The Low End Mac Link Archive, February 2001
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that these links are still active.
- Oops: Mac OS
X will not include DVD player, Go2Mac.com, 2/28. "This is
particularly troublesome considering that the Apple DVD Player for
OS 9 will not run in the classic environment."
- SETI@Home: Lengthy
SETI@Home server outage continues, Go2Mac.com, 2/28. Contractor
may have cut cables between main Berkeley campus and building with
SETI servers.
- News:
Seattle earthquake interrupts Bill Gates, Yahoo/Reuters, 2/28.
Shake measure 7.0 on richter scale.
- Opinion: What does it mean
to "think different"?, Stanislav Kelman, osOpinion, 2/28.
"Macintoshes stand out because the 'experience' of using one is
different from that with any other personal computer...."
- Advice: Backing
up computer information, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac Observer,
2/28. "...I was so enamored with the ease of use and the
dependability that I never once considered backing up information
saved to my hard drive."
- Opinion:
What do negative reactions to the new iMac say about Mac
users?, David Schultz, Applelust, 2/28. "...we are as diverse
and multicolored as the new iMacs themselves."
- Web: Lots of new
material at System 6 Heaven, 2/28.
- Opinion: Apple
removed DVD from the iMac for a reason, Tim Mityok, Mac
Observer, 2/28. An interesting argument, although we disagree.
- Opinion:
Making ad banners suck less, Kurt Gray, Koro5hin, 2/27.
"...suppose you could click a link right next to the banner 'Never
show me this ad again....'"
- Opinion:
Flower sour, Joel Davie, iMaculate Conception, Applelust, 2/27.
"A random splatter of Dalmatian spots would look pretty cool -
albeit like a blue cow, and that's some other computer
manufacturer."
- News: Disc Burner
1.0.1 available, Apple, 2/27. Disc Burner allows drag-and-drop
burning of CD-R, CD-RW with many third-party drives. May cause
problems with third-party burning software, just like iTunes.
- Hands on: More on the
Madsonline Titanium adapter, Go2Mac.com, 2/27. Prototype is so
much smaller than Apple's AC adpater....
- News: IBM
announces PowerPC 750CXe again, Mac Observer, 2/27. "The
PowerPC 750CXe is currently powering the high end 500 and 600 MHz
iMac models."
- Opinion: The Zip
disk is dead. Long live the Zip disk, Carlos Camacho, Mac
Observer, 2/27. The rise and fall of the Zip disk. A thoughtful
read.
- Opinion:
New standards for online advertising, MacSlash, 2/27. Read the
comments, share your 2¢.
- Opinion:
Almost a Pismo owner, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 2/27. Moore came "that close" to owning a 500 MHz
Pismo.
- Opinion: Apple's new
laptop is a peach, BusinessWeek. "Until now, if you wanted a
very thin notebook, you had to make an important
sacrifice...."
- Preview: Toast Titanium
5.0, Macworld UK, 2/01. New version burns like a champ in the
background.
- Opinion: Education
sales & profits down? Why not just raise prices?, Steve
Wood, View From the Classroom, 2/27. A more costly entry-level iMac
won't help get iMacs into schools.
- Opinion: Revelations
from Tokyo, Wes George, MacWeek, 2/26. Apple's problems: 2.5%
market share, the MHz myth, marketing, and product life
cycles.
- Huh? Get your
flower power and blue dalmatian poodles here, Michel Munger,
Mac Observer, 2/26.
- iMac: iForce G4
upgrades, PowerLogix [MacNN]. Boosts Rev. A-D iMacs to 400,
450 MHz.
- Web: Guidelines for "new
interactive marketing units" (read: banner ads), IAB, 2/26. If
you thought today's banner ads were big, think again.
- Opinion: Get
your spray paint iMac analysis here, Michael Munger, On the
Flip Side, Mac Observer, 2/26. Key truth: Too many people stay away
from the platform because of the price; even folks who believe that
it is superior!
- Tech: PowerPC
750 vs. 750Cx: Differences explained, David K. Every, MacNN,
2/26. "...by reducing the pin count and eliminating the need for
the external cache, [IBM] drove the overall cost of the processor
down."
- Opinion: Disappearing
iMac DVD puzzles Japanese Mac fans, ZDNet, 2/25. "...most
attendees polled by ZDNet News said DVD is still more useful to
them."
- Low End? Ze Cube,
Bernard Bélanger. Classic II repackaged in 10" plexiglass cube
- complete with slot-loading floppy drive!
- Benchmarks: Is
the PCI Radeon a lot slower than the AGP version?, Bare Feats,
2/23.
- Opinion: Some
thoughts on the new iMac colors from people who saw them, Mac
Observer, 2/23. "When viewed up close the new iMac colors are not
as loud or as intrusive as they seem in photographs."
- Opinion: iMacs in
the flesh, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 2/23. "...the colors appear
much more subtle and muted when you see them live."
- Opinion:
Losing faith in PayPal, Salon, 2/23. Leading online payment
company threatened by fraud and fraud prevention.
- Tech: iMac's
new Rage 128 Ultra graphics chip revealed, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 2/23. Except for supporting 16 MB of memory, Ultra
functionally equivalent to older Pro video.
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 2/23.
- Opinion: Apple,
what is your product strategy?, Paul Shields, Business Mac,
2/23. "...the new machines seem inconsistent with both Apple's
marketing strategy and market experience over the last 6
months."
- Hands On: iMac 2001,
international edition, Macworld UK, 2/01. Report confirms
international version of 500 MHz iMac differs from North American
one.
- Opinion: What were they
thinking?, Charles W. Moore, Moores' Views, Applelinks, 2/23.
"...someone once said that 'nobody ever went broke betting on the
bad taste of the American public.'"
- Opinion:
I love the new iMac colors: 180 degrees in 13 hours, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 2/22. The new colors are aimed at new
markets, not traditional Mac users.
- News: 500 MHz
iMac specs vary internationally, MacNN, 2/22. Outside North
America, 500 MHz iMac has PPC 750 CPU, 512K 200 MHz backside cache,
Rage 128 Pro, 8 MB video RAM.
- Hands On: A
night at the Opera, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 2/22. Preview
release of Opera promises "one honey of a browser."
- Oops: iTunes 1.1:
Third-party disc burning software stops working, Apple TIL. Now
we need third-party support that works with Toast.
- Opinion: Rodney
interviews creator of Netscape 6, "Flower Power" colors & the
mood-ring iMac, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, Mac Observer, 2/22.
Mac Daddy did it!
- News:
Apple drops G4 Cube prices, Mac Junkie, 2/22. 450 MHz Cube now
US$1,299.
- Opinion:
The new iMacs: Does Apple think it has to shock us top sell
us?, David Schultz, Applelust, 2/22. "Don't give me a flower,
give me power."
- News: Apple
introduces Cube with CD-RW, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
2/22.
- Hands On:
Titanium PowerBooks: Marvelous design, David Rosen, Canada
Computes, 2/21. "...the first thing that hits you about the machine
is its amazing industrial design. Simply put, the PowerBook is
beautiful."
- Opinion: About those
colors..., Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 2/21. "So what was the
thinking behind Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian?"
- Opinion:
Honey, did you puke on the iMac?, David Egger, Mac Monkey,
2/21. "Just when Apple really started to get the color thing right,
they go and screw it up."
- Opinion: The
scourge of Arial, Mark Simonson Studio, 2/01. The history of a
ubiquitous, parasitic, third-rate typeface.
- Software: iTunes
1.1, Apple Computer. Now supports over 25 third-party
drives.
- Opinion:
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts,
Applelust, 2/21. Have you personalized your PowerBook -
lately?
- News: MadsonLine
unveils PB G4 accessories, MacCentral, 2/21. Smaller AC
adaptor, auto/air travel adaptor, and protective sleeve for
G4.
- News: Macworld Tokyo "video
on demand" from Apple, sometime this evening.
- Opinion: A
Mac success story, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac Observer, 2/21.
"...she could still remember that feeling of amazement and sense of
accomplishment when she turned it on and it worked right off the
bat."
- Oops: Apple
CD-RW drives can't write to high-speed discs, MacCentral, 2/21.
