The Low End Mac Link Archive, June 2002
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that these links are still active.
- OS X:
XPostFacto 2.2b9, Other World Computing, 06.29. Latest version
provides some OS X support on additional unsupported
models.
- Advocacy:
For Mac users, a life less complicated, Gene Steinberg, USA
Today, 06.28. "Sometimes I feel like that Maytag repairman, but I
don't mind it that much."
- News: PCs: More
than 1 billion served, Michael Kanellos, Cnet, 06.30.
"Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the
mid-'70s...."
- Opinion:
Mac OS X vs. Windows XP: It's no photo finish, Rob Pegoraro,
Fast Forward, Washington Post, 06.30. "...if you're shopping for a
new machine, you'll probably be much happier with iPhoto...."
- Dark Side: MS security patch
EULA gives admin privileges on your box, Thomas C. Greene, The
Register, 06.30. Microsoft reserves right to automatically download
to your computer, restrict access to digital content.
- Benchmarks: New
IBM Travelstar 40GNX 2.5" drive, Bare Feats, 06.29. In short,
this new laptop hard drive rocks.
- Dark Side: Broken trust, D. F.
Tweney, The Tweney Report, 06.28. "Microsoft wants you to entrust
it with the safekeeping of your computer's processor, memory, and
hard drive."
- Analysis: Getting to know
you, J. D. Lasica, Online Journalism Review, 06.27.
"Registration required" may lose some visitors, but most appear to
come back eventually.
- Web: Reasons
to think before you link, Richard Poynder, FT.com, 06.24.
"Recent cases in Europe and the US, however, have led some to
conclude that the law has begun to look more favourably on those
wishing to bar unwelcome links."
Opinion: One nation
under God?, Dan Knight's Soapbox, Cobweb Publishing, 06.28. Can
prohibiting schoolchildren from freely reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance solve anything?- Dark Side: Beware
Palladium!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.27. "Palladium is
really a scheme to replace TCP/IP with something that Microsoft
will own and license...."
- Opinion: Baltimore
Sun spots MHz myth, brings P4 slowness to light, Vern Seward,
Mac Observer, 06.27. "The problem is that different processors do
different amounts of work in each clock cycle."
- News: Kiss
your MP3s at work goodbye, Lisa M. Bowman, Cnet, 06.27.
Copyright, the RIAA, liability, company equipment, getting fired -
good reasons to buy an iPod.
- Dark Side:
Software subscriptions: A bad idea whose time has come, David
Pogue, New York Times, 06.27 (free registration required). "...the
beneficiary of the new program is Microsoft, not the
customer."
- OS X: iMac Update
for Mac OS X, Apple, 06.27. Only for iMacs running Mac
OS X 10.1.5 build 5T91.
- Opinion: Speed,
Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 06.27. Hard drive
performance can make a world of difference.
- Web:
Publishers sue Gator over Web ad tactics, Leslie Walker,
Washington Post, 06.27. Gator uses spyware to display online ads
linked to sites with which they have no ad contracts.
- Advice: Transferring
Windows stuff when you switch to a Mac, Walter S. Mossberg,
Personal Technology, Wall Street Journal, 06.27. The good news is,
a Mac can use almost all of your Windows documents.
- Web: Way
beyond the banner, Owen Thomas, Business 2.0, 06.27. What works
in online advertising - and what just annoys people.
- Web:
Puncturing Web ads before they pop up, David Pogue, New York
Times (free registration required), 06.27. No ad blocker is
perfect, but they can make surfing more pleasant.
- Web:
Salon in dire straits, Slashdot, 06.26. Even with 40,000
subscribers, dropping ad income creates a growing deficit of $75
million.
- News: Philips
unveils first demonstration of wireless IEEE 1394..., 802.11
Insider, 06.26. Think of it as FireWire running via drastically
souped up AirPort (802.11b, 54 Mbps).
- Opinion: Snubs Macs, demo
to PCs: Adobe at PC Expo/DV Expo, Douglas DeMarco, O'Grady's
PowerPage, 06.26. Adobe willing to suck up to Windows users, snub
Mac fans.
- Huh? Pledge of
allegiance ruled unconstitutional, Fox News, 06.26. "The Pledge
of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and
cannot be recited in public schools, a federal appeals court ruled
Wednesday."
