Top Links: May 2000

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The Low End Mac Link Archive, May 2000

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Advice: Getting to know the way of AppleScript, Rick Bargerhuff, HolyMac, 5/31.
Review: Logitech optical wheel mouse, Carson Baker, HolyMac, 5/30. "...the absolute nicest input device I've seen in the ten years that I've used the Mac."
Analysis: Apple earnings to be off as iMac sales slump, MacNN, 5/31. With no updates since October, the iMac is no longer the hot computer it once was. LEM spin: Apple needs to boost the MHz, even if that means matching G4 clock speeds.
Advice: More spiffy Web page tips, Nancy Gravley, Computing with Bifocals, Mac Observer, 5/31. Tables with depth and mouse-overs.
Analysis: The hazards of corporate vanity, UpsideToday, 5/31. "Overconfident management has been responsible for most of the marketing disasters of past decades." Think of Microsoft Bob, Macintosh TV, and Windows CE as just a few examples.
OS: Core changes to the Mac System, BusinessWeek, 5/31. "OS X, Apple's new operating system, fundamentally transforms the venerable Macintosh desktop."
News: Apple posts firmware updates for slot-loading iMac, Power Mac G4, iBook, and current PowerBook, Macs Only!, 5/31. Enables boot from FireWire drive. Other improvements.
Legal: The Digital Divas vs. Microsoft, Slashdot, 5/31. The company that trademarked Windowsô is now infringing on the Digital Divas with their own Digital Diva (singular).
AAPL: If you've got the cojones, buy AAPL now, Wes George, Mac Observer, 5/30. Apple stock has not been so undervalued in some time.
Opinion: Futureshop and Macintosh products, Jennifer Fraser, osOpinion. "Why do you sell products that you know very little or nothing about?"
Opinion: Consumer Mac focus results in juvenile following?, Raging Bull, 5/30. Glad Low End Mac wasn't listed as one of the "Web sites with little originality, a general lack of focus, and clear juvenilism."
News: iRack shipping, Marathon Computer. iRack allows user to repackage an iMac for rack-mount use. Very cool if you have need for such a thing.
OS: User runs OS X DP4 on Power Mac 7500, Accelerate Your Mac!, 5/30. Maybe there is hope for my SuperMac S900 with an "unsupported" installation.
History: One of the crazy ones: The man who invented the computer, David Schultz, MacOS Daily, 5/30. Alan Turing was the father of modern computing.
Advice: ExtendaPort: Extending AirPort's range, About.com, 5/29. Lucent antenna increases range by 30-100%.
Analysis: Historical roots of Mac OS X, John Martellaro, 5/29. What is this BSD Unix at the core of the new Mac OS?
Review: Vicomsoft Internet Gateway, Paul Shields, The Business Mac, 5/29.
Advise: How to speed up your start up, MacInstruct. Four tips for getting your Mac up and running more quickly.
Analysis: An armchair CEO looks at Apple and The New Apple, David K. Every, MacWeek, 5/26-57. A history of Apple Computer with and without Steve Jobs.
Web: A guide to Mac support websites, MacInstruct. Good overview of online resources.
Opinion: Ding dong, the witch is dead...almost, Rodney Lain, iBrotha, MyMac, 5/26. Software installation hell. This must be Windows.
Web: MacToolbox, a new site by Darren Edwards. Clean, friendly look with helpful content.
Analysis: Diverging paths for PowerPC, MacWeek, 5/26. "[The new G3] might sound like great news for the Mac, but it does indicate that IBM and Motorola are still following diverging paths in PowerPC development."
News: Apple Germany part of European trend: Growth of 36% in first quarter of 2000, Macwelt.
Advice: Optimize your Mac's performance and stability, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 5/26. One tip: If you can afford to live without VM, do so.
Analysis: Which is more stable, the Mac or Windows?, Gene Steinberg, Resurrected Mac, Mac Speed Zone. The answer isn't surprising, but it's nice to understand the reasons behind it.
Opinion: Will compatibility issues rain on the OS X parade?, Charles W. Moore, View From the Bridge, MacOS Daily, 5/26. A thoughtful look at the many issues involved in moving to OS X.
