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The Low End Mac Link Archive, January 2003

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.

• Software: Moore's omnibus Mac email client roundup - 2003 edition, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.31. Mac email clients from Eudora to Zoe - covering both OS X and the classic Mac OS. (We still love Claris Emailer.)
• Opinion: Apple product introductions: The never-ending release cycle, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.31. New product releases not reserved for Macworld Expos and other special events.
• Hardware: Stuck in the past: Best Mac OS 9 Macs, O'Grady's PowerPage, 01.30. What are the best OS 9 Macs and the best deals on OS 9 booting Macs?
• Benchmarks: Beige G3 266 on X 10.2.3: How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 01.30. It's slow compared with 800 MHz and 1 GHz machines, but it still runs Jaguar "very well."
• Advice: Preparing for the upgrade, Gene Steinberg, The Jaguar Report, Mac Night Owl, 01.30. Installing OS X "is pretty easy, but you'll want to make sure your older Mac is ready."
• Analysis: Personal Computer Market Share: 1975-2002, Jeremy Reimer, 01.30. Data shows Mac market share peaked in 1992 while unit sales peaked in 1995 and 2000.
• Review: Checking out WindowShade X 2.1.2, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.29. "Windowshading is quicker, slicker, more convenient, and more elegant" than collapsing windows to the dock.
• Opinion: The case for the low-end 'Book, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Applelinks, 01.28. "...the 12-inch AlBook is now the low - end PowerBook, and shaping up to be a hot seller."
• Opinion: Going on Safari, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 01.27. "[Tonya]'s finding a number of sites less frustrating to use, simply because pages draw faster than in Internet Explorer."
• Web: Visual display of site traffic, James Spahr, designweenie.com, 01.27. If you've ever wanted to visualize traffic within a website, you have got to see this page.
• History: The mouse that rolled, Jim Shelton, New Haven Register, 01.27. "While today's computer mouse is as ever-present as the common can opener, it was considered highly unusual back in 1983, when Apple introduced its Lisa...."
• Web: ATMs, ISPs hit by Slammer worm spread, John Leyden, The Register, 01.27. "The bandwidth-crunching Slammer worm has causes all manner of damage since its appearance on the Net in the early hours of Saturday morning."
• Analysis: How to milk an Apple, Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek, 02.03. Apple remains a niche player, but has nearly doubled its share of the consumer market.
• Tech: The battle in 64 bit land, 2003 and beyond, Paul DeMone, Real World Technologies, 01.26. Includes some excellent comments on potential of PowerPC 970 in future Macs.
• Review: Giga Designs G4/800 and 1GHz CPU upgrades, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac!, 01.26. Upgrades compatible with all Power Mac G4 models with AGP, attractively priced, very fast.
• Analysis: Worm exposes apathy, Microsoft flaws, Robert Lemos, c|net, 01.26. "That patch should have been applied--it's 6 months old now."
• Oops: Apple browser needs pizza pie in the eye, Courier-Journal, 01.26. Safari browser not compatible with Papa John's website. No pizza for you - or use a different browser.
• Opinion: Rise of the uber-browser, Dave Hyatt, Surfin' Safari, 01.26. "Do news readers like NetNewsWire and Feedreader contain functionality that should be absorbed into browser applications like Safari, Chimera or OmniWeb?"
• Dark Side: Comic relief of sorts, at Microsoft's expense, Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 01.25. "...it was hilarious that Microsoft's own Windows XP verification servers were offline today due to problems caused by the SQL worm."
• Web: MS SQL Server worm wreaking havoc, Slashdot, 01.25. Starting early Saturday morning, this attack on Microsoft SQL Server effectively disabled many servers, including some root Internet name servers.
• Web: Internet slowed by suspected denial-of-service attack, Martyn Williams, MacCentral, 01.25. "...the problems appear to have centered around a vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server and its server resolution service...."
• Advice: Jaguar's cool icon view functions, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.24. "The Jaguar Icon View Options dialog offers unprecedented control over icon and Finder view window appearance...."
