Have a question?
Ask an expert!

Navigation

Used Mac Dealers
Apple History
Best Used Macs
Video Cards
Email Lists
InfoMac's Low
End Mac Forum

Favorite Sites

MacSurfer
MacMinute
MacInTouch
MyAppleMenu
InfoMac
Macs Only!
The Mac Observer
Accelerate Your Mac
RetroMacCast
PB Central
MacWindows
The Vintage Mac
   Museum

DealMac
DealsOnTheWeb
Mac2Sell
ramseeker
Mac Driver Museum
JAG's House
System 6 Heaven
System 7 Today
the pickle's Low-End
   Mac FAQ

Abandonware
   Petition

Mac vs. PC Info

Affiliates

The Apple Store
Mac Connection
MacMall
TechRestore
MacResQ
ExperCom
Crucial Memory
batteries.com

Advertise

Open Link

Mac News Today

Link Archive: December 2004

Links Around the Web

  • Opinion: Smaller not necessarily better, Leander Kahney, Wired, 01.13. "The iPod shuffle is clearly a hit, and Macworld attendees hope the Mac mini will be also, but there are worries it may be another Cube."
  • Analysis: Mac mini: What you need to know, Jason Snell, Macworld, 01.13. "...we've been gleaning what we can about the new $499 Mac from loving visits on the Macworld Expo show floor and technical discussions we've had with a few Apple officials."
  • Analysis: New iMac, iPod could bite Apple's profits, Reuters, 01.13. "Not only do the new products carry lower gross margins, but Apple's costs are also higher than that of other personal computer makers."
  • News: iPod shuffle: 20,000 sold in first 4 hours, Jeremy Horwitz, iPodlounge, 01.13. "... Apple's retail store in San Francisco sold 20,000 iPod shuffle units in its first four hours of availability this week, depleting its entire inventory."
  • Rights: Casualties mount in Apple vs customers war, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 01.13. "It doesn't make sense for them to charge us a dollar per song for a song in some format that disables us from using it with anything other than an iPod or our computer."
  • Rights: Apple sues student, Joseph M Tartakoff, Harvard Crimson, 01.12. "Apple claims that Ciarelli and his company, The dePlume Organization, broke the law when soliciting insider tips online from anonymous sources...."
  • Analysis: Headless iMac, Philip Machanick, MacIntelligence, Mac Opinion, 01.12. "The Mac mini is not as crippled as the horrible under-Performas of the 1990s. It is pretty much an eMac in a smaller box, minus keyboard, mouse and screen."
  • Opinion: A Mac for the masses, Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 01.12. "...this time, Jobs brought forth a new kind of Mac - a machine that comes with every feature of the Macs of yesteryear, except one: Sticker shock."
  • Opinion: New Apple mini looks good on paper, but hot new look still needs to prove itself, John C. Dvorak, CBS MarketWatch, 01.12. "Once this unit gets into the field and passes the tests of the real world, I'll have no trouble recommending it as a machine of choice, especially to new users."
  • Analysis: Mac mini economics: My math wasn't bad, just misguided, Jon Fortt, Jon Fortt's Technofile, 01.12. "You end up with a computer that costs Apple not $435, but $385 to bring to market."
  • Opinion: Mac mini and PCs that don't work, Jonathan Gennick, O'Reilly Network, 01.12. "I see people who are so frustrated with their dysfunctional PCs that they just shove them into a corner and forget about them. Windows PCs are just difficult for many to keep running."
  • Analysis: Mac mini a maxi deal? Depends what you want, M Kanellos, J Spooner, c|net, 01.12. "Price considerations aside, the Mac Mini is unlike other PCs on the market. [It's] far smaller and more stylish than 'small' PCs"
  • Tech: Apple VP: PowerBook G5 "the mother of all thermal challenges", Misha Sakellaropoulo, Mac Observer, 01.12. Although IBM keeps improving the G5, it's still too hot to be practical in a laptop.
  • AAPL: Apple turns $295 million profit; revenue soars to $3.49 billion, Mac Observer, 01.12. Highest quarterly revenue and net income in Apple history. Mac sales up 26% over a year ago, and iPod sales up 525%.
  • Opinion: Mac mini: Flat Cube, or Honey! I Shrunk the Power Mac!, Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS, 01.11. "The Mac mini essentially cuts the lungs out of the PC world's (and many columnists') argument about Macs costing too much."
