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The Low End Mac Link Archive, January 2000
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Advice: Doubling up, Simply Stated, MacSimple, 1/31. Sharing an
internet connection with 2 or 3 Macs.
Analysis: Apple is out
of business, John Martellaro, Applelinks, 1/30. "Business
purchase decisions are approached differently than home purchase
decisions."
Opinion:
What ever happened to Don Crabb?, Rodney O. Lain, The iMac,
1/20. Turns out Crabb has been in the hospital - we wish him a full
and speedy recovery.
Advocacy: Tips
for getting your parents to want to use a computer, Nancy
Gravley, Mac Observer, 1/19. "...people who grew up during the
depression have spent their whole lives eschewing frivolous things,
saving money, and doing without."
Web: MacVoice
email list, The Macintosh Guy. A new forum for discussion of
everything having to do with speech recognition on the Mac
including ViaVoice, Naturally Speaking, MacSpeech and more.
Review: Unreal
Tournament, MacGamez, 1/19. Even the individual player should
enjoy this networkable multiplayer tour de force.
Opinion: Apple's NeXT
enterprise moves, David K. Every, MacWeek, 1/18. "The companies
that have been using Apple's solutions swear by them (as opposed to
many Microsoft solutions, where people swear at them)."
Consumer: Beware of online
digicam scam, Steve's Digicams, 1/14. Clever scam won't be
limited to digicams, so be careful buying from individuals
online.
Opinion: Nitty
gritty look at MSIE 5.0 beta, Amy Hoy, Daily Mac, 1/18.
"...some of the changes seen in the latest beta of Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.0 may rub you the wrong way."
Web: Top
Links, MyAppleMenu. Find out what articles the leading Mac
sites are linking to.
USB: MyView, Eskape Labs.
MyView mirrors 640 x 480 screen via USB to TV, composite monitor or
video projector, VCR.
Web: Right On
Mac is back after a one-year hiatus.
Web: Mac Cards,
like iCards, but they've been around longer.
Opinion: A tale of two computers, MacSimple, 1/17. A Power Mac
G4 - and a ten-year-old Mac Luggable (er, Portable).
Opinion:
A funny thing happened to me at CompUSA, Rodnay O. Lain, The
iMac, 1/16. "I won't say that Apple and the Mac now has respect in
the retail chains, but I can say that everyone at the very least
tolerates it...."
Opinion:
OS X: Who cares about cost? I want it!, Rodney O. Lain, The
iMac, 1/15. "...think about how little the Mac OS has changed over
the years. Isn't it long overdue for a revamp?"
News: Gates abdicates Microsoft throne to Ballmer,
Yahoo/Reuters, 1/14. Gates will remain chariman, take title "chief
software architect."
News: Bill bows out, MacAddict, 1/13.
Opinion: Copyrights
and copywrongs, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 1/13. "...making
copies of copyrighted material for private use is legal under
Canada's copyright legislation, so the new tax/levy is a penalty
placed on legal activity in many cases of copying."
Opinion: Apple's
big mistake, 1/13. "...Aqua is attractive, but unfortunately
Apple has sacrificed usability for looks."
Review: iMac DV Special Edition, MacAddict. "The ultimate hobby
machine."
Dark Side: Windows 2000
virus detected, c|net, 1/13. "Windows 2000 won't come out for
another month, but anti-virus software makers say they've found the
first virus...."
Low End: Jag's
House Timeline, Jag's House. Jag's story from his first Mac
until now.
Opinion: iReview
reviewed, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 1/12. "Maybe I shouldn't be
disappointed that Low End Mac didn't make the cut at iReview. I'm
in very good company."
Opinion: What's
wrong with this picture?, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 1/11.
Still no Apple Store for Canada, while Hong Kong, Belgium, and
Australia have them.
Deal: ATI RAGE 128 Pro with Mac OS 9, $99, The Apple Store.
Only for the "Sawtooth" G4, but
the card + OS 9 costs as much as OS 9 does!
Opinion: Waiting for
Pismo, Jason O'Grady, MacWeek, 1/7. "Just when I think Apple
has become predictable, it throws a curve ball."
News: iTools - Mac
OS 9 only?, iTools Tamer [MacSurfer]. You can sign up for
"@mac.com" email, then use iDisk and submit iReview feedback.
Opinion: Conspiracy!,
MacBC, 1/8. "The Mac web promotes a sense of strong community among
the Mac users, and I don't think Apple really wants to destroy
that."
Top Pick:
VST USB/FireWire Hard Drives. With no new Apple hardware, the
smartest introduction of the show may be the 6-25 GB hard drives
from VST that support both USB and FireWire.
Opinion: The end
of the Mac web (as we know it), MacBC, 1/7. "Apple's iReview is
the biggest threat to the independent Mac websites that has ever
existed."
Opinion: The
meat cleaver inside the bouquet!, John Farr, Applelinks, 1/6.
"...long hassled and harried by a swarm of Macintosh web sites,
Apple Computer has made a move to reduce their numbers."
Preview: Screenshots
of IE 5.0, AppleInsider, 1/5. New interface includes switchable
themes.
News:
OSHA withdraws home safety rules, Prodigy News, 1/5 [Slashdot]. "Putting home workers in the
position of having to comply with thousands of pages of OSHA
regulations and making employers responsible for making sure that
they do is simply foolish," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.
Analysis: Apple moves
beyond the box, MacWeek, 1/5. "...Apple clearly has the most
sophisticated and advanced vision of consumer-level computing out
there."
Macworld Expo 2000 in San Francisco began Tuesday with a "warm
up" rally. The big news is due on Wednesday. We'll have all the
details with our Wednesday afternoon update - assuming we can
connect to the QuickTime
webcast.
News: OSHA covers at-home workers, MSNBC, 1/4 [Slashdot].
Ludicrous but true: "Companies that allow employees to work at home
are responsible for . . . the home work site...."
Connectivity: Mac DSL
Center. Faster internet connections may be available in your
area.
Opinion: Macworld
has many challenges to address, Wes George, Mac Observer, 1/3.
"It is precisely because Apple has so well defined its hardware
trajectory that the potential for real surprises is possible."
Review: PowerLogix
G3/350 upgrades, Macs Only!, 1/3. "The G4 CPU upgrade cards
perform as well or better than Apple's PowerMac G4...."
Analysis:
Apple in a color bind, SiliconValley.com, 1/2. "The problem is
not that lime and tangerine computers don't sell...."
Advice: Email
attachments, Deb Shadovitz, MacCentral, 12/30. "Each computer
platform has a different file format, and that's where
complications set in."
Opinion: