Archives for August 2001

August, 13th August 2001

• American Pie 2, Zoolander, & Teaching Mrs. Tingle

  Long-time Observer Spider dropped us a note about three movies with varying degrees of Mac sightings in them. First up…

• ABN AMRO Initiates Coverage On AAPL With An "Add"

  ABN AMRO has initiated coverage on Apple today, setting a 12 month price target of US$25

• A Modest Proposal To Apple Management: You Need To Sell Apple-Logo’d Merchandise

  Rodney O. Lain writes a letter to Apple with a big complaint about the new Apple stores. It's not the…

August, 12th August 2001

• More Pics: The Line, The Mall, The People, The Store, The Macs

  In addition to his article describing the inside of The Apple Store in The Mall of America, Randy Hanson took…

• QuickTime Interview With Power On Software & Rodney O. Lain

  Observer Retro took out time from standing in line this weekend to interview Patrick Rhone of Power On Software, and…

• QuickTime Video Inside The New Apple Store

  There have been many descriptions of the new Apple Stores that have been circulating for the last 3 months, but…

• QuickTime Video Of Saturday’s Store Opening

  What's that? You weren't there? Or, if you were, you were the guy at the very end of the line…

• QuickTime Video Of The Waiting Line

  Unless you have been living underneath a beige PC for the past 3 months, you have probably heard of the…

• TMO Image Gallery II

  Observer Retro, an engineer from Minneapolis, attended this weekend's opening of the Apple Store in The Mall of America with…

• Inside The MOA Apple Store

  Randy Hanson reports on the opening of the new Apple Store from Apple in the Mall of America

• Rodney O. Lain’s Apple Store Photo Album

  Rodney O. "iBrotha" Lain took a slew of pictures at the opening of the Apple Store in the Mall of…

• Apple Store Breaks Previous Attendance Records With Mall Of America

  At 6:45 a.m. Saturday, there were already 20 people in line awaiting the opening of the new Apple Store in…

• ‘Twas The Night Before The Apple Store Opened, And All Through The Mall…

  Rodney O. Lain covers the party held by Apple the night before the Mall of America Apple Store opened

• Lily Tomlin Is All Mac, & Check Out The Apple Billboard

  TechTV offers us a couple of Mac sightings today. The first one comes from The Screen Savers and features Lily…

• Apple Store Is No Threat To Mac Retailers: A Quick Note To The ‘Mom & Pops’

  Rodney O. Lain offers his thoughts on why he sees Apple's new retail stores as being a help, and not…

August, 09th August 2001

• Microsoft Waltzes The Next Step In The Dance Of Death (Avoidance)

  Bryan Chaffin looks at Microsoft's latest legal maneuver and what it really signals about the company's overall strategy

• Kids GoGoGo Parental Control Software Adds Database Of Approved Sites

  Maki Enterprise has released an update for its parental control software, Kids GoGoGo. The new version, 4.0, includes a new…

• New Episode Of Macinchat Variety Show Available Now

  The producers of the Macinchat Variety Show have posted another episode of the show. The Macinchat Variety Show is an…

• Inside The Plano Apple Store, 5 Days After Opening

  The Apple Store in Plano opened last Friday to great fanfare, and if our visit this week was any indication,…

• New iMate (USB-ADB Converter) Beta Drivers For Mac OS X

  The good people at Griffin Technology have released a new beta version of the iMate driver for Mac OS X.…

• Electric Rain & Strata Do Flash In 3D

  Electric Rain and Strata have inked a licensing deal regarding 3D technology. The long and the short of it is…

• Pix Lite Makes Its Way To Mac OS X

  SearchWare has released Pix Lite for Mac OS X. Pix Lite views all types of multimedia files and supports AppleScript.

