The Low End Mac Link Archive, January 2000
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that these links are still active.
- Advice: Doubling up, Simply Stated, MacSimple, 1/31. Sharing an
internet connection with 2 or 3 Macs.
- Analysis: Apple is out
of business, John Martellaro, Applelinks, 1/30. "Business
purchase decisions are approached differently than home purchase
decisions."
- OS:
Time to move to BeOS?, Stephen Van Esch, osOpinion.
- OS:
Web serving for cheap, Michael J. Norton, webreview, 1/28.
Recommended system is a NuBus Power Mac with MkLinux.
- Opinion: A
thank you to the grunts at the mothership, Rodney O. Lain,
iBrotha, MacAddict. Rodney's debut column at MacAddict.
- News: iBook tops
portable sales, MacNN, 1/25.
- Opinion: Call
my crazy, but I think Apple's gone nuts, Marty Cortinas,
TechWeb, 1/27. Apple now says graphic design is not a core
market?
- Opinion:
What ever happened to Don Crabb?, Rodney O. Lain, The iMac,
1/20. Turns out Crabb has been in the hospital - we wish him a full
and speedy recovery.
- News: Apple
stock hits all time high, MacCentral, 1/20.
- Analysis:
Forecast is for days of wine and roses, Wes George, Mac
Observer, 1/20. "...Apple is delivering strong growth on every
front."
- OS: Free BeOS 5
to run on pre-G3 Power Macs, Be. May have problems with some
8600, 9600 configurations. (more)
- News:
Apple blows away estimates, Steve gets an airplane, Mac
Observer, 1/19. Earnings of $1 per share!
- Interview: Daily
iMac's Amy Hoy, MacMilitia, 1/19.
- News: San
Diego County program nixes Mac purchases, MacCentral, 1/19.
Programs lets employees buy computer with 60-month payback - except
for Macs.
- SuperMac: Umax E100 card
compatibility reports, Accelerate Your Mac!
- Opinion: Eight
year old Macintosh 2000 predictions revisited, Charles Moore,
Applelinks, 1/19.
- Advocacy: Tips
for getting your parents to want to use a computer, Nancy
Gravley, Mac Observer, 1/19. "...people who grew up during the
depression have spent their whole lives eschewing frivolous things,
saving money, and doing without."
- Web: MacVoice
email list, The Macintosh Guy. A new forum for discussion of
everything having to do with speech recognition on the Mac
including ViaVoice, Naturally Speaking, MacSpeech and more.
- Review: Unreal
Tournament, MacGamez, 1/19. Even the individual player should
enjoy this networkable multiplayer tour de force.
- Advice: Speed
up your Mac! tips revisited, AppleCentral, 1/19.
- Opinion: Apple's NeXT
enterprise moves, David K. Every, MacWeek, 1/18. "The companies
that have been using Apple's solutions swear by them (as opposed to
many Microsoft solutions, where people swear at them)."
- News: Excite@Home
usenet death penalty lifted, Cnet, 1/18 [Slashdot].
- Consumer: Beware of online
digicam scam, Steve's Digicams, 1/14. Clever scam won't be
limited to digicams, so be careful buying from individuals
online.
- Opinion: Nitty
gritty look at MSIE 5.0 beta, Amy Hoy, Daily Mac, 1/18.
"...some of the changes seen in the latest beta of Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.0 may rub you the wrong way."
- Web: Top
Links, MyAppleMenu. Find out what articles the leading Mac
sites are linking to.
- USB: MyView, Eskape Labs.
MyView mirrors 640 x 480 screen via USB to TV, composite monitor or
video projector, VCR.
- News: World Wide Web tops a
billion pages, Newsbytes, 1/18. We've got about 0.0001% of them
right here at Low End Mac :-)
- OS: System 6
for the Macintosh, Ruud Dingemans. Updated site with
information on System 6 and compatible software.
- Web: 1984 Mac
Online has a clean new look. (It wants a wide browser
window.)
- News: PC
life-span cut to two years, MacCentral, 1/18. As for Macs,
we're still using some nine-year-old Mac
IIcis at work.
- Advice:
Video out for older iMacs, 1984 Mac Online.
