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Graphical emoticons in Eudora 6.2? Luckily, the latest version
of the intrepid email client also features more sensible
enhancements. Equally improbable - but true - is news that
GarageBand.com is teaming with MSN Music to feature audience-
selected artists. Back on solid ground, Glenn Fleishman looks
at welcome improvements in the AirPort 4.1 update, and Adam
announces a new ebook twist: the Take Control product manual
(for the automation utility iKey 2). We also note the release
of SubEthaEdit 2.1.1, announce the move of www.tidbits.com to
our Web Crossing server, and solicit your suggestions for our
holiday gift issue. No issue next week due to Thanksgiving!
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MailBITS/22-Nov-04
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GarageBand.com Inks Deal with MSN Music
Take Control Expands with iKey 2 Manual
Eudora 6.2 Alternates Between Silly and Serious
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**No TidBITS Issue on 29-Nov-04** -- Due to the Thanksgiving
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families and friends, and just plain resting up for the hectic
race to the end of the year (complete with our annual gift
issue). See you again on 06-Dec-04! [JLC]
**Submit Your Holiday 2004 Gift Ideas** -- It's time once again
to prop up the economy with holiday shopping, and what better
sector to support than the Macintosh industry? As always, we're
collecting the best holiday gift ideas from readers for our
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**SubEthaEdit 2.1.1 Released** -- Our favorite collaborative
writing and programming tool, SubEthaEdit, just hit its 2.1.1
release. The newest version overcomes a frustrating difficulty
in establishing color coding for particular editors and making
that consistent over time. This revision also allows the creation
of sets that can be imported and exported, supports editing
in an Administrator mode, and enhances printing capabilities.
It also includes a new Unix command line tool for interaction
with SubEthaEdit via Terminal and an AppleScript interface for
automating basic editing. Lastly, you can now also include what
the developers call "collaboration metadata" when you print or
export documents to HTML. Note that version 2.1 was released on
16-Nov-04; the 2.1.1 release followed a couple days later, which
patched a security vulnerability and fixed minor glitches.
SubEthaEdit 2.1.1 costs $35, and is available as a 2.9 MB
download. [GF]
<http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/>
**TidBITS Web Site Moved to Web Crossing** -- At last! The entire
www.tidbits.com domain (but not our db.tidbits.com archive) is
now being served by Web Crossing 5.0 running on our dual-processor
Xserve, which is a huge step up from WebSTAR 3.0 on an aging Power
Mac 7600. Most of the work involved with moving files came in
translating the server-side includes we used to include common
chunks of text in different files, although there was also a bit
of effort in rewriting the code that sends email messages for
subscription management and DealBITS entries. Also tricky was
setting up all the redirects so all old URLs work even when files
are in new physical locations. I was stunned at the age of some
of the files I moved, and I had to restrain myself from updating
obsolete content, since I would never have finished at that point.
Hopefully it will be easier to do that now, since Web Crossing's
performance is so much better that editing files remotely isn't
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If you notice any broken links or things that don't seem to
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AirPort 4.1 Fixes Encryption Irritation, Enables Remote Control
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by Glenn Fleishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apple last week released AirPort 4.1 software for Mac OS X 10.3,
adding a feature that's been in great need: the capability to use
more modern and secure WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption
when you're also linking base stations wirelessly through WDS
(Wireless Distribution System). This is common if you have an
AirPort Express linked wirelessly to an AirPort Express or
AirPort Extreme that's connected to the Internet. WPA is highly
recommended, as the weaker WEP encryption has been broken for
some time.
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airport41formacosx.html>
The update also includes necessary support for the new Keyspan
Express Remote, which can plug into the AirPort Express's USB
port to enable remote control of iTunes.
<http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/urm17a/>
The update also enables you to rename a printer connected via USB
to a base station. This solved a problem with the printer that my
wife and I share at home; I could print wirelessly, but she had
to remain connected via USB cable. After changing the name - its
Rendezvous name, really - in the AirPort Admin Utility, my wife
can now print to that printer. I suspect there's a funky entry for
that printer deep in some Rendezvous .plist file on her machine
that, if deleted, would have made it work, too, but this approach
was easier.
The update also includes AirPort Express 6.1 and AirPort Extreme
Base Station 5.5 firmware updates. AirPort 4.1 requires Mac OS X
10.3 or later, and is available through Software Update, or as a
12.4 MB download. An AirPort 4.1 update is also available for
Windows; the firmware updates are also available as separate
downloads.