  • News: TextWrangler: now free, and better than ever, Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 01.11. Bare Bones updates TextWrangler to version 2.0, turns it into freeware.
  • Analysis: Apple iPod shuffle poised to sideswipe portable music market, Matt Neuburg, TidBITS, 01.11. "...Apple has chosen an impressive and surprising strategy of undercutting the competition on price: a 512MB model is just $100, and a 1GB model is just $150."
  • Opinion: iWork: I, PageMaker?, Philip Michaels, Macworld, 01.11. "This initial impression could change once iWork actually ships on January 22, but the program Apple touted Tuesday seemed to put more of an emphasis on page-layout than word-processing."
  • Opinion: iPod shuffle - great software makes it possible, Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network, 01.11. "How can Apple get away with a Flash music player that doesn't even have an LCD screen? The answer: iTunes."
  • Advice: RSS and tabbed browsing in Safari, Firefox, and Camino, Wei-Meng Lee, MacDevCenter, 01.11. How to use RSS and tabbed browsing to reduce desktop clutter on your Mac.
  • History: Daniel Kottke's amazing Apple relics, DigiBarn, 01.10. Includes photos of Macintosh prototype motherboard #5. Interesting historical tidbits.
  • Opinion: Apple of thine eye, Jason Walsh, Micromart, 01.10. "In an age when being both American and a corporation is increasingly viewed with suspicion, why is this Californian computer company the subject of such devotion for so many people...?"
  • History: Mac TV, MLAgazine, 01.10. Long before Microsoft began pushing Media Center computers, Apple made a Mac with a built-in TV tuner.
  • Software: Sp@mX offers anti-phishing capability, Mac support, MacMinute, 01.10. "...Sp@mX, the company's popular software for spam source tracing and reporting, has the added support for both Macintosh and Linux, as well as the capability to track down ' phishers.'"
  • Web: Spammers tax DNS infrastructures, John Leyden, The Register, 01.10. Spam tactics "are placing a heavy load on DNS servers attempting to look-up non-existent domains."
  • Software: Opera 8.0 Preview 1 Web browser for Mac, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.10. "With this version 8, Opera on the Mac comes a lot closer to living up to, or even achieved, its erstwhile slogan: 'fastest browser on the planet.'"
  • Opinion: Can Apple learn anything from Bose?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.31. "Bose downplays specs, and, in fact, only lists the size of the unit. The manual simply concentrates on how to use it...."
  • Software: Mac OS X system maintenance utilities roundup, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.31. A whole bunch of system utilities for OS X users - many of them free.
  • Opinion: Piper Jaffray calls rumors of sub-$500 Mac "not out of the question", Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.30. "...an inexpensive Mac 'would appeal to many potential "switchers" that would likely not make the move at a $1,299 price point, but would consider a $500 product.'"
  • Advice: Three OS X annoyances and some workarounds, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 12.30. Problems with the Dock, the Trash, and Drag and Drop in Cocoa programs.
  • Virus: Windows XP users Phelled by new Trojan, Ashlee Vance, The Register, 12.30. Even those with Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed can be infected by this one.
  • Opinion: Goodbye Safari, Johnathon Williams, JohnathonWilliams.com, 12.30. "Some sites still aren't completely compatible with Safari (TypePad, for instance), and switching to Firefox each time I stumbled across one got old."
  • Opinion: Suffering the swings and arrows of outrageous customer service!, Dan Welch, OSNews, 12.30. Author rants because Apple won't sell him a SuperDrive for his older Power Mac G4 - or tell him about third-party options.
  • Dark Side: Microsoft revokes Passport service, Ashlee Vance, The Register, 12.30. "Microsoft has given up on trying to hawk its controversial Passport sign-on service to other companies...."
  • Opinion: Apple Death Knell #44: Philips Electronics buys Apple in 2005, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 12.29. "He expects Apple to need a bailout in 2005, despite the company's massive cash stockpile, growing Mac sales, growing iPod sales, and growing iTunes Music Store sales."
