I’ve just posted a minor update to hotTunes that fixes the incorrect display of its info window on Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Only other change is a fix for the occasional instance where skipping to the next track would not display the new track’s rating info if the info window was already displaying something else.

Just a quick note about Mac OS X 10.5 (”Leopard”) compatibility.

The current version of Remember? works fine in Leopard, no known issues. I’ve been using it on 10.5 for a while now and it’s been rock solid. There will be a minor update coming along soon to fix a few bugs and add a few very minor features but it’s not necessary for Leopard.

I’ve just now discovered that hotTunes has a bug in the 10.5 GM release: the album image isn’t being scaled correctly in the info window and can overlap the rest of the content. No other problems (famous last words) so I should be able to post an update soon, time permitting I’ll bang it out tonight.

As far as my impressions of Mac OS X 10.5 itself, so far I love it. I’ve upgraded three machines: my G5 Tower, MacBook Pro and a G4 Mac mini, all with no glitches other than my time zone getting set to Atlanta, GA for some reason. Other than hating some gratuitous Dock and menu bar changes, the rest of Leopard is a flat out joy. I’m still discovering nice little improvements in just about every app.

And Screen Sharing could eventually be my personal favorite killer new feature. Anyone who has to do remote support of any kind even just for family members should not upgrade their own machine but also convince every supportee to do the same.

So look for a new hotTunes shortly and a minor Remember? update a bit after that. And if you’re interested in a somewhat techie but very in-depth review of Leopard in general check out Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review

That’s all for now.

Just wanted to say that I am working on an update to Remember?, tentatively to be released as version 4.3. No earthshaking new features but some bug fixes, AppleScripting additions and a few cosmetic changes. No timetable on when it will be released but hopefully sometime in the next few weeks.

It appears Comcast just modernized their web email site and in the process broke support for older browsers such as Internet Explorer for Mac OS. I have a few clients who still haven’t made the transition to Mac OS X yet (if it ain’t broke…) for whom this is a significant problem. Mozilla requires 10.2 or later, so the question was whether this is a deal-breaker or is there another “modern” web browser that still support pre-OS X Macs?

The answer happily is Yes! It turns out that iCab provides a version that works on Mac OS 8.5 through 9.x and displays the new Comcast web site just fine. It even brings other niceties such as tabs to the table.

At some point these folks will have to make the switch to OS X but at least for now it won’t be because of web browser compatibility issues!

2007-Jul-24 Update

1000x thanks to Gerry for his comment pointing me to WamCom:

When iCab doesn’t work I suggest trying the WamCom Mozilla 1.3: http://www.wamcom.org/latest-131

The person who has been using iCab for Mac OS 8.6 called complaining that it was not rendering some of his web pages very well and so far he’s very happy with WamCom.

He had one problem, it locked up when he tried to open Preferences. He’s increased the Preferred Memory size which we’re hoping will fix that.