The Low End Mac Link Archive, May 2002
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- Advice: Turn your LPs or
cassettes into CDs, Jonathan Seff, Macworld, 05.31. You can
even reduce or eliminate tip hiss and other unwanted noise.
- Customacs: iBook repainting for
fun & profit, Carl Norum. iceBooks painted red and
blue.
- Web: MacSlash
back as a dot-org, RandomMaccess, 05.31. Did Apple's aggressive
spam filtering prevent MacSlash from receiving their domain renewal
notice? (MacSlash may not be accessible in all areas until later
this weekend.)
- Dark Side: Military
research lab tosses Macs, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 05.30.
Researchers forced to use Dells, tech support spends most of its
time installing Windows patches. Your tax dollars hardly
working.
- Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 2000,
Digigraphica, 05.30. Compact, inexpensive 2 megapixel digicam
announced today.
- Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 4500,
Digigraphica, 05.30. Slightly smaller successor to Coolpix 995
created 4 megapixel images.
- Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 5700,
Digigraphica, 05.30. Nikon's first consumer digicam with SLR
styling creates 5 megapixel images, has impressive 8x optical
zoom.
- Web:
MacSlash domain stolen, Slashdot, 05.30. MacSlash is
registering macslash.net and trying to find out how their domain
was stolen yesterday by Vicente Peiro Crespo of
Valencia, Spain.
- Rights: Cries
in the wilderness, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion,
05.30. Now they want to make the iPod and other MP3 players
illegal....
- Digicams: Fujifilm FinePix F401
Zoom, Digigraphica, 05.30. A 3x zoom, improved low light
sensitivity, and 4 megapixel images - coming in August at
US$499.
- Web: MacRaffle is illegal,
Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 05.29. It's illegal, but suckers
continue to buy tickets.
- Tech:
Intel's Itanium 2 performance twice that of Itanium,
Yahoo/Reuters, 05.29. Of course, the 64-bit Itanic was a pretty huge flop to begin
with, and they will have to contend with the MHz Myth when trying
to market a 1 GHz CPU as powerful....
- Web revival
for old Mac interface, Leander Kahney, Wired, 05.29. Minimalist
record label uses System 6 look and feel for its Mac-designed website - and
it's fast.
- Benchmarks: PowerBook G4s compared,
Bare Feats, 05.28. See how new and old G4/667 compare, among
others.
- Opinion:
Useful translucency, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac
Opinion, 05.28. Translucency in OS X isn't very useful, reduces
performance, and decreases usability.
- Opinion:
Are the new iBooks a worthwhile upgrade?, Charles W. Moore,
Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 05.28. A better value than ever and a
real alternative to the TiBook.
- Advocacy: Why
Macintosh? Think TCO, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 05.28. Why
the Mac wins when looking at the total cost of ownership.
- Macinschool: Why Macintosh?,
Terri Schoone, Urbana School District. "The time and money spent on
repairs of our Macintosh is only a fraction of what is spent on the
PCs...."
- Tech: MHz or
GHz: What does MHz mean?, David K. Every, iGeek. What MHz is,
and why it isn't a direct indicator of computer performance.
- Wares: SmoothType
v2.3, Greg's Shareware. One of LEM's favorite 'wares, new version
adds subpixel smoothing for LCDs. Try it - we think you'll like
it.
- Opinion: Vnunet.com
says Macs just as virus vulterable as PCs. Yeah, right, Rodney
O. Lain, Mac Observer, 05.28. Potential may be there, but the real
world seems pretty safe.
- Benchmarks: Mac OS X
10.1.4, Macs Only!, 05.28. As fast as or faster then 10.1.3 in
almost every area.
- Web: Will
your domain be "porned out to pasture?," John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 05.27. "Due to the loyalty of the user base, expiring
Mac domains are particularly sought after...."
- Rights:
Ventura signs Minnesota Online Privacy and Anti-Spam Law, Vin
Crosbie, E-Media Tidbits, 05.26. Spam must begin subject with ADV,
include valid return address, have valid opt-out email info or
toll-free phone number. $10-25 fine per email.
- Tech: Bus
speed and frequency, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.24. To avoid
bottlenecks, bus speed needs to improve along with CPU speed.
- Opinion:
The Mac a business machine? Better believe it!, Gene Steinberg,
USA Today, 05.24. There's a lot more to the Mac than eye
candy.
- Opinion:
OS X: Some good usability, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence,
Mac Opinion, 05.24. "The ability to select multiple files in an
open file dialog is a huge improvement over the old Mac OS
standard."
- Analysis: New rules
for the new advertising economy, Chris Anderson, Wired, 05.24.
