The Low End Mac Link Archive, January 2003
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- Software: Moore's
omnibus Mac email client roundup - 2003 edition, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 01.31. Mac email clients from Eudora to Zoe -
covering both OS X and the classic Mac OS. (We still love
Claris Emailer.)
- Opinion: Apple product
introductions: The never-ending release cycle, Gene Steinberg,
Mac Night Owl, 01.31. New product releases not reserved for
Macworld Expos and other special events.
- Hardware: Stuck in the
past: Best Mac OS 9 Macs, O'Grady's PowerPage, 01.30. What are
the best OS 9 Macs and the best deals on OS 9 booting Macs?
- Benchmarks: Beige G3 266 on
X 10.2.3: How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 01.30. It's slow
compared with 800 MHz and 1 GHz machines, but it still runs Jaguar
"very well."
- Advice: Preparing for the
upgrade, Gene Steinberg, The Jaguar Report, Mac Night Owl,
01.30. Installing OS X "is pretty easy, but you'll want to
make sure your older Mac is ready."
- Analysis: Personal Computer
Market Share: 1975-2002, Jeremy Reimer, 01.30. Data shows Mac
market share peaked in 1992 while unit sales peaked in 1995 and
2000.
- Review: Checking
out WindowShade X 2.1.2, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.29. "Windowshading is quicker, slicker, more
convenient, and more elegant" than collapsing windows to the
dock.
- Opinion:
The case for the low-end 'Book, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
Applelinks, 01.28. "...the 12-inch AlBook is now the low - end
PowerBook, and shaping up to be a hot seller."
- Opinion: Going on
Safari, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 01.27. "[Tonya]'s finding a
number of sites less frustrating to use, simply because pages draw
faster than in Internet Explorer."
- Web: Visual
display of site traffic, James Spahr, designweenie.com, 01.27.
If you've ever wanted to visualize traffic within a website, you
have got to see this page.
- History:
The mouse that rolled, Jim Shelton, New Haven Register, 01.27.
"While today's computer mouse is as ever-present as the common can
opener, it was considered highly unusual back in 1983, when Apple
introduced its Lisa...."
- Web: ATMs, ISPs hit by
Slammer worm spread, John Leyden, The Register, 01.27. "The
bandwidth-crunching Slammer worm has causes all manner of damage
since its appearance on the Net in the early hours of Saturday
morning."
- Analysis: How
to milk an Apple, Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek, 02.03. Apple
remains a niche player, but has nearly doubled its share of the
consumer market.
- Tech:
The battle in 64 bit land, 2003 and beyond, Paul DeMone, Real
World Technologies, 01.26. Includes some excellent comments on
potential of PowerPC 970 in future Macs.
- Review:
Giga Designs G4/800 and 1GHz CPU upgrades, Mike Breeden,
Accelerate Your Mac!, 01.26. Upgrades compatible with all Power Mac
G4 models with AGP, attractively priced, very fast.
- Analysis:
Worm exposes apathy, Microsoft flaws, Robert Lemos, Cnet,
01.26. "That patch should have been applied--it's 6 months old
now."
- Oops:
Apple browser needs pizza pie in the eye, Courier-Journal,
01.26. Safari browser not compatible with Papa John's website. No
pizza for you - or use a different browser.
- Opinion:
Rise of the uber-browser, Dave Hyatt, Surfin' Safari, 01.26.
"Do news readers like NetNewsWire and Feedreader contain
functionality that should be absorbed into browser applications
like Safari, Chimera or OmniWeb?"
- Dark Side:
Comic relief of sorts, at Microsoft's expense, Rob McNair-Huff,
Mac Net Journal, 01.25. "...it was hilarious that Microsoft's own
Windows XP verification servers were offline today due to problems
caused by the SQL worm."
- Web: MS
SQL Server worm wreaking havoc, Slashdot, 01.25. Starting early
Saturday morning, this attack on Microsoft SQL Server effectively
disabled many servers, including some root Internet name
servers.
- Web: Internet
slowed by suspected denial-of-service attack, Martyn Williams,
MacCentral, 01.25. "...the problems appear to have centered around
a vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server and its server resolution
service...."
- Advice: Jaguar's
cool icon view functions, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.24. "The Jaguar Icon View Options dialog offers
unprecedented control over icon and Finder view window
appearance...."
