The Low End Mac Link Archive, July 1999
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- Opinion: A
humorous look at iBook, AirPort, iTeen Online, 7/31.
- News:
iMac,Blue G3 win I.D. Magazine design award, Washington Post,
7/31. Next year the iBook?
- OS: Linux
improvements should appeal to desktop market, Cnet, 7/31.
Kernel 2.4 adds support for USB, FireWire, Winmodems.
- Advice: Ask Dr.
Mac, Bob LeVitus, MacCentral, 7/31.
- News: MacZone
unit sales up 70% over last year, MacCentral, 7/30. Remember,
last year the iMac hadn't yet been released.
- USB: iMac
Peripherals (iMac2Day), iMac Product Guide (The iMac)
- Opinion: Rocket in the
house, MacWeek, 7/30. "At 11 megabits per second, the AirPort
is faster than a speeding bullet. Most other wireless home
networking products available today only claim 1 or 2 Mbps."
- Opinion: Pull
the other one, John!, Applelinks, 7/30. "So why would a
seemingly intelligent, thoughtful and well informed columnist
regularly make foolish sweeping comments regarding the state of the
Mac...."
- Opinion: iBook,
the machine you can handle, Applelinks, 7/30. "But there's one
thing about that machine, as with every other portable on the
market save the iBook: It has to be babied."
- News: Free
iMac offer coming next week, Cnet, 7/30. FreeMac.com plans to
give away one million iMacs - with strings attached.
- News: ATI Rage Orion may
not work with 603e-based Macs, Accelerate Your Mac!, 7/30. ATI
is working on a fix.
- News: It's
gotta be Sonata: Mac OS 9's new features, Mac Junkie, 7/30.
Fifty new features. Fifty!
- Gaming: SimCity 3000 for Mac
now shipping, Maxis. $44.99 delivered from Outpost.com.
- Opinion: Peaches
'n' cream appeal: For the love of a tangerine iBook, Daily Mac,
7/29.
- Analysis: IEEE
802.11 in English, iMac NewsPage, 7/29. A look at the standard
behind AirPort.
- News: Video
options for the iBook, MacCentral, 7/29.
- Opinion: 'Girly'
iBook not worthy of men, Polly Sprenger, Wired, 7/29.
- News: Vendors prep
iBook add-ons, MacWeek, 7/29.
- Gaming: Voodoo3
Performance Page, Accelerate Your Mac! "...I don't think there
is anything out there now or in the forseeable future that offers
the kind of performance and image quality that I've seen with the
Voodoo3 on the Mac."
- Opinion: The
Barbie fixation, Janelle Brown, Salon, 7/28. "...Dvorak's
article is chock-full of sexist stereotypes."
- News: Huge
losses, job cuts at Compaq, Wired, 7/28. $184 million loss,
8,000 jobs cut, and $700-800 million in restructuring charges. Only
thing missing from this article: the word beleaguered.
- News:
Apple invests $100 million in Samsung, Cnet, 7/28. This
investment "is aimed at ensuring Apple has an adequate supply of
displays for products such as the forthcoming iBook portable."
- Dark Side:
Pentium III musters 600 MHz, Cnet, 7/27. "...the introduction
of Intel's 600 MHz Pentium III chip makes us wonder if even the
privileged technology few need the speed."
- News: iMac
snags #1 sales position in June, Daily Mac, 7/27.
- Opinion: The myth Of
PowerBook battery time; iBook may be same, Daily Mac, 7/27.
"Without processor cycling on during normal use, a more realistic
battery life estimate would be three to four hours...."
- Opinion: The iBook will
be a hit everywhere, except my house, Macville, 7/27. "Well its
only $700 more to get a laptop that doesn't look like a
toy...."
- iBook: New
sleep & conservation modes official, Daily Mac, 7/27.
"...with the iBook, several new sleep options were introduced as
unique and somewhat innovative ways of saving power and boot
time."
- iBook: iBook
pricing: Here we go again, MacBC, 7/27. "From what I have seen
out of the Wintel notebook markets, the only things cheaper are
no-name companies or crippled machines."
- iBook: iBook: An
iMac to go, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 7/26. "The most amazing
aspect of the iBook, though, is its support for Apple's new AirPort
wireless networking...."
