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OS X: XPostFacto 2.2b9, Other World Computing, 06.29. Latest version provides some OS X support on additional unsupported models.
Advocacy: For Mac users, a life less complicated, Gene Steinberg, USA Today, 06.28. "Sometimes I feel like that Maytag repairman, but I don't mind it that much."
News: PCs: More than 1 billion served, Michael Kanellos, Cnet, 06.30. "Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s...."
Opinion: Mac OS X vs. Windows XP: It's no photo finish, Rob Pegoraro, Fast Forward, Washington Post, 06.30. "...if you're shopping for a new machine, you'll probably be much happier with iPhoto...."
Dark Side: MS security patch EULA gives admin privileges on your box, Thomas C. Greene, The Register, 06.30. Microsoft reserves right to automatically download to your computer, restrict access to digital content.
Benchmarks: New IBM Travelstar 40GNX 2.5" drive, Bare Feats, 06.29. In short, this new laptop hard drive rocks.
Dark Side: Broken trust, D. F. Tweney, The Tweney Report, 06.28. "Microsoft wants you to entrust it with the safekeeping of your computer's processor, memory, and hard drive."
Analysis: Getting to know you, J. D. Lasica, Online Journalism Review, 06.27. "Registration required" may lose some visitors, but most appear to come back eventually.
Web: Reasons to think before you link, Richard Poynder, FT.com, 06.24. "Recent cases in Europe and the US, however, have led some to conclude that the law has begun to look more favourably on those wishing to bar unwelcome links."
Opinion: One nation under God?, Dan Knight's Soapbox, Cobweb Publishing, 06.28. Can prohibiting schoolchildren from freely reciting the Pledge of Allegiance solve anything?
Dark Side: Beware Palladium!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.27. "Palladium is really a scheme to replace TCP/IP with something that Microsoft will own and license...."
Opinion: Baltimore Sun spots MHz myth, brings P4 slowness to light, Vern Seward, Mac Observer, 06.27. "The problem is that different processors do different amounts of work in each clock cycle."
News: Kiss your MP3s at work goodbye, Lisa M. Bowman, Cnet, 06.27. Copyright, the RIAA, liability, company equipment, getting fired - good reasons to buy an iPod.
Dark Side: Software subscriptions: A bad idea whose time has come, David Pogue, New York Times, 06.27 (free registration required). "...the beneficiary of the new program is Microsoft, not the customer."
OS X: iMac Update for Mac OS X, Apple, 06.27. Only for iMacs running Mac OS X 10.1.5 build 5T91.
Opinion: Speed, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 06.27. Hard drive performance can make a world of difference.
Web: Publishers sue Gator over Web ad tactics, Leslie Walker, Washington Post, 06.27. Gator uses spyware to display online ads linked to sites with which they have no ad contracts.
Advice: Transferring Windows stuff when you switch to a Mac, Walter S. Mossberg, Personal Technology, Wall Street Journal, 06.27. The good news is, a Mac can use almost all of your Windows documents.
Web: Way beyond the banner, Owen Thomas, Business 2.0, 06.27. What works in online advertising - and what just annoys people.
Web: Puncturing Web ads before they pop up, David Pogue, New York Times (free registration required), 06.27. No ad blocker is perfect, but they can make surfing more pleasant.
Web: Salon in dire straits, Slashdot, 06.26. Even with 40,000 subscribers, dropping ad income creates a growing deficit of $75 million.
News: Philips unveils first demonstration of wireless IEEE 1394..., 802.11 Insider, 06.26. Think of it as FireWire running via drastically souped up AirPort (802.11b, 54 Mbps).
Opinion: Snubs Macs, demo to PCs: Adobe at PC Expo/DV Expo, Douglas DeMarco, O'Grady's PowerPage, 06.26. Adobe willing to suck up to Windows users, snub Mac fans.
Huh? Pledge of allegiance ruled unconstitutional, Fox News, 06.26. "The Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and cannot be recited in public schools, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday."
