Link Archive: December 2004
Links Around the Web
- Opinion: Smaller
not necessarily better, Leander Kahney, Wired, 01.13. "The iPod
shuffle is clearly a hit, and Macworld attendees hope the Mac mini
will be also, but there are worries it may be another Cube."
- Analysis:
Mac mini: What you need to know, Jason Snell, Macworld, 01.13.
"...we've been gleaning what we can about the new $499 Mac from
loving visits on the Macworld Expo show floor and technical
discussions we've had with a few Apple officials."
- Analysis:
New iMac, iPod could bite Apple's profits, Reuters, 01.13. "Not
only do the new products carry lower gross margins, but Apple's
costs are also higher than that of other personal computer
makers."
- News: iPod shuffle:
20,000 sold in first 4 hours, Jeremy Horwitz, iPodlounge,
01.13. "... Apple's retail store in San Francisco sold 20,000 iPod
shuffle units in its first four hours of availability this week,
depleting its entire inventory."
- Rights: Casualties
mount in Apple vs customers war, Andrew Orlowski, The Register,
01.13. "It doesn't make sense for them to charge us a dollar per
song for a song in some format that disables us from using it with
anything other than an iPod or our computer."
Rights:
Apple
sues student, Joseph M Tartakoff, Harvard Crimson, 01.12.
"Apple claims that Ciarelli and his company, The dePlume
Organization, broke the law when soliciting insider tips online
from anonymous sources...."- Analysis:
Headless iMac, Philip Machanick, MacIntelligence, Mac Opinion,
01.12. "The Mac mini is not as crippled as the horrible
under-Performas of the 1990s. It is pretty much an eMac in a
smaller box, minus keyboard, mouse and screen."
- Opinion:
A Mac for the masses, Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 01.12. "...this
time, Jobs brought forth a new kind of Mac - a machine that comes
with every feature of the Macs of yesteryear, except one: Sticker
shock."
- Opinion:
New Apple mini looks good on paper, but hot new look still needs to
prove itself, John C. Dvorak, CBS MarketWatch, 01.12. "Once
this unit gets into the field and passes the tests of the real
world, I'll have no trouble recommending it as a machine of choice,
especially to new users."
- Analysis:
Mac mini economics: My math wasn't bad, just misguided, Jon
Fortt, Jon Fortt's Technofile, 01.12. "You end up with a computer
that costs Apple not $435, but $385 to bring to market."
- Opinion: Mac
mini and PCs that don't work, Jonathan Gennick, O'Reilly
Network, 01.12. "I see people who are so frustrated with their
dysfunctional PCs that they just shove them into a corner and
forget about them. Windows PCs are just difficult for many to keep
running."
- Analysis:
Mac mini a maxi deal? Depends what you want, M Kanellos, J
Spooner, Cnet, 01.12. "Price considerations aside, the Mac Mini is
unlike other PCs on the market. [It's] far smaller and more stylish
than 'small' PCs"
- Tech: Apple VP:
PowerBook G5 "the mother of all thermal challenges", Misha
Sakellaropoulo, Mac Observer, 01.12. Although IBM keeps improving
the G5, it's still too hot to be practical in a laptop.
- AAPL: Apple
turns $295 million profit; revenue soars to $3.49 billion, Mac
Observer, 01.12. Highest quarterly revenue and net income in Apple
history. Mac sales up 26% over a year ago, and iPod sales up
525%.
- Opinion:
Mac mini: Flat Cube, or Honey! I Shrunk the Power Mac!, Glenn
Fleishman, TidBITS, 01.11. "The Mac mini essentially cuts the lungs
out of the PC world's (and many columnists') argument about Macs
costing too much."
- News: TextWrangler: now free,
and better than ever, Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 01.11.
Bare Bones updates TextWrangler to version 2.0, turns it into
freeware.
- Analysis:
Apple iPod shuffle poised to sideswipe portable music market,
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS, 01.11. "...Apple has chosen an impressive
and surprising strategy of undercutting the competition on price: a
512MB model is just $100, and a 1GB model is just $150."