• CD Changer Jukebox Software Controller Updated

  RiverSong has released a new version of TitleTrack Jukebox. TitleTrack Jukebox is designed to allow users control up to 12…

• New Mac OS X Icons Are On The Way

  Marmalade Moon has released new icon sets; they are ready for the next generation of operating systems for Mac and...…

• Peacock Maps Releases iTunes Music Posters

  Peacock Maps has released a new set of iTunes posters. The new posters are comprised of some of the digital…

• TLC’s Plastic Planet Could Be Called Planet Of The Macs

  We received a couple of notes about a show on TLC called Plastic Planet. Observer Alex Allee writes in some…

August, 08th August 2001

• Add ATA100 Support To Any PCI Mac With New Expansion Card

  Miglia Technology has released a new ATA100 PCI card for Macs called the Alchemy ATA100 PCI. The PCI card allows…

• PocketDock Updated With Maintenance Release

  Pocket Software has released an update to its Mac OS X launcher utility, PocketDock. Pocket Dock is a tool designed…

• Microsoft’s Hot Mail Hit By Code Red Virus

  Microsoft's own HotMail service has been hit by the Code Red or Code Red II virus. Code Red and the…

• AppleScripters: Appearance OSAX Updated

  Czech Republic based 24U s.r.o. has released an update for Appearance OSAX 1.2. Appearance OSAX is an AppleScript development tool…

• PHP Editing Tool Hits Classic & Mac OS X

  See Jane Code has released the final 1.0 version of its flagship product JaneBUILDER. JaneBUILDER is a visual editor for…

• HP Introduces Consumer Photo Printer For US$149

  HP has introduced the Deskjet 940, a consumer-level photo-quality printer. The new printer will output 2400 x 1200 dpi prints,…

• Macs Kept In The Closet

  We received notes from two Observers about a French movie called The Closet, in which a man has to pretend…

• Apple Shrugs Off Retail Worries To Post 15 Cent Gain

  Several retailers turned in results today, and it wasn't pretty, but Apple shrugged off those worries to post a 15…

August, 07th August 2001

• Judges Protest Web Traffic Monitoring

  The New York Times has published an article about an extremely important conflict occuring within the US judicial system. A…

• Avie Tevanian On Mac OS X 10.1, The MHz Myth, And IT

  Avie Tevanian, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, is the subject of an interview in I.T., a technology magazine…

• Mac Show Features Video (& Maker) From Plano Apple Store

  It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for another Mac Show. The Mac Show is a weekly QuickTime streaming broadcast,…

• Mail Merger Software Adds Features, Fixes Bugs

  Intelli Innovations has released a new version of its mail merge software. Among the changes, the company added message priorities…

• 3D Modeling App Gets A Maintenance Update

  Codenautics Software has released Meshwork 1.8.2. Meshworks is a 3D "trimesh" modeling program, and the maintenance update fixes several bugs

• ChartMaker Pro 5 Is Now Available

  Brian Dunning has released a new version of FileMaker Pro chart making software, ChartMaker Pro. The update includes new features…

• School Is Coming, BBEdit Is On Sale For The Occasion

  Bare Bones Software has just announced a special sale for its flagship text and HTML editor named BBEdit. A long-time…

• Just Shoot Me, Jay & Silent Bob, And… A Gateway Commercial?

  Observer Kray "MacDaddy" Mitchell writes in with a brace of Mac sightings. One is from a popular TV show, one…

• New Space Fighting Game Offers Multiplayer Option

  Cortic Software has released a new game for the Mac called Unprovoked. The galactic fighting game is a 2D space…

• Beige Book Turns ‘Em Red On Wall Street

  Tech stocks fell hard, gaining speed after breaking through the psychologically significant 2000 level

• Charles Darwin Would Be Proud: On Microsoft’s Supposed Plan To ‘Embrace, Extend & Extinguish’ TC

  Rodney O. Lain and Bryan Chaffin coauthor an opinion about Microsoft's supposed plans to hijack the Internet and collect a…

August, 06th August 2001

• The Idiots Find Their Way Home From MACWORLD

  The Idiots stumble their way home from MACWORLD and give us a bit of prospective on the show with the…

• LaCie Introduces 70GB FireWire Tape Backup Solutions

  LaCie has launched two new FireWire based backup storage solutions. The company has announced an AIT solution with capacity of…

• Cross Platform FileMaker Pro E-Mail Plug-In Gets Updated

  Comm-Unity Networking Systems has released a new version of its FileMaker Pro plug-in SMTPit. SMTPit allows you to send e-mail…

• Screen Capture Users Offered Snapz Pro X Discount Offer

  Users of the capture program ScreenCatcher have the chance to purchase Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro X at a $10 discount

• PandoCalendar Turns 5.7.3

  Panda Systems has released yet another version of PandoCalendar, bringing the calendar app to version 5.7.3. The new version fixes…