August 14th, 2002
Ever got letter soup and don’t know how to clean it up?
TextConverter offers an easy and user friendly interface to your Macintosh’s text encoding converter functions. Additionally, it features an html-entity converter and an option to define your own custom encoding.
TextConverter was designed for MacOS 8 or later and runs fine in the MacOS X Classic environment. The current version is 1.0.2. Of course it’s Freeware.
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June 4th, 2002
This is a simple Mac-like port of the U*ix “fortune” command line tool. It includes the original fortune database so there’s no lack of geeky saying for every day. Examples please? Here they are:
A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America
Computers are useless - they can only give you answers
-- Pablo Picasso
Fortune was designed for old 68k-Macs running MacOS 6 or later and works fine with MacOS 9.x, but is not recommended for use in the MacOS X Classic enviroment.
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April 3rd, 2002
This Macintosh desktop picture is based on an artistic interpretation of a Goode Homolosine Projection.

Actually, this looks probably best with earlier versions of MacOS X, but… well…
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October 23rd, 2000
This is a photograph I took some time ago of Lake Pyhäjärvi in Finland. Works great as a desktop picture.

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December 6th, 1998
Some thoughts on how to localize software – since this was originally written for the REALbasic User Group Finland its main target group is REALbasic users, of course, but others might find an insight or two as well.
Localization
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