  • Analysis: Lessons Apple should have learnt a long time back, MaVue, Commentary on Technology, 12.29. "Anyway I look at this, the cheaper the product the better Apple does."
  • Opinion: More headless iMac nonsense: The last refuge of the delusional, Bill Palmer, BillPalmer.net, 12.29. "There's nothing lamer than finding out that there is zero real-world interest in your fantasy product...."
  • Review: Checking out iCab 3.0 beta 222 browser, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.29. Although still a beta preview release, "I'm very happy with iCab 3.0 so far after putting it through its paces."
  • Analysis: The $500 iMac will not happen, Ian Samuel, The Apple Blog, 12.29. "No one would buy an eMac at $799 when they could just get this and a CRT for less."
  • Opinion: The new Apple 914, Red Herring, 12.29. "But if Apple doesn't cater to the quickly growing low-end market segment, the Cupertino, California, company may not be able to compete in the personal computer business for long...."
  • Review: MacFamilyTree: Recommended genealogy software, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Computing with Bifocals, Mac Observer, 12.29. "You will need to give yourself a little time to become familiar with this particular application, but it is organized in a logical manner...."
  • Virus: Cyber crime booms in 2004, Mark Ward, BBC News, 12.29. 100,000 viruses - "The last 12 months have seen a dramatic growth in almost every security threat that plague Windows PCs."
  • Opinion: Grim Macintosh market share forebodes crisis, Paul Thurrott, Internet Nexus, 12.28. Why Dvorak is right in claiming Apple doesn't have a sustainable market.
  • Opinion: Apple to blossom as tech recovers, Richard Waters, News Interactive, 12.28. "The success of the iPod . . . is likely to leave Apple Computer as the only tech company with revenues of over $US10 billion ($13 billion) and a growth rate of over 20 per cent...."
  • Analysis: More crap from Dvorak, Dori Smith, Backup Brain, 12.28. "...the number of Mac users online (or at least visiting the W3 Schools site) has gone from 1.8% in March 2003 to 2.3% in December 2003 to 2.7% in December 2004."
  • Opinion: Grim Macintosh market share forebodes crisis, John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, 12.28. "Simply put, the ease-of-use and simplicity of the platform is killing it, because people cannot perceive that simplicity is ever worth MORE than complexity."
  • Tech: Virtual Apple 2, Virtual Apple, 12.28. Play old Apple IIe and IIgs games with an online emulator - but only if you use a Windows PC.
  • Opinion: 2005 in retrospect: Apple's 1 percent solution, Mitch Ratcliffe, Red Herring, 12.28. Article projects Apple will grow market share by 1% in 2005.
  • Deal: Zonet 5-port 10/100 ethernet switch for $12, dealmac, 12.28. A 5-port switch for $11.69? Great for creating or expanding a small network. Add $4.99 for shipping.
  • Review: Review of Linux on the iPod, Jordan Carder, Accelerate Your Mac, 12.27. Yes, you can run Linux on an iPod (pre-G4 only at present). This article explains why you might want to.
  • Dark Side: Free Windows software without spyware/adware, Slashdot, 12.27. "With Windows users increasingly believing that free software invariably means adware or spyware, I set out to promote good, clean, free software."
  • Spam: CAN-SPAM not seen to be effective, Grant Gross, MacCentral, 12.27. "A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in U.S. residents' inboxes."
  • Opinion: Readers weigh in on Apple and possibility of 'halo effect', T Hanrahan, J Fry, Wall Street Journal, 12.23. Email from "a significant number of people who said that the iPod, Windows security concerns or a combination of the two had made them switch to a Mac or plan to do so."
  • News: Apple Canada cuts iPod prices, Tony Smith, The Register, 12.23. "The reductions come on the heels of a Federal Court of Appeal ruling, made last week, that Canada's Board of Copyright is not permitted by the country's Copyright Law to tax MP3 players."
  • Opinion: Confessions of a PC/Windows snob, Samuel Lewis, Legal Technology, 12.22. "...the Mac has a number of advantages over Windows-based systems, not least of which is the fact that most viruses and spyware are specifically designed to exploit weaknesses in Windows."
