The Low End Mac Link Archive, May 2000
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- Advice: Getting to
know the way of AppleScript, Rick Bargerhuff, HolyMac,
5/31.
- Review: Logitech
optical wheel mouse, Carson Baker, HolyMac, 5/30. "...the
absolute nicest input device I've seen in the ten years that I've
used the Mac."
- Analysis: Apple earnings to be off
as iMac sales slump, MacNN, 5/31. With no updates since
October, the iMac is no longer the hot computer it once was. LEM
spin: Apple needs to boost the MHz, even if that means matching G4
clock speeds.
- Advice: More
spiffy Web page tips, Nancy Gravley, Computing with Bifocals,
Mac Observer, 5/31. Tables with depth and mouse-overs.
- Analysis: The hazards of
corporate vanity, UpsideToday, 5/31. "Overconfident management
has been responsible for most of the marketing disasters of past
decades." Think of Microsoft Bob, Macintosh TV, and Windows CE as
just a few examples.
- OS: Core
changes to the Mac System, BusinessWeek, 5/31. "OS X, Apple's
new operating system, fundamentally transforms the venerable
Macintosh desktop."
- News: Apple posts firmware
updates for slot-loading
iMac, Power Mac
G4, iBook,
and current
PowerBook, Macs Only!, 5/31. Enables boot from FireWire drive.
Other improvements.
- Legal: The Digital
Divas vs. Microsoft, Slashdot, 5/31. The company that
trademarked Windowsô is now infringing on the Digital Divas with their own
Digital
Diva (singular).
- AAPL: If
you've got the cojones, buy AAPL now, Wes George, Mac Observer,
5/30. Apple stock has not been so undervalued in some time.
Opinion:
Futureshop and Macintosh products, Jennifer Fraser, osOpinion.
"Why do you sell products that you know very little or nothing
about?"- Opinion:
Consumer Mac focus results in juvenile following?, Raging Bull,
5/30. Glad Low End Mac wasn't listed as one of the "Web sites with
little originality, a general lack of focus, and clear
juvenilism."
- News: iRack shipping,
Marathon Computer. iRack allows user to repackage an iMac for
rack-mount use. Very cool if you have need for such a thing.
- OS: User runs OS X DP4 on
Power Mac 7500, Accelerate Your Mac!, 5/30. Maybe there is hope
for my SuperMac S900 with an "unsupported" installation.
- History: One of the crazy ones: The man who invented the
computer, David Schultz, MacOS Daily, 5/30. Alan Turing was the
father of modern computing.
- Advice:
ExtendaPort: Extending AirPort's range, About.com, 5/29. Lucent
antenna increases range by 30-100%.
- Analysis: Historical
roots of Mac OS X, John Martellaro, 5/29. What is this BSD Unix
at the core of the new Mac OS?
- Review: Vicomsoft
Internet Gateway, Paul Shields, The Business Mac, 5/29.
- Advise: How to
speed up your start up, MacInstruct. Four tips for getting your
Mac up and running more quickly.
- Analysis: An
armchair CEO looks at Apple and The New
Apple, David K. Every, MacWeek, 5/26-57. A history of Apple
Computer with and without Steve Jobs.
- Web: A guide to
Mac support websites, MacInstruct. Good overview of online
resources.
- Opinion: Ding dong, the
witch is dead...almost, Rodney Lain, iBrotha, MyMac, 5/26.
Software installation hell. This must be Windows.
- Web: MacToolbox, a new
site by Darren Edwards. Clean, friendly look with helpful
content.
- Analysis: Diverging
paths for PowerPC, MacWeek, 5/26. "[The new G3] might sound
like great news for the Mac, but it does indicate that IBM and
Motorola are still following diverging paths in PowerPC
development."
- News:
Apple Germany part of European trend: Growth of 36% in first
quarter of 2000, Macwelt.