Opinion: Is Microsoft really to blame for the sad state of security on the Internet?, Vern Seward, Just a Thought, Mac Opinion, 06.26. "...we continued to buy their stuff even though they have demonstrated that they either cannot or will not make a secure product."
News: Apple Store affiliate scheme "coming soon", Macworld UK, 06.26. Starting in France, Apple may extend affiliate program to other markets.
Advice: Declare email independence, Simson Garfinkel, The Net Effect, Technology Review. "In the 21st century, having your own domain name is simple electronic self-defense."
News: Apple dumps Aussie PR after news coup, The Register, 06.26. Apple sacks employee for releasing Gartner study figures showing Macs 36% less costly to own than Windows PCs.
Opinion: Back to Mac, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 06.25. "I would like to take this moment to personally thank Dell, Toshiba, and Microsoft for helping me to change my mind and move back to the Macintosh platform."
Humor: Big Switch, MacBoy.com, 06.25. "My name is Big Brother, and we shall prevail."
Opinion: I've switched from Windows, now what?, Terrie Miller, 06.25. "...the combination of Unix-based OS running on very appealing hardware seemed to be just the remedy for the Windows 98 blues."
Web: VeriSign Off, VeriSignOff.org, 06.25. Why you might want to sign off of Network Solutions (NSI) and VeriSign.
Opinion: Falling prey to the VeriSign beast, Kirk L. Kroeker, osOpinion, 06.25. "Most people who love the Internet hate VeriSign more than open source advocates hate Microsoft."
Web: Teoma vs. Google, round two, Search Engine Watch, 04.02. "...Teoma is not a wholesale replacement for Google, nor is it an engine you'll want to use exclusively."
Web: Apple France starts new affiliate program, MacNews.com, 06.25. Hey, Apple, how about doing the same thing at home?
Opinion: Compleat buyer's and user's guide to low-end Macintosh laptops, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.25. Guide to sub-$1,000 used PowerPC PowerBooks.
Benchmarks: Virtual PC 5.04 vs. 5.03, Accelerate Your Mac, 06.25. VPC 5.04 ranges from slightly faster to lots faster launching programs on 500 MHz TiBook.
News: Be Inc. completes takeover of Palm, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 06.25. This is the same kind of "reverse takeover" NeXT engineered after being purchased by Apple.
Opinion: IE(eeeee), Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network, 06.24. IE 5.2 installer that requires quitting all running applications was the last straw.
Macinschool: State schools may test idea of laptops for kids, Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press, 06.24. State now provides a compute to each teacher. Proposal seeks one per K-12 student in 2004.
Review: URL Manager Pro, Matt Neuburg, Tools We Use, TidBITS, 06.24. "...if I had to list the top five utilities without which I could never have made the switch to Mac OS X, URL Manager Pro would be one of them."
OS X: OmniWeb 4.1 available, Omni Group. Unlike IE, OmniWeb is beautiful and supports left-to-right languages.
AAPL: Apple moves up on roller coaster trading, Robert Paul Leitau, Mac Observer, 06.24. AAPL regained some ground after last week's plunge.
Mac OS: AppleScript 1.8.3 available, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 2002.06.24. Latest version available for both OS 9 and X via Software Update control panel.
Opinion: Apple's "Switch" campaign needs to switch gears, James Hollander, 06.24. Great campaign, but why isn't Apple pushing ads on the Web?
Macinschool: Open-and-shut case for laptops?, Sherry Jones, Wilmington Star, 06.24. New Hanover educators say all students need laptops, hope to deploy to all within 5 years.
Tech: Power 4 the people, Tony Smith, The Register, 06.24. IBM's Power4 runs 2 CPUs at 1.3 GHz on a single die and is related to the PowerPC in modern Macs.
Hands on: PowerBook G4/800, Macs Only!, 06.24. "...we're even more impressed than we were in April."
