Tim Mityok, president of Public Access Software, has sent us a gem. The Computers & Electronics magazine dedicated its March 1984 cover, along with two articles for 7 pages of content, to the first born of the platform that you happily use today. The writer in question, Vanessa Schnatmeier, did a good job at describing…
Rumors Of FrameMaker's Death Have Been Greatly Exagerated
Contrary to reports that have appeared in the Robert X. Cringley column inthe 2 February 2001 issue of InfoWorld or in the online version of thiscolumn on InfoWorldis website, Adobe is completely committed to developingand supporting the FrameMaker product. Currently, the FrameMaker engineeringand product management teams are busy working on the next major release ofthe…
Change File Names With Name Cleaner
Sig Software is proud to announce the release of NameCleaner 2.1.NameCleaner is an industrial-strength utility for the Mac OS to manipulate file names and types. It is specially designed to help move files to and from foreign file systems such as MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000, NetWare and Unix.Version 2.1 adds support for…
MSNBC Says AOL Should Buy Apple
Mr. Zaret says that AOL needs a media player of its own to leverage all the music, movies, and other entertainment titles AOL/Time Warner own. With QuickTime being one of the best on the market, owning Apple offers AOL the best way to fight Microsoft and the Windows Media player. Besides, the iMac could sold…
Wall Street Investment Manager Calls Apple's Stock "A Much Better Play" Than Dell
Appleis strong cash position was also cited. Mr. Lemonides said that Apple currently had some US$15 per share in hard assets, including the US$4 billion in cash on hand. This means that if the company was shut down in order to sell itis physical properties, the sale would result in some US$15 per share to…
The Cisco Effect Smacks Tech Stocks, Apple Drops
The effect on todayis overall trading was dubbed The Cisco Effect and most technology stocks closed in negative territory. Bargain hunters helped pick many stocks off their lows in late afternoon trading. Of the stocks we track in the Apple Stock Watch, only IBM and Microsoft traded higher. Microsoftis stock benefitted from speculation that the…
Interview With Bill Amend, Author Of Foxtrot Comic Strip
. The Mac Observer (TMO): It is clear to see from your strips that you are not only a Mac user, but also a Mac supporter. When did you get your first Mac, and what do you use now? Bill Amend: When I was a kid our family had an Apple II+, then after college…
Former Apple CEO Gil Amelio Lands A New CEO Job
Officially, Dr. Amelio is joining the ADCis Board of Directors, but the companyis press release says that is "expected" that he will take the mantle of Chairman and CEO after negotiations are completed. Dr. Amelio was the CEO of Apple for some 15 months in 1996 and 1997, having taken over after taking over from…
Tech Stocks Rally And Apple Gains More Than 4%
Also impacting computer hardware stocks was Sun Microsystems. Sun announced a new initiative called OpenNet that is designed to compete with Microsoftis .Net. Note the thinly veiled attack on Microsoftis proprietary approach. Sunis CEO Scott McNealy has a long running nasty relationship with Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. The two companies…
Remembering 1977 With Apple Ad Featuring Pre-Rainbow Logo (With Pic)
Created by Kelly Advertising & Marketing in 1977 – before the Apple logo with rainbow colors! – this one is a gem. As a side note, we were told that the creator of the rainbow logo, named Rob Janoff, illustrated the famous Apple from a bowl of fruit, while Jobs had the idea… Kelly Advertising…
Heinz Foundation Honors Steve Wozniak With Award & US$250,000
Steven Wozniak of Los Gatos, Calif., who founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1977 to manufacture and distribute their invention, the first ready-made personal computer. Since retiring from business, he has worked on charitable projects on the arts and expanding computer literacy. The $250,000 award, bestowed annually by the Heinz Family Foundation since 1993,…
Apple Confirms $30 Discount Only For OS X Feedback Providers (Updated)
After much speculation on whether or not Apple would provide a discount on OS X for those that purchased the Public Beta, Apple provided an answer earlier this morning. Apple sent an e-mail to those Public Beta users that provided feedback to the Apple Web site offering a $30 discont on OS X if purchased…
