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Kbase Article of the Week: Using iCal with Microsoft Entourage⇢
iCal and the calendar feature of Microsoft Entourage can be used together–as long as you have iCal 1.5 or later and Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later installed.
Now I’m just having flashbacks to using Entourage in college to access my school email.
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Mac Power Users #649: Workflows with William Gallagher⇢
William Gallagher has written using a Mac for decades. He joins Stephen and David to discuss his work and how he gets words on the page.
Unite 4 for macOS⇢
My thanks to Unite 4 for sponsoring the site this week. It’s a killer Mac app allows you to turn any website into an app on your computer. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site.
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July 17
It has been 20 years and change since Apple first introduced Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. Here’s a bit from the press release:
Apple today previewed the next major version of Mac OS X, code-named “Jaguar,” to more than 2,500 Macintosh developers at its Worldwide Developers Conference. “Jaguar” will be available to customers in late summer 2002, and will further establish Mac OS X as the most advanced operating system in the world.
Connected #406: The iPhone is Touching You Back⇢
M2 MacBook Air reviews are out, as are the 2022 Public Betas. This week, the guys explore both. Myke then pits Stephen, Federico and The Passionate Ones against each other.
Kbase Article of the Week: iCal 1.0: Date in Dock Icon Does Not Update at Midnight⇢
When you open iCal, the icon in the Dock reflects the current date. If you leave iCal open overnight, the icon does not update at midnight to reflect the change of date.
This was fixed in iCal 1.0.2.
‘A Family of Products’⇢
Speaking of Evans Hankey, she and other members of Apple’s design team chatted with GQ about the new MacBook Air. There’s not a ton of new information in the piece but this jumped out at me:
It’s a workload that she compares to “drinking from the firehouse” but even accounting for that vast portfolio of responsibilities, the Air’s redesign has been a unique challenge. “It was the first time we ever set out to do a family of products together,” she says. “We didn’t design the Air in isolation, but we designed it in tandem with the MacBook Pro.”
Jony Out
Tripp Mickle, reporting for the New York Times:
When Jony Ive, Apple’s influential design leader, exited the company in 2019, Tim Cook, its chief executive, reassured customers that Mr. Ive, the man who gave the world candy-colored computers, would work exclusively with the company for many years.
Not anymore.
Apple’s design team under Evans Hankey has done amazing work in the years since Jony checked out, and she deserves full credit without anyone thinking Jony’s still influencing anything.
JWST is Up and Running⇢
The new James Webb Space Telescope is officially in action, and is already beaming back some amazing imagery.
Mac Power Users #648: Software Club: Apollo for Reddit⇢
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I talk about Reddit and a third-party client named Apollo, which brings a world-class Reddit experience to iPhone users. Then, they are joined by its developer Christian Selig to discuss the app’s origins, working with the Reddit API and a lot more.