GarageBand.com Inks Deal with MSN Music
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by Geoff Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In an interesting move, GarageBand.com has inked a deal with
Microsoft's MSN Music whereby top-rated GarageBand artists will
be featured on MSN Music services, and (eventually) artists
will be able to distribute or sell their music via MSN Music.
The deal marks the first time one of the major online digital
music services (okay, a potentially major service; right now
nothing compares to the iTunes Music Store) has dipped into the
vast pool of independent and unsigned musical talent available
via the Internet. It also marks the first time a (potentially)
major music distribution channel has created an option whereby
featured artists are primarily selected by music listeners,
rather than by record labels, producers, advertisers, and
marketing machines.
<http://www.garageband.com/news/msn_music.html>
<http://www.music.msn.com/garageband/>
The basic idea is that featured artists are selected from
GarageBand.com's top-rated artists in a variety of genres; those
ratings are derived from GarageBand's listener review process,
in which anyone can participate. The listener ratings act as
a filter to highlight the strongest (and/or marketable) artists
in each genre. MSN Music will launch a new "GarageBand Radio"
channel on MSN Music which will stream tracks from GarageBand.com
top-ranked artists; MSN Music will also enable GarageBand.com
artists to submit music for distribution either for free or as
paid downloads - the first time a (potentially) major online
music store has opened up a direct channel to independent artists.
MSN Music will also apparently carry "hundreds of thousands" of
GarageBand.com songs as free downloads; some of these tracks will
at least in part be comprised of participants in the original
MP3.com's TruSonic program, which GarageBand has acquired and
is working to restore.
<http://www.garageband.com/bbs/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&;
Number=156321&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5>
This move - for the time being - makes MSN Music the only major
player in the online music scene making any direct effort to
connect with independent, unsigned, and emerging artists.
Something of an irony, considering the source!
Take Control Expands with iKey 2 Manual
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Back in 1998, I wrote a TidBITS article entitled "The Death of
Documentation," which laid out the reasons why manuals, even those
for large and complex programs, had become so small and unhelpful.
Six years have passed, and frankly, nothing has really improved.
So earlier this year, I came up with an idea for solving at least
a portion of the software manual problem that leverages everything
we've learned from our Take Control project.
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=04865>
You see, there isn't all that much difference between one of
our Take Control ebooks and a manual. Our ebooks tend to be more
focused on specific tasks, and don't attempt to cover an entire
program, but the problems we've solved, such as how to produce
professional content presented in an extremely readable PDF-based
layout, are identical to those faced by developers looking to
create a manual. "So," I thought, "why don't we just write the
manuals for appropriate programs?" In considering how to answer
my own question, I realized the key lay in figuring out how an
author writing a Take Control manual would be paid for his or
her effort.
Knowing the kind of sales figures we had for Take Control titles
on extremely common programs like Microsoft Entourage 2004, Word
2004, and GarageBand, not to mention Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, it was
clear that independent titles covering less-common applications
simply couldn't generate enough sales to be worth the effort.
Even if thousands of people purchase a given application, the
percentage that would buy a separate (and potentially competing)
manual for the product won't be all that high. Besides, manuals
should come with the associated program; it feels wrong somehow
to charge users for the documentation necessary to go beyond the
visible interface. The solution soon became obvious: negotiate
with a developer to write a Take Control manual that would be
bundled with the product in exchange for a per-unit royalty.
The developer could then decide how to handle the royalty, either
taking less profit at the same price point or raising the price
to offset the cost of the manual.
Of course, this strategy works only if the product sells in
sufficient quantities for the total royalty to make the author's
time worthwhile; I suspect that with a $5 royalty matching a
roughly 50-page manual, for instance, a product would have to
sell at least a few thousand copies, although all those numbers
could be tweaked to make the final recompense worthwhile.
**Enter iKey 2** -- It was a nice theory, but the next trick was
finding the right program, one that was sufficiently complex and
powerful to warrant a real manual, that was in the appropriate
stage of development, and that had enough users to make the
numbers work out. Plus, since I wanted to write this first
Take Control manual myself rather than throw another author into
the deep end, it would be best if it were a program I would use
in my day-to-day work. Coincidentally, a good candidate appeared
quickly. When we were in Hawaii for my sister's wedding in April,
we met with Julian Miller of Script Software, and after I told him
about the idea, he suggested we work together on iKey 2, a major
revision of their automation utility that was in the works.