Deal: Free VCD from CoolVCD.com. Buy CD/DVD SpeedTools from Intech, then buy one VCD from CoolVCD.com and get a second one for free. (Latest version of SpeedTools adds DVD, DVD-RAM support.)
Web: Low End Mac reviewed on Access Internet Magazine. "There is an unbelievable amount of information here in the form of on-site articles and off-site links...."
Review: Z-Write, a word processor for writers, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/26. Z-Write is simply revolutionary.
Advice: Supporting your systems on a limited budget, Paul Shields, The Business Mac. If you're a regular at Low End Mac, other may already consider you something of a computer expert. This article explains what that can mean in the workplace.
Opinion: A solution to the Microsoft anti-trust case, Eliot Hochberg, Mac Junkie, 5/26. Thoughtful proposal notes that breaking up MS won't work.
News: IBM plots next PowerPC chips, ZDNet, 5/25. New lower power G3 to reach 700 MHz, have on-chip L2 cache. LEM spin: Expect faster PowerBooks, iBooks, and iMacs - but never faster than the G4.
Hands On: OS X DP4 in-depth look with screen shots, Holy Mac. Read this and you will want to beta test OS X when it becomes available.
Opinion: Hey Apple! Is that an injunction...?, Scott J. Gray, Big G Media. An opinionated, irreverent, honest look at the litigious side of Apple.
Hands On: OS X DP4 in-depth look with screen shots, Holy Mac. Read this and you will want to beta test OS X when it becomes available.
Opinion: Hey Apple! Is that an injunction...?, Scott J. Gray, Big G Media. An opinionated, irreverent, honest look at the litigious side of Apple.
Opinion: Take your right to a Mac for granted? The Mac in Poland, Nancy Gravley, Computing With Bifocals, Mac Observer, 5/24. "During [martial law] old Macs, because of their size and simplicity, were brought home in private ways (sometimes smuggled), often in order to serve in our informal underground...."
Opinion: The essence of the Mac is the user interface, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/24.
Advice: File sharing: Apple's secret feature, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. If you have more than one Mac, you should know about file sharing.
Opinion: If no Apple PDA in the works, what other "digital device" might Jobs have been talking about?, Charles W. Moore, View From the Bridge, MacOS Daily, 5/24. "We're always trying to build lighter laptops, but we're pulled in some different directions."
Opinion: Mac OS X delayed - that sounds great to me!, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 5/23. "Developing masterpieces requires an awful lot of time."
Advice: PowerBook 5300c Internet performance analysis, Steve Martin.
Opinion: The megahertz race, Erig, Big G Media, 5/24. "But people aren't buying G4s for sheer speed, they use them because they are the best tool for the job."
Web: New online Mac retail site launched, Mac Observer, 5/24.
News: Cease and desist (the First Amendment), Go2Mac, 5/23. Apple legal pressures site to remove images of Aqua-like interfaces used to illustrate articles.
Opinion: The challenge of change, John Martellaro, MacOS Daily, 5/22. "The Macintosh is the distillation of Apple Computer's wisdom and philosophy about how one can best interact with a computer."
Web: iReview looks at Low End Mac, Apple Computer.
Opinion: Help, my software won't be updated!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 5/23. As a Home Page and Emailer orphan, I understand the feeling - yet these applications continue to meet my needs. (Well, I may be outgrowing Home Page.)
Opinion: Pismo four months later: A second look, PowerBook Zone, 5/23. "...if this is the biggest issue we can come up with, obviously Apple's done a great job. "
Web: MacEdition launches as site for Mac professionals.
AAPL: Buy low. Mac Observer virtual portfolio buys more Apple, Wes George, Mac Observer, 5/22.
Interview: Preaching the gospel of Mac, Brandt Williams, Minnesota Public Radio, 5/22. "Every other weekend, Rodney Lain talks to the Mac-faithful and the Mac-curious at the Roseville CompUSA."
Opinion: It's the interface, stupid, Marko Cunningham, Holy Mac!, 5/22. "The main strength of the Mac is the elegance and simplicity of the Mac OS...."
News: IBM adds zip to PowerPC chips, Excite/ZDNet. New technology reduced power consumption, allows 30% higher speeds.
