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Advice: Turn your LPs or cassettes into CDs, Jonathan Seff, Macworld, 05.31. You can even reduce or eliminate tip hiss and other unwanted noise.
Customacs: iBook repainting for fun & profit, Carl Norum. iceBooks painted red and blue.
Web: MacSlash back as a dot-org, RandomMaccess, 05.31. Did Apple's aggressive spam filtering prevent MacSlash from receiving their domain renewal notice? (MacSlash may not be accessible in all areas until later this weekend.)
Dark Side: Military research lab tosses Macs, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 05.30. Researchers forced to use Dells, tech support spends most of its time installing Windows patches. Your tax dollars hardly working.
Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 2000, Digigraphica, 05.30. Compact, inexpensive 2 megapixel digicam announced today.
Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 4500, Digigraphica, 05.30. Slightly smaller successor to Coolpix 995 created 4 megapixel images.
Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 5700, Digigraphica, 05.30. Nikon's first consumer digicam with SLR styling creates 5 megapixel images, has impressive 8x optical zoom.
Web: MacSlash domain stolen, Slashdot, 05.30. MacSlash is registering macslash.net and trying to find out how their domain was stolen yesterday by Vicente Peiro Crespo of Valencia, Spain.
Rights: Cries in the wilderness, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 05.30. Now they want to make the iPod and other MP3 players illegal....
Digicams: Fujifilm FinePix F401 Zoom, Digigraphica, 05.30. A 3x zoom, improved low light sensitivity, and 4 megapixel images - coming in August at US$499.
Web: MacRaffle is illegal, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 05.29. It's illegal, but suckers continue to buy tickets.
Tech: Intel's Itanium 2 performance twice that of Itanium, Yahoo/Reuters, 05.29. Of course, the 64-bit Itanic was a pretty huge flop to begin with, and they will have to contend with the MHz Myth when trying to market a 1 GHz CPU as powerful....
Web revival for old Mac interface, Leander Kahney, Wired, 05.29. Minimalist record label uses System 6 look and feel for its Mac-designed website - and it's fast.
Benchmarks: PowerBook G4s compared, Bare Feats, 05.28. See how new and old G4/667 compare, among others.
Opinion: Useful translucency, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 05.28. Translucency in OS X isn't very useful, reduces performance, and decreases usability.
Opinion: Are the new iBooks a worthwhile upgrade?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 05.28. A better value than ever and a real alternative to the TiBook.
Advocacy: Why Macintosh? Think TCO, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 05.28. Why the Mac wins when looking at the total cost of ownership.
Macinschool: Why Macintosh?, Terri Schoone, Urbana School District. "The time and money spent on repairs of our Macintosh is only a fraction of what is spent on the PCs...."
Tech: MHz or GHz: What does MHz mean?, David K. Every, iGeek. What MHz is, and why it isn't a direct indicator of computer performance.
Wares: SmoothType v2.3, Greg's Shareware. One of LEM's favorite 'wares, new version adds subpixel smoothing for LCDs. Try it - we think you'll like it.
Opinion: Vnunet.com says Macs just as virus vulterable as PCs. Yeah, right, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 05.28. Potential may be there, but the real world seems pretty safe.
Benchmarks: Mac OS X 10.1.4, Macs Only!, 05.28. As fast as or faster then 10.1.3 in almost every area.
Web: Will your domain be "porned out to pasture?," John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.27. "Due to the loyalty of the user base, expiring Mac domains are particularly sought after...."
Rights: Ventura signs Minnesota Online Privacy and Anti-Spam Law, Vin Crosbie, E-Media Tidbits, 05.26. Spam must begin subject with ADV, include valid return address, have valid opt-out email info or toll-free phone number. $10-25 fine per email.
Tech: Bus speed and frequency, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.24. To avoid bottlenecks, bus speed needs to improve along with CPU speed.
Opinion: The Mac a business machine? Better believe it!, Gene Steinberg, USA Today, 05.24. There's a lot more to the Mac than eye candy.
Opinion: OS X: Some good usability, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 05.24. "The ability to select multiple files in an open file dialog is a huge improvement over the old Mac OS standard."
Analysis: New rules for the new advertising economy, Chris Anderson, Wired, 05.24. "The new equation for success in online advertising is simple: Effective advertising must be intrusive."