- Opinion:
The iBook disaster, John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, 7/26. "I
suppose I shouldn't say this, but I can only describe it as a
'girly' machine."
- Review: ORB external SCSI
drive, MacSoldiers, 7/26. "...the ORB drive does have a few
quirks, but overall I'm pleased I purchased one." (You can order
ORB from Outpost.com.)
- Analysis/Gaming: The
benchmarking of the Macintosh, GameSpot. "What is unfortunate
is the relative lack of fast 3D hardware on the Macintosh."
- Opinion: Apple's
iBook: A Mac to go, Newsweek. "We're the only company in the
industry that can take responsibility for the whole user
experience."
- Rumor: Lombard is
here, what's next? Meet 102, PowerBook Zone, 7/26. Expect
AirPort, FireWire, DVD, and more in the next generation
PowerBook.
- Dark Side: 54 new
portables, PC Magazine. See how the iBook and G3 compare with
Wintel offerings.
- Analysis: Emulators,
MacKiDo, 7/26. Macs can emulate Windows PCs, and now PCs can
emulate Macs.
- Opinion:
Steve Jobs, the heart and soul of Apple, Mac Observer, 7/26.
"...no longer is there any doubt that Steve Jobs is the heart and
soul of Apple."
- Mobility: Palm
reaches "the rest of us," MacCentral, 7/25. "...the company has
finally come up with a Palm that will attract the casual user: the
consumer who doesn't need a palmtop but would like one."
- Web: iBookOnline,
third site dedicated to the iBook.
- Opinion: Feels like the
first time, Macworld. "A forgotten breed of Mac users has
reappeared: the first-time user."
- Opinion: AppleDesign?, Mac
Mania, 7/24. "The industrial design team at Apple has really been
outdoing themselves."
- iBook: iBook in
depth special report, AppleInsider, 7/23. "When you look at the
big picture, the iBook rumors that were published leading up till
its release were mostly correct, except for two aspects: size and
weight."
- iBook: Memory
price tracker, ramseeker.
- News: Apple
market share on rise in Canada, ehMac, 7/23. A perenniel
also-ran in Canada, Apple tied for market share in Q1 1999.
- Opinion:
iBook and iMac: sibling rivalry?, The iMac NewsPage, 7/23.
"Will consumers have a tough time deciding between one and the
other?"
- OS: Mac OS
X: destined for greatness, Xappeal.
- iBook: A
look at the iBook, Salon, 7/23. "Will the clamshell computers,
due out in September, be the next insanely great thing - proof that
Apple's here to stay?"
- iBook: NewerRAM
ships memory for iBook, Insanely Great Mac, 7/23.
- iBook:
Peripheral quick to launch memory for iBook, Mac Observer,
7/23.
- iBook: dePlume's iBook
Comments, Raves, and Rants, Think Secret, 7/23. "...I found
that the tangerine iBook actually looked quite hip."
- iBook: iBook
makes it's debut, Charles Moore, Mac Opinion, 7/23. "The
iBook's behemoth proportions are a disappointment to me, and it
still leaves a big hole in Apple's product line where a thin,
sleek, subnotebook should be."
- iBook: The Addict's
impressions, MacBC, 7/23. "It is by no means the crippled
machine that some were expecting...."
- ibook: The
iBook from a gamer's perspective, MacCentral, 7/23. "The iBook
is certainly an impressive machine with a good enough amount of
horsepower to run most games available for the Mac without any
problem."
- Low End:
Living the 8-Bit Dream in a 32-Bit World, NY Times, 7/22
[Slashdot]. "In a sense, their
devotion to the simple machines is an active refutation of the
Wintel world of quick obsolescence that frustrates many computer
users."
- Newton: Long
live the Newton, Wired, 7/22. First time I've seen "road Apple"
in print - outside of my Road
Apples section.
- iBook: Macworld coverage,
Mac OS Rumors, 7/22. PC Card expansion? DVD-ROM possible? Faster
gaming than the iMac?
- News:
PC Data announces Apple #3 in June, iMac #1, Mac Observer,
7/22
- iBook: IBM copper chip powers iBook, Cnet, 7/22. "The new
iBook laptop uses a specially designed low-power copper chip from
IBM to achieve its 'all-day' battery life...."