Analysis: How Microsoft made virus-writing accessible, Baltimore Sun, 5/21. "By giving ordinary users-turned-programmers access to powerful tools such as the computer's file system and e-mail programs, Microsoft opened the door to the kind of malicious virus writers who created Melissa (last year's nasty virus) and this year's Love Bug."
Web: MacMadness has moved to its own domain. Congratulations!
Opinion: Are Macs important?, Jeff Lewis, MacOpinion, 5/19
Opinion: Clones: A Mac by any other name is not the same, Michael A. LaMorte, Macville, 5/19. Why cloning was a bad idea. A very thoughtful article.
Opinion: The death of sprockets, Brian Greenstone, Inside Mac Games. "I have to admit that my perception of the Games Session at WWDC was that Apple is killing the games API's and not replacing them with anything...."
Benchmark: Which is fastest, DeskJet 1220Cse or Stylus Photo 1270?, Bare Feats, 5/19. Looking for a large format printer?
Opinion: Why an Apple PDA is a case of trying to top the pig, Dan Willis, Daily Mac, 5/19. You really have to read the article to understand the title - and it's definitely worth reading.
Review: Mac OS 09. The Missing Manual, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/19. ...David Pogue's "Mac OS 09. The Missing Manual" delivers on its promise to be "the book that should have been in the box."
Virus: New, nastier Love Bug virus threatens computers, Yahoo/Reuters, 5/19. "Herbie: Love Bug II" causes more severe damage than earlier Love Bug virus. (Thank goodness it's also a Visual Basic Script, leaving non-Windows systems essentially immune.)
Virus: New virus more destructive than "Love," Cnet, 5/18. "...the virus alters itself to sneak around traditional virus scanners." Clever - glad they're not targeting the Mac.
Petition: 3dfx BTO petition to Apple, Accelerate Your Mac! If you believe Apple should offer the 3dfx Voodoo cards as build-to-order options on the G4, here's the place to share your thoughts.
Opinion: Tiny treasures, Jeff Lewis, Mac Skeptic, MacOpinion, 5/17. "This [the 8"x10"x1" IBM ThinkPad 2400] is the computer I wanted from Apple and waited for."
Opinion: Fallout from the WWDC rumors, Daniel J. Lyons, Lyon's Den, MacBC, 5/17.
Opinion: Backwards and forwards USB and FireWire connectivity for PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, MacOS Daily, 5/17.
News: Apple demonstrates dual-G4 Power Mac, Slashdot, 5/16. "...Cocoa/Carbon applications do not need to be changed in any way to take advantage of multi-processors. Benchmark demonstrations ran roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system...."
Opinion: On the Flip Side: Mac advocates are a bunch of bigots, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 5/16. "...we are arrogant. It is hard not to be and it annoys other people out there."
OS: Mac OS X, Apple Computer. Straight from the horse's mouth, including screen shots of DP4.
OS: Mac OS X, Macs Only!, 5/16. New hope for older Power Macs: "According to Apple, Mac OS X is designed to run on all Macintosh computers using PowerPC G3 and G4 processor chips, and requires a minimum of 64 MB of memory."
Opinion: The Urban Mac: What's the minimum Macintosh?, Dwain Elliott, 5/15. "If you only have a few hundred bucks to spend, you can buy an older, upgradeable Power Macintosh to start computing, and build from there."
Opinion: Keeper of the iBook: Does size matter?, Mark Newhouse, 5/15. "I use the iBook every day, and have found it to be the perfect companion on my commute."
OS: OS X looks like a Mac, MacWeek, 5/15. "With DP4, Mac OS X now has a more Mac-like Finder."
OS: Apple releases Mac OS X Developer Preview 4, Apple Computer, 5/15. Public beta due this summer, final release in January.
Opinion: Announced OS X Public Beta hides the real issue, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 5/15. "Apple has again let the release of their next OS to slip, this time by a minimum of 6 months."
News: eCommerce group says MP3 piracy appears good for CD sales, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/15. Take that, Metallica. :-)
News: Apple Germany against "false friends," Macwelt. Ad firm "warned" for unauthorized use of Apple logo, Think Different slogan in "Dear Windows-Users: We Love You!" ad.