Macinschool: One school's cost of going Wintel, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 05.24. School system has had "nothing but grief" since the switch - viruses included.
Rights: Spammers threaten UK Net user, Tim Richardson, The Register, 05.24. "A British man has been threatened by a gang of spammers after reporting its activity to his ISP."
News: Apple aims to boost bandwidth with 1.5 GHz G4s, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 05.24. Sources "close to Motorola" say 1.5 GHz G4s could be ready by July's Macworld Expo.
Web: Universal tries "pay per download" with 99¢ MP3 sale, Raena Armitage, Mac Observer, 05.24. It's about time someone tried this.
Benchmarks: PowerBook G4/800 preliminary results, Bare Feats, 05.23. I think you'll be impressed. More results expected next week.
Macinschool: iBooks for Backwash Elementary, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 05.23. Support from adminstration helped teachers choose their own platform.
Macinschool: My classroom "cast of characters," Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 05.23. A look at classroom machines and student take-home units.
Rights: New violators of the DMCA? Reuters, Yahoo.com, CNN.com, dozens of others, Grant Gross, NewsForge, 05.22. Reporting how a marker can defeat protection on "copy-proof" CDs illegal under Digital Millenium Copyright Act. What ever became of free speech?
Oops: Mac.com site pulled because Apple made it too popular?, RandomMaccess, 05.22. Apple says, "Download Flurry," then cuts off site for "excessive bandwidth consumption."
News: Nigerian email fraud gang nabbed, Drew Cullen, The Register, 05.22. But will arrest of six West Africans end their flood of spam?
Opinion: Where Apple doesn't always play nice, Charles Haddad, Business Week, 05.22. "Has Apple's borrowing stymied innovation? I see no sign of it."
Advice: More reasons to run a low-end PC, Roger M, Thinking From the Box, Low End PC, 05.22. A lot of these reasons apply to low-end Macs, too.
News: Nearly 60% of Web surfers plan to quit AOL - poll, Lycos, 05.21. The Microsoft of ISPs is losing up to 25% of users per year.
Opinion: PowerBook 1400 adventures, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 05.21. "So how do I like the 1400? I love it! It's a honey of a little computer."
Web: MacNews.com launched, "a new Mac-dedicated website built to bring you quality news content for the Macintosh Community."
Analysis: Apple preps iBooks for "Jaguar," Ben Wilson, osOpinion, 05.20. Faster CPU, bigger L2 cache, faster graphics, and more video memory will all help.
Tech: PowerPC 750FX, IBM. This appears to be the "brains" of the new iBook.
Opinion: One Mac user's (successful) effort to get a Mac in his Windows run company, Randy DeSerranno, Mac Opinion, 05.20. "I began creating PowerPoint presentations on my Mac only to find that once they were created, the PC laptop had a great deal of trouble playing the video and audio."
Opinion: Someone finally got it!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.20. Analyst first to recognize Apple's special place in the PC market.
News: UBS Warburg raises Apple 2002 estimates, Yahoo/Reuters, 05.20. "...we see the platform becoming a premium PC capturing selective PC demand. We reiterate our strong buy rating."
Opinion: Potent laptops shove desktops aside, Fred Langan, Christian Science Monitor, 05.20. "These are laptops that never see a lap and might never head out on the road."
Humor: Why I love pop-up ads, Madhu "MadMan" Menon's Weblog, 05.18. "If Web sites want to shock their readers and intrude upon their user experience, it should be their right to do so."
Advice: How to send an email, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 05.17. How to create functional, attractive email that anyone can read.
OS X: Another thing wrong - usability, Philip Machanick, Mac Opinion, 05.17. "One of the key ideas in the old Mac interface was consistency...."
Review: 800 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4, Rick LePage, Macworld, 05.17. 8x8x8x24x mechanism expected to be announced "in about a week" for 400, 500 MHz TiBooks.
Low-end: Combo drives coming for Rev. A TiBooks, Mace Windu, PowerPage, 05.17.
News: AOL to ditch IE on Macs, The Register, 05.17. AOL for OS X to include Netscape.
Review: Yellow Dog Linux for PPC 2.2, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 05.17. "Linux will support a whole passel of older Macs that aren't officially supported by OS X."
Web: The comments that just won't die, Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 05.16. "...it struck me how long it took an online publication to follow up on a controversial topic that had appeared a week before...."
