Link Archive: September 2004
Links Around the Web
- Tech:
Seagate seeks system builder support for 100GB notebook drive,
Tony Smith, The Register, 09.29. "Seagate has begun shipping the
100GB 2.5in notebook hard drive it launched back in June...." This
one spins at 5400 rpm, but a 7200 rpm model is in the works.
- Opinion: Apple
needs to dispel the premium price myth, Gene Steinberg, Mac
Night Owl, 09.29. "Just imagine an ad like this: 'Think Macs Are
Expense? Think Again!,' which goes on to do the proper price
comparisons in a very public way."
- Software: SubRosaSoft
announces new file recovery utilities, MacMinute, 09.29.
"FileSalvage will recover files you have accidentally deleted,
files that have become unreadable..., or files ... on a drive that
was accidentally initialized...."
- Virus: Ha, ha
you're infected, John Leyden, The Register, 09.29. "The worm
scours the hard disk of infected PCs for the email addresses of
potential victims." But "Bagle-AS is a Windows-only risk."
- Tech: Dual-core
PowerPC processor announced, Eric Bangeman, ars technica,
09.28. "...Freescale (which was spun off from Motorola's
semiconductor division) plans to make the MPC7448, which would be
the successor to the MPC7447 currently used in some of Apple's
products."
- Spam:
What's in your email? Put controls on your spam, Tera Patricks,
Mac360, 09.28. "Here's a touch of my daily spam and two steps to
get it controlled."
- Deal: Adobe
Photoshop Elements 3.0 for $65 shipped after rebate, dealmac,
09.28. Billed as the perfect complement to iPhoto, there's also a
$20 mail-in rebate for upgraders.
- Opinion: For
whatever reasons, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 09.27. "The
message I get is that people are fed up with the vulnerability of
Windows. They are increasingly willing to consider other
options."
- Advocacy:
How to save your city hundreds of dollars with a Mac, Rob
McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 09.27. "Last week I was able to put
my PowerBook to work in my city job by taking some simple digital
video and using iMovie for my first time ever to edit a series of
clips together...."
- Macinschool:
For schools, Apple offers special iMac G5, eMac, Ryan Faas,
Computerworld, 09.27. Schools can save money with special versions
of the eMac and iMac, but they should make sure the stripped models
meet their needs before buying.
- Opinion:
Why I dumped Safari and Firefox. My new browser, Tera Patricks,
Mac360, 09.27. "The extra page loading speed and few Javascript
quirks were enough to get me to use Camino regularly. Now I won't
go back."
- Opinion:
Star Wars DVD set has DVD player for G3 users, MacSlash, 09.27.
Star Wars DVD set includes a video player that works very nicely,
even on older Mac hardware.
- Opinion:
Nothing for your name, John C. Dvorak, ABC News, 09.27. "...I
think it's time for publications to rethink the increasing demand
that people register just to read one darn article."
- Advice: A simple
fix for "dead" iPod batteries?, Bill Stiteler, Applelinks,
09.25. "...some users of 1 and 2G iPods who are reporting that they
have restored some life to 'dead' iPod batteries simply by cracking
the 'Pod open, disconnecting the battery, then reconnecting
it."
- Opinion:
Friday freebies and nifty neato Mac utilities, Alex Kayhill,
Mac360, 09.25. Movies2Go, WatchIt, and WordService. Freeware,
shareware, and donationware you just might want to use.
- Review:
Make your Mac answer the phone, record and send messages, Tera
Patricks, Mac360, 09.23. Turn any Mac running OS X into a voicemail
system with up to 11 mailboxes. Email messages to Mac users.
- Opinion:
Macs suddenly affordable, Leander Kahney, Wired, 09.23.
"Instead of the usual Macs are 'more expensive,' I read several
times that Macs are suddenly 'more affordable.'"
- Hardware: Finding the "fastest" mouse
for your Mac, Bare Feats, 09.23. Why the Logitech MX900 stands
out from the crowd.
- Benchmarks: iMac
G5 versus "the rest of the family", Bare Feats, 09.23. How do
the new 1.6 GHz and 1.8 GHz iMacs compare with Power Macs,
PowerBooks, and eMacs?
- OS X: Is
anyone out there really still using OS 10.1?, Charles W. Moore,
OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 09.23. "...if you're still using OS 10.1,
you really owe to yourself to consider upgrading to at least OS
10.2 Jaguar."
- Opinion: Revisiting
home automation and blade server possibilities for Apple,
Dennis Sellers, Macsimum Perspective, 09.23. Thoughts on a headless
Mac and Apple-branded blade server.