Opinion: Spam vs. spam, Andrew Leonard, Salon, 06.24. SpamAssassin, an effective, open source filtering engine seeks out and flags spam on the server. (And the biggest, slowest, most annoying online ad we've ever seen between pages 1 and 2.)
Web: Free Web-mail waning?, Mike Musgrove, A Closer Look, Washington Post, 06.23. Lots of sites, but several vanish each month.
Web: Charge for your content? The three criteria, Vin Crosbie, ClickZ Today, 06.18. Is your content unique, are you a premier resource, and is your content helpful?
Opinion: Unicode: Sick of this push and pull, Piere Igot, Apple Peel, Applelust, 06.21. The mess caused by different character sets, and how Unicode will eventually make everything better.
OS X: Apple releases networking update, MacNN, 06.21. Networking Update v1.0 improves network and Internet access after "restarting your computer or when waking from sleep."
OS X: Crouching Apple, hidden "Jaguar," Cade Metz, ExtremeTech, 06.21. "Jaguar is focused on moving the OS X platform forward, innovating in the ways Apple has always done."
Web: NPR Online reconsiders link policy, NPR, 06.21. NPR recognizes that "the majority of the linking on the Web is not infringement," reevaluating existing policy on links.
Dark Side: A battle PC giants should lose, Jill Ericksson, osOpinion, 06.21. Dell, H-P, IBM, Gateway, and others hurting because "unbranded" PCs account for over half of unit sales.
Analysis: Are Macs really cheaper to own?, Ben Wilson, NewsFactor, 06.21. Gartner is backing away from its finding that Macs are 36% cheaper to own and maintain than Wintel PCs.
Web: It takes a village to save a site, Paul Boutin, Wired, 06.21. Kuro5hin site raises $35,000 (half its annual budget) from readers in less than a week.
Memorial: For Rodney, Anonymous, MyMac.com, 06.21. "Rodney loved the 'Think Different' campaign because he did."
Advice: Moore's guide to the best free and cheap Mac productivity software, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.21. Good list, but it misses AppleWorks, which comes free with iMacs and iBooks.
Web: Apache anti-hack patch posted, Sam Costello, Macworld UK, 06.21. Security patch covers Apache on big Unix boxes - and Mac OS X.
Dark Side: Microsoft vs. cultural diversity, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.20. Microsoft chooses not to support right-to-left languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Korean in their Mac apps.
Rights: Copyright office halves Web royalty rate, Yahoo/Reuters, 06.20. Unlike radio stations, Webcasters have to pay royalties. That rate has been cut in half.
Rights: Paul Trummel pulls site, goes free for now, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.20. Paul Trummel, a 70-year-old man, has been imprisoned for 111 days because of his Web site satirizing officials of a retirement home. Free speech?
Tech: USB, FireWire head to battle, John G. Spooner, ZDNet, 06.20. FireWire established, but USB 2.0 more cost effective.
Opinion: Isn't it time John C. Dvorak was put down like an old dog? No, we're not linking to his drivel. We recommend Bryan Chaffin's comments ("John Dvorak seems to have an irrational hatred of the Mac and/or Apple itself") as well as comments on apple.slashdot.org.
AAPL: Apple falls after Tuesday warning, Robert Paul Leitao, Apple Stock Watch, Mac Observer, 06.19. Yeah - like $3.00 a share. Ouch.
Humor: Bill Gates Switch, Macboy.com. Animated cartoon. Enjoy the Pixar parody, then click on the Play button. Priceless.
Wares: IPNetTunerX, Applelinks, 06.19. Software claims up to 20% performance improvement.
Humor: Simplifying Tasks, IBM [mam]. Instructions for ordering this poster show that IBM still has a few things to learn about simplifying things.
Web: NPR Online's linking policy, NPR. We just violated their link policy by linking to it without prior written consent. What's become of the "public" in National Public Radio?
