Low End Mac's Link Archive: May 2005
Links Around the Web
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- News: Burgled mum
finds stolen iPod on eBay, John Leyden, The Register, 05.17. US
woman was looking to replace a stolen iPod on eBay - and found the
very one she had inscribed for her husband.
- News: Sony
details PlayStation 3, Tony Smith, The Register, 05.17.
Playstation 3 claimed twice as powerful as Xbox 360. Sony's
PowerPC-based game console due Spring 2006.
Software:
Essential Mac freebies, lifehacker, 05.16. Eight free programs
every OS X user should know about.- Advice:
FireWire for 75% better Mac mini disk performance, Slashdot,
05.17. Yes, an external 7200 rpm 3.5" hard drive in a FireWire
enclosure will be a lot faster than what comes inside the Mac
mini.
- News: Seagate
ships 120 GB notebook drive, Paul Kallender, Macworld UK,
05.17. Biggest laptop hard drive, 120 GB, to ship in June. Also,
first 7200 rpm 100 GB laptop hard drive.
- Advice: When good
Macs go bad, Hardsdisk, 05.16. "If your older Mac develops a
serious problem, you must decide if it's time to pull the
plug."
- News:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.1, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral,
05.16. "Mac OS X 10.4.1 includes many improvements to applications,
Dashboard, .Mac and syncing, iLife and other enhancements."
- Opinion: Apple's
secret operating system, Gene Steinberg, The Tiger Report, Mac
Night Owl, 05.11. TV watchers see all sorts of ads for Windows XP,
Dells, and Gateways - but never an ad for Apple's great operating
system.
Virus: Sober worm hides
from AV scanners, TechWeb, 05.11. Windows virus "refined so
that no applications, not even those running under a SYSTEM
account, can access them." Yikes!- Analysis:
Analyst: Yahoo music service will not impact iPod sales, Larry
Angell, iPodlounge, 05.11. "...the risk to Apple is a killer new
MP3 player, not a new online music service."
- News: Yahoo
readies cheap music service, Wired, 05.11. But will Yahoo's
$6.99/month (or $60/year) music subscription service make a dent in
iTunes - or just steal customers from Real Networks?
News: Apple
granted patent for tablet Mac, John Kheit, Mac Observer, 05.10.
"Illustrations for the device clearly indicate it to be a
tablet-style Macintosh, and patent filings specifically compare it
to the 'HP Compaq Tablet PC' and several other tablet
machines."- Tech: More than
meets the eye: Motorola announces nanotube displays, Elle
Cayabyab, ars technica, 05.10. "Cost analysis by industry analysts
have speculated that a 40-inch NED panel utilizing Motorola's NED
technology could be manufactured for under US$400...." Watch out
LCD.
- History:
The WallStreet PowerBook turns seven, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 05.10. "The WallStreet was the most
connectable and expendable PowerBook ever, with a full array of
PowerBook ports...."
- History: Classic Macs #2: The
Mac SE, Neale Monks, MyMac, 05.10. "Really the only differences
between a Mac SE and a later, all-in-one Mac like a Performa 5300
are the small monochrome screen and the much slower
processor."
- News:
Mac malware door creaks open, Jo Best, CNET News, 05.09.
Dashboard is a great new tool for hijacking Macs. "The funny thing
is that once that widget is there, according to Apple, you CANNOT
remove it."
- News:
Malicious Web pages can install Dashboard widgets, Slashdot,
05.08. "If you're running Safari on OS X Tiger and go to this
website, a 'slightly evil' Dashboard widget will be automatically
downloaded and installed" on your Mac.
- Review: Tiger
roars, Eric Schwarz, SchwarzTech, 05.06. "...Tiger (Mac OS X
10.4) is awesome. However, I did notice a few things that I'd like
the point out."
- Advice:
Upgrade or no?, Christopher Breen, Macworld, 05.06. "Is it
worth it for me to update to Tiger at this point?" It
depends....
Rights: Apple
pays no homage to Catalonia, Macworld UK, 05.06. "No Mac
localization for you," Apple tells 10 million Europeans.- Review:
Charles Moore reviews Matias OS X Keyboard, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 05.06. "In general, I like the Matias OS X Keyboard and
I could be quite happy using it full time."
- Software:
Tiger's first tweaks, Dan Frakes, Macworld, 05.05. Four neat
new programs to help you tame Tiger.
- News: 'Bluesnarfing'
Macs, Apple acts, Macworld UK, 05.04. Security Update for
Panther protects Mac users from "bluesnarfing" - information theft
using Bluetooth.
- News: Apple
releases Panther Security Update, Mac Observer, 05.04. "The
updates address more than 20 security issues in Mac OS X 10.3.9,
the company said."
- OS X: Something
is wrong!, Gene Steinberg, The Tiger Report, Mac Night Owl,
05.03. Cross-platform networking under OS X 10.4 is broken is
several ways.
- Rights:
In a snarl over 'tiger', Jack Kapica, Globe and Mail, 05.03.
"Mr. Young has offered to license the Hamilton Tiger-Cats'
historical use of the word Tiger to Apple free of charge. The
Hamilton Tigers Football Club, established in 1869...."
- Analysis: After the Mac mini,
is there still a market for used Macs?, Neale Monks, MyMac,
05.02. "...there are problems with the Mac mini as well, and these
are substantial enough to keep the used Mac market alive for some
time yet...."
- Analysis: Firm expects
Apple to grab 4% US market share, Katie Marsal, AppleInsider,
05.02. "Merrill Lynch expects Apple's OS to run over ten million
computers in the U.S. during [2005], grabbing over 4% market
share."
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