WWDC: Look for coverage on MacNN, Mac Observer, MacCentral, MacWeek, and more links on MacSurfer's Headline News.
Networking: Apple ethernet/networking bugs and fixes, MacInTouch. Reports posted over the weekend indicate Apple Farallon Fast EtherTX 10/100 Card is one solution.
Opinion: Can Apple seize the day?, David Schultz, 5/15. "Microsoft is on the ropes; other options are springing up by which Apple can distinguish itself, and Apple itself is coming out of its second infancy."
Analysis: Good Macs come in small packages, Wired, 5/15. "...for some Apple enthusiasts, the company will never improve one of its earliest computers, the Color Classic."
Opinion: Sydow's Mind of Macness: An iMac or an iPC?, Don Parks Sydow, MacOS Daily, 5/15. "It's pretty unlikely that Apple will ever make a Mac OS capable of running on a PC that sports an Intel processor, right? Wrong!"
Advice: Web access for System 6 Macs, Jag's House. Any Mac the supports System 6.0.8 can access the Web.
News: New iMac computers operate in Spanish, Modesto Bee, 5/15. Modesto dealer stocks iMacs preconfigured for Spanish.
Opinion: Should I stay or should I go?, Newsweek, 5/15 [MyAppleMenu]. "The Mac has always had an emotional appeal that often winds up making its users more productive."
Opinion: How to publish a trade secret, Esko Woudenberg, osOpinion. "Traditionally trade secrets require the entity that claims the secret to adequately protect that secret or trade secret classification is lost. "Publishing" it on the Internet is far from reasonable protective measures to safeguard."
Opinion: Warp Core: Will we lost control of our computers?, John Martellaro, Applelinks, 5/14. "Apple Computer, so far, has celebrated individualism and freedom in our computing experience."
News: 3dfx takes aim at ATI, MacWeek, 5/13. "3dfx took aim at rival graphics chipmaker ATI Technology this week by demonstrating an AGP version of its Voodoo5 graphics card--and openly criticizing Apple for shipping its Power Mac systems exclusively with ATI's Rage 128 chip." See also 3dfx BTO petition.
Opinion: Dispatches from the copyright war, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/12. Mettalica, Microsoft vs. Slashdot, German "Apple" ad, Napster, more.
Opinion: Dad, are you on my computer again?, Bill Ball, Macville, 5/12. "My son might rightly ask this question, as I load yet another game on his iBook Special Edition."
Opinion: Microsoft makes it hard to be a web developer, Oliver Dueck, Mac Observer, 5/12. "Developing web sites using anything but the most basic HTML results in severe incompatibilities between browsers and platforms."
Opinion: Ever been in upgrade hell?, Marion Delahan, HolyMac, 5/12. "Ever been in upgrade hell? That is when a perfectly running system demands a single change. Unfortunately, the single change creates a domino effect that requires multiple upgrades."
News: Serious Mac network bug being tracked by MacInTouch. Slot-loading iMac, Pismo, iBook, and G4 can all lose network connection under certain conditions.
Opinion: The "one OS" strategy, Think Secret, 5/12. Speculation that the "one OS" may be Darwin, not OS X. Provocative viewpoint.
Opinion: In praise of words, or why I detest graphics-cluttered websites, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 5/12. Agreed, which is why Low End Mac is content heavy, graphics light.
Opinion: All Mac Considered: The silly season, Joe Carson, MacOS Daily, 5/12. "For the Mac world the Silly Seasons were the periods a couple of months before one of the big MacWorld Expos."
News: Microsoft stumbles (again) with latest efforts to embrace & extend, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 5/11. "The technique is often called Embrace and Extend, which is the practice of seemingly embracing a technology, officially "extending" its capabilities in a proprietary way...."
News: Microsoft wants to censor some open-source postings, Cnet, 5/11. "...legal analysts say material that found its way on to the Internet may no longer be entitled to trade secret protections."
News: ILOVEYOU worm an accident?, ZDNet, 5/11. "...de Guzman did not confess to creating the virus but said that he may have been responsible for unleashing it onto the Internet."
Opinion: Moore's Views & Reviews: Moore succumbs to Aqua, at least a little bit, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "Too much visual stimulation tires me out and jades my senses. I love the understated subtlety of the traditional Mac OS."