- iBook: The iBook
looks to be a hit, MacCentral, 7/22. "I give it good odds of
besting the iMac's record setting sales."
- USB: Canon
ships first multifunction printer for Macs, MacCentral, 7/22.
MultiPASS includes print, scan, fax, and copy.
- News: JamC@m 2.0 ships
August 2, Digital Camera
Resource Page, 7/23. $90 640 x 480 camera has Mac USB support.
$90 - digital photography for the masses!
- News: Retailers open
to iBook, MacWeek, 7/22. "Retailers are eager to cash in on
Apple's long-awaited consumer notebook...."
- Opinion: Will AirPort
take off?, MacWeek, 7/22. "...compared with current wireless
LAN options, AirPort is fast, friendly and priced 'pretty
aggressively.'"
- iBook: iBook
pricing looks extremely competitive, ZD InfoBeads, 7/21. See
also The Price Is Right on The
iBook Page.
- Web: The iBook
List, The Macintosh Guy. Begun October 29, 1998 as the
CPortList, the iBook List is a place to talk about the iBook with
others.
- News: Apple
gains despite low-cost competition, Cnet, 7/22. "For the month
of June, Apple Computer maintained its No. 3 ranking in the retail
and mail-order market with strong sales of the iMac...." And, by
the way, the iMac was #1 in June.
- iBook: iBook arrives, The
iMac,7/22.
- OS: Not too fast..., MacinThoughts. "After 15 years of
developing and evolving the Macintosh interface, 30 million users
have an OS which they are comfortable with."
- Special report: Wireless
networking, MacInTouch, 7/22. "The forthcoming iBook and
AirPort will do for wireless networking what the iMac did for
USB."
- USB: Microsoft announces new Mac-compatible mouse, MacTimes,
7/22.
- Opinion: iBook OK, but AirPort is another story, MacBC, 7/22.
"What makes [iBook] the wave of the future is AirPort."
- News: iMac
TV tuner, MacCentral, 7/22. You want iMac TV? MyTV provides it
on the iMac - or any other USB equipped Mac.
- Opinion: Thirteen
interesting iBook facts, Mac OS Planet. "The iBook offers a
Save feature when sleeping or shutting down, this will take all the
contents of the RAM and save them to the Hard Disk so when you wake
up or turn on the unit you will have a much smaller startup time
and be able to continue your work exactly how you left it before
the save."
- USB: Multifunction
peripherals, MacInTouch special report, 7/22. Print, scan, fax,
etc. with a single peripheral, although each lacks some useful
features.
- iBook: An in-depth
look at the iBook, Mac OS Planet. "...although the price seemed
a little high ($1599) to me at first it turns out to be a fair
one...."
- Web: iBook Zone, first
iBook site launched, 7/21
- OS: The net's stealth operating system, MSNBC, 7/21 [Slashdot]. "It's the software behind the
world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site
&emdash; but unless you're a geek, you've never heard of
it."
- Opinion: A
hands-on look a the iBook, David Pogue, ZDNet/Macworld, 7/21.
The power cord rolls into the AC adapter, which lights up!
- Opinion: An
iMac to go, Applelinks, 7/21.
- QT-TV: Apple
premiers QuickTime TV, Apple Computer, 7/21. QT-TV to provide
high quality audio, video over the internet.
- QT-TV: QuickTime
TV introduced, MacCentral, 7/21.
- Opinion: AirPort
puts traffic in the air, Insanely Great Mac, 7/21.
- iBook:
Apple launches iBook, BBC News, 7/21. "The iBook is the 'iMac
to Go' for both home and school."
- Connectivity:
Farallon announces SkyLine PC Card to work with AirPort hub,
Mac Observer, 7/21. This will allow many older PowerBooks to use
wireless networking, albeit at a slower 2 Mbps (AirPort goes to 11
Mbps). SkyLine also supports peer-to-peer networking to 1000'
outdoors and 300-500' indoors.
