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Opinion: The new
iMac: One thing too many, Hadley Stern, Apple Matters, 08.31.
"The new iMac is a perfect machine for someone who wants it all, a
computer and a display. But a lot of us have old monitors...."
Advice: Use Sony Vaio
WiFi card in iBook!, Macinside, 08.31. Sony's Vaio PCWA-C150S
802.11g Wireless Lan PC Card is exactly the same as Apple's AirPort
card - and it may cost less.
Advice:
WallStreet hinge repair saga, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
Mac Opinion, 08.31. "Jacek Rochacki...has submitted an illustrated
chronicle of how he replaced the broken hinges in his WallStreet
with better ones of his own design and hand craftsmanship."
Software: ATIccelerator
II, Thomas Perrier, 08.30. OS X 10.3 utility "can change ATI
graphics cards frequencies live, on-the-fly...." Use at your own
risk.
Opinion: TiVo
and the Mac, Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network, 08.30. Want
to burn your TiVo recordings to DVD? Forget the Mac and get
yourself a PC.
Review:
The best text editor on the planet, Jack D. Miller, Mac360,
08.27. Why you want a text editor for editing code - and which text
editor is worth owning a Mac so you can use it.
Opinion:
The best and worst of AppleWorks, Bambi Hambi, Mac360, 08.26.
AppleWorks don't get no respect, but it's an elegant, very
practical applications that does enough for most users.
Review:
FTP - file transfer options for Mac OS X, Tera Patricks,
Mac360, 08.25. "Transmit is so good at what it does (transfers
files) that's it's hard to image what kind of improvements they
could come up with...."
Review:
Macintosh backups just became easier, Craig Crossman, Computer
America, 08.23. "...the makers of SuperDuper! defines the program
as a 'Heroic System Recovery For Mere Mortals' and . . . I'd say
that's an accurate description."
Advice:
OS X in a Windows world, Joshua Gliddon, Australian PC World,
08.19. How to use a Mac in the workplace, even if the workplace is
all Windows.
OS X: Mac OS X Tiger to
support resolution independent UI, larger icons, OSNews, 08.23.
"The next major release of the Mac OS X operating system will
include technology that will eventually grant users more control
over the way application windows are displayed to the screen."
News: .mac
users get Virex 7.5, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 08.23. No OS X
viruses yet, but at least we can have up-to-date antivirus
software.
Opinion: Are Macs too
expensive?, Sandy McMurray, Corante, 08.19. "It seems obvious
that the company has no interest in competing in the low end of the
market. Simply put, there is no cheap Macintosh."
Opinion: The summer
of my browser discontent, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 08.18. Firefox, iCab, Safari, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera,
OmniWeb, Shiira - how come no single browser seems to be just
right?
News: New PowerPC
G4 to debut in October, Mac Observer, 08.18. Motorola is
preparing to show a dual-core G4 with speeds reaching the 2 GHz
mark.
Review:
Keynamics wheeled laptop stand, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
Mac Opinion, 08.17. "...for the legions of laptop users who operate
mainly in desktop substitute mode, it's a solid and substantial
piece of engineering unlike anything else on the market."
Opinion:
Why iSync is cool. What it really needs, Jack D. Miller,
Mac360, 08.15. "I'd like to see iSync help sync the Home directory
to other Macs, select files to .Mac, and certainly to an
iPod."
Apple: Euro
filing reveals Apple 'handheld computer', Tony Smith, The
Register, 08.13. "Apple has filed for a European design trademark
which may provide a tantalising glimpse of the company's
long-awaited tablet computer."
Review: Hush ATX
silent PC, The Register, 08.13. If Apple wants some ideas on
designing a compact, quiet, headless consumer PC, the aluminum Hush
PC could give them some good ideas.
Spam:
Spam: Born in the USA, Gregg Keizer, InformationWeek, 08.12.
"Based on analysis of the spam it blocked for its 1,000-plus
clients during May, June, and July, message filtering firm
CipherTrust said that 86% of all spam originated in the United
States."
Opinion:
Should the iPod/iTunes club be exclusive?, Vern Seward, Just a
Thought, Mac Observer, 08.11. "Apple could license FairPlay and
pretty much establish itself as the de facto standard for music
downloads."
Advice:
Fax from your Mac, Macworld, 08.11. "You can fax directly from
your Mac with just a few tools: a scanner, a modem, a phone line,
and the faxing capability built into Panther (OS X 10.3)."
