Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Mison
On 03/01/2003 at 22:58 -0500, Peter R. Wood wrote: The general sequence of events was: Apple releases original Sherlock; Actually, the original Sherlock was version 1 for Mac OS 8.5, which was a slightly beefed up (and genuinely usable) version of the old Find File app. Then OS 9 (*)

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Nandor
At 11:47 -0500 2003.01.03, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: The Oroboro OS X window manager http://oroborosx.sf.net is a very Ob Pedantic: It is OroborOSX, which is a combination of Oroborous and Mac OS X. http://www.dreamind.de/oroborus.shtml The unicode support is nice. Your foreign spam

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Peter R. Wood
4. More in-depth books than Missing Manual. Hints on hardware especially helpful. Run, don't walk, to get O'Reilly's Mac OS X For UNIX Geeks - if want to leverage your UNIX knowledge with your new Mac system, this book will be invaluable. I got a copy for Christmas... it's very handy. 5.

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, darren chamberlain wrote: * Andrew M. Langmead aml at world.std.com [2003-01-03 11:47]: The unicode support is nice. Your foreign spam comes in its proper script, rather than funny escape characters that mess up for text display (like frequently happens with mutt)

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:18 PM -0500 1/2/03, darren chamberlain wrote: Dead-simple. Copy your Windows mail folder over and tell Mac eudora about it and you're set. (Done it both ways, works very nicely) More broadly, Eudora uses mbox format, doesn't it? Mail.app does too,

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Nandor
At 12:07 -0500 2003.01.03, Peter R. Wood wrote: Keep up on the latest Mac software, news, etc: http://versiontracker.com/macosx/ - tracks new Mac software releases http://www.macintouch.com/ - Mac news and commentary http://www.lowendmac.com/ - for folks like you who have older Macs

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:41 PM -0500 1/3/03, Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:18 PM -0500 1/2/03, darren chamberlain wrote: Dead-simple. Copy your Windows mail folder over and tell Mac eudora about it and you're set. (Done it both ways, works very nicely) More broadly, Eudora

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Ron Newman
On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Drew Taylor wrote: I just ran across an Eudora importer for Mail.app on version tracker yesterday. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - 1-step migration from Eudora to Mail.app http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13341db=mac It's not perfect, but it's

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Drew Taylor
At 03:54 PM 1/3/03 -0500, Ron Newman wrote: On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Drew Taylor wrote: I just ran across an Eudora importer for Mail.app on version tracker yesterday. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - 1-step migration from Eudora to Mail.app

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Really? I flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't find much *of value to a long-time UNIX user. Specifically, I wanted to see much *more discussion about netinfo and other darwin/osx-isms that you don't *find on other *NIXes. The coverage of

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Peter R. Wood
Really? I flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't find much of value to a long-time UNIX user. Specifically, I wanted to see much more discussion about netinfo and other darwin/osx-isms that you don't find on other *NIXes. The coverage of netinfo was pretty much limited to there's

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:51:14PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: I just ran across an Eudora importer for Mail.app on version tracker yesterday. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - 1-step migration from Eudora to Mail.app http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13341db=mac I'm actually not being

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Drew Taylor
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Here's a summary of the replies. I think I have lots to look forward to now. :-) User Groups --- Boston Mac Users' Group http://www.bmac.org Next meeting on Wed Jan 8, 2002 at MIT campus MacWoburn user group http://www.macwoburn.org Meets at

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Nandor
At 15:15 -0600 2003.01.03, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Really? I flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't find much *of value to a long-time UNIX user. Specifically, I wanted to see much *more discussion about netinfo and other darwin/osx-isms that

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Mikey Smelto
* iChat The cartoon metaphor for IM discussion works surprisingly well, and the integration with the system address book is useful. On the other hand, it seems to crash a lot, and it would be nice if it could integrate with other IM services. (On the gripping hand, it would be better still

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Mikey Smelto
I don't know anything about EveryBuddy, but for a cross-service IM client, Fire.app is okay -- and it's GPL too! It's just not as cute as iChat though... :) Also, if you've got Fink/OroborOSX, Gaim is an option -- I seem to recall that can do multiple protocols now...

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Mikey Smelto
I don't know anything about EveryBuddy, but for a cross-service IM client, Fire.app is okay -- and it's GPL too! It's just not as cute as iChat though... :) Also, if you've got Fink/OroborOSX, Gaim is an option -- I seem to recall that can do multiple protocols now... I guess I could include

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:39 PM -0500 1/3/03, David H. Adler wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:51:14PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: I just ran across an Eudora importer for Mail.app on version tracker yesterday. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - 1-step migration from Eudora to Mail.app

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: One of the nice things about keeping your mail on the server and going with IMAP--at least changing clients is reasonably simple, though there's still that pesky address book filter issue. Hence the joy of [b] procmail friends (which keeps your

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Peter R. Wood
* Sherlock / Watson OSX 10.0 came out with its version of Sherlock (3.0?), and it was... meh. Then Watson came out, and trounced it in every way -- this is very neat software for getting information of all sorts from the internet. Then Jaguar brought Sherlock 3.5, and -- supposedly by

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Chris Nandor
At 22:58 -0500 2003.01.03, Peter R. Wood wrote: The general sequence of events was: Apple releases original Sherlock; Karelia releases Watson to 'complement' Sherlock; Apple awards Karelia 'Most Innovative Mac OS X Product of 2002'; Apple releases Sherlock 3 (which is a dead ringer for Watson) as

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:03 PM -0500 1/3/03, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: One of the nice things about keeping your mail on the server and going with IMAP--at least changing clients is reasonably simple, though there's still that pesky address book filter issue. Hence the joy

[Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Drew Taylor
Sorry for the OT post, but I know there are lots of OS X users on this list. :-) I've recently gotten a Mac OS X (10.2.3) box up running. It's a beige G3 running at 266MHz (not too bad w/ 400+MB of RAM). Now I'm trying to make the Switch. I've read Pogue's Missing Manual and found it very

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Drew Taylor
At 11:12 AM 1/2/03 -0500, darren chamberlain wrote: * Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-02 11:06]: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 I've recently gotten a Mac OS X (10.2.3) box up running. Not using it yet, though, huh? :) I should note that I sent the email from

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:31 PM -0500 1/2/03, Drew Taylor wrote: I know everyone raves about mutt, and will probably look into it at some point. But it seems strange to be using a text-oriented mail program in one of the prettiest GUI's available. ;-) I also wonder if Mail.app is the best available GUI email

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread darren chamberlain
* Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-02 14:08]: At 1:31 PM -0500 1/2/03, Drew Taylor wrote: I know everyone raves about mutt, and will probably look into it at some point. But it seems strange to be using a text-oriented mail program in one of the prettiest GUI's available. ;-) I

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Drew Taylor
At 02:09 PM 1/2/03 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: I've not used Mail.app, but I do use Eudora. As mail clients go, it's pretty nice, and free (Which is a good thing) if you don't mind a small and unobtrusive ad window. (Or reduced functionality) I've been a Eudora user for many years now. I

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:24 PM -0500 1/2/03, Drew Taylor wrote: At 02:09 PM 1/2/03 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: I've not used Mail.app, but I do use Eudora. As mail clients go, it's pretty nice, and free (Which is a good thing) if you don't mind a small and unobtrusive ad window. (Or reduced functionality) I've

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:18 PM -0500 1/2/03, darren chamberlain wrote: * Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-02 14:08]: At 1:31 PM -0500 1/2/03, Drew Taylor wrote: I know everyone raves about mutt, and will probably look into it at some point. But it seems strange to be using a text-oriented mail program