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External news links are listed below by the date of publication 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: Laptops the logical computers for more and more folks, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 1/31. Preach it, brother!
Resource: FireWire removable media drives, FireWireWorld, 1/31. DVD, MO, Zip, CD-RW, etc.
Opinion: Beyond AirPort: Looking forward to easier computing, Ed Curran, CNN.com, 1/31. You can't beat Macs and AirPort. :-)
Free your mind, Rodney O. Lain. This is Rodney's personal site.
Opinion: A shiny new PowerBook comes home, Andrew Gore, Macworld.
Opinion: Mac creator Raskin comes down hard on OS X, osOpinion, 2/1.
News: Cube has found its niche, MacCentral, 1/31. "Though admitting that the small supercomputer hasn't sold as well as hoped, it has a 'definite market.'"
News: SuperDrive in consumer Macs in 2002, MacCentral, 1/31. Pioneer's revolutionary (and expensive, $995 retail) drive to reach consumer models next year.
Advice: Mac games for the winter blahs, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac Observer, 1/31.
TiBook: PowerBook Titaniums confirmed shipping!, PowerBook Zone, 1/31.
Opinion: The OS X Police, John Holmes, osOpinion, 1/31. "The OS X Police are here and their motto is 'Stop Whining,' a motto that infects nearly every Mac site on the Web."
Consumer: Online Mac resellers' return policies compared, Mac Junkie, 1/30.
Opinion: Dependable PowerBooks, new iBook, and sub-$1,000 PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, 1/30. "Having spent the past two years working with a 12.1-inch display, I am now convinced that it is not really large enough for workhorse service...."
MacInSchool: iBooks flourish in Maine school system, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 1/30. "...every eighth-grader at Piscataquis Community Middle School in Guilford has a laptop computer."
TiBook: Titanium G4 now shipping?, Go2Mac.com, 1/30. My dealer says mine is en route from Taiwan via FedEx - no ETA yet.
Peripherals: BookEndz announces dock for PowerBook G4. Dock expected to ship in April.
Consumer: 256 MB for TiBook as low as US$105 shipped, ramseeker, 1/30. I may buy two at that price and sell the original 128 MB module.
Analysis: Portable PC growth leaves desktops standing still, cNet, 1/29. "...after years of being stalled at about 20 percent of the overall PC market, notebooks are widening their share at the expense of desktop systems."
AAPL: AAPL up over 10%, closes over 21, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/29. Also, the New York Stock Exchange has officially "gone decimal."
News: Early PowerBook G4 orders begin shipping, MacNN, 1/29.
Review: SmoothType, John F. Braun, Mac Observer, 1/29. We find SmoothType provides better screen displays than Apple's font smoothing.
Opinion: Thinking different from analysts, Wes George, MacWeek, 1/29.
Advice: The one-minute system install, Charles Downs, Arizona Central, 1/22. A little preparation can make replacing a damaged System or Finder a snap.
How To: Video CD on Mac FAQ (pdf), Criza Design [MovieMac]. Ten-page guide to burning VideoCDs on the Mac.
Humor: Zap the PRAM, Macboy.com. This week's cartoon is a bit on the odd side, but it does say something positive about Mac installer software.
Deal: Power Mac G4 Cube (demo) with AppleCare, $1,299, DealMac exclusive through Jan. 31.
How To: Build your own PowerBook NadPad for less than $10, Charles Sorgie, Applelust, 1/26. Keep your lap and laptop cool.
Advocacy: A Mac on every desk, Apple. "How big of a support staff does it take to manage and integrate 115 processor-intensive computers in three different time zones for a high profile branding and design consultancy?"
Reminder: SuperDrive petition, PowerBook Source. If you'd like to see the SuperDrive available for PowerBooks, please read and sign this petition.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 1/26.
Advice: As Pismos near end of warranty, coverage can be extended, PowerBook Zone, 1/26. AppleCare is a bargain compared with the cost of a single repair.
Review: PowerLogix BlueChip G3/500 PowerBook upgrade, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac, 1/26. Updates G3 Series (WallStreet) and Lombard (Bronze Keyboard).
Opinion: Hosed (again) by UPS, Charles W. Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 1/26. UPS brokerage fee for Canada has author seeing red.