  • History: Great moments in microprocessor history, Wade Warner, IBM, 12.22. From Intel's first 4-bit CPU to today's 64-bit contenders.
  • Opinion: Beckoned by the Mac, Scott Cabana, OSNews, 12.22. "I'm not saying everyone should get a Mac, but techs should respect the platform more."
  • Rights: Attention Apple Legal Dept: ABOSS I-Pocket rips off iPod mini in spectacular fashion, MacDailyNews, 12.22. "Introducing the ABOSS i-Pocket, a completely transparent attempt to create a facsimile of Apple's iPod mini portable music player."
  • Opinion: Subscription model to dethrone Apple iPod?, Sushubh, Tech News and Views, 12.22. Would you rather own your tunes or pay $9.99 a month so you can rent them? That's the subscription model.
  • Tech: Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature, Stephen Shankland, c|net, 12.21. "The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously...."
  • Opinion: Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear 'Books, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.21. Three sizes of PowerBooks - which is right for you?
  • Tech: Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature, Stephen Shankland, c|net, 12.21. "The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it run multiple operating systems simultaneously...."
  • History: Mac Portable, Tom, Macreate, 12.21. "The Portable was a no compromise machine, much to the delight of John Louis Gassée."
  • Opinion: Five more reasons Mac fans turn into all-out Mac lovers, Bob Levitus, Dr Mac, Houston Chronicle, 12.20. "How often do you hear Windows users proclaim such affection for their computers?"
  • Opinion: Secret's out: The absolute worst Mac you can buy, Tera Patricks, Mac360, 12.20. "It's the lowly eMac. The worst desktop computer you can buy in 2004 (according to the 10 To Avoid: The Worst Products of the Year)."
  • News: Apple subpoenas Mac rumor sites over audio product, Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.20. "A California Superior Court has granted a request . . . to serve subpoenas on three Mac rumor Web sites seeking information on who leaked facts about an un-announced audio hardware product."
  • News: Apple continues to extend iBook Logic Board program, MacNN, 12.20. Apple has again extended its iBook Logic Board Replacement program, which now runs until March 18, 2005.
  • Rights: P2P file swapping: Is the torrent about to die?, Bambi Hambi, Mac360, 12.20. "Is it possible to stop illegal file swapping with technology? Probably not. With lawsuits? Probably not."
  • Advocacy: An open request for an iTunes hack, Brian Sawyer, O'Reilly Network, 12.17. Ever tried burning a book you downloaded from iTunes to a set of CDs? Apple makes it unnecessarily difficult.
  • Review: Charles Moore checks out two backup/synchronization utilities, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.17. Two lightweight backup applications for the OS X user.
  • Rights: Canada quashes copyright tax on MP3 players, Slashdot, 12.17. "...consumers may soon be paying less for MP3 players because the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that special copyright levies applied to digital music players are not legal."
  • Opinion: Motorola Apple iPod phone imminent?, Macworld UK, 12.17. "Motorola and Apple are working together to develop a phone . . . that will be able to play back iTunes songs on the phone, including rights-protected songs . . . from the iTunes Music Store."
  • Virus: From the Dark Side--New Xmas virus clogs servers and email boxes, Macs Only!, 12.17. Same old same old. Virus installs itself, uses Windows Address Book, and spreads via email and P2P networks.
  • Opinion: The right tools for research, Barbara Gibson, Apple, 12.17. "More and more, though, we're seeing the Mac platform fits the needs of many of our research groups. Our Mac population is growing." - University of Maryland
  • OS X: Brief Hands-on Report--Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update for Client and Server, Macs Only!, 12.16. "Apple suggests that one disconnect any external FireWire drives but we didn't."
  • Software: Mellel an underappreciated Mac gem, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News, 12.16. "It's so user-friendly that you can jump right in and begin word processing away without reading the instructions."