- Macworld Expo coverage (especially the iBook) on Daily Mac, MacCentral,
MacInTouch, MacNN, MacOS Rumors, MacWeek,
PowerBook Zone, Cnet,
TechWeb,
Wired,
ZDNet
- News:
Mercury capsule found after 38 years, CNN, 7/21 [Slashdot]
- News: Mac OS 9
due in October, MacCentral, 7/21
- Preview: Internet
Explorer 5 for Mac, MacCentral, 7/21
- Opinion: Apple's
biggest challenge, ZDNet, 7/21. "...Apple's biggest problem is
not its ability to deliver superior technology, but its ability to
deliver sales."
- Consumer: iBook Price
Tracker, PowerBook Central
- Opinion: Catching
on to FireWire, Dallas Morning News, 7/20. Camcorders, digital
TVs, and more - FireWire isn't just for computers.
- OS: Mac OS X
Server gets enhancements, fixes, MacCentral, 7/20.
- News: Windows 95
remains most popular operating system, Cnet, 7/20. "Despite
the hoopla and expectations that accompanied the launch of the
Windows 98 operating system, research shows that its predecessor
remains the popular choice."
- News: Apple,
SingTel team up to bring ADSL to iMacs, iMac NewsPage, 7/20.
This is the first time SingTel has offered broadband internet
access for anything besides Windows.
- Field reports: ORB
drive, MacInTouch. Real competition for the Iomega Jaz.
- Analysis: The winds of
change, MacTeens. "Although the transition between old
technology and new is not exactly smooth as silk, it is a necessary
evil."
- OS: Amazing,
thy name is Ten, MacTeens. "OS X looks to be a representative
for the true future of computing."
- Opinion: Cheap PCs
are just that, MacTeens. "I looked at it for a few minutes,
then I told my mom that I would rather have a Macintosh."
- Rumor: Apple lays plans for
bundled DSL, Mac OS Rumors, 7/19. "Information from reliable
sources indicates that Apple is currently refining its plans for
bundling xDSL 'modems' as an option on all professional Macs, and
perhaps also on the iMac and Consumer Portable as well."
- Consumer: $129 Agfa
ePhoto smile digital camera, Digital Eyes. Least expensive
digital camera I've seen. But it's Windows only - anyone want to
start a petition?
- Review: 3dfx Voodoo2 driver
performance, Accelerate Your Mac, 7/19. New driver helps
Voodoo2 catch and sometimes surpass Rage 128.
- Hardware: Stealth serial port
replaces iMac modem, GeeThree. If you don't need the internal
modem, this US$50 device lets you replace it with a Mac serial
port.
- Advice: Aliases, Mac
101, MacBC, 7/19.
- OS: Good
outweighs bad with Mac OS X Server, Byte.com, 7/19. "For
starters, X Server is that Holy Grail Mac people have been begging
for for years: a modern OS."
- Opinion: How the
net's shaky foundation puts you at risk, ZDNet, 7/19. But
there's hope, with IPv6,
multicasting, and more to improve the foundation.
- Analysis: Why users
are satisfied (or not) with their ISPs, ZDNet, 7/19. "Fast
access is one of the keys to ISP customer satisfaction."
- Opinion: Time to
upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition, Jerry Pournelle,
Byte.com, 7/19. Jerry also looks at ATI Rage video.
- Opinion:
Inside look at Outlook Express 5.0, AppleInsider, 7/19.
"Microsoft's Macintosh team is planning to capitalize by producing
most powerful and feature-filled Macintosh e-mail client available
to date."
- Huh?: E-one, iMac ripoff
or thinking different? [iMacinTouch]. No, it
looks more like Apple's
Power Mac
G3 All-in-One (right)
More commentary on The Mac
Observer.
- Opinion: PowerBook G3/400: So this is the future!?, MacTimes,
7/19. "...my new machine is powerful enough to serve fine as both
my portable and my main computer, and I use it as both."
- Review: ORB drive,
MacEase. "So, does the ORB live up to its advance publicity?
Preliminary testing indicates that it does!"
- Hardware: 2 Gigs
to go, Mac Review Zone. Comparison of Jaz and ORB removable
media hard drives.
- Opinion: Will Mac OS X Client
succeed?, Xappeal. "...the advantages will make themselves
apparent when the Mac OS X Client version offers superior
features."
