The Low End Mac Link Archive, July 2002
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- Dark Side: How will
Microsoft's licensing plan affect Office?, Mark Hachman,
Extreme Tech, 07.30. About 70 percent of the user base still uses
Office 97, but they complain about the adoption rate for Office
v.X?
- Dark Side:
Death to the 3.5" floppy?, Slashdot, 07.30. Doesn't this sound
a bit like the 1998 iMac introduction?
- Dark Side: Microsoft upgrade plan
gets cold shoulder, Joe Wilcox, Cnet, 07.30. "This is the sort
of thing that has lost Microsoft a lot of friends."
- Forum: What are
you doing with your old Macs?, Mac Observer, 07.30. Just what
are you doing with your old Macs?
- Analysis:
More PowerBook/iBook hard drive musings, Charles W. Moore, Mac
Opinion, 07.30. "...the biggest performance increase for dollars
spent may actually be found in upgrading to a faster hard
drive...."
- Rights:
RIAA.org DOSed: Whining commences, ars technica, 07.30.
RIAA.com subject to same type of denial of service attack they wish
to inflict on others.
- AAPL: Apple
up, markets jump, Adobe settles suits, Robert Paul Leitau, Mac
Observer, 07.30. "Apple powered higher by $.68, up 4.74 percent at
$15.02...."
- Humor: Bait and
Switch, Kevin Fox, 07.30. "I gave out that email address
everywhere." (QuickTime)
- Upgrade: Toshiba Notebook
40 GB, 16 MB Cache,5400 RPM, fluid bearing drives, Accelerate
Your Mac!, 07.30. 9.5mm thin $249 drive will fit any 'Book, just
reaching dealers.
- News: Apple's PowerBook
and iBook group wants your feedback, Remy Davison, Insanely
Great Mac, 07.29. Apple wants feedback from iBook, PowerBook
users.
- Humor: Homepage
Doomsday Clock, Joy of Tech, 07.29. How long until your
homepage.mac.com disappears?
- News: Legal
restrictions stop the sale of SuperDrive eMac, Jim Dalrymple,
MacCentral, 07.29. Zettabyte no longer allowed to sell upgraded
eMacs, will instead sell upgrade kits to end users.
- News: Watson
developer speaks out against Apple, plans port to Windows, Brad
Smith, Mac Observer, 07.29. Watson developer "not involved in any
aspect of Sherlock 3, other than serving as . . .
inspiration."
- Opinion: Sweating it
out, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 07.29. Farr's wife is in the UK,
depending on Web mail and cybercafes - and Windows. Ugh.
- Advocacy:
Why buy a PC when you can have a Mac?, David Saraceno, The
Spokesman-Review, 07.28. "This column was not intended to insult a
perfectly good operating system, but to differentiate it from a
better one."
- Deal:
.mac to be sold at a discount through third parties?, MacSlash,
07.28. Both Amazon.com and Buy.com list .mac for sale - and at less
than $99.
- Advice: How to
set up a Web and mail server, MacSlash, 07.28. How to set up
your own Web and email server using Mac OS X.
- Analysis: Office
X. or Mac OS X the problem?, Robert Accettura, MacVillage.net,
07.27. "My theory is that Microsoft isn't selling enough copies of
Office X. because of the hefty price tag."
- Analysis: The
strange case of the duelling benchmarks, Gene Steinberg, Mac
Night Owl, 07.27. "...there is nothing controversial or strange
about Apple's methods."
- Review: Crescendo G4
upgrade, Mac Singapore, 07.27. G4/450 turns Power Mac 8600av
into a speed demon.
- Deal:
Save $50 on Jaguar, Amazon.com, 07.26. Purchase OS X 10.2 from
Amazon.com by 10/3/02, get $50 back.
- Web: On the future
of LWN, Linux Weekly News, 07.26. In less than one week, LWN
readers have donated over $12,000 to keep the site afloat.
- Rights: Ethical hacker
faces war driving charges, John Leyden, The Register, 07.26. If
you tell them their wireless network isn't secure, they can charge
you with hacking?
- News: Sun to
push StarOffice for Apple's OS X, Joe Wilcox, Cnet, 07.26.
"Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems are cooperating on a version
of Sun's StarOffice productivity software for Mac
OS X...."
- News: Apple expands Jaguar
upgrade policy, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 07.26. OS X 10.2
Up-To-Date expanded to cover purchases of OS X from July 17,
2002.
- Dark Side: Hotmail clean-out
catches members out, Lisa M. Bowman, Cnet, 07.25. "As part of
a series of . . . policies aimed at driving more people toward its
paid services, Microsoft has instituted a plan to delete sent
Hotmail messages that are more than 30 days old."
- AAPL: Apple
gains more than 5% in near-record market rally, Robert Paul
Leitau, Mac Observer, 07.24. "Apple gained $.73 to close at $15.20,
a gain of just over five percent on the day."
- News: .mac
webmail security hole, MacSlash, 07.24. Security hole exists
when accessing mac.com email via Apple's Web interface.
- Web:
LWN.net closing down, Slashdot, 07.24. "The best Linux news
site is calling it a day. Citing money problems, they are saying
next weeks issue will be the last."
- Opinion: Six years with a Mac
OS clone, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 07.24. "No doubt it'll
still be doing its thing six years from now."
- Forum: What
should Apple charge for OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)?, Mac Observer,
07.24. How much should OS X users have to pay to upgrade to
10.2?
Rights: Could Hollywood hack
your PC?, Declan McCullagh, Cnet, 07.23. Draft legislation
would authorize RIAA, MPAA, and others to hack into any computer
with P2P capabilities.- Opinion:
A renaissance of PowerBook processor upgrades, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 07.23. "...there are now three
players offering G4 upgrades for the G3 Series 'Books...."
- Tech: Power Mac G4
(AGP): SCSI card may interfere with wake from sleep, Apple
Knowledge Base, 07.22. Computer may incorrectly assume card
supports power down mode and not wake properly from sleep under OS
8.6.
- Tech:
Rendezvous with Jaguar: OS X bids farewell to Appletalk,
Jacqueline Emigh, CrossNodes, 07.22. Apple plans to start phasing
out support for Appletalk, replacing it with Rendezvous.
- Analysis: MS
Mac developer responds, Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network, 07.22.
"...Microsoft needs some lessons in how to win friends and
influence people."
- Humor: Top X reasons to
buy Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar), David Dire, O'Grady's PowerPage,
07.23. "No animals were harmed in making the jaguar-spotted 'X'
CD."
- Review: EyeTV
owner comments, Accelerate Your Mac, 07.23. Reader reports run
quite a range. Read these comments before buying EyeTV.
- Opinion: Apple
takes a bite out of users, Scott McCarty, GraphicPower, 07.22.
Jaguar for $129. Okay. Dot-mac for $99. No way.
- Humor: Zap the
PRAM, MacBoy.com, 07.22. A cartoonist's take on last week's
keynote address.
- Analysis: More on MS Mac
FUD, William Grosso, O'Reilly Network, 07.21. Microsoft is
upset because Office is irrelvant to the home market and digital
hub.
- Analysis: Apple to consider
x86 after Mac OS X transition done, Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews,
07.20. Why Apple will eventually leave Motorola and the PowerPC
behind.
- Opinion: Apple
needs to rethink Jaguar upgrade policies, Gene Steinberg, Mac
Night Owl, 07.20. How about a $50 rebate for everyone who bought OS
X or a Mac that shipped with it?
- Expo: Old Macs
getting more valuable & charging for Jaguar makes good
sense..., Nicolas diPierro, Mac Observer, 07.19. "If this
works, Apple will not only make the whole widget, but gain revenue
from the whole widget."
- Opinion: Switch - or bait
& switch?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 07.19. "...Apple
has made a serious miscalculation with this change of policy,
particularly as it pertains to the mac.com email service."
- Expo: Hands on with
Inkwell, Macs Only!, 07.19. Works well even with poor
handwriting, and works in any OS X app.
- Analysis: Mac users outraged
at iTools, upgrade taxes, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 07.18.
Between .mac, Jaguar, and QuickTime Pro, the cost of owning a Mac
has gone up.
- News:
Yahoo admits changing e-mail text to block hackers, Andrea Orr,
Yahoo/Reuters, 07.18. "Yahoo! Inc. confirmed on Wednesday that its
e-mail software has automatically changed certain words...."
