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with the most recent articles listed at the top, older ones below
them. Other monthly archive indexes are linked on the right. Links
were correct when originally posted. However, we cannot guarantee
that these links are still active.
Opinion: Apple should count the cost before alienating its
friends, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 3/31. "...Apple has been on
a binge of alienating friends right and left lately."
Interview: Rodney O.
Lain, Real Life Macs, MacAddict, 3/29. His columns appear
almost everywhere; learn more about him here.
Web: Judge OKs deep
links, USA Today, 3/29. "[U.S. District Judge Harry] Hupp said
hyperlinking was not illegal as long as consumers understand whose
site they are on...." Low End Mac has long supported open links.
Opinion: Goldilocks, Aristotlte and the three PowerBook form
factors, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, 3/29. "Should Apple make a
smaller (and maybe even a bigger) 'Book? "
Opinion: Do
"rumor sites" really hurt Apple or you?, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 3/29. "I would suggest that a perusal of Apple's stock
price chart over the past three months blows the theory to
smithereens."
Web: mac2400, the leading
PowerBook 2400 site (in English) has moved [Macs Only!].
Opinion: Geek
profiling: The next W.A.V.E., Jon Katz, Slashdot, 3/29. "It's a
carbon copy of the Hitler Youth program used so successfully in
World War II Germany to root out dissidents and oddballs."
News: 800 MHz Macs on
the way this year, MacUser UK, 3/29. Enhanced G4 will include
on-chip 256 KB level 2 cache running at full CPU speed and a second
AltiVec unit.
Review: Presto
Plus, The Review, MacNN, 3/29. US$299-399 upgrade adds 33 MHz
'040, ethernet, and 32 MB RAM to pre-6804 Macs with LC PDS
slots.
Web: The
Web is wonderful for kids, ZDNet, 3/28. "Children (and parents)
use e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging, for example, to
connect with other people, not avoid them," the report says.
Opinion: Why does my
refrigerator need an ISP?, Daniel J. Lyons, MacBC, 3/28. "It
would be silly to have Internet connections for every device in
your house."
Opinion: Are any Mac
sites safe?, Macinstein, 3/28. "It kind of has a 'Big Brother'
feel to it and had us thinking about all the effort we put into
promoting the Mac."
Opinion: Apple: Big
Brother 2000?, NoBeige.com, 3/28. "Apple is acting like the Big
Brother that it mocked in 1984."
News: Apple shuts
down Mac Cards for trademark violation, MacNN, 3/27. In what is
becoming increasingly common Apple practice, they sent in the
lawyers before contacting the webmaster. Why ask for cooperation
when you can coerce it?
News:
Jobs intervenes as Mac Cards gets pulled, MacUser UK, 3/27.
"...the action was triggered when Jobs sent a card from the site to
another senior Apple employee questioning its use of Apple branding
materials and images."
Web: Where has the
Mac Cards website gone?, Mac Cards. "...my enthusiasm to
promote the Mac or any Apple product . . . has been completely
destroyed."
Opinion: Does Darwin
open the door to Intel?, Tony Smith, MacWeek, 3/27. "Look at it
this way: what sells the iMac? Is it the processor...?"
Analysis: IE 5
changes how Mac users see the Web, MacWeek, 3/27. "...a default
installation of IE 5 for the Mac will display Web pages pretty much
the same way that Windows users see them."
News: Macs Only! has
some screen shots, comments on Internet Explorer 5.0, 3/27.
Opinion: The
unfortunate truths, Jack Shedd, osOpinion. "...this is what
happens when a nerd and a businessman meet."
AAPL:
Apple hits 150, closes down in last hour, Wes George, Mac
Observer, 3/23. "Apple set a new intraday high of 150 5/16 before
the profit takers, unable to resist AAPL's 44 dollar gain since
last Thursday, shaved the stock price back."
News: Accelerate Your
Mac! has downloadable color profiles for the iBook and recent
PowerBooks that really improve on-screen color.
Web: MyAppleMenu has a new
look and a new ULR, 3/23.
Opinion: Giving
your iMac a brain transplant, Gene Steinberg, Arizona Central,
3/23. You can upgrade an old iMac to 466 MHz, but is it worth the
cost?
News: The
rack-mount iMac, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/23. ISP
repacks $1,000 iMac (less monitor) for a small, inexpensive,
powerful server.
Opinion: Two
great Mac success stories, Nancy Gravely, Mac Observer, 3/22.
"Both are about men who, because of their age or life experiences,
approached the whole computer concept with great trepidation."
Review: PowerBook
(FireWire) 500, Accelerate Your Mac!, 3/22. "If you've never
owned a PowerBook, there's never been a better time to buy."
News: AirPort
software may damage WaveLAN card, MacCentral, 3/22. "If you
choose the Apple Airport driver, the included automatic firmware
update may cause irreparable damage to Lucent's card."
News: Program
matches equipment donors with schools in need, Paul Shields,
Applelinks, 3/18. "MacTreasures started a program a few weeks ago
to match those individuals and businesses with excess Macintosh
equipment with schools in need."
News:
Motorola denies IBM G4 ban, MacUser UK, 3/14. "Motorola has
placed no restrictions on IBM that will prevent it from
manufacturing and selling the MPC7400, at any clock speed, to
Apple."
Opinion: On
our own terms, Mark Newhouse, Keeper of the iBook, 3/13. "Apple
still makes the best hardware and software for getting things done
on our terms - even before we know what our terms are."
Review: Promax Turbomax
PCI, MacNerds.com. "For less than $250 I had 18 gigs of space
that outperformed the old 2gig drive I was using."