- Opinion: Is
Microsoft really to blame for the sad state of security on the
Internet?, Vern Seward, Just a Thought, Mac Opinion, 06.26.
"...we continued to buy their stuff even though they have
demonstrated that they either cannot or will not make a secure
product."
- News: Apple
Store affiliate scheme "coming soon", Macworld UK, 06.26.
Starting in France, Apple may extend affiliate program to other
markets.
- Advice: Declare
email independence, Simson Garfinkel, The Net Effect,
Technology Review. "In the 21st century, having your own domain
name is simple electronic self-defense."
- News: Apple dumps Aussie
PR after news coup, The Register, 06.26. Apple sacks employee
for releasing Gartner study figures showing Macs 36% less costly to
own than Windows PCs.
- Opinion:
Back to Mac, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 06.25. "I would
like to take this moment to personally thank Dell, Toshiba, and
Microsoft for helping me to change my mind and move back to the
Macintosh platform."
- Humor: Big
Switch, MacBoy.com, 06.25. "My name is Big Brother, and we
shall prevail."
- Opinion:
I've switched from Windows, now what?, Terrie Miller, 06.25.
"...the combination of Unix-based OS running on very appealing
hardware seemed to be just the remedy for the Windows 98
blues."
- Web: VeriSign Off,
VeriSignOff.org, 06.25. Why you might want to sign off of Network
Solutions (NSI) and VeriSign.
- Opinion: Falling prey to
the VeriSign beast, Kirk L. Kroeker, osOpinion, 06.25. "Most
people who love the Internet hate VeriSign more than open source
advocates hate Microsoft."
- Web: Teoma
vs. Google, round two, Search Engine Watch, 04.02. "...Teoma is
not a wholesale replacement for Google, nor is it an engine you'll
want to use exclusively."
- Web: Apple
France starts new affiliate program, MacNews.com, 06.25. Hey,
Apple, how about doing the same thing at home?
- Opinion:
Compleat buyer's and user's guide to low-end Macintosh laptops,
Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.25. Guide to
sub-$1,000 used PowerPC PowerBooks.
- Benchmarks: Virtual PC
5.04 vs. 5.03, Accelerate Your Mac, 06.25. VPC 5.04 ranges from
slightly faster to lots faster launching programs on 500 MHz
TiBook.
- News: Be Inc.
completes takeover of Palm, Andrew Orlowski, The Register,
06.25. This is the same kind of "reverse takeover" NeXT engineered
after being purchased by Apple.
- Opinion: IE(eeeee),
Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network, 06.24. IE 5.2 installer that
requires quitting all running applications was the last straw.
- Macinschool: State
schools may test idea of laptops for kids, Mike Wendland,
Detroit Free Press, 06.24. State now provides a compute to each
teacher. Proposal seeks one per K-12 student in 2004.
- Review: URL Manager
Pro, Matt Neuburg, Tools We Use, TidBITS, 06.24. "...if I had
to list the top five utilities without which I could never have
made the switch to Mac OS X, URL Manager Pro would be one of
them."
- OS X: OmniWeb 4.1
available, Omni Group. Unlike IE, OmniWeb is beautiful and
supports left-to-right languages.
- AAPL: Apple
moves up on roller coaster trading, Robert Paul Leitau, Mac
Observer, 06.24. AAPL regained some ground after last week's
plunge.
- Mac OS: AppleScript
1.8.3 available, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 2002.06.24. Latest
version available for both OS 9 and X via Software Update
control panel.
- Opinion: Apple's "Switch"
campaign needs to switch gears, James Hollander, 06.24. Great
campaign, but why isn't Apple pushing ads on the Web?
- Macinschool:
Open-and-shut case for laptops?, Sherry Jones, Wilmington Star,
06.24. New Hanover educators say all students need laptops, hope to
deploy to all within 5 years.
- Tech: Power 4 the
people, Tony Smith, The Register, 06.24. IBM's Power4 runs 2
CPUs at 1.3 GHz on a single die and is related to the PowerPC in
modern Macs.
- Hands on: PowerBook
G4/800, Macs Only!, 06.24. "...we're even more impressed than
we were in April."
