The Low End Mac Link Archive, June 2000
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- Deals: DealMac has links for
G3/350 upgrade for $159, iMac/B logic board for $199, 6/30.
- Overview: State of
the Spanish Mac Web, Miguel Cornejo (of Macuarium), MacSlash,
6/29. The Mac is an international phenomenon.
- Review: New Nissus
email client, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "...the more I use
it the more I like it and appreciate its genius."
- Benchmark: Speedmark's
rebirth heralds return of meaningful Mac benchmarks, Andrew
Gore, Macworld. Updated benchmark replaces MacBench, provides a
single score for a computer.
- Opinion: Deplorable
Mac journalism? Excuse me?, Michel Munger, 6/29. "...public
deception [is] wrong in the world of journalism, no matter who it
could hurt."
- Opinion: I'm still with
stupid, Mathew Honan, MacWeek, 6/28. "By stupid, I mean I'm
with Apple."
- News: Apple claims
dealer sold unauthorized software, Salt Lake Tribune, 6/28.
Sun Remarketing, a long-time
used Mac dealer, issued cease-and-desist order for selling Mac OS.
We have contacted Sun in search of more details.
- Advice:
Take a break: Digital photography, Richard A. Good, Daily iMac,
6/27. "With my iMac and new camera, I am rediscovering the joy of
just taking pictures for the fun of it...."
- Opinion:
A new attribute to admire: Macs are more secure, David
Horrigan, Union Tribune, 6/27. "It is so much more secure, in fact,
that different branches of the military are making plans to add
Macs to their arsenal."
- SETI@home: Space:
The final frontier & how you can help, Nancy Gravley,
Computing With Bifocals, Mac Observer, 6/28. "I have been
participating in the SETI experiment for a few months now and want
to recommend it to others."
- Opinion: On
journalistic professionalism and the Mac Web, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 6/28. "I am a consummate Mac aficionado, and I want
Apple to do well, but as a journalist I am not a
cheerleader...."
- Opinion:
MOSD: Saying a fond farewell to friends, David Schultz,
Applelust.com, 6/28.
- Community: Susan Howerter Tribute
Page, My Mac, 6/27. "It is with the deepest regrets that we
advise that Susan Howerter, an outstanding talented writer,
educator and friend passed away after a long battle with cancer."
Goodbye, Susan.
- Opinion: Apple
still working hard at alienating its friends, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 6/27. "The seemingly tireless folks at Apple legal have
been busily seeking out more friends of the Macintosh to
alienate."
- Opinion: Windows: An interface
designed by gearheads, Cory Rau, MacInStart, 6/27. "...the
Macintosh represents Apple's effort to put a simple face on
something infinitely more complex than most of us will ever
understand."
- Opinion:
Apple had the right - but was still wrong, Justin Swidler,
osOpinion. "While Apple may be going on a crusade lately to protect
their trademarks, they sure are not protecting their image."
- Advice: Cable modem problem
diagnosis, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl.
- Humor: Microsoft
purchases evil from Satan, BBspot. "The Department of Justice
has voiced concerns over one corporation controlling so much evil,
and has begun investigations into the deal."
- Software: Apple releases
MRJ 2.2.2. "MRJ 2.2.2 is an upgrade to MRJ 2.2 that improves
memory usage and provides security enhancements."
- Advpcacy: Why
Stimulus chooses Apple Computer products, Stimulus [MacSurfer]. "When Microsoft
trademarked the term 'Plug-and-Play,' most of the computer
community thought this was fairly humorous."
- Hands on: AOL Instant
Messenger 4.0.1, The Mac Community. "...we at MC believe that
AIM is the best free instant messaging application."
- Advice: Cable modem problem
diagnosis, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl.
- Advice:
PowerBook ergonomics, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 6/27. The Road Warrior returns to Mac Opinion.
- SETI@home: MacBC launches
"Team Power" for Power Computing users, 6/27. If you have a
Power Computing machine, consider joining this sub-team of Team Mac
Observer.