CD-RW in Power Mac G4 rated at 4x for CD-RW, not compatible with
discs rated for faster burns.
- Opinion:
TiBook troubles and Pismo pondering, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, 2/21.
- Advice: 15 step
program to accelerate your Mac, MacInstruct, 2/20.
- Opinion: Why OS X will
work, Chuck Cribbs, osOpinion. "Apple has it right: The
interface is where it has to stand out."
- Review: Virtual
PC 4, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 2/19.
- Review: PowerBook G4, Ben
Long, MacInTouch, 2/19. Best comprehensive overview of the TiBook
we've seen.
- Benchmarks: 10
GB vs. 20 GB IBM drives in TiBook, Accelerate Your Mac!, 2/19.
Conclusion: the 20 GB drive rocks.
- News: Apple
ships SuperDrive equipped Power Mac G4, MacCentral, 2/19.
- Web: Tenacity
TrueType font, Web Page Design for Designer [Mac
Observer]. Bit mapped font designed especially for creating Web
graphics.
- Opinion: You
can live without Mac OS X, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac
Observer, 2/19.
- Benchmarks: Granite Digital's Bridge
Board breaks 30MB/sec barrier for single FireWire drives!, Bare
Feats, 2/19.
- Web:
DealMac gets five stars, iReview. It couldn't happen to a
better site.
- Opinion: Barefoot
Titanium Blues, John H. Farr, Grack!, Applelinks, 2/19. The
happiest TiBook uers are barefoot.
- Advice: REALbasic
University, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 2/19. REALbasic is the
heir to Hypercard.
- Virus: FireWire
Depot warns of virus on product CD, MacCentral, 2/17. Old virus
easily cleaned up with Disinfectant.
- Archive:
Old beige gets a boost with brain upgrade, Jim Heid, LA Times,
12/21/00. Thanks to Dough Hinshberger for sending this link -
article also mentions LEM way at the end.
- News: iTunes
revision "on the way," Macworld UK, 2/16. This explains my
problems burning with Toast - the kids put iTunes on the computer,
and the drivers conflict. iTunes 1.1 will address this.
- Deal: Black XLR8 three-button USB
mouse, $12.95, DealMac, 2/16. Color should complement Lombard,
Pismo nicely.
- Opinion: Survivor:
A tale from the desktop, Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post, 2/16.
Five year old Power Computing
clone "still trucking along." (We understand; we just retired our
1996 SuperMac S900.)
- Opinion: On the Internet in
30 seconds or less, Stanislav Kelman, osOpinion, 2/16. "...I
was really amazed at how little time it took to get an EarthLink
connection up and running [on an iMac]."
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 2/16.
- History: Remembering
1984 with Apple ads, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 2/16.
- Opinion: The
deadly task of backing up, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 2/15. "If
there was a fire and your computer was lost, would you be more
upset about the missing hardware or the missing data?"
- Rights: Net
filters don't work, Karen Thomas, USA Today, 2/15. "Despite
years of tweaking, software programs that claim to "filter" the
Internet to protect kids from porn and other objectionable material
still don't do a very good job...."
- Web: The
Northern Spy, Rick Sutcliffe.
- Opinion:
Critical acclaim, LA Times, 2/15. "Life is too short to use
anything but a Mac." Roger Ebert
- Opinion: Missing
pieces: A list of deficiencies in each of Apple's latest
products, Rob Art Morgan, Bare Feats, 2/12. Each piece of
hardware has at least one flaw.
- Dark Side: Windows XP:
They even stole the duck, Wired, 2/15. They flipped it left for
right, but it's definitely the same image used in Mac OS X
(
more).
- Software: Conflict
Catcher adds OS 9.1, OS X Beta support, Mac Observer, 2/15.
This utility can be a lifesaver.
- Web: Web Site 101,
resources for Webmasters.
- Dark Side: Microsoft to steal
Linux coders?, Peter Revill, osOpinison, 2/15. "Can't buy out
the company that competes with your application? Why not buy out
its developers?"
- MacInSchool: Help
sought in preventing "backward migration," Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 2/14. John F. Kennedy High in Sacramento, CA, forcing
teacher to switch from Macs to Windows.
- AAPL: Apple
dips to 18-1/2, recovers in afternoon trading to 19-1/2, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 2/14.
- Opinion:
iSay: Enough with iTitles - they are getting iSickening, David
Schultz, Applelust, 2/14. "It was iCute, it was iFun, and it was
iDistinctive."
- Humor: Source
reveals origin of new Windows XP moniker, Right On Mac!, 2/14.
"Thus the 'XP' that appears after the word 'Windows' is really an
emoticon...."
- Opinion: Beyond the
speed bump, Wes George, MacWeek, 2/14. Personal computers have
a long, bright future.
- New: Compact AC
adapters for TiBook coming, Go2Mac.com, 2/14. Good, because a
huge flying saucer power supply is an insult to the compact
PowerBook G4 and its user.
- Advice: Nancy's
guide to Mac help sites, part 2, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac
Observer, 2/14.
- Opinion: Still grinning
after four years in the Web biz, Mike Banks Valentine,
osOpinion, 2/14. "I love this stuff and can't get enough of
it!"
- Review:
EasiExpansion T35, MacNN, 2/13. Need more slots or drive bays
for your PCI Mac? This $399 expansion chassis provides 'em.
- Opinion:
CoolPads reviewed, repair alternatives, and desktop
replacements, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, 2/13.
- Hardware: Maxtor drives
use new head technology, MacWeek, 2/13. Reduced part count and
head retraction make for more reliable, cost effective drives.
- Virus: Macs
"safe" from Kournikova server volley, Macworld UK, 2/13. "A
virus disguising itself as an image of sexy Russian tennis star
Anna Kournikova is clogging the email systems of companies across
the globe."
- Opinion:
Look, ma - no wires: Apple's AirPort lets you do a lot, Hugh
Peebles, Union Tribune, 2/13.
- Opinion: Will
PowerBook G4 owners suffer the curse of early adoption?, Rodney
O. Lain, Mac Observer, 2/13. "It appears that Apple sacrificed some
sort of structural integrity in order to make that one-inch-thick
casing."
- News: DVD drive now BTO
option on Power Mac G4, Macs Only!, 2/13. Want DVD-ROM instead
of CD-RW? Apple offers it as a build to order option at no extra
cost.
- OS X: MacSoldiers
announces OS X support list, Applelinks, 2/12.
- Accessories: Dr Bott ships updated
iBookBags, Dr Bott, 2/12. Our choice in iBook bags - now
available in indigo, lime, and graphite.
- Opinion: The
net effect of Internet pricing, Mac Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 2/12.
"Mail order's been around for decades, but it never truly
threatened physical stores - and buying on the Internet isn't much
different than traditional mail order."
- Opinion:
Gaze thee upon the power that titanium has on the infidel,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 2/12. "The PowerBook G4 may do more to
convert PC users to the Mac Way than the iMac and Mac OS X
combined."
- Opinion: Road
warrior, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Planet, 2/12. "Don't even
think about buying a pedestrian PC portable until you've kicked the
tires on this metallic Mac."
- Review: Connectix
DoubleTalk, Bill Fox, Macs Only!, 2/12. New $99 utility lets
Macs work with Windows servers on a network.
- Web: The 6400
Zone has moved to a new server and URL.
- Humor: Zap the PRAM,
Macboy.com. Call 1-800-SOS-APPL.
- Software: Adobe
unveils Photoshop Elements, MacWeek, 2/11. Described as
"Photoshop [6] cut off at the knees," $99 program may be all the
Photoshop a lot of us need.
- TiBook: PB G4
cautions/observations, Go2Mac.com, 2/10. LEM has seen the
static problem mentioned here - and our office isn't carpeted.
- Web: A day in the
life of a webmaster, Cameron Wilmot, TweakTown, 2/9. As a
webmaster, this story sounds suspiciously like my daily grind.
;-)
- Consumer: TiBook
RAM, 256 MB under US$90; PC133 RAM, 256 MB under
US$80, ramseeker, 2/9.
- Opinion: MSNBC
says AOL should buy Apple, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 2/8.
"The only thing worse than [Apple owned by Microsoft] would have to
be a world where Apple is owned by AOL."