Memorial: Popular Mac columnist mourned, Leander Kahney, Wired, 06.19. "Lain's death is being widely mourned in the online Mac community. Hundreds of people have posted messages of condolence on forums...."
Upgrades: 16x CD-RW for tray loading iMacs, MCE. Burn CD-Rs at 16x, CD-RW at 10x, and read CDs at 24x in oldest iMacs - $199.
Opinion: Keeping the faith while Apple executives sell their AAPL shares, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 06.19. "...this round of selling . . . coupled with a late-in-the-quarter earnings warning, looks absolutely horrible for Apple."
News: Memorial service, contact information for Rodney O. Lain announced, Mac Observer.
Memorial: Remembering Rodney, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.17. "One of the things that impressed me immediately was the prominent discussion of religion on [Rodney's] site."
Memorial: Rodney O. Lain, John C. Welch, WorkingMac.com, 06.17. "... for a long time, I'm going to regret not knowing this man."
Memorial: Mac evangelist Rodney O. Lain dies, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, TwinCities.com, 06.17. "He was the Angry Mac Man, a technology pundit who wrote about Macintosh topics with more candor than some could stand."
Memorial: Magnum mysterium, John H. Farr, Grack, Applelinks, 06.17. "Rodney O. Lain was the first person I know to write about 'Mac literature,' and he was perfectly serious."
Memorial: Good night, Rodney, Del Miller, Applelinks, 06.17. "He didn't just talk about passion, he was passion and it showed in everything he wrote."
Analysis: PowerBook G4/DVI: Text too small?, PowerBook Central, 06.17. 1280 x 854 on a 15.2" display too small? Not according to PB Central readers.
Opinion: Some thoughts on the new PowerBook Pismo G4 processor upgrades, Charles W. Moore, Appleinks, 06.17. Two $300 upgrades promise 500 MHz G4 performance. Will they be worth the cost?
Analysis: Seven OS X browsers in speedstakes showdown, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.17.
Software: Internet Explorer 5.2, Microsoft, 06.17. Newest version only available for OS X.
Dark Side: Microsoft's Mac Hebrew snub prompts Israeli antitrust complain, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 06.17. Microsoft has "no plans" to support Hebrew in Office:mac or Internet Explorer:mac - or Russian, Arabic, Korean....
Web: The Apple Museum, formerly Apple Online Museum, overhauled.
Web: MacTeens.com relaunched yet again. How many times has it been now?
Memorial: In memory of Rodney O. Lain, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 06.17. "I didn't agree with everything you wrote, but I loved every word of it."
Memorial: For Rodney, Beth Lock, MyMac, 06.17. "It is a helpless sadness that I feel about Rodney's death, coupled with anger and compassion."
Memorial: Remembering Rodney, John Martellaro, MyMac, 06.17. "At first reading, if you read too fast, you could be offended. But upon further study, you'd find that Rodney mostly nailed all the bullshit."
Dark Side: My name's too rude for MS Passport, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 06.17. Sorry, Mr. Woodcock, you'll have to change your name before you can use .NET.
Macinschool: MSU college recommends Macs, MacNN, 06.16. "The College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University is recommending the purchase of a Mac computer...."
News: Rodney O. Lain passes away during weekend, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 06.17. "Rodney wrote to make us think, to make us laugh, and to make us angry."
Forum: Rodney O. Lain has passed away, Mac Observer. Comments from some who mourn our collective loss.
Memorial: Rodney O. Lain, Tim Robertson, MyMac, 06.17. A publishers pain at losing a friend.
Web: We're broke: The economics of a Web community, Rusty Foster, Kuro5hin, 06.17. Serious thoughs on funding a website.
Analysis: Pay for content revisited, Bob McCormick, Applelust, 06.14. Provocative thoughts on ads, online subscriptions, and the Mac Web.
Opinion: McAfee manufactures virus threat, michael, Slashdot, 06.14. Enough of the anti-virus hype about viruses that don't even exist on the Internet.