On the face of it, iKey 2 was the perfect first case, since
I was using the 1.0 version, it was already popular, the upgrade
was sufficiently major that a large number of upgrades were
likely, and it was in a relatively early stage of development
at that time. We figured out the details, and I started in on
designing a manual and documenting the beta of iKey 2. Six months
later, developer Philippe Hupe had a finished version of iKey,
and I had a complete 148-page manual. For those who aren't
familiar with iKey, I'll describe it shortly, but needless to
say, everyone is welcome to download and study the complete
manual as a way of acquiring a feel for what iKey can do.
<http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/samples/TCoiKey2-1.0.1.pdf>
Six months may seem like a long time to write a manual, and it
felt like it then, too. Some of the delay was my fault, since big
projects are difficult for me to fit into my overloaded schedule
as it is. Plus, I didn't realize when I started just how deep and
powerful iKey 2 would be, since iKey 1 was a relatively simple
application. That added complexity was how I ended up with a
148-page manual.
There were also unanticipated challenges along the way. Since
iKey 2 was in development, there were bugs to identify, report,
and retest in the next version. Although I hadn't signed up to
be a tester, it made no sense for me to ignore bugs I found -
I wanted iKey to work as well as possible, and I certainly didn't
want to document bugs that Philippe could fix easily. Although the
basic interface was more or less done, changes were necessary in
some areas that I found difficult to document; after all, if it's
hard to explain how to use an interface, it's probably hard to
use it. And lastly, Philippe is both French and a programmer,
which meant that I couldn't resist making suggestions about how
to improve bits of text within the interface for English language
clarity. All these issues made coordination tricky, since I
couldn't document a part of the program until it was finalized,
and I couldn't take screenshots until the interface text had
undergone an edit pass. There was much back-and-forth, with
Philippe being extremely gracious about my suggestions and
edits. As it turned out, I ended up doing a lot of work just
so I could get to the point of writing the manual I wanted to
write. But the result was a program that improved greatly during
its pre-release phase.
**About iKey 2** -- For those who haven't seen it before, iKey
is an automation utility, or what others might call a macro
utility. No matter what you call it, such a utility helps you
create shortcuts that automate repetitive tasks, much like
QuicKeys from CE Software and Keyboard Maestro, now owned by
Stairways Software. QuicKeys was one of the first Macintosh
programs I ever bought, back in 1989, and I've relied on an
automation utility ever since. With Mac OS X, I went through
a period of using QuicKeys on my desktop Mac and Keyboard Maestro
on my PowerBook, but when Panther came out, I standardized on
iKey on both machines for compatibility and synchronization
reasons. I won't attempt to compare the three, partly since
I haven't used recent versions of either QuicKeys or Keyboard
Maestro, but mostly because it wouldn't be appropriate given
my experience with iKey.
<http://scriptsoftware.com/ikey/>
<http://www.cesoft.com/products/qkx.html>
<http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/>
The two most common types of shortcuts that an automation utility
enables for me are switching to specific applications when I press
particular function keys and typing various bits of boilerplate
text when I press an associated hotkey (you don't really think I
actually type "cheers... -Adam" at the end of every email message,
do you?). Those are simple actions, but iKey performs other tasks
for me that are a bit more complex. For instance, my new method of
handling email in Eudora involves using a saved search rather than
the In box, so I've used iKey to remap Command-1 such that it
opens my saved search instead of my In box. iKey lets me change
the functionality of the hotkey without changing the way I work.
Things get interesting when you want to string together a variety
of actions, complete with pauses or multiple iterations, to
automate more complex repetitive tasks. iKey is good at automating
complex actions, since it has over 100 individual commands that
you can build into shortcuts. So, for instance, I've written a
shortcut that creates a properly formatted HREF tag using the
selected text as the target and a URL in the clipboard as the
destination. That shortcut was tricky (iKey doesn't attempt
to provide full-fledged programming constructs, though it can
of course execute AppleScript scripts and is itself scriptable),
but I use it a lot to write HTML snippets in any program before
posting on ExtraBITS or Web-based discussion areas that allow
HTML.
iKey shortcuts can be invoked in ways other than hotkeys, too.
You can have them trigger automatically at specific times: one of
my shortcuts automatically checks a number of Web sites in OmniWeb
and Safari every morning at 9:00 AM. Shortcuts can also go off
when applications launch or quit, or are activated or deactivated.