- Advice: How much
computer is enough?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.24. "If
you're content to run OS 9 and appropriate application software,
you can get very decent performance out of old PPC Macs...."
- Review:
Surfin' with Apple's Safari, Tom Spring, PC World, 01.23. PC
World columnist (yes, PC World) finds a whole lot to like in
Apple's new browser.
- Tech: KBase
Article: Apple explains how spammers can verify your e-mail
address, Mac Observer, 01.23. "We offer a big, fat Mac Observer
Salute to Apple for posting this KBase article."
- Opinion: Apple's
chess game with Microsoft: Check!, John Martellaro, The Warp
Core, Applelinks, 01.22. "...Apple has executed a preemptive strike
by unleashing both a very good Web browser, Safari, and a very good
presentation package called Keynote."
- Upgrade: Upgrade the
Lombard and Pismo PowerBooks, Macworld, 01.22. How to upgrade
the RAM and hard drive in Apple's Lombard and Pismo
PowerBooks.
- Tech: (Almost!) totally
useless megahertz overview, Frivolous Diversions, WhoPhD,
01.22. Graph of PowerPC vs Pentium MHz ratings since 1994 shows
Macs have been losing the MHz race since 1998.
- Advocacy: Not ready to switch
to Macs? Why not just add one?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
01.22. If 70% of home PC users are thinking of adding a second
computer - Apple should target that market.
- Low End: 68k Macintosh
Liberation Army, 68k Macintosh Liberation Army, 01.22. A place
for users of vintage (pre-PowerPC) Mac equipment to hang out.
- Dark Side: Microsoft
loses showdown in Houston, Byron Acohido, USA Today, 01.21.
"The nation's fourth-largest city rebuffed [Microsoft's] offer and
has embraced an obscure competitor called SimDesk."
- Analysis: Beyond the Safari
hype, Robyn Weisman, osOpinion, 01.21. "I've heard from only a
few people who have tried it and switched back to another browser
right away."
- Advice: Partitioning
revisited yet again, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.21. "...after a week, I came to the realization that
I wasn't going to be happy with a single volume hard drive."
- History: A brief
history of ClarisWorks, Bob Hearn, 01.21. "The two of us were
about to take on Microsoft, and we knew we could do it!"
- Analysis: Market share versus
installed base, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.21. Mac users
simply don't replace their computers as often as PC owners.
- Tech:
Wireless far from flawless, Henry Norr, SFGate.com, 01.20.
"...802.11b, the current wireless standard, has ample bandwidth to
keep up with almost any home Internet connection."
- Opinion: AirPort Extreme:
In the key of G, G Fleishman, A Engst, TidBITS, 01.20. Great on
the local network, but keep in mind that most Internet connections
are far slower than Extreme's 54 Mbps.
- Software: SpamStopper
v1.4.0 released, RAILhead Design, 01.20. "...this program is a
web designer's utility that encodes email addresses so that email
indexing spiders can't harvest them from your site."
- Spam: Will new
filters save us from spam?, Scarlet Pruitt, MacCentral, 01.20.
"Their aim is to find a spam filter so effective, that spammers
would receive few, if any, responses, making sending unsolicited
bulk e-mail a financially prohibitive task."
- History: Lisa
20 years old today, Lisa2.com, 01.19. One year before
Macintosh, Apple introduced the $10,000 Lisa.
- News: Apple hosts
iCommune on its own servers!, PowerBook Zone, 01.18.
"...imagine our surprise to find that Apple continues to host the
Beta 1 version of the plugin on its site...."
- Tech: 802.11g's
"extreme" emergence, A Engst, G Fleishman, Wireless Starter
Kit, 01.17. "802.11g is attractive because it includes full
backwards compatibility with 802.11b."
- Opinion: The Quark
fiasco, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 01.17. Quark XPress is
only one of several reasons companies are not yet switching to Mac
OS X.
- Analysis: Is QuarkXPress
hurting Power Mac sales?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.17.
"Why are so many sticking with QuarkXPress and, as a result,
perhaps putting off purchase of new Macs until the program is Mac
OS X native?"
- Macinschool: Lots
of thoughts on Mac in education, Steve Wood, Educators' News,
01.17. Helpful thoughts on AirPort Extreme, viability of OS X in
the classroom, and use of new software at school.