  • Opinion: IBM Power5 Apple Power Mac bound?, Macworld UK, 12.16. "Apple's G5 processor is already a variant of IBM's Power4 processor, albeit with a single core, smaller die, lower heat and lower power consumption."
  • News: iTunes Music Store downloads top 200 million songs, MacMinute, 12.16. "Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 200 million songs from the iTunes Music Store."
  • OS X: Changing names, Dan Frakes, Macworld, 12.16. Changing a user's long name is easy in OS X, but changing the short name has been tedious - until now.
  • Rights: Unnoticed fee could raise Net domain costs, Declan McCullagh, c|net, 12.16. ICANN "is moving forward with a 75-cent annual fee for .net domains starting next year and is expected to expand the levy to other generic suffixes such as .com and .biz in the future."
  • Opinion: Pogue: iPod mini competitors lack the 'little things', MacMinute, 12.16. "When your player contains a thousand songs, you need a way to scroll through them quickly." And only Apple seems to have it right.
  • Analysis: Thurrott: Apple copying Microsoft's Longhorn search features with Mac OS X 'Spotlight', MacDailyNews, 12.15. "Delusional as usual, Thurrott attempts to write his own history, conveniently forgetting to mention Apple's Mac OS 8.5 Sherlock (released October, 1998)...."
  • Rights: MPAA lawsuits target BitTorrent, eDonkey and Direct Connect networks, Fred "zAmboni" Locklear, ars technica, 12.14. "...suits were filed [by the MPAA] on four continents against over 100 owners of BitTorrent trackers, eDonkey servers, and Direct Connect hubs...."
  • Analysis: To defrag or not to defrag?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.14. "...with OS X, it seems that defragging hard disks has become irrelevant for most users."
  • Opinion: How does he love Macs? Let him count the ways, Bob Levitus, Dr Mac, Houston Chronicle, 12.14. Five reasons Mac users love their Macs - and five more coming in Dr Mac's next column.
  • Advocacy: Bring back 'Home on iPod' for Tiger, Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News, 12.14. Once-promised "Home on iPod feature lets you store your home directory - files, folders, apps - on your iPod (or any FireWire hard drive) and take it with you wherever you go."
  • Rights: Apple fights RealNetworks' 'hacker tactics', John Borland, c|net, 12.14. With latest updates, iPod no longer supports tracks bought from RealNetworks and converted via Harmony.
  • Advice: Why not buy a backup drive for the holidays?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.14. Backup is important, and "using an external hard drive is one big part of the equation."
  • Review: The Road Warrior Review" XT-Stand folding laptop stand, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.14. "The XT-Stand will make a much-appreciated Christmas gift for any laptop owner on your list."
  • Humor: The truth about laptop infertility, Joy of Tech, 12.14. You've heard about the link between men using a laptop on their lap and infertility. Here's a different extplanation.
  • News: Toshiba to make 80GB 1.8-inch drives, Martyn Williams, MacCentral, 12.14. "One of Toshiba's best-known customers for its 1.8-inch drives is Apple Computer Inc., which uses them in its iPod family of music players."
  • Opinion: For your words only, Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 12.13. What's the best OS X tool for creative writing? Maybe MacJournal, an up-and-coming freeware program.
  • History: The evolution of scrolling: Reinventing the wheel, Joe Kissell, TidBITS, 12.13. "...within about two years scroll wheels were the norm on almost all mice - except, incomprehensibly, for those made by Apple, on the grounds that anything more . . . [seems] too complicated."
  • News: Apple bumps iCal to version 1.5.5; improves iSync in Jaguar, Mac Observer, 12.13. "The download weighs in at 7 MB, and you can find it in Software Update."
  • Tech: 802.16: Medium distance wireless networking that could change the world?, bslade, Kuro5hin, 12.12. "With ranges up to 30 miles and speeds up to 70 mbps it seems like a pancea." So where is it?
  • Dark Side: Penn State warns students off of Internet Explorer, Eric Bangeman, ars technica, 12.10. "The university did stress that students running Windows need to keep IE on hand in order to run Windows Update."