Macinschool: Apple struggles to regain share of school market, Andrew Trotter, Education Week, 05.15. Windows users still think their platform is cheaper.
First Look: Mac Nvidia GeForce 4 Titanium, Accelerate Your Mac, 05.15. It's fast.
Virus: Hoax virus alert could cripple Windows Java, John Leyden, The Register, 05.15. Deleting specified file could disable Java.
Advice: Basilisk II: Solving the printer problem, David G. Bell, Low End PC, 05.15. While Basilisk II emulates a Mac, it doesn't include drivers that work with your PC's printer.
Opinion: Is Quartz Extreme a plot to make you buy a new Mac?, Mac Night Owl, 05.15. At Low End Mac, we believe that's a driving force behind OS X.
Opinion: New iBooks in the works?, Charles W. Moore, 05.15. Of course - but when? And how will they improve on today's iBooks?
Opinion: MS Passport: Enabling paranoids everywhere, Jeff Lewis, Mac Skeptic, Mac Opinion, 05.15. "...the implementation leaves something to be desired."
Digicams: Minolta Dimage 7i, Digigraphica. 5.2 megapixel 7x zoom digicam updated.
Digicams: Olympus Camedia C-720, Digigraphica. 3 megapixel digicam with an impressive 8x zoom.
Apple: mac.com homepage bandwidth restrictions, MacInTouch Reader Report. Apple will block pages receiving too many visitors, may even remove files iTools users have posted.
Deal: Apple offers US$300 rebate on Power Mac G4s, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.13. Rebates up to $300 through July 7, 2002.
Tech: IBM goes own way with PowerPC, Ben Wilson, NewsFactor, 05.13. IBM has pushed the G3 to 1 GHz and future chips could become CPUs of choice for Apple, *nix hardware.
Opinion: Why Windows is hard and why Macs are shunned, Bob McCormick, MyMac.com, 05.13. "Computers are supposed to be difficult and only a few of us actually know how to make them work."
Report: Top UK companies waste millions on duff Web sites, Tim Richardson, The Register, 05.13. The British have no monopoly on "Web sites that don't work and are difficult to use."
Advice: Top ten guidelines for homepage usability, Jakob Nielsen, useit.net, 05.12.
Digicams: Fujifilm FinePix 2800, 2 megapixel SLR-type digicam with 6x zoom.
Analysis: Jaguar: The return of System 7, David K. Every, iGeek, 05.12. Everything old is new again with OS X 10.2.
Web: Stuart Bell's Power Colour Classic site has moved to a new server, URL.
Benchmarks: Radeon 8500: The fastest shipping Mac graphics card?, Bare Feats, 05.11. GeForce 4 not shipping yet. Does 8500 beat GeForce3? Sometimes.
Opinion: Jaguar: Getting ready to roar?, Pierre Igot, Applelust, 05.10. "...performance is still a major issue - if not the major issue - in Mac OS X in its current incarnation."
Dark Side: Impressions from ACPe 2002, Kevin Stiles, SEUL [ /.]. "Needless to say the relationship between these schools and Microsoft had been changed in a fundamental way."
Opinion: Europeans, atheists, socialists, and anti-Semites, Jason Walsh, ReformedNet, 05.10. "For US journalists to label Europeans as racists and anti-Semites is a total misrepresentation of Europe, its media, its politicians, and its people."
Digicams: Pentax Optio 230, 330, and 430, three beautifully styled, compact digicams.
Web: MacMinute turns one. Congratulations!
News: Reader Report: Apple Mail Filtering, Macintouch. Apple's mac.com mail server blacklisting legitimate email as spam.
News: Apple "secretly" filtering mac.com mail, Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac, 05.09. Apple's filters apparently go beyond filtering just spam.
Rights: Free speech, fair use both take another blow from US courts, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.09.
Opinion: OS 9: Buried alive!, Jeremy Gefler, Right On Mac, 05.09. "...the venerable Mac operating system has never been more alive on my Mac."
News: Macs' last stand on Capitol Hill, Mark Baard, Wired, 05.09. "Macs are not welcome on Capitol Hill." US government actively supports Microsoft monopoly.
