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Opinion: A bruised Apple?,
Fred Langa, InformationWeek, 3/31
Here's the article that's started a firestorm of response in the
Mac community - something Fred Langa seems to excel at.
Netiquette: The ten commandments
of email, CNN interactive, 3/31
"Keep an up-to-date address book, and never delete names and
addresses. You never know when someone will come back into your
digital life."
Hardware: Limitations on IDE drives in older Macs, Apple TIL
16335 (thanks, Accelerate
Your Mac!)
Advocacy: Pentium III only sites - time for boycotts?,
MacTimes, 3/31
"...if you don't have a Pentium III, your Internet experience will
be diminished by design."
News: Anti-spam group
dissatisfied with Senate bill, Newsbytes, 3/30
"...would require ISPs to develop lists of subscribers who
do request unsolicited commercial e-mail or 'spam.' These
lists...would then have to be made available to direct marketers
online, something [that] would not sit well with ISPs."
iMac: The state of iMac SCSI, the iMac.com, 3/30
"It looks like we are getting closer, but it has been a very long
wait."
OS: Developers
flocking to OS X Server, Applelinks, 3/30
"Third-party vendors are already supporting Apple's new server OS
with image processing, Web-browser, networking, e-commerce, email,
newsgroup, Web server, database server, media asset management,
system backup, file compression and software development tools,
with more products on the way."
iMac: Microconversions turns
iMac into ultimate game machine, the iMac, 3/30
"The Microconversions Voodoo 2 card w/3dfx support will change the
way you look at the Mac gaming platform forever."
News: Mac
incompatible web sites proliferate, MacCentral, 3/30
"Readers continue to send in complaints about Web sites that were
first only created for Intel processors, and now are being limited
to Intel's new Pentium III processor in particular."
Opinion: Age of
the disposable computer?, The iMac NewsPage, 3/30
"[$299] Webzter Jr comes with a Cyrix 300 MHz chip, a 56k modem, a
3.2GB drive, 16 MB RAM, and a year of free Internet access with
Earthlink Network. But there's no monitor, no operating software
bundled, no floppy disk drive, and no CD-ROM drive."
OS: Slate
slags Linux, Salon, 3/29
"The subject, of course, is full of land mines for a
Microsoft-owned publication...."
News: Microsoft
restructures, CNNfn, 3/29
"Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Gates insisted there
is no relation between the trial and the restructuring."
Opinion: Is
Apple the BMW of computers?, MacKiDo, 3/29
"...many of the car nuts [and] computer nuts have confused users
into making the wrong choices for all the wrong reasons!"
Rumor: Apple-CompUSA
relationship hits turbulence, AppleInsider, 3/29
"As a result of CompUSA's failure to meet basic contract
requirements, Jobs has apparently threatened to pull any and all
Apple merchandise from CompUSA locations that do not meet their
requirements by the end of the business day on March 31st."
Opinion: The case
for the 17" iMac, macchat, 3/29
"There are many reasons why a bigger iMac would be wildly
popular...."
OS: Apple
OS [X] could win some IT hearts, InternetWeek, 3/29
"It's a very stable system. The G3 servers never go down. The thing
has never crashed."
Hardware: G3 vs.
Pentium III, PC Magazine, 3/26
G3/400 handily beats P III/500 in FileMaker tests and all but one
Photoshop tests, but P III wins Microsoft Word tests.
Virus: "Melissa" email virus outbreak, MacTimes, 3/27
"If that document is opened and the [Word] macro virus is allowed
to run, it is possible for it to send e-mail to a number of other
users."
Analysis: Mac installed
base, MacInTouch
"...the percentage of Macs in the world is closer to 12%."
Opinion: Dr. Death,
MacKiDo, 2/26
"...I get offended at intellectually insulting arguments."
Advice: Speeding up your
gateway to the 'net, MacTeens
"You have loads of options today and all of them kick serious butt
over a standard modem."
(I just got ISDN at home today. It rocks - easily 3x the speed of
my 56k modem. dk)
Opinion: NT
beggars at the door, osOpinion, 3/25
"We would not be interested, as we are all Macintosh based and run
on the Mac OS. We have chosen this platform due to its maturity,
stability and extensibility."
Advice: Buying a
computer, MacKiDo, 3/25
"When should you move up the line (higher performance), or down the
line (lower cost), and why? Where are the best values?"
News: Jobs talks
portables, MacWeek, 3/24
"Apple is eyeing three markets for portable computers...."
News:
Jackson won't seek presidency in 2000, CNN interactive,
3/24
"He singled out Apple Computer as an example of a company lacking
in minority representation [on its board of directors]."
Advice: Making
a will online, My First Mac Was a Typewriter, 3/24
"...we are going to talk about personal wills and how you can use
your Macintosh and the internet to get a basic will at a very small
cost."
Opinion: A solution
for the iMac's mouse, The iMac NewsPage, 3/24
"If Apple Computer is interested, here's a simple and
cost-effective solution to the round mouse problem: replace the
present clicker with one that has a dimple for your index
finger."
Rumor:
P1, the student notebook, AppleInsider, 3/24
"The latest word from Cupertino is that Apple's Consumer Portable
is 'on track' for the rumored late-April/early-May
introduction...."
For more on the P1, read Guide To
P1 Features by Paulo Rodrigues.
Hardware: Performance,
MacKiDo, 3/24
"Many people understand simple specs, and performance changes in a
subsystems. What they don't understand is those effects on the
whole system."
Opinion:
The OS is dead; long live the OS, osOpinion, 3/24
"...OS X, as a descendant of OpenStep, is a major step toward the
disintegration of the operating system as we know it."
Dark Side: How
big is Windows 2000?, Windows Magazine
"...the new system is about twice as large as the old one [NT
4.0].
"...I can't help thinking that a system that requires over 350 MB
for the system disk files is bound to be more complicated--and less
reliable--than one requiring 173MB. And I don't know too many
people who were satisfied with NT 4.0's reliability."
Opinion: The floodgates
are opening, Macinsite, 3/23
"Apple has opened the core source code of the software to the Open
Source community. This move promises to popularize the operating
system to the development community, and will pave the way for
enhancements that Apple's already-outgunned engineering staff could
never accomplish alone."
OS: Mac OS 8.6 in-depth,
Mac OS Rumors, 3/22
"It establishes Mac OS 8 as a viable performance platform.... So,
when Veronica does ship, 6-8 weeks from now, Mac users will be able
to claim a significantly more efficient operating system...."
OS X Server:
They missed the point of OS X Server!, OS Opinion
"When combined with the new G3 Server model, it is the fastest
Apache [web] server under $5,000, beating NT4 and Linux on an Intel
450 PII by a significant margin."
News: CompUSA
Austin store reports fantastic Mac sales, PC converts, The Mac
Observer, 3/19
"What we found somewhat surprising is the fact that Blue &
White G3s have been selling very well in the CompUSA locations. In
addition, it is the high end 400 MHz and 350 MHz units that have
been moving the fastest."
OS X Server: Ten Hut!,
Tales from the Mac Side, 3/19
"What OS X should do best is what NT has been trying desperately to
do all along &endash;- bring network administration down to
end-user simplicity levels."
iMac: Key
combination to restart the iMac, MacLand, 3/19
Field report cmd-shift-power usually works on the Rev. B,
but not at all on some Rev. A machines.
