Low End Mac Link Archive, July 1999

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The Low End Mac Link Archive, July 1999

External news links are listed below by the date of publication with the most recent articles listed at the top, older ones below them. Other monthly archive indexes are linked on the right. Links were correct when originally posted. However, we cannot guarantee that these links are still active.

Opinion: A humorous look at iBook, AirPort, iTeen Online, 7/31.
News: iMac,Blue G3 win I.D. Magazine design award, Washington Post, 7/31. Next year the iBook?
OS: Linux improvements should appeal to desktop market, Cnet, 7/31. Kernel 2.4 adds support for USB, FireWire, Winmodems.
Advice: Ask Dr. Mac, Bob LeVitus, MacCentral, 7/31.
News: MacZone unit sales up 70% over last year, MacCentral, 7/30. Remember, last year the iMac hadn't yet been released.
USB: iMac Peripherals (iMac2Day), iMac Product Guide (The iMac)
Opinion: Rocket in the house, MacWeek, 7/30. "At 11 megabits per second, the AirPort is faster than a speeding bullet. Most other wireless home networking products available today only claim 1 or 2 Mbps."
Opinion: Pull the other one, John!, Applelinks, 7/30. "So why would a seemingly intelligent, thoughtful and well informed columnist regularly make foolish sweeping comments regarding the state of the Mac...."
Opinion: iBook, the machine you can handle, Applelinks, 7/30. "But there's one thing about that machine, as with every other portable on the market save the iBook: It has to be babied."
News: Free iMac offer coming next week, Cnet, 7/30. FreeMac.com plans to give away one million iMacs - with strings attached.
News: ATI Rage Orion may not work with 603e-based Macs, Accelerate Your Mac!, 7/30. ATI is working on a fix.
News: It's gotta be Sonata: Mac OS 9's new features, Mac Junkie, 7/30. Fifty new features. Fifty!
Gaming: SimCity 3000 for Mac now shipping, Maxis. $44.99 delivered from Outpost.com.
Opinion: Peaches 'n' cream appeal: For the love of a tangerine iBook, Daily Mac, 7/29.
Analysis: IEEE 802.11 in English, iMac NewsPage, 7/29. A look at the standard behind AirPort.
News: Video options for the iBook, MacCentral, 7/29.
Opinion: 'Girly' iBook not worthy of men, Polly Sprenger, Wired, 7/29.
News: Vendors prep iBook add-ons, MacWeek, 7/29.
Gaming: Voodoo3 Performance Page, Accelerate Your Mac! "...I don't think there is anything out there now or in the forseeable future that offers the kind of performance and image quality that I've seen with the Voodoo3 on the Mac."
Opinion: The Barbie fixation, Janelle Brown, Salon, 7/28. "...Dvorak's article is chock-full of sexist stereotypes."
News: Huge losses, job cuts at Compaq, Wired, 7/28. $184 million loss, 8,000 jobs cut, and $700-800 million in restructuring charges. Only thing missing from this article: the word beleaguered.
News: Apple invests $100 million in Samsung, Cnet, 7/28. This investment "is aimed at ensuring Apple has an adequate supply of displays for products such as the forthcoming iBook portable."
Dark Side: Pentium III musters 600 MHz, Cnet, 7/27. "...the introduction of Intel's 600 MHz Pentium III chip makes us wonder if even the privileged technology few need the speed."
News: iMac snags #1 sales position in June, Daily Mac, 7/27.
Opinion: The myth Of PowerBook battery time; iBook may be same, Daily Mac, 7/27. "Without processor cycling on during normal use, a more realistic battery life estimate would be three to four hours...."
Opinion: The iBook will be a hit everywhere, except my house, Macville, 7/27. "Well its only $700 more to get a laptop that doesn't look like a toy...."
iBook: New sleep & conservation modes official, Daily Mac, 7/27. "...with the iBook, several new sleep options were introduced as unique and somewhat innovative ways of saving power and boot time."
iBook: iBook pricing: Here we go again, MacBC, 7/27. "From what I have seen out of the Wintel notebook markets, the only things cheaper are no-name companies or crippled machines."
iBook: iBook: An iMac to go, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 7/26. "The most amazing aspect of the iBook, though, is its support for Apple's new AirPort wireless networking...."