- Opinion:
Spam vs. spam, Andrew Leonard, Salon, 06.24. SpamAssassin, an
effective, open source filtering engine seeks out and flags spam on
the server. (And the biggest, slowest, most annoying online ad
we've ever seen between pages 1 and 2.)
- Web:
Free Web-mail waning?, Mike Musgrove, A Closer Look, Washington
Post, 06.23. Lots of sites, but several vanish each month.
- Web: Charge
for your content? The three criteria, Vin Crosbie, ClickZ
Today, 06.18. Is your content unique, are you a premier resource,
and is your content helpful?
- Opinion:
Unicode: Sick of this push and pull, Piere Igot, Apple Peel,
Applelust, 06.21. The mess caused by different character sets, and
how Unicode will eventually make everything better.
- OS X: Apple
releases networking update, MacNN, 06.21. Networking Update
v1.0 improves network and Internet access after "restarting your
computer or when waking from sleep."
- OS X: Crouching
Apple, hidden "Jaguar," Cade Metz, ExtremeTech, 06.21. "Jaguar
is focused on moving the OS X platform forward, innovating in the
ways Apple has always done."
- Web: NPR
Online reconsiders link policy, NPR, 06.21. NPR recognizes that
"the majority of the linking on the Web is not infringement,"
reevaluating existing policy on links.
- Dark Side: A battle PC giants
should lose, Jill Ericksson, osOpinion, 06.21. Dell, H-P, IBM,
Gateway, and others hurting because "unbranded" PCs account for
over half of unit sales.
- Analysis: Are Macs really
cheaper to own?, Ben Wilson, NewsFactor, 06.21. Gartner is
backing away from its finding that Macs are 36% cheaper to own and
maintain than Wintel PCs.
- Web: It takes
a village to save a site, Paul Boutin, Wired, 06.21. Kuro5hin
site raises $35,000 (half its annual budget) from readers in less
than a week.
- Memorial: For Rodney,
Anonymous, MyMac.com, 06.21. "Rodney loved the 'Think Different'
campaign because he did."
- Advice: Moore's guide
to the best free and cheap Mac productivity software, Charles
W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.21. Good list, but it misses AppleWorks,
which comes free with iMacs and iBooks.
- Web: Apache
anti-hack patch posted, Sam Costello, Macworld UK, 06.21.
Security patch covers Apache on big Unix boxes - and Mac
OS X.
- Dark Side: Microsoft
vs. cultural diversity, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.20.
Microsoft chooses not to support right-to-left languages such as
Hebrew, Arabic, and Korean in their Mac apps.
- Rights:
Copyright office halves Web royalty rate, Yahoo/Reuters, 06.20.
Unlike radio stations, Webcasters have to pay royalties. That rate
has been cut in half.
- Rights: Paul
Trummel pulls site, goes free for now, John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 06.20. Paul Trummel, a 70-year-old man, has been
imprisoned for 111 days because of his Web site satirizing
officials of a retirement home. Free speech?
- Tech: USB,
FireWire head to battle, John G. Spooner, ZDNet, 06.20.
FireWire established, but USB 2.0 more cost effective.
- Opinion: Isn't it time John C. Dvorak was put down like an
old dog? No, we're not linking to his drivel. We recommend
Bryan Chaffin's comments ("John Dvorak seems to have an
irrational hatred of the Mac and/or Apple itself") as well as
comments on apple.slashdot.org.
- AAPL: Apple
falls after Tuesday warning, Robert Paul Leitao, Apple Stock
Watch, Mac Observer, 06.19. Yeah - like $3.00 a share. Ouch.
- Humor: Bill Gates
Switch, Macboy.com. Animated cartoon. Enjoy the Pixar parody,
then click on the Play button. Priceless.
- Wares: IPNetTunerX,
Applelinks, 06.19. Software claims up to 20% performance
improvement.
- Humor: Simplifying
Tasks, IBM [mam].
Instructions for ordering this poster show that IBM still has a few
things to learn about simplifying things.
- Web: NPR
Online's linking policy, NPR. We just violated their link
policy by linking to it without prior written consent. What's
become of the "public" in National Public Radio?
