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Archive: July, 2000

July 11, 2000

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Can’t tell your redirects from your forwards? Curmudgeon’s Eudora Fixer replaces the cryptic message status icons introduced in Eudora 4.0 with configurable letters. Via MacNN

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July 11, 2000

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George Mannes, the author of this article for TheStreet.com on the proliferation of swooshlike logos in the dot com industry, sent me another interesting logo observation: “I don’t know how you could track this bit o’ nostalgia down, but I have the commemorative baseball cap in my possession to prove it: the AOL Greenhouse logo … More

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July 11, 2000

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If you’ve been convinced that your current state of questionable health was due to 18 hour workdays and a diet that consists of caffeine and microwavable containers of styrofoam proto-noodles, you were wrong. The real reason you’re sick is because that stylus you use with your PDA is a breeding ground for all sorts of … More

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July 10, 2000

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Once again, Windows-based personal computer manufacturers prove that they’re duller than a bowl of cold oatmeal, and that they completely missed the boat with their lame attempts at copying the success of the iMac. Their excuse that consumers now want performance instead of style doesn’t mean the marketplace has changed, it just indicates that companies … More

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July 9, 2000

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This is unlikely to become a regular feature, but then again you never know. Please enjoy the serendipitous warning label of the week…I know what they mean. Every time I hand out a bunch of plastic bags to the kids in the neighborhood, I get this strange constricting sensation in my throat. I just can’t … More

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July 9, 2000

Stampee’d.

Living here during the month of July means living with the Calgary Stampede. If you’re not familiar with the Stampede, it’s billed as “the greatest outdoor show on earth” mainly because “the greatest show on earth” was already taken, and technically most of the event is held outdoors. It consists of a medium sized, mechanically … More

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July 9, 2000

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Now you can have software rasterizer piece of mind while anxiously waiting for the release of actual OpenType format fonts. Adobe has made the fully OpenType-savvy ATM Light 4.6 available as a free download. Via MacNN

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July 7, 2000

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Duane offers some excuses for not blogging.

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July 7, 2000

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Impress your friends. Enlighten your parents. Entertain your pets. Follow the bouncing cursor up and down this list of Must-Know Blog Terms. Conspicuous by their absence are other commonly used snippets such as bookmarklet, post, and the ever popular permalink. I am assuming that most people that read my blog already know what all this … More

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July 6, 2000

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Magellan is another new Mac email client for those looking to ditch Outlook Express or Eudora. One outstanding feature in this puppy is a multiscript encoding format in addition to unicode which provides much more robust multilingual message support. “MultiScript fully keeps language attribute of email message and multilingual is available even on mail title … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.