I've been using this piece of software for a number of days now, and I need to tell other people about it. The stuff works exactly as it should, very invisibly, great with Safari and Chimera (probably others). The software is free and comes to us from Schubert IT in …

Apple has released v0.2 of X11 for MacOS X 10.2. If you're using the previous version, the download page has a list of improvements.

Apple Computer this morning announced a new version of the Xserve 1U server and a new RAID device called (not surprisingly) Xserve RAID. The new Xserve has one or 2 1.33GHz G4 CPUs and uses DDR333 RAM for faster access. It also contains the new FirewWire-800 announced only one …

Dave Hyatt, member of Apple's Safari team, is opening up his BLOG for comments on Safari.

This one takes the cake... or is that pie. Never mind, you have to read this posting on Slashdot: Aaron Steele writes "Okay, I work at an Apple Authorized Retailer and we just had a lady come in to see if we could fix her PowerBook G4. She walks in …

I don't know if it is true, but MacNN is reporting that Microsoft is trying to get together their own "switcher" advertising campaign. The article includes a snippet of an email message supposedly sent to users who have recently registered Microsoft products. The campaign is to be called "Sensible Solutions …

If the IBM PowerPC 970 weren't enough reason, the fact that IBM is even thinking about, much less building a next generation chip should be enough to get Apple's attention. According to this article in InfoWorld, IBM is releasing preliminary information about the road map for the upcoming Power5 architecture …

I found an article this morning indicating this is possible. I haven't tried it, but I do have one of the aforementioned cards, so once I have a second 802.11g card, I may give it a shot.

I have to admit, when I first saw the announcement of this piece of software, I wondered: "What is Microsoft trying to do here?" For those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Macintosh, it is a piece of software created and maintained by Microsoft that allows you …

Apple Computer announced today speed bumps in the G4 line (including 1.25 and 1.42GHz G4's based on the Xserve architecture with 333MHz DDR DRAM and 2MB DDR SRAM L3 caches per CPU).

Apple has posted an FAQ for X11 under OSX. Mostly configuration and installation related information, with some additional cross-grade info for people who had loaded other X11 options on their Mac's previously.

Sun Micro systems has a good article on their site about bringing Java applications to the Mac under OS X.

If you're running OS X server, you've probably noticed that certain things (basic file and mail service, basic web service, authentication) work very easily using the built-in user interface. However, if you've gone beyond these basic requirements, the nice Apple UI breaks down a bit. I've been toiling for the …

One of the smallest announcements at MWSF2003 was Apple's release of an industry-standard X11 Server. My initial impressions of this package are very good. I've done a bunch of cursory tests, mainly by using the system for "real work". First, it looks rather fast, which is nice. Xeyes tracks well …

From Mikel:If you've used Chimera on the Mac, and you haven't tweaked it already, you must enable pipelining. Quit Chimera cd ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera/Profiles/default/.slt/ Append these lines to prefs.js: user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true); user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true); Restart Chimera The …

An excellent article on CNet details Apple's choice of the KHTML web back-end as well as describing the Mozilla reaction to it.

Linux Journal has published an article on Apple's new OSX implementation of X11. Discussion includes why and how, and some comments by Avie Tevanian.

Apple released Safari, their new web browser, into a wide public beta this week. If you want to know some more about the inner workings, here's a great site. For those with an interest into the goings on with Safari, Surfin' Safari is a great site for further info. Hosted …

NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite allow you to read through lots of new site articles without taking a lot of time to do it. I've recently started using NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite for the Macintosh by Ranchero Software. These packages provide a simple UI for reading through large volumes of new …

MacWorld San Francisco 2003 Wrap-up.This is mainly the good. I'll leave the bad and the ugly up to the "real" press. Yesterday was the last day for MWSF2003. I didn't attend this day, due to prior commitments, but I was there for the preceding 3 days rummaging around on …