- Review:
NetNewsWire 2.0: Mature RSS reader, Tera Patricks, Mac360,
09.22. "The reality is, time is money. Now, with NNW, I can select
the RSS feeds from a couple of hundred sites in my bookmark list,
and check the updates, headlines for each-- all at the same
time."
- Opinion:
Are today's Apple 'Books too fragile?, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 09.21. "...I think that metal is an inferior
material for laptop cases compared with good, old, tough,
polycarbonate plastic, which still shrouds the iBook models."
- Opinion:
iPhoto needs Econ's Portraits and Prints, Alex Kahill, Mac360,
09.20. "...Portraits and Prints gives iPhoto that extra oooomph
that makes for a truly outstanding experience dealing with digital
photographs."
- Hardware: The secret
behind the iPod's scrollwheel, Eliot Van Buskirk, MP3 Insider,
MP3.com, 09.17. "...a company called Synaptics, which primarily
makes touchpads for laptops, actually perfected this little piece
of navigational heaven...."
- Opinion: Firefox is
back, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 09.17.
"Firefox is evidently back to its speedy, reliable self, and is
arguably once again the best all-round browser on the Mac
platform...."
- Analysis: Top five
most popular computers at Amazon are Macs, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 09.17. "...the Top 3 being the not-yet shipping iMac G5.
Additionally, nine of the Top 20 most popular computers are also
Macs."
- Review:
Great Reading: 5 killer books for Mac OS X, Tera Patricks,
Mac360, 09.17. Title says it all: Five books you should know about
if you want to get the most out of OS X.
- Opinion:
Strange tales of the two Apples, Arik Hesseldahl, Ten O'Clock
Tech, Forbes, 09.17. "Apple could make this entire thing go away by
spinning off the entire iTunes Music Store as a subsidiary and stop
promoting it under the Apple Computer name."
- Dark Side: Microsoft: Can we
check your software license?, Ina Fried, ZDNet, 09.17. "The
company could . . . prevent those that have unlicensed copies of
Windows from downloading software updates on Microsoft's
site."
- Review: ATI
TV Wonder USB 2.0, Trusted Reviews, The Register, 09.17.
External US$99 device converts broadcast or analog signal, sends it
uncompressed via USB 2.0 - and doesn't offer any Mac support.
Spam:
Report recommends bounty for spammers, Jennifer C. Kerr,
Yahoo/AP, 09.17. "What would it take to get someone to turn in one
of those spammers who send millions of unwanted e-mails? At least
$100,000, the Federal Trade Commission figures."- Opinion:
Apple Death Knell #43: Apple must change or die, Bryan Chaffin,
The Back Page, Mac Observer, 09.16. "It's just amazing how people
can maneuver and posture themselves in their efforts to interpret
Apple's success as evidence of the company's impending corporate
suicide...."
- OS X: Apple patches
iChat with security update, MacMinute, 09.16. "According to the
release notes, the update 'delivers a number of security
enhancements,' is recommended for all Mac users, and includes an
updated version of iChat."
- Dark Side:
Human error blamed in air traffic breakdown, Alonso-Zaldivar,
Garvey, LA Times, 09.15. FAA computer system must be restarted
every 49.7 days to prevent problems - and someone forgot. (This is
a known Windows 95/98 bug.)
- Opinion:
Love affair with Macs unabated after 20 years, Bob Norberg,
Press Democrat, 09.15. "It introduced a whole different way of
looking at the PC, more personalized, a design geared toward the
noncommercial sector."
- News: Hitachi
to release 100GB hard drives for notebooks, Paul Kallender,
MacCentral, 09.15. New 100 GB, 5400 rpm Hitachi TravelStar drive
should be available by year-end at US$263. Biggest now available is
80 GB.
Apple:
iTunes
under fire over UK pricing, BBC News, 09.15. "There appears to
be considerable evidence that the iTunes set up is prejudiced
against the UK public and distorts the very basis of the single
market."- Deal:
Apple offers
refurb sale as Mac drought continues, Jonny Evans, Macworld UK,
09.15. "Apple is making refurbished Macs available at discount
prices through the Apple Store every day until September 29."
- News: Adobe
announces Photoshop Elements 3.0, MacMinute, 09.15. "Billed as
'the perfect companion to Apple's iPhoto,' [it] includes several
advanced editing tools . . . such as the powerful Healing
Brush...." That alone could be worth $90!