"The new equation for success in online advertising is simple:
Effective advertising must be intrusive."
- Macinschool: One
school's cost of going Wintel, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
05.24. School system has had "nothing but grief" since the switch
- viruses included.
Rights: Spammers threaten
UK Net user, Tim Richardson, The Register, 05.24. "A British
man has been threatened by a gang of spammers after reporting its
activity to his ISP."- News: Apple aims to
boost bandwidth with 1.5 GHz G4s, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 05.24. Sources "close to Motorola" say 1.5 GHz G4s could
be ready by July's Macworld Expo.
- Web: Universal
tries "pay per download" with 99¢ MP3 sale, Raena
Armitage, Mac Observer, 05.24. It's about time someone tried
this.
- Benchmarks: PowerBook G4/800 preliminary
results, Bare Feats, 05.23. I think you'll be impressed. More
results expected next week.
- Macinschool: iBooks for
Backwash Elementary, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom,
05.23. Support from adminstration helped teachers choose their own
platform.
- Macinschool: My
classroom "cast of characters," Steve Wood, View From the
Classroom, 05.23. A look at classroom machines and student
take-home units.
- Rights:
New violators of the DMCA? Reuters, Yahoo.com, CNN.com, dozens of
others, Grant Gross, NewsForge, 05.22. Reporting how a marker
can defeat protection on "copy-proof" CDs illegal under Digital
Millenium Copyright Act. What ever became of free speech?
- Oops: Mac.com
site pulled because Apple made it too popular?, RandomMaccess,
05.22. Apple says, "Download Flurry," then cuts off site for
"excessive bandwidth consumption."
- News: Nigerian email fraud
gang nabbed, Drew Cullen, The Register, 05.22. But will arrest
of six West Africans end their flood of spam?
- Opinion:
Where Apple doesn't always play nice, Charles Haddad, Business
Week, 05.22. "Has Apple's borrowing stymied innovation? I see no
sign of it."
- Advice: More
reasons to run a low-end PC, Roger M, Thinking From the Box,
Low End PC, 05.22. A lot of these reasons apply to low-end Macs,
too.
- News: Nearly
60% of Web surfers plan to quit AOL - poll, Lycos, 05.21. The
Microsoft of ISPs is losing up to 25% of users per year.
- Opinion:
PowerBook 1400 adventures, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 05.21. "So how do I like the 1400? I love it! It's a honey
of a little computer."
- Web: MacNews.com
launched, "a new Mac-dedicated website built to bring you
quality news content for the Macintosh Community."
- Analysis: Apple preps iBooks
for "Jaguar," Ben Wilson, osOpinion, 05.20. Faster CPU, bigger
L2 cache, faster graphics, and more video memory will all
help.
- Tech:
PowerPC 750FX, IBM. This appears to be the "brains" of the new
iBook.
- Opinion: One Mac
user's (successful) effort to get a Mac in his Windows run
company, Randy DeSerranno, Mac Opinion, 05.20. "I began
creating PowerPoint presentations on my Mac only to find that once
they were created, the PC laptop had a great deal of trouble
playing the video and audio."
- Opinion: Someone
finally got it!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.20. Analyst first
to recognize Apple's special place in the PC market.
- News: UBS
Warburg raises Apple 2002 estimates, Yahoo/Reuters, 05.20.
"...we see the platform becoming a premium PC capturing selective
PC demand. We reiterate our strong buy rating."
- Opinion: Potent
laptops shove desktops aside, Fred Langan, Christian Science
Monitor, 05.20. "These are laptops that never see a lap and might
never head out on the road."
- Humor: Why I
love pop-up ads, Madhu "MadMan" Menon's Weblog, 05.18. "If Web
sites want to shock their readers and intrude upon their user
experience, it should be their right to do so."
- Advice: How
to send an email, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion,
05.17. How to create functional, attractive email that anyone can
read.
- OS X:
Another thing wrong - usability, Philip Machanick, Mac Opinion,
05.17. "One of the key ideas in the old Mac interface was
consistency...."
- Review: 800 MHz
Titanium PowerBook G4, Rick LePage, Macworld, 05.17. 8x8x8x24x
mechanism expected to be announced "in about a week" for 400, 500
MHz TiBooks.
- Low-end: Combo drives
coming for Rev. A TiBooks, Mace Windu, PowerPage, 05.17.
- News: AOL to ditch IE on
Macs, The Register, 05.17. AOL for OS X to include
Netscape.
- Review: Yellow Dog
Linux for PPC 2.2, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 05.17. "Linux
will support a whole passel of older Macs that aren't officially
supported by OS X."