• Advice: How much computer is enough?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.24. "If you're content to run OS 9 and appropriate application software, you can get very decent performance out of old PPC Macs...."
• Review: Surfin' with Apple's Safari, Tom Spring, PC World, 01.23. PC World columnist (yes, PC World) finds a whole lot to like in Apple's new browser.
• Tech: KBase Article: Apple explains how spammers can verify your e-mail address, Mac Observer, 01.23. "We offer a big, fat Mac Observer Salute to Apple for posting this KBase article."
• Opinion: Apple's chess game with Microsoft: Check!, John Martellaro, The Warp Core, Applelinks, 01.22. "...Apple has executed a preemptive strike by unleashing both a very good Web browser, Safari, and a very good presentation package called Keynote."
• Upgrade: Upgrade the Lombard and Pismo PowerBooks, Macworld, 01.22. How to upgrade the RAM and hard drive in Apple's Lombard and Pismo PowerBooks.
• Tech: (Almost!) totally useless megahertz overview, Frivolous Diversions, WhoPhD, 01.22. Graph of PowerPC vs Pentium MHz ratings since 1994 shows Macs have been losing the MHz race since 1998.
• Advocacy: Not ready to switch to Macs? Why not just add one?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.22. If 70% of home PC users are thinking of adding a second computer - Apple should target that market.
• Low End: 68k Macintosh Liberation Army, 68k Macintosh Liberation Army, 01.22. A place for users of vintage (pre-PowerPC) Mac equipment to hang out.
• Dark Side: Microsoft loses showdown in Houston, Byron Acohido, USA Today, 01.21. "The nation's fourth-largest city rebuffed [Microsoft's] offer and has embraced an obscure competitor called SimDesk."
• Analysis: Beyond the Safari hype, Robyn Weisman, osOpinion, 01.21. "I've heard from only a few people who have tried it and switched back to another browser right away."
• Advice: Partitioning revisited yet again, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.21. "...after a week, I came to the realization that I wasn't going to be happy with a single volume hard drive."
• History: A brief history of ClarisWorks, Bob Hearn, 01.21. "The two of us were about to take on Microsoft, and we knew we could do it!"
• Analysis: Market share versus installed base, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.21. Mac users simply don't replace their computers as often as PC owners.
• Tech: Wireless far from flawless, Henry Norr, SFGate.com, 01.20. "...802.11b, the current wireless standard, has ample bandwidth to keep up with almost any home Internet connection."
• Opinion: AirPort Extreme: In the key of G, G Fleishman, A Engst, TidBITS, 01.20. Great on the local network, but keep in mind that most Internet connections are far slower than Extreme's 54 Mbps.
• Software: SpamStopper v1.4.0 released, RAILhead Design, 01.20. "...this program is a web designer's utility that encodes email addresses so that email indexing spiders can't harvest them from your site."
• Spam: Will new filters save us from spam?, Scarlet Pruitt, MacCentral, 01.20. "Their aim is to find a spam filter so effective, that spammers would receive few, if any, responses, making sending unsolicited bulk e-mail a financially prohibitive task."
• History: Lisa 20 years old today, Lisa2.com, 01.19. One year before Macintosh, Apple introduced the $10,000 Lisa.
• News: Apple hosts iCommune on its own servers!, PowerBook Zone, 01.18. "...imagine our surprise to find that Apple continues to host the Beta 1 version of the plugin on its site...."
• Tech: 802.11g's "extreme" emergence, A Engst, G Fleishman, Wireless Starter Kit, 01.17. "802.11g is attractive because it includes full backwards compatibility with 802.11b."
• Opinion: The Quark fiasco, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 01.17. Quark XPress is only one of several reasons companies are not yet switching to Mac OS X.
• Analysis: Is QuarkXPress hurting Power Mac sales?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.17. "Why are so many sticking with QuarkXPress and, as a result, perhaps putting off purchase of new Macs until the program is Mac OS X native?"
• Macinschool: Lots of thoughts on Mac in education, Steve Wood, Educators' News, 01.17. Helpful thoughts on AirPort Extreme, viability of OS X in the classroom, and use of new software at school.