- Opinion:
iWork: I, PageMaker?, Philip Michaels, Macworld, 01.11. "This
initial impression could change once iWork actually ships on
January 22, but the program Apple touted Tuesday seemed to put more
of an emphasis on page-layout than word-processing."
- Opinion: iPod
shuffle - great software makes it possible, Derrick Story,
O'Reilly Network, 01.11. "How can Apple get away with a Flash music
player that doesn't even have an LCD screen? The answer:
iTunes."
- Advice: RSS
and tabbed browsing in Safari, Firefox, and Camino, Wei-Meng
Lee, MacDevCenter, 01.11. How to use RSS and tabbed browsing to
reduce desktop clutter on your Mac.
- History: Daniel
Kottke's amazing Apple relics, DigiBarn, 01.10. Includes photos
of Macintosh prototype motherboard #5. Interesting historical
tidbits.
- Opinion:
Apple of thine eye, Jason Walsh, Micromart, 01.10. "In an age
when being both American and a corporation is increasingly viewed
with suspicion, why is this Californian computer company the
subject of such devotion for so many people...?"
- History:
Mac TV, MLAgazine, 01.10. Long before Microsoft began pushing
Media Center computers, Apple made a Mac with a built-in TV
tuner.
- Software: Sp@mX offers
anti-phishing capability, Mac support, MacMinute, 01.10.
"...Sp@mX, the company's popular software for spam source tracing
and reporting, has the added support for both Macintosh and Linux,
as well as the capability to track down ' phishers.'"
- Web: Spammers
tax DNS infrastructures, John Leyden, The Register, 01.10. Spam
tactics "are placing a heavy load on DNS servers attempting to
look-up non-existent domains."
- Software: Opera 8.0
Preview 1 Web browser for Mac, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 01.10. "With this version 8, Opera on the Mac comes a
lot closer to living up to, or even achieved, its erstwhile slogan:
'fastest browser on the planet.'"
- Opinion: Can Apple
learn anything from Bose?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
12.31. "Bose downplays specs, and, in fact, only lists the size of
the unit. The manual simply concentrates on how to use it...."
- Software: Mac OS X
system maintenance utilities roundup, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 12.31. A whole bunch of system utilities for OS X users
- many of them free.
- Opinion: Piper
Jaffray calls rumors of sub-$500 Mac "not out of the question",
Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.30. "...an inexpensive Mac 'would
appeal to many potential "switchers" that would likely not make the
move at a $1,299 price point, but would consider a $500
product.'"
- Advice: Three OS X
annoyances and some workarounds, Charles W. Moore, OS X
Odyssey, Applelinks, 12.30. Problems with the Dock, the Trash, and
Drag and Drop in Cocoa programs.
- Virus: Windows XP
users Phelled by new Trojan, Ashlee Vance, The Register, 12.30.
Even those with Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed can be infected
by this one.
- Opinion:
Goodbye Safari, Johnathon Williams, JohnathonWilliams.com,
12.30. "Some sites still aren't completely compatible with Safari
(TypePad, for instance), and switching to Firefox each time I
stumbled across one got old."
- Opinion: Suffering the swings
and arrows of outrageous customer service!, Dan Welch, OSNews,
12.30. Author rants because Apple won't sell him a SuperDrive for
his older Power Mac G4 - or tell him about third-party
options.
- Dark Side: Microsoft
revokes Passport service, Ashlee Vance, The Register, 12.30.
"Microsoft has given up on trying to hawk its controversial
Passport sign-on service to other companies...."
- Opinion:
Apple Death Knell #44: Philips Electronics buys Apple in 2005,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 12.29. "He expects Apple to need a
bailout in 2005, despite the company's massive cash stockpile,
growing Mac sales, growing iPod sales, and growing iTunes Music
Store sales."
- Analysis:
Lessons Apple should have learnt a long time back, MaVue,
Commentary on Technology, 12.29. "Anyway I look at this, the
cheaper the product the better Apple does."