Markets Are Tense, Techs & AAPL Close Lower
Microsoft announced it would no longer be offering its trademarked US$400 rebate offers for signing up for MSN when purchasing a new computer. That immediately set off rumors of a buyout of Earthlink by MSN and ELNK became the only stock we track that closed higher. More information below. Apple has been slowly losing ground…
Analyzing The Analyst Meeting, Part I: Delivering The Message
Part I of our analysis involves Appleis effort at delivering the message. Most of the meeting was spent giving the same presentation we saw in the keynote at MACWORLD San Francisco, though in a much more informal manner. The biggest difference in the two events was that Steve Jobsi was plagued by hardware difficulties with…
NVIDIA Chats With The Mac Observer
NVIDIA has made a big splash into the Macintosh market with the recent announcement that NVIDIA based graphics cards will be included in the higher end Power Macintosh G4 machines. Apple has long relied on ATI as the sole provider of for graphics acceleration. While Apple did not sign an OEM deal with the now…
Steve Jobs, Fred Anderson: We Will Return To Profits This Quarter
All of the execs in attendance talked about the companyis efforts to reduce their inventory, control their, and ship the companyis new products now. Demand for the companyis new PowerBook G4 (which has begun shipping) and PowerMac G4 lines has been strong, and the company is on track to begin shipping the new high end…
Ready Or Not, The Titanium PowerBook G4 Ships! (With Pics)
During yesterdayis Financial Analyst meeting, it was clear that Steve Jobs, Fred Anderson, and Phil Schiller were quite proud of having gotten these machines out the door on time. Apple will be archiving the meeting until February 28th. For those who can not get a stream, we provided live coverage of the four hour event…
Marathon Forever! Battle Cat Posts Marathon Tutorials
Hamish Sanderson and Chris Komarnicki – Custom Icons and Unique CreatorCodes Hamish and Chris have conspired together to produce a missing portion of theHAS EditNotes. Chris tells me that if you wring Hamishes lungs he singslike a bluejay and sing he did, here is some great new material from 2talented geeks plus other new material…
Getting There, Avoiding Disaster & Having Fun At The Same Time
Welcome back to Notes from the Henna Gaijin! This is the second article on how to travel to MACWORLD Conference & Expo/Tokyo 2001 for about the same cost as going to MACWORLD Expo San Francisco, and having a great time doing it. In this issue, we will cover getting to your hotel, an introduction to…
QuickTime Effects Pack Updated
Buena Software, Inc. is pleased toannounce the release of Effects Pack 1 v1.5 today. This update to EffectsPack 1 increases the quality of the effects, and significantly increasesthe processing speed of the effects. Also included in this update issupport for the AltiVec unit for maximum processing speed on G4 basedcomputers when you purchase the full…
AAPL Up More Than 10%, Closes Over 21
The results for the market were that many stocks were up, especially in the tech sector. Appleis stock took off early and never looked back, trading up more than 10% on almost twice the normal volume. Disney announced today that they would be terminating their Go.com "Internet Portal," and converting stock in that company into…
Introducing Windows CEMeNT, The Next Great Operating System (With Pic)
Iive heard many stories of techies around the world posting this in their local work areas and can imagine that this is happening even at Microsoft. I am not directly slandering the company or any of the products, just a totally fictional construct of my own. Disclaimer: Windows CE, Windows ME, and Windows NT are…
iRez Lowers Price On Cool Kritter Camera
Videoconference with your friends and co-workers. Slap an image onto a web page. E-mail your babyis picture to her grandmother. Run a real-time webcam. The KritterUSB is suitable for all of these applications, and more. The KritterUSB contains advanced hardware designed for squeezing bandwidth-hungry video data into the narrow USB pipe. More specifically, KritterUSB? grabs…
iKeeper Keeps Serial Numbers At Your Finger Tips
Have you ever had to call for tech support on a product only for them to ask you for your serial number or registration code or when you bought it? Have you ever visited a website where you needed to enter a user name and password to access some feature only to return at a…