• Rights: "I poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA" - whistleblower, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 01.17. But hosting "poisoned" MP3s grew too costly for the recording industry....
• News: Third party hacks add numerous features to Safari, Mac Observer, 01.16. Disable brushed metal appearance, clear the icon cache, change the buttons, and more.
• Opinion: GraphicConverter, AppleCrap, 01.16. GraphicConverter isn't crap; it's an excellent program. But what's with those weekly updates?
• Analysis: Safari catapults to #2 browser on TMO, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.16. Over 20% of visitors and 30% of Mac-using visitors to Mac Observer using Safari.
• Rights: Consumers: RIAA still not thinking of us, Grant Gross, MacCentral, 01.16. "Wynkoop remains concerned that the RIAA may try to take away such consumer rights as making copies of songs for their own use...."
• Opinion: Apple's looks, functions convert this PC devotee, Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press, 01.16. "The Mac just doesn't feel like a machine. It's clean and crisp and tactile."
• Opinion: Apple's financials: When is a loss really a profit?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.16. "...Fred Anderson, blames the state of the economy and the lack of a Mac OS X version of QuarkXPress."
• Analysis: Apple's small loss is $8 million in Q1 '03, Macs Only!, 01.16. Includes breakdown of 743,000 Macs sold. Power Macs are losing momentum.
• Opinion: Apple: long on sizzle, short on steak?, Hannibal, ars technica, 01.15. Does Apple's recent move away from the desktop signal a permanent shift in direction for the company, or is it a way of keeping things afloat until the desktop situation gets straightened out?
• Upgrade: Converting a beige G3 desktop to an ATX tower, Trevor Morris, Accelerate Your Mac, 01.15. Sounds like an awful lot of work when beige G3 minitowers are readily available....
• News: iCommune threatened by Apple, MacMegasite, 01.15. "The author of iCommune, a music sharing plugin for iTunes, has received a 'Notice of Breach and Termination of License' letter from Apple...."
• News: Apple reports $8 million loss, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 01.15. "Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported an US$8 million loss or $0.02 per share for its fiscal first quarter 2003 ended December 28, 2002."
• News: Apple reports $8 million loss, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 01.15. "Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported an US$8 million loss or $0.02 per share for its fiscal first quarter 2003 ended December 28, 2002."
• Advice: Partitioning redux, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.15. Sometimes you have to partiton, sometimes you don't, and sometimes it's just a good idea.
• Forum: Killing others' malicious processes, Slashdot, 01.15. Is it right - and should it be legal - to actively disable attacks on your hardware?
• Advice: Superior ad blocking on OS X, Jon Gales, MacMerc, 01.14. How to block lots of ads right in the OS, not just in one specific browser. Clever.
• Opinion: Now that Apple has started, it had better finish the Safari, Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 01.14. "...Apple will make an initial product and then not take the effort far enough to make the product appeal to more than the most basic of Mac users."
• OS X: Technology press versus Mac users, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.14. Tech press loves OS X, but many Mac users content to stick with classic Mac OS as long as practical.
• Opinion: The year of the portable - yes!, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.14. "Apple's fantastic new 17" G4 PowerBook laptop has essentially eliminated any rationale other than lower cost for owning a desktop computer for most of Mac-users."
• Advice: Partitioning the iBook part II - decision, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.14. Thanks to an external FireWire drive, the author decides not to partition his iBook's hard drive.
• Opinion: CodeBitch is on Safari, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 01.14. "My view is this: the CSS support in this browser is pretty darn good, especially for a beta."
• Rights: Why I should have the right to kill a malicious process on your machine, Tim Mullen, The Register, 01.14. "If anyone's rights are at issue here, it's yours and mine - the people whose systems are being attacked by worms and viruses running rampant on negligently unprotected machines."
• Opinion: New PowerBooks: Mini Me and the Lunch Tray, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 01.13. "...Apple was careful to provide a rational way for people to choose among Apple's iBook and PowerBook models...."
• Web: Semantic obsolescence, Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Mark, 01.13. "After keeping up with all the latest standards, painstakingly marking up all my content, and validating every last page on my site, I'm still stuck in a dead end."
