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Opinion: Throwing
out the iBook with the bath water, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 04.30. "...there was really nothing wrong with her iBook that
a little instruction and a small amount of configuration couldn't
repair."
Analysis:
Apple's chip pain will ease - later, Alex Salkever, Byte of the
Apple, BusinessWeek, 04.28. "...IBM is struggling to produce
cutting-edge G5 chips of sufficient quality in sufficient quantity,
and the upper half of Apple's hardware lineup is in limbo."
Opinion: What I
like about Windows: USB Disk, Heng-Cheong Leong, My Apple Menu,
04.28. "This is how I remove my USB disk from my Windows machine...
Mental check that I am no longer using the USB disk. Remove the
physical disk."
Apple:
Pepsi's iTunes promotion goes flat, Ina Fried, c|net, 04.28.
Apple Computer said Wednesday that about 5 million free songs have
been given away through a Pepsi promotion, far fewer than the 100
million tracks that could have been redeemed.
OS X: Six
months and counting, Gene Steinberg, The Panther Report, Mac
Night Owl, 04.28. "Why are user experiences so inconsistent? Is it
Apple's fault? Yours? The fates?"
Software: Apple releases
QuickTime 6.5.1, MacMinute, 04.28. Lossless audio codec uses
about half the storage space of uncompressed audio, significant
improvements to AAC encoding, enhanced support for iTunes 4.5 and
other QuickTime-based applications.
Advocacy: Now is
the time for a low-cost, low-end Mac, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum
Perspective, 04.28. "...Apple should seriously consider looking
beyond the short-term view (immediate profits) for the big picture
(long-term growth through increasing the sheer number of Mac
users)."
News: iTunes turns one; 70
million songs sold, MacMinute, 04.28. iTunes has become "the
number one online music service in the world with more than 70
percent market share of legal downloads for singles and
albums."
Software:
iTunes 4.5 adds iMix, videos, trailers, more, Jim Dalrymple,
MacCentral, 04.28. Apple adds free weekly downloads, a way to share
your playlist, music videos, video trailers, and more.
News:
Apple makes 'iTunes on Campus' push, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
04.28. "Apple is reaching out to colleges and universities with its
. . . iTunes on Campus institutional licensing program. The program
enables [institutions] to distribute iTunes at no cost...."
Advice: Mac
OS X and Zip disks, Damien Barrett, MrBarrett.com, 04.27.
"We've almost universally stopped recommending that students buy
Zip disks for their data storage because of these persistent and
catastrophic failures."
Opinion: Ways to
start moving those Power Mac G5s, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum
Perspective, 04.27. "However, though it's selling well, the G5's
numbers aren't quite as high as Apple anticipated. That needs to
change."
Humor: Mad
Macs and the unshredder, Michael Swaine, O'Reilly Network,
04.27. "...just in case Apple has to change its name, I've come up
with a few suggestions."
Software: In depth: iTunes
4.5, Jim Heid, Macintosh Digital Hub Site, 04.27. "For the
first time, iTunes has a Print command: you can now print jewel
case inserts and song lists."
Opinion:
Just work? I wouldn't expect less from my Macs, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 04.27. "Every Mac I've purchased,
from the Mac Plus back in 1992 to my 15 month-old iBook is still in
the family, and they all still just work."
Opinion: The PC: As
distinctive as a VCR, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 04.27.
"How do you convince a PC user that the Mac is something more than
a fancy-looking, overpriced PC?"
OS X: Firewire Panther bug,
Mac Maps, 04.26. "Special note for 10.3.3 users: a driver change in
10.3.3 may cause some Firewire and USB devices to no longer be able
to mount that were in previous Mac OS X versions."
History: Father
of the iPod, Leander Kahney, Cult of the Mac, Wired, 04.26.
"...Fadell designed the iPod as an independent contractor and
shopped it to Apple, which hired him to bring it to market."
News: Intel
to launch 3.6 GHz P4 in June, Tony Smith, The Register, 04.26.
Wow, they're even calling one the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - and
finally reaching 3.6 GHz one whole year after shipping 3.2 GHz
P4s.
Opinion: Bill buys a new Mac: A
dozen things I love about my new PowerBook, Bill Palmer,
BillPalmer.net, 04.26. "...fears expressed by some readers that the
1280 x 854 resolution on a fifteen inch screen would make things to
small for me to see them, turned out to be completely unfounded.
It's perfect."
Opinion:
Are they for real?, Vern Seward, Just A Thought, Mac Observer,
04.26. "...I dislike Real Player for the same reason I dislike
slimy used car salesmen, pushy phone salesmen, PC snobs, and
religious zealots (which are indistinguishable in my
book)...."
