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Correo 0.1 (Mac OS X)
This is a promising early version of a new Cocoa mail client combining the best of the Camino web browser and and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, being written by one of Camino's developers. Correo promises to bring to email what Camino brought to web browsing: the power of Mozilla/Gecko technologies wrapped in the style/elegance and sensibilities of Cocoa. Right now you can set up accounts and recieve and send email, but it seems like it's off to a good start. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 08:38 PM PST
Apple CHUD Tools 4.4.2 (Mac OS X)
CHUD 4.4.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4, not 10.3 as VT states above. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 20 2006 @ 03:53 AM PDT
CamiTools 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Essential for the geekier among us ;) and helpful for all 
CamiTools 3.0 is a greatly-improved version of the tools the author has been offering for a year or so now. This version finally brings true immediate application of changes (no restart of Camino needed) for many of the old CamiOptions prefs, which is a boon for those of us who discover we need to spoof a user-agent on a certain poorly-coded site. The reworked CamiFlash and CamiBlock supplement Camino's built-in ad-blocking and are probably the parts useful to the widest audience. CamiSearch makes it easy for anyone to customize the search engines available in Camino's search field (and the author has thousands of pre-made search engines that are easily added). This software allows access to features which are too geeky for the average Camino user (and thus for inclusion in Camino itself), but it really has something for everyone. [alert admin]
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Monday, January 02 2006 @ 02:19 PM PST
Service Scrubber 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Any chance of making this work with 10.3.9?
Any chance of making this work with 10.3.9? I can't get the old prefPane that also claims to do this to work at all on 10.3.9. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 21 2005 @ 09:47 AM PST
IconDroplet 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Does what it claims to do on 10.3.9.... [alert admin]
Monday, October 31 2005 @ 12:34 AM PST
Java Embedding Plugin 0.9.3+b (Mac OS X)
Nothing short of a 5-star miracle....
This software is nothing short of a 5-star miracle. When Apple refused to make Java 1.4.x (and then Java 1.5) available to non-Apple browsers, the author of the JEP stepped in and figured out a solution against daunting odds. He's been incredibly responsive to bug reports--usually a couple of days after a report, he has a fix--and is now releasing "nightly builds" to get fixes into the hands of users more quickly! And the JEP works magnificently. Three cheers for the author and five stars for the product. [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 18 2005 @ 03:26 PM PDT
unpkg 1.6 (Mac OS X)
This utility is very handy given the "gotcha" bugs in Apple's Installer, which many people don't know that they need to work around when creating packages. Pacifist does more, but you can't beat the price of unpkg for the simple end of the functionality scale! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 22 2005 @ 12:16 AM PDT
TTimer 1.1 (Mac OS X)
After trying a half-dozen timers on Mac OS x, I've finally fond one the that comes (very) close to replacing the supremely useful and elegant Coffee Timer of Mac OS 9 fame from Alessandro Montalcini.... Pros: 1. TTimer actually launches quickly on a 1.33 GHz G4. I wish it would be nearly instantaneous, but it's faster than the others I've tried. 2. It starts the timer on launch--spectacular (this and 1 are useful since my Mac is not in the same room as my tea!) 3. It comes with preset timers for different teas and foods. 4. The default timer is Darjeeling! :-) Cons: 1. I'm not a fan of metal, and TTimer doesn't interface with any actual device. 2. It doesn't keep counting up to tell you how long you've gone over if you've left the room (ALM's Coffee Timer did), but that's not a must-have. 3. Still takes a bit too long to launch on my Mac, 3-4 bounces on first launch, about 2 thereafter. I miss instant launch of small apps :-( 4. Items 4 and 5 of the license agreement are supremely evil. I suspect they are a joke, but still. Put a smiley face if they are :-) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 21 2005 @ 01:34 AM PDT
iCab X 3.0b280 (Mac OS X)
I've been using the 3.0 Betas for 6 months now (I registered long ago when iCab was the only decent alternative to IE for "classic" Mac OSes) and I continue to be impressed and pleased by iCab. Some of the CSS 2 support is truly amazing I wish Safari and Gecko browsers got some of these properties right. If you're viewing a well-written page, all the little things are impressive (LINKs, citation sources, proper quotes). The error check and "smiley face" are invaluable--as well as pointing out how far the web has yet to go to be modestly standards-compliant.... The web is a medium where authors are allowed to *suggest* ways of presentation but users have the final say, and iCab enables this with user-focused features that find the sweet spot between powerful complexity and ease-of-use. No, it's not perfect (after all, this is a beta), but what browser is...and if you want a browser that passes the Acid2 test, iCab's the only option that's available in an end-user form :-) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 07 2005 @ 08:26 AM PDT
Firefoxy 1.3.8 (Mac OS X)
Yay! As the Firefox 1.1 nightlies have gotten too unstable to use, it's great to have fancy-widget radio buttons working again on the stable 1.0.x Firefox branch! [alert admin]
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Friday, June 03 2005 @ 05:48 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Uncle Asad [ Search for All ]
It sounds like you are running into an incompatibility with third-party spelling add-ons; the problem and solution are described here.
