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Mon, 28 Oct 2002
PocketNotes 2.0 Released!
PocketNotes is an easy-to-use, flexible notepad application for outlining and planning.
PocketNotes has the following features:
• A simple but powerful outliner.
• Multiple skins or looks.
• Notes attach to each item in an outline and support multiple fonts, text colors and images.
• A links shelf to store web links, email addresses, files, etc.
• Unlimited undo support.
• Priority-setting by item.
• Multiple outlines in a single notepad using an intuitive tab based user interface.
• Multiple notepads.
• Search by tab, notepad, priority or text.
• Set reminders for any item.
• Make notepads read-only or password protected.
• Customizable toolbar (standard skin only).
• Customize priorities by tab, notepad and application.
PocketNotes 2.0 is a major update to PocketNotes. Virtually every aspect of the application has been updated. Specifically:
• Updated notes including, live links, notes toolbar, page numbering, and margin control.
• New outline display options featuring hiding of completed items and sorting alphabetically and by priority.
• Improved reminder system including repeating reminders set by day, week, month, quarter or year.
• Alias support allowing the creation of 'aliases' of items within a notepad.
• Improved printing.
• Enhanced searching including searches within individual notes.
• Contextual menu support.
• New default note preferences including the hiding of the link shelf and setting the default note font.
• Updated skin support.
• Eleven new skins.
A free demo can be downloaded at: http://www.pocketsw.com/PocketSoftware/pocket_notes.php
Yet another x86 prediction
Another industry analyst is predicting Apple will move to x86 by the end of next year. What I wrote here in August still holds true. Also, the announcement of IBM's 970 makes it even less likely Apple will move to Intel.
The Giga Information Group has released a report called IT Trends 2003: Desktop and Mobile PCs by Rob Enderle. Here's what he says about Apple:
Apple is being driven out of every segment but consumer: Companies are driving out non-standard hardware and both increasingly view Linux as a better alternative platform and UNIX as a platform they don't want to resurge on the desktop. The lack of management tools, pull back of key vendors like Quark and an anticipated drop in market share below 2 percent in 2003 are obsolescing this platform. Apple's continued technical disadvantage against Intel is expected to force them to adopt x86 technology by the end of 2003.
Of course he completely ignores IBM's 970 as a potential CPU for future Macs, which would be a much easier transition than x86.
Mac OS X is becoming the leading desktop Unix, and as SlashDot readers know, many Linux users are now switching to iBooks & TiBooks as their portable Unix system.
A separate report from Dataquest says that Apple is now the number 5 server vendor in the US:
The United States server market continued to show signs of recovery with a 12.2 percent increase in the third quarter of 2002, with shipments of 488,858 units, up from 435,620 in the third quarter of 2001 (see Table 2). Dell regained the No.1 position in the U.S server market garnering 26.3 percent of the market. HP fell to second place with 25.9 percent market share, followed by IBM, Sun Microsystems and Apple, respectively