Opinion: The iBook disaster, John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, 7/26. "I suppose I shouldn't say this, but I can only describe it as a 'girly' machine."
Review: ORB external SCSI drive, MacSoldiers, 7/26. "...the ORB drive does have a few quirks, but overall I'm pleased I purchased one." (You can order ORB from Outpost.com.)
Analysis/Gaming: The benchmarking of the Macintosh, GameSpot. "What is unfortunate is the relative lack of fast 3D hardware on the Macintosh."
Opinion: Apple's iBook: A Mac to go, Newsweek. "We're the only company in the industry that can take responsibility for the whole user experience."
Rumor: Lombard is here, what's next? Meet 102, PowerBook Zone, 7/26. Expect AirPort, FireWire, DVD, and more in the next generation PowerBook.
Dark Side: 54 new portables, PC Magazine. See how the iBook and G3 compare with Wintel offerings.
Analysis: Emulators, MacKiDo, 7/26. Macs can emulate Windows PCs, and now PCs can emulate Macs.
Opinion: Steve Jobs, the heart and soul of Apple, Mac Observer, 7/26. "...no longer is there any doubt that Steve Jobs is the heart and soul of Apple."
Mobility: Palm reaches "the rest of us," MacCentral, 7/25. "...the company has finally come up with a Palm that will attract the casual user: the consumer who doesn't need a palmtop but would like one."
Web: iBookOnline, third site dedicated to the iBook.
Opinion: Feels like the first time, Macworld. "A forgotten breed of Mac users has reappeared: the first-time user."
Opinion: AppleDesign?, Mac Mania, 7/24. "The industrial design team at Apple has really been outdoing themselves."
iBook: iBook in depth special report, AppleInsider, 7/23. "When you look at the big picture, the iBook rumors that were published leading up till its release were mostly correct, except for two aspects: size and weight."
iBook: Memory price tracker, ramseeker.
News: Apple market share on rise in Canada, ehMac, 7/23. A perenniel also-ran in Canada, Apple tied for market share in Q1 1999.
Opinion: iBook and iMac: sibling rivalry?, The iMac NewsPage, 7/23. "Will consumers have a tough time deciding between one and the other?"
OS: Mac OS X: destined for greatness, Xappeal.
iBook: A look at the iBook, Salon, 7/23. "Will the clamshell computers, due out in September, be the next insanely great thing - proof that Apple's here to stay?"
iBook: NewerRAM ships memory for iBook, Insanely Great Mac, 7/23.
iBook: Peripheral quick to launch memory for iBook, Mac Observer, 7/23.
iBook: dePlume's iBook Comments, Raves, and Rants, Think Secret, 7/23. "...I found that the tangerine iBook actually looked quite hip."
iBook: iBook makes it's debut, Charles Moore, Mac Opinion, 7/23. "The iBook's behemoth proportions are a disappointment to me, and it still leaves a big hole in Apple's product line where a thin, sleek, subnotebook should be."
iBook: The Addict's impressions, MacBC, 7/23. "It is by no means the crippled machine that some were expecting...."
ibook: The iBook from a gamer's perspective, MacCentral, 7/23. "The iBook is certainly an impressive machine with a good enough amount of horsepower to run most games available for the Mac without any problem."
Low End: Living the 8-Bit Dream in a 32-Bit World, NY Times, 7/22 [Slashdot]. "In a sense, their devotion to the simple machines is an active refutation of the Wintel world of quick obsolescence that frustrates many computer users."
Newton: Long live the Newton, Wired, 7/22. First time I've seen "road Apple" in print - outside of my Road Apples section.
iBook: Macworld coverage, Mac OS Rumors, 7/22. PC Card expansion? DVD-ROM possible? Faster gaming than the iMac?