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Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 04:58 PM PDT
Have you filed a bug report? Developers cannot fix crashes they are not aware of, and most users do not seem to be crashing.
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Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 10:23 PM PDT
Instead of downgrading to an old, unsupported version, you can follow the steps listed here to re-enable theme installation (and, of course, urge the Caminicon developer to update his application).
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Friday, April 18 2008 @ 06:51 PM PDT
Re: Never ending "Couldn’t contact Spell Checker" alert
You're experiencing a conflict with an old version of a third-party utility; see this information in the NeoWiki for more details and instructions on fixing the problem.
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Monday, March 17 2008 @ 05:27 PM PDT
You can modify the existing color palettes or even create new palettes of your own; see this article in the wiki for details.
MS Office-compatible track changes is also available; see the "Changes" sub-menu in the Edit menu.
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Sunday, February 10 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Re: Some weaknesses remain, but a credible alternative for small businesses
use of special characters is cumbersome
I don't quite understand this part; selecting a special character via the system Character Palette seems no more difficult in NeoOffice than in any other Mac app.
NeoOffice crashes often, especially when working with large documents, We therefore would respectfully challenge the characterization of NeoOffice as "stable."
I won't claim that NeoOffice never crashes, but for the vast majority of users, it does so rarely. Have you checked the Troubleshooting…
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 07:03 PM PDT
Re: Some weaknesses remain, but a credible alternative for small businesses
use of special characters is cumbersome
I don't quite understand this part; selecting a special character via the system Character Palette seems no more difficult in NeoOffice than in any other Mac app.
NeoOffice crashes often, especially when working with large documents, We therefore would respectfully challenge the characterization of NeoOffice as "stable."
I won't claim that NeoOffice never crashes, but for the vast majority of users, it does so rarely. Have you checked the Troubleshooting…
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 06:59 PM PDT
Re: Some weaknesses remain, but a credible alternative for small businesses
use of special characters is cumbersome
I don't quite understand this part; selecting a special character via the system Character Palette seems no more difficult in NeoOffice than in any other Mac app.
NeoOffice crashes often, especially when working with large documents, We therefore would respectfully challenge the characterization of NeoOffice as "stable."
I won't claim that NeoOffice never crashes, but for the vast majority of users, it does so rarely. Have you checked the Troubleshooting…
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 06:54 PM PDT
Re: Some weaknesses remain, but a credible alternative for small businesses
use of special characters is cumbersome
I don't quite understand this part; selecting a special character via the system Character Palette seems no more difficult in NeoOffice than in any other Mac app.
NeoOffice crashes often, especially when working with large documents, We therefore would respectfully challenge the characterization of NeoOffice as "stable."
I won't claim that NeoOffice never crashes, but for the vast majority of users, it does so rarely. Have you checked the Troubleshooting…
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 06:51 PM PDT
Are you sure you have pop-up blocking enabled? Have you filed a bug about the sites that show pop-ups? I've used Camino for several years (including several weeks on 1.5) and have never seen an unwanted pop-up. And what MacFixIt review? The only MacFixIt story I've seen about Camino recently is one noting that many old versions of third-party add-ons break Camino 1.5, which is hardly Camino's fault, since Camino developers don't develop…
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Monday, June 11 2007 @ 02:38 PM PDT