- Advice: Optimize
your Mac's performance and stability, Michel Munger, Mac
Observer, 5/26. One tip: If you can afford to live without VM, do
so.
- Analysis: Which
is more stable, the Mac or Windows?, Gene Steinberg,
Resurrected Mac, Mac Speed Zone. The answer isn't surprising, but
it's nice to understand the reasons behind it.
- Opinion: Will compatibility issues rain on the OS X parade?,
Charles W. Moore, View From the Bridge, MacOS Daily, 5/26. A
thoughtful look at the many issues involved in moving to OS X.
- Deal: Free VCD from CoolVCD.com. Buy CD/DVD SpeedTools from
Intech, then buy one VCD from CoolVCD.com and get a second one for
free. (Latest version of SpeedTools adds DVD, DVD-RAM
support.)
- Web:
Low End Mac reviewed on Access Internet Magazine. "There is an
unbelievable amount of information here in the form of on-site
articles and off-site links...."
- Review: Z-Write, a
word processor for writers, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/26.
Z-Write is simply revolutionary.
- Advice: Supporting
your systems on a limited budget, Paul Shields, The Business
Mac. If you're a regular at Low End Mac, other may already consider
you something of a computer expert. This article explains what that
can mean in the workplace.
- Opinion: A solution
to the Microsoft anti-trust case, Eliot Hochberg, Mac Junkie,
5/26. Thoughtful proposal notes that breaking up MS won't
work.
- News: IBM
plots next PowerPC chips, ZDNet, 5/25. New lower power G3 to
reach 700 MHz, have on-chip L2 cache. LEM spin: Expect faster
PowerBooks, iBooks, and iMacs - but never faster than the G4.
- Hands On: OS X DP4
in-depth look with screen shots, Holy Mac. Read this and you
will want to beta test OS X when it becomes available.
- Opinion: Hey
Apple! Is that an injunction...?, Scott J. Gray, Big G Media.
An opinionated, irreverent, honest look at the litigious side of
Apple.
- Hands On: OS X DP4
in-depth look with screen shots, Holy Mac. Read this and you
will want to beta test OS X when it becomes available.
- Opinion: Hey
Apple! Is that an injunction...?, Scott J. Gray, Big G Media.
An opinionated, irreverent, honest look at the litigious side of
Apple.
- Opinion: Take
your right to a Mac for granted? The Mac in Poland, Nancy
Gravley, Computing With Bifocals, Mac Observer, 5/24. "During
[martial law] old Macs, because of their size and simplicity, were
brought home in private ways (sometimes smuggled), often in order
to serve in our informal underground...."
- Opinion: The
essence of the Mac is the user interface, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 5/24.
- Advice: File sharing:
Apple's secret feature, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. If you
have more than one Mac, you should know about file sharing.
- Opinion: If no Apple PDA in the works, what other "digital
device" might Jobs have been talking about?, Charles W. Moore, View
From the Bridge, MacOS Daily, 5/24. "We're always trying to build
lighter laptops, but we're pulled in some different
directions."
- Opinion: Mac
OS X delayed - that sounds great to me!, Michel Munger,
On the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 5/23. "Developing masterpieces
requires an awful lot of time."
- Advice: PowerBook
5300c Internet performance analysis, Steve Martin.
- Opinion: The megahertz
race, Erig, Big G Media, 5/24. "But people aren't buying G4s
for sheer speed, they use them because they are the best tool for
the job."
- Web: New
online Mac retail site launched, Mac Observer, 5/24.
- News: Cease and
desist (the First Amendment), Go2Mac, 5/23. Apple legal
pressures site to remove images of Aqua-like interfaces used to
illustrate articles.
- Opinion: The challenge of change, John Martellaro, MacOS Daily,
5/22. "The Macintosh is the distillation of Apple Computer's wisdom
and philosophy about how one can best interact with a
computer."
- Web:
iReview looks at Low End Mac, Apple Computer.
- Opinion: Help,
my software won't be updated!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 5/23.