News: PC Data announces Apple #3 in June, iMac #1, Mac Observer, 7/22
iBook: IBM copper chip powers iBook, Cnet, 7/22. "The new iBook laptop uses a specially designed low-power copper chip from IBM to achieve its 'all-day' battery life...."
iBook: The iBook looks to be a hit, MacCentral, 7/22. "I give it good odds of besting the iMac's record setting sales."
USB: Canon ships first multifunction printer for Macs, MacCentral, 7/22. MultiPASS includes print, scan, fax, and copy.
News: JamC@m 2.0 ships August 2, Digital Camera Resource Page, 7/23. $90 640 x 480 camera has Mac USB support. $90 - digital photography for the masses!
News: Retailers open to iBook, MacWeek, 7/22. "Retailers are eager to cash in on Apple's long-awaited consumer notebook...."
Opinion: Will AirPort take off?, MacWeek, 7/22. "...compared with current wireless LAN options, AirPort is fast, friendly and priced 'pretty aggressively.'"
iBook: iBook pricing looks extremely competitive, ZD InfoBeads, 7/21. See also The Price Is Right on The iBook Page.
Web: The iBook List, The Macintosh Guy. Begun October 29, 1998 as the CPortList, the iBook List is a place to talk about the iBook with others.
News: Apple gains despite low-cost competition, Cnet, 7/22. "For the month of June, Apple Computer maintained its No. 3 ranking in the retail and mail-order market with strong sales of the iMac...." And, by the way, the iMac was #1 in June.
iBook: iBook arrives, The iMac,7/22.
OS: Not too fast..., MacinThoughts. "After 15 years of developing and evolving the Macintosh interface, 30 million users have an OS which they are comfortable with."
Special report: Wireless networking, MacInTouch, 7/22. "The forthcoming iBook and AirPort will do for wireless networking what the iMac did for USB."
USB: Microsoft announces new Mac-compatible mouse, MacTimes, 7/22.
Opinion: iBook OK, but AirPort is another story, MacBC, 7/22. "What makes [iBook] the wave of the future is AirPort."
News: iMac TV tuner, MacCentral, 7/22. You want iMac TV? MyTV provides it on the iMac - or any other USB equipped Mac.
Opinion: Thirteen interesting iBook facts, Mac OS Planet. "The iBook offers a Save feature when sleeping or shutting down, this will take all the contents of the RAM and save them to the Hard Disk so when you wake up or turn on the unit you will have a much smaller startup time and be able to continue your work exactly how you left it before the save."
USB: Multifunction peripherals, MacInTouch special report, 7/22. Print, scan, fax, etc. with a single peripheral, although each lacks some useful features.
iBook: An in-depth look at the iBook, Mac OS Planet. "...although the price seemed a little high ($1599) to me at first it turns out to be a fair one...."
Web: iBook Zone, first iBook site launched, 7/21
OS: The net's stealth operating system, MSNBC, 7/21 [Slashdot]. "It's the software behind the world's most popular Web site and the world's most popular FTP site &emdash; but unless you're a geek, you've never heard of it."
Opinion: A hands-on look a the iBook, David Pogue, ZDNet/Macworld, 7/21. The power cord rolls into the AC adapter, which lights up!
Opinion: An iMac to go, Applelinks, 7/21.
QT-TV: Apple premiers QuickTime TV, Apple Computer, 7/21. QT-TV to provide high quality audio, video over the internet.
QT-TV: QuickTime TV introduced, MacCentral, 7/21.
Opinion: AirPort puts traffic in the air, Insanely Great Mac, 7/21.
iBook: Apple launches iBook, BBC News, 7/21. "The iBook is the 'iMac to Go' for both home and school."
Connectivity: Farallon announces SkyLine PC Card to work with AirPort hub, Mac Observer, 7/21. This will allow many older PowerBooks to use wireless networking, albeit at a slower 2 Mbps (AirPort goes to 11 Mbps). SkyLine also supports peer-to-peer networking to 1000' outdoors and 300-500' indoors.
