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Low End: PowerBook 100 series retrospective, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10/31. Nine years of PowerBooks - this is where they got their start.
Opinion: Apple, where is our mid-range Mac?, Stefano Scalia, Getting Critical, Mac Mind, 10/31. As we said last week, Apple needs something between the iMac and Power Mac G4.
Opinion: Group thinking & the Macintosh explained, Michel Munger, 10/31. "What? Us? Guilty of group thinking? You read it right."
Low End: Shobaffum's Macintosh IIci Page, Al Brower. Includes helpful notes such as, "neither the Sonnet '040 accelerator or the Micromac '040 accelerator a can run in 24-bit mode."
Analysis: Email fosters misunderstandings at the office, Sarah Shafer, Washington Post, 10/31 [Win98 Central].
Star Trek: Review of Where No Man Has Gone Before, Dan Knight, Digital-Views.com. We're starting a new site to review DVDs and VCDs.
Profile: Dr Bott LLC, MacDirectory. "A niche player in a niche market," Dr Bott distinguishes itself with superior products. Congratulations, Eric!
Opinion: Death of a Macintosh, Julie Fugett, Hissyfit, 10/30. UPS shipping vs. an LC 580 - guess who won?
Opinion: The age of everyman tech: Bill Cosby lied. Classic was better, John Holmes, osOpinion, 10/30. "I am interested in whether OS X behaves like a Mac, not a Unix box, and certainly not NeXT...."
Upgrades: Sonnet releases new 7200 upgrades, Brad Gibson, MacCentral, 10/30. One has 400 MHz G3, the other has a 400 MHz G4.
Advice: How to repair a disk directory so damaged your Mac want's to initialize the disk, Ask Al, Alsoft.
Web: The pickle's ResEdit hacks, Chris Lawson, 10/29. Some interesting AIM and IE hacks, among others.
OS X: OS X with G3 upgrade cards, OS X Talk, 10/28.
Deal: Star Wars Trilogy on VCD, CoolVCD. Not available on DVD. First Video CDs mastered using THX process. Preorder for just US$26.88 plus shipping. Works with most CD-ROM and DVD drives.
MacInSchool: Los Angeles school gets 140 iBooks, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 10/27. School leasing iBooks for all 140 ninth graders.
Advice: Search Engines: A quick start to getting high placements, Nancy Johnson, The Webmistress, Applelust, 10/27. Not just how to get listed, but also how search engines work.
Opinion: Where's my perfect laptop?, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 10/27. "I want a small, thin, and light machine. It can have a smaller display, but give it a reasonable resolution (not 800 x 600)."
Analysis: Not another "Windows is not so bad" article, Doc Hillman, But I Digress, Mac Observer, 10/27. "Intuition is an important consideration in these conversations, because intuition is at the center of the platform debate."
Review: FireWire PCI cards, Stephan Somogyi, Macworld.
OS: Classic Mac OS vs. Mac-on-Linux, Michael Cyloe, ResExcellence, 10/27. How does Classic under OS X compare with Mac-on-Linux? You may be surprised.
Dark side: Microsoft says hackers broke into its network, Yahoo/Reuters, 10/27. Who said Windows wasn't a secure server environment?
News: Quark founder retires, pledges fortune to gay rights, 10/26. Does this mean anti-gay Quark users will be switching? Hmmm.
Opinion: Blue Man Group doesn't use Pentium III, MacSlash, 10/26. Intel shills use Blue G3. Add your comments to the dialog!
Advice: PowerBook G3 hard drive upgrade, Ian Pun. How to replace the hard drive in "any PowerBook G3 models."
Review: G4 Cube & Cinema Display, John Siracusa, Art Technica, 10/26. Perhaps the longest Cube review yet, and worth every page. Reviewer understands the Cube's market.
Advice: A few more tips for new users, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 10/25. Extensions Manager, the Apple Menu, and dealing with lockups.
Web: Creative Mac, a very nice, very different, very professional layout.
Web: OS X Talk launched, another site based on Slashcode - but this one has a very clean, less cluttered look.
OS X: Public beta on 604 machines, MacSlash, 10/25. Kernel compiled specifically for 604-based Power Macs.
Review: SANcube, Misha Sakellaropoulos, Reviews.MacNN, 10/25. "Micronet's SANcube is a FireWire storage area network (SAN)...."
Analysis: What global language?, Barbara Wallraf, Atlantic Monthly, 11/00 [Slashdot]. English is #2 native tongue, #1 second language around the world.