• Benchmarks: Test Results: Power Mac with FireWire 800 PCI Card and Bridge Board, Bare Feats, 01.13. FireWire 800 unleashes performance of the fastest drives.
• Opinion: Apple's Safari browser is hard to close, Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network, 01.12. "If Apple continues to show the intelligence and discipline with this software that they have so far, I think it will become the primary browser for many Mac users."
• Spam: Hotmail: A spammer's paradise?, Michelle Delio, Wired, 01.12. Hotmail and MSN mail servers make no attempt to deflect "dictionary attacks" that seek out valid email addresses.
• Opinion: Yes, the world needs another browser, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.12. "...Safari's initial popularity and performance potential shows that the Mac world did indeed need another Web browser."
• Opinion: Why Apple is pulling away from Microsoft and can't afford not to do it, Robert X. Cringely, I, Cringley, PBS, 01.11. "The notebooks are nice, but what floored me were the applications.... This is Apple sticking it to Microsoft."
• Rights: Judge: Kazaa can be sued in U.S., Declan McCullagh, c|net, 01.10. Kazaa publisher based in Australia. Whole question of jurisdiction for Internet issues is one messy, unresolved can of worms.
• Benchmarks: Shootout: Safari vs. three other browsers, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.10. "I timed page downloads from four Web sites that I visit regularly using four different current builds of OS X browsers: Safari, Chimera, Mozilla, and iCab." And Safari didn't win.
• Humor: One very, very big PowerBook, Joy of Tech, 01.10. What the future holds for Apple ever growing top-end PowerBook.
• Opinion: A first look at the Safari Web browser, Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network, 01.10. An illustrated introduction to Apple's hot new browser.
• Upgrade: Gaggle of new processor upgrades at Macworld, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.10. Latest G4 upgrades for Power Mac G4 and Cube from PowerLogix, Sonnet, and Giga Designs.
• Software: Safari Update 1.0 Beta (v51), Apple, 01.10. This Safari Update is recommended for all Safari users.
• Humor: Fans outraged at new character in The Return of the King, Brian Briggs, BBspot, 01.10. Tolkien purists less than happy as Star Wars universe intersects Middle Earth in final LOTR episode.
• News: Safari downloads top 500,000, Apple, 01.10. It seems Apple has a genuine monster hit on their hands. We're impressed.
• News: U.F.O. USB FireWire Organizer for G4 iMac, XtremeMac, 01.10. USB and FireWire ports accessible from the front, which Apple should thought of, plus a cool blue glow.
• News: MPEG-4 backers protest Microsoft license, Stefanie Olsen, c|net, 01.09. Microsoft licensing Windows Media Player (on non-Windows platforms) at half the cost of MPEG-4.
• Opinion: Why are so many Mac users holding back from upgrading to OS X?, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.09. "Five million OS X switchers/adopters means that about 20 million Mac users have not yet made the move."
• Opinion: Macintosh: An acquired taste, Michael Kanellos, c|net, 01.09. Author doesn't seem to understand how computer users can be enthusastic about hardware, OS, and software.
• Benchmarks: 17" and 12" PowerBooks vs. other Apple laptops, Bare Feats, 01.09. New nVidia 440 graphics processor in 17" 'Book rocks on OpenGL graphics test.
• Advice: How to deal with common Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar problems, Randy B. Singer, Mac Attorney, 01.09. "OS X (especially Jaguar) is easier to deal with and troubleshoot than OS 7/8/9 was."
• Opinion: Looking at Safari, Jeffrey Zeldman, zeldman.com, 01.09. Good thing: Apple makes it easy to report bugs. Bad thing: Safari wants to set itself up as your default browser.
• News: Apple releases QuickTime 6.1, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.09. Improved MPEG-4 and AAC part of upgrade.
• Web: New year resolutions: Fix archives, ban pop-ups, Steve Outing, Stop the Presses!, Editor & Publisher, 01.08. "...the big fat problem that most needs to be addressed is archiving and expired hyperlinks."
