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Linked List: October 23, 2005

Sunday, 23 October 2005

NewsGator to Continue Development of MarsEdit ★

Brent Simmons:

We announced the acquisition fairly soon after the papers were signed, and some things were left undecided, just due to timing issues. We talked about a number of possibilities for MarsEdit (you can probably imagine most of them).

[…]

And then the acquisition announcement was made, and we heard from lots of people who love MarsEdit.

So we listened — and decided to continue MarsEdit development at NewsGator.

Sven-S. Porst on the iBook RAM Problem ★

A software bug causes AirPort networking problems in new iBooks with 1.5 GB of RAM. Until Apple releases a fix, a temporary workaround is to use Open Firmware to configure your iBook only to use 1 GB of RAM.

PCalc 3.0 ★

Major upgrade for James Thomson’s eminent calculator app; includes a Dashboard widget version. (Prior to Mac OS X 10.2, PCalc shipped as part of the software that came with certain new Macs.)