Then there are system event triggers, for activating shortcuts
at sleep, wake, restart, or shutdown. And if you prefer a visual
interface, you can create palettes and menus (either normal menus
tied to the menu bar or pop-up menus that appear at the pointer
location) that let you click buttons or choose menu items to
invoke the associated shortcuts.
Since every shortcut, menu, or palette can have a context - an
application in which it appears - you can easily make application-
specific shortcuts that don't get in the way except when you're
in that application. I have a palette, for instance, populated
with buttons that type common Unix commands that I've set to
appear only when I'm in the Terminal. As soon as I switch to
another application, the palette disappears. And the Command-1
remapping I mentioned earlier works only in Eudora, since it
makes no sense in any other application.
The possibilities abound with automation utilities like iKey,
and the trick is to see when you're performing the same task
repeatedly, since almost any repetitive task can have a shortcut.
I have a menu that lets me switch my network connections between
my two Internet connections without opening the Network preference
pane. I also have a handful of shortcuts that let me play and
pause iTunes from the keyboard, rate songs, and move on to the
next song if shuffle has picked one I don't want to hear. Some
shortcuts I use for a few days and then delete, such as one
that sped up changing certain settings for many Web pages in
Web Crossing's Web-based interface, and others I may use only
infrequently, such as one that helps me find bouncing email
addresses in a text file of bounced mail and remove those
addresses from an address list in another program. It's not
something I do often, but it's so numbingly rote that it cries
out for automation.
I won't pretend that iKey - or any automation utility - is
right for everyone. You have to be able to identify a repetitive
action and be annoyed by the amount of time you're wasting while
performing it. Some people simply don't feel the brunt of
repetition, or the few things that bother them can be worked
around in different ways or with different utilities. I far
prefer switching to Eudora with the keyboard by pressing F3
than by Command-Tabbing through launched applications, and
typing "cheers... -Adam" would get old fast with the amount
of mail I send (and no, it doesn't work to put that string in
my signature; I've tried it and it often ends up looking strange).
But if you do feel a niggling annoyance that the Mac should
be able to make life easier for you by handling these various
repetitive actions that occur, it's absolutely worth a look at
iKey. It's $30 ($10 for upgrades from 1.x), and you can try it
for 30 days for free. iKey 2 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later
and is a 2.8 MB download (much of which is my manual, in fact).
<http://www.scriptsoftware.com/ikey/ikey2.sitx>
**The Future of Take Control Manuals** -- Obviously, I don't yet
know how financially worthwhile the amount of effort I put into
iKey will turn out to be. However, there's no denying the good
feeling of having helped make an already useful program even
better, and knowing that users will be able to do more with the
program thanks to my documentation efforts. I learned a lot about
the process, and although we'll be proceeding cautiously with
future Take Control manuals, I think it's going to be one of those
win-win-win situations where developers gain professional manuals
for their products, users benefit from improved documentation,
and skilled authors find a financially viable outlet for their
efforts.
Eudora 6.2 Alternates Between Silly and Serious
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've been a Eudora user for a long time, and despite the
improvement in other email clients over the years, I've never been
tempted to switch away from Eudora. That's in part because I grok
the program at a deep level; in the parlance of a certain group
of die-hard Eudora users, I can "think like Steve." Steve, in
this case, is not Steve Jobs (who has expressed disdain for Eudora
in the past), but Eudora creator Steve Dorner (who has his own
disdain for Apple technologies - for years, typing "Appearance
Manager" in a Eudora email message would cause Eudora's invective
identifier MoodWatch to rate the message as likely to cause
offense). Steve Dorner is an email purist, and although he's come
around to various modern features, he's still the guy who allowed
users of Eudora 3.0 to toggle a preference called "Waste cycles
drawing trendy 3D junk."
<http://www.eudora.com/>
That's why, when I first saw the emoticons feature in the just-
released Eudora 6.2, I almost called Steve to make sure he hadn't
been secretly drugged and brainwashed into adding a feature that
makes the "trendy 3D junk" of 1996 seem downright subdued. Eudora
6.2's emoticons feature replaces (only in the local display) 24
standard smiley character combinations (like :-)) with iconic
representations. Needless to say, many long-time Eudora users who,
even if they didn't mind the trendy 3D junk way back when, will
react with justifiable horror to this wildly misplaced feature.