- Analysis: AOL "cooked books"
as dot.com bubble burst, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 07.18.
"AOL misrepresented its accounts in three quarterly periods as the
'New Economy' bubble was bursting..."
- Expo: ATI's
high-end Radeon 9700 Mac-bound this fall, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 07.18. Designed by same team as Nintendo's GameCube
video.
- Analysis: Freeware a
likely casualty of the .mac Initiative, RickMacMerc, O'Grady's
PowerPage, 07.18. What will become of all the freeware hosted on
homepage.mac.com?
- Analysis:
Gigahertz gap?, Christopher Allbritton, Popular Mechanics,
07.18. Chip speed doesn't matter much anymore.
- Opinion: How
much is dot-mac worth?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 07.18.
"...I'm going to let my old email address that gave Apple a free
plug every time I used it die on the vine."
- Opinion: .Mac?
Maybe .Screwed!, Vern Seward, Just a Thought, Mac Observer,
07.18. "...it was a ploy worthy of shady used car salesmen who
practice the ol' bait-n-switch routine, or worse, worthy of
Microsoft."
- Expo: Apple goes
all CD-ROM on Classic iMacs; drops $999 model, MacMinute,
07.18. Entry level model now 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive,
CD-ROM, $799.
- News: Apple offers
Combo drive eMac, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 07.18. Just $100
more for CD-RW/DVD Combo drive.
- Huh? Forget the
gadgets, just let me see, Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, 07.17. Volvo's
"Safety Car" runs Windows 98?
- Upgrades: Loads of
new upgrades from Sonnet, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 07.17.
Upgrades for Sawtooth G4s, PCI Power Macs, laptops, and lots
more.
- News: .Mac FAQs,
Apple, 07.17. Apple to suspend free iTools, mac.com email addresses
effective 2002.09.30.
- Expo: Watch the
keynote via QuickTime, Apple, 07.17. The Stevenote is scheduled
to begin Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. EDT.
- Analysis:
Why is my WallStreet sometimes faster than my Pismo?, Charles
W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 07.16. "Is hard drive response
sometimes a bigger real world speed factor than processor clock
speed?"
- News: Apple
announces $32 million profit, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 07.16.
"Even in this extended worldwide downturn, Apple is continuing to
be profitable and continuing to innovate."
- Huh?
Game publicity plan raises grave concerns, Mark Oliver,
Guardian Unlimited, 07.15. Acclaim wants to buy ad space on
gravestones. Really.
- Analysis: Content filtering
exposed, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 07.15. "...the way overzealous
server-side content filtering makes email unreliable stands only to
worsen the very problem it's attempting to fix."
- Analysis: Apple refutes
Microsoft's Mac OS X claims, Darryl K. Taft, eWeek, 07.15.
Apple estimates 2.5 million OS X users, giving Office
v. X about 12% of the market.
- News: Apple
releases QuickTime 6, Joe Wilcox, Cnet, 07.15. Just in time to
watch the Expo keynote on Weds. MPEG-4 licensing resolved - no fee
for free content.
- News: Apple
releases QuickTime 6 ahead of Expo, Brad Smith, Mac Observer,
07.16. "Apple has quietly released the final version of QuickTime 6
today...."
- Opinion: Woe
is Microsoft and Corel (when it comes to Mac OS X), Chuck
Toporek, O'Reilly, 07.15. "Microsoft doesn't like the fact that
Apple's encouraging people to Switch...."
- Upgrades: Newer ships G4 upgrades
for older systems, MacNN, 07.15. 500-533 MHz G4 upgrades for
WallStreet and Lombard PowerBooks, beige and blue & white Power
Mac G3.
- Advice:
Using relative font sizes, Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Mark, 07.15.
More involved than what we do at LEM, but the key concept is
letting readers resize text to meet their needs.
- Opinion:
Weighed down, Jeff Adkins, SFGate.com, 07.15. LEM's Lite Side
columnist looks at Southwest Airlines. "...if I buy a ticket using
Friends Fly Free, can I be my own best friend?"
