Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Wed, 02 Jul 2003

I'll be speaking at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in October

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O'Reilly had announced the 2003 Mac OS X Conference, taking place in Santa Clara, California in October. Lots of Mac dignitaries and visionaries will be speaking at the conference. I'll be there as well, talking about "The Future of Web Services."

Four months to get those slides together ... I hope that's enough time! :-)

eBay Watson tool updated today; Minor App update coming soon

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Today, the eBay tool got update to play catch-up with the Web site.

And .. get ready for a (minor) update to the application, some time in the next few days. Nothing particularly newsworthy in this update, but for those who are lucky enough to have been seeded with Panther, this version is more or less compatible with it, and even takes advantage of one of Panther's new features.

Watson and Aladdin's "Internet Cleanup" are incompatible

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Watson users should be aware that some incompatibilities between Watson and Aladdin System's Internet Cleanup (specifically, the NetBlockade feature) are incompatible.

If you are using Watson, you need to disable the NetBlockade feature of Internet Cleanup. (There may be a way of keeping NetBlockade active while allowing Watson to function without it, but I haven't had a chance to investigate this.)

Technical explanation (optional): NetBlockade inserts itself into your system so that any web page is passed through their filters to remove popup windows and banner ads from your web browsers. The trouble is that in many cases, Watson relies on Web pages being formatted a particular way, and the changes to the pages that NetBlockade makes can be a bit too drastic for Watson to handle.