Let's face it, people who are still using Eudora despite the free
and bundled competition from Apple and Microsoft probably like
the program's utilitarian interface and power user features and
are uninterested in such silliness. I left the emoticon display
on for a while to determine that I really did hate it as much
as I thought I would, then I shut it off (in the Font & Display
settings panel) and let my mail return to its 9-point Monaco
goodness. Maybe I've been conditioned to think like Steve for
too many years, but little icons littering my mail don't make
it any more fun to read, and they certainly don't make dealing
with the mail any faster. Graphical emoticons don't bother me
as much on the Web, where graphics and text are commonly mixed
together, but I don't want them in my email.
<http://www.eudora.com/email/features/emoticons.html>
Luckily, as counter to the core philosophy of Eudora as emoticons
are, the other new features in Eudora 6.2 are more along the lines
of what I know and love about the program. Most important for
less-savvy users is ScamWatch, which helps you identify where a
link embedded in an HTML-formatted message points by displaying
a little yellow tooltip box that shows the real URL. If the real
URL looks suspicious to Eudora, either because it points at a
numerical IP address or because it doesn't match the visible URL
showing in the message, Eudora notes that fact in the tooltip,
and if you click a suspicious URL, Eudora pops up a warning dialog
to ensure you realize that the link is deceptive. This feature is
subtle but brilliant. Far too many people are being fooled by
"phishing" messages that purport to be from PayPal, Citibank, or
eBay, and this feature should provide a welcome protection that
could prevent the dire consequences of giving a scammer your
passwords or personal financial information. In my real world
use, since I'm alert to phishing messages, ScamWatch has mostly
caught the links in Macworld's weekly newsletter, since the domain
in their visible URLs doesn't match what I presume is a click-
counting service domain that then redirects clicks back to the
main Macworld site.
<http://www.eudora.com/email/features/scamwatch.html>
For those of us who have been forced to revamp our mail reading
strategies of late, Eudora 6.2 offers another key improvement:
Live Search. Many people don't realize that you can set up and run
a search in Eudora, and then choose File > Save to save it in a
Saved Searches folder. Once a search is saved, you can invoke it
instantly by choosing it from the hierarchical Special > Find
menu (and of course, anything you can choose from a menu, you can
attach to a toolbar button). With Eudora 6.2, searches are now
live, so if you receive new messages while a search results window
that would find those messages is open, Eudora automatically adds
the new messages to the search results window. I'll explain how
I've altered my approach to reading email in another article;
suffice to say for now that I'm using a saved search to collect
mail from multiple mailboxes into a single window for easy access.
I'm not an IMAP user, so I can't comment on the effectiveness
of Eudora 6.2's new IMAP capabilities, but they sound good. You
can now transfer messages from IMAP mailboxes to local mailboxes
even when you're offline; deleted messages in IMAP mailboxes are
immediately removed from view (although you can toggle an option
to show them if you wish); and you can now turn on an auto-expunge
feature to remove deleted messages from IMAP mailboxes immediately
or when the space used by deleted message exceeds some percentage.
You can also stick with manual expunging if you prefer.
Lastly, there are a few minor new features that may interest some
users. Eudora can now show the number of unread messages on its
Dock icon; such a feature is meaningless to me, since I always
have tons of unread messages. (However, a nice touch is that the
number applies to the frontmost mailbox window; so if you have no
unread messages in the In box, but new messages are automatically
routed to other folders - such as Junk - you can see immediately
if Eudora's new mail alert sound heralds important mail without
bringing the application forward.) Eudora's SSL handling has
improved, and if a new SSL certificate is chained to a trusted
root certificate, Eudora will automatically trust the new
certificate. For those who spend time in Eudora's Address Book
(not me; I rely almost entirely on nickname auto-completion),
there's now an iChat button with every entry that, when clicked,
starts a new chat with the selected person.
Eudora 6.2 is a 6.5 MB download, and it remains available in
three modes. Light mode provides a reduced feature set but is
free; Sponsored mode offers all of Eudora's features except
SpamWatch (its Bayesian spam filter) for free but displays a
small ad window; and Paid mode gives you all of Eudora's features,
technical support, and free upgrades for 12 months. If you paid
for Eudora within the last 12 months, Eudora 6.2 is free; if you
last paid between 13 and 24 months ago, upgrading costs $40. New
copies, or upgrades from versions paid for more than 24 months
ago, cost $50.
<http://www.eudora.com/download/>
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**Tracing an email message** -- Is there a way to locate the
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The headers have it. (9 messages)
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What's the best way to absorb and use information that arrives
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