As a Home Page and Emailer orphan, I understand the feeling - yet
these applications continue to meet my needs. (Well, I may be
outgrowing Home Page.)
- Opinion: Pismo
four months later: A second look, PowerBook Zone, 5/23. "...if
this is the biggest issue we can come up with, obviously Apple's
done a great job. "
- Web: MacEdition
launches as site for Mac professionals.
- AAPL:
Buy low. Mac Observer virtual portfolio buys more Apple, Wes
George, Mac Observer, 5/22.
- Interview: Preaching
the gospel of Mac, Brandt Williams, Minnesota Public Radio,
5/22. "Every other weekend, Rodney Lain talks to the Mac-faithful
and the Mac-curious at the Roseville CompUSA."
- Opinion: It's the
interface, stupid, Marko Cunningham, Holy Mac!, 5/22. "The main
strength of the Mac is the elegance and simplicity of the Mac
OS...."
- News: IBM adds
zip to PowerPC chips, Excite/ZDNet. New technology reduced
power consumption, allows 30% higher speeds.
- Analysis:
How Microsoft made virus-writing accessible, Baltimore Sun,
5/21. "By giving ordinary users-turned-programmers access to
powerful tools such as the computer's file system and e-mail
programs, Microsoft opened the door to the kind of malicious virus
writers who created Melissa (last year's nasty virus) and this
year's Love Bug."
- Web: MacMadness has moved to its own domain.
Congratulations!
- Opinion: Are
Macs important?, Jeff Lewis, MacOpinion, 5/19
- Opinion: Clones: A Mac
by any other name is not the same, Michael A. LaMorte,
Macville, 5/19. Why cloning was a bad idea. A very thoughtful
article.
- Opinion: The death of
sprockets, Brian Greenstone, Inside Mac Games. "I have to admit
that my perception of the Games Session at WWDC was that Apple is
killing the games API's and not replacing them with
anything...."
- Benchmark: Which is fastest, DeskJet
1220Cse or Stylus Photo 1270?, Bare Feats, 5/19. Looking for a
large format printer?
- Opinion:
Why an Apple PDA is a case of trying to top the pig, Dan
Willis, Daily Mac, 5/19. You really have to read the article to
understand the title - and it's definitely worth reading.
- Review: Mac OS 09. The
Missing Manual, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/19. ...David
Pogue's "Mac OS 09. The Missing Manual" delivers on its promise to
be "the book that should have been in the box."
- Virus: New,
nastier Love Bug virus threatens computers, Yahoo/Reuters,
5/19. "Herbie: Love Bug II" causes more severe damage than earlier
Love Bug virus. (Thank goodness it's also a Visual Basic Script,
leaving non-Windows systems essentially immune.)
- Virus: New virus
more destructive than "Love," Cnet, 5/18. "...the virus alters
itself to sneak around traditional virus scanners." Clever - glad
they're not targeting the Mac.
- Petition: 3dfx
BTO petition to Apple, Accelerate Your Mac! If you believe
Apple should offer the 3dfx Voodoo cards as build-to-order options
on the G4, here's the place to share your thoughts.
- Opinion: Tiny
treasures, Jeff Lewis, Mac Skeptic, MacOpinion, 5/17. "This
[the 8"x10"x1" IBM ThinkPad 2400] is the computer I wanted from
Apple and waited for."
- Opinion: Fallout from
the WWDC rumors, Daniel J. Lyons, Lyon's Den, MacBC, 5/17.
- Opinion: Backwards and forwards USB and FireWire connectivity
for PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, MacOS Daily,
5/17.
- News: Apple
demonstrates dual-G4 Power Mac, Slashdot, 5/16.
"...Cocoa/Carbon applications do not need to be changed in any way
to take advantage of multi-processors. Benchmark demonstrations ran
roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system...."