Opinion: Does
Maytag equal Apple?, Samuel Sharp, MacSoldiers, 3/13. "Maytag's
stock has fallen precipitously. Analysts say that its products are
too well made: Since they don't break down too often, there is no
need for them to be replaced."
Analysis:
The futility of an internet sales tax, Alan Reynolds, American
Outlook [Slashdot]. "Internet
commerce is and will continue to be overwhelmingly dominated by
goods and services that would not be subject to state sales taxes
even if the Internet did not exist."
Web: MacOS Daily returns. "Once upon a time, MacOS daily (MOSD)
was one of the premiere Apple and Macintosh websites for commentary
and reviews."
Web: Mac Gorilla, new
site covers "best platforms on the planet," which they list as Mac
OS, Linux, and Amiga. No, they don't do Windows.
Opinion: Mac
users unite!, Julie Lewis, The Round Peg, 3/13. New columnist
at Mac Junkie comes from a non-power user perspective. Looking
forward to future articles, as this one is excellent.
News: 666 MHz
iBook, Go2Mac, 3/13. No, you can't drop in a 666 MHz G3 today,
but the motherboard could support one. (Overclocking your CPU will
void your warranty.)
Advice:
Building an ATX G3, Timothy A. Seufert, Accelerate Your Mac!,
3/13. How to drop a Beige G3 motherboard into a standard ATX case.
(Not for the faint of heart.)
OS: BSD's big
break?, Wide Open News, 3/12. BSD Unix is older than Linux,
should benefit from merger of FreeBSD and BSD/OS as Open
Source.
News: Some
voters shut out from online election, Southern Arizona Online,
3/11. "Frustrated after repeated attempts to participate in the
nation's first binding Internet election, Wing and Harris . . .
were told that Mac-using Democrats from around the state
experienced similar difficulties."
Opinion:
Of megahertz, man, and processor woes, Dan Willis, Daily iMac,
3/10. "...if Apple isn't already looking beyond Motorola for a new
source of processors, it's quite possible that they will in the
very near future."
Deal: DealMac is reporting
$1,299 Power Mac G4/350s may be available at your local CompUSA.
Supply is limited.
Opinion: Vintage Macs
are a good buy, Macintosh Online User. "While these machines
may not fit the bill for everyday web surfing or intensive number
crunching, they can still perform 90 percent of the tasks people
purchase computers."
News: iBook,
PowerBook data corruption on sleep, Apple TIL 25130. Apple
recommends against using "preserve memory contents on sleep" until
they can release a patch.
Opinion: Snake
oil, Marc Zeedar, MacOpinion, 3/10. All about rebates.
Web: The history and
basics of HTML, David K. Every, MacWeek, 3/9. "This simple
concept was so hot - and so needed - that everyone jumped on the
bandwagon."
Opinion: Power printing for the
people, Eolake Stobblehouse, MacCreator. Epson Stylus Photo 870
not only offers quality, but improved archival stability.
Opinion: MP3s
now more popular than sex?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/9.
With that headline, how could we avoid linking. ;-)
Opinion: Windows
2000, fact and fiction, John Deke, Mac Traitor, 3/9. "Perhaps
the greatest irony in the Mac vs. PC debate is the fact that the
difference in ease of use between the Mac and PC is actually
greater for the "power user" than for the novice."
Analysis: Can IBM and
Motorola get along, Tony Smith, MacWeek, 3/7. "We're solidly in
rumorland here, but such is the importance of the PowerPC alliance
to Apple that it's worth taking a closer look at the
allegation."
Opinion: Should iReview
be Mac only, Macinstein, 3/7. "...there's a lot more out there
. . . and they're not listed on iReview. "
Web: CompUSA Mac Employee
Forum, Rodney O. Lain and David K. Schultz, Applelust, 3/7. A
place for CompUSA Mac specialists to interact online.
Digicams:
Canon PowerShot S20 review, Digital Camera Resource Page, 3/6.
"It's fast, well-designed, and really easy to use."
Doh! France
bans "email," Applelinks, 3/6. "...French civil servants may no
longer say 'email' but must use 'courrier electronique' (electronic
letter)."
AAPL: Apple's
big break out, Wes George, Mac Observer, 3/6. Apple to ship
over 1,000,000 computers this quarter.
Web: MacLaunch
to acquire MacOpinion, Applelinks, 3/6. "Founded in December
1997 by Ben Garland, MacOpinion has grown to become one of the most
popular Mac sites on the web."
Opinion: We don't
need rude software, John Martellaro, osOpinion, 3/3. "Asking
the user for his/her data file password just before the
registration program is going to spill its guts to the Internet is
absolutely the most stupid, alarming, inappropriate and thoughtless
thing one could possibly conceive of."
Opinion: What's wrong
with older Macs?, Phil Shapiro, Jag's House. "No tool is ever
outdated if it serves the needs of the person using it."
Opinion: Should politics be taboo on Mac websites?, Charles
Moore, MacSimple, 3/3. "I don't think there is anything wrong with
advocacy, so long as you do your best to be scrupulously fair, and
don't try to pretend that you're merely an unbiased
fly-on-the-wall."
Obituary:
Floppy Disk, 48, dies of obsolescence, Stephen Lynch, Orange
County Register, 3/1. "It was a tragic end for a celebrity that
once rode in the pocket protectors of every Silicon Valley
programmer."
Advice: Email, privacy, and the
law, Greg Knauss, Sendmail.net, 3/1 [Slashdot]. "It's a nightmare scenario:
You make someone mad, they sue, and suddenly your once private
email is delivered directly into their hands...."
Opinion: PowerBook speed: How much do you need?, Charles Moore,
Road Warrior, 3/1. "However, for most of us, the 500 MHz G3 should
be amply speedy - luxuriously speedy - for years to come...."
