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Rights: "I have my rights," Ed Stroliho, Overclockers.com, 03.31 [/.]. "...in general, fair use rights are legal, not constitutional rights. Congress can giveth, and Congress can taketh away"
Opinion: Technology innovator: Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac, Sharyl Garratt, Innovation 100, The Observer, 03.31. "Until 1998, we all knew what a personal computer looked like. Beige boxes...."
Poll: What operating system do you use at home?, Linux.com, 03.31. Let 'em know if you're using the Mac OS at home.
CustoMacs: The TronBook?, icruise. An iceBook in translucent indigo - gorgeous.
Advice: How to get rid of old computer equipment, Damien, AppleTechs, 03.30. Several suggestions - or find a Low End Mac fan to take them off your hands. :-)
Rights: Hollywood declares war on America, Jimmy James Champlin, Applelust, 03.29. "The entertainment industry has made it clear that they see us, the public, as not only their customer, but as their enemy."
Opinion: Top five things you can do on a PC - but not a Mac, Brett Larson, The Screen Savers, 03.29. Number 4: Blue Screen of Death. Number 5: Get viruses.
News: Students suspended for laptop tampering, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03.29. Look at it, use it, but don't make any changes to that school-issued iBook.
Interview: Windows on a database - sliced and diced by BeOS gurus, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 03.29. Fascinating discussion covers file systems and good ol' HyperCard.
Rights: Intel forces yoga group to fight for its name, David Lazarus, SF Gate, 03.29. Yoge Inside under fire from Intel. We had to double-check - this does not appear to be an April Fools joke.
Opinion: Java creator Gosling says .Net falls short of expectations, Carol Sliwa, ComputerWorld, 03.29 [Macs Only!]. Not only that, but he's switched to a Mac.
MacInSchool: Parents don't like iBook suspensions, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03.29 [Applelinks]. 57 students suspended for "subverting" the operating system.
Opinion: Mac OS X software updates: Only for broadband users, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 03.29. Dialup users can spend hours on end trying to download updates.
Opinion: Could the Mac be the premier Linux platform?, Ben Wilson, osOpinion, 03.29. "Motorola's processors are better equipped for Linux than their Intel counterparts."
Dark Side: Microsoft & Unisys to launch anti-Unix campaign, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.28. Sounds like someone's scared of the competition.
News: Apple uses second vendor for LCD screens, MacNN, 03.28. "HannStar joins LG.Philips as the sole vendors of LCD panels for Apple's iMac."
Rights: Bloody hard to run a forum in Sweden, Mikael Pawlo, The Register, 03.28. It seems the owner of a site is responsible for anything anyone posts in a forum.
Opinion: One year later, Mac OS X sucks less, Scott McCarty, Graphic Power, 03.28.
Dumb Law: What happens when something goes wrong?, Dave Gussow, St. Petersburg Times, 1999:11:15. Florida law prevent Apple from selling AppleCare to individuals.
Opinion: Do the Apple Stores need evangelists - or salesmen?, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 03.27. Apple needs to hire people who possess sales skills. Nuff said.
Opinion: Can Apple convince you to retire your old Mac?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 03.27. "...the out-of-the-box experience on a Mac, which includes Mac OS X and Apple's smooth-as-silk digital hub applications, is unsurpassed."
Opinion: Think you need a new PC? Here's why you don't, Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times, 03.26. "Software is the hidden cost of a new PC."
Thanks to Wired Japan and Wired News for linking yesterday, the second busiest day in site history.
Rights: More on the Washington/Hollywood plot to destroy computing and the Internet, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.26. "This initiative, if not stopped, will ruin computing, the Internet, and reduce us all...."
Opinion: Apple's Weltanschauung, forward-thinking fashion sense & creative homage to Bauhaus, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 03.26. "...style is underrated. Apple exudes it, yet the PC world shuns it."
Petition: Release Mac OS 8.1 and 8.5.1, Steve Godun, Petition Online. If you'd like to see Apple make OS 8.1 and 8.5.1 free-for-all, as they did with System 7.5.3, please sign this petition.
Forward migration: Church is all Mac, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 03:22. "Everything from office work to Sunday morning worship video is entirely Mac driven."
News: AOL mail: OK for others, not itself, MSNBC, 03.22 [/.]. AOL Time Warner retreats from using AOL email after months of problems and complaints.
Opinion: Are Macs getting too cheap?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.22. "Have Macs gotten too cheap for their (our) own good?"
Low end: Where old Macs go off to thrive, Leander Kahney, Wired, 03.22. "The store is the size of a standard U.S. hotel room, stacked floor to ceiling with Neolithic Macintosh computers that couldn't be given away in the United States, much less sold."