- Opinion:
Silicon Valley can't compare to the Northwest, Seattle Times,
7/18. "Windows 95 not only matched but in several ways exceeded the
Macintosh and Unix operating systems for usability and
flexibility."
- Advice: Do
you really need the fastest processor?, Detroit Free Press,
7/18. "Consider a Macintosh, which has that smart PowerPC processor
inside. I prefer my Mac to all of my PCs...." (also see How fast is fast?)
- Analysis: Processor upgrades:
The G4?, GraphicPower Page, 7/18. "There is still going to be
some wait time for development and testing of their designs."
- Advice: Ask Dr.
Mac, Bob LeVitus, MacCentral, 7/17.
- Review: Castlewood ORB drive,
iTeen, 7/17. Fast 2.2 GB removable media drive.
- Opinion: For the
love of Macintosh, News-Observer, 7/17. "For Tisdale and others
then, Mac is a way of life."
- Opinion:
Did "The Blair Witch Project" fake its online fan base?, Salon,
7/16. Are studios behind some alleged fan sites?
- Hardware: XLR8
announces trade-up program, Mac Observer, 7/16.
- Opinion: This time
the Flavorade is sweet, I, Cringely, 7/15. With the iMac,
"Apple instituted a 100 percent test policy and diverted the bad
boxes before they reached customers."
- Web: Applefritter, a
look at prototypes and creative user hacks (be sure to look at the
DLZ-3).
- Opinion: The "new" PCs -
Twentieth Anniversary Mac redux, Mac Upgrade. "NEC - and other
companies with similar machines, such as Ergo Computing's
Thunderbrick - wholesale plagiarized Apple's groundbreaking
Twentieth Anniversary Mac, now 25
months old."
- News: ORB drive to ship in
quantity soon, MacFixIt, 7/16. "How else are you going to get
that kind of removable capacity for the money?"
- Advice: Upgrade
Guy: sharing modems, MacCentral, 7/16.
- Analysis: Some
analysts can't accept it, but Apple is back, Business Week,
7/16. "The Apple product really is different from the rest of the
world. It has a different look, feel, color, software."
- Analysis: Microsoft
monopoly costs consumers $10 billion, US Public Interest
Research Group. Title says it all. Thank goodness many Mac users
don't use Windows or Office.
- News: WebObjects:
Apple's best kept secret?, Cnet, 7/16. Apple's WebObjects is a
leader in the application server market.
- Schools: Good
news from schools all over, MacCentral, 7/16. Peace Academy,
Hillel Academy, and Luxembourg happily using Macs.
- Advice: It's a
Macintosh Enigma, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 7/16. Dealing
with the other spam - telemarketers.
- Software: Track world
time with World Clock CSM, Mac Junkie, 7/16. It's one world
with 24 time zones. World Clock lets you know the time in
California, Australia, India, France, and Quebec.
- News:
National Semiconductor unveils fist PC-on-a-chip,
Yahoo/Reuters, 7/16.
- News:
District buys new computers, auctions off old, Bay City (MI)
Times, 7/15. "Nearly 100 MacIntosh computers will be up for grabs
next week . . . as the school system moves to an all-PC format for
consistent computing across the district." Another Mac loss, but an
opportunity to buy used Macs inexpensively. (Support Macs in
education: visit MacInSchool.)
- Advice: The
importance of having more than one Macintosh, Macville, 7/15.
Consider adding a used computer if you only have one.
- Rumor: PowerPC future
updates, Mac OS Rumors, 7/15. Forthcoming G3 will pass 500 MHz,
increase multiplier to 10x or greater; G4 may debut at 600 MHz;
on-chip L2 cache likely.
- Rumor: Big
rumor wheel keeps on turning: P1 estimates, Mobile Teen,
MacTeens, 7/15.
- Huh?: Open-source
Apache encroaches on Microsoft, Cnet, 7/15. "Although
Microsoft firmly believes its own Web server software is better
than the open-source Apache program, it turns out that the software
giant has become one of many firms using Apache."
- Web: MacTeens - and the
Save Jon's
Mac campaign. MacTeen's webmaster's dad wants to sell the Mac
and go Windows. :-(
- Rumor:
Apple to take stab at retail with Apple Boutiques,
AppleInsider, 7/15.