  • News: HP launches low-end PC for China, Robin Lettice, The Register, 12.10. "HP, the world's second largest producer of PCs, has begun selling a 3,999 yuan ($483) computer in China." US users can configure an HP for as little as $470 (before mail-in rebate).
  • News: PayPal now accepted at iTunes Music Store, MacMinute, 12.10. "Apple today announced that the iTunes Music Store in the US now accepts PayPal for purchases of music downloads, audiobooks and gift certificates."
  • Rights: Is this software on your hard drive?, Brad Stone, Newsweek, 12.09. "Consumer advocates . . . charge that Direct Revenue . . . secretly installs its software onto computers, designs its adware so that it reinstalls after users delete it...."
  • Opinion: My Apple shop-within-a-CompUSA experience, Steve Salas, The MacMind, 12.09. One Mac lover's experience working inside a CompUSA retail store.
  • Dark Side: Microsoft delivers blow to Mac users, RJT, BigBlueBall.com, 12.09. Yahoo! and AIM for the Mac offer video chat, but Microsoft doesn't plan to add it "for at least another several years."
  • Opinion: You know you might be a Mac user if..., Paul Murphy, Linux Insider, 12.09. Mac users seem more interested in the work they do with their computers than with the hardware itself.
  • Huh?: Adware companies suing one another over...adware, Fred "zAmboni" Locklear, ars technica, 12.08. Avenue Media sues DirectRevenue because DR's adware deletes AM's adware.
  • Opinion: There are start pages and there are start pages, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.09. "Frankly, I think I'll just make msn.com my start page for now, at least until Apple gets its act together."
  • Advice: Gifts for Macheads and Podheads, Gary Randazzo, Mac Observer, 12.09. Why you might want to consider iTrip, Delicious Library, AirPort Express, Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther, or World as Warcraft for the holidays.
  • Analysis: IBM buying Apple? No dice, Michael Kanellos, c|net, 12.08. "...directly or indirectly, IBM or its subsidiaries agree not to sell or manufacture personal computers for five years." That covers desktops, laptops, and tablet PCs.
  • Opinion: Thunderbird is go, Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network, 12.08. "Best news of all, is that everything works much faster now."
  • News: Apple pitches music industry on U2-style promos, Philip Michaels, MacCentral, 12.08. "And if Apple has its way, other musical acts will enjoy a similar promotional push as part of an effort to bolster business at the online store...."
  • Analysis: Apple Macintosh installed base set to grow again, Forbes, 12.08. "Goldman also said that for the first time in three years, the Macintosh installed based should start to grow again with unit shipments rising 10% in calendar 2004."
  • Analysis: Mac enthusiast sites hosted on Linux, FreeBSD, richm, Netcraft, 12.08. "...many prominent sites for Macintosh users are hosted on either Linux or FreeBSD." That includes Low End Mac, which is hosted with NetBSD.
  • MacInSchool: Macs find way onto university roll calls, Asahi.com, 12.08. "One after another, schools [in Japan] are switching to Macs from Windows-based computers, including the University of Tokyo, which did so in the spring."
  • Advice: Five gadgets for your Mac, John F. Braun, TMO Gift Guide, Mac Observer, 12.08. iTrip, a wireless router, iSkin eVo2, iGlasses, and MenuMeters.
  • News: IBM sells PC group to Lenovo, J Spooner, M Kanellos, c|net, 12.08. "...complex joint venture . . . will make Lenovo the third-largest PC maker in the world, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard, but still give IBM a hand in the PC business."
  • Advice: Homemade Dot-Mac: Remote control, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 12.07. How to share and access your Mac from anywhere on your network - or the Internet.
  • Advice: Six great tips for homemade Dot Mac servers, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 2003.02.04. How to share and sync files, use disk images, work with WebDAV, and use Rendezvous with Safari.
  • Advice: Homemade Dot Mac: Home Web radio, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 2002.12.13. How to use QuickTime Streaming Server (free) and iTunes to broadcast your music over the Internet.