Review: Que FireWire CD-RW drive, David Ozab, ATPM, 2/01. "...easy to set up, and easy to use, and when I had problems (the extension conflict I mentioned above) technical support was very helpful."
Opinion: Should you upgrade to Mac OS 9.1?, The iMac.com, 1/25. It depends....
Opinion: Why upgrade?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 1/25. "...for vast numbers of users there is simply no compelling reason to upgrade from their present hardware."
Virus: Linux worm nobbles NASA Web site, The Register, 1/25. "...en is the first malicious code for Linux to be detected in the wild."
Opinion: Will Cyberspace look like France or America?, James K. Glassman, osOpinion, 1/25. "Whose laws should apply on the Net?"
Review: The Silencer, ScienceMan.com, 1/25. Making the G3 All-in-One quieter with a new fan.
Opinion: Dialogue on the Ti PowerBook: Are you kidding me?, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts, Applelust, 1/24. Laptops are about compromise, but the PowerBook G4 makes very few.
Opinion: Apple retail stores could work, Dennis Sellers, Back Seat Driver, MacCentral, 1/24. Sound advice - let's hope Apple is listening.
Opinion: No middle ground, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 1/24. What about users who need more than an iBook, less than a PowerBook G4?
News: Exploratorium uses 200 Macs, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 1/24. From SEs running Hypercard to G4s, Macs are all over San Francisco's hands-on science museum.
AAPL: AAPL stays above $20, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/24. Apple stock closed at 20-1/2 for the second day.
AAPL: Continued tech warnings help push Apple to 20-1/2, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/23.
Opinion: Simply the coolest piece of hardware Apple has ever built, part 2, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 1/23. A second article on the PowerBook G4.
Review: PowerLogix G3/466 PowerBook upgrade, Don Engstrom, MacSpeedZone, 1/23. Boosts the old WallStreets to today's speeds.
Humor: Letter W goes missing from White House keyboards, Yahoo/Reuter, 1/23 [Daily iMac]. "Call it the strange case of the missing Ws."
Advice: How to run the PowerBook G4 with the lid down, Apple TIL, 1/18. Yes, you can run the TiBook closed with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
Opinion: Big Mac attack, Jason Tanz, Teacher Magazine, 2/01. "The Mac allows you to focus more on the projects and less on the actual technology."
SETI@home: SETI sucks power, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS #564, 1/22/01. Advice to SETI@home users in California: shutting down at night is a socially responsible response to the state's energy problems.
Analysis: The light at tunnel's end?, Wes George, MacWeek, 1/22. "The PC industry is experiencing its biggest crisis since its dawn in the early 1980s."
Opinion: Content, the challenge of the 21st century, Michael Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 1/22.
Humor: Zap the PRAM, Macboy. Time to rebuild the desktop.
Benchmarks: Titanium G4/500 vs. Pismo G3/500, Bare Feats, 1/19. PB G4 at least 10% faster on all but one test.
Opinion: Beyond the digital hub, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 1/19. "Certainly a change in the way we use computers is in the process of occurring...."
Analysis: Homebrewed solutions on vintage Macs, Michael Gemar, Macs in Business, Mac Edition, 1/19. "...the simplicity of the MacOS means lower cost-of-ownership."
AAPL: AAPL closes above 19 for first time since Nov. 2000, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/19.
Low End: Apple has discontinued support for the following models: Classic, Classic II, IIvx, IIvi, LC, LC II, Performa 200, and Performa 600. Outside of California, support has also been dropped for the Quadra 900 and 950, Power Mac 6100, and PowerBook 150.
Advocacy: Petition to get SuperDrives for PowerBooks, PowerBook Sours, 1/19. I'd like to see an external FireWire SuperDrive for PowerBooks and other FireWire-equipped Macs.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 1/19.
Virus: Mac users hit by Melissa macro virus, The Register, 1/19. "The likely suspect in this case is not Office but Outlook. Microsoft released a public Outlook for Mac beta at MacWorld Expo last week, and we wonder whether it's that that has provided long-infected documents with a path to other systems."
Virus: Melissa-X disguised as Mac doc, ZDNet, 1/18. "The virus . . . can be spread on either a PC or a Macintosh. Like other Melissa variants, though, only Windows PCs will send mass email copies of the infected file."