Upgrades: PowerLogix offers 500 MHz G4 Pismo upgrade, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 06.14. Maybe for a 400 MHz Pismo, but in many cases a G4 is insignificantly superior to a G3.
Web: A patent on pop under ads?, eContentMac.com, 06.13. If this is a defensible patent, it could mean the end of one major Web annoyance.
Web: Why have I stopped pointing to VersionTracker?, Rob McNair-Huff, MacNetJournal, 06.13. Another site stops linking due to "user unfriendly" practices at VersionTracker.
Opinion: Windows frustrations, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 06.13. Windows viruses and brain dead installers.
Analysis: Macs better value than PCs - official, Macworld UK, 06.13. Gartner analysis finds Macs up to 36% more cost effective than Windows PCs.
OS X: SpeedMeUp Pro v. 2, NoName Scriptware. Script "prebinds" OS X applications for faster launches.
OS X: Change Startup Disk v 1.4, NoName Scriptware. Quick and easy way to switch between OS 9 and X.
Opinion: Darwin meets the digital camera, David Pogue, New York Times, 06.13 (free registration required). Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Minolta, Kodak . . . which is the best 4 MP digicam?
Advice: Buying the right digicam, David Pogue, New York Times, 06.13 (free registration required).
Tech: 10-gigabit ethernet standard approved, Slashdot, 06.13. New standard is fiber only, faster than almost all of today's hard drives.
Opinion: Why our OS X rollout was hamstrung, Scot Hacker, O'Reilly.com, 06.12. Software that won't run is Classic, new programs still not written for X, and unsupported hardware hamstring migration.
Web: Credit-card hackers stung with bogus IIS 'sploit, Thomas C. Greene, The Register, 06.12 [MsGeek.org]. Security experts from CardCops.com and PenetrationTest.com create honeypot server, catch 200+ hackers.
Advice: The Compleat Buyer's and User's Guide to Antique and Collectible Macintosh Laptops, 2002 Edition, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.12. Interesting but no longer particularly practical 'Books.
Deal: Mac OS X 10.1 for $50, Deals on the Web, 06.12. Deal expires June 13.
Upgrades: PowerLogix announces world's fastest Power Mac G4 upgrades, 06.12. New upgrades boost Power Mac G4 to 750 MHz - even 1 GHz. Shipments start in July.
Opinion: Switching to the Mac, Kotke.org, 06.11. "I just want my computer to work for the things I want to do with it, and if I have to pay a little more for it or not have access to all the latest software, so be it."
Web: New US Postal Service website to no longer be Mac compatible, Jeremy Gefler, Right On Mac, 06.12. Old system supporting online postage, free delivery confirmation, and more for Mac users will disappear on July 1.
Software: Mozilla 1.1a available, Mozilla.org, 06.11. Available for classic Mac OS, OS X, Windows, Linux, and lots more.
Opinion: New Apple ads return to company's populist roots . . . sorta, Hannibal, ars technica, 06.10. All the usual "Mac elitist" crapola.
Web: Open Link Policy. A small step in protecting your right to link.
Advice: Avoiding trouble in the move to Mac OS X, part 1, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 06.10. "No activity in the Macintosh world has ever inspired as much fear, loathing, and terror as contemplating the upgrade from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X."
OS X: Rage Pro Driver for Lombard, James Denton [MacNN]. Oops, OS X 10.1.5 missed acceleration support for Rage LT Pro in Lombard. This patch solves that oversight.
Low End: Macintosh SE/30: An adventure back in time, Eric Conrad. "Sadly on top of it it had a tag that said 'Please dispose'." And lots of photos.
Opinion: The end of the Mac Web?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.10. The end of the Web as we know it if "deep linking" becomes illegal. (We support Open Link.)
Low End: The compact Macs, Matthew Glidden, Profiles in Networking, ATPM. LocalTalk and ethernet networking for compact Macs.