Humor: Some office madness, The Usual Bucket. Dedicated to anyone who has to work in an office.
Low End: The pickle's Low-End Mac FAQ, the pickle, christened 10/25. The pickle's FAQ answers the most common questions about 68K Macs.
Opinion: Test drive musings of a (slightly wavering) OS X skeptic, Charles W. Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 10/25. "While OS 9 is pretty stable on my PowerBook, I am looking forward to protected memory and preemptive multitasking with OS X. I just hope the new interface doesn't slow down my work too much."
First look: Voodoo4 4500 PCI, Games.MacNN, 10/25. "The card basically matches the performance of the Voodoo5 in 640 x 480 and 800 x 600...."
News: AT&T divides by four, CNNfn, 10/25. AT&T Consumer, AT&T Business, AT&T Wireless, and AT&T Broadband - business as usual or a change for the better?
News: Cybercrime treaty targets hackers, MSNBC, 10/24 [Slashdot]. "European Union nations, and perhaps even the United States, are about to make nearly any form of hacking &emdash; even security research &emdash; illegal by treaty."
Hmm: Blue Man Group uses Macs, Apple. You know, the guys doing the ad for Intel's Pentium III processor - they use Macs.
Again: New Intel TV ads "complete crap," The Register, 10/24. "...the central characters in its latest TV ads are Power Mac users and feature large on Apple's website."
News: Symantec rolls out SystemWorks, updates NUM, AntiVirus, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 10/24.
Rights: Mandated mediocrity, Slashdot, 10/24. N2H2 Bess "filter" software, used by about one-third of schools, bans political speech including Second Amendment.
Technology: Air-powered cars on the way to South Africa, News24, 10/20 [Slashdot]. 1500 lb. vehicle can reach 80 mph, travel 125 miles on a tank of compressed air.
Deal: G3 daughter cards as low as $157.90, details at DealMac, 10/24.
Opinion: Will Apple bounce back?, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 10/24. "Of course. Apple always bounces back."
Analysis: Now there are two, but do processor upgrades for G3 Series PowerBooks make sense?, Charles W. Moore, MacOpinion, 10/24. There is no easy answer.
Low End: System 7.1 through 7.6 compatibility, Apple, TIL #8970. Table shows System 7.5.5 most widely supported version.
Review: VirusBarrier, MacNN, 10/24. Fast new anti-virus programs is fast, scans on the fly, and even catches PC viruses.
AAPL: Market pauses for a breather, Apple gains 4.49%, Wes George, Mac Observer, 10/23. AAPL is almost up to what I paid for it last week. :-)
Advocacy: Get a Compaq, put the old Mac to rest - revisited, Frank Ruffel, Right On Mac!, 10/23. "Tony may have taken a cheap trip to the darkside by buying a Compaq. But the ugly truth bit him in the butt: A Compaq is no Mac. And his wife let him know."
Advice: Overlooked Mac OS feature: Pop-up folders, MacOptions. Pop-up folders are one of the best reasons to use OS 8.0 or later.
Web: A matter of (Wired news) style, Wired News, 10/23. Wired takes a step against the flow, chooses to hyphenate email despite historical trend of English to drop hyphens.
Opinion: Apple: The message isn't even medium, Adam Gillitt, ZDNet, 10/23. "People make choices based on the data available to them, and Apple's current advertising and PR strategy leaves most consumers without any concrete reasons to buy Macs."
AAPL: Mr. Jobs goes to Wall Street - and gets thrown out, Johnny, MacEdition, 10/23. "...somewhere in those product announcements in New York, we saw disturbing flashbacks of a history forgotten."
Opinion: Online government and the digital divide, Scott McCollum, osOpinion, 10/23. "...the problem with computer use in our great land is that it is overwhelmingly white and male."
News: iCab browser reaches v2.2, supports OS X.
Connectivity: SOHO router comparison, Bill Fox, Macs Only!, 10/23. Macsense vs. Linksys ethernet routers.
Hands on: KB Gear JamCam 3.0, Paul Cesarini, PowerBook Zone. A $100 digicam? Yes, and a decent one at that.
Dark side: Windows ME knocks out DSL, Interactive Week, 10/23. New OS not compatible with Win98 drivers. Oops.
Review; VSE BeFound 2.1, Tyler Jacobson, Applelust, 10/22. Tool helps create META tags, submit pages to search engines.
News: Xerox PARC for sale, UpsideToday, 10/21. Palo Alto Research Center created first GUI interface, partial inspiration for Lisa and Mac.
