{"id":875,"date":"2011-09-04T00:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T04:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kljcharters.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/04\/literary-references-to-macintosh-applications\/"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T23:37:22","slug":"literary-references-to-macintosh-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kljcharters.com\/blog\/literary-references-to-macintosh-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary references to Macintosh applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever said to yourself, \u201cI want a native Mac OS X hex editor that can handle files of unlimited size?\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course you have. What you need is 0xED<\/em>, and it is free:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.suavetech.com\/0xed\/0xed.html<\/p>\n

It is also Lion compatible, which probably means it is made of gazelles.<\/p>\n

Sadly, NotePad Deluxe<\/em> is not Lion compatible. It doesn\u2019t appear to have been updated since 2005, which is a shame. (Yes, the copyright message in the About box is out of date.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

NotePad Deluxe<\/em> has the rare distinction of being mentioned in a best-selling work of fiction, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>, by Stieg Larsson. One of the two main characters, Mikael Blomkvist, uses NotePad Deluxe<\/em> to organize and encrypt information he is using in an investigation, and in an author\u2019s aside, the Web site is listed, www.ibrium.se. Curious to see if this was real or a fictional invention, I typed the address into a browser and — yes, it is a real site.<\/p>\n

But there is no evidence the site has been updated since May 22, 2005, when the most recent update of NotePad<\/em> was posted. A related project by the same team, Mac OS on Linux, http:\/\/www.maconlinux.org\/, shows no activity since October 9, 2007.<\/p>\n

Back to NotePad Deluxe<\/em>. The application itself runs just fine under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Sadly, it was built with PowerPC code, and won\u2019t work in the Intel-only world of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. No gazelle meat, apparently.<\/p>\n

It does have some interesting features. While the layout and style are somewhat dated, you can create multiple \u201cnotebooks\u201d with the application. As mentioned, you can encrypt a notebook (which it quite correctly calls a database), and this encryption capability plays a role in the novel. Each notebook\/database can contain a large number of entries, each entry with a creation date stamp. You can style text any number of ways, and not only change the fonts and font size, but even change the baseline, in case you wanted to superscript or subscript something. Text can be colored, you can add highlight colors, text borders, and even Unix-level word services (in case you wanted to integrate the application with some of the Unix text handling utilities of Mac OS X).<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t Lion compatible, so is doomed. Fiction met reality, and fiction won. Fiction has more staying power than software, even software made from gazelles.<\/p>\n

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