- SETI@home: Version
3.0.3 of SETI@home client now mandatory, Mac Observer, 2/8.
Command line version available for Mac OS X.
- Oops: DVD
player compatibility, Apple. Some DVD players won't work with
DVDs mastered on Apple's new SuperDrive. Here's the list of players
Apple has tested.
- Consumer: Need a
faster Mac: Upgrade vs. new, Paul Shields, Business Mac. How to
compare the cost of upgrading vs. replacing your old Mac.
- Opinion: Revisiting Amazon's
business plan, Phil Trent, osOpinion, 2/8. Is Amazon a discount
store or a convenience store?
- Analysis: Which graphics
card is right?, Macworld. Nvidia GeForce 2MX, ATI Rage 128 Pro,
and ATI Radeon AGP compared.
- News: Formac
begins shipping FireWire CD-RWs, MacNN, 2/7. The US$299
12x/10x/32x bus powered drive begins shipping on Monday.
- News: Sony
shows off LCD's successor, TechWeb, 2/7 [Macs Only!]. Organic
electroluminescent (OEL) display thinner, lighter, less costly than
LCDs.
- Review: CopyAgent and
TurboKeys, Gary Coyne, Applelinks, 2/7. LEM has been using this
combo since Macworld New York. Recommended.
- Advice: Return
receipt email, Deborah Shadvitz, Mac Efficiency 101,
MacCentral, 2/7. "Return-Receipt is not a standard yet, but it is
possible for email applications to request a return receipt
message."
- Opinion: Apple
and the lap(top) of luxury, Peter H. Lewis, Fortune. "...the
new PowerBook G4 Titanium is the most impressive notebook computer
ever."
- Opinion: The
consumer revolution is stalled, it's time for a 17" iMac, Paul
Shields, Business Mac, 2/7. "The primary reason the iMac failed to
penetrate the business market was its inclusion of a 15-in.
monitor."
- Advice: Nancy's
guide to Mac help Web sites, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac
Observer, 2/7. Some very helpful online resources.
- Opinion:
Why the new PowerBook is not sexy, Stefano Scalia, Mac Mind,
2/6. "How can a solid metal object, with no curves or soft features
be sexy?"
- Opinion: The
PBTi and (gasp!) Windows?, Go2Mac.com, 2/6. How well does the
TiBook emulate Windows?
- History: Remembering
1977 with the Apple I, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Obserer, 2/7. It all
started with a $666.66 computer-on-a-card.
- AAPL: Tech
stocks rally, Apple gains more than 4%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 2/6.
- Virus: Friends
done email friends HTML, Julia Scheeres, Wired, 2/6. Javascript
in email can copy your email to unintended destinations.
- Analysis:
TiBook vs. Cube as portable desktop replacement, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, 2/6.
- Low End: Putting
a CD-ROM inside an SE/30, Stuart Bell.
- Advice: Wiring
your house, LaserWriter problems, and burning audio CDs, Ask
Dave, Mac Observer, 2/6.
- Opinion: The basics
of BASIC, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 2/6. "Installing and
using REALbasic was a fun walk down memory lane...."
- Analysis:
Chipmakers face power struggles, Henry Norr, SF Gate, 2/5. The
Pentium 4 draws 55 watts of power.
- Review: Virtual PC 4.0: A great upgrade to a good product, John Egan,
The iMac.com, 2/5. "Connectix claims that version 4 is twice as
fast [as version 3], and I'd have to agree."
Consumer:
Readers weigh in on UPS rip-offs, Charles W. Moore, Moore's
Machine, Mac Junkie, 2/5.- News: FireWire SuperDrive
available for order, Accelerate Your Mac, 2/5. At least one
dealer taking orders for Pioneer's DVD-R drive.
- Tech: Mac OS
X, Gaggan. "The Mach microkernel permits very fine grained
control because of its basic nature."
- Huh? Consumers
combat popup with software, Stefanie Olsen, Cnet, 2/5. This
from the site with the biggest non-popup ads on the Web? (See
LEM boycotts Cnet links.)
- News: ATI unveils
Mobility Radeon, MacWeek, 2/5. Too bad they didn't have this
ready in time for the TiBook.