- Hardware:
Elgato's EyeHome lets you get movies and music from computers to
TV, Christopher Allbritton, Meandering Macs, Popular Mechanics,
09.15. EyeHome works, allowing you to send videos, photos, and
music to your TV, but it has some drawbacks as well.
- Opinion:
Apple's future, part 7: G5 iMac looks good, Philip Machanick,
Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 09.15. "The key issue for me is that
Apple hasn't skimped on the key areas which affect performance
(other than graphics, which most affects high-end gamers)."
- Dark Side: University
of Chicago warns PC users, limits file sharing, Vern Seward,
Mac Observer, 09.14. "What the IT guys at the U of C are
effectively telling students is that there will be no file sharing
in the dorms...." At least on the normal Windows ports.
- Review:
Mozilla's Firefox Mac browser. Oh boy!, Alex Kayhill, Mac360,
09.14. Firefox 1.0 (preview) runs circles around Internet Explorer
and gives Safari a run for the money. And it's free.
- Apple: Beatles settlement
could be 'biggest in legal history', MacMinute, 09.13. "...an
out of court settlement could be imminent and that it will
'massively dwarf' the US$26.5 million Apple paid to the Beatles in
1991 over trademark use."
- Dark Side: Forthcoming
Microsoft flaw gets special treatment, Ken "Caesar" Fisher, ars
technica, 09.13. "A known but undisclosed security flaw in
Microsoft Windows and Office is receiving special attention from
the Redmond Giant, who notified its Premium customers of the
flaws...."
- News: Apple begins shipping
iMac G5s, MacMinute, 09.13. "Several MacMinute readers report
that they have received confirmation from Apple that their iMac G5
orders have shipped."
- Review:
Mac CSS editors: Make HTML sing for less, Tera Patricks,
Mac360, 09.13. "Two Mac CSS editors shine among the many."
- News:
Power Mac G5 Uniprocessor Firmware Update, Apple, 09.13. "The
Power Mac G5 Uniprocessor Firmware Update improves general system
reliability and restores sleep functionality."
- Advocacy: Bringing the Apple
to the masses - revisited, Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews, 09.12.
"Switchers that can't take the girlie all-in-one eMac and want some
PCI expandability and also switchers who are sensitive in
prices."
- Opinion:
"Beware of the end of the World (Wide Web)," says Intel,
Forbes, 09.10. "Intel and others see [World Wide Web] as becoming
so overloaded it will eventually break."
- Opinion: Mike
Leonard, Today's talented storyteller, Nancy Eaton,
Apple, 09.10. How Mike Leonard uses a DV camcorder, 12" PowerBook,
and Final Cut Pro to create features for Today.
- Advice: Some little
Safari tips, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 09.09.
Five neat Safari features you may find useful.
- Dark Side:
Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?, B Acohido, J
Swartz, USA Today, 09.08. "Most consumers are slow to grasp that an
intruder has usurped control of their PC."
- Spam: Savvis
ditches profitable spamming customers, Eric Bangeman, ars
technica, 09.08. "One of the world's largest ISPs and hosting
providers - Savvis - has let 148 spammers know that they are no
longer welcome." It's a start.
- Opinion: What
software is still missing on the Mac?, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum
Perspective, 09.07. "Here's an offer you don't get every day: a
chance to make recommendations for Mac software to fill in any
missing gaps for our favorite computing platform."
- Huh?: Party with the
Podi, Peter Rojas, engadget, 09.06. "It should be roughly five
seconds before Apple's legal team has them in shackles, but for
right now THD seems to have gotten away with naming their 4GB MP3
player the 'Podi'."
- Opinion: Floppy
disk becoming relic of the past, Mark Niesse, tallahassee.com,
09.06. Apple dropped it with 1998 iMac."Dell Computer Corp. stopped
including a floppy drive in new computers in spring 2003, and
Gateway Inc. has followed suit on some models."
- Software:
For Mac OS X: The top 10 best free utilities ever, Tera
Patricks, Mac360, 09.03. Carbon Copy Cloner, StuffIt Expander,
NetNewsWire Lite - but what else makes the list?
- Opinion:
iMac: The missing memory, Dan Frakes, MacCentral, 09.03.
"...when it comes to memory, I think Apple has gone too far for the
sake of hitting a price point."
- Rights: BMI posts
record year, despite music industry doom and gloom, ars
technica, 09.03. "Such results are confusing when we're told every
month that the industry as a whole is on the verge of destruction,
mostly on account of piracy."
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