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Browsers Back-To-Back
From Frank
Hi Charles:
Frankly of all browsers I tried iCab is the best! Fast, lots of features and the interface far surpasses all others. I just cannot read the Tabs in Safari, Firefox and Opera! The new much heralded Firefox does not render pictures in an URL generated by iWeb! It worked in Firefox 2! A real step back!
Who invented the idea of having black writing on a dark grey background? IMHO that is just plain dumb! I just do not want to strain my eyes to read things on my computer. The interface of iCab is elegant yet subdued and eminently readable!
I read your postings faithfully every day. Thanks Charles!
Sincerely
Frank L. Sinz
Hi Frank;
Thanks for your note.
I'm a big iCab fan, and in terms of feature set, interface, and appearance, I would currently rate it my second-favorite to Opera 9.50, and I actually use it quite a lot.
Opera gets the nod due to its superior speed, particularly handy and well-executed interface controls, and the best download mamager in teh browser category. iCab 4 is coming on strong, however (another beta (54) released today to registered users, and you are absolutely right about those Web pages with dark text on an almost-as-dark background. Macworld no less is one of them. Can't imagine what they're thinking, but iCab does a fine job of rendering those pages legibly.
Thank you for your faithful readership. Much appreciated.
Charles
Using Two OS X Versions And Two New Browsers Back-To-Back
From iGreg
Opera looks like a very nice Windows browser. The tabs are above the address bar? Strange.
Hi Greg;
Yes, I guess some folks find that a bit odd. The Opera user interface isn't nearly as ideosyncratic as it used to be. Personally, I've always liked it and after you become accustomed, it all makes a great deal of sense. It's definitely my favorite browser interface in the context of functionality these days.
Charles
Dialup. Oh, the pain!
From RB
Charles,
Dialup. Oh, the pain!
Frankly, I do not know how you accomplish the things you do, except for perseverance.
Thanks!
Hi RB;
It takes organization and tight time management.
For stuff that is just totally ridiculous on dialup (eg: ten ton Mac OS Leopard updates and the like) I have the workaround of driving 12 miles to the local library which maintains a WiFi hotspot, especially if one goes early in the AM before the bandwidth gets clogged.
I expanded on this topic at some length in my The Agenda blog on PB Central recently:
http://www.pbcentral.com/news/viewnews.cgi?id=EkEFlppEZVfHTeVpeo
Charles
Bible Software For Switcher
From S
Good morning, Charles,
I'm really missing my (free but so full of resources) eSword that I used constantly when I was a PC person until only recently. I'm having MacSword sent to me on CD or DVD (apparently a quicker way to download it). . .not sure yet how it will compare to what I'm used to (LOVED the search engine on eSword).
Of course, I can get used to going to http://www.blueletterbible.org if I really applied myself.
I have two quick questions. . .when/if you've time to respond:
(1) are you a proponent of having your computer plugged into a BATTERY packed surger
and
(2) though my Pappa (who converted me finally to moving over to the Mac world. . .oh, I'm glad he did!) has strongly suggested that when using Macs no virus protection is needed, I realized yesterday that though I adore him and respect his experience, he is not perfect, and maybe, just maybe, he is not right about this. Until I got this Mac I've "never" been
without virus protection. What do you think?
S
Hi S:
I use MacSword a lot (it's a relatively small download, so that shouldn't be much of an inhibition. The search engine works great once you get the individual versions indexed (takes a few minutes each).
For more information, visit:
http://www.macsword.com/
You can get modules from:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/
Another free Bible Study App. I like a lot is Bible Reader Free, which has an excellent and fast search engine. You can check it out here:
http://www.hiddenfield.com/bible-reader/
Then there's Bible Discovery, a powerful, Java-based Bible studying application by Developed by Hungarian programmer Miklos Zsido with the following features:
Several Bible translations.
English translation King James Version (KJV).
Original Bible in Greek (TR - Textus Receptus 1550/1894).
Original Bible in Hebrew (WLC - Westminster Leningrad Codex).
Hungarian translation by Gaspar Karoli.
Other Bible translations can be downloaded from the Bible Discovery home page and used after installation.
Bible Discovery also includes theae dictionaries.
Digital Ancient Hebrew-English dictionary.
Digital Ancient Greek-English dictionary.
Tools for helping to understand the texts in original language.
Strong's numbers for the original Greek (TR) Bible. (Strong's number: etyma of the words in the original text sorted alphabetically, numbered)
Strong's numbers for the KJV English Bible
The original Greek/Hebrew lexical meanings of the words can be checked by clicking them.
LXX - Greek Old Testament: Septuagint with Strongs Numbers.
Bookmarks can be organized into categories. Verse lists can be compiled by topics.
Complex, quick search feature. The program can be used as a concordance. The search results are showed in 1 second (1 GHz CPU).
Customizable font size and colour. Visually impaired users can customize the display of the text.
The original Bible in Greek, readable phonetically.
The original Bible in Hebrew, readable phonetically.
Bible translations can be imported from text files.
Parallel and comparative Bible read feature.
Runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris.
For more information, visit:
http://www.bible-discovery.com/
However, lately I've been more inclined to reference either Online Parallel Bible
http://bible.cc/ or Bible Gateway http://www.biblegateway.com/ on the Web as open a desktop Bible application. I hadn;t previously been aware of Blue Letter Bible, but taking a quick look, I think the other two still appeal to me more.
Moving on, one of the reasons why I'm a laptop fan is that you have built in protection against power outages, which are not uncommon in this neck of the woods. If I ever went back to using a desktop computer for production, I would want to have a UPC battery-powered backup unit, but it really depends on how often you back up your files and your tolerance for data loss and being forced to stand down through power interruptions.
As for virus protection, I'm in your Pappa's camp. I've been working business hours and much longer on the Internet for a dozen years, have never bothered with virus protection, and have not yet, touch wood, had any problems. Of course I'm on dialup, which is a factor. I know it's hard vor virus-fatiigued Windows users to cognate, but virues, etc., are really not much of an issue for mac users, although I'm inclined to think that malware will become more of an problem on the Mac as the popularity of the platform blossoms, but so far it's not been a bother. That said, there is a new Trojan out there this week, which you can read about here:
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/securemac_security_advisory_for_apple_os_x/
However, the warning notes that "The Trojan is distributed as either a compiled AppleScript, called ASthtv05 (60 KB in size), or as an application bundle called AStht_v06 (3.1 MB in size). The user must download and open the Trojan horse in order to become infected," so it's not that incidious a threat for anyone who exercises common sense online.
Charles
Yes; Running System Maintenance Routines Really Can Help - OS X Odyssey 857
From muratcan
So you shouldn't need to manually run the maintenance scripts when running Mac OS X 4 or later. http://www.orguleri.com
Hi muratcan
So I hear, but I still do it anyway whenever I repair permissions and dump caches.
Charles
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