Why oh why do the otherwise nice folks at 37 Signals taunt me this way? Here is a screencast of the not-yet-released calendar feature they are adding to Backpack.
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Flock is Flying Higher
I have been playing around a bit as of late with Flock 0.7, the latest version of the Web 2.0-ified, Firefox based browser. I must say that I am more and more impressed with every release. They really seem to be making it as easy as possible to integrate a fast browser with bookmarking services like del.icio.us, Flickr and built in blogging support. In fact, I am making this post using it right now. It has a great built-in news reader and a nice little snippets function to clip and save text and images for later use. All with drag and drop goodness. Also, because it is based on Firefox it supports many of the extensions that us Firefox users have grown to depend on. Oh, and it looks good too.
Seems like they are actually going from alpha to beta with the next release so it seems like a good time to check it out especially if you are a blogger and looking for a solution to browse and easily post the stuff you find. Once it does go beta, I may have to give it some love as my full time browser to see if it can last.
A Brief History of ClarisWorks
Those of you who are not long time Mac users may not even remember Claris. Claris was a wholly owned Apple subsidiary that produced some of the most killer software of its day. Most of Claris software offerings still live on today. Filemaker, for instance, is still around. Parts of Claris Emailer got worked into Mail.app (although my friend Dawn would argue, not enough of it). Claris Organizer was sold to Palm Inc. and became Palm Desktop for the Mac (and remains to this day largely identical to the Claris version). ClarisWorks eventually became AppleWorks.
In my opinion, ClarisWorks is one of the best office suites ever conceived. It was the most used application on my Mac for several years. It was way ahead of it’s time and even Microsoft Office took years to even catch up with it’s features on the Mac. Therefore, it was with great interest and excitement that I stumbled across this history of ClarisWorks that ends up, in part, being a history of Claris the company: