Browser Wars
From: Scott Thomas-Fitch
I read both Mr. Kleiman's and
your article on the best browser for newer
Macs, and I can't help but put my vote in for OmniWeb. In fact it
wasn't even included and has the most amazing options such as opening a
browser window behind the current one and many of their preferences
including security are nowhere on on Netscape or Opera.
While its stability is not as good as Mozilla it is far better if
not up to par with that of Explorer.
Omni lover,
Scott Thomas-Fitch in Barcelona
Re: The Best Browser for Recent Macs: Another
View
From Christiaan Briggs
What about OmniWeb?
- Hi Scott and Christaan,
It wasn't an intentional snub on my part. I simply haven't used OmniWeb
because I haven't made the transition to OS X yet.
StarMax 4000/200 VRAM Upgrade
From Chris
I found your page on the Net, and I don't know where or how to do
this, so I figured you would be the one to ask. I have a StarMax 4000/200 with a Sonnet G3/350 upgrade
and I would like to max out the video ram. What do I need and where do
I get it? Hope you can send me in the right direction.
Thanks
Chris
- Hi Chris,
Other World Computing lists
two VRAM upgrades for the StarMax 4000
- Techworks 4 MB VRAM Upgrade for StarMax/PowerMac 4400, new with lifetime warranty,
$19.99
- Techworks 2 MB VRAM Upgrade for StarMax/PowerMac 4400, new
with lifetime warranty, $6.95
OmniPage
From Orjan Larsson
I have tested OmniPage 11 for Windows and was blown away. It is far
faster than OP 10 and as accurate as FineReader 5. In short, it was
even better than FineReader 5.
While I tested it, I got info that ScanSoft actually was working on
a Macintosh-version, which they hoped to have released late this year
or early next year. I don't hold my breath, but if they do, they surely
will use the OCR-engine from the Windows version. (The way Abbyy do in
FineReader 5 for Mac.) Will really make life interesting.
I haven't tested ReadIris 7 for Windows, but I hope they will keep a
Mac-version at the same version number.
sincerely
Orjan Larsson
- Thanks for the info, Orjan.
I hope they do release a new version of OmniPage and do something about
the price.
Miscellaneous Ramblings/OCR article
From Nina
Mr. Moore,
Your recent article on OCR software for the
Mac is interesting, but I'd like to point out that though you
stated:
- ABBYY FineReader 5 Pro for Mac is an OCR program from Russia with a
high level of word accuracy and format retention - even when converting
complex pages and poor quality documents - and claims to be the most
Mac-friendly OCR on the market.
and further down:
- You can Download a trial version of FineReader which works like the
full-functional version for 30 OCR sessions. After the trial time
elapses, the application switches to a demo mode that cannot save the
recognition results.
I went to the Abbyy website and the only demo offered is for
Windows. And when describing the software they mention various flavours
of Windows as supported OSs. Where is the Mac stuff??
Cheers,
Nina
- Hi Nina,
Give the website another try. The Mac 30-day "Try &Buy" version
should be available now at: http://www.macfinereader.com
Junk faxes over DSL
From Roger
I can't claim to be an expert on the issue either, but here's my
take on the deal:
DSL uses the high frequency band of a phone line, higher than most
people use for talking anyway (>4 kHz). That's why when DSL is
installed, high frequency filters are placed at all of the phone jacks
so that people talking on the phone don't have to listen to the high
pitch squeal of the DSL signal. The problem is that modems and faxes
do use this +4 kHz range. That's why you can't do dial-in/fax on
the line as DSL. As for the junk faxes, I think this is referring to
the legitimate faxes that turn out all jumbled because the fax and DSL
are fighting for the same frequency band (and interfering with one
another).
Roger
- Editor's note: We had DSL at home for a short time, and that
included the inline filters. Our fax machine and modems have worked
just fine with the filters in place. dk
Re: 4.7 anything exclusion
From Jima
Charles,
You just gave me an important clue I had been ignoring, in text
formatting in tables.
Jeez. Blind man here, given the number IE users.
I occasionally purge MS, then cave in to the bells and whistles. You
have relit the dump MS fuse.
Thanks so much,
Jim
Auction Prices on Yahoo.ca for Apple laptops
From George Mogiljansky
Hello again,
Last time I mentioned an unknown reseller of used Macs in Tennessee.
This time I'd like to draw your attention to Yahoo.ca's final bid prices for Apple
laptops. If I'm not totally batty, some G4s have been going for less
than $1,000 Cdn. I was tempted to bid, but there was very little time
to contact the seller to find out warranty conditions, etc. If you
don't have time to check out this story, I will conclude by saying that
the seller(s) appeared to have feminine names (at least in the email
addresses) and did not always have a reserve price or a minimum
starting bid.
In French, there's a saying: "ca fait rever" or "it makes one
dream".
Cheers from Montreal
George
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