- Opinion:
More headless iMac nonsense: The last refuge of the delusional,
Bill Palmer, BillPalmer.net, 12.29. "There's nothing lamer than
finding out that there is zero real-world interest in your fantasy
product...."
- Review: Checking
out iCab 3.0 beta 222 browser, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
12.29. Although still a beta preview release, "I'm very happy with
iCab 3.0 so far after putting it through its paces."
- Analysis:
The $500 iMac will not happen, Ian Samuel, The Apple Blog,
12.29. "No one would buy an eMac at $799 when they could just get
this and a CRT for less."
- Opinion:
The new Apple 914, Red Herring, 12.29. "But if Apple doesn't
cater to the quickly growing low-end market segment, the Cupertino,
California, company may not be able to compete in the personal
computer business for long...."
- Review: MacFamilyTree:
Recommended genealogy software, Nancy Carroll Gravley,
Computing with Bifocals, Mac Observer, 12.29. "You will need to
give yourself a little time to become familiar with this particular
application, but it is organized in a logical manner...."
- Virus: Cyber crime
booms in 2004, Mark Ward, BBC News, 12.29. 100,000 viruses -
"The last 12 months have seen a dramatic growth in almost every
security threat that plague Windows PCs."
- Opinion:
Grim Macintosh market share forebodes crisis, Paul Thurrott,
Internet Nexus, 12.28. Why Dvorak is right in claiming Apple
doesn't have a sustainable market.
- Opinion:
Apple to blossom as tech recovers, Richard Waters, News
Interactive, 12.28. "The success of the iPod . . . is likely to
leave Apple Computer as the only tech company with revenues of over
$US10 billion ($13 billion) and a growth rate of over 20 per
cent...."
- Analysis: More
crap from Dvorak, Dori Smith, Backup Brain, 12.28. "...the
number of Mac users online (or at least visiting the W3 Schools
site) has gone from 1.8% in March 2003 to 2.3% in December 2003 to
2.7% in December 2004."
- Opinion:
Grim Macintosh market share forebodes crisis, John C. Dvorak,
PC Magazine, 12.28. "Simply put, the ease-of-use and simplicity of
the platform is killing it, because people cannot perceive that
simplicity is ever worth MORE than complexity."
- Tech: Virtual Apple
2, Virtual Apple, 12.28. Play old Apple IIe and IIgs games with
an online emulator - but only if you use a Windows PC.
- Opinion: 2005 in
retrospect: Apple's 1 percent solution, Mitch Ratcliffe, Red
Herring, 12.28. Article projects Apple will grow market share by 1%
in 2005.
- Deal: Zonet
5-port 10/100 ethernet switch for $12, dealmac, 12.28. A 5-port
switch for $11.69? Great for creating or expanding a small network.
Add $4.99 for shipping.
- Review:
Review of Linux on the iPod, Jordan Carder, Accelerate Your
Mac, 12.27. Yes, you can run Linux on an iPod (pre-G4 only at
present). This article explains why you might want to.
- Dark Side:
Free Windows software without spyware/adware, Slashdot, 12.27.
"With Windows users increasingly believing that free software
invariably means adware or spyware, I set out to promote good,
clean, free software."
- Spam:
CAN-SPAM not seen to be effective, Grant Gross, MacCentral,
12.27. "A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal
antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount
of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in U.S. residents'
inboxes."
- Opinion:
Readers weigh in on Apple and possibility of 'halo effect', T
Hanrahan, J Fry, Wall Street Journal, 12.23. Email from "a
significant number of people who said that the iPod, Windows
security concerns or a combination of the two had made them switch
to a Mac or plan to do so."
News:
Apple Canada cuts iPod prices, Tony Smith, The Register, 12.23.
"The reductions come on the heels of a Federal Court of Appeal
ruling, made last week, that Canada's Board of Copyright is not
permitted by the country's Copyright Law to tax MP3 players."- Opinion: Confessions
of a PC/Windows snob, Samuel Lewis, Legal Technology, 12.22.
