Archive: July 1999

• News: iMac,Blue G3 win I.D. Magazine design award, Washington Post, 7/31. Next year the iBook?
• 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), Peripherals.Net, iMac Product Guide (The iMac)
• News: Free iMac offer coming next week, c|net, 7/30. FreeMac.com plans to give away one million iMacs -- with strings attached.
• 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 iMac, 7/29.
• News: Video options for the iBook, MacCentral, 7/29.
• News: Vendors prep iBook add-ons, MacWEEK, 7/29.
• 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.
• Dark Side: Pentium III musters 600 MHz, c|net, 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 iMac, 7/27.
• 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."
• Opinion: iBook as Your First Mac, Dan Knight, The iBook & PowerBook Page, 7/30. "For those who don't yet own computers and demand portability, the iBook is very price- and feature-competitive with value-priced Windows laptops"
• Opinion: A Perfect Second Mac, Dan Knight, The iBook & PowerBook Page, 7/28. "The perfect complement to a desktop computer is a portable one."
• 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...."
• 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."
• 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: Apple design?, Mac Mania, 7/24. "The industrial design team at Apple has really been outdoing themselves."
• Opinion: iBook and iMac: sibling rivalry?, The iMac NewsPage, 7/23. "Will consumers have a tough time deciding between one and the other?"
• 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: 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."
• News: JamC@m 2.0 ships August 2, Digital Camera Resource Page, 7/23. $90 640x480 camera has Mac USB support. $90 -- digital photography for the masses!
• Web: The iBook & PowerBook Page, another iBook site launched, 7/22.
• Opinion: Enter the iBook, the iMac channel, 7/22. "The iBook is a revolutionary computer."
• News: PC Data announces Apple #3 in June, iMac #1, Mac Observer, 7/22
• iBook: IBM copper chip powers iBook, c|net, 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.
• Macworld Expo: Profile of iBook (a.k.a. P1, Consumer Portable, etc.), second fastest portable in the world, Low End Mac, 7/21.
• 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.'"
• 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.
• 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."
• USB: Microsoft announces new Mac-compatible mouse, MacTimes, 7/22.
• News: iMac TV tuner, MacCentral, 7/22. You want iMac TV? MyTV provides it on the iMac -- or any other USB equipped Mac.
• USB: Multifunction peripherals, MacInTouch special report, 7/22. Print, scan, fax, etc. with a single peripheral, although each lacks some useful features.
• iBook: iBook pricing looks extremely competitive, ZD InfoBeads, 7/21. See also The Price Is Right on The iBook Page.
• QT-TV: QuickTime TV introduced, MacCentral, 7/21.
• Macworld Expo coverage (especially the iBook) on Daily iMac, MacCentral, MacInTouch, MacNN, MacOS Rumors, MacTimes, MacWEEK, PowerBook Zone, c|net, TechWeb, Wired, ZDNet
• 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.
• 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.
• Rumor: Apple lays plans for bundled DSL, MacOS 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."
• 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."
• 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."
• 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.
• 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?
• Advice: Aliases, Mac 101, MacBC, 7/19.
• 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."
• 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: Will Mac OS X Client succeed?, Xappeal. "...the advantages will make themselves apparent when the Mac OS X Client version offers superior features."
• 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?)
• Advice: Ask Dr. Mac, Bob LeVitus, MacCentral, 7/17.
• Opinion: For the love of Macintosh, News-Observer, 7/17. "For Tisdale and others then, Mac is a way of life."
• Web: Menagerie of Macs, Issue 7. News, My grandmother uses a Mac, Why Widows is better (sometimes), Jokes, more.
• News: Apple earnings, third quarter. Net profit of $203 million marks 7th consecutive profitable quarter. Links to many other articles.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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."
• 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.)
• News: Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote to be webcast, 7/15. Apple will use QuickTime 4 to broadcast the address on the internet.
• 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, MacOS 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.
• 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.
• 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.)
• Web: MacBoot, new Mac ezine.
• Review: PowerPrint for Networks, Macs Only!, 7/14. New ethernet version of PowerPrint allows use of parallel port printers on a Mac network.
• Connectivity: Cidco MailStation, PC Magazine, 7/8. Compact, lightweight, text-only email client from Cidco.
• Consumer: Star Trek (original series) coming to DVD, Star Trek movie poll results.
• 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.
• 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.
• My First Mac: Avoiding Wintel Nightmares, Alexander Stuart Robinson, 7/12. "When my Mac crashes, a quick restart sorts out the problem -- but crash a Wintel PC, and you end up messing with config.sys files and command.com."
• Road Apple: The Round Mouse. The world's first un-ergonomic mouse? For shame, Apple.
• 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."
• News: Apple ranked number one brand in education study, MacCentral, 7/12.
• 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."
• 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."
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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."
• 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: iMitation, the iMac channel, 7/7. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....
• 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."
• 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."
• Analysis: Will FireWire come to the iMac?, Mac Junkie, 7/6 (scroll down). Actually, the question is more when than if -- FireWire seems inevitable.
• 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.
• 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
• 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...."
• more in the June archive

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