- Web: The
comments that just won't die, Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal,
05.16. "...it struck me how long it took an online publication to
follow up on a controversial topic that had appeared a week
before...."
- Macinschool: Apple
struggles to regain share of school market, Andrew Trotter,
Education Week, 05.15. Windows users still think their platform is
cheaper.
- First Look:
Mac Nvidia GeForce 4 Titanium, Accelerate Your Mac, 05.15. It's
fast.
- Virus: Hoax virus alert
could cripple Windows Java, John Leyden, The Register, 05.15.
Deleting specified file could disable Java.
- Advice: Basilisk II: Solving the
printer problem, David G. Bell, Low End PC, 05.15. While
Basilisk II emulates a Mac, it doesn't include drivers that work
with your PC's printer.
- Opinion: Is Quartz Extreme a
plot to make you buy a new Mac?, Mac Night Owl, 05.15. At Low
End Mac, we believe that's a driving force behind OS X.
- Opinion:
New iBooks in the works?, Charles W. Moore, 05.15. Of course -
but when? And how will they improve on today's iBooks?
- Opinion: MS
Passport: Enabling paranoids everywhere, Jeff Lewis, Mac
Skeptic, Mac Opinion, 05.15. "...the implementation leaves
something to be desired."
- Digicams: Minolta Dimage 7i,
Digigraphica. 5.2 megapixel 7x zoom digicam updated.
- Digicams: Olympus Camedia
C-720, Digigraphica. 3 megapixel digicam with an impressive 8x
zoom.
- Apple: mac.com homepage
bandwidth restrictions, MacInTouch Reader Report. Apple will
block pages receiving too many visitors, may even remove files
iTools users have posted.
- Deal: Apple
offers US$300 rebate on Power Mac G4s, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 05.13. Rebates up to $300 through July 7, 2002.
- Tech: IBM goes own way
with PowerPC, Ben Wilson, NewsFactor, 05.13. IBM has pushed the
G3 to 1 GHz and future chips could become CPUs of choice for
Apple, *nix hardware.
- Opinion: Why Windows is hard
and why Macs are shunned, Bob McCormick, MyMac.com, 05.13.
"Computers are supposed to be difficult and only a few of us
actually know how to make them work."
- Report: Top UK companies
waste millions on duff Web sites, Tim Richardson, The Register,
05.13. The British have no monopoly on "Web sites that don't work
and are difficult to use."
- Advice: Top ten guidelines
for homepage usability, Jakob Nielsen, useit.net, 05.12.
- Digicams: Fujifilm FinePix
2800, 2 megapixel SLR-type digicam with 6x zoom.
- Analysis: Jaguar: The return of
System 7, David K. Every, iGeek, 05.12. Everything old is new
again with OS X 10.2.
- Web: Stuart Bell's Power
Colour Classic site has moved to a new server, URL.
- Benchmarks: Radeon 8500: The fastest
shipping Mac graphics card?, Bare Feats, 05.11. GeForce 4 not
shipping yet. Does 8500 beat GeForce3? Sometimes.
- Opinion:
Jaguar: Getting ready to roar?, Pierre Igot, Applelust, 05.10.
"...performance is still a major issue - if not the major issue -
in Mac OS X in its current incarnation."
- Dark Side: Impressions from ACPe
2002, Kevin Stiles, SEUL [
/.]. "Needless to say the relationship between these schools
and Microsoft had been changed in a fundamental way."
- Opinion: Europeans, atheists,
socialists, and anti-Semites, Jason Walsh, ReformedNet, 05.10.
"For US journalists to label Europeans as racists and anti-Semites
is a total misrepresentation of Europe, its media, its politicians,
and its people."
- Digicams: Pentax Optio 230,
330, and
430, three
beautifully styled, compact digicams.
- Web: MacMinute turns
one. Congratulations!
- News: Reader Report:
Apple Mail Filtering, Macintouch. Apple's mac.com mail server
blacklisting legitimate email as spam.
- News: Apple "secretly"
filtering mac.com mail, Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac, 05.09.
Apple's filters apparently go beyond filtering just spam.
- Rights: Free
speech, fair use both take another blow from US courts, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.09.
- Opinion: OS 9:
Buried alive!, Jeremy Gefler, Right On Mac, 05.09. "...the
venerable Mac operating system has never been more alive on my
Mac."
- News: Macs' last
stand on Capitol Hill, Mark Baard, Wired, 05.09. "Macs are not
welcome on Capitol Hill." US government actively supports Microsoft
monopoly.