- Advice: Isolating
problem extensions: a method, MacBC, 7/15.
- OS: What's
it gonna Be?, Salon, 7/15. "After nine years of building an
operating system, Be is going public. But has the company figured
out what it wants to be?"
- News: Microsoft
join "free PC" fray, PC World, 7/15. $650 get you three years
of MSN and a 400 MHz Windows computer - monitor not included.
- User review: ORB removable
drive, MacNN, 7/14. SCSI version of 2.2 GB cartridge drive now
shipping.
- Advice: Mac
battery 101, other basics, My First Mac Was a Typewriter, 7/14.
What happens when your Mac's battery dies. (See also Troubleshooting Your Mac: Battery
Problems.)
- Opinion: Sawtooth
G4: Hopes and expectations, Mac Junkie, 7/14. "Sawtooth is
expected to be more of a high-end machine than Yosemite, the
codename for the blue and white G3s."
- News: Amiga chooses Linux for next generation OS kernel,
MacTimes, 7/14. With Mac going OS X and IBM's OS/2 out of
contention, the PC world will soon be divided between Unix-like
operating systems and proprietary ones (read: Microsoft
Windows).
- Review: PowerPrint
for Networks, Macs Only!, 7/14. New ethernet version of
PowerPrint allows use of parallel port printers on a Mac
network.
- News:
Microsoft donates "state of the art" NT systems to Mac stalwart,
Dartmouth, Mac Observer, 7/13. "This donation will provide us
with modern infrastructure to attack the computational problems of
the 21st century."
- News: Iomega to Castlewood:
See you in court, MacTrack, 7/13. Castlewood's 2.2 GB drive was
developed by the founder of Syquest. Now that Iomega owns Syquest's
patents, one has to wonder. Personally, I'm rooting for the ORB
drive - Iomega needs the competition.
- Huh?: UN
proposes global email tax, Wired News, 7/13 [Slashdot]. "What you'd end up doing is
creating a pork barrel program . . . doing very little to help the
poor people of the world."
- Web: MacBoot, new
Mac ezine.
- Reviews: ATI Rage
128 vs. ixMicro Game Rocket, Accelerate Your Mac!, 7/13. Rage
vs. 3dfx chip set - which is better?
- Connectivity:
Cidco MailStation, PC Magazine, 7/8. Compact, lightweight,
text-only email client from Cidco.
- Dark Side: Merced
design completed and Intel
earnings fall short, Cnet, 7/13. Merced should ship mid-2000,
but Intel is losing core market to AMD and others.
- Consumer: Star Trek
(original series) coming to DVD, Star Trek movie poll
results.
- Humor: Despair praises
Future Power, tells world to "think same," Despair. "Twenty
some odd years ago Steve Jobs stole a truly original idea from
Engelbart and company at Xerox PARC. Today, Karma has come to
collect the debt, with interest."
- News:
OS upgrade for Mac due out this fall, Cox News, 7/13. "The fall
upgrade, code-named Sonata, will include major improvements to the
Mac's ability to support multiple users and Web connectivity."
- Advice: Simple fix for iCab 1.6a stability problem, MacTimes,
7/13.
- Poll: Separated
at birth, TechWeb. Weigh in on Apple vs. Future Power's iMac
clone.
- Opinion:
G3 Mac offers speed and flexibility, for a price, Cnet, 7/13.
"...that frosted look is years ahead of PC makers' attempts at
looking hip by painting their systems black."
- Opinion: Future
Power's iMac rip-off analyzed, On the Flip Side, 7/12. "Once
again Apple has shown that the PC industry is no good at creating,
but skilled enough to copy, follow like a sheep, and rip Apple
off."
- OS:
What Win2K may mean for investors, BusinessWeek, 7/12 [Slashdot]. "Will Linux blow out the
candles on Windows 2000's birthday cake?"
- Opinion: Multiprocessing for
the masses?, Mac OS Rumors, 7/12. "...Apple may be developing a
kernel-level process manager for Mac OS X that assists the
distribution of processing load across the system's CPUs."
- News: Apple
ranked number one brand in education study, MacCentral,
7/12.
- Analysis: Will
FireWire come to the iMac?, Mac Junkie, 7/6 (scroll down).
