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Archive for July, 2002
A tutorial for Apple Backup for OS X 1.0:
Brad Hopkins has written a tutorial for using the new Backup for OS X program that is part of Apple's .Mac application suite.
An interesting line from the article:
“A .Mac membership is required for all Users on your system. User A cannot use Backup with User B's .Mac account.”
[Mac Net Journal] [dws.]
Living Below Your Means. “I wouldn't allow Fred anywhere near your house. Not anywhere.” [The Motley Fool]
My experience with SBC Yahoo Dial is awful. They overbilled by mom's account by over $1,000 in two months time. For some reason, they had her local number she was dialing (and had been using for over a year) as a “roaming” call. Hmmmmmmm. After 30 minutes on the phone, they finally said, “Oops!” and credited the account. So much for the value of outsourcing. – andy
Yahoo Dial, Full ISP Services. “SBC Prodigy Internet Services is being taken over by a new provider, SBC Yahoo Dial.” [WebmasterWorld] [dws.]
OpenOffice beta for Mac OS X available: “The first Mac OS X version cut of the Open Source office suite, OpenOffice, has emerged blinking into the daylight. It's being officially announced at OSDCON today.
This new version, 1.0, is a new branch, with a “boatload” of Mac-specific patches, that adds up to a 147MB download. But it prints and saves, so there's been much progress since a very rough cut appeared early this year. From the screenshots the font rendering looks no worse than running Microsoft Office v.X pre-10.1.5 (which added support for font smoothing).
The project home page is here, and there's a roadmap here. This runs under the XFree86 X server, but a native Quartz version is one of the project's goals.” [NewsForge]
Patrick Hurley, my colleague here, just started up a Radio blog from his Mac, and noticed the pages loaded really slowly. This note from UserLand explains the problem — it's an IE and Mac thing. Worth reading if you're blogging from an older Mac. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]