TidBITS#635/24-Jun-02
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Want ubiquitous wireless access to your email and the Web from a
svelte handheld computer? Us too, and Jeff Carlson explains why
the new Palm i705 is at least a step in the right direction. Adam
returns from the 17th annual MacHack developers conference with a
look at the future of the Mac world, and Matt Neuburg offers a
short review of the powerful bookmark utility URL Manager Pro.
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Tools We Use: URL Manager Pro
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by Matt Neuburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
After some years exploring the Web, most of us have collected a
number, possibly quite a large number, of URLs that we keep
squirrelled away for future reference, in accordance with our
habits and interests. Such preserved URLs are often referred to
as "bookmarks." Adam wrote a three-part article in 1996 on bookmark
management software and techniques, but at the time I paid scant
attention, since my browser of choice, Internet Explorer, handled
them adequately, providing a hierarchical menu for choosing
"favorite" URLs and an outline interface for arranging them. All
that changed, though, in the move to Mac OS X. The problem was
partly migrating my settings from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X and keeping
them coordinated in case I switched back. But even more important,
I no longer _had_ a browser of choice - in this brave new world, I
have been experimenting with several browsers (Internet Explorer,
Mozilla, OmniWeb, and others) that clamor for my attention. With
abrupt clarity, I knew I needed a separate, browser-agnostic URL
keeper to act as a central repository.
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbser=1132>
In this moment of need, Alco Blom's URL Manager Pro saved my
bacon. I have been using it in various development versions for
months now, but it has just gone final as version 3.0, which seems
an appropriate opportunity to recommend it. And I most certainly
do. To put it simply, if I had to list the top five utilities
without which I could never have made the switch to Mac OS X,
URL Manager Pro would be one of them.
<http://www.url-manager.com/version300.html>
**Laying Out the Garden** -- A URL Manager Pro window represents
a bookmark file; you're not limited to one such file, but I like
having just one that opens when URL Manager Pro does. The window
displays an outline of folders (categories) and URLs within them;
you can rearrange these as one would expect of an outline. You can
add a note to each URL, as well as set various other options.
Double-clicking a URL opens it in your browser; or you can drag
it into a browser. But you don't need to work in URL Manager Pro's
window just to open a URL; the bookmark file can also be displayed
hierarchically in the program's Dock menu, and even, in the case
of Internet Explorer, Opera, and iCab, as a normal ("shared") menu
amongst the browser's own. (An accompanying "menulet," Mondriaan,
lets you access a limited set of separately determined URLs even
when URL Manager Pro isn't running.)
Similarly, there are various ways to add a URL from your browser
to the bookmark file. You can drag the address from the browser
into the bookmark file; you can choose Add Bookmark from URL
Manager Pro's Dock icon menu while the browser window is
frontmost; you can choose Add Bookmark from the browser's shared
menu if it has one; and in some browsers you can even Control-
click a link and choose Add Link to URL Manager Pro from the
contextual menu.
**Tough Row to Hoe** -- URL Manager Pro's weakness is the
inconsistency of the implementation of its features across
different Internet programs. The chief fault lies, of course,
with those Internet programs, of which some support shared menus
and some don't, some support certain Apple events and some don't,
and so forth. It's confusing, and made more confusing by URL
Manager Pro itself. You never quite know what a menu item will
do, because the same words mean different things in different
places. For example, Add Bookmark in the shared menu brings up
a dialog for modifying the URL information before entering it
in the bookmark file; Add Bookmark in the Dock menu doesn't;
Add Bookmark in URL Manager Pro's own menu creates a blank URL;
and there's no Add Bookmark in Mondriaan at all. Come to that,
why is Mondriaan so different - why isn't it simply a menulet
version of URL Manager Pro itself, providing access to the
bookmark file, as an alternative to the Dock and the shared
menu? In general, the details of how one accesses functionality,
such as the names of menu items, could use some rethinking.
The situation isn't helped by a manual that's vague, poorly
structured, and not always complete.
Nonetheless, URL Manager Pro is a powerful program, full of
surprises and usually anticipating your needs; most users will
probably require just a fraction of its power. It can be set to
watch and record your browsing in a history list, so you can later
recover a URL you forgot to add previously. It can import all the
links within a Web page or email. It can validate links. I could
go on and on - its abilities are too various to list here. Try it
and see for yourself.