- Review: Canon PowerShot S10,
MacInTouch, 1/18.
- Review: IPNetRouter,
Apple Wizards. A great way to share an internet connection among
networked Macs.
- Opinion:
Web ads a necessary evil, Michel Munger, Mac Observer,
1/17.
- Web: Right On
Mac is back after a one-year hiatus.
- Web: Mac Cards,
like iCards, but they've been around longer.
- Opinion: A tale of two computers, MacSimple, 1/17. A Power Mac
G4 - and a ten-year-old Mac Luggable (er, Portable).
- Opinion:
A funny thing happened to me at CompUSA, Rodnay O. Lain, The
iMac, 1/16. "I won't say that Apple and the Mac now has respect in
the retail chains, but I can say that everyone at the very least
tolerates it...."
- Opinion:
OS X: Who cares about cost? I want it!, Rodney O. Lain, The
iMac, 1/15. "...think about how little the Mac OS has changed over
the years. Isn't it long overdue for a revamp?"
- Interview: Low End
Mac's Dan Knight, MacMilitia, 1/14. 'Nuff said.
- OS: Mac OS
X, AppleInsider, 1/14. Good overview of new OS, includes
preliminary
system requirements.
- News: Apple, Sotec reach
settlement, MacInTouch, 1/14. "Sotec has agreed to pay Apple 10
million yen (about US$95,000) in damages...."
- Benchmark: Is
AirPort a good substitute for ethernet?, Bare Feats, 1/14. Half
the speed of 10Base-T isn't so bad.
- Review: CardBus
to USB adapter, The Review, 1/14. Finally, a USB solution for
PowerBooks with CardBus support.
- History: The
Mothership, Apple Lisa and early Macintosh archive.
- Advice: PB 1400 not an
OS X machine, Go2Mac, 1/14. With a 64 MB memory ceiling, it's
barely feasible for OS 9.
- News:
Beleaguered Microsoft replaces Bill Gates as CEO, Mac Observer,
1/14. Yes, Microsoft is beleaguered by legal problems. Great
headline - good read, too.
- News: Gates abdicates Microsoft throne to Ballmer,
Yahoo/Reuters, 1/14. Gates will remain chariman, take title "chief
software architect."
- News: Bill bows out, MacAddict, 1/13.
Opinion: Copyrights
and copywrongs, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 1/13. "...making
copies of copyrighted material for private use is legal under
Canada's copyright legislation, so the new tax/levy is a penalty
placed on legal activity in many cases of copying."- Opinion: Apple's
big mistake, 1/13. "...Aqua is attractive, but unfortunately
Apple has sacrificed usability for looks."
- News: Legal tumlt over
Aqua look, MacWeek, 1/13.
- Review: iMac DV Special Edition, MacAddict. "The ultimate hobby
machine."
- Dark Side: Windows 2000
virus detected, Cnet, 1/13. "Windows 2000 won't come out for
another month, but anti-virus software makers say they've found the
first virus...."
- Consumer: @Home gets
Usenet death penalty, Slashdot, 1/13. If @Home doesn't block
spammers, subscribers will be blocked from Usenet effective
1/18/2000.
• @Home
responds to UDP notice, Slashdot, 1/13.
- Opinion: Skin o'
trouble, MyAppleMenu, 1/13. Apple wants to make it impossible
for Windows users to have a Mac OS appearance.
- Opinion: Apple gets
testy about GUI, Slashdot, 1/13. "...it's an original work -
just inspired by the aqua GUI."
- Review:
CameraMate, The Review, 1/13. USB device reads Compact Flash,
Smart Media.
- Review: iMac
350, Macworld. A bargain - if you don't need FireWire, DVD, or
iMovie.
- Consumer: ramseeker
adds Compact
Flash, Smart Media,
Flash ATA
price tracking.
- Low End: Jag's
House Timeline, Jag's House. Jag's story from his first Mac
until now.
- Opinion: iReview
reviewed, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 1/12. "Maybe I shouldn't be
disappointed that Low End Mac didn't make the cut at iReview. I'm
in very good company."