- Opinion: On
the Flip Side: Mac advocates are a bunch of bigots, Michel
Munger, Mac Observer, 5/16. "...we are arrogant. It is hard not to
be and it annoys other people out there."
- OS: Mac OS X, Apple
Computer. Straight from the horse's mouth, including screen shots
of DP4.
- OS: Mac OS X, Macs
Only!, 5/16. New hope for older Power Macs: "According to Apple,
Mac OS X is designed to run on all Macintosh computers using
PowerPC G3 and G4 processor chips, and requires a minimum of 64 MB
of memory."
- Opinion: The
Urban Mac: What's the minimum Macintosh?, Dwain Elliott, 5/15.
"If you only have a few hundred bucks to spend, you can buy an
older, upgradeable Power Macintosh to start computing, and build
from there."
- Opinion: Keeper of the iBook:
Does size matter?, Mark Newhouse, 5/15. "I use the iBook every
day, and have found it to be the perfect companion on my
commute."
- OS: OS X looks
like a Mac, MacWeek, 5/15. "With DP4, Mac OS X now has a more
Mac-like Finder."
- OS: Apple
releases Mac OS X Developer Preview 4, Apple Computer, 5/15.
Public beta due this summer, final release in January.
- Opinion:
Announced OS X Public Beta hides the real issue, Kyle
D'Addario, Mac Observer, 5/15. "Apple has again let the release of
their next OS to slip, this time by a minimum of 6 months."
- News: eCommerce
group says MP3 piracy appears good for CD sales, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 5/15. Take that, Metallica. :-)
- News
:
Apple Germany against "false friends," Macwelt. Ad firm
"warned" for unauthorized use of Apple logo, Think Different slogan
in "Dear Windows-Users: We Love You!" ad.
- WWDC: Look for coverage on MacNN, Mac Observer, MacCentral, MacWeek, and more links on MacSurfer's Headline News.
- Networking: Apple
ethernet/networking bugs and fixes, MacInTouch. Reports posted
over the weekend indicate Apple Farallon
Fast EtherTX 10/100 Card is one solution.
- Opinion: Can Apple seize the day?, David Schultz, 5/15.
"Microsoft is on the ropes; other options are springing up by which
Apple can distinguish itself, and Apple itself is coming out of its
second infancy."
- Analysis: Good
Macs come in small packages, Wired, 5/15. "...for some Apple
enthusiasts, the company will never improve one of its earliest
computers, the Color
Classic."
- Opinion: Sydow's Mind of Macness: An iMac or an iPC?, Don Parks
Sydow, MacOS Daily, 5/15. "It's pretty unlikely that Apple will
ever make a Mac OS capable of running on a PC that sports an Intel
processor, right? Wrong!"
- Advice: Web access for
System 6 Macs, Jag's House. Any Mac the supports System 6.0.8
can access the Web.
- News: New iMac
computers operate in Spanish, Modesto Bee, 5/15. Modesto dealer
stocks iMacs preconfigured for Spanish.
- Opinion: Should
I stay or should I go?, Newsweek, 5/15 [MyAppleMenu]. "The Mac
has always had an emotional appeal that often winds up making its
users more productive."
- Opinion:
How to publish a trade secret, Esko Woudenberg, osOpinion.
"Traditionally trade secrets require the entity that claims the
secret to adequately protect that secret or trade secret
classification is lost. "Publishing" it on the Internet is far from
reasonable protective measures to safeguard."
- Opinion: Warp Core:
Will we lost control of our computers?, John Martellaro,
Applelinks, 5/14. "Apple Computer, so far, has celebrated
individualism and freedom in our computing experience."
- News: 3dfx takes
aim at ATI, MacWeek, 5/13. "3dfx took aim at rival graphics
chipmaker ATI Technology this week by demonstrating an AGP version
of its Voodoo5 graphics card--and openly criticizing Apple for
shipping its Power Mac systems exclusively with ATI's Rage 128
chip." See also 3dfx
BTO petition.