Macworld Expo coverage (especially the iBook) on Daily Mac, MacCentral, MacInTouch, MacNN, MacOS Rumors, MacWeek, PowerBook Zone, Cnet, TechWeb, Wired, ZDNet
News: Mercury capsule found after 38 years, CNN, 7/21 [Slashdot]
News: Mac OS 9 due in October, MacCentral, 7/21
Preview: Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, MacCentral, 7/21
Opinion: Apple's biggest challenge, ZDNet, 7/21. "...Apple's biggest problem is not its ability to deliver superior technology, but its ability to deliver sales."
Consumer: iBook Price Tracker, PowerBook Central
Opinion: Catching on to FireWire, Dallas Morning News, 7/20. Camcorders, digital TVs, and more - FireWire isn't just for computers.
OS: Mac OS X Server gets enhancements, fixes, MacCentral, 7/20.
News: Windows 95 remains most popular operating system, Cnet, 7/20. "Despite the hoopla and expectations that accompanied the launch of the Windows 98 operating system, research shows that its predecessor remains the popular choice."
News: Apple, SingTel team up to bring ADSL to iMacs, iMac NewsPage, 7/20. This is the first time SingTel has offered broadband internet access for anything besides Windows.
Field reports: ORB drive, MacInTouch. Real competition for the Iomega Jaz.
Analysis: The winds of change, MacTeens. "Although the transition between old technology and new is not exactly smooth as silk, it is a necessary evil."
OS: Amazing, thy name is Ten, MacTeens. "OS X looks to be a representative for the true future of computing."
Opinion: Cheap PCs are just that, MacTeens. "I looked at it for a few minutes, then I told my mom that I would rather have a Macintosh."
Rumor: Apple lays plans for bundled DSL, Mac OS Rumors, 7/19. "Information from reliable sources indicates that Apple is currently refining its plans for bundling xDSL 'modems' as an option on all professional Macs, and perhaps also on the iMac and Consumer Portable as well."
Consumer: $129 Agfa ePhoto smile digital camera, Digital Eyes. Least expensive digital camera I've seen. But it's Windows only - anyone want to start a petition?
Review: 3dfx Voodoo2 driver performance, Accelerate Your Mac, 7/19. New driver helps Voodoo2 catch and sometimes surpass Rage 128.
Hardware: Stealth serial port replaces iMac modem, GeeThree. If you don't need the internal modem, this US$50 device lets you replace it with a Mac serial port.
Advice: Aliases, Mac 101, MacBC, 7/19.
OS: Good outweighs bad with Mac OS X Server, Byte.com, 7/19. "For starters, X Server is that Holy Grail Mac people have been begging for for years: a modern OS."
Opinion: How the net's shaky foundation puts you at risk, ZDNet, 7/19. But there's hope, with IPv6, multicasting, and more to improve the foundation.
Analysis: Why users are satisfied (or not) with their ISPs, ZDNet, 7/19. "Fast access is one of the keys to ISP customer satisfaction."
Opinion: Time to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition, Jerry Pournelle, Byte.com, 7/19. Jerry also looks at ATI Rage video.
Opinion: Inside look at Outlook Express 5.0, AppleInsider, 7/19. "Microsoft's Macintosh team is planning to capitalize by producing most powerful and feature-filled Macintosh e-mail client available to date."
Huh?: E-one, iMac ripoff or thinking different? [iMacinTouch]. No, it looks more like Apple's Power Mac G3 All-in-One (right)
More commentary on The Mac Observer.
Opinion: PowerBook G3/400: So this is the future!?, MacTimes, 7/19. "...my new machine is powerful enough to serve fine as both my portable and my main computer, and I use it as both."
Review: ORB drive, MacEase. "So, does the ORB live up to its advance publicity? Preliminary testing indicates that it does!"
Hardware: 2 Gigs to go, Mac Review Zone. Comparison of Jaz and ORB removable media hard drives.
Opinion: Will Mac OS X Client succeed?, Xappeal. "...the advantages will make themselves apparent when the Mac OS X Client version offers superior features."