- News: Sonnet
announces second 1400 G3 upgrade, PowerBook Zone, 1/12. This
one will have a 1 MB cache for even more speed.
- Consumer: Cash
discounting, PowerBook Central, 1/12. If you pay with a credit
card, it may cost more than you thought through some dealers.
- Opinion: Plea
for a better USB keyboard, Amy Hoy, Daily Mac, 1/12. "Apple,
please, listen to us...."
- Web: Google for Mac:
a response, Macinstein, 1/12. Macinstein has been a 100%
Macintosh search engine for over a year.
- Opinion: Paranoia
probably justified but ultimately destructive, John Farr,
Applelinks, 1/11. "And then we considered the effect of the iReview
efforts...."
- Tech: Using DVD-RAM
discs, Apple TIL. Now we know that you can't boot from Apple's
slow DVD-RAM drive. :-(
- News: Microconnect ships USB
keyboard in six colors, AllUSB. $50 keyboard matches iMac
colors, Apple extended layout.
- Consumer: Phase
5 offers G4 upgrades for under US$500, Applelinks, 1/11. 350
MHz daughter card, ZIF, L2, and Umax C series upgrades all under
$500.
- Opinion: What's
wrong with this picture?, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 1/11.
Still no Apple Store for Canada, while Hong Kong, Belgium, and
Australia have them.
- Deal: ATI RAGE 128 Pro with Mac OS 9, $99, The Apple Store.
Only for the "Sawtooth" G4, but
the card + OS 9 costs as much as OS 9 does!
- Web: Apple-specific
search engine, Google. It's fast.
- News: NewerRAM
has 128 MB SIMMs for 6100, Applelinks, 1/11. It begs the
question of spending $800 on memory for a six-year-old design.
- News: Time
Warner, AOL to merge, The Standard, 1/10.
- Opinion: Hey,
Mac-rumor sites, Apple made fools of you!, Rodney O. Lain, My
Mac. "The sad thing is that you guys get more hits and readership
the more ridiculous your claims get."
- Humor: Introducing the
iCar, probably the world's first translucent automobile.
- Opinion: Waiting for
Pismo, Jason O'Grady, MacWeek, 1/7. "Just when I think Apple
has become predictable, it throws a curve ball."
- News: iTools - Mac
OS 9 only?, iTools Tamer [MacSurfer]. You can sign up for
"@mac.com" email, then use iDisk and submit iReview feedback.
- Opinion: Conspiracy!,
MacBC, 1/8. "The Mac web promotes a sense of strong community among
the Mac users, and I don't think Apple really wants to destroy
that."
- Opinion: Problems, comments
concerning iTools, MacNN, 1/7.
- Top Pick:
VST USB/FireWire Hard Drives. With no new Apple hardware, the
smartest introduction of the show may be the 6-25 GB hard drives
from VST that support both USB and FireWire.
- Interview: Steve
Wozniak unbound, Slashdot, 1/7.
- Consumer:
Galaxy Quest, Salon, 1/7. "...for science-fiction nerds and for
anyone who's ever laughed at them."
- Opinion: The
fall and rise of PowerBook 1400 G3 upgrades, MacCPU, 1/7. They
call the PB 1400 Apple's best ever,
but upgrades have been a problem.
- News:
A chat with 3dfx, Mac Observer, 1/7. "...the chip for the new
boards, the VSA-100, was designed with cross-platform application
in mind."
- News:
Apple says "never" to Mac with more than three slots, Mac
Observer, 1/7. Funny, I thought the G4 already had four
slots.
- Opinion: The end
of the Mac web (as we know it), MacBC, 1/7. "Apple's iReview is
the biggest threat to the independent Mac websites that has ever
existed."
- News: Blueberry iBook
falls to #2 spot, The Register, 1/6. As with the iMac, PC Data
counts each color as a separate model.
- Opinion: The
meat cleaver inside the bouquet!, John Farr, Applelinks, 1/6.
"...long hassled and harried by a swarm of Macintosh web sites,
Apple Computer has made a move to reduce their numbers."
- News:
Apple fans demand . . . a new mouse, Nando, 1/6. "...please,
can't someone get rid of that silly, round mouse?"
