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Opinion: New iMac: Bargain power or crippled and weak computer toy?, Alex Kayhill, Mac360, 08.31. "There's no expandability to speak of, it's overpriced, underpowered, and the flat panel pizza box is thick and hideous."
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."
.mac: Virex 7.5 pulled from .Mac due to 'technical issues', MacMinute, 08.31. "Apple has removed Virex 7.5 from its .Mac site due to issues users were having with the anti-virus software."
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.
Analysis: Apple files for trademarks on iWork, ProBand, and Pods, John Kheit, The Devil's Advocate, Mac Observer, 08.17. "Apple has been quite busy of late with its patent and trademark applications."
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."
Review: 3 Mac utilities: One to show, one to go, one's a no-no, Tera Patricks, Mac360, 08.11. A couple useful shareware applications - and one that just doesn't work.
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."
Advice: Turn your Mac into a picture frame, Macworld, 08.11. How to turn an old PowerBook or iBook into a digital picture frame.
Advice: Network with Bluetooth, Macworld, 08.11. How to use Bluetooth and iSync to put your calendar and address book on your supported cell phone.
Benchmarks: Early speed test results from G5/2.5 GHz MP Power Mac, Bare Feats, 08.10. "...our remote mad scientists are begining to report in with their results."
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."
News: Apple releases iSync 1.5: More devices from Sony Ericsson, Moto, Sendo, Mac Observer, 08.10. "iSync 1.5's main feature appears to be additional support for more devices, including the latest phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and Sendo."
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."
Survey: Double Poll: Most popular iLife application and browser, Mac 360, 08.09. iTunes is far and away the most used iApp, and Safari the most popular OS X browser. iPhoto and FireFox hold second in those categories.
Opinion: The art of the parlay, or: How i learned to stop worrying about platform licensing and market share, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 08.07. "Companies which compete directly against Microsoft have a tendency to go out of business quickly and gruesomely."
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.
Advice: Minimizing how often you see "Optimizing System Performance" during software installation, Apple, 08.03. "Have you ever wanted to optimize system performance just once, instead of waiting through it for each software update that requires it?"


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