[Correction: We originally reported Scott William’s name as Scott Williams. In addition, our original report said that the site was offering free e-mail accounts, when in fact MacOSX.com charges for its e-mail service, starting at US$9.95 per year. Both mistakes have been corrected in the article below.] Even as one of our own forum members…
Wall Street Journal's Mossberg Loves Jaguar, Says Apple Will Introduce Family Pricing At US$199
The most interesting new Macintosh is the top-of-the-line, flat-panel iMac, which sports a 17-inch LCD screen instead of the 15-inch panel on the other iMacs. Thereis nothing special about most 17-inch screens, but the one on the new iMac is mesmerizing. It isnit square like most. Instead, itis much wider than it is high, so…
The Back Page - How Much Should Jaguar Cost? How Much Is A Customer Worth?
It’s funny how one’s preconceptions affect the way we interact with the world every day. I was watching an episode of Gunsmoke the other day, and the show opened up with an out-of-control stagecoach. The driver was doing his best to reign in the team of six horses that were racing pell-mell for some unknown…
MindRover Being Developed For The Mac Platform
Virtual Programming Ltd are pleased to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Cognitoy to bring their highly acclaimed "Intelligent Robot Simulation/3D strategy game" MindRover – The Europa Project" to the Mac. This is a new genre that encompasses the depth of play found in strategy games with a new concept in player…
The Back Page - Is Apple A Company You Can Trust?
I’ve been on vacation for the last two weeks, and boy did I have a blast. My girlfriend, who is finishing up a two year stint in Japan, met me in Vietnam where we proceeded to laze about in Hanoi, Hue, and Hoi An. There was the State-run (that capital "S" is there for a…
Default Folder Maintenance Update Released
St. Clair Software has released version 1.6 of Default Folder X, its utility for improving Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.6 includes support for Mac OS X 10.2 ("Jaguar") and also adds the much-requested "click on a Finder window" feature to OS X. You can now display a folder…
IBM Woos Apple With New, Powerful PPC
There are those who insist that the only way for Apple to compete is for them to start using Intel processors. There are those who believe that Motorola’s G4 processors have a lot of life in them and that a Mac isn’t a Mac if it doesn’t contain a processor from Motorola. According to News.com,…
Apple Updates Hot Deals from MacMall and J&R
The new deals from MacMall include software from Avid, Adobe, Microsoft, Quark, and Symantec, as well as hardware deals from El Gato, Nikon, and Iomega. J&R is showing deals on CD-RW drives, audio adapters, camcorders, digital cameras, and various sofware bundles.
PC World: Sick of Blue Screens? Get a Mac!
Then thereis innovation. The 3.5-inch floppy disk drive? First seen on the original Mac. Wireless networking via 802.11b (Wi-Fi)? As AirPort, it rolled out first in Macs. And Macs had built-in ethernet when it was a mere add-on for PCs. Although these technologies werenit invented at Apple, it committed to them long before they trickled…
Apple And Sun Team Up To Produce StarOffice For OS X
[Editor’s note: It has recently been reported that news stories regarding StarOffice coming to OS X are the result of a misunderstanding concerning Sun’s StarOffice and the open-source project OpenOffice of which Sun is a member. TMO is actively trying to verify the facts of the situation.] Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems are in the…
PC Maker Offers All-In-One, Company Targets Mac Users
I n a somewhat unusual move, a company called Northgate Innovations has introduced a new all-in-one Windows XP machine that it is specifically targeting towards Mac users. In other words, Northgate wants a niche share of Appleis niche share. The PC is called the Integra, not to be mistaken for the wannabee sports car of…
Remember The Flying Toaster? It's Back!: After Dark For OS X
T here was a time when you could walk through any office, corporate cube farm, or home with a computer and you were bound to see the famous Flying Toaster flapping across unoccupied monitors. Since then, screen savers have become far more sophisticated and, with the exception of SETI@HOME-like CPU siphons, useless since new monitors…
Interview With Draganfly Creator
< A href="draganflyer-flying2.jpg">Apple.com has an article of cool use of iMovie to promote equally cool toys for adults. The company, Draganfly, makes some extraordinary products full of spirit of play that makes it no wonder that they are also Mac users. The Mac Observer (TMO) interviewed the founder, Zenon Dragan. TMO: Mr. Dragan, your company…
Apple's New Software Offering Requires Non-Apple Mouse -- One With Three Buttons
Apple announced Shake 2.5 yesterday, and buried in the technical specs is a little tidbit that we found both ironic and interesting, a three button mouse. The irony comes from the fact that Apple doesn’t offer a three-button mouse, despite cries from its customer base for such an Apple branded device. From the company’s technical…
Apple Stock Watch - NASDAQ Drops To Mid-1997 levels, Apple Continues To Fall
Monday Morning Activity The markets continued their broad decline Monday morning in the aftermath of Friday’s calamitous 390-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In early Monday trading the Dow dropped below the significant 8,000-point marker, falling just over 300 points to an intra-day low of 7,719.29 by early afternoon. The NASDAQ Composite Index…
iTools "Free For Life?" Well...
