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Analysis: Will the real "Cube" computer please step forward, Brent Hecht, Insanely Great Mac, 7/31. Cobalt more likely to go after Apple over name of Cube, not shape.
Analysis: Are LCD monitors better?, CMPTR [Win98Central]. Some terrible typos, but a good overview.
Dark Side: Microsoft patches Windows 2000, PC World, 7/31. Win2K users better have a fast connection - the whole service pack weighs in at 87 MB!
Benchmark: G4/400 + Voodoo5 beats Athlon 1 GHz + Nvidia, Bare Feats, 7/31. At high resolutions, Mac/Voodoo5 combo outperforms "2.5x faster" Athlon/Nvidia - the Wintel leader.
News: New Macs enter retail channel, MacWeek, 7/31. Latest iMacs, Power Mac G4s finding their way into retail channels; Cube soon to follow.
Opinion: A cube is a qube is a cube..., Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 7/31. Pretty much says it all.
Advice: Email etiquette is appalling, Post says, USA Today, 7/31 [Win98Central]. Helpful tips for the netiquette challenged, such as "fill in the subject line."
Rights: Don't get fooled into believing email is private, Detroit Free Press, 7/30 [Win98Central]. Dow Chemical reviews employee email, fires some employees.
News: Apple faces possible lawsuit over G4 Cube, MacNN, 7/28. Cobalt's blue Linux Qube vs. Apple's silver Mac OS Cube - not easily confused. Besides, Apple now owns NeXT, who "cubed" long before Cobalt (right).
Opinion: An apology to the rumor sites - this time, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 7/28. "Even after having given the devil his due, I still believe that the rumor sites are a bastardization of good reporting and good journalism."
Benchmark: First lab test: Dual-processor Power Macs, Macworld, 7/28. "...two 450MHz processors do excel at tasks in applications designed to take advantage of the second processor." Duh - but does it help anything else?
Consumer: Apple Store offers killer deals for students and educators, Insanely Great Mac, 7/28. Great deals for students and staff. (Homeschoolers click here for information on how you can buy at a discount.)
Overview: New PowerBook upgrades, Ceolaf, PowerBook Source, 7/27.
Humor? Motorola: Wanted dead or alive, MacEdition, 7/27. Motorola accused of violating Moore's law, which predicts doubling of performance every 18 months. The G4/450 shipped last August, so we should be somewhere around 700 MHz today. Sigh.
Consumer: Best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 7/27. Also link for DVD kits for WallStreet PowerBook G3.
Hands on: First taste of Newer Tech G3 WallStreet upgrade, PowerBook Zone, 7/27. Beta tester reports improved speed, battery life.
Opinion: Spelling, grammar, and the fanzine mentality, Thomas Wetzel, Applelust, 7/27. "...good writing is a fundamentally revolutionary act because careful and thoughtful prose requires one to take control of both one's thoughts and one's words."
Opinion: The mouse conundrum: how many buttons do you need?, Mike Ellis, Right On Mac!, 7/27. "A lot of people miss a great deal of functionality in the Mac OS by not having a second button...."
Opinion: Internet freedom under siege, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. "...roughly 40% of Americans have been gulled into thinking that politically correct statism is a good thing."
Consumer: PowerBook 1400 battery price guide, Martin Trautmann [PowerBook Source].
Rights: At-work-monitoring bill introduced, Yahoo/AP, 7/20. Legislation would require employers to notify workers if monitoring electronic communications in the workplace.
Hands on: Interware 400 MHz G3 for PowerBook 2400c, Jake Juck, 7/17 [PowerBook Source]. Almost double the speed of NUpower 240 MHz G3 upgrade and five times faster than original 180 MHz 603e.
Opinion: Kermit the Frog axed: Creative differences or statistical miscalculation?, Wes George, Mac Observer, 7/27. The Expo favorite with "(It Isn't Easy) Bein' Green" has been pulled.
Opinion: Ihnatko cubed, Andy Ihnatko, MacCentral, 7/27. "...it inspires - demands - purchase."
Opinion: This Old Mac..., Chris Rogers, iTeen, Mac Observer, 7/27. Keeping your old Mac running as best it can.
Upgrade: Peek at first PowerBook G3 upgrades from Newer, Go2Mac.com, 7/27. US$500-550 466 MHz card will upgrade almost all WallStreet models, all Lombards.