Opinion: Ten
bizarre myths about the eMac that need to die, Bill Palmer,
BillPalmer.net, 04.23. The eMac "manages to meet the needs of about
ninety percent of all consumers, at a price that fits within ninety
percent of those budgets."
Opinion: Will
Apple's Power G5 sales ever meet expectations?, Gene Steinberg,
Mac Night Owl, 04.23. "...when you look at the desktop computer
that the majority of Windows users own, the Power Mac seems in
another league."
Opinion: Is there
a magic formula to increase Apple's market share?, Gene
Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 04.22. "I don't think the status quo is
good and Apple ought to be spending as much on ads extolling the
advantages of the Mac as on cute animated spots selling
iPods."
Opinion:
I am synced. The beauty of iSync, Sean, Apple-X.net, 04.22.
"...iSync, coupled with a .Mac account, is quite an optimistic bit
of technology, developed expressly, it seems, for rarities such as
myself [who have Macs in two locations]."
Software: Fire 1.0: Multiple
chat-client compatibility, Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac,
04.21. After 14 months of development, this multi-client IM program
(works with AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo) has reached full
release status.
Opinion: BusinessWeek:
Apple needs to lower prices, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
04.21. "...Apple should dip into its margins, the highest in the
industry, and lower prices in order to grow the Mac's market
share."
Review: iCab X
2.9.8 Web browser and a peek ahead at iCab 3, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 04.21. "...overall, I love the rock-solid
predictability and dependabiity of iCab. When I just want to get
some work done on the Web, it's the one I use."
Opinion: Bill buys a new Mac: The
best laid plans..., BillPalmer.net, 04.21. "...by going with a
laptop, I'm opening the door for opportunities that otherwise
wouldn't be there."
Opinion:
Apple spruces up the 'Books for spring, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 04.20. "Generally speaking, all of these
machines represent the most performance per dollar that's ever been
available in Apple portables...."
Opinion: CD
checks are burdensome to road warriors, Peter Cohen, Macworld,
04.20. "...laptop owners who play games on their computers suffer a
problem that the rest of us don't have to worry about too much -
making sure they bring their discs with them when they play."
Advocacy:
Set iSync free, Bynk Zone, Generic Mac Stuff, 04.19. "...thanks
to Apple not opening up the iSync and other synchronization APIs,
there's no way to easily and automatically share data between
applications."
Opinion: A-O-hell for
Mac OS X, Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, 04.18. "...if you call a
Mac OS X tech at AOL, they'll tell you the last 20 people they
talked to just complained of the same issue."
Opinion: Bill buys a new Mac: The
old desktop vs. laptop conundrum, BillPalmer.net, 04.16. "... I
have the funniest of feelings that Apple will manage to whip out
even more new Mac models just in time to turn all my research so
far into theoretical dust."
Opinion: Why Apple's
faithful will not prevail, Nick Clayton, The Scotsman, 04.16.
"What impresses me is how Apple has managed to create an almost
religious following for another one of its products, replicating
its success with the iMac and other computers."
Opinion: Apple and
Real? Just say no, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 04.16. "Since
Apple presently owns the digital music player and music download
market, does it have any incentive to open its crown jewels to a
third party?"
News:
Real seeks musical duet with Apple, Laura Rohde, MacCentral,
04.15. Real wants to work with industry leader, adopt Fairplay
rights management, give the iPod a broader base, update RealPlayer
for AAC, and snub Microsoft.
Opinion: Bill buys a new Mac:
There's no "I" in iMac, or is there?, BillPalmer.net, 04.15.
"...here's what's wrong with it: first, and I can't believe that
they did this, the 15 inch iMac does not come with a SuperDrive,
despite being $200 more expensive than an eMac that does."
AAPL: Apple's
financials: The good and not so good, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 04.15. "The sales mix continues to favor portables in
increasing numbers, with some 48 percent concentrated in the iBook
and PowerBook."
Opinion: For
Apple, success is spelled 'i-P-o-d', Brad Gibson, Mac Observer,
04.15. "...Apple announced Wednesday that for the first time, the
company sold more iPod and iPod mini portable digital-music players
in the second-quarter than it did Macs."
Opinion: Does Apple
need resellers?, Steve McCullough, Inside Apple, 04.15. "Given
that Apple has a paltry (but growing) retail presence, it seems
obvious that resellers are crucial to the distribution of Apple
products."
Opinion:
Can Apple convert iPod sales into CPU sales?, Forbes, 04.15.
"... the computer maker still needs to make structural changes on
the cost side in order to compete more profitably against Dell and
others over the long term.'"
Opinion: Bill buys a new Mac: How
did it ever get this confusing?, BillPalmer.net, 04.14. "...the
eMac was very successful, so much so in fact that when LCD prices
never did come back down, Apple was compelled to make the eMac
available to the general public."