- Opinion: The
deplorable state of Mac web journalism, Wes George, Apple
Trader, Mac Observer, 6/26. "No serious journalist would doubt that
his or her allegiance is first to the readers, not to the
corporation being covered."
- Advice: Serving
the Internet from a PowerBook 5300, Ron Risley, TidBITS, 6/26.
Amazing how much those old Macs are capable of in the Internet
age.
- Opinion: Soulless
monsters, Eolake Stobblehouse, MacCreator. Most companies have
no soul; Apple is different.
- According to several sources, MacOS Daily closed shop last
Thursday. We wish Matt Linton the best and hope all his writers
find new homes on the Mac Web.
- Hardware:
Palladine LCDpc [iMac
NewsPage]. It looks an awful lot like an iMac. Lawyer
time?
- Advice: RAM FAQ,
MacToolbox. All about SIMMs, DIMMs, 32-bit addressing, EDO vs. FPM,
VRAM, PRAM, and more.
- Benchmarks: New
VST UltraTek/66 controller rocks!, Bare Feats, 6/26.
Outperforms SCSI and other Ultra ATA cards for the Mac.
- News: Sonnet announces OS X
compatibility, 6/26. Promises OS X compatibility for Crescendo
PCI and Encore ZIF upgrades.
- Opinion: Extended
AirPort range, John Norton, iThought, MacMilitia, 6/23. With
AirPort 1.2, "AirPort performance has been significantly
improved."
- Support: "A source informs us that, as of July 1, Apple will no
longer be selling parts for nor otherwise supporting the Performa
630 and the first generation Power Macs (6100, 7100, 8100, 8150,
9150 models)." MacFixIt,
6/23.
- Opinion: Saint
Apple?, Jason Taylor, Jay's Mac Page, 6/23. "Is Apple listening
to customers to benefit us or them?
- Benchmark: Fastest Ultra ATA drive under
$200, Bare Feats, 6/23. There's a new drive in town - and it
cooks!
- Advice: Guide to the Apple
Menu, MacBC, 6/23. One thing to keep in mind: it's always in
alphabetical order - but there are ways to work with that.
- Software: Best of
class, Shareware Central, MacBC. Alternatives to Apple Menu
Items and the Application Switcher. They missed MenuChoice, our
long-time favorite, but list some interesting software.
- Opinion:
Have your phone call my phone, Dan Willis, Consumer Advocate,
Daily Mac, 6/23. How an Apple-branded cell phone and AirPort Mac
could interact. Thoughtful.
- Opinion: I have seen
the printer, and it is laser, Daniel J. Lyons, Lyons' Den,
MacBC, 6/22. "After years of dried up color cartridges in my
DeskWriter 550C, I finally admitted that I didn't really need
color...."
- Advice: How
to make a RAM Disk, iTeen, Mac Observer, 6/22. Why? Because a
RAM Disk is wicked fast.
- Review: Web Design:
The Complete Reference, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "...it
focuses on providing useful information and instruction on things
like easy and efficient site navigation, speedy page loading, and
comprehensive browser support."
- Advice: Odds,
ends, and important stuff, Nancy Gravley, Computing With
Bifocals, Mac Observer, 6/22. Deleting locked files, updated
software, buying online, more.
- MacInSchool: Washington
school system eyeing single platform, MacCentral, 6/22.
"...they plan to consolidate on one platform and it may not be the
Mac."
- Deal: Buy one Mac-formatted Zip
100 10-pack, get one free. Details at DealMac.
- Opinion: What makes a Mac user a Mac user, Tim Hillman, MacOS
Daily, 6/22. "Macintosh was founded with religious zeal, and
today's use of the platform is tantamount to religion as
well."
- Advice: Cable modem implicated
in system slowdown, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl.
- Rights: Court orders owner
of PETA parody site to relinquish address, Boston Globe, 6/20
[Slashdot]. Until now, the
courts have sided with parody as a legitimate and protected form of
expression.
- Review: iForce,
The Review, MacNN, 6/21. 400 and 500 MHz upgrades for
drawer-loading iMacs.
- Opinion: Thinking
different and mental illness, David Schultz, Infinite Loop,
Applelust. "I have never found the need to use Windows."
- Opinion: Why I Mac, Mark
Ewing, markewing.com. "It's amazing how much misinformation is out
there regarding Macs, usually spread by people who have never used
one."
- Opinion: Solar PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
MacOS Daily, 6/21.
- Hardware: New Viaos dang
small, Go2Mac.com, 6/21. Three pounds? Yes, only three pound!
C'mon, Apple, give us a thin-and-light laptop.
-
Midwest is tech worker's pick to click, Dan Rafter, Chicago
Tribune, 6/20. "This comes as bad news to Midwest employers but
great news to local people looking for IT jobs."
- Virus:
At least 4 major companies crippled by latest virus, AP/Nando,
6/20. "Due to the infection rate, we're moving it to 'high
risk."'
- Analysis: A fire on the Internet, John Martellaro, Event
Horizon, MacOS Daily, 6/20. When TV coverage of a fire fails to
inform residents, they turned to the Internet for factual
news.
- Consumer: Ozone
alert!, Bruce Fraser, Color Geek, MacWeek, 6/20. Color prints
can fade or change color due to ozone, heat, sunlight, humidity,
and other factors.
- Advice: Using old displays
on a new Mac, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. If the old monitor
won't sync, an adapter may solve your problem.
- Hack:
B&W G3 ATX conversion, Timothy A. Seufert, Accelerate Your
Mac, 6/19. Why ditch the wonderful blue & white case? For drive
bays!
- OS X: The Classic
environment, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 6/19. Here's where you'll
run your pre-Carbon Mac applications.
- Analysis: Rumors, rumors,
and 17" iMacs, Macinstein, 6/19. Don't blame Apple when the
rumors don't come true.
- Humor: The new iMac,
ScienceMan. This one has wheels!
- Opinion:
Black becomes white, the sun doesn't rise, and Microsoft buys
Bungie Software, Mac Observer, 6/19. "This is the tactic that
Microsoft regularly employs.... No, what is strange is why Bungie
could possibly consider being bought by Microsoft...."
- Opinion: Investing
on faith, Wes George, Apple Trader, Mac Observer, 6/19. "I'm
sleeping well with my shares of Apple, trusting that the company
hasn't lost its visionary edge."
- Opinion: The return
of blipverts, John Martellaro, Warp Core, Applelinks, 6/19.
Automatic link just for mentioning Max Headroom, but it's also a
thoughtful article.
- Opinion: Bungie's
soul sold to Micro$oft? Horror of horrors!, Ben Apple, Mac
Junkie, 6/19. "Micro$oft has bought out Bungie Software, arguably
the coolest gaming company to support the Mac."
- Emulation: Want
to run your old Apple II warez? Get Catakig, John F. Braun, Mac
Observer, 6/19. Freeware Apple II emulator only requires a ROM
image and Apple II software.
- News:
Silly Web site in serious free-speech fight, Boston Globe,
6/18. It's about freedom, fun, and copyright. (Visit the
Dialectizer.)
- Deal: Build a custom
Power Mac 7600 from US$235, Other World Computing. You'll need
a hard drive, memory, keyboard, and mouse, which OWC will sell and
install.
- Analysis: AAPL Investors looks at "soft" iMac sales, 6/18.
- Analysis:
Getting a handle on laptops, Dan Willis, Consumer Advocate,
Daily Mac, 6/16. The handle and long battery life assure the iBook
can and will be used outside your office. A very savvy
analysis.
- Opinion: Adobe:
What trade secrets?, David Coursey, ZDNet, 6/16. "Computer
journalists have always operated under the assumption that
companies' product secrets were fair game."
- Power Mac 6400, 6500: Internal modem may have problems under
Mac OS 8.5, will have problems with OS 8.6 and later, as Apple
Telecom is no longer supported. Best solution: replace the internal
modem. (Apple TIL
30819)
- Digicams: The Macintosh
Guy launches the Digicam list, covering all types of digital
cameras.
- Opinion: A
Mac Web code of ethics: Foundations, David Schultz,
Applelust.com, 6/16. A first step in creating a code of ethics for
the Mac Web. Thoughtful and provocative.
- USB: Is there a
better mouse than Apple's "hockey puck?," Bare Feats, 6/16.
Definitely, although this overview missed one of our favorites.
- News: Steve
Wozniak recognized as the engineering genius he is, Mac
Observer, 6/16. Woz's work on the Apple I and II was nothing short
of brilliant.
- Review: Sonnet
Crescendo G3/PB-333/1M, Joost van de Griek. Upgrade boosts
PowerBook 1400 to 333 MHz.
- Connectivity: Macs Only!
is reporting excellent results with the AirPort 1.2 Updater,
6/16.
- News:
PowerBook users find AirPort working in an airport, Mac
Observer, 6/16. Clever idea - internet access for airline
travelers!
- Opinion: Will Eazel be more faithful to the Macintosh vision
than OS X?, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 6/16. "...the thinking
behind Eazel may well be truer to the original Mac essence than OS
X itself."
- News:
Seven inventors added to Hall of Fame, Yahoo/AP, 6/15. Steve
Wozniak honored for the Apple II. Also, great comments at Slashdot
- everyone loves Woz.
- Opinion: Newton Lives!,
Mathew Honan, Macworld. "Newton users have not gone gently into
that good night."
- MacInSchool: Macs Only!
has more reports of threats to Macintosh presence in Wake Co, NC,
and El Paso, TX.
- USB: Dr. Bott 4
Port USB gHub, Dr. Bott LLC. Cool looking hub comes in silver
or graphite.
- Advice: How
to tame the true killer application, Straits Times, 6/15. Email
is the killer application of the Intenet. Advice on dealing with
and avoiding email overload.
- Opinion: Feature
wish 2000. An end to file manglement, Won, Mac Junkie, 6/15.
Why not fix the current Finder before inventing a whole new
one?
- Advice: Things
I learned to do the hard way (I had to ask my daughter), Nancy
Gravley, Computing with Bifocals, Mac Observer, 6/14. Deleting
locked files, transparent GIFs, weird line spacing, and family
newsletters.
- MacInSchool: Update on
Montgomery County, MD, Mac situation, Macs Only!, 6/14. Also
looks like Newport News, VA, may be going Wintel.
- Software: New
WannaBe text Web browser alpha version released, Charles W.
Moore, 6/14. The fast choice for graphic-free surfing.
- Opinion: Adobe
vs. MacNN: Let the backlash begin, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie,
6/14.
- Opinion: Processor upgrades for G3 series PowerBooks could be
available soon, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 6/14. PowerLogix's
iForce technology should work equally well in a PowerBook.
- Opinion: How young is too
young to Mac?, R. P. Phillips, Family-Mac.com, 6/12. "They're
old enough for their own new Apple computer the day they can buy
one with their own money!"
- Opinion: Searching
for the true Macintosh spirit, Rodney O. Lain, Spirit of
Mencken, Applelust.com, 6/12.
- News: Apple,
Real announce QuickTime deal, MacWeek, 6/12. RealServer8 now
able to deliver streaming content to QuickTime users.
- Software: USB Printer
Sharing, Apple, 6/9. Allows sharing USB printer via TCP/IP.
Requires OS 9.0 or later. Only USB Macs officially supported.
(MacFixIt reports success
with a Macally card.)
- Software: Z-Write, the hot
new non-linear word processor, add hypertext links, faster HTML
export, more in version 1.1.
