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Why a Flash iPod makes sense,
Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 12.23. There are plenty of buyers who
don't want to spend $249, don't need 4 GB of storage, or don't want a
fragile hard drive in their digital music player.
Florida community votes to go
metric, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 12.23. "...the council
eventually decided to restrict all city purchases to materiel which is
marked primarily in the metric form of measurement."
The best browsers for OS X, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 12.23. Safari, Firefox, Camino, OmniWeb, Opera,
iCab, Shiira, and Internet Explorer. Is there a single best browser for
the Mac?
iPod sport, the SUV of digital
music players, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill, 12.22. "...Apple will sell
the iPod sport to people who aren't into sports, just like the auto
industry sells SUVs to people who never take them off road."
Life intrudes, Dan Knight, Mac
Musings, 12.22. Sometimes life intrudes, shattering our safety, forcing
us to face our worst fears.
Scribus: Free DTP on the Mac, Jason
Walsh, The Low End Designer, 12.21. "The question is, all other things
being equal, is Scribus up to the job of professional DTP? The answer
is yes, with a few caveats."
eMac a worst buy? I don't think
so, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 12.21. "PC Magazine's Jim Louderback
calls the eMac one of the ten worst products of the year. You know, the
computer Mac site after site calls Apple's best computing value
ever."
You might be a Mac fanatic if,
Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 12.20. Dozens of indicators that you just
might be a Mac fanatic.
Canada, copyright, and levies: Buy
an iPod now, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 12.17. This week a Candian
Justice removed the copyright levy from digital music players. Thoughts
on copyright, levies, and digital rights management.
Show me the savings: A request for the
Sarasota school board, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report, 12.17. "...I
have yet to see a copy of any firm prediction from anyone, anywhere,
that actually details the savings such a single platform switch
actually engenders."
Snail Mail prints envelopes from
your Address Book, Dan Knight, X-Wares, 12.16. This simple freeware
application does one thing and does it well - print envelopes using
information on the Address Book.
On beyond iSync, Dan Knight,
Mac Musings, 12.15. Apple's iSync is a great beginning, but someone
needs to extend the capabilities beyond a few Apple programs and the
limitations of iDisk.
iBlog or Blogger, which is better?,
Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report, 12.14. Each program has its pros and cons,
but one is a lot less flaky than the other.
How to dream up your own Apple
rumor, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 12.13. "The best time to make up
a Mac rumor is when you've been up all night surfing the Web looking at
tech sites."
Apple's $549 eMac, Dan Knight,
Mac Musings, 12.08. Refurbished eMacs, from $549 to $799, really do
compete against the low-end PCs of the Windows world.
Stand for the Mac against mindless
conformity, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report, 12.07. It's time to take a
stands against those who preach mindless conformity to the dominant
Wintel standard and speak up for platform diversity.
No sympathy for pundit bashing Macs in
schools, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report, 12.03. Perhaps Rich Brooks
can explain how bannning Macs will solve all the problems caused by
Windows malware on the school's network.
ThinkFree Office: Slow, unpolished, yet
useful, Jason Walsh, The Low End Designer, 12.01. Despite the name,
this isn't free software, and it really calls for a higher end Mac, but
it does the job.
