os 9

Recent Forum Discussions (August 20 – August 27, 2006)

The MacMerc Forums are an excellent
place to ask questions about something you’re trying to do with your Mac or post
comments about the news floating around the Mac web. Here are a few threads that
are looking for input:

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Drop Drawers updated for Tiger

Sig Software is proud to announce that Drop Drawers has been updated to version 1.6.6 for full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
Drop Drawers is a user interface enhancement that provides floating drawers on the sides of a screen to store text, URLs, aliases, scripts, pictures, sounds, movies and anything else. Information in drawers can be launched, viewed, edited, copied, pasted, dragged, dropped, or inserted into the current document at the touch of a key.

Described in O’Reilly OS X Hacks as “one of those applications you have to try to believe”, Drop Drawers is a free trial download and costs $20 for a single license.

More information is provided on the Drop Drawers page.

The direct download to Drop Drawers for Mac OS X is here.

Sig Software’s other products are already compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), including Classic Menu which brings the OS 9 apple menu back to Mac OS X.
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Newsweek still uses OS9?

In a pretty serious story about hunting down terrorist webmasters, Newsweek shows off a large screenshot of a terror website. The page is shown off in IE which isn’t too much of a surprise, but the big surprise is that it’s in OS 9! With the 5th version of OS X about ready to ship, Newsweek seriously needs an upgrade. (Photo is cached here in case of link rot.)

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