- Advice: How to
be a rumor skeptic, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie, 6/12. "Sometimes
this info is more than enough to convince you that little Billy is
having fun with Hotmail accounts in the computer lab."
- Hands on: Macs Only!
looks at NetBarrier, a security program that protects your Mac from
unwanted outside internet access.
- Hardware: Flat
panels: The next generation, Macworld. Macworld looks at six
flat panel displays that work with Macs.
- Ezines: MacOS
Monthly released (formerly Apple Wizards)
- Analysis: Berners-Lee
slams Net advertising, The Register, 6/11. "I find the practice
of publishing ads that are indistinguishable from content
unacceptable."
- OS: Moving to OS
X, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 6/11. "Mac OS X will change the Mac
experience in ways that go beyond the interface."
- Opinion: Intel's
Mac cover-up, Matthew Rothenberg, ZDNet, 6/10. "We like to
maintain the facilities for students . . . [but we were] asked in a
way that we couldn't say no."
- Opinion: We
need another revolution: defense of the Mac, freedom, Rodney O.
Lain, iBrotha, MacAddict, 6/9. "I don't know what it is, but
something about OS X pains me."
- Tech: PowerLogix iForce
details, MacNN, 6/9. How they made an iMac upgrade without
using Apple ROMs. Clever.
- Opinion: Real
estate breakers, David Pogue, Macworld. "...Apple's software
designers now threaten to undo all of their predecessors' good
work."
- Opinion: The Mac OS in a
world with two Microsofts, Peter Lalor, Infoasis. Separating
Windows from Microsoft applications could give Apple an open door
for OS X on Intel.
- Opinion: Apple
mistaken in axing local service providers, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 6/9. Apple cuts 6% of service providers, now requires
users to ship PowerBooks to Apple for repair.
- Deal: Blue G3/350 with Zip,
256 MB RAM, floppy, and modem, US$1,289. See Deal Mac for
details. Offer ends June 12. (If anyone would like to buy me a
birthday present....)
- Opinion: Abandonware,
Teresa Knezek, Mivox. Software companies should release long
discontinued versions as unsupported freeware.
News: Apple
sees UK sales soar, Macworld UK, 6/9. "Apple's share of the
overall UK PC market in the first quarter of this year saw an
amazing 46 per cent growth...." LEM spin: great news, but it's
still just 3.5% of the total market.- Web: Macintosh
Hyperlink Archive, a new page listing Mac-related sites.
- Web: MacTechUK
gets major update, Mac Observer, 6/9. Lots of information will
be of interest to Mac users around the world.
- Opinion: Megahertz
or mega-hurts?, Jeff Lewis, MacOpinion, 6/9. Computing power
does not equate with clock speed.
- Opinion:
Flat screen iMacs, iWork therefore iMac, Dan Willis, Daily
iMac, 6/9. "...unless Apple has made a major breakthrough in the
flat screen arena, the screens are still prohibitively
expensive."
- Interesting Idea Dept.: Island provides
haven for sensitive data, Go2Mac.com, 6/8. Principlaity of
Sealand creating data haven for "sensitive data."
- Opinion: Don't buy your
next Mac just yet, Rich Barron, Mac-Upgrade.com. With Macworld
Expo just six weeks off, wait until the new product announcements
if you can.
- News: Canadian
company copies G3/G4 casing, Mac OS Planet. If Apple has a
patent on the "drawbridge" case design, Nikao could be in
trouble.
- News: Powerlogix iMac G4
upgrades - up to 500 MHz, Accelerate Your Mac!, 6/8. Just for
the pre-slot-loading iMacs. Prices range from $299 to $499.
- News: MacCPU
ceases operations, MacNN, 6/8. We're sorry to see them go, but
understand their reasoning.
- News:
Intel reps for Apple kiosks to be covered at Harvard, Mac
Observer, 6/8. "It seems ridiculous that at an academic conference,
Intel would be so against Apple computers being displayed."
- Low End: Macintosh
Color Classic enhancement page, Jamal Hannah.