URL Manager Pro runs natively under Mac OS 8 or higher (2.4 MB
download), including Mac OS X (2.2 MB download). It costs a mere
$25, or $11 to upgrade from version 2. For $37 you can register
both URL Manager Pro and Alco Blom's other shareware utility, Web
Confidential, on which I also depend for storing and retrieving
user account and password information (see Adam's review - "Web
Confidential: Securing Information of All Sorts" in TidBITS-441_).
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MacHack: The Ghost of Macintosh Future
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The MacHack developers conference - the 17th of which was held
last week in Dearborn, Michigan - is tremendously unusual. The
keynote starts at midnight, wireless (and wired) Ethernet access
is available throughout the lobby of the venue (the Holiday Inn
Fairlane), and the age of the attendees ranges from those in
elementary school to those approaching retirement. But despite all
this, the most salient fact about MacHack for the non-programmer
is that it shows where the Macintosh industry will be heading.
Macworld Expo is the ghost of Macintosh present, MacHack is the
ghost of Macintosh future. (And much as historical trivia is fun
to bat around, there won't be a ghost of Macintosh past conference
as long as the Macintosh world remains viable and continues to
move forward.)
<http://www.machack.com/>
**People** -- For those of us who have come to at least the last
few iterations of MacHack, the absences of other long-standing
attendees was initially disturbing. Well-known programmer after
well-known programmer didn't show up, but as the reasons came
forth, it turned out that most of the missing people had been
kept away by work deadlines, not a lack of interest in the Mac
or a switch to another platform. Attendance in general was down -
not surprising in this economic climate - but a large number of
first timers helped to swell the ranks to a total of about 270
attendees. A good number of these folks were Unix users, and
although Mac OS X's impact on the overall base of Mac users is
still in an early phase, it's clear that within a few years, the
migration of Unix and Windows users to the Mac will make the Mac
community significantly more diverse. Whether or not it will also
be larger in proportion to the overall computing world remains
unclear, but there's no question that Mac OS X improves Apple's
chances of increasing market share.
Related to the influx of Unix users were the two keynotes - the
first from publisher Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly and Associates and
the second from Slashdot's Rob Malda (known online as CmdrTaco).
Tim has recently become a Mac user thanks to Mac OS X and a
Titanium PowerBook G4 given to him by Apple, and O'Reilly is
publishing ever more Macintosh books as their core audience of
Unix geeks increasingly starts relying on Mac OS X. O'Reilly
is even holding a Mac OS X conference in late September of
2002 - I'll be speaking there.
<http://www.oreilly.com/>
<http://slashdot.org/>
<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/>
Another positive sign for the future was the presence of the many
"yoot" - students at all stages of education who attended the
sessions, networked with the older programmers, and participated
in the Hack Contest. Although some have attended more MacHacks
than I have, many others were at their first MacHack. That's just
too cool - there isn't another industry event that I know of where
kids are not only encouraged to attend, but are treated as peers
by the best in the business. Talk about investing in your future.
Of course, the yoot who attend MacHack are, as with the children
of Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon, above average, with a
significant level of Macintosh and Unix knowledge. Nowhere was
that more clear than with Adam Atlas, a 12-year-old who took
second place in the Best Hack Contest (more on that next week) and
presented a session on REALbasic, and Andy Furnas, a 14-year-old
from our home town of Ithaca who is a member of next year's
MacHack organizing committee. These bright, engaging kids are
creating their own future, hopefully in the Macintosh world,
and if MacHack can play a role in that, all the better.
Last, I was heartened to realize that no matter what the future
holds for the Macintosh, if MacHack is any indication, community
will remain important. The Macintosh itself has many
distinguishing features, but a strong, vital community is
difficult or impossible to create intentionally; let's make
sure we don't lose the one we have.
**Hardware** -- The selection of hardware was also indicative of
where we'll be heading, at least in some ways. Titanium PowerBook
G4s and iBooks dominated, with a few scattered PowerBook G3s and
colored iBooks thrown in for good measure. Obviously, portable
computers are far more likely to be taken to a conference than a
desktop machine (although Jorg Brown brought a new iMac that was
animated for the hack contest), but a significant number of the
programmers said that their Titanium PowerBook G4 was also their
primary machine. Plus, a number of Unix users who have switched to
the Mac said that part of the decision, after Mac OS X itself, was
the fact that Apple makes cool laptops. Computing is becoming ever
more portable, and although there's a constant trade-off between
size and screen real estate, it's worth keeping an eye on anything
that improves the portable computing experience.
