Archives for October 2000
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Copy Agent, A Personal Backup Solution
Connectix Corporation released Copy Agent at MACWORLD NY 2000. The new title is a backup solution, targeted at home users,…
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Christian Heresy, Deutschman’s ‘hatchet job,’ & My relationship with Apple
Religion is a curious phenomenon. We put our faith in the silliest of things, if we are honest with ourselves.…
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Architectural MUG Passes 200 Members
The good people at Architosh have announced that the User Group organized by their parent company has passed the 200…
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RedLightRunner Offers Sale On Apple Goodies
This seems to be a time for specials, because the RedLightRunner people have announced a special prices on some Apple…
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Apple Starts To Tackle Sales, Reshapes European Sales Team
Apple has wasted little time in tackling their worldwide sales problems. After announcing an earnings warning, the resignation of their…
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Canto Offers Special Price On Cumulus 5
Canto notified us that they are offering a special price for the "Holiday Season" on Cumulus 5. Cumulus 5 is…
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Morningstar Calls Buying AAPL a No-Brainer
Investors may rue the unit sales shortfall at Apple, but Wall Street can't punish the stock any worse than it…
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New Royalty Free Image CD Available
Dessert Dolphin has released the latest CD in the Fractal Magic series. The new CD, by artist Clark Dunbar, features…
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Gigabit Ethernet Support Arrives For OS X Beta
Team ASA has announced OS X Beta support for their Gigabit Ethernet Adapters. Apple includes Gigabit Ethernet with their G4…
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Concept Draw Updated
Computer Systems Odessa Corp. has updated their business design and flow chart creation program, ConceptDraw, to version 1.55. ConceptDraw allows…
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October 20th, 2000
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Markets Continue Higher as Apple Prepares to Bite the Bullet
Money sidelined by the last two months of bearishness continues to pour back into the stock markets after yesterday's spectacular…
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Star Trek Voyager Elite Force For Mac Reaches Final Candidate Status
Aspyr has announced that Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force has reached final candidate status. Final candidate is the point in…
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Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 Goes Into Duplication For The Mac
Andrew Meggs, working for God Games, has posted an announcement that Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 has hit the duplication stage…
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Highlights From Apple’s Q4 Conference Call
Apple made their forecast for lowered fourth quarter estimates, but the stock got torunced in after hours trading down about…
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Create Mosaics From Your Own Digital Images
PG4U Software has released a new version of their mosaic creation program, 2gether1. The application automatically creates mosaics for a…
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Controversy Good For Apple’s Ratings
Controversy is good for ratings, and as Apple's stock situation and future remain at the forefront of popular media, traffic…
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Get OS X Window Features Under OS 9
Greg Landweber has updated his interface enhancement tool, Power Windows, to version 2.4.2. Power Windows allows entire windows and contents…
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OS X Users Longing For The NotePad?
Dennis C. De Mars has released a new version of his Apple NotePad replacement, Pads. Version 1.1b1 is the first…
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WebEvent Updated
WebEvent has been updated to version 3.4b2. The new version of the calendar and scheduler, featuring a World Wide Web…
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Canto Releases Cumulus For SGI’s IRIX
Canto has released their popular workgroup suite, Cumulus, for SGI's IRIX operating system. Cumulus allows users to work together, collaborate,…
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Code Translation Tool Updated
MacZ Software has updated their code translation tool, CodePerfect, to version 2.1. The latest version allows users to see ASCII…
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Alternative HTML Editor Updated
Optima System has released a new version of their easy to use, yet full-featured HTML editor, PageSpinner. Version 3.0.1 adds…
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October 19th, 2000
There are lots of great articles, and some really bad ones, on the Internet. Though we link to all of…
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Bulls Regain Control in Stock Markets As Apple Disappoints
Shareholders apparently didn't like Apple's lowered sales forecast. Sales for the Christmas season could decline 30% off last year's holiday…
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Web Design: Keep It Simple (Stupid)
A few years ago I had a day job in a 30-employee company. I learned to use a computer on…
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Truck Driver: I Am Not Alone Because I Have My Mac Laptop
Nancy Carroll Gravley has a great story about a truck driver she overheard talking about how his Mac helps him…
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FLASH: Apple reports Earnings
Apple just reported 4th quarter earnings of $0.30 per share, investors had been warned to expect earnings of $0.31 per…
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Whisper Number for Apple’s 4th Quarter is Higher than Estimates
Rumors are that Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, will announce earnings and possibly revenues stronger than the lowered guidance when Apple…
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Time To Shift Focus To MACWORLD SF
Registration has begun for January's MACWORLD San Francisco. Held at San Francisco's Moscone Center, MWSF is the largest computer conference…
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Puzzle Game Updated
Divinity Software has updated their computerized puzzle game, Runestone. Version 1.0.1 of the challenging puzzle game follows in the footsteps…
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A Warm Welcome To Fuzzy Logic, A New Column At TMO
We would like to welcome Eolake Stobblehouse's new column to The Mac Observer (TMO). Eolake has been contributing to TMO…
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Stock Watch Special Report Updated… At Last
We have updated the Stock Watch Special Report at long last. The Report had run into some technical difficulties, but…
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Smooth Fonts Under Classic On OS X Beta
Greg Landweber, interface design genius and creator of the wildly popular Kaleidoscope, has updated his system level antialiasing application, SmoothType.…
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New Mac VST Music Plug-in Released
MacMusic and Dragan Petrovic have released a new Mac VST music plug-in, AutoDynamic. AutoDynamic is able to produce unusual drum…
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RedLightRunner Offers Up Latest Book On Jobs
RedLightRunner, the place to shop for all kind of wacky Apple related merchandise, is now offering the latest book About…
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The Mac Observer’s Rodney O. Lain On Tonight’s Mac Show
This week's Mac Show will feature The Mac Observer's own Rodney O. Lain. Mr. Lain and Mac Show host Shawn…
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Apple Explained Part III: Discounting The Fears
This is the conclusion of the Apple Trader's three part look at why Apple's stock has become a basket case…
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Whiplash Bottom in the Markets, Apple’s Earnings To Be Announced Today
The Dow fell 435 points first thing this morning in panic selling. The Nasdaq was off by 187 points. Then…
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OS X Stability Issues? Two Crashes And Counting…Slowly
As any regular reader of The Mac Observer knows, I was like a little kid in the weeks before Christmas…