- Opinion: Dispatches
from the copyright war, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/12.
Mettalica, Microsoft vs. Slashdot, German "Apple" ad, Napster,
more.
- Opinion: Dad, are you on
my computer again?, Bill Ball, Macville, 5/12. "My son might
rightly ask this question, as I load yet another game on his iBook
Special Edition."
- Opinion:
Microsoft makes it hard to be a web developer, Oliver Dueck,
Mac Observer, 5/12. "Developing web sites using anything but the
most basic HTML results in severe incompatibilities between
browsers and platforms."
- Opinion: Ever been in
upgrade hell?, Marion Delahan, HolyMac, 5/12. "Ever been in
upgrade hell? That is when a perfectly running system demands a
single change. Unfortunately, the single change creates a domino
effect that requires multiple upgrades."
- News: Serious Mac
network bug being tracked by MacInTouch. Slot-loading iMac,
Pismo, iBook, and G4 can all lose network connection under certain
conditions.
- Opinion: The "one OS"
strategy, Think Secret, 5/12. Speculation that the "one OS" may
be Darwin, not OS X. Provocative viewpoint.
- Opinion: In praise of words, or why I detest graphics-cluttered
websites, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 5/12. Agreed, which is why
Low End Mac is content heavy, graphics light.
- Opinion: All Mac Considered: The silly season, Joe Carson,
MacOS Daily, 5/12. "For the Mac world the Silly Seasons were the
periods a couple of months before one of the big MacWorld
Expos."
- News:
Microsoft stumbles (again) with latest efforts to embrace &
extend, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 5/11. "The technique is
often called Embrace and Extend, which is the practice of seemingly
embracing a technology, officially "extending" its capabilities in
a proprietary way...."
- News: Microsoft wants
to censor some open-source postings, Cnet, 5/11. "...legal
analysts say material that found its way on to the Internet may no
longer be entitled to trade secret protections."
- News: ILOVEYOU
worm an accident?, ZDNet, 5/11. "...de Guzman did not confess
to creating the virus but said that he may have been responsible
for unleashing it onto the Internet."
- Opinion: Moore's Views
& Reviews: Moore succumbs to Aqua, at least a little bit,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "Too much visual stimulation tires me
out and jades my senses. I love the understated subtlety of the
traditional Mac OS."
- Advice: How to upgrade your
DuoDock, Power-Macintosh. Includes lots of helpful photos.
- News: Apple threatens German
agency over ad, MacNN, 5/11. Responding to recent virus, ad
proclaims, "Dear Windows user: 'We love you!'" :-)
- Advice: Getting the most
out of your dated Mac, MacMind.
- Review: PowerBook
2000, Andrew Gore, Macworld. "With the release of the latest
PowerBook G3, Apple has added a host of improvements to a product
that just a year ago Macworld deemed without peer."
- History: MITS Altair
8800, Obsolete Computer Museum. The first personal computer kit
(1975), and the machine Bill Gates
first wrote Micro-soft BASIC for.
- Web: Microsoft
asks Slashdot to remove readers' posts, Slashdot, 5/11.
Slashdot's three hottest issues: Microsoft, the Digital Milleniium
Copyright Law, and censorship
- SETI@home: Mac
SETI@home team passes 600 members, gaining on next three teams,
Mac Observer, 5/10.
- Opinion: Five
ways the Web is pushing the law to the limit, Sally McGrane,
Cnet, 5/10. Patents, gambling, marketing, cybersquatting, and
copyright.
- Opinion: Computing
with Bifocals: In the land of Macintosh, Nancy Gravley,
5/10.
- Opinion: View from the
Classroom: In search of a web host, Steve Wood, 5/9.
- Advice: Road Warrior: PowerBook hard drive upgrade options,
Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 5/10.
- Review: Vicomsoft
Internet Gateway, Paul Shields, The Business Mac, 5/10. "VIG
offers a complete selection of server products including DNS, DHCP,
NAT, Dial-in, WebCache, and content filtering...."
