Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/16-Oct-06

cross-platform: Visual Basic — With Visual Basic disappearing on the Mac, what options exist for cross-platform scripting? (18 messages)

Mac OS X 10.4.8: anyone tried it? Readers share their experiences with the latest Mac OS X update. (12 messages)

Get a Piece of the Thinking Rock — Matt Neuburg’s review of the Getting Things Done utility prompts a look at Midnight Inbox. Plus, did traffic from our article crash the Thinking Rock servers? (11 messages)

Power button — Last week’s tip for re-mapping the function of a laptop’s power button brings up other ways to put a Mac to sleep. (16 messages)

Editing/Healing a Corrupt Eudora Mailbox — Where does Eudora keep the index information about a mailbox? It can depend on several factors. (6 messages)

Eudora goes open source — Speaking of Eudora, readers react to last week’s news that the email software’s next incarnation is going to be an open-source project built upon Mozilla’s Thunderbird. (16 messages)

UK Mac accounting software — A reader in the United Kingdom is looking for opinions and alternatives to accounting software such as QuickBooks for the Mac. (7 messages)