USB: Griffin releases iMic, go2Mac.com, 10/20. Connect a standard 1/8" microphone to USB-only iBook.
Review: iBook SE, MacUser UK. "Where the original iBook felt sluggish with all but the simplest of tasks, the new SE is sharp and responsive."
Politics: Compare your views with presidential candidates, SpeakOut.com [Slashdot]. Interesting use of computer technology!
Benchmarks: 466 MHz FireWire iBook vs. 400 MHz Pismo PowerBook, Bare Feats, 10/23. Real world tests with iMovie, Cinema 4D, and Bryce.
AAPL: Morningstar.com: Eight bucks for an Apple, Yahoo, 10/20 [MacNN]. "That's not a lot of money for a business that - while declining at the moment - is highly profitable and has one of the most well-known brand names in technology."
Benchmarks: Battle of thin, portable FireWire drives, Bare Feats, 10/20.
News: PowerLogix Bluechip G3 upgrades for G3 Series PowerBooks shipping, Charles W. Moore, 10/20. Innovative design copies ROM from original CPU card.
Tech: A big blue shadow over Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64, Paul DeMone, Real World Technologies, 10/16. New Power4 (cousin to PowerPC) sounds very impressive.
Advocacy: The dominance myth, Pete Ottman, osOpinion, 10/19. "...no one has ever offered up one bit of evidence to support the assertion that using any modern operating system but Windows will be a hindrance."
Low End: 660av/840av Video Input Specifics, James Wang. "On a 660av or a stock 840av, one 512KB bank is insufficient to store 640 by 480 pixels worth of 16-bit video."
Opinion: I am not alone, because I have my Mac laptop, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 10/18. "...he replied that the Mac was the only computer he had ever tried that didn't break down all the time."
OS 09. AutoPurge, Stimpsoft. Freeware that fixes that pesky "Temporary Items" problem in Mac OS 9.0-9.0.4.
AAPL: Apple profit: $170 million, MacWeek, 10/18. At 47¢ per diluted share, this was far better than anyone expected.
AAPL: Apple reports profit of $170 million, MacCentral, 10/18. Margin was down, Cube and education sales were weak, but the future remains bright.
AAPL: Whisper number for Apple's 4th quarter is higher than estimates, Wes George, Mac Obsverer, 10/18. Best guesstimate is 36¢ per share, better than 31-33¢ many predict.
Opinion: Web design: Keep it simple (stupid), Eolake Stobblehouse, Fuzzy Logic, Mac Observer, 10/18. "The long and the short of it is that when that company finally got a Web site up and running at all, I had already been living off my own Web sites for two years!"
Low End: Remodel your Mac for under $1,000, Chris Oakes, Computer User, 11/15/94. Good article - and prices have dropped quite a bit over the past six years.
Connectivity: Apple Modem Updater 2.0 improves stability, performance, MacCentral, 10/17. Update applies to iMac, PowerBook G3, blue Power Mac G3, and Power Mac G4. MacFixIt reports this updates the iBook and Cube as well.
History: NeXT: When cool wasn't enough, Colin Barker, vnunet.com. "NeXT was a high-profile disaster, a computer system that the world admired but wouldn't buy."
Low End: Obsolete Macintosh is still a classic for some, David E. Graham, Union Tribune, 10/17. Color Classic "shows that some old models are destined to live on outside a museum."
Design: PowerBook G4, Go2Mac.com, 10/17. Cube-inspired laptop design. I could go for one of these!
Whine: Web workers cite poor treatment as start-ups begin cutting jobs, MSNBC, 10/17 [in]. Gosh, dot-coms go out of business and can't provide severance pay or outplacement counseling. Can we say "at-will employment"?
Design: Sony VAIO PictureBook, Sony [Go2Mac.com]. Apple should take a long hard look at this 9.8" x 6.0" x 1.1.4", 2.2 lb., up to 20 hour battery life portable. Now that's a notebook computer!
Dark Side: Are Canadian tax dollars promoting Microsoft?, Gary Lawrence Murphy, osOpinion, 10/17. Canada Post announces free Internet access for "all Canadians" - with Windows.
Opinion: Rebates, hinges, and asinine centralized PowerBook service, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10/16. "...the job is subject to Apple's Tier 1 repair flat fee of $310.00 plus the technician's time, and you lose the use of your PowerBook for ten days or so."
Hardware: BridgeIt! FireWire-to-SCSI converter/hub/repeater, FWDepot.com. Connect up to 7 SCSI drives to FireWire iMacs, iBooks, PowerBooks, PowerMacs, and the Cube.
