL blog system… You can post and be notified of changes now all via IM. Add aoljournals to your buddy list and if you have previously set up your blog/journal the text you type goes right in.