- Advice: Battery
conservation tips, PowerBook Central. Good tips for PowerBook
users.
- Opinion: The
TiBook Chronicles, Charles W. Moore, 2/5. Note especially the
LapDog case designed for the TiBook.
- News: Kmart's
bluelight.com dumps Mac support, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
2/5. "...a big raspberry to Kmart. Perhaps Mac users should find
another discount department store."
- Opinion: Zoom
rage, Marc Zeedar, MacOpinion, 2/5. Driven batty by small
fixed-size type on some sites, the author suggests a browser that
zooms.
- Opinion: Will
Apple launch an entirely new product line?, Michel Munger, On
the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 2/5. Speculation on a
subnotebook.
- News: Research
group reports AirPort network can be hacked, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 2/5.
- Deal: Refurbished iMac DV+, $899;
iMac 350, $649; iBook 366, $1199, see DealMac for details. 450
MHz, DVD, and a 20 GB hard drive.
- Deal: USB Zip 100, $58.99, MacMall. New in box
- not a refurb.
- Humor: Zap the PRAM,
Macboy.com, 2/5.
- Hands on: PowerBook G4
Titanium, Macs Only, 2/5. "The bottom line? The Ti is
outstanding."
- Advocacy: Petition
launched for external SuperDrive, Mac Observer, 2/5.
- Analysis:
Counting Web traffic, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 2/4.
"One firm only counts PC users, ignoring those on Macs."
- Benchmarks: Quake III on
PowerBook G4, Go2Mac.com, 2/3.
- Analysis:
PowerBook G4/PC laptop price comparison, David Egger,
MacMonkey, 2/3. "...the PC world just doesn't have anything like
the PowerBook G4."
- Benchmarks: New
G4/533 vs. old G4/500, Bare Feats, 2/2. Dual G4/500, single
G4/500, G4/533, G4/466, Pentium III 1 GHz, and Pentium 4 1.4 GHz go
head to head.
- News: School to
feature iBooks in wireless laptop conference, Mac Observer,
2/2.
- News: First
buyers receive PowerBooks; dealers frustrated, Brad Gibson,
MacCentral, 2/2.
- Opinion: Dan
Knight's TiBook impressions, Charles W. Moore, 2/2.
- Review: MacSense
XRouter Pro, Insanely Great Mac, 2/1. "The XRouter Pro ... is a
cable/DSL Internet router designed to connect multiple devices to
the Internet."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 2/2.
- Opinion: Are Macs
getting too cheap?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "There is
some question as to whether Apple hasn't pushed the bottom end of
the price envelope bit too far already with the lower end
iMacs."
- MacInSchool: Schools
go with iBooks, iMacs, Dennis Seller, MacCentral, 2/2.
"Treadwell High in Memphis, TN, recently wrote a requisition for a
15-unit wireless lab from Apple."
- Advice: RAM too
cheap not to buy, Mac-Upgrade.com. We have to agree -
we've seen 256 MB modules for under US$100 recently.
- News: Titanium
PowerBook ships (plus first looks), John H. Farr, Applelinks,
2/1. "...the best reading on how the PowerBook G4 feels and
works.... Dan Knight is having quite an enjoyable time transferring
files and learning to live with his new laptop, and we think you'll
enjoy the vicarious experience."
- Tech:
ASCII, HTML entities, ISO Latin, Unicode, and all that jazz,
Pierre Igot, Applelust. What ASCII is, why ISO Latin is an
improvement, more.
- Virus:
AOL users hit with password stealing virus, James Niccolai,
InfoWorld, 2/1 [Win98
Central]. Need we mention it uses Visual Basic, and thus
effects only Windows users?
- AAPL: We will
return to profits this quarter, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
2/1.
- Review: MadsonLine Micro-Adapter
PowerBook AC adapter, PowerBook Zone. Very compact alternative
to Apple's "yo-yo" power supply, but a bit costly.
- Deal: FireBook
2.5" FireWire enclosure sale, PowerBook Zone. Turn a 2.5" IDE
drive into an external FireWire drive for $115 plus shipping -
limited supply
- News: Ready or
not, Titanium PowerBook G4 ships (with pics), Mac Observer,
2/1.
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