  • Advice: Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, part 2, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 2002.09.20. Using BrickHouse to keep unwanted Internet traffic off your Mac. Using iPhoto to share your photos on the Net.
  • Advice: Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network, 2002.08.09. How to turn your OS X Mac into a Web server and let the whole world see your website.
  • Opinion: Should Apple join the other PC companies in pretending to sell a sub-$500 computer?, Bill Palmer, BillPalmer.net, 12.07. "...none of them are really selling sub-$500 computer models; they're just pretending to, in order to get you in the door."
  • Opinion: Caution: Macs aren't perfect!, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.07. Yes, Macs crash, too, so you should always have a backup and utility programs handy.
  • Tech: Panther automatic disk optimization, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 12.07. "One little-discussed or publicized feature of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) is that it utilizes not one but two types of automatic disk optimization."
  • Analysis: Firefox users ignore online ads, report says, Ingrid Marson, c|net, 12.07. "...this trend may have emerged because nontechnical Web surfers, who tend to be IE users, are more likely to click on pop-up ads by mistake, because they think the ad is a system dialog box."
  • Opinion: Benefits of an Apple-IBM 'marriage', Dennis Sellers, Macsimum Perspective, 12.07. "IBM would give the same credibility to the Mac and Apple's operating systems as it provided for the PC in the first place...."
  • Opinion: Is IBM PC sell off preparation for a Power chip attack?, Robin Lettice, The Register, 12.07. Author sees IBM abandoning the Wintel market as a first step toward marketing IBM CPUs against Intel's Pentiums.
  • Review: The PowerBook Fan Book and iBook Fan Book, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.07. "These Fan Books are intended to be guides that will show you how to unleash your Power Book or iBook's potential...."
  • Upgrade: Sonnet offers 1.7GHz G4 upgrades for Power Mac, Cube, MacMinute, 12.07. Bet you never thought a Power Mac G4 could get this fast - and for only US$500.
  • Advice: Gifts cheap on price; high in value, Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.07. A couple books, a laser mouse, a digital camera, and speakers for the iPod.
  • Software: Camino 0.8.2 released, includes many bug fixes, David Nelson, Mac Browser Watch, Mac Observer, 12.07. "Mozilla.org has released Camino 0.8.2, the latest update to its standalone, Mac-only Web browser."
  • Tech: Yin & Yang, drunkenbatman, drunkenblog, 12.06. "It's a simple tradeoff; the more secure you make something, the less convenient it will be."
  • Rights: Spyware on my machine? So what?, Michelle Delio, Wired, 12.06. "Even data entered on secure websites - such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers - is accessible to Marketscore...."
  • Opinion: Apple of IBM's eye?, Cormac O'Reilly, The Register, 12.06. "...once publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a close joint venture with Apple to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip."
  • Rights: Apple threatens iTunes.co.uk owner, Kieren McCarthy, The Register, 12.06. Unfortunately for Apple, Benjamin Cohen registered and began using the domain before Apple registered the iTunes trademark.
  • Opinion: Caution: Microsoft Windows is detrimental to your health!, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.06. "I just wonder how many jobs are lost because of problems generated by PC's riddled with spyware and viruses."
  • Hardware: Aluminum handle for iBooks, QuickerTek, 12.06. Aluminum handles for the 12" and 14" white iBooks.
  • Opinion: Let buyers be wherever, Victoria Shannon, International Herald Tribune, 12.04. "...G5 iMacs sold in the United States and Japan are one voltage only. Those sold in Europe and elsewhere can run on either 100-110 volt or 220-240 volt electricity."
  • Review: Charles Moore reviews iKey 2.0 automation utility for Mac OS X, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.03. This very powerful shareware utility works very well, but you'll need to read the manual.