Tech: The fundamentals of cache, Paul Mazzucco, SystemLogic [Slashdot]. More than you ever wanted to know about L1, L2, and L3 cache - and pretty accessible.
MacInSchool: Charter school issues laptops to its students, LA Times, 10/16. "The 140 ninth-graders from Lennox will get leased Apple iBooks for a year."
Opinion: Why we will benefit from Apple's financial troubles, Dave Schultz, Can We Talk?, Applelust, 10/16. "The industrial design team at Apple cannot be beat. Period. And if they are put in corner . . . look out."
Hands off: Back to Claris Home Page from Adobe GoLive 5, Robert A. M. Stephens, Behold the Rage. Flaws in HTML encoding send GoLive to the trash, Home Page back into action.
Hands on: IBM TravelStar 32 GB PowerBook hard drive, Accelerate Your Mac, 10/13. Highest capacity, fastest drive made for the PowerBook.
Opinion: nPower: Power4 based server, Dave Egger, MacMonkey. Contending that Apple needs a high-end server, the author proposes some specifications.
Advice: Nancy's guide to Internet abbreviations, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 10/12. Don't know LOL from AFAIK? Here's the key.
Advocacy: Help extend the life of old computers, Mac Observer, 10/12. Abandonware project (covered here in June) asks software companies to release old versions for free public use.
Deal: Refurbished iMac/350, free sweatshirt, $689, details on DealMac, 10/11. It's the old blueberry model with 6 GB hard drive.
Opinion: Paris iBook value equation revisited, Charles W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 10/11. Yes, they are a great value.
Consumer: Apple planning PowerBook, Cube rebates, MacCentral, 10/11. Get $200 back on a PowerBook, $300 on a Cube - but only if purchased with an Apple display. Starts Oct. 13.
Tech: Are the G3e (750CX) chips in the Paris iBooks really slower?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10/11. No, instead MacBench 5.0 is fatally flawed.
AAPL: AAPL breaks $19 mark - in wrong directions!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10/10. Apple stock briefly dropped below $20 per share on Tuesday.
News: IT revolution fuels workplace stress, BBC News, 10/10 [Win98 Central]. Yeah, Windows can do that.
Advice: How to use GraphicConverter, MacInstruct. The poor man's Photoshop, almost every Mac webmaster seems to find a place for GraphicConverter.
News: Orange Micro gets out of Pentium board business, MacWindows, 10/10. "The advent of fast G4 processors has brought up the speed of emulators and made coprocessor boards economically unfeasible."
Benchmarks: Radeon AGP vs. Voodoo5 PCI, Bare Feats, 10/10. Radeon cooks, but Voodoo5 is no slouch.
Opinion: Cube owner says, "Why all the whining? The Cube rocks!" Mac Observer, 10/10.
Opinion: Amateur hardware design & market strategy, M, osOpinion, 10/10. "Two obvious gaps in Apple's product line are a new sub-notebook and a business oriented, low-end desktop. The first everybody knows about, the other seems to have gone largely unnoticed."
Web: Danger of banner ads, Lowtax, Something Awful, 10/10 [Slashdot]. "When I first signed on, I was simply told that I'd get $2.50 CPM - that is, $2.50 per 1,000 ads served."
Analysis: New iBooks slower? Not so fast, Wired, 10/10 [MacSurfer]. "Acting on a hot tip, Wired News ran the widely used MacBench test suite on Apple's latest iBook...."
Opinion: AAPL still cheap!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10/9. At $21.75 per share, I need to find a broker!
News: AT&T mulls Web charges, CNNfn, 10/9 [Slashdot]. AT&T wants to charge online retailers every time an AT&T customer places an order - or even visits the retailer's site. Time to ditch AT&T @Home cable.
News: Cisco, Microsoft paid no federal income tax, Cnet, 10/9. Companies used stock options to negate profits, avoid taxes.
Web: MacCircuit.com
Advice: Basic Mac troubleshooting, MacInstruct. "Don't panic, most of the things that you'll have to face really aren't any big deal."
Benchmarks: G4/500 matches Athlon 1 GHz, CPU Scorecard [MacSlash]. 'Nuff said.
Community: Home Mac List, The Macintosh Guy. "HomeMac is a forum for Macintosh users at home."
Connectivity: New personal FTP application released, Mac Observer, 10/9. Shareware app allows direct file transfers between computers, Macs or PCs.
Privacy: Speech without accountability, Scientific American [MyAppleMenu]. "New software makes it nearly impossible to remove illegal material from the Web--or to find out who put it there."
