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Many readers didn't even notice -- but last week's server fiasco forced UGN to a new listserver. According to two gurus who investigated the loss of all functionality on the user-groups.net server, it was a DOS, or "denial of service." I guess someone didn't like our spam-fighting efforts. Now, a week later, we're back in the pink thanks to the great folks at EMWD.com and the Mac-Pro.network!
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The Digital Lifestyle will be teaming up with several Mac-related sites for live video coverage of Apple's Macworld announcements. Using live streaming technology from Mogulus, The Digital Lifestyle will provide live anchored coverage of the first day of Macworld, along with live reports from the MacMost podcast team, theiLife blog, and iJustine, in and around the show floor.
Freeverse, developer of some of the best games and creative software for Mac OS X, will be hosting a booth at Macworld Expo & Conference in San Francisco. Freeverse is also giving away 100 free Exhibit Hall passes. Here at Freeverse
Stevenote Live is a new way to get your fix of Apple's Macworld keynote, with live streaming of pictures and audio of the event. A panel of guests from around the world will share their opinions with viewers Stevenote Live
I wanted to make one more reminder that Ilene Hoffman has published her MacWorld Event List, which is the 23rd anniversary of this list started by Robert Hess and maintained to this day by Ilene Hoffman
WindowsSecrets.com says that when comparing different Microsoft programs they find that Microsoft charges some customers for what is provided free to others. WindowsSecrets.com
NetNewsWire 3.1.1 is the latest version of my favorite RSS/Atom newsreader. It uses a three-paned interface, similar to Apple's Mail. It fetches and displays news from websites and blogs. (Read More)
Advanced Rails shows experienced Rails developers how they can build large applications such as these, providing key information that previously they would have to glean for themselves by scouring dozens of developers' blogs See the full story...
What I can't figure out is why didn't Apple come up with this? The Big Mean Folder Machine is an easy to use file/folder management utility that works with large file collections -- merging files from several folders into a single folder, or split files into several folders, etc. On the Mac, you need this. On the Mac, you need this.
Apple designed Pages for people without skills or training in writing. That's why sophisticated literary notation is not a strong point of Pages. Here's the first academic reference manager to include native support for formatting citations and bibliographies in Apple Pages '08
Any Scrabble lovers in the audience? Now, Red Marble Games Flip Words 2 game for the Macintosh provides hours of addictive word searching and phrase building fun -- Players can even let others share in the fun with Party mode
All those programs like Quark, InDesign or Microsoft just don't play well together. Now you can save both time and money by converting documents to other formats automatically. Q2ID is a plug-in for converting documents from QuarkXPress to InDesign format. Q2ID now includes Universal Binary support as well as CS3 compatibility.
Chip Walker writes: "Certain experiences transform the outlook of an entire generation. For today's 13- to 18-year-olds, the events of 9/11 had that effect. Seemingly overnight the world changed from one filled with the optimism and endless possibility of the Internet boom to a dark and anxious place threatened by global war and international terror. These dramatic changes could only logically result in equally important shifts in global teen culture."
Thanks to Joe Showker, Safe Netting, for passing this along... Six Seismic Shifts in Global Teen Culture
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
--Isaac Asimov
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development:
1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time.
2. It's interesting, but not important.
3. I always said it was a good idea.
4. I thought of it first.
--Arthur C. Clarke
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
--Andy Warhol
Have a great week... (See last week)
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