  • Tech: Beating the lights, Philip Ball, Nature, 12.03. Adaptive stoplight technology could reduce waiting at red lights, speed commuted, decrease gas consumption.
  • Huh?: Intel cans Pentium II, Tony Smith, The Register, 12.03. "It's amazing to see these things are still around, but this week Intel told its customers that it is to formally discontinue production of the Pentium II at 266, 333, 366 and 466MHz."
  • Analysis: Apple Annual Report: iPod strong; education sales a major concern, Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.03. This isn't news to Mac-using educators, who are constantly under fire for choosing anything but Windows.
  • Opinion: Nightmare or dream come true: What if software was never updated?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.03. "How many updates must you download before things settle down?"
  • Rights: 10-year old settlement could undermine SCO's position, Eric Bangeman, ars technica, 12.02. 1994 settlement allows lots of Unix source code to "be freely reproduced and redistributed by others without payment of any royalties or fees and without execution of any license agreement...."
  • News: Apple launches iTunes in Canada, Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.02. "After acknowleging the company had missed the November target for the Canadian version of the iTunes Music Store, Apple Computer quietly launched the service late Wednesday night."
  • Analysis: Canadians get iTunes on the cheap, Ina Fried, c|net, 12.02. iTMS Canada "is selling songs for 99 Canadian cents, which translates to about 83 U.S. cents, 16 percent less than those in the United States pay for their iTunes."
  • Analysis: Flash Gordon, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 12.02. If Apple is going to produce a flash-based iPod, how much will it cost, how much RAM should it have, and how will they market it?
  • Opinion: The case for a flash iPod, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.02. "...by Apple's reckoning, a 1GB model would only deliver 250 songs. Maybe that's enough for a casual listener...."
  • Spam: Microsoft sues more spammers, Elizabeth Millard, Newsfactor Network, 12.02. "Citing the CAN-SPAM anti-spam law's 'brown-paper wrapper' rule, Microsoft has filed seven lawsuits against spammers who allegedly sent messages containing sexually explicit content."
  • Opinion: They do not see or hear, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 12.01. "While I'm quite pleased that Apple Computer and its products are 'in' these days, it's unfortunate that Mac myths persist."
  • Education: Newspaper columnist: No sympathy for teachers losing Macs, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 12.01. "Rich Brooks of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has no sympathy for teachers who are protesting the local school board's decision to replace its Macs with PCs running Windows."
  • Analysis: More of the same?, Christopher Breen, Playlist, 12.01. HP and Apple iPods have identical hardware, but HP has a better warranty.
  • Analysis: The Year in Review: Apple thrives in surprising ways, Sean Gallagher, eWeek, 12.01. Not only do the iPod and iTunes Music Store dominate digital music, but Apple has doubled server sales as well.
  • News: iTunes now selling Band Aid song, BBC News, 12.01. "...the single is now on sale for 79p - the usual cost of a song from iTunes - with Apple donating a further 70p to the charity for each song downloaded."
  • News: Apple delays iTunes launch in Canada; coming "soon", Brad Gibson, Mac Observer, 12.01. "Apple Computer admitted Wednesday it did not meet its self-imposed deadline of opening the Canadian iTunes Music Store by the end of November, but that it will launch the service 'very soon."


<go to the Mac News Today index>

Link Archive

2005
May, Apr., Mar., Feb., Jan.

2004
Dec., Nov., Oct., Sept., August, July, June, May, April, March, Feb., Jan.

2003
Dec., Nov., Oct., Sept., August, July, June, May, April, March, Feb., Jan.

2002
Dec., Nov., Oct., Sept., August, July, June, May, April, March, Feb., Jan.

2001
Dec., Nov., Oct., Sept., August, July, June, May, April, March, Feb., Jan.

2000
Dec., Nov., Oct., Sept., August, July, June, May, April, March, Feb., Jan.

1999
Dec., Nov., Oct., Sept., August, July, June, May, April, March