Opinion: The best Mac sites, Stephen Beals, ComputorEdge. He missed LEM and lists one of the ugliest Mac sites, but otherwise makes some excellent choices. ;-)
Analysis: PDA evolution: Newton to now, Jay Stanton, Anywhere You Go, 05.08. "...nobody wanted to carry around a 1-pound brick...."
Digicams: Olympus Camedia cameras, Digigraphica. Some of the most innovative digicams on the market.
AAPL: AAPL soars in broad market rally, Robert Paul Leitao, Mac Observer, 05.08. "Apple (AAPL) ended Wednesday trading up $1.90 at $24.37."
Dark Side: Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick, Tina Gasperson, NewsForge, 05.08. "Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French court?"
Opinion: Spam solutions, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 05.08. There is no perfect solution - spammers can reach you even if you never use your email account.
Opinion: New "Ivory" TiBook, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 05.08. "...the Ivory TiBook is a PowerBook I would really like to own - the first Ti that I've felt that way about."
Low End: The perfect Mac: Why Apple still can't get me to dump ol' Betsy, Chuck La Tournous, RandomMaccess, 05.07. "I had the uncharacteristic good luck to purchase one of the best computers Apple ever produced: a 233 MHz beige G3 desktop."
Dark Side: Compulsory Windows for Macs and people without PCs?, John Lettice, The Register, 05.07. Microsoft now want schools to pay a license fee for all personal computers - even Macs and Linux machines.
Opinion: The goodness of the Mac and the difference it makes, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 05.07. "I continue to marvel at what Windows users routinely put up with in terms of hassle and unreliability."
Digicams: Minolta Dimage X, Digigraphica. The world's smallest 2 megapixel digicam is only 0.8" thick.
Review: Radeon 7000 Mac Edition, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 05.06. Very nice performance on a beige G3 under OS 9, but issues with "old world" Macs running OS X.
News: Association comes out fighting for FireWire, EETimes, 05.06. 1394 Trade Association adopts Apple's FireWire name, logo, and symbol to reduce confusion.
Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 2500, Coolpix 5000, Digigraphica. Nikon's latest digicams.
News: Apple to release rackmount server on May 15, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.06. Finally, a G4 designed for the lab and computing center, not just the desktop.
OS: Jobs puts Mac OS 9 to rest, Ian Fried, ZDNet, 05.06. Is OS 9.2.2 really the end of the road for the classic Mac OS?
Web: Archaic Apples covers Apple IIs, Lisas, Newtons, early Macs, NeXT, and more.
Opinion: The dangers of monoculture, Mike McCune, osOpinion, 05.06. "Like the Irish potato crops, computer systems are more vulnerable to Trojan horses and viruses if all of them are the same."
Opinion: OtT Permanent Entry, Thomas Vanderwal, Off the Top, 05.05. "Why have I bought my last Windows-based computer?"
Digicams: Fuji FinePix F601, FinePix S602, Digigraphica. Two of this year's hot new digicams.
Dark Side: MS disappears claim that Windows is legal requirement, John Lettice, The Register, 05.03. Leaving original Windows on a PC apparently not a legal requirement.
Tech: What is anit-aliasing, David K. Every, iGeek. A layman's introduction to anti-aliasing.
Opinion: Another thing wrong - upgrades, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 05.03. "In attempting to implement features like net-based upgrades, Apple is trying to be net-savvy, but in a stupid way."
Consumer: Macs Only! has info on low cost, high speed, 9.5 mm thin drives - 20 GB for $159, 40 for $239.
Rights: Agfa, DMCA threaten font utility, Tom 7. Agfa trying to abolish public domain TrueType font utility that predates DMCA.
Opinion: What you should know about "deep linking," John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.02. "...would you believe that certain Web sites have been trying to prevent others from linking to internal pages?"
Opinion: Apple software elegant, useful, Dawn Chmielewski, BayArea.com, 05.02. "The Mac OS X operating system is the most elegant interpretation of Unix I've ever seen."
News: Melissa virus author jailed for 20 months, John Leyden, The Register, 05.01. One of the first email viruses, Melissa caused over $80 millin in damages.
Rights: Site barks about deep link, Farhad Manjoo, Wired, 05.01. Dallas Morning News insists BarkingDogs.org remove all "deep links" to DallasNews.com.
Ezine: Web Page Design for Designers, May issue. Hmm, one in seven surfers have JavaScript deliberately disabled.

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