"...the Mac has a number of advantages over Windows-based systems,
not least of which is the fact that most viruses and spyware are
specifically designed to exploit weaknesses in Windows."
- History:
Great moments in microprocessor history, Wade Warner, IBM,
12.22. From Intel's first 4-bit CPU to today's 64-bit
contenders.
- Opinion: Beckoned by the
Mac, Scott Cabana, OSNews, 12.22. "I'm not saying everyone
should get a Mac, but techs should respect the platform more."
- Rights: Attention
Apple Legal Dept: ABOSS I-Pocket rips off iPod mini in spectacular
fashion, MacDailyNews, 12.22. "Introducing the ABOSS i-Pocket,
a completely transparent attempt to create a facsimile of Apple's
iPod mini portable music player."
- Opinion: Subscription
model to dethrone Apple iPod?, Sushubh, Tech News and Views,
12.22. Would you rather own your tunes or pay $9.99 a month so you
can rent them? That's the subscription model.
- Tech:
Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature, Stephen
Shankland, Cnet, 12.21. "The next-generation chip will have
technology that lets it run multiple operating systems
simultaneously...."
- Opinion:
Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear 'Books, Charles W. Moore,
Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.21. Three sizes of PowerBooks - which
is right for you?
- Tech:
Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature, Stephen
Shankland, Cnet, 12.21. "The next-generation chip will have
technology that lets it run multiple operating systems
simultaneously...."
- History: Mac Portable,
Tom, Macreate, 12.21. "The Portable was a no compromise machine,
much to the delight of John Louis Gassée."
- Opinion: Five
more reasons Mac fans turn into all-out Mac lovers, Bob
Levitus, Dr Mac, Houston Chronicle, 12.20. "How often do you hear
Windows users proclaim such affection for their computers?"
- Opinion:
Secret's out: The absolute worst Mac you can buy, Tera
Patricks, Mac360, 12.20. "It's the lowly eMac. The worst desktop
computer you can buy in 2004 (according to the 10 To Avoid: The
Worst Products of the Year)."
- News: Apple
subpoenas Mac rumor sites over audio product, Brad Gibson, Mac
Observer, 12.20. "A California Superior Court has granted a request
. . . to serve subpoenas on three Mac rumor Web sites seeking
information on who leaked facts about an un-announced audio
hardware product."
- News: Apple continues
to extend iBook Logic Board program, MacNN, 12.20. Apple has
again extended its iBook Logic Board Replacement program, which now
runs until March 18, 2005.
- Rights:
P2P file swapping: Is the torrent about to die?, Bambi Hambi,
Mac360, 12.20. "Is it possible to stop illegal file swapping with
technology? Probably not. With lawsuits? Probably not."
- Advocacy: An
open request for an iTunes hack, Brian Sawyer, O'Reilly
Network, 12.17. Ever tried burning a book you downloaded from
iTunes to a set of CDs? Apple makes it unnecessarily
difficult.
- Review: Charles
Moore checks out two backup/synchronization utilities, Charles
W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.17. Two lightweight backup applications
for the OS X user.
- Rights:
Canada quashes copyright tax on MP3 players, Slashdot, 12.17.
"...consumers may soon be paying less for MP3 players because the
Federal Court of Appeal ruled that special copyright levies applied
to digital music players are not legal."
- Opinion: Motorola
Apple iPod phone imminent?, Macworld UK, 12.17. "Motorola and
Apple are working together to develop a phone . . . that will be
able to play back iTunes songs on the phone, including
rights-protected songs . . . from the iTunes Music Store."
- Virus: From
the Dark Side--New Xmas virus clogs servers and email boxes,
Macs Only!, 12.17. Same old same old. Virus installs itself, uses
Windows Address Book, and spreads via email and P2P networks.
- Opinion: The right tools for
research, Barbara Gibson, Apple, 12.17. "More and more, though,
we're seeing the Mac platform fits the needs of many of our
research groups. Our Mac population is growing." - University of
Maryland
- OS X: Brief
Hands-on Report--Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update for Client and Server,
Macs Only!, 12.16. "Apple suggests that one disconnect any external
FireWire drives but we didn't."
