Year: 2002

A recent O’Reilly article explains how users can take advantage of Apple’s NetInfo Manager utility in Mac OS X to carry their home directory with them on an external drive and access it from any Mac OS X system. The technique is convenient for those who find themselves frequently working between Macs.

IndigoField has released Proteus 1.4.1, the latest version of the Mac OS X messaging solution that allows users to communicate with members of AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo!.

Microsoft has posted an Office 2001 Data Access update, which adds ODBC drivers to Office, allowing users to connect and retrieve data from SQL, Oracle, dBASE, Visual FoxPro, and ASCII text files, as noted by VersionTracker.

The Australian publication IT News has published a feature on the upcoming Mac Mania cruise, which sets sail in Alaska on May 27. The seven-day cruise offers a number of seminars with a long list of well-known Mac personalities, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, columnist Bob LeVitus, and former Macworld Editor-in-Chief Andy Gore. Room is still available for the cruise, with prices starting at US$1,049 for an inside cabin and a conference fee of $600 for end-users and $1,250 for developers.

Koingo Software has released Alarm Clock Pro 5.0, an alarm clock application that offers three kinds of alarms and the ability to set an infinite number of them. Alarm Clock Pro is US$11.97 shareware.