Advice:
Build your own music server, Macworld, 08.11. "...how to
install a larger hard drive in your server Mac (we used a Power Mac
G4), move music to it, and share the library."
Opinion: Handtop
paradigm shift, Handtops.com, 08.10. "People are salivating at
the mouth in anticipation of being able to do all the things their
desktop or laptop can do, but in a pint-sized format."
News: Apple
posts Java update, MacMinute, 08.10. "Apple has released Java
Update 1.4.2 Update 1, which provides support for JDK 1.4.2_05,
improved behavior for applets in Safari, an increased stability for
desktop Java applications."
Opinion: Best Mac laptop
ever?, John Nemerovski, Nemo Memo, MyMac, 07.19. "...I
pronounce my Blueberry FireWire G3 iBook 366 the best Mac laptop of
all time."
Opinion:
It was the best of 'Books; the worst of 'Books, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 08.10. "In my estimation, the
iBook became a legitimate front-line Road Warrior with the
September, 2000, speed bumps to 366 MHz and 466 MHz...."
Dark Side:
Windows of vulnerability no more?, Stephen H. Wildstrom,
BusinessWeek, 08.10. "Many of the most significant changes in SP2
affect the Internet Explorer Web browser, which has emerged as the
source of Windows' most serious vulnerabilities."
Rights:
US bars
backdoor pop-up adverts, BBC News, 08.10. "According to the
FTC, the pop-ups sent by D Squared could appear even when a user
was not actively web browsing."
Deal:
Apple gives
money for old Macs, Macworld UK, 08.10. Apple UK is offering
businesses a rebate on old Macs if they trade them in for new
models - up to £540.
Opinion: Why Windows isn't
quite ready for the desktop, Brian Davis, OSNews, 08.09.
"...what it typically boils down to is not that Linux desktops are
hard to use, but that they are merely different. Change is hard on
people, and it colors their opinions."
Dark Side:
Windows XP SP2 in release, Slashdot, 08.09. "Service Pack 2 for
Windows XP has been released.... At ~ 250 megs, the download is
big, and Microsoft will be offering the option of getting it on
CDs."
Analysis: Mac keeps lead
on Linux, Leander Kahney, Wired, 08.09. "While Linux machines
are shipping in ever greater numbers, especially to giant markets
like China, the vast majority are stripped of Linux in favor of
pirate copies of Windows, experts say."
News: Apple
updates Mac OS X to 10.3.5: Blueooth, FireWire, Mail, more,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 08.09. "The new update includes a
variety of bug fixes and new features, including improvements to
Bluetooth, FireWire, Mail, Image Capture, font support, and
more."
Opinion: Apple,
if you remove a software update, explain, MacFixIt, 08.05.
"Such actions leave Mac users who have already installed the update
wondering what was so wrong with the software that it needed to be
pulled from distribution...."
Rights:
Click at your own risk, Fairfax Digital, 08.05. "Anyone who has
copied songs from a CD onto an iPod or computer hard drive has
fallen foul of Australian copyright laws, which critics argue are
failing to keep pace with technological change."
Rights: Report:
iMovie strips FairPlay DRM from iTunes songs, MacNN, 08.05.
"Apple's iMovie can be used to strip the FairPlay digital rights
management protection (DRM) on iTunes songs, according to a report
by German news site Macnews.de."
Opinion:
Bargain Power: A $799 Mac with power to burn, Tera Patricks,
Mac 360, 08.04. "For $799, you get everything a Mac has to offer.
And everything that Unix has to offer (power, dependability,
stability, flexibility). All rolled into one. Point and
click."
Rights: Penguin
and the great katie.com hijack, Kieren McCarthy, The Register,
08.04. "...Penguin has built the Katie.com 'brand' with full
knowledge that it did not own the domain so blatantly alluded
to."
Opinion:
Are G3 'Books still up to the job?, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 08.03. "There are hundreds of thousands of G3
PowerBooks and iBooks out there doing 'the job,' whenever it
happens to be, splendidly for their owners."
Opinion:
The "Big Mac" supercomputer biz, BusinessWeek, 08.03. "UCLA's
software is a major reason why there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of
smallish Apple clusters around the world."
Tech: PowerPC on
Apple: An architectural history, part I, Jon "Hannibal" Stokes,
ars technica, 08.03. The history and technology of the PowerPC 601,
603, 603e, 604, and 604e CPUs, from 60 MHz to 350 MHz.
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