Archive - Sep 2, 2005

Phelios announced the release of an offline internet software tool for webmasters called, "RSS Writer." The free software application is being offered to website owners who would like to offer an RSS feed of their own sites.

Over 5000 amazing musicians have chosen to donate ALL money from the
sale of their CD *directly* to the Red Cross disaster relief fund. You can listen to and buy their CDs here.

Smart Crash Reports is an enhancement for the Apple's CrashReporter application introduced in Mac OS X 10.4. It allows 3rd party developers to enhance CrashReporter in a way that if it determines that the crash is likely attributed to the 3rd party application, the crash log will be sent to the developer instead of Apple. (or potentially both) This enhances the user experience of the OS, and allows developers to receive crashes and improve their software in a timely manner.

Here are a few more links with information about helping Katrina victims:

• an extensive collection of links at del.icio.us
• Katrina help wiki
• Katrina.com
• Network for good

Brainwave today announced plans to donate fifty percent of all sales from their award-winning power napping software, pzizz, (http://www.pzizz.com) to the American Red Cross in an effort to help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The Boinx Software Weblog has a new comic series about a Mac Geek called Hermann.