Actually, the question is more when than if - FireWire seems
inevitable.
- Advice: A better way to share, PowerBook Source, 7/12. Sharing
an internet connection with multiple Macs.
- AAPL: Apple #1
on Standard & Poor stock index, Mac OS Planet, 7/12. AAPL
is at a six-year high and the best performing stock on the S&P
500.
- Web: New
standard could remake ecommerce, ZDNet, 7/12. "Tomorrow,
leading e-merchants, Internet stalwarts, consumer and community
advocates and even the U.S. Secretary of Commerce will announce The
Standard for Internet Commerce."
- OS:
Why OS X Server is not running on my server, Mac Discussion,
7/12. "Pretty much the whole operating system is slower than it's
BSD and Linux cousins."
- OS: Mac
on Linux runs Mac OS on many PowerPC-based Macs.
- Connectivity:
Call for IPv6 implementation renewed, Interactive Week. For
more on IPv6, see IPv6: The Next
Generation Internet.
- Opinion: Disappearing
software, part 2, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday.
- News: Yahoo GeoCities fixes terms of service agreement,
MacTimes, 7/12. New terms clearly state content belongs to the
publisher, not Yahoo GeoCities.
- News: Scores prove power
of school's high-tech teaching, Ledger-Enquirer, 7/11. Each
classroom has two Macs, and the school has a tech center with 24
iMacs.
- Opinion: PC drones,
Macville. "...they see us as eccentrics because the only platform
they know doesn't deserve any loyalty."
- Advice: How
to turn your Mac into an entertainment center, iTeen,
7/10.
- Opinion: Mac SE vs.
Palm IIIx, Mulled Cider. "The Pilot, like the Macintosh, is
well-conceived, fun, useful, machine."
- Review: UniMouse,
Macville.
- Opinion: The
price of Apple's innovation, Don Crabb, ZDNet, 7/9. "...the
price of QuickTime innovation, along with the Herculean efforts to
create Mac OS X, has been a serious lack of innovative Apple
efforts in other software (or hardware) domains."
- Opinion:
What will and won't be announced at Macworld, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer, 7/9.
- P1: Detailed
specs for P1, Mac Observer, 7/9. Rumored heavier than Lombard,
six hour battery life, 800 x 600 active matrix color screen,
more.
- P1:
Consumer Portable design and hardware, AppleInsider, 7/9.
Rumored translucent 333 MHz G3 to be named iBook.
- News: Apple promoting
Internet Time, Apple Computer [MOSR].
- Rumor: Microsoft entering Mac
peripheral market, MOSR, 7/9. Look for Intellimouse, Freestyle
game pad, and more.
- OS/Dark Side: Clone
OS runs Windows apps, Wired News, 7/9. PetrOS designed to run
on a 2 MB 486 system, handle Windows NT apps.
- Web: Woz.org, about Apple's other
founding Steve.
- Opinion: Third Voice
and the smoking gun, Andrew Zimmerman.
- Web: The Apple
Collection, prototypes, graphics, and lots more.
- AAPL: Apple stock projected to $75, AAPL Investors, 7/8.
- OS: What's wrong with
Linux?, Think Secret, 7/8. "The people bandying about the idea
that Microsoft is even remotely threatened by Linux are
fools."
- Rumor: P1 rumors
building steam, MacWeek, 7/8. "...reports continue to spread
across the Internet that Apple will use this month's show as the
springboard for its long-awaited consumer notebook, also known as
P1."
- Apology: I've been fighting ISDN problems at work, which has
kept me from regular updates this week. I hope that's behind me
now.
- News:
Oregon facing school funding crunch, Access Waco. "Walk into
the average classroom, and you'll see a MacIntosh computer that's
12 years old."
- Huh? Lisa Emulator
Project. A work in progress. (Also see our Lisa section.)
- Opinion: Christmas in
July, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 7/9. A Christmas list for
the Macworld Expo.
- Opinion: Is
Future's iMac-esque PC playing fair?, About.com, 7/8. "...there
have been cases, particularly when a brand image is involved, that
duplicating a product has been considered illegal."
- Opinion: Broadband
and the future of the internet, MacBC, 7/8. Wireless internet
is the wave of the future.