Virus: Melissa comes to the Mac, Macworld, 1/18. New Melissa variant can infect Macs running Office 2001 and Word 98.
See McAfee and Symantec reports on Melissa (also see The Melissa Virus).
OS: Apple revs Mac OS Server update, ZDNet/Yahoo, 1/18. OS X Server 2.0 will inherit Aqua interface, other OS X features.
Dark Side: Windows curses fast computers, MSNBC, 1/18 [Win98 Central]. "When further supercharged with 800 MHZ Pentium III microprocessors, Windows 98 and Me outran the hardware at times, powering off the computer before the hard drive's on-board drive cache could finish writing out the buffered data."
Oops: Hotmail spam filters block outgoing email, Cnet, 1/18. Microsoft service has been trashing mail to certain domains without ever telling the sender.
AAPL: AAPL rockets up more than 11%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/18.
Advice: Encoding true CD quality MP3s on your Mac, Dave Barker, Mac Digital Audio. The MP3 encoder you choose really does make a difference.
OS: Jobs' compromise completes Mac OS X, John Holmes, osOpinion, 1/18. "It looks like my daddy's Mac OS, only it's much better."
Opinion: The PowerBook G4, John Siracusa, arstechnica. "...the PowerBook G4 is all that you could ask for in a portable Macintosh."
Consumer: Apple Store still has last year's G4s, Pismos, Mac Observer, 1/18.
Web: Much ado about tables, Rob Stevenson, Simply Web, Mac OS Journal, 1/01. Table's are probably the most useful and most used design feature in HTML.
News: Sonnet absorbs Newer engineering team, Mac Observer, 1/18. Probably the best thing to come out of Newer's failure.
AAPL: Apple reports first quarter results, Apple, 1/17. Net loss of $195 million on $1 billion in revenues. Apple sold 659,000 Macs during the quarter.
Consumer: Titanium G4 email list, The Macintosh Guy. New list for PowerBook G4 users - count me in!
OS: A new OS X, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 1/16. A look at changes between the beta and the final release.
Analysis: Apple SuperDrive and iDVD, Paulo de Andrade, Digital Post Production [Applesurf]. "Combining the power of nonlinear editing, the affordable quality of DV and the high-quality, low-cost delivery format of DVD . . . should place the Mac in a very special position with video professionals."
News: Macworld San Francisco draws record crowd, Apple, 1/16. Attendance was over 93,000 at last week's Expo.
Opinion: SuperDrive: The gem inside the Power Mac G4, Robert Aldridge, The G4, 1/10. "In most computing situations, though, DVD serves little purpose, but in walks the SuperDrive from Pioneer, and now the DVD has purpose."
Opinion: Titanium PowerBook: Simply the coolest piece of hardware Apple has ever built, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 1/16.
Opinion: Apple's business strategy, Wes George, MacWeek, 1/16. "...Apple seems to have pushed the notebook envelope to the limit in all the right places...."
Lists: G4 list welcomes users of new G4s, The Macintosh Guy, 1/16.
Opinion: About time Steve cussed out those "sorry butt" Mac retailers, Rodney O. Lain, MacSpirit, Applelinks, 1/16. "Computer retailers can't afford those of us who know one whit about computers."
Consumer: Memory prices for PowerBook G4, new five-slot Power Mac, ramseeker.
Rights: France to tax computers, disks, phones, TechWeb, 1/15 [ Slashdot]. Hard drives, media to be taxed because they may be used to infringe copyright.
Analysis: Apple's secret software updates: OS 9.1 and Disk Burner, iBook Zone, 1/15.
Opinion: My problem with the titanium PowerBook, David Schultz, Applelust, 1/15. "...the Titanium 'Book takes technological monogamy a step too far for my tastes."
Opinion: The PowerBook titanium's Achilles heel, Joud Kous, Right On Mac, 1/15. "...I think one critical mistake was putting a DVD drive where a CD-RW ought to have gone."
Consumer: How to tell when and where your Mac was made, Moldy Creations [ Applelinks].
Hands on: Acard IDE to SCSI adapter, Rick Pepper [Accelerate Your Mac].