- Software:
Mellel an underappreciated Mac gem, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum
News, 12.16. "It's so user-friendly that you can jump right in and
begin word processing away without reading the instructions."
- Opinion: IBM
Power5 Apple Power Mac bound?, Macworld UK, 12.16. "Apple's G5
processor is already a variant of IBM's Power4 processor, albeit
with a single core, smaller die, lower heat and lower power
consumption."
- News: iTunes Music
Store downloads top 200 million songs, MacMinute, 12.16. "Apple
today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more
than 200 million songs from the iTunes Music Store."
- OS X: Changing names, Dan
Frakes, Macworld, 12.16. Changing a user's long name is easy in OS
X, but changing the short name has been tedious - until now.
- Rights:
Unnoticed fee could raise Net domain costs, Declan McCullagh,
Cnet, 12.16. ICANN "is moving forward with a 75-cent annual fee
for .net domains starting next year and is expected to expand the
levy to other generic suffixes such as .com and .biz in the
future."
- Opinion: Pogue:
iPod mini competitors lack the 'little things', MacMinute,
12.16. "When your player contains a thousand songs, you need a way
to scroll through them quickly." And only Apple seems to have it
right.
- Analysis: Thurrott:
Apple copying Microsoft's Longhorn search features with Mac OS X
'Spotlight', MacDailyNews, 12.15. "Delusional as usual,
Thurrott attempts to write his own history, conveniently forgetting
to mention Apple's Mac OS 8.5 Sherlock (released October,
1998)...."
- Rights: MPAA
lawsuits target BitTorrent, eDonkey and Direct Connect
networks, Fred "zAmboni" Locklear, ars technica, 12.14.
"...suits were filed [by the MPAA] on four continents against over
100 owners of BitTorrent trackers, eDonkey servers, and Direct
Connect hubs...."
- Analysis: To defrag
or not to defrag?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.14.
"...with OS X, it seems that defragging hard disks has become
irrelevant for most users."
- Opinion: How
does he love Macs? Let him count the ways, Bob Levitus, Dr Mac,
Houston Chronicle, 12.14. Five reasons Mac users love their Macs -
and five more coming in Dr Mac's next column.
- Advocacy:
Bring back 'Home on iPod' for Tiger, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum
News, 12.14. Once-promised "Home on iPod feature lets you store
your home directory - files, folders, apps - on your iPod (or any
FireWire hard drive) and take it with you wherever you go."
- Rights:
Apple fights RealNetworks' 'hacker tactics', John Borland,
Cnet, 12.14. With latest updates, iPod no longer supports tracks
bought from RealNetworks and converted via Harmony.
- Advice: Why not buy a
backup drive for the holidays?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
12.14. Backup is important, and "using an external hard drive is
one big part of the equation."
- Review:
The Road Warrior Review" XT-Stand folding laptop stand, Charles
W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.14. "The XT-Stand will make
a much-appreciated Christmas gift for any laptop owner on your
list."
- Humor: The
truth about laptop infertility, Joy of Tech, 12.14. You've
heard about the link between men using a laptop on their lap and
infertility. Here's a different extplanation.
- News:
Toshiba to make 80GB 1.8-inch drives, Martyn Williams,
MacCentral, 12.14. "One of Toshiba's best-known customers for its
1.8-inch drives is Apple Computer Inc., which uses them in its iPod
family of music players."
- Opinion: For
your words only, Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 12.13.
What's the best OS X tool for creative writing? Maybe MacJournal,
an up-and-coming freeware program.
- History: The evolution of
scrolling: Reinventing the wheel, Joe Kissell, TidBITS, 12.13.
"...within about two years scroll wheels were the norm on almost
all mice - except, incomprehensibly, for those made by Apple, on
the grounds that anything more . . . [seems] too complicated."
- News: Apple bumps
iCal to version 1.5.5; improves iSync in Jaguar, Mac Observer,
12.13. "The download weighs in at 7 MB, and you can find it in
Software Update."