Opinion: Silicon Valley can't compare to the Northwest, Seattle Times, 7/18. "Windows 95 not only matched but in several ways exceeded the Macintosh and Unix operating systems for usability and flexibility."
Advice: Do you really need the fastest processor?, Detroit Free Press, 7/18. "Consider a Macintosh, which has that smart PowerPC processor inside. I prefer my Mac to all of my PCs...." (also see How fast is fast?)
Analysis: Processor upgrades: The G4?, GraphicPower Page, 7/18. "There is still going to be some wait time for development and testing of their designs."
Advice: Ask Dr. Mac, Bob LeVitus, MacCentral, 7/17.
Review: Castlewood ORB drive, iTeen, 7/17. Fast 2.2 GB removable media drive.
Opinion: For the love of Macintosh, News-Observer, 7/17. "For Tisdale and others then, Mac is a way of life."
Opinion: Did "The Blair Witch Project" fake its online fan base?, Salon, 7/16. Are studios behind some alleged fan sites?
Hardware: XLR8 announces trade-up program, Mac Observer, 7/16.
Opinion: This time the Flavorade is sweet, I, Cringely, 7/15. With the iMac, "Apple instituted a 100 percent test policy and diverted the bad boxes before they reached customers."
Web: Applefritter, a look at prototypes and creative user hacks (be sure to look at the DLZ-3).
Opinion: The "new" PCs - Twentieth Anniversary Mac redux, Mac Upgrade. "NEC - and other companies with similar machines, such as Ergo Computing's Thunderbrick - wholesale plagiarized Apple's groundbreaking Twentieth Anniversary Mac, now 25 months old."
News: ORB drive to ship in quantity soon, MacFixIt, 7/16. "How else are you going to get that kind of removable capacity for the money?"
Advice: Upgrade Guy: sharing modems, MacCentral, 7/16.
Analysis: Some analysts can't accept it, but Apple is back, Business Week, 7/16. "The Apple product really is different from the rest of the world. It has a different look, feel, color, software."
Analysis: Microsoft monopoly costs consumers $10 billion, US Public Interest Research Group. Title says it all. Thank goodness many Mac users don't use Windows or Office.
News: WebObjects: Apple's best kept secret?, Cnet, 7/16. Apple's WebObjects is a leader in the application server market.
Schools: Good news from schools all over, MacCentral, 7/16. Peace Academy, Hillel Academy, and Luxembourg happily using Macs.
Advice: It's a Macintosh Enigma, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 7/16. Dealing with the other spam - telemarketers.
Software: Track world time with World Clock CSM, Mac Junkie, 7/16. It's one world with 24 time zones. World Clock lets you know the time in California, Australia, India, France, and Quebec.
News: National Semiconductor unveils fist PC-on-a-chip, Yahoo/Reuters, 7/16.
News: District buys new computers, auctions off old, Bay City (MI) Times, 7/15. "Nearly 100 MacIntosh computers will be up for grabs next week . . . as the school system moves to an all-PC format for consistent computing across the district." Another Mac loss, but an opportunity to buy used Macs inexpensively. (Support Macs in education: visit MacInSchool.)
Advice: The importance of having more than one Macintosh, Macville, 7/15. Consider adding a used computer if you only have one.
Rumor: PowerPC future updates, Mac OS Rumors, 7/15. Forthcoming G3 will pass 500 MHz, increase multiplier to 10x or greater; G4 may debut at 600 MHz; on-chip L2 cache likely.
Rumor: Big rumor wheel keeps on turning: P1 estimates, Mobile Teen, MacTeens, 7/15.
Huh?: Open-source Apache encroaches on Microsoft, Cnet, 7/15. "Although Microsoft firmly believes its own Web server software is better than the open-source Apache program, it turns out that the software giant has become one of many firms using Apache."
Web: MacTeens - and the Save Jon's Mac campaign. MacTeen's webmaster's dad wants to sell the Mac and go Windows. :-(
Rumor: Apple to take stab at retail with Apple Boutiques, AppleInsider, 7/15.