Advice: USB peripherals & adding a forward delete key to your iMac, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 10/6. Keyswapper lets you create a forward delete key on the old Apple USB Keyboard, as well as the iBook and PowerBook.
Opinion: Apple needs more than its own store, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, 10/6. "There are many of us who'd gladly work part-time or full-time for an Apple-branded store."
Advice: Running a Web server on the cheap, The Mac Mind, 10/6. A great way to use an older Mac - we've even run small sites on Mac IIs and Quadras.
OS X: The NeXT Apple OS, MSNBC, 10/6. "Make no mistake about it: the complete overhaul of the Macintosh operating system is a very big deal."
Web: G4 Cube Site - just for Cube users.
Analysis: The Cube: Looks aren't everything, BusinessWeek. "All of the Cube's beauty doesn't change the fact that it is overpriced and under-featured, with no clear target audience."
Low End: Mac System 1.0 Headquarters, Dan Vanderkam. See how far we've come.
Opinion: Apple's spark, Jack Shedd, osOpinion, 10/6. "When PC's became too complex, it was the Apple Macintosh in 1984 that routed them into simplicity."
Opinion: iBook: Portable stereo, Dave Egger, MacMonkey. Convert you CD collection to MP3s and carry 1000 songs on your iBook.
Opinion: The insanity of Wall Street, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 10/5. "When a company is undervalued, and has good technology, good strategies and good people, in a growing industry, I think it is a good investment."
Opinion: The magic of Macintosh, Grayson Harding, 2 Cents, 10/5. "Using a Macintosh is an intoxicating experience, that's why everyone who trys one likes it."
Review: iMac DV+, DV Special Edition, Macworld, 11/00.
Review: Radeon AGP vs. Rage 128 Pro AGP, Accelerate Your Mac, 10/5. ATI's new video card kicks on 3D games but doesn't seem to improve non-3D performance.
Opinion: Boxed in by the Cube, Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, 10/5. "...for the first time in a good long while, Apple has gotten it wrong."
Opinion: A proposal to fix the Cube, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10/5. "...I would even go farther and suggest that Apple use IBM's new 750cx G3e chips in the lower end Cubes...."
OS X: Adventures in X, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 10/4. "With just a few minutes of using the OS XBeta, it's obvious that it's not the Mac OS and it won't feel like the Mac OS for quite some time."
Opinion: Thinking outside the Cube: Mac OS X for X86, Jason Brooks, eWeek, 10/4. "The world of X86 hardware leaves options for the rest of us, with a veritable Star Wars cantina full of chip, component and peripheral players from which to choose. "
Opinion: Upgrade WallStreet or buy a new iBook?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, 10/3. Comparing the cost of upgrading a two-year-old PowerBook G3 to the new iBooks.
Opinion: I come not to bury the G4 Cube but to praise it, Jim, MacSpeedZone. "...in the interest of balanced reporting and fairness I've got to let you know that my Cube is nothing short of magnificent."
Opinion: Heresy, Ceolaf, Applelust, 10/4. "I love Apple. I love its computers. I love its operating system. But I became very unhappy with Apple in September 2000."
Opinon: Mac OS X: Not ready for prime time, Go2Mac.com, 10/4. Well, it is a beta after all....
News: Maxtor buys Quantum hard drive unit, The Register, 10/4 [Win98 Central]. Merger will create the world's largest hard drive company.
Web: Mac webmaster looks at GoLive 5, part 1, Dan Knight, Applelust, 10/3. Yours truly talks about GoLive 5 and Web design.
Opinion: Is the iMac becoming Apple's K-car?, Charles W. Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 10/3. "As for the iMac, it needs a complete redesign...."
Advice: One Mac, many users: The multiple users control panel, David Pogue, Mastering Your Mac. How to set up OS 9 for two or more users.
AAPL: Apple explained: In Steve we trust, Wes George, Apple Trader, Mac Observer, 10/2. Best analysis yet of Apple, Apple earnings, and the way Apple stock tanked on Friday.
Analysis: Apple shares fall victim to "multiplier effect," David Wilson, Bloomberg, 10/2. "Friday's 52 percent retreat in the personal-computer maker's shares was far steeper than either the earnings or sales comparison would indicate. "
Opinion: HTML editor wars, David Schultz, Applelust, 10/2. "WYSIWYG HTML editors, analogous to like the DTP packages that came before them, are coming out which are robust, complex programs aimed at any would-be web publisher."

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