- Opinion: If it's broke,
don't sell it, Teri Robinson, osOpinion, 07.15. "...it seems
that many software developers live by the following sentiment: 'If
it's broke, but it's really hot, then release it and fix it
later.'"
- News: OS X
adoption rate draws fire from Microsoft, Corel, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 2002.07.15. MS upset at selling only 300,000 copies of
overpriced, bloated Office v. X.
- Opinion: The
dark, scary clouds over broadband, Grayson Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 07.13. "Broadband is still too unreliable for mainstream
acceptance in America." But we love it anyhow.
- News: Apple
posts Software Update security fix, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral,
07.13. Previously unsecure update system now uses cryptography,
authentication.
- News: The
digital hub gets a new spoke: television, Jim Heid, Macintosh
Digital Hub Site, 07.14. EyeTV, to be unveiled at this week's Expo,
turns any OS X Mac into a personal digital video recorder for
$199.
- Opinion: OS X day 1:
Enter the iBook, Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network, 07.13.
"I'd been with Microsoft for so long . . . that I'd
forgotten what it's like to use an operating system built by people
who want it to cooperate with the rest of the world."
- Survey: Mac users rule,
says study, Michael Singer, atnewyork.com, 07.12. Study finds
Mac users more educated, earn more, and more Web savvy than PC
users.
- Analysis:
Canning spam without eating up real mail, Stefanie Olsen,
Yahoo/Cnet, 07.12. While trying to filter out spam, legitimate
email is sometimes discarded as well.
- Web:
30 days to a more accessible weblog, Mark, DiveIntoMark.org. A
lot of good advice for anyone posting contenty anywhere on the
Web.
- Rights:
Minnesota court rules on Internet libel, Brian Bakst, Yahoo/AP,
07.12. Court rules that libel suit must be filed "in the place
where the statement is produced."
- Humor: Are you a nerd?,
Archie McPhee, 07.12. Take the survey and find out where you
rate.
- Rights:
Girl has no problem with pledge, David Kravets, Yahoo/AP,
07.11. "The 8-year-old girl whose father successfully sued to have
the Pledge of Allegiance declared unconstitutional has no problem
with reciting the pledge at schoo/...."
- Dark Side: DOJ vs. Microsoft
makes me want to ralph, Mike McCune, osOpinion, 07.11. "...the
government should use its spending power to make Microsoft
behave."
- Dark Side:
Can we trust Microsoft's Palladium?, Farhad Manjoo, Salon,
07.11. Palladium will give Microsoft total control of your
computer, your software, and your files.
- Upgrade: XLR8 announces dual
G4/550 upgrade, XLR8, 07.11. New upgrade designed specifically
for dual CPU G4 systems.
- Rights:
Latest UDRP stupidity: unix.org, canadian.biz, Slashdot, 07.11.
Uniform Dispute Resolution Procedure takes unix.org from discussion
site, canadian.biz from Canadian businessman.
- Benchmarks: The
700 Club: eMac vs. iMac vs. iBook, Bare Feats, 07.11. The real
speed champion? The PowerMac G4/667 (DVI) won most benchmarks!
- Dark Side: IE scripting flaw
uncovered, John Leyden, The Register, 07.11. "Cross domain
scripting flaw" in Internet Explorer is most recently found of 19
unpatched security holes.
- Opinion: If you're only
killing time, it'll kill you right back, Porruka, Muses Extra,
Mac Edition, 07.11. "...the criteria being used to accept and deny
Web media does not appear to be applied consistently."
- MacInSchool:
Legislators ask for review of laptop contract, Concord Monitor,
07.10. Two Maine legislators want to reverse iBook contract
approved last year.
- Web: New website
design, Railhead Design, 07.10. This is website design done
right. Kudos to Maury McCown for a job well done.
- Opinion: Naughty press! No
pass!, As the Apple Turns, 07.10. "...those logistical wizards
at IDG have denied media passes to a whole slew of Mac-related
sites...."
- Advice: Mac
(very) basics - when your Mac hangs, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 07.10. Every Mac user should know how and when to force
a restart.
- Advice: The ultimate dilemma:
Transferring files to your new Mac, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 07.10. "If you look at the printed documentation on your new
Mac, you would believe Apple is trying to keep file sharing a
secret."