- Tech: 802.16: Medium
distance wireless networking that could change the world?,
bslade, Kuro5hin, 12.12. "With ranges up to 30 miles and speeds up
to 70 mbps it seems like a pancea." So where is it?
- Dark Side: Penn
State warns students off of Internet Explorer, Eric Bangeman,
ars technica, 12.10. "The university did stress that students
running Windows need to keep IE on hand in order to run Windows
Update."
- News:
HP launches low-end PC for China, Robin Lettice, The Register,
12.10. "HP, the world's second largest producer of PCs, has begun
selling a 3,999 yuan ($483) computer in China." US users can
configure an HP for as little as $470 (before mail-in rebate).
- News: PayPal now accepted
at iTunes Music Store, MacMinute, 12.10. "Apple today announced
that the iTunes Music Store in the US now accepts PayPal for
purchases of music downloads, audiobooks and gift
certificates."
- Rights: Is this
software on your hard drive?, Brad Stone, Newsweek, 12.09.
"Consumer advocates . . . charge that Direct Revenue . . . secretly
installs its software onto computers, designs its adware so that it
reinstalls after users delete it...."
- Opinion:
My Apple shop-within-a-CompUSA experience, Steve Salas, The
MacMind, 12.09. One Mac lover's experience working inside a CompUSA
retail store.
- Dark Side: Microsoft
delivers blow to Mac users, RJT, BigBlueBall.com, 12.09. Yahoo!
and AIM for the Mac offer video chat, but Microsoft doesn't plan to
add it "for at least another several years."
- Opinion: You know you might
be a Mac user if..., Paul Murphy, Linux Insider, 12.09. Mac
users seem more interested in the work they do with their computers
than with the hardware itself.
- Huh?: Adware
companies suing one another over...adware, Fred "zAmboni"
Locklear, ars technica, 12.08. Avenue Media sues DirectRevenue
because DR's adware deletes AM's adware.
- Opinion: There are
start pages and there are start pages, Gene Steinberg, Mac
Night Owl, 12.09. "Frankly, I think I'll just make msn.com my start
page for now, at least until Apple gets its act together."
- Advice: Gifts for
Macheads and Podheads, Gary Randazzo, Mac Observer, 12.09. Why
you might want to consider iTrip, Delicious Library, AirPort
Express, Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther, or World as Warcraft
for the holidays.
- Analysis:
IBM buying Apple? No dice, Michael Kanellos, Cnet, 12.08.
"...directly or indirectly, IBM or its subsidiaries agree not to
sell or manufacture personal computers for five years." That covers
desktops, laptops, and tablet PCs.
- Opinion: Thunderbird is go,
Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 12.08. "Best news of all, is that
everything works much faster now."
- News: Apple
pitches music industry on U2-style promos, Philip Michaels,
MacCentral, 12.08. "And if Apple has its way, other musical acts
will enjoy a similar promotional push as part of an effort to
bolster business at the online store...."
- Analysis:
Apple Macintosh installed base set to grow again, Forbes,
12.08. "Goldman also said that for the first time in three years,
the Macintosh installed based should start to grow again with unit
shipments rising 10% in calendar 2004."
- Analysis:
Mac enthusiast sites hosted on Linux, FreeBSD, richm, Netcraft,
12.08. "...many prominent sites for Macintosh users are hosted on
either Linux or FreeBSD." That includes Low End Mac, which is
hosted with NetBSD.
- MacInSchool: Macs
find way onto university roll calls, Asahi.com, 12.08. "One
after another, schools [in Japan] are switching to Macs from
Windows-based computers, including the University of Tokyo, which
did so in the spring."
- Advice: Five
gadgets for your Mac, John F. Braun, TMO Gift Guide, Mac
Observer, 12.08. iTrip, a wireless router, iSkin eVo2, iGlasses,
and MenuMeters.
- News:
IBM sells PC group to Lenovo, J Spooner, M Kanellos, Cnet,
12.08. "...complex joint venture . . . will make Lenovo the
third-largest PC maker in the world, behind Dell and
Hewlett-Packard, but still give IBM a hand in the PC
business."