- Opinion: Is Aqua all wet?, Joe Carson, MacOS Daily, 6/8. A
balanced look at the current state of pre-beta interface.
- Advice: More
support resources, Paul Shields Business Mac. Web sites, email
lists, books, and other helpful resources for those who support
Macs.
- Benchmarks: 400 MHz G4 ZIF
upgrade shoot out, Insanely Great Mac, 6/8. Features, not
performance, distinguish these four upgrades.
- Advice: Install hard drive
repair probrams before trouble comes, Gene Steinberg,
Mac NIght Owl. Having Norton, TechTools, or Disk Warrior in place
makes recovery more likely.
- Hardware:
ADS ships FireWire card priced under US$60, FireWire World,
6/7.
- News: Harvard
FAS shuts down iMacs to appease Intel, The Crimson Online, 6/5.
Students denied use of iMac kiosks during conference "as a courtesy
to Intel."
- OS:
Where "1+1=3," Object Farm. A history of Mac OS X by way of
NeXT.
- Opinion: iTools:
A great tool for beginners, Nancy Gravley, Computing With
Bifocals, Mac Observer, 6/7.
- Opinion: What a difference a
decade makes, Gene Steinberg, Mac Reality Check, Arizona
Central, 6/6. Ten years ago we drooled over the $10,000 "wicked
fast" 40 MHz Mac IIfx.
- Opinion: Adventures
in programming, Marc Zeedar, MacOpinion, 6/7. The author of
Z-write explains his unique word processor.
- Opinion: Why
my next Mac might be a PowerBook, Won, Mac Junkie, 6/7. "Work
is where the lap is."
- Analysis: Financial
comparison, Family-Mac. Macs cost more to buy, less to keep
running.
- News: Hitachi,
Toshiba, Panasonic unveil new DVD-RAM drives, MacCentral, 6/7.
New drives support 4.7 GB per side on a bare disk. No price
yet.
- Advice: Overcoming PowerBook hard drive, expandability
limitations, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, MacOS Daily, 6/7. IBM
makes a drive thats almost 30% faster.
- Web: MacSedition has some
interesting thoughts on rumor sites, Apple stock.
- News: Apple to
deliver the best Java, MacWeek, 6/6. Java 2, part of OS X, will
make the Mac "the best delivery vehicle for Java on the
planet."
- Hands on: Free
Internet access from istUp.com for Macs, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie,
6/6.
- OS: Home Page,
other apps built into Mac OS X, Why Mac?, 6/5. "Not Home Page
as we know it...."
- News:
IBM introduces new PowerPC chips, CBS MarketWatch, 6/6. New G3+
(750CX, 750CXe) reaches 700 MHz. (More details in our PowerPC processor report.)
- News: IDS confirms
Apple #1 in US, worldwide education markets, Apple, 6/6.
- Analysis: Diversity, on the farm and in the office, Thomas
Wetzel, MacOS Daily, 6/6. "Trusting one computer platform to do all
the work of the organization is a dangerous game."
- Opinion: Platform doesn't matter, Paul Rinkes, MacOS Daily,
6/6. "I went out and made the best purchase I've ever made for my
Mac, aside from ACTION GoMac: Virtual PC 3.0."
- Advice:
Adjusting an application's memory partition, About.com, 6/6. OS
X will eliminate the need for this, but until then, it's something
you should know.
- Advice: Best "low end" PowerBook for sub-workhorse use, Charles
W. Moore, Road Warrior, 6/1. What's the good choice for writing,
email, and light surfing?
- Analysis: Does Apple
need a six-slot Mac?, David Read, MacWeek, 6/5. Apple, why not
find out by offering a "tall" G4 with extra PCI slots?
- Opinion: Editor
overload, R.P. Phillips, Family-Mac, 6/5. As the edtior,
webmaster, and publisher of Low End Mac, I sympathize with R.P.'s
plight. Running a site can be a lot of work - but it's also very
rewarding.