Preview: How does 3dfx Voodoo5 compare to Voodoo3 and RAGE 128 Pro?, Bare Feats, 7/26. Impressive 32-bit performance and minimal frame rate fall off at higher resolutions.
Preview: 3dfx Voodoo5 PCI card, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 7/26. "...based on what we have seen, Mac users of all kinds, especially gamers, are in for a real treat."
Review: 3dfx Mac Voodoo5 5500 PCI Graphics Card, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac, 7/26. Impressive, even with prerelease drivers.
News: Macworld New York sets attendance record, MacNN, 7/26. With 61,250 attendees, it was the most popular East Coast Macworld Expo ever.
Consumer: Get a keyboard extender for your new G4, Go2Mac.com, 7/26. Pro Keyboard cable to short for G4 users, but Apple has a free USB extension cable.
News: Dual processor G4 optimized apps on the way, Dennis Seller, MacCentral, 7/26. "The same app that is preemptively multithreaded with one processor using the MPLib will automatically become preemptively multithreaded and multiprocessor aware on a multiprocessor machine...."
Analysis: The right Mac for business, Paul Shield, The Business Mac. "With the new Macs announced last week, it is again appropriate to consider the question of which Mac is right for the typical business user."
News: XLR8 announces OS X compatibility for upgrades, Applelinks, 7/26. Carrier ZIF, MACh Carrier, and MACh Speed upgrades will work with OS X. (Just waiting for Newer to make the same promise....)
News: High-tech firms agree to instant-messaging compatibility, Fresno Bee, 7/26 [Mac Observer]. "Conspicuously missing from the list of participating companies is [AOL]."
Analysis: For whom?, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts, 7/25. Who is the Cube for?
OS: Mac OS X Server 1.2 not compatible with G4 MP, Cube, Apple TIL 86063, 7/25 [MacNN[. Time for a patch - or the end of OS X Server?
Opinion: Will you be assimilated by the Cube?, Corby Stephens, MacInStart, 7/25. Best point: The Cube is Apple's first desktop computer that isn't over 15" tall since the Beige G3 was discontinued in January 1999. (It also has a smaller footprint than any compact Mac.)
Opinion: A look at the Apple Pro Mouse, Nick dePlume, Think Secret, 7/25. "...a significant improvement over Apple's last mouse."
Opinion: iMac colors: Good, bad, and ugly!, Dave, Mac Monkey. Thoughts on indigo, ruby, sage, and snow.
Analysis: Recent intellectual property law developments on the Internet, R. Mark Halligan, Esq. Pay special attention to cases where Internet publication destroys trade secret status.
Rights: Hollywood looks to kill hyperlinks in copyright fights, Cnet, 7/25. "A half-dozen high-profile legal cases revolve around the legality of links...."
Opinion: Top 10 products at Macworld Expo, Insanely Great Mac. You may find some nice surprises on this list, especially #10.
Opinion: Is Apple corporate secrecy justified?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. "Lest one think I'm supporting Apple's position, I'm not."
New email list: MacCube, The Macintosh Guy.
New email list: MacMP, for multiprocessor Macs, The Macintosh Guy.
Opinion: Apple legal temporarily shuts down Mac Junkie, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 7/25. "First Amendment freedoms are under attack these days on many fronts, and it's sad to see Apple Corp. among the attackers. "
Opinion: The new Mac lineup, hmm..., Steve Wood, Busman's Holilday, 7/25. "I find my views considerably less charitable to the less than revolutionary offerings from Apple."
Analysis: Macworld wrap up: What exactly did happen last week?, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 7/24. "...time to take a look back and try to figure out what it is that exactly happened. "
Opinion: Thinking inside the box, Steven Levy, Newsweek, 7/24. "To Jobs, the point is to make a computer so perfect both outside and in that it satisfies the toughest customer imaginable: himself."
Opinion: The more sinister side of gatekeeping, Bob Allis, MacBC, 7/24. "They know that they would not win such a case in court, and are banking on the fact that web site operators will not stand up."
Opinion: Apple, BusinessWeek, Peter Burrows, 7/24 [MacSlash]. "But then, Apple has always been able to market circles around its rivals."