- Memorial: Popular
Mac columnist mourned, Leander Kahney, Wired, 06.19. "Lain's
death is being widely mourned in the online Mac community. Hundreds
of people have posted messages of condolence on forums...."
- Upgrades: 16x CD-RW for tray
loading iMacs, MCE. Burn CD-Rs at 16x, CD-RW at 10x, and read
CDs at 24x in oldest iMacs - $199.
- Opinion:
Keeping the faith while Apple executives sell their AAPL
shares, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 06.19.
"...this round of selling . . . coupled with a
late-in-the-quarter earnings warning, looks absolutely horrible for
Apple."
- News: Memorial
service, contact information for Rodney O. Lain announced, Mac
Observer.
- Memorial: Remembering
Rodney, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.17. "One of the things
that impressed me immediately was the prominent discussion of
religion on [Rodney's] site."
- Memorial: Rodney O. Lain, John
C. Welch, WorkingMac.com, 06.17. "... for a long time, I'm going to
regret not knowing this man."
- Memorial: Mac
evangelist Rodney O. Lain dies, Julio Ojeda-Zapata,
TwinCities.com, 06.17. "He was the Angry Mac Man, a technology
pundit who wrote about Macintosh topics with more candor than some
could stand."
- Memorial: Magnum
mysterium, John H. Farr, Grack, Applelinks, 06.17. "Rodney O.
Lain was the first person I know to write about 'Mac literature,'
and he was perfectly serious."
- Memorial: Good
night, Rodney, Del Miller, Applelinks, 06.17. "He didn't just
talk about passion, he was passion and it showed in
everything he wrote."
- Analysis:
PowerBook G4/DVI: Text too small?, PowerBook Central, 06.17.
1280 x 854 on a 15.2" display too small? Not according to PB
Central readers.
- Opinion: Some
thoughts on the new PowerBook Pismo G4 processor upgrades,
Charles W. Moore, Appleinks, 06.17. Two $300 upgrades promise 500
MHz G4 performance. Will they be worth the cost?
- Analysis: Seven
OS X browsers in speedstakes showdown, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 06.17.
- Software:
Internet Explorer 5.2, Microsoft, 06.17. Newest version only
available for OS X.
- Dark Side: Microsoft's
Mac Hebrew snub prompts Israeli antitrust complain, Andrew
Orlowski, The Register, 06.17. Microsoft has "no plans" to support
Hebrew in Office:mac or Internet Explorer:mac - or Russian,
Arabic, Korean....
- Web: The Apple
Museum, formerly Apple Online Museum, overhauled.
- Web: MacTeens.com
relaunched yet again. How many times has it been now?
- Memorial:
In memory of Rodney O. Lain, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
06.17. "I didn't agree with everything you wrote, but I loved every
word of it."
- Memorial: For Rodney, Beth
Lock, MyMac, 06.17. "It is a helpless sadness that I feel about
Rodney's death, coupled with anger and compassion."
- Memorial: Remembering
Rodney, John Martellaro, MyMac, 06.17. "At first reading, if
you read too fast, you could be offended. But upon further study,
you'd find that Rodney mostly nailed all the bullshit."
- Dark Side: My name's too rude
for MS Passport, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 06.17. Sorry,
Mr. Woodcock, you'll have to change your name before you can use
.NET.
- Macinschool: MSU college recommends
Macs, MacNN, 06.16. "The College of Communication Arts &
Sciences at Michigan State University is recommending the purchase
of a Mac computer...."
- News: Rodney O.
Lain passes away during weekend, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
06.17. "Rodney wrote to make us think, to make us laugh, and to
make us angry."
- Forum: Rodney O.
Lain has passed away, Mac Observer. Comments from some who
mourn our collective loss.
- Memorial: Rodney O. Lain,
Tim Robertson, MyMac, 06.17. A publishers pain at losing a
friend.
- Web:
We're broke: The economics of a Web community, Rusty Foster,
Kuro5hin, 06.17. Serious thoughs on funding a website.
- Analysis:
Pay for content revisited, Bob McCormick, Applelust, 06.14.
Provocative thoughts on ads, online subscriptions, and the Mac
Web.
- Opinion:
McAfee manufactures virus threat, michael, Slashdot, 06.14.