- Rights: "I
poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA" - whistleblower, Andrew
Orlowski, The Register, 01.17. But hosting "poisoned" MP3s grew too
costly for the recording industry....
- News: Third
party hacks add numerous features to Safari, Mac Observer,
01.16. Disable brushed metal appearance, clear the icon cache,
change the buttons, and more.
- Opinion:
GraphicConverter, AppleCrap, 01.16. GraphicConverter isn't
crap; it's an excellent program. But what's with those weekly
updates?
- Analysis: Safari
catapults to #2 browser on TMO, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
01.16. Over 20% of visitors and 30% of Mac-using visitors to Mac
Observer using Safari.
- Rights: Consumers:
RIAA still not thinking of us, Grant Gross, MacCentral, 01.16.
"Wynkoop remains concerned that the RIAA may try to take away such
consumer rights as making copies of songs for their own
use...."
- Opinion: Apple's
looks, functions convert this PC devotee, Mike Wendland,
Detroit Free Press, 01.16. "The Mac just doesn't feel like a
machine. It's clean and crisp and tactile."
- Opinion: Apple's financials:
When is a loss really a profit?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
01.16. "...Fred Anderson, blames the state of the economy and the
lack of a Mac OS X version of QuarkXPress."
- Analysis: Apple's small loss
is $8 million in Q1 '03, Macs Only!, 01.16. Includes breakdown
of 743,000 Macs sold. Power Macs are losing momentum.
- Opinion: Apple: long
on sizzle, short on steak?, Hannibal, ars technica, 01.15. Does
Apple's recent move away from the desktop signal a permanent shift
in direction for the company, or is it a way of keeping things
afloat until the desktop situation gets straightened out?
- Upgrade:
Converting a beige G3 desktop to an ATX tower, Trevor Morris,
Accelerate Your Mac, 01.15. Sounds like an awful lot of work when
beige G3 minitowers are readily
available....
- News:
iCommune threatened by Apple, MacMegasite, 01.15. "The author
of iCommune, a music sharing plugin for iTunes, has received a
'Notice of Breach and Termination of License' letter from
Apple...."
- News: Apple
reports $8 million loss, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 01.15.
"Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported an US$8 million loss or
$0.02 per share for its fiscal first quarter 2003 ended December
28, 2002."
- News: Apple
reports $8 million loss, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 01.15.
"Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported an US$8 million loss or
$0.02 per share for its fiscal first quarter 2003 ended December
28, 2002."
- Advice: Partitioning
redux, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.15.
Sometimes you have to partiton, sometimes you don't, and sometimes
it's just a good idea.
- Forum:
Killing others' malicious processes, Slashdot, 01.15. Is it
right - and should it be legal - to actively disable attacks on
your hardware?
- Advice: Superior
ad blocking on OS X, Jon Gales, MacMerc, 01.14. How to block
lots of ads right in the OS, not just in one specific browser.
Clever.
- Opinion:
Now that Apple has started, it had better finish the Safari,
Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 01.14. "...Apple will make an
initial product and then not take the effort far enough to make the
product appeal to more than the most basic of Mac users."
- OS X: Technology press versus
Mac users, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.14. Tech press
loves OS X, but many Mac users content to stick with classic Mac OS
as long as practical.
- Opinion: The year of the
portable - yes!, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion,
01.14. "Apple's fantastic new 17" G4 PowerBook laptop has
essentially eliminated any rationale other than lower cost for
owning a desktop computer for most of Mac-users."
- Advice: Partitioning
the iBook part II - decision, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.14. Thanks to an external FireWire drive, the author
decides not to partition his iBook's hard drive.
- Opinion: CodeBitch is on
Safari, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 01.14. "My view is this: the CSS
support in this browser is pretty darn good, especially for a
beta."
- Rights: Why I should have
the right to kill a malicious process on your machine, Tim
Mullen, The Register, 01.14. "If anyone's rights are at issue here,
it's yours and mine - the people whose systems are being attacked
by worms and viruses running rampant on negligently unprotected
machines."
- Opinion: New PowerBooks:
Mini Me and the Lunch Tray, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 01.13.
"...Apple was careful to provide a rational way for people to
choose among Apple's iBook and PowerBook models...."
- Web:
Semantic obsolescence, Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Mark, 01.13.