- Advice: Can I run
Linux/Unix on my Mac?, HolyMac, 5/9. Short answer: yes. Long
answer: in the article.
- News: Other World
Computing build-to-order program for older Macs. User can
choose from Power Mac 6100,
7100, Power Computing Power Center, or (our
favorite) Umax SuperMac S900.
Prices start at US$50.
- SETI@home:
Earthlingsoft announces SETI Checker 2.2.1.
- Virus:
Linux users unscathed by ILOVEYOU, Nicholas Petreley, CNN, 5/9.
Mac users are not alone in avoiding the Love Bug.
- Opinion: On
the Flip Side: The BMW of computers? No, the Volkswagen!,
Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 5/9. "Nothing - no, nothing -
in the car industry compares to the iMac, except the New
Beetle."
- Opinion: Microsoft's
secret anti-campaigns, Macinstein, 5/9. "They knew that by
ruling the browser, they could rule a good portion of how the
internet worked."
- Benchmark: What's
the fastest Ultra ATA drive under US$250?, Bare Feats,
5/9.
- Opinion: iGeek:
Defining a well run company, David K. Every, MacWeek, 5/8.
Thoughtful article on how companies get out of balance. Something
you'll want to print and reread several times.
- News: Connectix to
revamp Speed Doubler into new product, MacNN, 5/8. Speed
Doubler's intelligent copy routines are the only reason I haven't
switched to Mac OS 9. It's brilliant, transparent software that I
find essential, leaving me with OS 8.6.
- Virus:
Children of Love Bug: No celebration, ZDNews/Yahoo, 5/8. "The
worm also infects files on networked and mapped drives, and it
sends itself to people who join a chat room with an infected
member."
- Virus: Microsoft
criticized for lack of software security, Cnet, 5/5.
"Microsoft has built in the ideal virus transmission mechanism into
the operating system."
- Web: Appleholics Anonymous
is back, a great source of desktop pictures, icons, K-schemes, and
web graphics. Welcome back!
- Advice: Monday's
Mac Gadget: Speed up your Mac with a ramBunctious, John F.
Braun, Mac Observer.
- Opinion: Think About It: The Mac essence, part 2, David
Schultz, MacOS Daily, 5/8. "One could hold, and reasonably, that I
have only defined the essence of a Mac as a computer, not
the essence of a Mac as a Mac. And this is the real
question, isn't it?"
- Opinion: Lyons' Den:
Will Apple's next ad tout a 2 GHz Power Mac?, Daniel J. Lyons
III, MacBC, 5/8. "...marketing the PowerMac Dual G4 as a GHz Mac
would be a smart move. This would also allow Apple to market the
Quad G4 as a 2 GHz system."
- History: Viruses
on the Mac, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 5/7. "The first Mac
viruses, nVir and MacMag, appeared in 1987...."
- Opinion: Beneath Aqua: Carbon, Cocoa, and more, Don Parks
Sydow, MacOS Daily, 5/6. "What's the bottom line? Mac OS X holds
the graphics technologies that will be of interest to
programmers."
- Web: The Mac
Junkie's jCards are back, Mac Junkie. Last week the creator of
MacCards released eyeCards; Mac Junkie now introduces original
Mac-related jCards.
- Virus: Core Breach!
ILOVEYOU Microsoft, Scott McCarfty, GraphicPower, 5/5. "All in
the name of integration, Microsoft has created an array of tools
that play into the hands of the twisted minds of malicious
pranksters who wish to make their mark in the world by seeing how
much havoc they can wreck on business."
- History: Osborne 1,
Obsolete Computer Museum. The first portable (1981) weighed 24
pounds - and you thought the Mac Portable was heavy!
- Deal: Sonnet G3 266 MHz daughter
card, $139, dealmac exclusive.
- Opinion: Media forgets Mac
immunity in new virus threat, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl.