AirPort cards were nearly ubiquitous, though the volunteers who
set up the MacHack network still provided Ethernet hubs at many
of the tables in the hotel lobby for the folks with the earlier
models of the Titanium PowerBook G4, which had terrible AirPort
range (reportedly somewhat better in the most recent models).
Wireless networking has been on a steep adoption curve ever since
Apple introduced AirPort several years ago. It's appearing in many
locations, such as trade shows, libraries, and airports, and the
way things are going, the lack of wireless Internet access will
become more surprising than its presence within a few years.
Perhaps we'll see it on airplanes, in supermarkets, and even city
parks - I'd say the sky is the limit, but in fact, the limiting
factors for wireless networking are more physical and political
(see "Peering into 2002's Tea Leaves" in TidBITS-612_ for my
wireless prognostication).
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**Software** -- On the software side of things, Mac OS X was
equally as prevalent as Apple's newer laptops. A few people
were still running Mac OS 9, and one brave soul even brought a
PowerBook Duo 280c running System 7.6 for his hack (which modified
the Chooser's display of file servers so you could tell which ones
supported AppleShare over TCP/IP rather than AppleTalk), but it
was clear that developers had taken the none-too-subtle hint from
Apple that there's no point in developing for Mac OS 9 any more.
Mac OS 9's status for developers was hammered home during a
tongue-in-cheek session from Apple's Keith Stattenfield, who
was the development lead on Mac OS 9. His session, entitled "The
Future of Mac OS 9," consisted mostly of slides listing euphemisms
for "dead." Keith summed up with an emphatic, "It's dead!" and a
mock-concerned "Really?" from the audience had the entire room
laughing. On a more serious note, Keith did reassure developers
that Classic will be around for years, and bugs in Mac OS 9 are
still being investigated to improve Classic, QuickTime, other
components, and even Mac OS 9 itself if a sufficiently serious
problem is discovered. Plus, Apple is looking at ways of improving
Classic - I hope they'll consider letting users save the state
of Classic like you can do in Connectix's Virtual PC rather than
starting it up and shutting it down all the time.
It is worth noting that although the developers were using Mac
OS X, and I didn't hear much complaining about the basics of the
operating system, there were plenty of specific complaints about
details of Mac OS X. In many of those cases, it was clear that
Apple knew about the problems and was working hard to fix them -
Mac OS X is a huge project, and it takes time to implement, test,
and integrate fixes. The next major release of Mac OS X, codenamed
Jaguar, should include a wide variety of improvements when it
appears in a few months.
**Keynote Thoughts** -- As a closing thought, I'd like to pass on
the list of editorial filters that Tim O'Reilly said the editors
at O'Reilly and Associates apply when determining whether they
should cover a new technology. To catch O'Reilly's interest, a
technology should:
* be network related (by network, I think they mean networks
of people, not computers),
* engender a real need for information,
* have grassroots support,
* inspire passion,
* have deeper social implications,
* have professional practitioners, and
* have a possible business ecology.
It also helps O'Reilly's decision if the technology is also:
* disruptive, not just evolutionary,
* enabling of other technologies,
* at the right point in its life-cycle, and
* being adopted at an accelerating rate.
It's easy to see how these requirements applied to the Internet
back in the early 1990s, and Tim said that he felt the next big
thing was going to be looking at the Internet as a platform rather
than a network (this is what people are thinking about when they
talk about Web services). Now think about how these filters might
apply to Mac OS X. For the most part, it meets the requirements,
though I'm not sure it's possible to say that it's a disruptive
technology at the moment (at least in the sense O'Reilly means -
it's certainly been disruptive to many people in the more common
usage of the word).
If we were to take MacHack to the logical extreme, we'd all be
spending time in groups of friends and colleagues, continually
inventing the future with tiny Mac OS X-based Macs that exist as
much on the Internet as they do in the physical world. Science
fiction? Certainly, but the same would likely have been said not
all that many years ago of where we are now.
Palm i705: Wireless Internet, If You're Patient
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by Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"It's great living in the future," a friend of mine is fond of
saying, which for me over the past few weeks has been embodied
in using a Palm i705 wireless handheld. The successor to Palm's
clunkier but groundbreaking Palm VII, the i705 offers wireless
Internet access nearly anywhere, in a device that's slightly
larger than my old standby, a Palm Vx. Waiting in my car for my
wife to leave work, I can find out which movies are playing in the
area or check my email without finding a WiFi-equipped Starbucks.
However, as with other expectations of living the future - silent,
non-polluting, air-cars guided automatically by computer come to
mind - the i705 is also grounded in the realities of the present,
specifically when it comes to the speed (or lack thereof) of
working online.
