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Interarchy a fast, powerful FTP Client
for OS X, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 02.28. Fast,
flexible, feature-laden, and familiar, Interarchy integrates tightly
with the Finder and text editors.
They just don't build laptop
computers like they used to, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive,
02.25. Today's 'Books may be smaller, lighter, and more affordable than
ever, but that comes at the price of long-term reliability and
ruggedness.
Why I bought a low end iPod,
Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 02.24. Most people buy an iPod so they can
listen to music. I had two other reasons for buying a used iPod.
Apple does us a favor by not
shipping a better mouse, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 02.23. Instead of
trying to come up with a one-mouse-fits-all multibutton mouse with a
scroll wheel, Apple lets those who want a better mouse make their own
choice.
A diehard OS 9 user makes the big
leap, Beverly Woods, Acoustic Mac, 02.23. Mac OS 9 "ain't broke"
yet and is in some ways superior to OS X, but the best browsers require
OS X.
The 10 most important Macs, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 02.22. Which models have been the most important
in the 21 year evolution of the Macintosh?
Mac OS X and the Cell processor: A
marriage made in heaven?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 02.18. Apple is
the company best positioned to create an operating system that will
help the Cell processor succeed beyond Playstations and
workstations.
The Apple
IIGS, Apple's home computer for 1986, Jason
Walsh, Apple Before the Mac, 02.16. Believing Apple II users demanded
color and would avoid the Macintosh, Apple created a 16-bit version of
the popular Apple II computer.
Napster's math doesn't account for the
extinction factor, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 02.15. If Apple goes
extinct, you still have the music you bought. But if Napster goes
extinct, you have nothing to show for the money you've spent.
Sp@mX: Fighting back against the
spammers, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Reviews, 02.15. Tired of
receiving and deleting spam? This program lets you fight the problem at
its source - ISPs who allow it onto the Internet in the first
place.
Opera 8.0 for Mac: The promise finally
realized?, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 02.14. Earlier
version of 'the world's fastest browser' weren't so fast, crashed a
lot, and weren't very Mac-like. Has Opera 8.0 fixed everything?
The ultimate spam email, Dan
Knight, The Lite Side, 02.10. Low rate mortgages, murdered chiefs,
international lotteries, cheating housewives, OEM software, online meds
and more form the backbone of today's perfect spam email.
Apple and the $100 laptop, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 02.09. "Apple could leverage their technology to
create a $100 handheld computer because they've already paid the cost
to develop so much of the technology."
Dell's 'out of whack' memory pricing
scheme, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 02.08. Eschewing the concept of
one price for all, Dell offers different RAM prices to different
classes of buyers. Really.
Napster and the $10,000 iPod,
Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 02.04. Napster is going on the offensive to
position their music rental service against Apple's iTunes Music Store
- and they're not being realistic in their comparison.
Jobs shows PowerBook G5s, units
to ship April 1, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill, 02.02. "We told people we
could rise to the thermal challenge. All we had to do was think
different about compact, lightweight, powerful PowerBooks."
The 2005 PowerBook G4 value
equation, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 02.01. As always, the new
PowerBooks offer more for the dollar, but how do they compare to
close-out prices on last year's models?