Advice: How to upgrade your DuoDock, Power-Macintosh. Includes lots of helpful photos.
News: Apple threatens German agency over ad, MacNN, 5/11. Responding to recent virus, ad proclaims, "Dear Windows user: 'We love you!'" :-)
Advice: Getting the most out of your dated Mac, MacMind.
Review: PowerBook 2000, Andrew Gore, Macworld. "With the release of the latest PowerBook G3, Apple has added a host of improvements to a product that just a year ago Macworld deemed without peer."
History: MITS Altair 8800, Obsolete Computer Museum. The first personal computer kit (1975), and the machine Bill Gates first wrote Micro-soft BASIC for.
Web: Microsoft asks Slashdot to remove readers' posts, Slashdot, 5/11. Slashdot's three hottest issues: Microsoft, the Digital Milleniium Copyright Law, and censorship
SETI@home: Mac SETI@home team passes 600 members, gaining on next three teams, Mac Observer, 5/10.
Opinion: Five ways the Web is pushing the law to the limit, Sally McGrane, Cnet, 5/10. Patents, gambling, marketing, cybersquatting, and copyright.
Opinion: Computing with Bifocals: In the land of Macintosh, Nancy Gravley, 5/10.
Opinion: View from the Classroom: In search of a web host, Steve Wood, 5/9.
Advice: Road Warrior: PowerBook hard drive upgrade options, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 5/10.
Review: Vicomsoft Internet Gateway, Paul Shields, The Business Mac, 5/10. "VIG offers a complete selection of server products including DNS, DHCP, NAT, Dial-in, WebCache, and content filtering...."
Advice: Can I run Linux/Unix on my Mac?, HolyMac, 5/9. Short answer: yes. Long answer: in the article.
News: Other World Computing build-to-order program for older Macs. User can choose from Power Mac 6100, 7100, Power Computing Power Center, or (our favorite) Umax SuperMac S900. Prices start at US$50.
SETI@home: Earthlingsoft announces SETI Checker 2.2.1.
Virus: Linux users unscathed by ILOVEYOU, Nicholas Petreley, CNN, 5/9. Mac users are not alone in avoiding the Love Bug.
Opinion: On the Flip Side: The BMW of computers? No, the Volkswagen!, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 5/9. "Nothing - no, nothing - in the car industry compares to the iMac, except the New Beetle."
Opinion: Microsoft's secret anti-campaigns, Macinstein, 5/9. "They knew that by ruling the browser, they could rule a good portion of how the internet worked."
Benchmark: What's the fastest Ultra ATA drive under US$250?, Bare Feats, 5/9.
Opinion: iGeek: Defining a well run company, David K. Every, MacWeek, 5/8. Thoughtful article on how companies get out of balance. Something you'll want to print and reread several times.
News: Connectix to revamp Speed Doubler into new product, MacNN, 5/8. Speed Doubler's intelligent copy routines are the only reason I haven't switched to Mac OS 9. It's brilliant, transparent software that I find essential, leaving me with OS 8.6.
Virus: Children of Love Bug: No celebration, ZDNews/Yahoo, 5/8. "The worm also infects files on networked and mapped drives, and it sends itself to people who join a chat room with an infected member."
Virus: Microsoft criticized for lack of software security, Cnet, 5/5. "Microsoft has built in the ideal virus transmission mechanism into the operating system."
Web: Appleholics Anonymous is back, a great source of desktop pictures, icons, K-schemes, and web graphics. Welcome back!
Advice: Monday's Mac Gadget: Speed up your Mac with a ramBunctious, John F. Braun, Mac Observer.
Opinion: Think About It: The Mac essence, part 2, David Schultz, MacOS Daily, 5/8. "One could hold, and reasonably, that I have only defined the essence of a Mac as a computer, not the essence of a Mac as a Mac. And this is the real question, isn't it?"
Opinion: Lyons' Den: Will Apple's next ad tout a 2 GHz Power Mac?, Daniel J. Lyons III, MacBC, 5/8. "...marketing the PowerMac Dual G4 as a GHz Mac would be a smart move. This would also allow Apple to market the Quad G4 as a 2 GHz system."
History: Viruses on the Mac, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 5/7. "The first Mac viruses, nVir and MacMag, appeared in 1987...."
Opinion: Beneath Aqua: Carbon, Cocoa, and more, Don Parks Sydow, MacOS Daily, 5/6. "What's the bottom line? Mac OS X holds the graphics technologies that will be of interest to programmers."
Web: The Mac Junkie's jCards are back, Mac Junkie. Last week the creator of MacCards released eyeCards; Mac Junkie now introduces original Mac-related jCards.
Virus: Core Breach! ILOVEYOU Microsoft, Scott McCarfty, GraphicPower, 5/5. "All in the name of integration, Microsoft has created an array of tools that play into the hands of the twisted minds of malicious pranksters who wish to make their mark in the world by seeing how much havoc they can wreck on business."
History: Osborne 1, Obsolete Computer Museum. The first portable (1981) weighed 24 pounds - and you thought the Mac Portable was heavy!
Deal: Sonnet G3 266 MHz daughter card, $139, dealmac exclusive.
Opinion: Media forgets Mac immunity in new virus threat, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. "This is one time when the lack of full support for Visual Basic on the Mac is definitely a blessing."
Opinion: Study confirms text-oriented websites hold user's attention, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 5/5. "This data would seem to vindicate my own staunch unscientific view . . . that graphics-heavy content on information Web pages is distracting and annoying...."
Opinion: The thing that ate my desktop: 17" iMacs? Get real, Dan Willis, Daily Mac, 5/5. "In short the iMac gave me my desk back, and I'll be danged if I'm going to let someone take it away without a fight."
Advocacy: Going against the grain, Apple Computer. Law firms dumps Windows for Mac, staff announces, "if [we] ever converted back to the PC, they would quit!"
Opinion: Phillips Files: A virus alert (not) and a gamers alert, R. P. Phillips, MacMilitia. "...the news media has, again, overlooked the obvious solution to these virus attacks."
OS: The Best of Mac OS X, Macwelt. "Mac-OS X is basically a Unix operating system."
Web: Can a web cache improve network throughput?, Paul Shields, The Business Mac. Good introduction to web caching.
Web: "Espionage" a good fake that has people talking, MacNN, 5/4. Well produced fake Apple ad touts G4 as high tech contraband, was also produced on G4s.
Humor: Simon's EyeCards, proving that Apple's iCards don't have a monopoly on boring scenery.
Opinion: View From the Bridge: The Mac is the user experience, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 5/5. "A big part of the Mac user experience is the wonderful classic Mac graphical user interface (GUI), which is why I, and many other commentators, are cautiously apprehensive about the changes Apple has made in how the Mac GUI looks and works in forthcoming OS X."
News: Multiprocessor G4 on tap for WWDC, Go2Mac.com, 5/4. CompUSA sources report receiving SKU numbers for new computers.
Opinion: Moore's Views & Reviews: The state of the browser, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "I keep IE 5 open, and use it every day for some tasks, but I don't have the confidence in it that I have developed with Netscape and iCab."
Review: iBook, iBook Special Edition, Macworld. "Budget-conscious buyers who need a portable computer . . .will appreciate the iBook's value."
SETI@home: Low End Mac launches SETI@home team for Power Mac 6100 owners, Mac Observer, 5/4.
Opinion: Apple, serve Mac OS X online, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 5/4. "What if Apple created an online version of Mac OS X and its Aqua interface?" Anyone with a browser could experience it!
Opinion: Road to Mac OS X: Expandable or not?, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 5/4.
Web: iBook Zone reopens with new editor
Web: Eyetrack online news study may surprise you, E&P Online, 5/3. Web users concentrate on text, not graphics.
Advice: Computing with Bifocals: Search directory tips, more on Dvorak keyboards, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 5/3.
Opinion: Road Warrior: What's the best choice for a budget workhorse PowerBook?, Charles W. Moore, 5/3.
Opinion: Stauffer and Hillman Spar: Wanting more from Apple, MacOS Daily, 5/3. "The iMac and iBook were barely the beginning - a lot of exciting things are left for Apple to develop and innovate."
Opinion: The Mac-Files: On boycotts, MacBC, 5/3. "The reasons for a boycott is because they do not believe the company in question is behaving properly. And it is quite obvious that Microsoft has not been behaving properly."
Consumer: Fans force Star Wars DVD release, Wired News, 5/3. George Lucas resisted, fans prevailed, "but it is still far too soon to know which films will be released when" (not this year).
News: Digital camera sales explode, Macworld UK, 5/3. Digicams expected to overtake film cameras in 2002.
Opinion: Microsoft's real problem: No innovation, John Dvorak, ZDNet, 5/2.
How To: Power Colour Classic, Stuart Bell. How to upgrade a Colour Classic to Power PC.
History: Poqet PC, Obsolete Computer Museum, and Poqet PC Home Page. An XT clone from 1989 - not much larger than a checkbook.
Opinion: On the Flip Side: Just how important is the Internet?, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 5/2. A lot of people don't have Internet access - and some of them don't get it either.
Upgrades: Newer resurrects G3-L2 cards, Mac-Upgrade.com, 5/2. 400 MHz G3 upgrade sells for US$449, fits Power Mac 4400, 5400, 5500, 6400, 6500, Performa 6360, Umax C-series, Motorola StarMax, and Power Computing PowerBase.
Opinion: Mac OS X and Aqua tidbits, Think Secret, 5/2. Whether this comes from an anonymous Apple insider or not, it's a very thoughtful piece on "the iMac OS."
Opinion: Portable thrills, David Schultz, Applelust, 5/1. Pismo, the newest PowerBook, epitomizes the Macintosh.
Opinion: The Apple Trader: To break up Microsoft is a slap in capitalism's face, Wes George, Mac Observer, 5/1. Read this: "The mere fact that the Microsoft monopoly even exists means the free market system has in some way failed us." Now read the article.
News: Steve Jobs to keynote Macworld New York, Mac Observer, 5/1. Can you say, "OS X"?
Review: Low End Mac profiled on Access Internet Magazine site. "There is an unbelievable amount of information here in the form of on-site articles and off-site links; that translates to a crowded and confusing homepage." Confusing? Say it isn't so!
Review: 400 MHz G4 upgrade shootout, Insanely Great Mac, 5/1. Four upgrades tested. All fast. All expensive.
Opinion: Take a Break: My iMac meets E.T., Richard A. Good, Daily iMac, 5/1. The author joins SETI@home and gets a free screen saver.
News: Apple denies FishPC is copyright target, MacNN, 5/1. "...the FishPC's CPU is separate from the monitor in a stand-alone enclosure which looks like a fish standing on its tail."
Review: NoBeige: Best computer speakers available, Go2Mac, 5/1. New Kilpsh speaker system "best multimedia speakers for your computer hands down."
Opinion: Free Your Mind: Why Steve Jobs doesn't do commercials, Rodney O. Lain, MacConnect, 5/1.
News: U.S. Supreme Court lets stand ruling that frees ISPs from liability for customer email content, Mercury Center, 5/1 [Slashdot]. "...Internet service providers are not legally and financially liable when someone is defamed in email communications or bulletin board messages."
Review: Low End Mac profiled on Access Internet Magazine site. "There is an unbelievable amount of information here in the form of on-site articles and off-site links; that translates to a crowded and confusing homepage." Confusing? Say it isn't so!
Review: 400 MHz G4 upgrade shootout, Insanely Great Mac, 5/1. Four upgrades tested. All fast. All expensive.
Opinion: Take a Break: My iMac meets E.T., Richard A. Good, Daily iMac, 5/1. The author joins SETI@home and gets a free screen saver.
News: Apple denies FishPC is copyright target, MacNN, 5/1. "...the FishPC's CPU is separate from the monitor in a stand-alone enclosure which looks like a fish standing on its tail."
Review: NoBeige: Best computer speakers available, Go2Mac, 5/1. New Kilpsh speaker system "best multimedia speakers for your computer hands down."
Opinion: Free Your Mind: Why Steve Jobs doesn't do commercials, Rodney O. Lain, MacConnect, 5/1.
News: U.S. Supreme Court lets stand ruling that frees ISPs from liability for customer email content, Mercury Center, 5/1 [Slashdot]. "...Internet service providers are not legally and financially liable when someone is defamed in email communications or bulletin board messages."

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