Opinion: Apple's new desktop hardware: Making a virtue of necessity, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 7/21.
Opinion: The new legacy items, Andrew Shalat, MacWeek, 7/21. Thoughts on the no-button mouse, Pro Keyboard without a power key (!), and changing habits.
Opinion: Report on the new Apple mouse, John Martellaro, Applelinks, 7/21. "I was initially concerned about using the entire top as the button. It's not a problem at all. In fact, it's delightful."
Upgrades: PowerBook Source looks at Sonnet, Newer, PowerLogix CPU upgrades, 7/20 (scroll down).
News: XLR8's dual-processor move, Macworld UK, 7/20. Upgrade puts two 400 to 500 MHz G4 processors in a ZIF socket.
Analysis: Macintosh cubed, Andrew Gore, Macworld, 7/19. "...both the simplest of computers and the most powerful."
Opinion: Mac OS X: The lessons of Mac OS 9, Kevin Bradley, MacInStart. "If the roll-out of Mac OS 9 last October taught me anything with regard to the upcoming release of OS X, it was this: wait."
Macworld: Jobs' keynote fall on Wall Street's deaf ears, Wes George, Mac Observer, 7/19. "Investors cluelessly shrugged off the news from MACWORLD which will radically alter the bottom line for Apple in coming quarters."
Macworld: Apple announces 4 new iMacs starting at $799, John F. Braun, Mac Observer, 7/19. Full family ranges from $799 350 MHz model through 500 MHz iMac DV Special Edition at $1,499.
Macworld: New Apple mouse a winner, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 7/19. "...the stunningly beautiful tool is not only accurate but easy and fun to use."
Macworld: CPU upgrades step into laptops, MacWeek, 7/19. Companies offer G3, G4 upgrades for PowerBooks, including Sonnet G3/400 for PowerBook 1400.
Macworld: Color me ruby - or sage or inidigo or snow or graphite, MacMilitia, 7/19. Four iMacs, five colors. (I love ruby!)
Benchmark: New G4 upgrade for iMac, Bare Feats, 7/19. Newer upgrade brings original iMacs (Rev. A through D) into the G4 era.
Analysis: Microsoft, Intel: Apple: What numbers matter?, Motely Fool, 7/19.
Analysis: Thinking public, Joseph Ferrare, Think Secret, 7/17. Long, thoughtful, worthwhile article explains why Apple communicates the way they do.
Analysis: Macs on the cheap, Sascha Segan, ABC News.com, 7/17. "While PCs more than a few years old have zero resale value, these retailers are selling Macs up to 15 years old...."
News: MacInTouch rebuffs Apple legal with public snub, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 7/17. "...when that long time veteran journalist was contacted by Apple, Mr. Ford bit back."
Opinion: Passion vs. rationality in the OS wars, Charles W. Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 7/17. Mac users really do "think different."
Opinion: Apple consumer cube? I don't think so, George Edward Green III, MacRelations 2k, 7/17.
Macworld: Predictions for Macworld Expo, Eliot Hochberg, MacJunkie, 7/17. No cube, no OS X beta, but some surprises. (At LEM, we're predicting OS X beta will be available.)
Hands on: USB Printer Sharing 1.0, Macs Only!, 7/17. Useful but limited free utility lets recent Macs with OS 9 share a USB printer.
AAPL: Apple fiscal Q3 2000 earnings preview, AAPL Investors, 7/14. Projection is over one million Macs, almost $2 billion revenue.
Analysis: Crossing the Rubicon: A look behind the scenes at MacOS Rumors, Wes George, Mac Observer, 7/14.
Humor: Amazing Mac cube images surface!, Wes George, Mac Observer, 7/14. Mock mock-up of Apple's new cube design.
Benchmarks: Acard hardware IDE RAID, Seagate 15,000 rpm Cheetah, Bare Feats, 7/14. Fast and faster - wow!
Software: A time machine for your Mac?, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 7/13. Fascinating idea if it works: Rewind allows users to recover overwritten files and more.
News: Apple legal stops MacCards revival, MacCentral, 7/13. Don't you sometimes wish Apple legal would get a clue?
Opinion: Save us from geek cool, Philip Machanick, MacOpinion, 7/13. "Geek Cool: things that blow you away on first sight, but which stop you from getting useful work done."