AAPL: Apple's
Q2 success seen through all segments, Brad Gibson, Mac
Observer, 04.14. "From handheld music players to walk-in, retail
stores, the PC maker with the smallest market share is having big
time success."
Opinion: Don't
forget the basics, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 04.14. The
eMac may not be cutting edge technology, but it is a great
value.
Opinion:
The 1 GHz Pismo, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion,
04.13. "The Blue Chip G3 1.0 GHz Pismo . . . adds another
attractive alternative to the already rich choice of processor
upgrade options for the Pismo PowerBook."
OS X: The
Great Panther Disaster of 2004, Jeffrey Zeldman, The Daily
Report, 04.12. "...I discovered a couple of Apple design decisions
that make sense under normal circumstances but turn problems into
disasters when things go wrong."
Virus:
The Great Mac Trojan Horse Conspiracy Theory, Gene Steinberg,
Mac Night Owl, 04.12. "...without an immediate threat to the Mac,
the sales of [virus] software have probably suffered quite a
bit."
Tech: Processors:
The road to tomorrow, Richard Fisco, PC Magazine, 04.09. "Apple
and IBM are playing their dual G5 plans close to the vest.
Speculation is, however, that they will move to a 90-nanometer
(90-nm) process and possibly a dual-core design."
Review: Launchers
for Mac OS X, Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 04.09.
LaunchBar, Butler, Quicksilver, an other keyboard-based launchers
for Mac OS X.
Huh?:
A pink iBook is a girl's best friend, Leander Kahney, Cult of
Mac, Wired, 04.09. This is the iBook that should have appeared in
Legally Blonde 2 instead of a pink Windows laptop.
Rights:
Labels
seek end to 99¢ music per song download, Andrew Orlowski,
The Register, 04.09. "...the major five labels think that 99 cents
per song is too cheap, and are discussing a price hike that would
increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song."
Opinion: Anyone who uses "Mac"
and "marketshare" in the same sentence is a big fat idiot, Bill
Palmer, BillPalmer.net, 04.09. "...while increasing the total
number of Mac users is vital to the ongoing prosperity of the
platform, and it's one of Apple's stated goals, 'marketshare' has
absolutely nothing to do with it."
Tech: Chip
start-up boosts Wi-Fi rate by '10-20 times', The Register,
04.09. "The Engim chipset . . . can use the three non-overlapping
[channels] in parallel, increasing total throughput...."
Advocacy: Shift,
if not switch, Kennedy Brandt, RAMblings, SuperMac Insider,
2003.10.17. "I don't personally know anyone who has simply
switched. I do, however, know a number of people who have shifted
their computing platform...."
Opinion: A two-button
scrollable Apple mouse?, Gregory Ng, Apple|Matters, 04.08.
"...we shouldn't have to resort to third-party mice and hacks. I
don't want a different brand of mouse sitting on my desk. I want an
Apple one."
Advice: Reduce
CPU usage of apps by hiding their windows, Mac OS X Hints,
04.08. "By hiding apps, you can reduce the number of CPU cycles
they use as OSX no longer has to re-draw their windows when
something changes."
Virus:
Mac OS X trojan horse infects MP3s, Slashdot, 04.08. Trojan
masks itself as an MP3 file, thanks to Apple's abandonment of
metadata, but so far it's only a "proof of concept."
Virus:
The first Trojan horse virus attacking Mac OS X?, Rob
McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 04.08. This Trojan horse, MP3Concept
(MP3Virus.Gen), exploits a weakness in Mac OS X where applications
can appear to be other types of files.
Virus: Why do they
tolerate this abuse?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 04.08. "I
don't know about all those companies being hurt because of their
dependence on Windows, but I would start looking for alternatives
real fast."
Dark Side:
Gateway to close retail stores, Gateway, 04.01. No joke.
Gateway will close all retail locations effective April 9,
2004.
Humor: Mac
virus attacks Windows PCs, Macworld UK, 04.01. "...Maccy.C
tries to disable Windows software on infected computers, replacing
it with a version of Mac OS X."
Humor: Apple
logo found on Mars, Macworld UK, 04.01. "Stunned space
scientists were reeling last night after stumbling across a
startling new formation on the surface of Mars - a crater
resembling the Apple logo."
Huh?: Google launches
email, takes the Bill Gates defense, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 04.01. "Google will use its feted scalability skills to
take on Yahoo! in the email business, according to the New York
Times."
Humor: Intel's
Itanium rockets to 64-bit shipment lead, Ashlee Vance, The
Register, 04.01. "After more than a decade hawking the Itanic chip,
Intel has managed to unseat IBM, Sun Microsystems and HP as the
leading 64-bit processor vendor."
Rights: