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Apple Safari 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Safari does not, can not or will not correctly display the sunclock portion of the WWV atomic time of day web site. Camino 0.8.2 can. Besides, if Safari is my default browser, I still need another browser to log on to John Deere Credit Union home banking -- for which purpose I use Camino. If Safari has to be this ugly in its OS X 10.3.6 iteration, it is a toad indeed. Principa cave.
http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java
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Tuesday, December 07 2004 @ 04:05 PM PST
Flying Toasters Screen Saver 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
weelllll... sort of like After Dark...
After Dark's flying toasters did indeed fly in formation -- the behavior was like geese who flap hard to catch up to join the group. The direction was not random either. They all few the same way, on several levels, and groups could form and break up at will. Flying toasters were a friendly bunch. This is more like an early alpha of the AD version, when they were still working out the rendering. I like this idea, though. Another one I'd like to see is synchronized swans. Maybe that one could take a Futurama twist and be synchronized Morbo ballet dancers in pink tutus. [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 16 2003 @ 09:15 AM PDT
New York City Screensaver 1.0 (Mac OS X)
New York Times Book Review subscribers will love it... 
...but it's not the New York I remember. This is a sedate retrospective of a few not-very-standard scenes, from deep within a particular comfort zone. Maybe it should cross more of those invisible lines that divide safe New York places from the odd, the weird and the ominous. Not many people here, none in focus, no model release forms signed, no hassles, no controversy, no journalism, no "only in...." But an honest eye. Will there be more? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 15 2003 @ 11:57 AM PDT
xMahjongg Select 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Won't start. sh: xmahjongg not located (127), or words to that effect. I have a pretty standard Fink /sw directory. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 15 2003 @ 10:27 AM PDT
OmniWeb 4.5 beta 3 (Mac OS X)
JDCCU banking almost fixed in beta 3
Manually setting the USER_AGENT string to an exact replica of MS IE's is now possible without a lot of "hidden option" shenanigans. Once set, OmniWeb passes the John Deere Community Credit Union sniff test well enough to almost get logged in. Previously, the website pretended to be invisible. So, that's progress. OmniWeb gets high marks from me for TRYING to accomodate one disgruntled user I know... (yes, me). Web pages look much nicer in OmniWeb, and nearly everything works fine, except the one thing I need most. Personally, I think JDCCU's web site suffers from small-town-itis, and most of these problems would/could/should be fixed immediately if they could/should/would hire (and keep?) a competent programming shop. [alert admin]
Friday, July 11 2003 @ 03:53 PM PDT
Apple Backup 1.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Yeah...that's it...a marketing ploy...
I use a simple Ruby script which coordinates a few ditto commands to clone, CLONE, mind you, my system to a FireLite Smartdisk. If you can't roll your own, run Carbon Copy Cloner, which does a superb job. I wouldn't run Backup on my system for pay, and I could use the spare change. Freeloader? Ha. I paid cash for my Apple. And I'll pay cash for my Sony Vaio and Linux one of these days. Frankly, I think iLife is proof that Steve Jobs has lost it, and folks at Apple are floundering around looking for the next Killer App. Hate to tell 'em, it's out there. And it's Open Source. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 09 2003 @ 06:32 PM PDT
Oridict 0.9.7 (Mac OS X)
Great dictionaries, interface is molasses slow 
There are also a few provenance issues here. The author provides an internet option to submit "corrections" to the Japanese, Chinese and Korean dictionaries included. These, however, are copyrighted works by Jim Breen at Monash University in Australia -- so the "corrections" process needs to be explained a bit. Who receives a "correction"? Who decides the "correction" is correct? Who adds it to EDICT, vets its meaning and significance, etc. etc.? Perhaps there's a mechanism, and this is a front end to it -- shouldn't that be explained? Anyone can concoct a kludge to make using EDICT easier -- I've done it myself, and Sergei Kerkin (www.jedict.com) has done it brilliantly for Macintosh OS X users. OriDict falls down a bit, irrespective of scholarly credentialing, on its technical merits. Yes, you can look up words. Gasp, you can also download most of the significant intellectual efforts of Jim Breen and many others in this distribution -- how convenient. Groan, the actual word lookup process is slower than molasses -- SIGNIFICANTLY slower than opening EDIT in TextEdit and setting Osaka font. Maybe a good beginning, but needs a letter of introduction about the author(s) and his, her or their arrangement(s) with the official EDIT web site at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 09 2003 @ 09:07 AM PDT
Orator 1.0 (Mac OS X)
cuts out after a few sentences...
Seems to cut out after just a few sentences. For example, "PROLOGUE “A HISTORIAN is not just a chronicler of what has been,” the Historian said. “The fruit of his labors is a series of terms from which the future can be extrapolated. [STOPS SPEAKING HERE] “His significant function is not bookkeeping but prediction.”" [alert admin]
Saturday, July 05 2003 @ 05:16 PM PDT
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uhhhh... what's wrong with Apache?
I used MacHTTP ages ago, when the choices were between that, WebStar and nothing, but ... aside from a kind of hot rodder's interest in polishing old chrome, what's the point these days? Apache comes with every Mac, sets up easily, and synergizes with MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin and Safari (or MSIE) on localhost (or yourrendevous.local) absolutely brilliantly. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 05 2003 @ 08:19 AM PDT
MySQL 4.1.0 (Mac OS X)
this "alpha" is better than most betas, imho
I like this a lot. Didn't Thomas Aquinas say something about beauty in regard to proofs of the existence of God? He must have been thinking about MySQL. [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 02 2003 @ 03:05 PM PDT
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