"After keeping up with all the latest standards, painstakingly
marking up all my content, and validating every last page on my
site, I'm still stuck in a dead end."
- Benchmarks: Test
Results: Power Mac with FireWire 800 PCI Card and Bridge Board,
Bare Feats, 01.13. FireWire 800 unleashes performance of the
fastest drives.
- Opinion: Apple's Safari browser is
hard to close, Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network, 01.12. "If
Apple continues to show the intelligence and discipline with this
software that they have so far, I think it will become the primary
browser for many Mac users."
- Spam: Hotmail:
A spammer's paradise?, Michelle Delio, Wired, 01.12. Hotmail
and MSN mail servers make no attempt to deflect "dictionary
attacks" that seek out valid email addresses.
- Opinion: Yes, the world
needs another browser, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.12.
"...Safari's initial popularity and performance potential shows
that the Mac world did indeed need another Web browser."
- Opinion: Why Apple
is pulling away from Microsoft and can't afford not to do it,
Robert X. Cringely, I, Cringely, PBS, 01.11. "The notebooks are
nice, but what floored me were the applications.... This is Apple
sticking it to Microsoft."
- Rights:
Judge: Kazaa can be sued in U.S., Declan McCullagh, Cnet,
01.10. Kazaa publisher based in Australia. Whole question of
jurisdiction for Internet issues is one messy, unresolved can of
worms.
- Benchmarks: Shootout:
Safari vs. three other browsers, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
01.10. "I timed page downloads from four Web sites that I visit
regularly using four different current builds of OS X browsers:
Safari, Chimera, Mozilla, and iCab." And Safari didn't win.
- Humor: One
very, very big PowerBook, Joy of Tech, 01.10. What the future
holds for Apple ever growing top-end PowerBook.
- Opinion: A
first look at the Safari Web browser, Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly
Network, 01.10. An illustrated introduction to Apple's hot new
browser.
- Upgrade: Gaggle
of new processor upgrades at Macworld, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 01.10. Latest G4 upgrades for Power Mac G4 and Cube
from PowerLogix, Sonnet, and Giga Designs.
- Software: Safari Update 1.0 Beta
(v51), Apple, 01.10. This Safari Update is recommended for all
Safari users.
- Humor: Fans outraged at new
character in The Return of the King, Brian
Briggs, BBspot, 01.10. Tolkien purists less than happy as Star Wars
universe intersects Middle Earth in final LOTR episode.
- News: Safari
downloads top 500,000, Apple, 01.10. It seems Apple has a
genuine monster hit on their hands. We're impressed.
- News: U.F.O. USB FireWire
Organizer for G4 iMac, XtremeMac, 01.10. USB and FireWire ports
accessible from the front, which Apple should thought of, plus a
cool blue glow.
- News: MPEG-4 backers protest
Microsoft license, Stefanie Olsen, Cnet, 01.09. Microsoft
licensing Windows Media Player (on non-Windows platforms) at half
the cost of MPEG-4.
- Opinion: Why
are so many Mac users holding back from upgrading to
OS X?, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks,
01.09. "Five million OS X switchers/adopters means that about
20 million Mac users have not yet made the move."
- Opinion: Macintosh: An acquired
taste, Michael Kanellos, Cnet, 01.09. Author doesn't seem to
understand how computer users can be enthusastic about hardware,
OS, and software.
- Benchmarks: 17"
and 12" PowerBooks vs. other Apple laptops, Bare Feats, 01.09.
New Nvidia 440 graphics processor in 17" 'Book rocks on OpenGL
graphics test.
- Advice: How
to deal with common Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar problems, Randy B.
Singer, Mac Attorney, 01.09. "OS X (especially Jaguar) is
easier to deal with and troubleshoot than OS 7/8/9 was."
- Opinion: Looking at Safari,
Jeffrey Zeldman, zeldman.com, 01.09. Good thing: Apple makes it
easy to report bugs. Bad thing: Safari wants to set itself up as
your default browser.
- News: Apple
releases QuickTime 6.1, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.09.
Improved MPEG-4 and AAC part of upgrade.
- Web:
New year resolutions: Fix archives, ban pop-ups, Steve Outing,
Stop the Presses!, Editor & Publisher, 01.08. "...the big fat
problem that most needs to be addressed is archiving and expired
hyperlinks."
- News: OWC
shows XPostFacto 3.0 beta, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.08.
Wow, next version of XPostFacto should allow booting pre-FireWire
Macs from FireWire drives via FireWire PCI cards.
Rights:
Canadians
burned by blank-CD levy, Michelle Delio, Wired, 01.08.
Canadians already paying 21¢ levy on blank CDs. Now industry
wants to raise levy - and tax recordable DVDs, Compact Flash,
removable drives, and more.- OS X: Checking
out the Safari browser, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.08. "I found the Safari beta to be significantly
slower than the Chimera/Mozilla/Netscape troika...."
- News: Safari
breaks single day download record for Apple, Jim Dalrymple,
MacCentral, 01.08. "Safari has been downloaded 300,000 times in the
last 24 hours - the previous download record for Apple was for
iTunes, which had two days of 100,000 downloads."
- Opinion:
Even Woz still uses Mac OS 9, Matt Berger, InfoWorld, 01.08.
Why switch when Mac OS 9 will keep on working forever?
- Opinion: The real
Macworld keynote announcement: Independence, Nicolas diPierro,
Mac Observer, 01.08. Apple is reducing dependence on Microsoft,
pushing G4s in laptops where they best compete with "mobile"
Pentiums.
- Humor: The new
PowerBooks, Joy of Tech, 01.08. Just what do we call the new
PowerBook G4 models?
- News: Prices
cut on 1 GHz PowerBook, original AirPort cards, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 01.08. 1 GHz PowerBook G4 price trimmed $200, old
AirPort card prices cut by $20.
- News: Dr. Bott
debuts in AirPort Extreme antennas, MacNN, 01.08. Boost the
range of AirPort Extreme with directional and omnidirectional
add-on antennas.
- News: New
PowerBooks: Ports now on the side, none in the back, PowerBook
Central, 01.07. Wow, seems like everyone else overlooked this.
Ports are on the side, just like on iBook.
- Forum:
Glitch in Safari, MacMerc, 01.07. For some reason, Safari users
can't log into MacMerc or other PHP-Nuke sites.
- Opinion:
New iBook First Impressions, Review of Mini-Hub, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.07. Newly purchased 700 MHz
iBook is attractive, speedy, and smelly.
- Opinion:
What do you think of the Mac OS X interface?, Edward Tufte,
07.20. Leading authority on graphical display of information calls
OS 9 "nearly ideal," OS X "distracting and
self-conscious."
- Dark Side: Popular
connections make add-ons work, Kim Komando, Indianapolis Star,
01.07. Headline mistakenly states "USB 2.0 not available for
Macintoshes." It is available via third-party cards.
- News: Apple's
Mac OS X Adoption Soars With More Than 5 Million Users, Apple,
01.07. We rarely link to press releases, but 5 million OS X
users and 5,000 native apps is good news indeed!
- News: Jobs
unveils biggest, smallest PowerBooks ever, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 01.07. New 17" PowerBook G4 has 1440 x 900 display,
Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, and weighs just 6.8 pounds.
- News: Apple
Announces Safari Web Browser, Brad Smith, Mac Observer, 01.07.
Safari "fastest browser for the Mac" and available for free
download.
- News: Apple
Introduces 12", 4.6 Pound PowerBook G4, Mac Observer, 01.07.
New aluminum PowerBook G4 includes FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme,
12" 1024 x 768 display.
- News: Apple
Announces Keynote Presentation App, Brad Smith, Mac Observer,
01.07. "Available immediately for $99 (US), Keynote imports and
exports PowerPoint, QuickTime® and PDF files to make creating
and sharing presentations easier than ever."
- News: Apple
Announces iLife: Boxed iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD For US$49,
Mac Observer, 01.07. "From within iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, or iDVD 3 you
can access any of the other iApps including iTunes 3."
- News: Apple
introduces high-speed 'Airport Extreme', Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 01.07. "While current AirPort base stations operate at
up to 11Mbps, AirPort Extreme operates at up to 54Mbps. It's
downwardly compatible...."
- News: TiVo,
Brother, Aspyr announce Rendezvous products, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 01.07. "...TiVo's upcoming premium service package will
use Rendezvous technology to automatically discover Macs within the
home network...."
- Upgrade: Sonnet
intros 1.2 GHz Power Mac G4 upgrade, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
01.07. New upgrade includes 2 MB cache, works with most Power Macs
with AGP graphics.