Analysis: Microsoft goes it alone with IE 5.5, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 7/13. Microsoft continues policy of "embrace and extend" to push proprietary additions to HTML standard.
Review: Mac OS in a Nutshell, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks. MacOS In A Nutshell is an excellent reference for what is probably the largest proportion of Mac users - people who have transcended the neophyte stage but are still well short of being "power users."
Opinion: Misadventures of a Linux newbie from the Mac world, Tom Streeter, LinuxNewbie.org. "Here are a few things I wish someone had told me before I installed Linux on my iMac about a month ago."
Advice: Letters, Nancy Gravley, Computing With Bifocals, 7/12. Turning off background images in your browser, introduction to digital cameras.
Opinion: Is the iMac's appeal fading?, Mac-Upgrade.com, 7/11. "Assuming the next iMac offers at least the same mix of performance and design savvy of its predecessors, I'd say we're less likely to see the iMac craze fade...."
Hands on: Microtech USB CameraMate, Macs Only!, 7/11. CompactFlash and SmartMedia in one convenient unit.
Advice: Build to order used PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, MacOpinion, 7/11. Other World is now offering BTO PowerBook 3400s.
Deals: Sonnet G3 daughter cards, US$113 and up, see DealMac, 7/10-11. Sonnet promises OS X compatibility, providing even more value.
Deal: iBook Road Warrior Bundle, US$119, Dr. Bott LLC. The iBookBag also works very nicely with all the recent PowerBooks (WallStreet, Lombard, Pismo).
News: iMac 350 officially discontinued, MacNN, 7/10. "The $999 Blueberry iMac has been officially discontinued...." G4/400 also in very short supply.
Analysis: Monitor prediction falls flat, Henry Norr, SF Gate, 7/10. The expected switch to flat panel displays has been postponed.
News: More on world's first ink-jet printed full colour light emitting polymer (LEP) display, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 7/10. Even if you don't understand all the details (I don't), the bottom line is cheaper flat panel displays.
Opinion: Journalism ethics, credentials, and more perspectives, Michel Munger, MacSoldiers, 7/10.
Opinion: An old Mac in an iWorld, David Norton, MacMiltia. "The rule of thumb when using an older Mac is to accept that you can't do everything."
Opinion: .Net? .Not! Microsoft Abandons Future To Apple, Bryan Chaffin, Back Page, Mac Observer, 7/10. "Microsoft's .Net on the other hand is nothing short of a nightmare."
Hands on: Microtech USB XpressSCSI adapter, Macs Only!, 7/10. "It's small, light and works great."
Opinion: Authentic Macworld rumors, Wes George, Apple Trader, Mac Observer, 7/10. "...if loose lips sink ships then Apple's tight lips are helping to float a battalion of rumors."
MP3: Napster: We're 100% legal, Go2Mac.com, 7/6. Some interesting arguments in response to RIAA claims.
Humor: iTari 2600. "...it's the cheapest, easiest way to your favorite video games without the hassle of going to the arcade. "
Illustrated Mac IIci teardown, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday. Step-by-step instructions for getting inside this vintage Mac.
Rumor? Pictures of new Mac revealed, Joey Cooper, MacMilitia, 7/5. And a new color scheme, too.
News: Seven into one Down Under, Steven Noble, MacWeek, 7/4. "Seven of Australia's largest Macintosh retail chains have merged...."
Analysis: Is Apple's four-cornered strategy a done deal or a foundation?, Wes George, Apple Trader, Mac Observer, 7/4. "Almost everyone is coming out with some hardware variation on the Internet appliance theme."
Benchmarks: Upgraded blue & white G3 can run with the big dogs, Bare Feats, 7/4. G4 ZIF upgrade plus Voodoo3 holds its own with Power Mac G4.
OS: How to run Linus on an SE/30, Jag's House.
Opinion: Whither Mac the Knife?, MacWeek, 7/4. MacWeek's fictional rumor monger put out to pasture.
Opinion: Journalism, ethics, and sacred cows, Charles W. Moore, Moore's MacCave, Applelust, 7/4. "'Objectivity' is the great sacred cow and particular conceit of journalists...."
Opinion: Online advertising: Cheat or be cheated, R. P. Phillips, Family-Mac. How site sponsorship works, and how some cheat the system.

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