- Advice:
Homemade Dot-Mac: Remote control, Alan Graham, O'Reilly
Network, 12.07. How to share and access your Mac from anywhere on
your network - or the Internet.
- Advice:
Six great tips for homemade Dot Mac servers, Alan Graham,
O'Reilly Network, 2003.02.04. How to share and sync files, use disk
images, work with WebDAV, and use Rendezvous with Safari.
- Advice:
Homemade Dot Mac: Home Web radio, Alan Graham, O'Reilly
Network, 2002.12.13. How to use QuickTime Streaming Server (free)
and iTunes to broadcast your music over the Internet.
- Advice:
Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, part 2, Alan Graham, O'Reilly
Network, 2002.09.20. Using BrickHouse to keep unwanted Internet
traffic off your Mac. Using iPhoto to share your photos on the
Net.
- Advice:
Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network,
2002.08.09. How to turn your OS X Mac into a Web server and let the
whole world see your website.
- Opinion:
Should Apple join the other PC companies in pretending to sell a
sub-$500 computer?, Bill Palmer, BillPalmer.net, 12.07.
"...none of them are really selling sub-$500 computer models;
they're just pretending to, in order to get you in the door."
- Opinion: Caution:
Macs aren't perfect!, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.07.
Yes, Macs crash, too, so you should always have a backup and
utility programs handy.
- Tech: Panther
automatic disk optimization, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com,
12.07. "One little-discussed or publicized feature of Mac OS X 10.3
(Panther) is that it utilizes not one but two types of automatic
disk optimization."
- Analysis:
Firefox users ignore online ads, report says, Ingrid Marson,
Cnet, 12.07. "...this trend may have emerged because nontechnical
Web surfers, who tend to be IE users, are more likely to click on
pop-up ads by mistake, because they think the ad is a system dialog
box."
- Opinion:
Benefits of an Apple-IBM 'marriage', Dennis Sellers, Macsimum
Perspective, 12.07. "IBM would give the same credibility to the Mac
and Apple's operating systems as it provided for the PC in the
first place...."
- Opinion: Is
IBM PC sell off preparation for a Power chip attack?, Robin
Lettice, The Register, 12.07. Author sees IBM abandoning the Wintel
market as a first step toward marketing IBM CPUs against Intel's
Pentiums.
- Review:
The PowerBook Fan Book and iBook Fan Book, Charles W. Moore,
Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.07. "These Fan Books are intended to
be guides that will show you how to unleash your Power Book or
iBook's potential...."
- Upgrade: Sonnet offers 1.7GHz
G4 upgrades for Power Mac, Cube, MacMinute, 12.07. Bet you
never thought a Power Mac G4 could get this fast - and for only
US$500.
- Advice: Gifts cheap
on price; high in value, Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.07. A
couple books, a laser mouse, a digital camera, and speakers for the
iPod.
- Software: Camino
0.8.2 released, includes many bug fixes, David Nelson, Mac
Browser Watch, Mac Observer, 12.07. "Mozilla.org has released
Camino 0.8.2, the latest update to its standalone, Mac-only Web
browser."
- Tech: Yin
& Yang, drunkenbatman, drunkenblog, 12.06. "It's a simple
tradeoff; the more secure you make something, the less convenient
it will be."
- Rights: Spyware
on my machine? So what?, Michelle Delio, Wired, 12.06. "Even
data entered on secure websites - such as passwords, credit card
numbers and bank account numbers - is accessible to
Marketscore...."
- Opinion: Apple
of IBM's eye?, Cormac O'Reilly, The Register, 12.06. "...once
publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a
close joint venture with Apple to sell its PCs, which
coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip."
Rights:
Apple threatens iTunes.co.uk owner, Kieren McCarthy, The
Register, 12.06. Unfortunately for Apple, Benjamin Cohen registered
and began using the domain before Apple registered the iTunes
trademark.- Opinion: Caution:
Microsoft Windows is detrimental to your health!, Gene
Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.06. "I just wonder how many jobs are
lost because of problems generated by PC's riddled with spyware and
viruses."