- Humor:
Top 10 reasons Macs suck!, iGeek, 01.07. 10. You can't use
5-1/4" floppies....
- Analysis:
Logitech proves no mouse among men, William Hall, Financial
Times, 01.06. How Logitech survives, thrives, and grows its market
at Microsoft's expense.
- Benchmarks: Mac OS X 10.2.3
- How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 01.06. Mac OS X keeps getting
better, but is it getting any faster?
- Opinion: Friends don't
let friends use Classic, Bill Davies, CCNews, 01.05. "You can
run your old Mac software on OS X without spending a dime using
Classic; however, you really won't enjoy any of the benefits of OS
X if you don't upgrade your software."
- Dark Side: Microsoft's
masterplan to screw phone partner - full details, Andrew
Orlowski, The Register, 01.05. "Microsoft had far more to gain than
it had to lose by seeing its partner fall."
- Dark Side:
Why IE is so fast ... sometimes, Slashdot, 01.05. "Finally the
scoop on how IE 'cheats' a little to up its performance!"
- Web: The ethics of
linkage, zonker, Kuro5hin, 01.04. Should site such as Slashdot
have a responsibility to sites that encounter excessive bandwidth
fees due to their links?
- Low End: Bluetooth and 68K
browsers, Chris Lawson, ATPM, 01.03. Forget 68000-based Macs.
For the rest, lots of RAM, iCab, and a RAM disk cache are your best
bet.
- Software: Freeverse
Board Games, Freeverse, 01.03. Eight classic two-player board
games support network, Internet play. Free.
- Review: PopMonitor,
Web Design for Designers, 01.03. Anti-spam tool deletes spam at the
server so you never have to download it at all.
- Opinion: C|net
reports that Apple will charge for iMovie/iDVD/iPhoto update,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.03. "If Apple does, in fact, charge
for iMovie and iPhoto updates, the company will alienate and anger
a sizable, and vocal, portion of its user base."
- OS X: Mail.crapp,
Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 01.03. Apple's Mail.app hoses
attachments. Not good.
- OS X:
/Switch'd, Cory Watson, Rush Magazine, 01.03. The author of
"Why I Don't Own a Mac" nows owns and uses a PowerBook G4.
- Opinion:
IDC says Linux will surpass the Mac OS on the desktop in
2003-2004, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 01.03.
"In the US, Europe, and Japan, the Mac OS will likely remain the #2
OS for many years to come...."
- Analysis: Linux continues
desktop march, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet, 01.03. "IDC expects
that Linux will become the No. 2 desktop OS in the next year or
two, surpassing the Mac OS...."
- OS X: This little
Whamb does neat tricks: New Rendezvous enabled MP3 player, Mac
Observer, 01.03. Low demand MP3 player uses Rendezvous to
automatically share tunes on your network.
- Opinion: Wintel
company clones PowerBook G4, touts it as digital hub, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.03. "This company is clearly, so very
clearly, aping Apple's product design, marketing, imaging, and
positioning...."
- Opinion:
Memo to Macworld San Francisco: iWant my iStereo, Hadley Stern,
AppleMatters, 01.02. "The only time I use my CDs is when I use my
stereo. But I miss my playlists...."
- OS X: NewtSync
updated, Everchanging, 01.02. Still in beta, this software lets
you connect and sync Apple's Newton with Macs running Jaguar.
- Analysis: Miss
ng pieces: A list of features missing in each of Apple's newest
products, Rob Art Morgan, Bare Feats, 01.02. Several places
where Apple could improve their product line.
- OS X: Living
without Windowshading, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.02. OS X is usable without windowshading, but
better with WindowShade X.
- Opinion: Hold onto your
Macs - They'll be worth something (one day), Remy Davison,
Insanely Great Mac, 01.02. Old Lisas, original Macs, and Apple Is
are fetching high prices these days.
- Advice: Help! My
3-year-old wrote on my PowerBook screen with a marker!, Damien
Barrett, AppleTechs, 01.02. What should work - and what not to
use.
- Review: Hands on
with El Gato's EyeTV, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.02. Not
quite TiVo for the Mac, but also no monthly programming
charges.
- Opinion: Macworld's
third annual look at the year ahead in Macs, Macworld, 01.01. A
dozen pundits predict the most significant Mac products for the new
year.
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