Opinion: Musings on elegance and efficiency, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.21. "And at this point in time . . . I still find OS 9 a much more efficient tool for getting my work done."
Upgrades: Sonnet announces 600 MHz Harmoni iMac upgrade, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 03:21. US$400 CPU upgrade also adds FireWire port for tray-loading iMacs.
Rights: Scientology uses DMCA to delist critic's website, Slashdot, 03.21. "xenu.net is now posting a 'censored by google' image on their front page."
Opinion: Why BeOS shares Tucker's fate, Scott Nasuta, osOpinion, 03.21. Parallels between the innovative Tucker automobile and the OS Apple and Microsoft buried.
News: iMacs now in "volume production," prices up $100, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 03.20. Back orders should clear up in April.
News: New 10 GB iPod, iPod contact management software debuts, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 03.20. Now it's 2,000 tunes in your pocket.
News: Jobs previews Bluetooth at Tokyo expo, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 03.20. Low speed, short range wireless protocol complements AirPort.
Rights: Beware employment contracts, Slashdot, 03.20. Work for hire provision may entitle employer to all of its employee's creations, even those developed outside the workplace and unrelated to the job.
Archive: Email efficiency: Email attachments, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.12.30. All about sending attachments.
Opinion: Does a 466 MHz PowerBook 1400 make sense?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 03.19. Low RAM ceiling, cost of used WallStreets probably best argument against it.
Analysis: Email, Web at work - is the free lunch over?, Bernhard Warner, Yahoo/Reuters, 03.18. Personal shopping and email in the workplace could be history.
Web: The wrong way to use CSS in page layouts, Adrian Roselli, evolt.org, 03.16 [MNJ]. "...pixel-precise layouts are anything but, especially when you consider all the custom settings users may have on their systems."
Analysis: Unbreakable: Why assaults on Microsoft's monopoly fail, Daniel L. Taylor, osOpinion, 03.15. "Consumers don't just choose an OS - they choose access to a software library."
Archive: Email efficiency, part 6, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.11.10. Forwarding messages.
News: Combo drive for TiBook Rev. A, Tim's Webspace [XLR8]. Taxan of Japan has a CD-RW/DVD drive due out in April.
Archive: Email efficiency, part 5, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.11:03. The best way to reply.
Review: Mac OS X Unleashed, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.15. A good introduction to OS X and the best resource so far on the Unix side of Apple's new OS.
Opinion: Maine's iBooks: The students know best, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.14. Grown ups may debate them, but the kids love their iBooks.
Advice: OS X chat clients: So many programs, so little time, Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 03.14. Fire, Proteus, Adium, AIM, ICQ - which is best on X?
Freeware: RBU Pyramid, Applelinks. Free solitaire game created as part of REALbasic tutorial series - even available for Windows.
Opinion: OS X browser mini-shootout: Mozilla, iCab, OminiWeb, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.14. "In practical terms, it's a dead heat between Mozilla and iCab."
Archive: Email efficiency, part 4, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.27. Plain text vs. styled email.
Rights: Cripple all those email clients, Ben Tilly, O'Reilly Network. Under proposed SSSCA (digital content protection) legislation, forwarding email would be illegal copyright violation.
Archive: Email efficiency, part 3, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.20. Email content.
Opinion: Canada announces astronomical tax increases on recordable media, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.13. "Canada, of course, is the home of tax fascism...."
Opinion: A Mac OS X Odyssey, part 5, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 03.13. "...my uptime is usually over a month, and even then it didn't end because of a crash, but because I installed an upgrade that required I reboot."
Opinion: An anti-Mac corporate conspiracy, Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek, 03.13. "Businesses rely on people with the least incentive to give economical recommendations for advice on computer buying."
Archive: Email efficiency, part 2, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.13. Dealing with vcards and naming your message.
Opinion: Those still living in pre-OS X world need to "let it go," cuz all our Mac belong to Unix, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 03.12. "There is no place for the hold outs in the future Mac OS."
News: Canada to raise tariffs on recordable media, Slashdot, 03.12. Proposal adds $105 tax on Apple's 5 GB iPod to subsidize the recording industry.
News: Cable Internet subscribers up, FCC to label service, Lycos, 03.11. Once FCC classifies cable Internet service, it will be able to regulate it.
Software: Mozilla 0.9.9 released, Mozilla.org, 03.11.
News: AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer, NewsForge, 03.11. Linux for server, Netscape for browsing, Microsoft out in the cold with AOL 8.0.
Archive: Email efficiency, part 1, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.06. First in an excellent series on email etiquette and efficiency.