<http://www.palm.com/products/palmi705/>
**From VII to i705** -- Altogether, I'm primarily impressed with
the i705's size: the Palm VII was a modified Palm III with an
extended top containing the wireless radio. Activating the
wireless access required you to lift an antenna, which added
another five inches or so to the height. The i705, in comparison,
is a slightly thicker Palm m500. The antenna is now a curved bump
at the top of the unit, more like a raised eyebrow than the Palm
VII's flat Frankenstein forehead.
The i705 has a grayscale screen, 8 MB of memory, an infrared port,
and a Secure Digital/MultiMedia card slot for using removable
storage cards or add-on devices such as Palm's Bluetooth Card. Its
built-in rechargeable battery on my unit was surprisingly robust:
even after having the wireless radio activated all day (more on
that later), battery drain was negligible, and even regular use
of the device didn't affect battery life much (unlike my Palm Vx,
which has a much shorter battery life than it used to). It runs
Palm OS 4.1, which means you get the full complement of organizer
software such as Date Book, Address Book, To Do List, Memo Pad,
and Note Pad.
<http://www.palm.com/wireless/bluetooth/>
Also new in recent Palm handhelds is Clock, a time and date
display activated by tapping a clock icon on the silkscreened
area. It's a handy feature, but with an unfortunately inconvenient
method of activation. The Palm m100 series uses Clock much better:
with the device powered off, pushing the scroll-up button displays
the time. On the i705 (as well as the m500 series), you must
either pull out the stylus to tap the teeny clock icon, or have
great fingernail dexterity. On the plus side, you can set an
alarm using Clock, which means my Date Book should no longer
be cluttered with mid-day appointments titled "Wake Up."
The silkscreened Calculator button has been replaced by a star
icon, which is confusing until you learn that you can set any
application to launch when you tap it. This button remapping
capability has been around for quite some time, but I'm guessing
people didn't know to take advantage of it, so Palm created
this Favorite App button. (To change how it's mapped, go to
Preferences, choose Buttons from the pop-up menu at the upper-
right corner, then choose an application from the pop-up menu
to the right of the star button icon.)
Also remapped are the two right-most plastic application buttons.
Formerly the To Do List and Memo Pad buttons, they now launch
the MyPalm and MultiMail applications. As a longtime Palm user,
I consistently hit one of these to bring up the To Do List or Memo
Pad, but I'm sure I'd adapt over time. My short-term compromise
was to remap (again, in the Prefs application) the MyPalm button
back to the To Do List, but leave the MultiMail button alone.
**Without Wires, but Not Without Strings** -- Using the Palm i705
without enabling the wireless access would be like leaving a
sports car in the garage. However, you should factor in the
service costs in addition to the $450 price of the organizer.
Palm offers two pricing structures for its Palm.Net service.
The Associate Plan costs $20 per month and covers up to 100K of
data transferred during the month, plus $0.20 per kilobyte above
that. Unless you're especially skimpy on your wireless access,
this plan is ridiculous. I did not deliberately try to max out
the wireless usage, and still chewed through 441K during one month
of use. Under the Associate Plan, that would have cost me $68.32
in addition to the $20 monthly fee. Ouch.
The Associate Plan may just be Palm's way of enticing users to go
for the better (though still not cheap) Executive Unlimited plan,
which for $40 per month offers a flat rate for as many kilobytes
as you can pull down. Palm also offers an Annual Executive
Unlimited plan, which ends up costing $35 per month if you
prepay for a full year's service.
<http://www.palm.com/products/palmi705/wireless.html>
You'll also need to consider geographic availability of Palm.Net.
If you live in a major metropolitan area in the United States,
chances are you'll have coverage (see Palm's maps at the link
below for more detail). However, as with cellular phone coverage,
Palm.Net could prove elusive at times. One afternoon, my wife and
I were trying to find a restaurant that I hadn't been to in years,
so we pulled into a parking lot and did a Google search. No
connection. So I drove around while she held the Palm, waiting
for the connection to improve, until she finally asked with a
smirk, "Can you go to an area with wireless access, please?"
I could only reply, "Yes, I think I see some access up ahead."
After about a mile or so, the signal strength picked up, and
we were able to get the restaurant's address.
<http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/coveragemap.cgi>
**Web Clipping** -- When the Palm VII first appeared, the only
service options were based on per-kilobyte usage. To reduce the
amount of data transferred, Palm developed what it calls Web
Clipping, a novel method of downloading only the information
you need. Instead of loading a Web page that's been designed
for computer viewing (i.e., chock full of graphics and ads), Web
Clipping uses Palm Query Applications (PQAs) to send and receive
data. Essentially, these are small programs that let you perform
a specific request, such as retrieving movie show times (using
Moviefone) in a specific area code, listing recent news headlines
(via CNN, ABC News, USA Today, and the PR Newswire), or a number
of other quick bursts of information. PQAs are basically just Web
forms that grab specific information. On the i705, Palm rolled a
number of PQAs into one MyPalm application to provide an Internet
portal. You can also download other PQAs from the Web - PalmGear
links to all sorts of Palm software, and has created a PQA that
can download and install other PQAs over the i705's wireless
connection.
<http://www.palmgear.com/software/>
Despite Palm's deliberate bandwidth belt-tightening, I found
the i705 to be surprisingly slow. You access the built-in PQAs
via the MyPalm application, and even clicking any topic from the
main screen requires a new connection and data transfer; I don't
know what it could possibly be asking for, since it's apparently
loading only the built-in Web form. For example, testing as I
write this, it took 18 seconds between tapping the News link to
displaying a page with four PQAs listed. Tapping the CNN option
causes a 10 second pause before listing a main page with CNN's
links. I tap the new Top stories link, wait 14 seconds, and a
page of headlines is displayed. I tap a headline, wait another
25 seconds, and am finally given the text of a 2K article. It's
taken me roughly a minute to get to a single news story.
The MyPalm application also offers a straightforward browser to
connect to regular Web pages, but that's more painful to use. You
cannot switch to another application while MyPalm is downloading
Web content, so you're left watching the steady pulse of the
round progress indicator (which doubles as a stop button during
transmission) as you wait for data to load. Several times, the
i705 lost contact with the server when viewing Web pages,
resulting in partial pages. Amazingly, there is no Refresh command
to reload the contents of the page, so you have to go back to
the previous page, tap the link for the article you want, and
hope it loads on the second try. If you arrived at your partial
page by writing its URL, the address isn't saved, so you have
to write it again.
Unfortunately, MyPalm seems to be the only choice for Web
browsing; other Palm OS browsers such as Handspring's Blazer
didn't work over the Palm.Net service in my testing.
<http://www.handspring.com/software/blazer_overview.jhtml>
**Email** -- Far more useful is the included MultiMail
application, which you can use to access your Palm.Net email or
any other POP or IMAP account. When you tap the Get Mail button,
you're given the option of retrieving full messages or just the
Subject lines of the mail waiting on your server. You can also
choose to skip larger messages (the default limit is set at 50K -
that's half of your monthly allotment if you're on the $20
Palm.Net plan), retrieve only unread mail, or ignore attachments.
Messages stay on the server by default, so anything you've read
will show up later (marked as read) in your email program on the
Mac. If you delete a message on the handheld, you have the option
of deleting it on the server as well, which means you don't have
to look at the same spam twice.
The i705 also includes an option to schedule when the radio is
activated, which is handy for checking email automatically: you
can choose to keep it on all the time, activate it manually each
time you need it, or set a block of active time such as 8 AM to
6 PM. Using a form on the my.palm.net Web site, you can instruct
Palm's server to check your accounts every day or every hour, then
forward the messages to the handheld. When new mail is waiting,
the handheld can sound an alarm, vibrate, flash its indicator
light, or perform a combination of all three.
<http://my.palm.net/>
You can also set up filters to control which messages are
downloaded, though they are confusing to create and mostly
ineffective. Unlike the filters found in most Mac email clients,
you can't specify a filter to ignore messages (such as spam);
instead, you can only choose which messages to accept. So, I could
create a filter that grabs any message from Adam or Geoff, but not
one that avoids spam messages with "viagra" in the Subject line.
Even so, I found the capability to check email remotely to be the
most important for me, and it was workable to grab a list of
message subjects and manually filter those.
It's also worth mentioning that the i705 includes an AOL Instant
Messenger client, but frankly the device's performance made me
snicker when I considered how "instant" the messages would be,
so I didn't test it out.
**The Future Is Almost Now** -- If you need compact wireless
Internet access, the Palm i705 is a good device that also acts
as your personal organizer, as long as you're not expecting to
do it quickly. And if wireless connectivity outweighs some of
the inconveniences of Palm's built-in software, you'll be happy
to have a more compact device to carry around.
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