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The first Internet application I ever used was Fetch, a FTP-client for the Mac. This was in the early 1990s, before the web. The IT-staff at the University showed me how to use it for downloading shareware and freeware from Info-Mac and other places.

The first version of Fetch (Wikipedia link) was released 1989. When we are talking about Internet applications that is maybe not ancient but certainly very old.

En stor del av informationen här kommer från Fixing Garbled Text in Win Outlook from Tiger Mail.

MS Outlook har några buggar som gör att brev och bilagor från Apple Mail kan bli förvanskade. De svenska tecknen åäö kan t ex visas som kinesiska tecken istället. Orsaken är att Apple Mail använder skilda textkodningar för de olika delarna i e-post med formaterad text, vilket de flesta e-postprogram inte har några problem med.

Det finns ett antal olika lösningar för detta. Från det självklara, använd inte Outlook, till olika sätt att få Apple Mail att skicka lite enklare saker som Outlook förstår.

The paperless office is not here yet but the Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M can be a good step in the right direction. This is the Mac version of the S500 modell, it’s only the colour and the software that are different.

I needed some way to get a lot of pappers in to my computer as PDFs. After researching on the web I desided to get a Fujutsi ScanSnap, that was what other Mac users was recommending. I ordered the latest modell, the S500M, from TECHNIKdirekt.de.

Update 2007-03-19: The Swedish Apple Store sell this scanner even cheaper than TECHNIKdirekt and they include ReadIris Pro 11. Reminder to self, always check the Apple Store first!

Apple - iPhone, vill ha! Kommer till Europa i slutet av året så man får lov att bärga sig.

Kolla in när Steve Jobs presenterar iPhone så kommer ni att vilja ha en själva också :-).

Mobiltelefon + iPod + Internet pryl i en förpackning. Operativsystemet är Mac OS X, i en något bantad version får man anta. Inget tangentbord utan allt görs via pek-skärmen.

AntiRSI från TECH.inhelsinki.nl är ett program som tvingar dig att ta en pause då och då. Dina handleder, axlar och rygg tycker detta är en utmärkt idé.

Jag har sett ett antal program av den här typen men funnit dem, fåniga, irriterande och ingenting jag vill ha på min dator. AntiRSI hittade jag idag via artikeln Moist Eyes, Supple Wrists på O’Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog.

Detta program fungerar i sin enkelhet på ett intelligent och smidigt sätt. Mycket enkelt att ställa in och sedan bara fungerar det på ett sätt som passar mig utmärkt. Det är gjort av Onne Gorter, en programmerare vars handleder började protestera.

Uppdatering: Två månader senare använder jag fortfarande detta program, det fungerar verkligen bra!

The PNG format (Portable Network Graphics) was created to be a replacement for the GIF format. It is patent free open standard with a number of advantages over GIF.

One of the few problems with PNG images is that it’s difficult, not to say impossible, to match colors in CSS and GIF images with does in a PNG image. This is a major headache for web designers and according to information I have found on the web the reason is the PNG gamma correction function.

Read more about PNG and the gamma correction problem on The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”.

Now on to how to fix the gamma correction problem.

How to get Nokia 6131 work with iSync and connect via GPRS on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Also how to add SSL certificats to Nokia 6131 for POP/IMAP/SMTP over SSL and other neat stuff.

My aging Sony Ericsson T68i was due for a replacement but I was having trouble finding a good replacement.

The T68i has good hardware and was the first phone I tested where Bluetooth worked well. The user interface on the other hand is almost as bad and irritating as the Windows OS is.

After spending some time in Japan I started to like the flip open phones. Big screens that are automatically protected in the pocket and decent size keys. Not to talk about the great featured the Japanese phones have.

The Nokia 6131 was one of the few phones that I found interesting. It uses the relative new Symbian Series 40 3rd Edition OS and have a lot of nice modern features. Nokia also seems to finally deliver phones where Bluetooth works well. The user interface is ok, even nice, Nokia has always been better on that then Ericsson.

From what I could find on the web the Nokia 6131 should be able to work with Mac OS X and it does. Here how I made it work.