• News: OWC shows XPostFacto 3.0 beta, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.08. Wow, next version of XPostFacto should allow booting pre-FireWire Macs from FireWire drives via FireWire PCI cards.
• Rights: Canadians burned by blank-CD levy, Michelle Delio, Wired, 01.08. Canadians already paying 21¢ levy on blank CDs. Now industry wants to raise levy - and tax recordable DVDs, Compact Flash, removable drives, and more.
• OS X: Checking out the Safari browser, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.08. "I found the Safari beta to be significantly slower than the Chimera/Mozilla/Netscape troika...."
• News: Safari breaks single day download record for Apple, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 01.08. "Safari has been downloaded 300,000 times in the last 24 hours - the previous download record for Apple was for iTunes, which had two days of 100,000 downloads."
• Opinion: Even Woz still uses Mac OS 9, Matt Berger, InfoWorld, 01.08. Why switch when Mac OS 9 will keep on working forever?
• Opinion: The real Macworld keynote announcement: Independence, Nicolas diPierro, Mac Observer, 01.08. Apple is reducing dependence on Microsoft, pushing G4s in laptops where they best compete with "mobile" Pentiums.
• Humor: The new PowerBooks, Joy of Tech, 01.08. Just what do we call the new PowerBook G4 models?
• News: Prices cut on 1 GHz PowerBook, original AirPort cards, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.08. 1 GHz PowerBook G4 price trimmed $200, old AirPort card prices cut by $20.
• News: Dr. Bott debuts in AirPort Extreme antennas, MacNN, 01.08. Boost the range of AirPort Extreme with directional and omnidirectional add-on antennas.
• News: New PowerBooks: Ports now on the side, none in the back, PowerBook Central, 01.07. Wow, seems like everyone else overlooked this. Ports are on the side, just like on iBook.
• Forum: Glitch in Safari, MacMerc, 01.07. For some reason, Safari users can't log into MacMerc or other PHP-Nuke sites.
• Opinion: New iBook First Impressions, Review of Mini-Hub, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.07. Newly purchased 700 MHz iBook is attractive, speedy, and smelly.
• Opinion: What do you think of the Mac OS X interface?, Edward Tufte, 07.20. Leading authority on graphical display of information calls OS 9 "nearly ideal," OS X "distracting and self-conscious."
• Dark Side: Popular connections make add-ons work, Kim Komando, Indianapolis Star, 01.07. Headline mistakenly states "USB 2.0 not available for Macintoshes." It is available via third-party cards.
• News: Apple's Mac OS X Adoption Soars With More Than 5 Million Users, Apple, 01.07. We rarely link to press releases, but 5 million OS X users and 5,000 native apps is good news indeed!
• News: Jobs unveils biggest, smallest PowerBooks ever, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.07. New 17" PowerBook G4 has 1440 x 900 display, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, and weighs just 6.8 pounds.
• News: Apple Announces Safari Web Browser, Brad Smith, Mac Observer, 01.07. Safari "fastest browser for the Mac" and available for free download.
• News: Apple Introduces 12", 4.6 Pound PowerBook G4, Mac Observer, 01.07. New aluminum PowerBook G4 includes FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme, 12" 1024 x 768 display.
• News: Apple Announces Keynote Presentation App, Brad Smith, Mac Observer, 01.07. "Available immediately for $99 (US), Keynote imports and exports PowerPoint, QuickTime® and PDF files to make creating and sharing presentations easier than ever."
• News: Apple Announces iLife: Boxed iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iDVD For US$49, Mac Observer, 01.07. "From within iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, or iDVD 3 you can access any of the other iApps including iTunes 3."
• News: Apple introduces high-speed 'Airport Extreme', Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.07. "While current AirPort base stations operate at up to 11Mbps, AirPort Extreme operates at up to 54Mbps. It's downwardly compatible...."
• News: TiVo, Brother, Aspyr announce Rendezvous products, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.07. "...TiVo's upcoming premium service package will use Rendezvous technology to automatically discover Macs within the home network...."
• Upgrade: Sonnet intros 1.2 GHz Power Mac G4 upgrade, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.07. New upgrade includes 2 MB cache, works with most Power Macs with AGP graphics.
