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"Seth" and crew at "Macrobyte" (Greg Pierce is fingered as the person most responsible ;-)) have given Conversant some nifty upgrades, including the ability to set the MIME type for individual pages, even more message macros, an awesome new search page, and a weblog speed boost.

I'm using Eric Peyton's excellent Fire.app to chat with my AIM buddies, who kept telling me that I was boucing on and off the network. I contacted Eric, who replied:

Well, I just bought another batch of AAPL. Since my first batch of shares is now worth half what it was when I bought it, I thought I'd better supplement it.

Just don't click it.

Greg Peirce responds to the other day's rant:

This is too funny. [via "Scripting News"]

With a free Apple Developer Connection membership, you can now download the Public Beta developer tools (69 Mb TAR file), as well as Carbon SDKs, header files, etc.

Gotta Have It

"How-To: RSS In Conversant".

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You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there'tis!

You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there 'tis!

"Userland"'s Manila gets a flat discussion group view, somewhat like the Ultimate Bulletin Board. This is a common way of viewing threaded discussion, as it lets you see a whole thread on a page.

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You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there 'tis!

Brent Simmons, of Userland Software, has found the anti-Brent weblog - as in the weblogs he considers most opposite to his own. He disagrees with everything on it. I wonder which one it is?

So Jodi says, "I can't even go to a meeting without my computer!"

For a while I've wanted to get RSS running on this site. Conversant doesn't generate RSS natively, but that's no real limitation. Through the power of an extraordinary array of templates, and some query creativity, we present:

FindApps.com is a service that lists rental (and free) [web?] applications. I recommended "Conversant".

Byte's Jon Udell mentions "Conversant" in his latest column, on the subject of web systems that tie together http, email, and nntp. Perhaps more than Jon realizes, Conversant fulfills his vision.

One app I'm eagerly awaiting on "Mac OS X" is WriteUp, from Anderson Financial Systems. WriteUp is an excellent word processor, and has been available on just about every iteration of NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Rhapsody; there should be a version for Mac OS X available by the end of October, as evidenced here.

OS-X FAQ has a pointer to a great article on how to get Tomcat (the reference implementation for the 1.2 JSP/Servlet spec) running under "Mac OS X".