- News:
iMac sales "definitely down," Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer,
6/5. Sears and CompUSA employees verify trend. LEM spin: Apple
needs to release a faster iMac.
- Opinion: Apple's
clock speed headaches, MacCentral, 6/5. "The whole issue of
clock speed is a huge marketing headache for Apple."
- SETI: Team
Mac Observer welcomes new company member, Mac Observer,
6/5.
- Opinion:
Take a break: For the love of cute, Richard A. Good, Daily
iMac, 6/5. "Why did I buy an iMac in particular? Because my
Lil'Blue buddy is just so cute."
- Advice: Think
Napster is cool? Find & share files with Gnutella &
FURI, William Wong, Monday's Mac Gadget, Mac Observer. If for
nothing else, read this to understand the difference between
Napster and Gnutella.
- Opinion: Sometimes
they get it right, Marko Cunningham, HolyMac, 6/5. Agreed:
sometimes even Microsoft gets a product right.
- Opinion: An
iMac surprise at Macworld?, John Martellaro, Utopia Planitia,
MacOpinion, 6/5.
- Web: Crisp
new look at MyAppleMenu.
- Opinion: It's
the consumers, stupid, Pete Ottman, osOpinion. "...not updating
the iMac's speed when it obviously could smacks of the
long-speculated fear that Apple doesn't want a consumer line
running faster than its professional line. That's just plain
stupid."
- Advice: Four habits
of effective surfers, John Martellaro, Warp Core, Applelinks,
6/4. Just because you have 24x7 access doesn't mean you have to
check for email around the clock.
- Opinion: Web different, David Schultz, MacOS Daily, 6/3. "We
are about ideas; age-old ideas stated in a new context and in a new
way."
- Advice: Effective
word processing, Deborah Shadovitz, Mac Efficiency 101,
MacCentral, 6/2. "Go ahead, be creative. Your words are not
engraved in stone."
- History: This day
in Mac history: June 2, 1999, Mac Junkie. Apple stock closes
above 46!
Rumor:
Canada Luring Microsoft?, CBS MarketWatch, 6/2. "Canada is
encouraging Microsoft Corp. to move its operations to British
Columbia, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported on
Friday...."- Low End: 68k Macs,
MacToolbox. Concise overviews of the compact Macs, Mac IIs, and
early PowerBooks.
- Opinion:
Consumer Mac focus resulting in juvenile following?, Wes
George, Raging Bull, 6/1. "What we are witnessing is nothing
less than a paradigm shift from a static linear medium of
communication (the written word) to a liquid nonlinear multimedia
which has yet to be fully invented, much less clearly defined and
implemented."
- Opinion: ThunderBird
running OS X, Accelerate Your Mac!, 6/1. Flame bait: "I'd love
to see Apple offer as an addition to the current PowerPC
line, an OS X based system running on an Athlon or ThunderBird CPU
and PC 6 PCI slot motherboard."
- AAPL:
AAPL rallies on lower earnings forecast, Wes George, Apple
Stock Watch, Mac Observer, 6/1. Go figure!
- Analysis: Apple sales jump in April;
growth below average, MacNN, 6/1. "....more than half of all
personal computers sold in April were sold with 17-inch monitors."
And none of them were iMacs.
- Web:
The top five search engines, Cnet. They list six and call
Google their favorite.
- Advice: Follow-up to
AirPort/Spring follies, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 6/1. "...be
very careful not to accidentally reconfigure the base
station to use your 'on the road' settings."
- Virus: You
are not immune! A cautionary tale of a Mac virus, Gene
Steinberg, MacSpeedZone.
- Consumer: Macally iKey
recall, MacInTouch. Macally says, "We are currently upgrading
our keyboards with replacements to all end users."
- Opinion:
Mr. Jobs, you saved Apple...and we saved the Mac users, Rodney
O. Lain, Mac Observer, 6/1.
- Web: Family-Mac.com
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