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Alex Salkever suggests that this may be the Summer of Mac in his latest Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek Online. Salkever’s supposition comes from a convergence of events that he sees as important to Apple’s future — and its stock prices. He suggests that this summer may be one of Apple’s “best seasons [...]

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Looks like a hybrid of MSN and Mac OSX on steroids…
America Online upgrades and releases a new client about once a year. AOL 9.0 is scheduled for release this Fall, and screenshots are beginning to leak to sites like Neowin. Former AOL exec turned blogger Susan Mernit posts this play-by-play:

1) Information management–New emphasis on suitcase [...]

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Again and again this season I was simply amazed with the quality of the show. The season finale was unreal. I was totally on the edge of my seat throughout and found myself actually yelling out load with excitement as the events unfolded. whoa!
I wonder if there really will be a 3rd [...]

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At the end of a truly hectic day at work I was greeted by an amazing piece of Spam. This is better than a previous note I received. Though not as wacky, it is certainly creative and even though clearly spam, worth re-publishing…
You Can Purchase 1 Acre of Land on the Moon $29.99. [...]

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The telecommunications company is shopping for wireless networking equipment to create public hot spots.
[CNET News.com Communications]
All just a matter time until this is everywhere! Very glad to own a wifi enabled Palm. I just need universal access, which certainly is growing rapidly…

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So much for accuracy in blogging, I mean journalism.
Bret Fausett: “It seems that an article making the rounds on Googlenews — ‘.org Registry Vanishes Into Thin Air’ — has no merit whatsoever. [Scripting News]

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I am in desperate need of a permanent fix to my Print Center… I’ve tried the fix from Apple and I’ve tried Print Center Repair, the app, but I can only get things to stick for a day or two before my system forgets that I have printers set-up.
If I try to print without [...]

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This is some bad news… Certainly confirms keeping major technical issues in the hands of those with experience! [The Register]

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A: Meet Palyh, the latest prolific Windows worm [The Register]
Another worm for Windows… update your Virus programs, please! Mac and Unix appears to be immune for now.

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I guess I was moving too quickly earlier this week when I ruled POPFile out as a solution for Entourage Spam Filtering thinking that it could only support Subject modification and not extra headers… Seems in fact that it can do the X-Text-Classification: method which is great since my accuracy scoring with POPFile is [...]

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The idea is a simple one: Fifty years after a work has been published, the copyright owner must pay a $1 maintanence fee. If the copyright owner pays the fee, then the copyright continues. If the owner fails to pay the fee, the work passes into the public domain. Based on historical precedent, we expect [...]

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Two security analysts have urged financial institutions and enterprise customers to break all .NET Passport connections until Microsoft can prove its security is adequate. [internetnews.com: Top News]

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Gary Krakow responds this week to the response he received to his pretty negative review of the iTunes Music Store from last week…

I’ve received thousands of e-mails in the past week on the subject of Apple’s new iTunes Music Store. Many wrote to say they couldn’t hear the sound quality differences I spoke about, others [...]

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The Nigerian Blog is dedicated solely to collection and display of the “art” of the Nigerian 419 Spam Emails. Link
[Boing Boing]

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Comcast is apparently watching the Verizon roll out of WiFi service in NYC to see whether they should be quickly following…

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New safari! [MacRumors]

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That’s right…
That is the way MSN for Mac is identifying itself.
Internet Explorer 6.0
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; PPC Mac OS X 10.2.6; Tasman 0.9; MSN 8.0; MSN Explorer 2.0; MSNbMSN; MSNmen-us; MSNc11)

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I noticed MSN for OSX launched today…
The interface is very nice. I find it to be very similar to the Windows version and very easy to use. There are a few tweaks from the Windows version like the addition of a calendar button right at the top level. What’s missing though, are [...]

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After considering what I had written this morning I have decided to once again give Entourage a good go. It seems it really does what I need and does it well. I can do multiple accounts, handle complex filters and schedules as well as working nicely with Applescript. I can also add [...]

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Not sure exactly why keeping device information synchronized with a computer becomes so difficult but in my years of working with Palm devices it seems to present an issue when you stray from the built in apps. In fact, Palm’s answer to almost any issue you call tech support about is to disable third [...]

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