- Opinion: Scott
McCarty, meet Andy Warhol, John C. Welch, RandomMaccess, 07.09.
One of two writers left at workingmac.com endears himself to the
banned Mac Web - or not.
- Benchmarks: Newer
Tech Pismo G4 upgrade, Bare Feats, 07.09. $299 upgrade rocks,
but Bare Feats also has PowerLogix upgrade on order. Full shootout
due when it arrives.
- Opinion: Why I
don't use Microsoft software: No need & no trust, Darla
Sasaki, Mac Observer, 07.09. "More pressing than a question of need
is the basic idea behind every good relationship - trust. I don't
trust them."
- Opinion:
The more wondrous machine, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 07.09. How the personal computer has gone from curiosity
to indispensable device.
- Expo: Celebrity Apple
cronies silent on community expulsions, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 07.09. "I wonder if we'll see the Pogue's, Inhankto's and
'Dr. Mac' Levitus actually bat for the grassroots that gave them
their jobs?"
- Analysis: Email filtering:
Killing the killer app, Geoff Duncan, TidBITS, 07.09.
"...email, often hailed as the Internet's 'killer app,' is in
danger of becoming an unreliable, arbitrarily censored
medium...."
- Humor: Pentium 5 trumps
PowerPC G5, Anne Onymus, The Rumor Mill, 07.09. Hoping to steal
the G5's thunder, Intel unveils 3.0 GHz Pentium 5 processor.
- Opinion: What's with Apple's
fetish for secrecy?,David Coursey, ZDNet, 07.09. "...if sites
that publish Apple rumors aren't eligible to attend Macworld, why
does Apple want me there so badly?"
- Opinion: Macworld Expo:
Where's the excitement?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 07.09.
"...Mac advocate sites ought to be given a chance to attend an Expo
as legitimate members of the news media."
- Humor: Apple
initiates "rumor site" passes for Macworld NY, Crazy Apple
Rumors, 07.08. Now there's a solution nobody else suggested!
- News: Caution:
Apple's SoftwareUpdate has been hacked, John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 07.08. Hacker describes method for hijacking Apple's
automatic update mechanism.
- Opinion: GraphicPower
"blacklisting" looks more like apathy than conspiracy, Chuck La
Tournous, RandomMaccess, 07.08. "A media pass to Macworld Expo is
essential for coverage of the show?" Bull.
- AAPL: Merck,
accounting concerns pound stock prices, Robert Paul Leitao,
Apple Stock Watch, Mac Observer, 07.08. Investors remain wary,
Apple drops.
- Advice:
Top 10 iPhoto tips, Derrick Story, O'Reilly, 07.08. Advice on
taking better pictures and managing them better on your Mac.
- Opinion: Control?, Amy Wohl,
07.08. "Apple is a member of the Vendors Who Like Control
Club."
- Rights: Rep. Boucher
outlines "fair use" fight, Erin Joyce, Internetnews.com, 07.08.
Proposed bill would make it illegal for recording industry to sell
copy-protected CDs.
- Advocacy: Study of power
consumption also finds Macs are cheaper to run, Alex Summersby,
macunlimited.com, 07.08. Macs us a lot less electricity than
Pentium-based computers.
- Oops: FireWire deafness
plagues PowerBook G4, Bob Snow, PowerPage.org, 07.08. "There
are hundreds of postings on Apple's support message boards about
this problem."
- Expo:
The Macworld NY press ordeal, Utterer.com, 07.08. IDG can't
seem to decide why the site is blacklisted from receiving a press
pass, but it is definitely blacklisted.
- Dark Side: Sites bow to
Microsoft's browser king, Paula Festa, Cnet, 07.08. Sites
designed and tested only for IE make it hard going for users of
alternative browsers.
- Hands On: Netscape
7.0 vs. Commucator 4.7 vs. iCab 2.8.1, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 07.08. Netscape 7.0 coming along well in the speed
department.
- News: eBay buys
PayPal, Drew Cullen, The Register, 07.08. eBay is buying
PayPal, which handles 60% of eBay auction payments, for $1.5
billion.
- Advocacy: Being
independent of Microsoft not easy, Dan Gillmor, BayArea.com,
07.07. "I've long felt that the difference between PCs and Macs was
that PCs tend to get in your way, and Macs tend to get out of the
way."
