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	Other World Computing: 9.1GB Apple ROM SCSIs only $175.00, Sonnet G3 starting at $126.50, G3/400mhz only $197! Check Out These Deals and More at OWC! Only $5 for FedEx delivery too. Click Here! Norton AntiVirus and Norton Utilities for Macintosh: Protect your Mac from viruses and repair disk problems quickly and easily with our award winning products. Click for a FREE trialware download of Norton Antivirus! End of the Mac Web as We Know It It's been a very slow month for rumors, but we finally have a new one. 3/31/2K: No longer beleaguered, Apple Computer has finally accomplished it's ultimate goal of controlling the Mac web. They have forced sites to pull articles and photographs, hijacked domains, and even shut down Mac Cards, a noncommercial ecard site. Through iReview, one of their iTools, they are feeding traffic only to a select group of lapdog sites (no offense intended to Small Dog Electronics). But that was just the beginning. Effective April 1, 2000, the anniversary of their incorporation, Apple will be celebrating their anniversary in style -- by shutting down the vast majority of Mac sites on the internet. Any site with the word "apple" or "mac" in its name has been contacted by Apple's ever vigilant legal department and told to "get the Mac out." Expect to see a huge change come over the Mac-centric web on Saturday, April 1, as many sites make a shift away from their first love, the Macintosh, to a completely new focus. Several webmasters I've been in contact with say it's just been a matter of time before Apple shut them down for not being positive enough about Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, OS X, Microsoft products, Apple's iTools, ClarisWorks 6 -- let alone any mention of rumors or rumor sites. Expect significant changes tomorrow. I'll have to start digging dirt on other companies, since the least hint of a Mac rumor, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, could subject myself and my publisher to a lawsuit from the once-beleaguered Apple. Like the rest of the Mac web, we don't have the money for the lawyers necessary to fight, so we're switching. Switching to what? I can't say, but be sure to surf the web on Saturday to see what the creative Mac webmasters have come up with to stay in business despite Apple's best attempts to shut them down.  - Anne Onymus Further Reading Apple should count the cost before alienating its friends, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 3/31. "...Apple has been on a binge of alienating friends right and left lately." Opnion: Isn't it time Apple got some perspective?, MacUser UK, 3/28. "It's difficult to see what Apple has to gain by this heavy-handed approach." Opinion: Are any Mac sites safe?, Macinstein, 3/28. "It kind of has a 'Big Brother' feel to it and had us thinking about all the effort we put into promoting the Mac." Opinion: Apple: Big Brother 2000?, NoBeige.com, 3/28. "Apple is acting like the Big Brother that it mocked in 1984." News: Apple goes postal on Mac Cards, Macworld UK, 3/28. "Apple claimed that visitors would confuse the site with its own." Web: Where has the Mac Cards website gone?, Mac Cards. "...my enthusiasm to promote the Mac or any Apple product . . . has been completely destroyed." <this article available in a printer-friendly version> Recently on The Rumor Mill PlayStation in a Mac, 8/24. Rumor is Sony has developed PlayStation2 on a PCI/AGP card, thrown in hardware DVD decoding, and then added totally outrageous 3D drivers using the Emotion Engine. Building rumors, fooling Slashdot, 8/18. We didn't set out to fool Slashdot or anyone else -- and we explain how to build your own rumors. Apple ditching G4, 8/17. Apple embraces IBM and the G5, leaving Motorola behind. Apple sues Cobalt over cube, 8/3. "None of this would have been possible if Apple hadn't purchased NeXT lock, stock, and barrel." Borg sue Apple over Cube, 8/2. "Resistance is futile," said the Borg spokesdrone. "We pioneered the cube concept millenia ago...." more on The Rumor Mill home page Recently on Low End Mac Quadras still useful, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 8/25. Although showing their age, Quadras remain very productive computers. Linux for PowerPC, Eric DeStefano, Mac Metamorphosis, 8/24. Linux for PowerPC is fairly mature -- and a good introduction to the Unix core of OS X. Born Again: It Works!, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 8/23. Yes, you can run Mac OS 8.1 on some 68030-based Macs. QuickCam + PowerBook = Webcam, Manuel Mejia Jr., Mac Daniel, 8/23. How to set up an older Mac (in this case, a PowerBook 145) with a QuickCam and use it as a webcam. Troubleshooting FileMaker Pro, Dan Knight, 8/23. How to prevent and recover from data errors in FileMaker Pro. An Old Friend, Somewhere in Boxes, My First Mac, 8/22. "My first computer was the Quadra 660AV. It was the first computer I had ever owned." Quest for a User-friendly Hub, Joshua McKinney, My Turn, 8/22. If USB is supposed to be plug and play, why do so many hubs make that difficult? New @ Low End Mac: Receive email information on new articles. The Rumor Mill is part of Low End Mac. This site has no affiliation, actual or implied, with Apple Computer, Inc. The site exists to provide an alternative to real rumor sites. Any logos, slogans, names, or representations used or made are done so in the above context. All information on The Rumor Mill (and the rest of Low End Mac) is copyright ©1999-2000 by Daniel Knight, unless otherwise noted, and may not be reproduced in any form without prior consent. All Rights Reserved. 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