"This is one time when the lack of full support for Visual Basic on
the Mac is definitely a blessing."
- Opinion: Study
confirms text-oriented websites hold user's attention, Charles
W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/5. "This data would seem to vindicate my
own staunch unscientific view . . . that graphics-heavy content on
information Web pages is distracting and annoying...."
- Opinion:
The thing that ate my desktop: 17" iMacs? Get real, Dan Willis,
Daily Mac, 5/5. "In short the iMac gave me my desk back, and I'll
be danged if I'm going to let someone take it away without a
fight."
- Advocacy: Going against
the grain, Apple Computer. Law firms dumps Windows for Mac,
staff announces, "if [we] ever converted back to the PC, they would
quit!"
- Opinion: Phillips
Files: A virus alert (not) and a gamers alert, R. P. Phillips,
MacMilitia. "...the news media has, again, overlooked the obvious
solution to these virus attacks."
- OS:
The Best of Mac OS X, Macwelt. "Mac-OS X is basically a Unix
operating system."
- Web: Can a web
cache improve network throughput?, Paul Shields, The Business
Mac. Good introduction to web caching.
- Web: "Espionage" a good
fake that has people talking, MacNN, 5/4. Well produced fake
Apple ad touts G4 as high tech contraband, was also produced on
G4s.
- Humor: Simon's
EyeCards, proving that Apple's iCards don't have a monopoly on
boring scenery.
- Opinion: View From the Bridge: The Mac is the user experience,
Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 5/5. "A big part of the Mac user
experience is the wonderful classic Mac graphical user interface
(GUI), which is why I, and many other commentators, are cautiously
apprehensive about the changes Apple has made in how the Mac GUI
looks and works in forthcoming OS X."
- News: Multiprocessor
G4 on tap for WWDC, Go2Mac.com, 5/4. CompUSA sources report
receiving SKU numbers for new computers.
- Opinion: Moore's Views
& Reviews: The state of the browser, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks. "I keep IE 5 open, and use it every day for some tasks,
but I don't have the confidence in it that I have developed with
Netscape and iCab."
- Review: iBook, iBook
Special Edition, Macworld. "Budget-conscious buyers who need a
portable computer . . .will appreciate the iBook's value."
- SETI@home: Low
End Mac launches SETI@home team for Power Mac 6100 owners, Mac
Observer, 5/4.
- Opinion: Apple,
serve Mac OS X online, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 5/4. "What if
Apple created an online version of Mac OS X and its Aqua
interface?" Anyone with a browser could experience it!
- Opinion: Road to
Mac OS X: Expandable or not?, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
5/4.
- Web: iBook Zone reopens
with new editor
- Web:
Eyetrack online news study may surprise you, E&P Online,
5/3. Web users concentrate on text, not graphics.
- Advice: Computing
with Bifocals: Search directory tips, more on Dvorak keyboards,
Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 5/3.
- Opinion: Road Warrior: What's the best choice for a budget
workhorse PowerBook?, Charles W. Moore, 5/3.
- Opinion: Stauffer and Hillman Spar: Wanting more from Apple,
MacOS Daily, 5/3. "The iMac and iBook were barely the beginning - a
lot of exciting things are left for Apple to develop and
innovate."
- Opinion: The Mac-Files:
On boycotts, MacBC, 5/3. "The reasons for a boycott is because
they do not believe the company in question is behaving properly.
And it is quite obvious that Microsoft has not been behaving
properly."
- Consumer: Fans force
Star Wars DVD release, Wired News, 5/3. George Lucas resisted,
fans prevailed, "but it is still far too soon to know which films
will be released when" (not this year).
- News: Digital
camera sales explode, Macworld UK, 5/3. Digicams expected to
overtake film cameras in 2002.
- Opinion: Microsoft's
real problem: No innovation, John Dvorak, ZDNet, 5/2.
- How To: Power Colour
Classic, Stuart Bell. How to upgrade a Colour Classic to Power
PC.