Advice: Isolating problem extensions: a method, MacBC, 7/15.
OS: What's it gonna Be?, Salon, 7/15. "After nine years of building an operating system, Be is going public. But has the company figured out what it wants to be?"
News: Microsoft join "free PC" fray, PC World, 7/15. $650 get you three years of MSN and a 400 MHz Windows computer - monitor not included.
User review: ORB removable drive, MacNN, 7/14. SCSI version of 2.2 GB cartridge drive now shipping.
Advice: Mac battery 101, other basics, My First Mac Was a Typewriter, 7/14. What happens when your Mac's battery dies. (See also Troubleshooting Your Mac: Battery Problems.)
Opinion: Sawtooth G4: Hopes and expectations, Mac Junkie, 7/14. "Sawtooth is expected to be more of a high-end machine than Yosemite, the codename for the blue and white G3s."
News: Amiga chooses Linux for next generation OS kernel, MacTimes, 7/14. With Mac going OS X and IBM's OS/2 out of contention, the PC world will soon be divided between Unix-like operating systems and proprietary ones (read: Microsoft Windows).
Review: PowerPrint for Networks, Macs Only!, 7/14. New ethernet version of PowerPrint allows use of parallel port printers on a Mac network.
News: Microsoft donates "state of the art" NT systems to Mac stalwart, Dartmouth, Mac Observer, 7/13. "This donation will provide us with modern infrastructure to attack the computational problems of the 21st century."
News: Iomega to Castlewood: See you in court, MacTrack, 7/13. Castlewood's 2.2 GB drive was developed by the founder of Syquest. Now that Iomega owns Syquest's patents, one has to wonder. Personally, I'm rooting for the ORB drive - Iomega needs the competition.
Huh?: UN proposes global email tax, Wired News, 7/13 [Slashdot]. "What you'd end up doing is creating a pork barrel program . . . doing very little to help the poor people of the world."
Web: MacBoot, new Mac ezine.
Reviews: ATI Rage 128 vs. ixMicro Game Rocket, Accelerate Your Mac!, 7/13. Rage vs. 3dfx chip set - which is better?
Connectivity: Cidco MailStation, PC Magazine, 7/8. Compact, lightweight, text-only email client from Cidco.
Dark Side: Merced design completed and Intel earnings fall short, Cnet, 7/13. Merced should ship mid-2000, but Intel is losing core market to AMD and others.
Consumer: Star Trek (original series) coming to DVD, Star Trek movie poll results.
Humor: Despair praises Future Power, tells world to "think same," Despair. "Twenty some odd years ago Steve Jobs stole a truly original idea from Engelbart and company at Xerox PARC. Today, Karma has come to collect the debt, with interest."
News: OS upgrade for Mac due out this fall, Cox News, 7/13. "The fall upgrade, code-named Sonata, will include major improvements to the Mac's ability to support multiple users and Web connectivity."
Advice: Simple fix for iCab 1.6a stability problem, MacTimes, 7/13.
Poll: Separated at birth, TechWeb. Weigh in on Apple vs. Future Power's iMac clone.
Opinion: G3 Mac offers speed and flexibility, for a price, Cnet, 7/13. "...that frosted look is years ahead of PC makers' attempts at looking hip by painting their systems black."
Opinion: Future Power's iMac rip-off analyzed, On the Flip Side, 7/12. "Once again Apple has shown that the PC industry is no good at creating, but skilled enough to copy, follow like a sheep, and rip Apple off."
OS: What Win2K may mean for investors, BusinessWeek, 7/12 [Slashdot]. "Will Linux blow out the candles on Windows 2000's birthday cake?"
Opinion: Multiprocessing for the masses?, Mac OS Rumors, 7/12. "...Apple may be developing a kernel-level process manager for Mac OS X that assists the distribution of processing load across the system's CPUs."
News: Apple ranked number one brand in education study, MacCentral, 7/12.
