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OS
X v10.2
AKA Jaguar
by Eden Maxwell
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Bag This Cat
The decision to buy Mac OS X v10.2 is not difficult. If you own a supported
Mac, you will definitely want to unleash Jaguar inside your machine.
Apple did keep its word. My G3 Minitower is definitely supported. So,
if you have an older G3 or other supported machine, you can still get
in on the latest action from Apple with confidence.
And while you’re getting acquainted with Jaguar, here is part
of a recent press release from Apple:
CUPERTINO, California—March 21, 2003—Apple today announced
that it has rescheduled its 2003 Worldwide Developers Conference in order
to provide developers with a more complete preview release of the next
version of Mac OS X, code named “Panther.” Originally scheduled
for May 19-23 in San Jose, the conference will now be held June 23-27
at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Yet another cat will soon be out of the bag.
Resources:
On My Must Have List
Although Jaguar is a great product, Apple left room for third-party innovators
to fill in the gaps. Here are few resources that will conspicuously make
your Jaguar experience all that much better.
Shareware (try before you buy)
Grammarian PRO X from Linguisoft
$39.95
Sure, Sherlock 3 will look up word definitions, but that’s not
nearly enough. And there’s no longer any reason to be the bearer
of sloppy writing in your email and other text documents. I use Grammarian
every day to catch errors in my weblog entries and emails. Grammarian
helps me maintain a standard. This app hangs out in the top menu bar
and is always accessible. Grammarian PRO X is an arsenal of professional
writing tools designed to combat embarrassing writing errors that everyone
tends to make. This writer’s toolkit is a universal interactive
grammar checking, spelling checking, dictionary, autocorrect, and autotype
tool that will work with nearly every program on your computer.
Default Folder from St. Clair Software
$34.95
I’ve been using Default Folder for years. It has helped speed Macintosh
users through the process of opening, saving, and managing files. Default
Folder X fixes a number of problems in OS X’s file dialogs and
adds convenient features to quickly get you where you want to go—and
it does.
Ten for X from Aladdin Systems
$49.95 (a $170 value)
Ten for X rounds up cool, top-rated Mac OS X utilities and delivers them
to you in a single convenient package at one great price. If you use
only a couple of these nifty apps, you will get your money’s worth.
I use these every day: ideaSpiral, FruitMenu, WindowShade, and PrintMagic.
The rest of the suite includes registered versions of: Alarm Clock S.E.,
ExecutiveSync, iClean, LaunchBar, Limewire Pro, PiPop, Pseudo, and Xounds.
Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia
$29.00/$49.00
Snapz Pro far exceeds the limited capabilities of the built-in Mac OS
X screen capture utility. Once Snapz Pro X is installed, a single keystroke
can immediately save anything visible on screen in a wide variety of
image file formats. Snapz Pro X supports saving screen images as: bmp,
.pict, .gif, .jpg, .png, .tiff, .pdf, or Photoshop files, and can record
the action as a QuickTime movie with the pricier edition. Screenshots
can be scaled, cropped, color depth-changed, and dithered. Snapz Pro
X can also add borders, generate automatic thumbnails, overlay watermarks
and copyright notices.
VisualRoute from Visualware
$49.95
Although this utility isn’t shareware, you can still download a
trial version.
Don’t let your ISP or broadband provider bully you around. Know
why your email or server isn’t working up to speed. Many users
accessing the Web find that the data or transaction moves too slowly.
Determining the source of the problem is a difficult task for the vast
majority of users. VisualRoute automatically analyzes Internet connectivity
and performance problems, displaying the results in an easy to understand
table and on a world map.
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