- Hardware: Aluminum handle for
iBooks, QuickerTek, 12.06. Aluminum handles for the 12" and 14"
white iBooks.
- Opinion: Let
buyers be wherever, Victoria Shannon, International Herald
Tribune, 12.04. "...G5 iMacs sold in the United States and Japan
are one voltage only. Those sold in Europe and elsewhere can run on
either 100-110 volt or 220-240 volt electricity."
- Review: Charles
Moore reviews iKey 2.0 automation utility for Mac OS X, Charles
W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.03. This very powerful shareware utility
works very well, but you'll need to read the manual.
- Tech: Beating
the lights, Philip Ball, Nature, 12.03. Adaptive stoplight
technology could reduce waiting at red lights, speed commuted,
decrease gas consumption.
- Huh?: Intel cans
Pentium II, Tony Smith, The Register, 12.03. "It's amazing to
see these things are still around, but this week Intel told its
customers that it is to formally discontinue production of the
Pentium II at 266, 333, 366 and 466MHz."
- Analysis: Apple
Annual Report: iPod strong; education sales a major concern,
Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.03. This isn't news to Mac-using
educators, who are constantly under fire for choosing anything but
Windows.
- Opinion: Nightmare
or dream come true: What if software was never updated?, Gene
Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.03. "How many updates must you
download before things settle down?"
- Rights: 10-year
old settlement could undermine SCO's position, Eric Bangeman,
ars technica, 12.02. 1994 settlement allows lots of Unix source
code to "be freely reproduced and redistributed by others without
payment of any royalties or fees and without execution of any
license agreement...."
- News:
Apple
launches iTunes in Canada, Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.02.
"After acknowleging the company had missed the November target for
the Canadian version of the iTunes Music Store, Apple Computer
quietly launched the service late Wednesday night."
- Analysis:
Canadians get iTunes on the cheap, Ina Fried, Cnet, 12.02.
iTMS Canada "is selling songs for 99 Canadian cents, which
translates to about 83 U.S. cents, 16 percent less than those in
the United States pay for their iTunes."
- Analysis: Flash Gordon,
John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 12.02. If Apple is going to produce a
flash-based iPod, how much will it cost, how much RAM should it
have, and how will they market it?
- Opinion: The case
for a flash iPod, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.02. "...by
Apple's reckoning, a 1GB model would only deliver 250 songs. Maybe
that's enough for a casual listener...."
- Spam:
Microsoft sues more spammers, Elizabeth Millard, Newsfactor
Network, 12.02. "Citing the CAN-SPAM anti-spam law's 'brown-paper
wrapper' rule, Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against spammers
who allegedly sent messages containing sexually explicit
content."
- Opinion: They do
not see or hear, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.01. "While
I'm quite pleased that Apple Computer and its products are 'in'
these days, it's unfortunate that Mac myths persist."
- Education:
Newspaper columnist: No sympathy for teachers losing Macs,
Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 12.01. "Rich Brooks of
the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has no sympathy for teachers who are
protesting the local school board's decision to replace its Macs
with PCs running Windows."
- Analysis:
More of the same?, Christopher Breen, Playlist, 12.01. HP and
Apple iPods have identical hardware, but HP has a better
warranty.
- Analysis: The Year in
Review: Apple thrives in surprising ways, Sean Gallagher,
eWeek, 12.01. Not only do the iPod and iTunes Music Store dominate
digital music, but Apple has doubled server sales as well.
- News:
iTunes
now selling Band Aid song, BBC News, 12.01. "...the single is
now on sale for 79p - the usual cost of a song from iTunes - with
Apple donating a further 70p to the charity for each song
downloaded."
- News:
Apple
delays iTunes launch in Canada; coming "soon", Brad Gibson, Mac
Observer, 12.01. "Apple Computer admitted Wednesday it did not meet
its self-imposed deadline of opening the Canadian iTunes Music
Store by the end of November, but that it will launch the service
'very soon."
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