T his past MACWORLD Expo will likely go down in history as one of the most turbulent in Appleis history — after the infamous storming of Appleis booth by Joel Kocheris Power Computing mob in 1997 — all because of a marketing faux pas that has been exacerbated by managing missteps. Yet Apple can still…
Do Microsoft & Apple Have Problems Playing Together? Reactions From The Expo Floor
W e have taken note of recent reports from both the popular press and the Mac web suggesting that tensions are on the rise between Apple and Microsoft. The Wall Street Journal raised eyebrows when it published an article featuring Microsoftis Mac Business Unit head Kevin Browne accusing Apple of poor marketing of OS X.…
Here I Am At MACWORLD, Where's AppleScript?
M ACWORLD New York-the booths are packed, I see a new product everywhere I turn, and I can feel everyoneis excitement; however, something is missing: AppleScript. One of the big reasons I came to the show was to get the scoop on the latest AppleScript news. I have to admit that Iim a bit disappointed…
Old Macs Getting More Valuable & Charging For Jaguar Makes Good Sense...For Apple
[ Editoris Note: The byline for this piece was incorrectly attributed to Bryan Chaffin. Nicolas diPierro is the actual author, and the byline has been changed accordingly.] The man is no dummy. Between the launch of .Mac services and the release of Mac OS X 10.2 with itis new iApps, Steve Jobs is guiding Apple…
.Mac? Maybe .Screwed!
I recently changed my ISP. I had Earthlink before but a local provider offered DSL while Earthlink continue to claim they couldnit give it to me. So I jumped ship. Now I have high speed access and a new e-mail address, which I had to tell all my friends about. What a pain! I had…
What Are Attendees Saying About The Keynote?
I t wouldnit be MACWRLD without a Steve Jobs keynote and the Mac communityis incessant commentary. It is in that spirit that we ventured onto the show floor to capture and preserve for posterity your reactions to the new software, new hardware, and all the stuff in Appleis booth. "I really like the 17" screen…
Steve Jobs Hints Of Move To Intel As A Possibility
W ill wonders never cease? Reuters has published an article about MACWORLD New York that includes a very tiny mention of a very large subject: Mac OS X on Intel. In that mention, the way it is presented by Reuters, Steve Jobs hints that moving Mac OS X to Intel is a possibility. From the…
As Chinese Group Agrees To Self-Censor Web Content, Hackers Provide Workaround
As a group of Chinese Internet professionals has formed, voluntarily pledging to keep Chinese websites free of politically objectionable material, a hacker group has announced that they will be releasing software that permits people in Net-censored countries to share information anonymously. Since March, the Internet Society of China has attracted over 300 signatories to the…
The Maine iBook Initiative: A Battle Between Lemmings And Learning
I spent the 2001-2002 academic year as the technology director and technology instructor at a college preparatory school that specializes in the education of gifted and educationally challenged students who do not do well in traditional settings. By definition, a prep school curriculum is tailored to the entrance requirements of competitive colleges and universities. After…