Opinion: Three good reasons not to buy a PowerBook G4, Steve Cotrell, PowerBook Source, 1/15. Why an older PowerBook is better for some users.
AAPL: Apple to announce first quarter loss this week, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/15. How big? We'll know on Wednesday.
Consumer: iMacs at "end of life," MacCentral, 1/15. Rebates on DV+, DV SE; new models expected in February. (Our guess: CD-RW iMacs.)
Software: iCab 2.4 released, iCab.de.
Consumer: New iMac prices, MacSlash, 1/14. Over the weekend, Apple dropped the iMac DV+ to $1,099 and the SE to $1,299.
Consumer: Week's best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central.
Humor: Zap the PRAM, Macboy.com. Stickies.
Analysis: Inside the G4 desktops, David Read, MacWeek, 1/11. There's more to them than faster CPUs.
Analysis: Nvidia comes to the Mac, David Read, MacWeek, 1/10.
Analysis: Inside the PowerBook G4, David Read, MacWeek, 1/9.
Hands on: Spire USA Zoom backpack, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 1/9. Two years of use prove its worth.
Web: The Mac Observer turns 4 years old. Begun three months before LEM as "Webintosh," TMO celebrates their birthday with a new logo and site design.
Consumer: Week's best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 1/5. Many resellers sold out of 500 MHz PowerBook.
Review: FaxElite network fax server, Paul Shields, Business Mac, 1/4. "...one of the more capable Mac fax server solutions."
Analysis: New Macs in the pipeline, Brad Gibson, 1/3. "Sources" confirm G4 PowerBook, OS 9.1, faster Power Mac G4s.
Advice: Email basics: A printable guide for new Mac users, Nancy Carrol Gravley, Mac Observer, 1/3. An introduction to using Outlook Express.
Expo: Apple expected to unveil speedier Power Macs, Joe Wilcox, Cnet, 1/3. Author predicts 133 MHz motherboard, 733 MHz G4.
News: Two jailed over email scam, Ananova, 1/3 [ Slashdot]. Spammers jailed for two years, ordered to compensate ISPs.
MacInSchool: A final blast for 2000, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 12/31. "Our principal let it slip in August that an administrative decision had been made to move to one platform - PC."
Opinion: Apple's new prices: Fire sale or trend?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. The PowerBook 500 at $2,199 and Power Mac G4 400 at $1,299 are steals - but will new models be even better values? (We doubt it.)
Software: FileMaker will stop distributing Home Page, FileMaker. LEM is designed completely in Home Page. We've been expecting this, but we see no reason to change.
Analysis: Last hands-on report, Mac OS X Public Beta, Macs Only!, 1/3. Well informed overview of the state of OS X.
News: Apple cuts Mac prices as inventory piles up, Cnet, 1/2. "Apple has 11.5 weeks of systems sitting on dealers' shelves, up slightly from about 11 weeks...."
Opinion: Form and content: Mac and otherwise, David Schultz, Applelust, 1/2. A look at form and content as they impact the Web, the Mac Web, and Mac OS X.
Opinion: And then there was one, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 1/2. "The bankruptcy of 16 year old Newer Technology leaves just one player in the G3 PowerBook processor upgrade market...."
Tech: Inside SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), Paul Shield, Business Mac, 1/2. What SMP is, and why it matters.
Deal: Apple seriously slashes prices at the Apple Store, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 1/2. Some prices slashed by US$1,000, G4/400 down to $1,299, Cube to $1,499. BTO not currently available.
Virus: Virus infection rate soars, The Register, 1/2 [Win98 Central]. MessageLabs claims 1 email of 700 is infected. Almost makes Mac users feel left out. ;-)
Deal: Silicon Graphics 1600SW display, $1,495, limited time offer includes video card or MultiLink Adapter, SGI. We fell in love with this flat panel display at the last Macworld Expo. Small Dog also has some excellent deals on the 1600SW.
Benchmarks: How much difference does a faster backside cache make?, MacSpeedZone.
Benchmarks: How much difference does a faster backside cache make?, MacSpeedZone.
Opinion: Set your wire on fire, Mac Mind, 1/1. Best FireWire products of 2000.
Advocacy: It's up to consumers to derail the hard drive copy protection scheme, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 1/1. Consumers urged to boycott hardware with CPRM drives.

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