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Apr 27 2009

IRC Update

To join us on the bleeding edge of the 2005 MacWorld Keynote, you’re going to need an IRC client. Pick one up here and join us Tuesday (details).

ChatZilla

First off, if you are browsing with Firefox, all you have to do is install the ChatZilla extension. This add-on acts as an IRC client within Firefox and has more options that you’d expect from an extension.

mu IRC Update Colloquy

If you’re hung on the iChat interface, here’s a free IRC client with a polished and very Aqua interface. It supports plug-ins and file transfers.

mu IRC Update Conversation

Here’s another iChat look-alike. Conversation supports drag-and-drop and is the pick for several of us at MacMerc.

mu IRC Update MacIrssi

If your flavor is a little more geeky, try this uber-terminal port of the UNIX Irssi client.

mu IRC Update Fire

In this new 1.5 version of the OS X classic multi-protocol chat app you’ll find tabs, logging and more.

You ought to be all hooked up for the Keynote now. See you Tuesday. Oh, and do enter your identity info into your client. I don’t want to see an ircNewbie in the channel.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Browser Bonanza

Opera (recently made free), Firefox and Flock have all released new versions, and they all come with great new features from feed handling to eye candy.

Firefox 2.0b1

New in 2.0:

Inline Spell Check (not shown) checks spelling in input boxes
New Feed Interface supports different feed readers including Google Reader and Bloglines
Search While You Type suggestions
Close Tab Buttons on the tab

Opera 9

New in 9:

Widgets! Cool, but I wish you cold resize them
Integrated Bittorrent
Hover-over Tab Previews show you thumbnails and page info
Improved Richtext Formatting

Flock beta 1

New in .7:

Drag and Drop Flickr integration
Search Auto-complete from history, bookmarks and more
RSS News View with a newspaper style layout and nice feed management
Better Support for Firefox Extensions

Wow. Unless you’re still hung on IE 5, there’s at least one cool new browser to try out. Have fun.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Handheld Goodies

This week we have more fun tricks you can try at home with your handheld. And, to be sure everyone can play, we’ve widened the definition of handheld.

Soybo

Rather than connecting to your desktop with VNC or another traditional remote client, this application lets you use powerful Open Source technologies to provide web-based control of your desktop to your web-enabled phone or PDA. Installation requires you to have or install PHP, MySQL and some scripting additions.

iPod

We won’t argue whether or not the iPod is a handheld. It certainly does manage personal info. This week I have two different ways of getting text files from your desktop to your ‘Pod.

books2burn

Before you would-be book arsonists get too excited, you should probably know that this application converts text files into AIFF audio files, fit to burn to CD or sync to iPod. Put your matches away.

Book2Pod

If you aren’t interested in burning or converting your text, you can use this free program to sync, organize and manage text files saved on your iPod as notes.

Palm

Our friends at Queuesoft are busy as always, firing out useful and new Palm related software.

iPalm Photo

Use this new app (still in beta) to manage photos on your Palm device. This application reveals goodies like category, size and date taken.

iPalmMemo Widget

This Widget you access your Palm notes from Dashboard. Uses the iPalmMemo app ($9).

Thanks for joining me this week. I wish you all happy syncing.

Brian

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