Analysis: Will FireWire come to the iMac?, Mac Junkie, 7/6 (scroll down). Actually, the question is more when than if - FireWire seems inevitable.
Advice: A better way to share, PowerBook Source, 7/12. Sharing an internet connection with multiple Macs.
AAPL: Apple #1 on Standard & Poor stock index, Mac OS Planet, 7/12. AAPL is at a six-year high and the best performing stock on the S&P 500.
Web: New standard could remake ecommerce, ZDNet, 7/12. "Tomorrow, leading e-merchants, Internet stalwarts, consumer and community advocates and even the U.S. Secretary of Commerce will announce The Standard for Internet Commerce."
OS: Why OS X Server is not running on my server, Mac Discussion, 7/12. "Pretty much the whole operating system is slower than it's BSD and Linux cousins."
OS: Mac on Linux runs Mac OS on many PowerPC-based Macs.
Connectivity: Call for IPv6 implementation renewed, Interactive Week. For more on IPv6, see IPv6: The Next Generation Internet.
Opinion: Disappearing software, part 2, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday.
News: Yahoo GeoCities fixes terms of service agreement, MacTimes, 7/12. New terms clearly state content belongs to the publisher, not Yahoo GeoCities.
News: Scores prove power of school's high-tech teaching, Ledger-Enquirer, 7/11. Each classroom has two Macs, and the school has a tech center with 24 iMacs.
Opinion: PC drones, Macville. "...they see us as eccentrics because the only platform they know doesn't deserve any loyalty."
Advice: How to turn your Mac into an entertainment center, iTeen, 7/10.
Opinion: Mac SE vs. Palm IIIx, Mulled Cider. "The Pilot, like the Macintosh, is well-conceived, fun, useful, machine."
Review: UniMouse, Macville.
Opinion: The price of Apple's innovation, Don Crabb, ZDNet, 7/9. "...the price of QuickTime innovation, along with the Herculean efforts to create Mac OS X, has been a serious lack of innovative Apple efforts in other software (or hardware) domains."
Opinion: What will and won't be announced at Macworld, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 7/9.
P1: Detailed specs for P1, Mac Observer, 7/9. Rumored heavier than Lombard, six hour battery life, 800 x 600 active matrix color screen, more.
P1: Consumer Portable design and hardware, AppleInsider, 7/9. Rumored translucent 333 MHz G3 to be named iBook.
News: Apple promoting Internet Time, Apple Computer [MOSR].
Rumor: Microsoft entering Mac peripheral market, MOSR, 7/9. Look for Intellimouse, Freestyle game pad, and more.
OS/Dark Side: Clone OS runs Windows apps, Wired News, 7/9. PetrOS designed to run on a 2 MB 486 system, handle Windows NT apps.
Web: Woz.org, about Apple's other founding Steve.
Opinion: Third Voice and the smoking gun, Andrew Zimmerman.
Web: The Apple Collection, prototypes, graphics, and lots more.
AAPL: Apple stock projected to $75, AAPL Investors, 7/8.
OS: What's wrong with Linux?, Think Secret, 7/8. "The people bandying about the idea that Microsoft is even remotely threatened by Linux are fools."
Rumor: P1 rumors building steam, MacWeek, 7/8. "...reports continue to spread across the Internet that Apple will use this month's show as the springboard for its long-awaited consumer notebook, also known as P1."
Apology: I've been fighting ISDN problems at work, which has kept me from regular updates this week. I hope that's behind me now.
News: Oregon facing school funding crunch, Access Waco. "Walk into the average classroom, and you'll see a MacIntosh computer that's 12 years old."
Huh? Lisa Emulator Project. A work in progress. (Also see our Lisa section.)
Opinion: Christmas in July, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 7/9. A Christmas list for the Macworld Expo.
Opinion: Is Future's iMac-esque PC playing fair?, About.com, 7/8. "...there have been cases, particularly when a brand image is involved, that duplicating a product has been considered illegal."
Opinion: Broadband and the future of the internet, MacBC, 7/8. Wireless internet is the wave of the future.
