March 14, 2005
Carbon Emacs
Supposedly , Emacs 21.4 will have OS-X support. Until then, see these pages:
Mindlube
Franconi
MacEmacs JP
Porkrind
I use the Mindlube distribution.
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February 03, 2005
Avantgo 5.7
Did anybody notice that there is finally a new version of the Avantgo palm client? It is version 5.7 b35 and it supports the T3's full screen. I use it with the MAL conduit and it works beautifully on the Mac. It fully rocks. I am intrigued by Plucker, but AFAIK there is no conduit that approaches the functionality of the Avantgo conduit. There are ads, but I find them reasonable considering the cost of this software (free).
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October 04, 2004
Retrospect
I backup with Retrospect. I find it a frustrating experience, but as of now, no other piece of software will do what I need it to do, except for Retrospect. Currently I run 6.0 at work and 5.1 at home. I run 5.1 at home because I have not gotten around to upgrading it, and it seems to be running OK. My most recent frustrating experience occured when I tried to backup to CD-Rs with my g5's superdrive. Since it can use DVD-Rs, I assumed incorrectly that it can also backup to CD-Rs. Retrospect will only reliable backup to DVD-Rs with this drive. The new g5s that have come out have LG made superdrives instead of the Pioneer superdrive. The LG drives are not yet supported by Retrospect.
Retrospect allows for custom filters including filtering based on "color-label". This is not yet supported by BRU, but its in the works. Maybe if BRU gets its act together and makes a nice Mac interface that supports color-labels, I will give it a go. It is so nice to exlude all blue items and include all red items regardless of their location.
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September 22, 2004
Word Alternatives
There are many alternative word processors for the mac. Here are some in no order at all: Mellel ($39), Ragtime and its freeware version Ragtime Solo, OpenOffice (free, X11), NeoOffice/J (free, but still non-aqua), KWord (free, KDE), AbiWord (free), Lyx on OSX and LaTeX for the masochists, Word Perfect (OS 9), Nisus Writer (Okita Composer), WriteNow (OS9), FullWrite (OS9), Mariner Write, Ulysses, ThinkFree which aint ($49), Appleworks, and Adobe Framemaker.
There is even a freeware EndNote replacement called Papyrus. There is another word processor by the same name that might be released, Papyrus, especially good if you need that all important OS/2 compatibility.
I think the best alternatives are Mariner Write and Ragtime.
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September 16, 2004
Palm Desktop: copy event
Palm Desktop (v5.2.1) does not allow you copy and paste an event, but you can drag it to the system desktop (creating a vCard) and drag it back, and then drag it somewhere else in Palm Desktop.
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September 14, 2004
Why is there no date on the menubar?!!
Why Apple does not include the option of displaying the date on the menubar of OSX is beyond me. Perhaps is its to encourage other people to write little proggies to do this. These are all good options: Himekuri, MenuCalendarClock, TimeStat, wClock. I wound up using Himekuri. JetClock does not add the date in the menubar, but it seems to be kinda neat anyway for jet-setters. Its also possible to hack OSX.
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