Oops: Benchmarks demolish Apple speed boasts, Andrew Orlowski, Register, 03.08. Of course, the compiler might not be using AltiVec, doesn't support second CPU.
Opinion: Disney versus fair use and the public domain, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.08. "...there have been 11 acts that have stretched the copyright term from the original 14 years to beyond 100 years in some cases...."
Opinion: Why Microsoft is thumbing its nose at the courts and will probably get away with it, I, Cringely, PBS, 03.07. "The best settlement would be the total removal of Gates from Microsoft."
Rights: Republicans should back recording artists, consumers, Fox News, 03.07 [ /.]. Democrats now the champions of big business - or just big donors?
Rights: House rep's rap: Unshackle the CD, Declan McCullagh, Wired, 03.07 [ /.]. One Democrat wants to outlaw copy protected CDs, rewrite DMCA.
Web: Charges of the site brigade, Leslie Walker, .com, Washington Post, 03.07. "...electronic subscriptions, enough to make me think real online businesses are finally being born."
Web: Dead Mac sites spawn porno portals, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.07. A short list of one-time Mac domains that now lead to unexpected subject matter.
X-ware: iDraw, Mac Power User. iDraw is an illustration and animation program for Mac OS X. US$40 shareware, demo cannot save, print, or export.
Opinion: Slashdot ad free: The worst subscription service ever launched, Dotcom Scoop, 03.06. "...never has anyone introduced an ad free service that creates a direct link between the level of usage and the cost."
Dark Side: Old "feature" gives hackers control of Windows PCs, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.06. "An attacker can run arbitrary commands on Windows machines with a simple bit of HTML . . . even if active scripting and ActiveX are disabled in the browser security settings."
Dark Side of the Mac: Columnist bashed by irate Macheads, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.06. "Email flaming, whether about Macs or anything else, is imbecilic and childish."
Web: Stop. Pay toll. Download. Damien Cave, Salon, 03.06. How MPEG-4 is shooting itself in the foot in pursuit of profits.
Web: Flat Pack Macs has moved to <http://fpm.gotdns.com/>
Benchmarks: Mac OS X 10.1.3, Macs Only!, 03.06.
Opinion: State of the Mac Web: Paid membership subscriptions, Scott McCarty, GraphicPower, 03.06. New models for financing websites.
Opinion: The changing Mac community, Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network, 03.05. "My intention is to understand the changes that Mac OS X is having on the Apple community."
Rights: The mouse that ate the public domain, Chris Sprigman, Find Law, 03.05 [ /.]. "The Framers of our Constitution viewed inventions and expression not as 'property,' but as public goods to which exclusive rights may be granted purely as a means of incenting production."
Opinion: iPhoto, the bifocals way, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Computing With Bifocals, Mac Observer, 03.05. iPhoto is the perfect reason to get serious about Mac OS X.
Advice: Tricking out a PowerBook 540c, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 03.05. We still consider the PB 540c a best buy.
Opinion: Michael Eisner, Steve Jobs, and digital copyrights, Daniel Miller, Mac Observer, 03.05. "The Grateful Dead once tried to stop the illegal bootlegging of their live concerts until they figured out that it only helped to drive their popularity upward."
Web: Expired domains grabbed by porn sites, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.05. We see it every month - some site we linked to goes down and a porn site buys the domain.
Web: Ten things you need to know about linking and link popularity, Eric Ward, SearchDay, 03.05. "Free-For-All (FFA) links pages and link farms have zero effect on link popularity, and more importantly, will not send you a single qualified visitor."
Software: Mozilla 0.9.9 available, Mozilla.org.
News: Apple chief blasts labels, IT, 03.05. "If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own."
Benchmarks: Radeon 8500 AGP Mac Edition, Accelerate Your Mac!, 03.04. Includes screen shots showing benefit of Truform.
Web: Online advertising, strong content will save medium, Kinsley believes, Wall Street Journal, 03.04. Five years at the helm of Slate has taught a lot.
Opinion: The conspiracy to control your hard drive, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.04. Disney, Microsoft, RIAA, Fritz Hollings vs. Slashdot, Open Source, and Steve Jobs.
Software: Location X. Finally, a location manager for OS X.
OS X: Some positives, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 03.04. OS X may not be done yet, but there's a lot to like about it.
Web: FT.com, Slashdot, GeoCities flag up, The Register, 03.04. Slashdot introduces ad-free subscriptions at about $20/year - same price as Low End Mac.
Rights: Disney boss accuses Apple of fostering piracy, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 03.01. "Eisner accused the computer industry of considering piracy its new 'killer app.'"
Web: ATPM, March 2002 issue available.

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