Opinion: Will the real iMac please stand up?, Arizona Central, 7/7. "If Apple prevails, other PC clone makers will think twice about mimicking such case designs."
OS: Mac OS X developer preview 1, Mac OS Rumors, 7/7. "...paves the way for one of the most important revolutions in Mac computing since the PowerPC processor."
Y2K: The real Y2K problem, Ottawa Computes, 7/99 [MacNN]. "Macs are so Y2K compatible that Revenue Canada specifically excludes them from its special accelerated depreciation tax rules for Y2K replacement."
Opinion: Dangling conversations, Salon, 7/7. "...my initial experiences with Third Voice had left me unimpressed with the kind of dialogue taking place."
Opinion: Apple's ISP plan may hit the mark, The Register, 7/6. "It's now well known that most buyers of consumer-oriented computers are doing so to get onto the Internet."
OS: One with everything, MacWeek, 7/6. "The Mac OS - Apple's brand - relies heavily on that ease of use, look and feel. It's been that way all along."
Opinion: Confessions of a Mac bigot, the iMac, 7/6. "...like some Mac users, I often defended the Mac with my heart instead of my head."
Poll: Does Apple have a case against the iMac lookalike?, ZDNet.
Benchmark: Browser Shootout, Mac Speed Zone. IE vs. Netscape vs. iCab.
Preview: FileMaker Pro 5, AppleInsider, 7/6. New look better matches Office 98, for better or worse.
Opinion: The Apple internet plan revisited, MacBC, 7/6. "Rumors are flying around that Apple is going to launch its own ISP and portal page."
Opinion: Why advertising on the internet sucks, Mac Observer, 7/6. "I think advertising is an unavoidable phenomenon on the Internet."
Web: Grand re-opening of The Mac Junkie
Web:Apple's portal? [Macs Only!]. Not very exciting, but when you install a Mac-supplied browser, this is your default page.
Connectivity: MacRevolution.com now serves 48 states, much of Canada.
OS: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarked [Slashdot]
Hmm: Geek unions?, Jon Katz, Slashdot, 7/6. What if high school geeks were to organize and promote their interests in our schools?
Opinion: P1's not quite at work, Dr. Tim Hillman, MacCentral, 7/5. "P1 has got an important job to do for Apple, and the quicker it can get around to it, the better off the company is going to be."
OS: A tale of two sytems, Daemon News. Linux and BSD Unix compared.
OS: Linux and OS politics, MacWEEk.com, 7/1. "Despite its rise in popularity, today's Linux is hardly a mass-market OS."
Hardware: Upgrade-challenged G3 card shoot-out, MacNN, 7/1. G3 upgrades for 4400, 5400, 5500, 6500, 6500, TAM, PowerBase, StarMax.
Review: Railroad Tycoon II, Applelinks. "Railroad Tycoon II is the type of game that you spend far too much time thinking about when you should be doing real work."
Hardball: Apple sues Future Power, Apple Computer, 7/1. Apple goes after iMac knock-off, MacWeek, 7/1. Apple files suit againist iMac-clone maker, MacCentral, 7/1.
News: Australia passes draconian internet censorship law, MacTimes, 7/1.
Web: Mac Game Shareware News, new site
Rumor: Apple preps G4 prototypes for developers, AppleInsider, 7/1.
News: Mac OS 8.7 goes beta, AppleInsider, 7/1.
News: Dartmouth again recommends Macs, MacCentral, 7/1.
Advice: Hard drive specification primer, Ask Dave, Mac Observer, 7/1. IDE, EIDE, ATA, and all that.
Opinion: Spam attacks, MacKiDo, 7/1. "...spammers prey on people and assume that they will be so impassioned by the message that they will drop all skepticism and reason, and any rudimentary research or thought, and forward the message...."
Rumor: Prediction: Apple-branded PDA for Macworld, Macs Only!, 7/1.
Rumor: Apple's on-again, off-again Portable - on-again?, ZDNet, 7/1.

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