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  • Opinion: Rob Enderle: Putting the 'anal' in 'analyst', John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 12.28. "Enderle for years has been banging the drum that Apple is doomed unless it switches gears and starts making Wintel-compatible PCs...."
  • Opinion: Can Apple perform a miracle for the Mac's 20th anniversary?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.16. "As Apple gears up for the real, honest to goodness 20th anniversary of the Mac, it's reasonable to speculate that something big might be afoot."
  • Advocacy: An appeal for Apple to do the right thing about iBook logic board failures, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.16. "...more than a few victims of this defect have had it repaired under warranty only to have the logic board fail again, and sometimes a third time as well."
  • News: Apple: iTunes downloads top 25 million, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 12.15. "Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the 25 million song mark makes iTunes Music Store 'hands-down the most successful online music store.'"
  • Opinion: Losers, weepers, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 12.14. "...Panther's Keyboard Shortcuts features doesn't seem to allow you to set a shortcut using just the Command key and a letter."
  • Analysis: Muckraking, the PC way, Richard Forno, 12.12. "...when compared to Windows, Mac OS is proving to be a significantly more reliable and (exponentially) more secure computing environment for today's users...."
  • Review: Amazing! Fax software that really works, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.12. "In keeping with the Mac tradition, Page Sender just works. Every time, sending or receiving."
  • Opinion: How Mac OS X can shed its skin, Leander Kahney, Wired, 12.12. "A small community of desktop 'skinners' has sprung up around Unsanity's ShapeShifter, a utility for Mac OS X that allows the desktop interface to be customized...."
  • Review: Praise for Panther Preview, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 12.12. "Preview is now so fast, flexible, and versatile that it almost makes me like PDF documents."
  • Opinion: PC apologist asks if we Mac users are now humble, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 12.11. Despite people discovering security holes in OS X, nobody has yet created a virus or worm to attack Macs.
  • Opinon: Old habits, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 12.11. "...I cannot convince my fingers not to use Cmd-N as the Finder shortcut for making a new folder."
  • Opinion: Rob Enderle simply has to be the worst tech analyst, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 12.10. "Mr. Enderle seems to be relying on the idea that if Microsoft invents a product category, then it surely must be a category that everyone should offer...."
  • OS X: My Panther odyssey begins, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 12.05. "I've decided to install it on my Pismo PowerBook first; see how that goes, and then upgrade the iBook after I get the PowerBook sorted out."
  • OS X: Apple releases Security Update, addresses Safari cookie issue, Mac Observer, 12.05. "Apple has released Security Update 2003-12-05, which updates Apple's Safari web browser to address a vulnerability that could allow unauthorized access to cookies on the affected system."
  • Opinion: Why do we have to unlock secret features?, Gene Steinberg, The Panther Report, Mac Night Owl, 12.04. "...it stands to reason that Apple wouldn't just put a feature in place, and not provide a simple way to use it, right?"
  • Opinion: Is the Apple portable mystique in danger?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.01. "...portable Macs have earned an enviable - almost legendary - reputation for toughness and reliability, albeit with the odd lapses...."
  • Opinion: A rant about shopping for freebies, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, Math Dittos 2, 12.01. "...somehow the ad and maybe the season lured me into believing that these stores really wanted to get folks in the door without totally pissing them off."

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