- Opinion: The best
Mac sites, Stephen Beals, ComputorEdge. He missed LEM and lists
one of the ugliest Mac sites, but otherwise makes some excellent
choices. ;-)
- Analysis:
PDA evolution: Newton to now, Jay Stanton, Anywhere You Go,
05.08. "...nobody wanted to carry around a 1-pound brick...."
- Digicams: Olympus Camedia
cameras, Digigraphica. Some of the most innovative digicams on
the market.
- AAPL: AAPL
soars in broad market rally, Robert Paul Leitao, Mac Observer,
05.08. "Apple (AAPL) ended Wednesday trading up $1.90 at
$24.37."
- Dark Side: Microsoft
winds up on both ends of software piracy stick, Tina Gasperson,
NewsForge, 05.08. "Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software
piracy last year by a French court?"
- Opinion: Spam
solutions, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 05.08.
There is no perfect solution - spammers can reach you even if you
never use your email account.
- Opinion:
New "Ivory" TiBook, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 05.08. "...the Ivory TiBook is a PowerBook I would really
like to own - the first Ti that I've felt that way about."
- Low End: The
perfect Mac: Why Apple still can't get me to dump ol' Betsy,
Chuck La Tournous, RandomMaccess, 05.07. "I had the
uncharacteristic good luck to purchase one of the best computers
Apple ever produced: a 233 MHz beige G3
desktop."
- Dark Side: Compulsory
Windows for Macs and people without PCs?, John Lettice, The
Register, 05.07. Microsoft now want schools to pay a license fee
for all personal computers - even Macs and Linux machines.
- Opinion: The
goodness of the Mac and the difference it makes, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 05.07. "I continue to marvel at what Windows
users routinely put up with in terms of hassle and
unreliability."
- Digicams: Minolta Dimage
X, Digigraphica. The world's smallest 2 megapixel digicam is
only 0.8" thick.
- Review: Radeon
7000 Mac Edition, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 05.06. Very nice
performance on a beige G3 under OS 9, but issues with "old
world" Macs running OS X.
- News: Association comes
out fighting for FireWire, EETimes, 05.06. 1394 Trade
Association adopts Apple's FireWire name, logo, and symbol to
reduce confusion.
- Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 2500,
Coolpix
5000, Digigraphica. Nikon's latest digicams.
- News: Apple to
release rackmount server on May 15, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 05.06. Finally, a G4 designed for the lab and computing
center, not just the desktop.
- OS: Jobs
puts Mac OS 9 to rest, Ian Fried, ZDNet, 05.06. Is OS 9.2.2
really the end of the road for the classic Mac OS?
- Web: Archaic
Apples covers Apple IIs, Lisas, Newtons, early Macs, NeXT, and
more.
- Opinion: The dangers of
monoculture, Mike McCune, osOpinion, 05.06. "Like the Irish
potato crops, computer systems are more vulnerable to Trojan horses
and viruses if all of them are the same."
- Opinion: OtT
Permanent Entry, Thomas Vanderwal, Off the Top, 05.05. "Why
have I bought my last Windows-based computer?"
- Digicams: Fuji FinePix F601,
FinePix S602,
Digigraphica. Two of this year's hot new digicams.
- Dark Side: MS disappears claim
that Windows is legal requirement, John Lettice, The Register,
05.03. Leaving original Windows on a PC apparently not a
legal requirement.
- Tech: What is
anit-aliasing, David K. Every, iGeek. A layman's introduction
to anti-aliasing.
- Opinion:
Another thing wrong - upgrades, Philip Machanick,
Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 05.03. "In attempting to implement
features like net-based upgrades, Apple is trying to be net-savvy,
but in a stupid way."
- Consumer: Macs Only! has
info on low cost, high speed, 9.5 mm thin drives - 20 GB for $159,
40 for $239.
- Rights: Agfa, DMCA
threaten font utility, Tom 7. Agfa trying to abolish public
domain TrueType font utility that predates DMCA.
- Opinion: What
you should know about "deep linking," John H. Farr, Applelinks,
05.02. "...would you believe that certain Web sites have been
trying to prevent others from linking to internal
pages?"
- Opinion: Apple
software elegant, useful, Dawn Chmielewski, BayArea.com, 05.02.
"The Mac OS X operating system is the most elegant interpretation
of Unix I've ever seen."
- News: Melissa virus
author jailed for 20 months, John Leyden, The Register, 05.01.
One of the first email viruses, Melissa caused over $80 millin in
damages.
- Rights: Site
barks about deep link, Farhad Manjoo, Wired, 05.01. Dallas
Morning News insists BarkingDogs.org remove
all "deep links" to DallasNews.com.
- Ezine: Web
Page Design for Designers, May issue. Hmm, one in seven surfers
have JavaScript deliberately disabled.
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