Enough of the anti-virus hype about viruses that don't even exist
on the Internet.
- Upgrades: PowerLogix
offers 500 MHz G4 Pismo upgrade, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
06.14. Maybe for a 400 MHz Pismo, but in many cases a G4 is
insignificantly superior to
a G3.
- Web: A patent on
pop under ads?, eContentMac.com, 06.13. If this is a defensible
patent, it could mean the end of one major Web annoyance.
- Web: Why
have I stopped pointing to VersionTracker?, Rob McNair-Huff,
MacNetJournal, 06.13. Another site stops linking due to "user
unfriendly" practices at VersionTracker.
- Opinion: Windows
frustrations, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 06.13. Windows
viruses and brain dead installers.
- Analysis: Macs
better value than PCs - official, Macworld UK, 06.13. Gartner
analysis finds Macs up to 36% more cost effective than Windows
PCs.
- OS X: SpeedMeUp Pro
v. 2, NoName Scriptware. Script "prebinds" OS X
applications for faster launches.
- OS X: Change Startup
Disk v 1.4, NoName Scriptware. Quick and easy way to switch
between OS 9 and X.
- Opinion:
Darwin meets the digital camera, David Pogue, New York Times,
06.13 (free registration required). Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Minolta,
Kodak . . . which is the best 4 MP digicam?
- Advice:
Buying the right digicam, David Pogue, New York Times, 06.13
(free registration required).
- Tech:
10-gigabit ethernet standard approved, Slashdot, 06.13. New
standard is fiber only, faster than almost all of today's hard
drives.
- Opinion: Why our OS X
rollout was hamstrung, Scot Hacker, O'Reilly.com, 06.12.
Software that won't run is Classic, new programs still not written
for X, and unsupported hardware hamstring migration.
- Web: Credit-card
hackers stung with bogus IIS 'sploit, Thomas C. Greene, The
Register, 06.12 [MsGeek.org]. Security experts
from CardCops.com and PenetrationTest.com create honeypot server,
catch 200+ hackers.
- Advice:
The Compleat Buyer's and User's Guide to Antique and Collectible
Macintosh Laptops, 2002 Edition, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.12. Interesting but no longer particularly
practical 'Books.
- Deal: Mac OS
X 10.1 for $50, Deals on the Web, 06.12. Deal expires June
13.
- Upgrades: PowerLogix
announces world's fastest Power Mac G4 upgrades, 06.12. New
upgrades boost Power Mac G4 to 750 MHz - even 1 GHz. Shipments
start in July.
- Opinion: Switching to
the Mac, Kotke.org, 06.11. "I just want my computer to work for
the things I want to do with it, and if I have to pay a little more
for it or not have access to all the latest software, so be
it."
- Web: New US
Postal Service website to no longer be Mac compatible, Jeremy
Gefler, Right On Mac, 06.12. Old system supporting online postage,
free delivery confirmation, and more for Mac users will disappear
on July 1.
- Software: Mozilla
1.1a available, Mozilla.org, 06.11. Available for classic Mac
OS, OS X, Windows, Linux, and lots more.
- Opinion:
New Apple ads return to company's populist roots . . .
sorta, Hannibal, ars technica, 06.10. All the usual "Mac
elitist" crapola.
- Web: Open Link Policy. A small step
in protecting your right to link.
- Advice: Avoiding trouble
in the move to Mac OS X, part 1, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 06.10.
"No activity in the Macintosh world has ever inspired as much fear,
loathing, and terror as contemplating the upgrade from Mac
OS 9 to Mac OS X."
- OS X: Rage Pro
Driver for Lombard, James Denton [MacNN]. Oops, OS X 10.1.5 missed
acceleration support for Rage LT Pro in Lombard. This patch solves
that oversight.
- Low End: Macintosh SE/30: An
adventure back in time, Eric Conrad. "Sadly on top of it it had
a tag that said 'Please dispose'." And lots of photos.
- Opinion: The
end of the Mac Web?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.10. The end
of the Web as we know it if "deep linking" becomes illegal. (We
support Open Link.)
- Low End: The compact Macs,
Matthew Glidden, Profiles in Networking, ATPM. LocalTalk and
ethernet networking for compact Macs.
