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Triggering AppleScripts from a Bluetooth cellphone - August 26, 2003

(via NewsIsFree) Robot Wisdom
http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,23029666,246/

FTP and SSH Browser for Mac OS X - August 24, 2003

Cyberduck is an open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser licenced under the GPL. Cyberduck features the same intuitive interface for both FTP and SFTP browsing. Cyberduck is now Mac only, with a completly rewritten user interface using the Cocoa Framework. You can open connections to multiple servers thanks to its document based interface. A simple favorites manager allows you to store frequently-used servers. Drag and drop is supported for both downloading and uploading...
http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1030

OK Apple, you win - August 23, 2003

If you're partial to Unix like me and you've been hearing about OS X for a while now, thinking, "yeah, yeah, whatever, Mac frontend, Unix backend -- I'll check it out fully one of these days" . . . . well, give it a try. There's just something about it. (Infoworld)(via MacNightOwl) MacOSX.nl
http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/2003/08/18.html#a97

Replace usrbinmail with Mail.app - August 23, 2003

I have some programs ported over from Solaris that generate emails and send them using usrbinmail. However, to get usrbinmail to work, you have to activate sendmail or a sendmail replacement like postfix... macosxhints
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2003082119192825

Love that OS! - August 23, 2003

Today, let me tell you about my experiences with the Windows operating system... The Aardvark Speaks (excerpts) Amen.
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~prillih3/blog/archives/2003/08/index.html

Cross-Platform Hybrid CD Image Burner - August 22, 2003

MacSlash
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/165254

Bogofilter.. - August 22, 2003

"is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body). The program is able to learn from the user's classifications and corrections. ... Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, ..."via Der Schockwellenreiter
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/

WebCalX - August 22, 2003

(link to a frameset subframe...) How to export iCal entries to HTML for easy publishing to the web without a .Mac account... (Download, 1,3 MB -- Shareware, 5 Euro.) Der Schockwellenreiter
http://software.bastian-schneider.de/details/webcal.html

Russell Owen - August 21, 2003

How to define environment variables so that MacOS X applications can see them... Der Schockwellenreiter
http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/AquaEnvVar.html

Kevin Marks blogs: "How I emailed myself into a job .... - August 21, 2003

... and blogged my way out of it" Joi Ito's Web Lite
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_epeus_archive.html#106133327387671172