- Analysis: Mac collecting
like a religion, Leander Kahney, Wired, 07.06. "For many Mac
people, I think it has a religious feeling to it."
- Analysis: Bipolar
conditioning and the myth of ease of use, Jeff Lewis, Mac
Skeptic, Mac Opinion, 07.05. There's more to life and computers
than "us" and "them."
- Advice: Ergonomic
keyboard and mouse solutions for the Mac, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 07.05. Some very interesting looking options.
- Analysis: Grassroots Apple
sites cower, close, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 07.04. "This
week Apple declared war on its grassroots enthusiasts...."
- News: Apple
market share rises slightly, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 07.03.
Apple market share measured at 3.48% by IDC - and that is an
improvement.
- Analysis: Press passes
pulled at Macworld, Leander Kahney, Wired, 07.03. Dean Browell
of Applelust was looking forward to the Expo, but they pulled his
press pass on Tuesday.
- News: Bay
State firm accused of eBay fraud, Boston Globe, 07.03. Teresa
Smith accused of taking $750,000 from customers and failing to
deliver promised Macintosh computers.
- Advice:
A compleat buyer's and user's guide to high-end (over $1,000)
PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 07.03.
Pismos, iBooks, and TiBooks.
- Opinion: Nick dePlume does
not speak for all Mac Web publishers, John Manzione, MacNet,
07.03. Why Think Secret's tirade reflects badly on the Mac
Web.
- Opinion: GraphicPower
has been blacklisted by Apple, Scott McCarty, GraphicPower,
07.03. "Apple has tremendous pull over who we can allow into the
show as members of the media."
- News: Apple
layoffs at Elk Grove plant, MacNN, 07.03. "Rumor has the count
at 40 with possibly more to come."
- Opinion: Should Apple put the
computer in the keyboard, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 07.03.
Think Commodore 64 meets iBook components....
- Web: AltaVista upgrades
search engine, The Register, 07.03. Once the king of search
engines, AltaVista hopes to become competitive again.
- Opinion: Apple
denying Expo press access to "rumor" sites; dangerous game,
Think Secret, 07.02. "It's blackmail, pure and simple."
- Opinion: Can Apple stop
the presses?, Matthew Rotheberg, eWeek, 07.02. Apple has
apparently pressured IDG to prevent "rumor and speculation" sites
from getting press passes to Macworld Expo.
- Advocacy: University confirms
Gartner findings: Macs are cheaper - and less trouble, Alex
Summersby, MacUnlimited, 07.02. "We have certainly found Macs are
way down on the cost scale compared with Windows machines."
News: BBC
to revive Doctor Who next year, Orange Today, 07.02. Not
the least bit Mac related, but I'd love to see the Doctor
again.- Ezine: ATPM, July 2002
issue.
Analysis: Dismissive
publicity, Stan Beer, smh.com.au, 07.02. After sacking van Pelt
over a news release, Apple Australia now claims she "has resigned
to pursue other interests."- Rights: Indymedia.nl loses
anarchist hyperlinks, Drew Cullen, The Register, 07.02. EC
Ecommerce Directive makes ISPs responsible for pulling illegal
content.
- Opinion: It's your own damn
default, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 07.01. A wonderful rant against
nonstandard HTML, nonstandard browsers, and poor standards within
HTML.
- Rights: Media
pass crackdown at MWNY?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 07.01.
"...outlets featuring coverage on rumors and speculation are not
eligible for a media pass."
- Opinion: For
plug-and-play, I pick the Apple, Peter Coffee, eWeek, 07.01.
"...the Macs of the new century are going the extra mile to make
life easy for next-generation devices."
- Humor: Real
Dudes, Macboy.com, 07.01. Third in a series. "My name is Steve,
and, dude, I'm getting a Mac."
- Virus: Klez tops virus
charts again, John Leyden, The Register, 07.01. "Klez became
the worst virus ever in May, and it shows no sign of abating...."
Windows only, of course.
- News: Apple drops Emagic
bombshell, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 07.01. Apple acquires
Emagic, will axe Windows version in September, Windows users are
not happy.
- Ezine: Web Page Design for
Designers, July issue.
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