News Archive for 01/11/24

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Reader: discrepancy by troubleshooting apps

11/24, 10:50pm

Reader: discrepancy by troubleshooting apps

Eric Woehler writes about an interesting discrepancy reported by various troubleshooting applications:

"Curious that the number of files reported on my mac varies with each application. I have a dual USB iBook, 256 MB, 10Gb, running OS 9.2.1 & OS X (10.0.4 at present). The Finder tells me there are 36340 files on my drive, File Buddy 6 says 30372, Norton Speed Disk 30195, Alsoft's Disk Warrior 72 734 (!) and Tattle Tech sees 30349 files. Would love to have someone explain just why these discrepancies in file counts exist and why the discrepancies are so large!"

Valley Fair Apple Store open, "very busy"

11/24, 10:45pm

Valley Fair Apple Store open, "very busy"

Confirming our report from last week, Scott Arthur notes that the Valley Fair Apple Store location (San Jose, CA) is "open even though the website says coming soon. I'm a cameraman for a local TV station, Ch.7, and I went to shoot Christmas shopping discovering the store open and very busy."

MicroCenter iMac bundle special offer

11/24, 10:40pm

MicroCenter iMac bundle special offer

The Dallas Micro Center is offering a Holiday iMac Bundle for $1350 including tax, which includes an Indigo iMac G3 500 W/ CD-RW, Canon S450, 4-year Service Plan and "several other accessories." (This is a special Dallas-store only offer, however, mail/phone orders are being accepted.)

Demo of Digital Universe astronomy software

11/24, 10:35pm

Demo of Digital Universe astronomy software

Syzygy Research & Technology has posted a demo of its $65 "Digital Universe" astronomy software. [demo]

textSOAP 3.1.2: shareware utility for text

11/24, 10:20pm

textSOAP 3.1.2: shareware utility for text

unmarked software has posted textSOAP v3.1.2, an update to its text utility, which fixes problems under OS X and Mac OS 9. Upgrades to v3.0 are $10.

Readers posts Apple Store opening photos

11/24, 10:20pm

Readers posts Apple Store opening photos

Fritz Wonnacott has posted photos of the Walden Galleria (Buffalo, NY) opening; AJ Briones has posted photos and impressions of the Fashion Valley (San Diego, CA) opening.

CDFinder 3.5: disk catalog tool updated

11/24, 10:15pm

CDFinder 3.5: disk catalog tool updated

Norbert Doerner has released CDFinder 3.5, an update to his $25 shareware disk cataloging tool. Version 3.5 offers better support for OS X 10.1, long file names, iPod's hidden music folder, improved searches, and support for MP3 file info. [Classic, Carbon]