- Low End: Why a Quadra
605?, Dana Siberia. Chipped Q605 runs Linux and Apache - and is
serving pages very nicely on the Web.
- News: New
Apple ads no longer preach to the converted, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral. 06.10. "The new ads feature Windows users who have made
a successful switch to the Mac."
- Digicams: Pentax Digibino
DB100, Digigraphica, 06.10. Unique digicam built into 7x
binoculars produced 1024 x 768 images.
- Digicams: Pentax Optio 330
RS, 430
RS, Digigraphics, 06.10. New 3, 4 megapixel models include 11
MB built in memory - shoot even when your memory card is full.
- Advice: Picking
the right 35mm SLR, Dan Knight, Digigraphica, 06.07.
Understanding the basics of reflex cameras so you can pick the one
that best suits your needs.
- Opinion: Davy
and Goliath, Jeff Lewis, Mac Skeptic, Mac Opinion, 06.07. Some
provocative thoughts on Mac fanatics and their blind spots. Think
different.
- Analysis: Could
broadband become the law?, Anne Jue, MacCentral, 06.07. Should
the government push for universal broadband access? Does the market
want it?
- Macinschool: A Mac-centric
campus shifts to Windows, Florence Olsen, Chronicle of Higher
Education. Administration and students choosing Windows at one-time
Mac bastion.
- Web: ICANN
considering 30-day grace period for expired domain names. A
member of ICANN emailed this link in response to Learning from the MacSlash fiasco.
- Opinion: Bye
Napster. Long live MP3, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac
Opinion, 06.06. "It's time the recording industry embraced the
digital revolution and stopped worrying about people 'stealing'
music."
- Rights:
VeriSign slapped with lawsuit over marketing, Yahoo/Reuters,
06.06. Fourth suit filed over the way VeriSign attempted to deceive
clients of rival registrars.
- Rights: InternetMovies.com
sues Hollywood, InternetMovies.com. Online publisher decides to
sue MPAA after wrongful shutdown of website.
- OS X: Mac OS X 10.1.5 available via Software Update panel,
includes support for older Rage Pro chip in early G3 models.
- OS X: 10.1.5 corrects
beige G3/Radeon incompatibility, obzorg.org. "...Apple has
corrected this problem with one notable limitation."
- OS X: Silk
1.0, Unsanity [MM].
Freeware program lets Carbon apps use Quartz rendering - makes
Internet Explorer look much nicer.
- Software: iCab
2.8 released, available for free download. For a lot of Mac
users, it's our favorite alternative to Internet Explorer - and
they even make a 68K version.
- Hands on: iCab
2.8 Web browser mini review, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
06.05. We agree: This still under construction browser deserves a
try, whether on OS X or the classic Mac OS.
- Software: Mozilla
1.0 released. Finally out of beta, Mozilla hopes to become a
serious alterntive to Internet Explorer.
- Analysis:
Will USB 2.0 cool off FireWire?, Charles Haddad, Byte of the
Apple, BusinessWeek, 06.05. FW established, but Intel "giving away"
USB 2.0 at no extra cost.
- Opinion: Working the Web: iCab
in Mac OS X, Lin Mu, OS X FAQ. Why one user picks iCab
first.
- Opinion:
Ode to the expansion bay, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 06.04. A great idea from 1995-2000, but with internal
Combo drives and external FireWire options, we doubt the expansion
bay will make a comeback.
- News: Apple now
selling eMac to consumers, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 06.04.
Apple's cheapest G4 now available to the masses.
- Opinion: Why doesn
anybody need to be in charge of online speech?, Raena Armitage,
Mac Observer, 06.04. Thoughts on free speech and national laws on
the Internet.
- News: Now you pay for
drivers - Umax pioneers new price gouge, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 06.03. Device drivers no longer available as free
downloads. LEM's advice: Look at other brands of scanners.
- Software: Microsoft polishes
Office for Apple, Ian Fried, Cnet, 06.02. Who else could
create software with room for over 1000 "tweaks, bug fixes, and
performance enchancements"?
- Ezine: Web
Page Design for Designers, June issue available.
- Ezine: ATPM, June issue
available.
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