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Advice: Beating
mydoom and more with POPmonitor, Charles W. Moore, OS X
Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.30. "Vechtwijk Automatisering has released
new MyDoom/Novarg filters for its cool email filtering and
mangement application POPmonitor."
Virus: Gullible users
spreading 'mydoom' worm, Fox News, 01.28. "The continued spread
of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the
global embrace of technology: Its users are human."
Apple: Virginia Tech
swaps out G5 desktops for Xserve racks, Tony Smith, The
Register, 01.28. "Virginia Tech has officially announced that it
will replace the 1100 PowerMac G5 desktops that currently comprise
its supercomputing cluster...with Apple's recently announced Xserve
G5...."
Opinion:
Pismo withdrawal - Short term pain for long term gain, Charles
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.27. "My beloved Pismo
PowerBook has been gone for a week today - off to Daystar in
Georgia for a MAChSpeed G4 processor upgrade."
Opinion: Why no
love for Apple?, Dana Blankenhorn, Corante, 01.26. "Apple gave
up on the mass market in the 1980s, even before John Sculley
joined, when Jobs decided to confuse hardware and software,
refusing to allow the 'Mac-clone' market to develop."
Virus:
New virus infects PCs, whacks SCO, Robert Lemos, c|net, 01.26.
"A mass-mailing virus that quickly spread through the Internet on
Monday planted a file that will instruct infected computers to
attack the SCO Group's Web server with a flood of data...."
Opinion:
There really is nothing like a 'Book, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.20. "...there are also practical reasons
to prefer laptops. It's extremely convenient to be able to take
your computer along...."
Opinion: Living
with a low-end Windows PC, Dan Knight, The Knight Line, Low End
PC, 01.19. Sometimes even a died-in-the-wool Macintosh user finds a
Windows PC the perfect solution to a problem.
Rights:
Microsoft
lawyers threaten Mike Rowe (17), Kieren McCarthy, The Register,
01.19. "Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on
17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe, demanding the
handover of his Internet domain . . . MikeRoweSoft.com."
History: This
week in Apple history, O Linzmayer, B Chaffin, Mac Observer,
01.19. Lisa, the Apple IIe, the 1984 and Lemmings television ads,
and more.
Virus: Say hello to the
Bagle Worm, Mike Kemp, The Register, 01.19. "Sunday evening saw
reports of yet another email-borne worm affecting MS Windows."
Advice: Your aging
Macs deserve better, Bill Palmer, 01.18. "Part of the beauty of
the Mac platform . . . is that you can often ignore a Mac for a few
years and it'll just keep cranking along."
History: The
Mac that roared, Jon Fortt, MercuryNews.com, 01.18. "Twenty
years ago, Apple Computer heaved a sledgehammer into the face of
the establishment with its revolutionary Macintosh."
Macinschool: Maine iBook
program extending to high schools, Macs Only!, 01.17. "This
will seriously change the way that Maine's high school students are
educated and will place many Macs into many otherwise PC-only
schools."
History: A look at
secret new Apple computer, Evelyn Richards, MercuryNews.com,
01.16. Reprint of a January 1984 article about the then-new
Macintosh computer.
Software:
Cunning Fox: New app extends laptop battery life, John
MacDonnell, O'Grady's PowerPage, 01.16. New OS X utility lets you
stop applications without quitting them, leaving more resources for
busy apps.
Advice: Upgrading
Apple eMac, Leo Bodnar, 01.04. How to overclock an 800 MHz
eMac, upgrade the hard drive, replace the CD-ROM, and add an
external monitor complete with spanning.
Software:
Apple offers AppleWorks 6.2.9 update, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
01.15. "Minor" update finally adds support for scroll wheels on
third-party mice.
Analysis: The Apple
financials report: Power Mac soars, iMac sinks, Gene Steinberg,
Mac Night Owl, 01.15. "...you have to take a long look to find
something in Apple's financial statement for the last quarter that
isn't thumbs up."
Analysis: The
H-Bomb, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 01.14. "...it's hard to
think of any company which would have been a bigger deal for Apple
to license the iPod to."
Opinion:
Marginalizing the Mac and its users, Dan Gillmor,
SiliconValley.com, 01.14. Zagat, the restaurant rating guide, and
another case of Mac marginalzation.
Opinion:
Not a Macworld wrapup column, Charles Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 01.13. "...while there's nothing much to talk about in
terms of new Apple portables, the big story right now in the 'Book
orbit is diminishing prices of older hardware."
History:
The 20 Macs that mattered most, Owen Linzmayer, Wired, 01.09.
"Twenty years after the introduction of the first Macintosh, here's
a list of the 20 most memorable Mac models."
OS X: Xgrid,
Apple, 01.08. "Xgrid turns a group of Macs into a supercomputer, so
they can work on problems greater than each individually could
solve."
Hardware:
EyeTV 200, EyeHome turn Mac into media center, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 01.06. "The EyeTV 200 features FireWire 400
connectivity and MPEG-2 based video encoding, solving the two most
frequent requests made by users of Elgato's original
EyeTV...."
Editorial: Could the iBox be the
sleeper rumor of MacWorld 2004?, Bill Palmer, 01.03. "Unlike
most set-top-box rumors . . . , this 'iBox' would actually allow
Apple's penchant innovation to interact with the television set in
a meaningful and additive way."
Rights: