Archives for July 2000

July, 20th July 2000

• Microsoft Chooses Mac Group To Develop Office 2001 Icons

  The IconFactory has announced that they were chosen by Microsoft to develop the icon set for Microsoft Office 2001 for…

• Mandate From The People: Steve Jobs For President!

  In a political season that has been low on suspense, RedlightRunner, the source for Appple Collectibles, has thrown Steve Jobs'…

• Pictures from Day 3

  John F. Braun takes us on a virtual tour of the show floor, highliting exhibitors, booths, and Jason Whong's bug…

• LaCie And Fujitsu Offering Up Storage

  LaCie and Fujitsu released new storage drives at the MACWORLD Expo. Both are evolution in their fields and bring larger…

• MacSense To Bring AirPort Base Station With Multiple Ethernet Ports

  MacSense, the maker of the Xrouter and other Mac peripherals, told The Mac Observer that they will be bringing an…

• Rewind To Take Mac Users To A Place No Mac Has Gone Before—Back In Time

  Power On Software has been running scheduled demonstrations of their innovative new product, Rewind, here at MACWORLD Expo. In a…

• Virtual Ink Announces Whiteboard Collabaration for Mac

• UsableNet Announces Web Usability Testing Products

  Helping the effort to improve web site usability, UsableNet announced two testing applications, Lift Onsite and Lift Online, at MACWORLD.…

• Expo Diary For Friday, The End Of A Long Week

  After spending the last week around New York in general, and MACWORLD in particular, here are some overall impressions and…

• Deep Thoughts: The Expo Through The Eyes Of A Long Time Attendee

  Having been there from "The Begining" our own Dave Hamilton has some thoughts, lots of thoughts, on the state of…

• OnStream Announces New FireWire Drive and Additional Mac Support

  With ever increasing drive sizes, like the 40 GB drive in the recently announced top-of-the-line G4 machines, there comes a…

• A Twisted Look At The Best And Worst Of The Expo

  After hanging out in New York City for a few days, and finding myself saying, "You know, that is really…

• Wall Street Churns, Apple slips lower

  The financial media are laying the blame for today's sell-off in the stock markets squarely on Ericsson (ERICY) and Agilent…

July, 19th July 2000

• Analysts Upgrade AAPL and Jesse Turns Green With Envy

  While yesterday's slew of new product announcements by Steve Jobs at MACWORLD did little to impress those with a personal…

• Hardware Announcements For July 20th, 2000

• Expo Traffic Rockin’, Lots Of Smiling Faces

  This year's MACWORLD Expo traffic started off strong on Wednesday, and has continued to be high today. Turnout was predicted…

• Connectix Unleashes CopyAgent

  Connectix has filled a critical gap in personal computer file copy and backup. CopyAgent is the first powerful, multipurpose file…

• Get The Dirt On The The ATI Radeon Card

  The ATI Radeon card is quite promising. ATI met us in its private room and gave us all the specs…

• Xircom Announces PortStation for Mac (with Pictures)

  We had a chance to stop by the Xircom booth and check out some of the slick USB expansion products…

• Add 3 PCI Slots & 5 Drive Bays To Your PowerMac

  We visited with Mobility Electronics to see their PCI Expansion chassis called EasiExpansion T35. This is a product that allows…

• Expo Diary For Thursday

  What I find neat is that you can meet anybody at any time. You go near a booth and suddenly,…

• Video Conference Between Mac and PC with VideoLink Pro

  Smith Micro, usually associated with the FAXstf line of fax modem software, has been moving into areas other than faxing…

• Pictures from Day 1

  John F. Braun takes us on a visual tour of MACWORLD. Highlights include the keynote, the show floor, and more

• QuickBooks Users Rejoice!  MYOB to answer Prayers!

  MYOB has announced their upcoming product, AccountEdge. Offering a streamlined interface, this product will also import all your QuickBooks for…

• SPSS Back On The Mac

  SPSS is back in force on the Macintosh platform. After a 4+ year absence, the statistical software giant is preparing…

• SG Cowen Analyst says Apple stock is compellingly cheap

  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's speech before a Senate committee this morning gave a boost to confidence levels in the…

July, 18th July 2000

• I Gave My Daughter An iMac, & All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

  Nancy Gravley took a road trip to her daughter's house with an iMac in the back seat. She tells us…

• File Management Made Easy

  St. Clair Software has updated their Open/Save dialog box enhancer, Default Folder, to version 3.0.6. The new version adds a…

• Web Based OS A Reality Today

  Aestiva has announced an upgrade to their revolutionary Web based OS, Aestiva HTML/OS. Aestiva allows Web developers to take advantage…

• Indiana Jones At MACWORLD?  You bet!

  Attendees to this week's MACWORLD Expo in New York City are in for a special treat. A number of celebrity…

• Full Featured Software Digital Video Editing Tool Announced

  Channel Storm has announced that they will demonstrate the first software based digital-video production solution at MACWORLD NY. LiveChannel, along…

• Apple’s Third Quarter Hi Lites: We plan to introduce many new products in the coming months

  Fred Anderson, Apple's chief financial officer announced in today's conference call that Circuit City will begin to carry the iMac,…

• 4D And Apple Team Up For E-Business Seminar

  D Inc., makers of the highly regarded WebSTAR server suite, are co- sponsoring the upcoming Apple "Creating Business on the…

• Keynote Today (With Live Coverage); Fred Anderson Confirms New Products

  Steve Jobs will be officially kicking off MACWORLD Expo New York 2000 with a keynote address that begins at 9:00…

• Expo Diary For Wednesday

  I got in New York on Monday. The train was late (of course) and the city seemed imposing when walking…

• Apple Announces 4 New iMacs Starting US$799

  Today's keynote was packed with more announcements than we were anticipating. Although the Cube was the most revolutionary and unexpected,…

• Canon Throws A Party And Announces New Scanners

  Canon threw a heck of a party during MACWORLD Expo on Tuesday night to celebrate and announce four new scanners.…

• New Apple USB Mouse, Really!

  Apple has announced that it has redesigned its mouse and renamed it the Apple Pro Mouse. This new unit is…

• Circuit City Joins Apple Retail Army

• Keynote Recap: Announcements, Surprises Galore

  From the G4 Cube to the high tech mouse, Wednesday morning's keynote speech was full of surprises and announcements. Here…

• Popular X Windows Coming To OS X

  Tenon Interystems has announced that they will offer a fully functional, OS X version of the popular X Windows user…

• Steve Jobs’ Keynote Falls on Wall Street’s Deaf Ear

  Steve Jobs delivered the most inspirational keynote address in recent memory. But Wall Street hardly noticed, which puts those who…

July, 17th July 2000

• Mac User Groups In The Age Of The iMac

  Bryan Chaffin talks about the state of Mac User Groups, one of the mainstays of Mac unity since 1984, in…

• Apple to Announce Earnings Today, 49% Year over Year Growth Expected

  Apple will reveal last quarter's financial results today after the stock market closes. Most analysts believe Apple will meet the…

• Hey, Want To See What My Network Looks Like?

  Dartware has released a new beta version of their visual network representation program, InterMapper. Version 3.0b4 contains a number of…

• Cutting Edge Graphics App Gets One Year Birthday Present

  First introduced at last year's MACWORLD Expo in New York, Synthetic Software's Studio Artist has been updated to version 1.5.…

• OS X Web Browser Sees Improvements

  Omni Group has released the latest version of their OS X web browser, OmniWeb. OmniWeb 4b4 includes a host of…

• Two Utilities Updated

  Chaotic Software has updated two of their popular utilities, Mac Army Knife and FlavorSavers. Mac Army Knife allows multiple file…

• MP3 Super Utility Updated

  Chaotic Software has updated their Swiss Army Knife MP3 utility, MP3 Rage, to version 2.6. The new version features improved…

• New FireWire Tape Storage Solution Announced

  Imation has announced a new FireWire Travan tape drive and will be showing the new drive at this week's MACWORLD…