- Preview: Screenshots
of IE 5.0, AppleInsider, 1/5. New interface includes switchable
themes.
- News:
OSHA withdraws home safety rules, Prodigy News, 1/5 [Slashdot]. "Putting home workers in the
position of having to comply with thousands of pages of OSHA
regulations and making employers responsible for making sure that
they do is simply foolish," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.
- News: Sonnet
announced G3/333 for PB 1400, 1/5. Due in February at US$400,
the copper chip will actually improve battery life.
- News: 3dfx
announces Voodoo for Mac market, Apple, 1/5 [Accelerate Your Mac!]. New boards
with Mac support and VSA-100 processor forthcoming.
Also see 3dfx press
release at Accelerate Your Mac!
- Analysis: Mac OS X at
Macworld, Xappeal, 1/5.
- Analysis: Apple moves
beyond the box, MacWeek, 1/5. "...Apple clearly has the most
sophisticated and advanced vision of consumer-level computing out
there."
- More Macworld reports on Macs Only!, MacNN,
Think Secret, MacInTouch, AppleInsider,
- News: Macworld 2000 Keynote
Address Special Report, Mac News Today, 1/5. We couldn't be
there, but caught it through the miracle of QuickTime 4.
- Benchmark: Can
a Beige G3 with G4 run with the big dogs?, Bare Feats, 1/5.
G4/400 is a big improvement over G3/266, but....
- News: PowerLogics
delivers dual-G4 upgrade, MacCentral, 1/5. Available February
in daughter-card and ZIF variants in 350 and 400 MHz speeds.
- News: Harman Kardon to ship iSub in February, Yahoo/Business
Wire, 1/5. Months later than expected, but better late than
never.
- Dark Side: Intel rolls out higher-speed Celeron, Yahoo/ZDNet,
1/5. 533 MHz chips makes the G4/450 sound slow.
- News:
Macworld warm-up rally, Mac Observer, 1/4. Users really do hate
the round mouse.
- Macworld Expo 2000 in San Francisco began Tuesday with a "warm
up" rally. The big news is due on Wednesday. We'll have all the
details with our Wednesday afternoon update - assuming we can
connect to the QuickTime
webcast.
- News: OSHA covers at-home workers, MSNBC, 1/4 [Slashdot].
Ludicrous but true: "Companies that allow employees to work at home
are responsible for . . . the home work site...."
- Connectivity: Mac DSL
Center. Faster internet connections may be available in your
area.
- Deal:
Polaroid 30 MB CompactFlash card, US$49.99, PCMall [dealmac]. I just spent $79 last week for
a 32MB card - and thought that was a good price.
- Opinion: The Best Macs
Ever, Dan Knight, Low End Mac, 1/3. "Apple has a tradition of
great computers...."
- Opinion: Vaporware
'99: the winners, Wired, 1/3. Big surprise - Win2K tops the
list.
- Opinion: Macworld
has many challenges to address, Wes George, Mac Observer, 1/3.
"It is precisely because Apple has so well defined its hardware
trajectory that the potential for real surprises is possible."
- Review: PowerLogix
G3/350 upgrades, Macs Only!, 1/3. "The G4 CPU upgrade cards
perform as well or better than Apple's PowerMac G4...."
- Analysis:
Apple in a color bind, SiliconValley.com, 1/2. "The problem is
not that lime and tangerine computers don't sell...."
- Opinion: The
perfect consumer setup, Doug Campbell, MacNerds, 1/1.
- Opinion:
What will, and won't, be announced at Macworld, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer, 12/31. Pismo, yes. 17" iMac, no. More.
- Opinion: Last
Busman's Holiday for 1999, Steve Wood, 12/31.
- OS:
New home version of Yellow Dog Linux coming, Mac Observer,
12/31.
- Advice: Millennium
Voodoo, Macworld. Best 3D cards for the Mac are made for
PCs.
- Advice:
Want American Express Blue? Better get a PC, Mac Observer,
12/30. "...the representative told us that it is not compatible
with the Mac OS."
- Advice: Email
attachments, Deb Shadovitz, MacCentral, 12/30. "Each computer
platform has a different file format, and that's where
complications set in."
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