- History: Poqet PC,
Obsolete Computer Museum, and Poqet PC Home
Page. An XT clone from 1989 - not much larger than a
checkbook.
- Opinion: On
the Flip Side: Just how important is the Internet?, Michel
Munger, Mac Observer, 5/2. A lot of people don't have Internet
access - and some of them don't get it either.
- Upgrades: Newer
resurrects G3-L2 cards, Mac-Upgrade.com, 5/2. 400 MHz G3
upgrade sells for US$449, fits Power Mac 4400, 5400, 5500, 6400,
6500, Performa 6360, Umax C-series, Motorola StarMax, and Power
Computing PowerBase.
- Opinion: Mac OS X and
Aqua tidbits, Think Secret, 5/2. Whether this comes from an
anonymous Apple insider or not, it's a very thoughtful piece on
"the iMac OS."
- Opinion: Portable
thrills, David Schultz, Applelust, 5/1. Pismo, the newest
PowerBook, epitomizes the Macintosh.
- Opinion: The
Apple Trader: To break up Microsoft is a slap in capitalism's
face, Wes George, Mac Observer, 5/1. Read this: "The mere fact
that the Microsoft monopoly even exists means the free market
system has in some way failed us." Now read the article.
- News:
Steve Jobs to keynote Macworld New York, Mac Observer, 5/1. Can
you say, "OS X"?
- Review:
Low End Mac profiled on Access Internet Magazine site. "There
is an unbelievable amount of information here in the form of
on-site articles and off-site links; that translates to a crowded
and confusing homepage." Confusing? Say it isn't so!
- Review: 400 MHz G4
upgrade shootout, Insanely Great Mac, 5/1. Four upgrades
tested. All fast. All expensive.
- Opinion:
Take a Break: My iMac meets E.T., Richard A. Good, Daily iMac,
5/1. The author joins SETI@home and gets a free screen saver.
- News: Apple denies FishPC is
copyright target, MacNN, 5/1. "...the FishPC's CPU is separate
from the monitor in a stand-alone enclosure which looks like a fish
standing on its tail."
- Review: NoBeige: Best
computer speakers available, Go2Mac, 5/1. New Kilpsh speaker
system "best multimedia speakers for your computer hands
down."
- Opinion:
Free Your Mind: Why Steve Jobs doesn't do commercials, Rodney
O. Lain, MacConnect, 5/1.
- News: U.S. Supreme
Court lets stand ruling that frees ISPs from liability for customer
email content, Mercury Center, 5/1 [Slashdot]. "...Internet service
providers are not legally and financially liable when someone is
defamed in email communications or bulletin board messages."
- Review:
Low End Mac profiled on Access Internet Magazine site. "There
is an unbelievable amount of information here in the form of
on-site articles and off-site links; that translates to a crowded
and confusing homepage." Confusing? Say it isn't so!
- Review: 400 MHz G4
upgrade shootout, Insanely Great Mac, 5/1. Four upgrades
tested. All fast. All expensive.
- Opinion:
Take a Break: My iMac meets E.T., Richard A. Good, Daily iMac,
5/1. The author joins SETI@home and gets a free screen saver.
- News: Apple denies FishPC is
copyright target, MacNN, 5/1. "...the FishPC's CPU is separate
from the monitor in a stand-alone enclosure which looks like a fish
standing on its tail."
- Review: NoBeige: Best
computer speakers available, Go2Mac, 5/1. New Kilpsh speaker
system "best multimedia speakers for your computer hands
down."
- Opinion:
Free Your Mind: Why Steve Jobs doesn't do commercials, Rodney
O. Lain, MacConnect, 5/1.
- News: U.S. Supreme
Court lets stand ruling that frees ISPs from liability for customer
email content, Mercury Center, 5/1 [Slashdot]. "...Internet service
providers are not legally and financially liable when someone is
defamed in email communications or bulletin board messages."
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