- Opinion: Will
the real iMac please stand up?, Arizona Central, 7/7. "If Apple
prevails, other PC clone makers will think twice about mimicking
such case designs."
- OS: Mac OS X developer
preview 1, Mac OS Rumors, 7/7. "...paves the way for one of the
most important revolutions in Mac computing since the PowerPC
processor."
- Y2K: The
real Y2K problem, Ottawa Computes, 7/99 [MacNN]. "Macs are so Y2K compatible
that Revenue Canada specifically excludes them from its special
accelerated depreciation tax rules for Y2K replacement."
- Opinion:
Dangling conversations, Salon, 7/7. "...my initial experiences
with Third Voice had left me unimpressed with the kind of dialogue
taking place."
- Opinion: Apple's ISP plan
may hit the mark, The Register, 7/6. "It's now well known that
most buyers of consumer-oriented computers are doing so to get onto
the Internet."
- OS: One with
everything, MacWeek, 7/6. "The Mac OS - Apple's brand - relies
heavily on that ease of use, look and feel. It's been that way all
along."
- Opinion: Confessions of a Mac
bigot, the iMac, 7/6. "...like some Mac users, I often defended
the Mac with my heart instead of my head."
- Poll:
Does Apple have a case against the iMac lookalike?, ZDNet.
- Benchmark:
Browser Shootout, Mac Speed Zone. IE vs. Netscape vs.
iCab.
- Preview: FileMaker
Pro 5, AppleInsider, 7/6. New look better matches Office 98,
for better or worse.
- Opinion: The Apple
internet plan revisited, MacBC, 7/6. "Rumors are flying around
that Apple is going to launch its own ISP and portal page."
- Opinion: Why
advertising on the internet sucks, Mac Observer, 7/6. "I think
advertising is an unavoidable phenomenon on the Internet."
- Web: Grand re-opening of
The Mac Junkie
- Web:Apple's portal?
[Macs Only!]. Not very
exciting, but when you install a Mac-supplied browser, this is your
default page.
- Connectivity: MacRevolution.com now serves 48
states, much of Canada.
- OS: FreeBSD and Linux
benchmarked [Slashdot]
- Hmm: Geek
unions?, Jon Katz, Slashdot, 7/6. What if high school geeks
were to organize and promote their interests in our schools?
- Opinion: P1's
not quite at work, Dr. Tim Hillman, MacCentral, 7/5. "P1 has
got an important job to do for Apple, and the quicker it can get
around to it, the better off the company is going to be."
- OS: A tale of two
sytems, Daemon News. Linux and BSD Unix compared.
- OS: Linux and OS
politics, MacWEEk.com, 7/1. "Despite its rise in popularity,
today's Linux is hardly a mass-market OS."
- Hardware:
Upgrade-challenged G3 card shoot-out, MacNN, 7/1. G3 upgrades
for 4400, 5400, 5500, 6500, 6500, TAM, PowerBase, StarMax.
- Review: Railroad Tycoon
II, Applelinks. "Railroad Tycoon II is the type of game that
you spend far too much time thinking about when you should be doing
real work."
- Hardball: Apple sues
Future Power, Apple Computer, 7/1. Apple
goes after iMac knock-off, MacWeek, 7/1. Apple
files suit againist iMac-clone maker, MacCentral, 7/1.
- News: Australia passes draconian internet censorship law,
MacTimes, 7/1.
- Web: Mac Game Shareware
News, new site
- Rumor: Apple
preps G4 prototypes for developers, AppleInsider, 7/1.
- News: Mac
OS 8.7 goes beta, AppleInsider, 7/1.
- News: Dartmouth
again recommends Macs, MacCentral, 7/1.
- Advice: Hard
drive specification primer, Ask Dave, Mac Observer, 7/1. IDE,
EIDE, ATA, and all that.
- Opinion: Spam
attacks, MacKiDo, 7/1. "...spammers prey on people and assume
that they will be so impassioned by the message that they will drop
all skepticism and reason, and any rudimentary research or thought,
and forward the message...."
- Rumor: Prediction: Apple-branded
PDA for Macworld, Macs Only!, 7/1.
- Rumor: Apple's
on-again, off-again Portable - on-again?, ZDNet, 7/1.
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