• Humor: Top 10 reasons Macs suck!, iGeek, 01.07. 10. You can't use 5-1/4" floppies....
• Analysis: Logitech proves no mouse among men, William Hall, Financial Times, 01.06. How Logitech survives, thrives, and grows its market at Microsoft's expense.
• Benchmarks: Mac OS X 10.2.3 - How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 01.06. Mac OS X keeps getting better, but is it getting any faster?
• Opinion: Friends don't let friends use Classic, Bill Davies, CCNews, 01.05. "You can run your old Mac software on OS X without spending a dime using Classic; however, you really won't enjoy any of the benefits of OS X if you don't upgrade your software."
• Dark Side: Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 01.05. "Microsoft had far more to gain than it had to lose by seeing its partner fall."
• Dark Side: Why IE is so fast ... sometimes, Slashdot, 01.05. "Finally the scoop on how IE 'cheats' a little to up its performance!"
• Web: The ethics of linkage, zonker, Kuro5hin, 01.04. Should site such as Slashdot have a responsibility to sites that encounter excessive bandwidth fees due to their links?
• Low End: Bluetooth and 68K browsers, Chris Lawson, ATPM, 01.03. Forget 68000-based Macs. For the rest, lots of RAM, iCab, and a RAM disk cache are your best bet.
• Software: Freeverse Board Games, Freeverse, 01.03. Eight classic two-player board games support network, Internet play. Free.
• Review: PopMonitor, Web Design for Designers, 01.03. Anti-spam tool deletes spam at the server so you never have to download it at all.
• Opinion: C|net reports that Apple will charge for iMovie/iDVD/iPhoto update, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.03. "If Apple does, in fact, charge for iMovie and iPhoto updates, the company will alienate and anger a sizable, and vocal, portion of its user base."
• OS X: Mail.crapp, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 01.03. Apple's Mail.app hoses attachments. Not good.
• OS X: /Switch'd, Cory Watson, Rush Magazine, 01.03. The author of "Why I Don't Own a Mac" nows owns and uses a PowerBook G4.
• Opinion: IDC says Linux will surpass the Mac OS on the desktop in 2003-2004, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 01.03. "In the US, Europe, and Japan, the Mac OS will likely remain the #2 OS for many years to come...."
• Analysis: Linux continues desktop march, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet, 01.03. "IDC expects that Linux will become the No. 2 desktop OS in the next year or two, surpassing the Mac OS...."
• OS X: This little Whamb does neat tricks: New Rendezvous enabled MP3 player, Mac Observer, 01.03. Low demand MP3 player uses Rendezvous to automatically share tunes on your network.
• Opinion: Wintel company clones PowerBook G4, touts it as digital hub, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.03. "This company is clearly, so very clearly, aping Apple's product design, marketing, imaging, and positioning...."
• Opinion: Memo to Macworld San Francisco: iWant my iStereo, Hadley Stern, AppleMatters, 01.02. "The only time I use my CDs is when I use my stereo. But I miss my playlists...."
• OS X: NewtSync updated, Everchanging, 01.02. Still in beta, this software lets you connect and sync Apple's Newton with Macs running Jaguar.
• Analysis: Miss ng pieces: A list of features missing in each of Apple's newest products, Rob Art Morgan, Bare Feats, 01.02. Several places where Apple could improve their product line.
• OS X: Living without Windowshading, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.02. OS X is usable without windowshading, but better with WindowShade X.
• Opinion: Hold onto your Macs - They'll be worth something (one day), Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 01.02. Old Lisas, original Macs, and Apple Is are fetching high prices these days.
• Advice: Help! My 3-year-old wrote on my PowerBook screen with a marker!, Damien Barrett, AppleTechs, 01.02. What should work - and what not to use.
• Review: Hands on with El Gato's EyeTV, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 01.02. Not quite TiVo for the Mac, but also no monthly programming charges.
• Opinion: Macworld's third annual look at the year ahead in Macs, Macworld, 01.01. A dozen pundits predict the most significant Mac products for the new year.

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