Low End: Why a Quadra 605?, Dana Siberia. Chipped Q605 runs Linux and Apache - and is serving pages very nicely on the Web.
News: New Apple ads no longer preach to the converted, Peter Cohen, MacCentral. 06.10. "The new ads feature Windows users who have made a successful switch to the Mac."
Digicams: Pentax Digibino DB100, Digigraphica, 06.10. Unique digicam built into 7x binoculars produced 1024 x 768 images.
Digicams: Pentax Optio 330 RS, 430 RS, Digigraphics, 06.10. New 3, 4 megapixel models include 11 MB built in memory - shoot even when your memory card is full.
Advice: Picking the right 35mm SLR, Dan Knight, Digigraphica, 06.07. Understanding the basics of reflex cameras so you can pick the one that best suits your needs.
Opinion: Davy and Goliath, Jeff Lewis, Mac Skeptic, Mac Opinion, 06.07. Some provocative thoughts on Mac fanatics and their blind spots. Think different.
Analysis: Could broadband become the law?, Anne Jue, MacCentral, 06.07. Should the government push for universal broadband access? Does the market want it?
Macinschool: A Mac-centric campus shifts to Windows, Florence Olsen, Chronicle of Higher Education. Administration and students choosing Windows at one-time Mac bastion.
Web: ICANN considering 30-day grace period for expired domain names. A member of ICANN emailed this link in response to Learning from the MacSlash fiasco.
Opinion: Bye Napster. Long live MP3, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 06.06. "It's time the recording industry embraced the digital revolution and stopped worrying about people 'stealing' music."
Rights: VeriSign slapped with lawsuit over marketing, Yahoo/Reuters, 06.06. Fourth suit filed over the way VeriSign attempted to deceive clients of rival registrars.
Rights: InternetMovies.com sues Hollywood, InternetMovies.com. Online publisher decides to sue MPAA after wrongful shutdown of website.
OS X: Mac OS X 10.1.5 available via Software Update panel, includes support for older Rage Pro chip in early G3 models.
OS X: 10.1.5 corrects beige G3/Radeon incompatibility, obzorg.org. "...Apple has corrected this problem with one notable limitation."
OS X: Silk 1.0, Unsanity [MM]. Freeware program lets Carbon apps use Quartz rendering - makes Internet Explorer look much nicer.
Software: iCab 2.8 released, available for free download. For a lot of Mac users, it's our favorite alternative to Internet Explorer - and they even make a 68K version.
Hands on: iCab 2.8 Web browser mini review, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.05. We agree: This still under construction browser deserves a try, whether on OS X or the classic Mac OS.
Software: Mozilla 1.0 released. Finally out of beta, Mozilla hopes to become a serious alterntive to Internet Explorer.
Analysis: Will USB 2.0 cool off FireWire?, Charles Haddad, Byte of the Apple, BusinessWeek, 06.05. FW established, but Intel "giving away" USB 2.0 at no extra cost.
Opinion: Working the Web: iCab in Mac OS X, Lin Mu, OS X FAQ. Why one user picks iCab first.
Opinion: Ode to the expansion bay, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.04. A great idea from 1995-2000, but with internal Combo drives and external FireWire options, we doubt the expansion bay will make a comeback.
News: Apple now selling eMac to consumers, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 06.04. Apple's cheapest G4 now available to the masses.
Opinion: Why doesn anybody need to be in charge of online speech?, Raena Armitage, Mac Observer, 06.04. Thoughts on free speech and national laws on the Internet.
News: Now you pay for drivers - Umax pioneers new price gouge, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 06.03. Device drivers no longer available as free downloads. LEM's advice: Look at other brands of scanners.
Software: Microsoft polishes Office for Apple, Ian Fried, Cnet, 06.02. Who else could create software with room for over 1000 "tweaks, bug fixes, and performance enchancements"?
Ezine: Web Page Design for Designers, June issue available.
Ezine: ATPM, June issue available.

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