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A week and a half ago I hacked my brand new dual-USB iBook to put Clarus the Dogcow in the glowing apple on back. After everyone at WWDC fell in love with it, I decided to put it on the Web for others to enjoy. I was thinking perhaps your readers would like it too.…

MacTech Magazine, the Journal of Macintosh Technology and Development, announced today the release of the MacTech CD-ROM (volumes 1-17) now updated through April 2001. Debuting at Appleis World Wide Developer Conference in San Jose, the MacTech CD-ROM includes the entire history of MacTech Magazine. With over 2,200 articles from over 700 industry experts in Macintosh…

From Observer Tim Sitkiewicz. The macstore is an Apple Specialists with a large retail and service location in the St. Louis, MO area. We basically have a 10,000sq ft. warehouse where we had been collecting a lot of old machines, mainly because we couldnit sell them anymore. So about 3 years ago we decided we…

MacAT is a “cron” task scheduling application for Macintosh server administrators. It is a PowerPC application that allows 37 of the most common MacOS tasks to be run daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly without user intervention. These scheduled tasks include: Launching Applications, Files and AppleScripts; Quitting individual applications or alternatively quitting all currently running…

Software Perspectives announced it has unveiled a major release of its popular Relax software product for Macintosh, as well as a slew of upgraded Relax related products and a new tool for Relax environments.Relax 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the companyis flagship product. The software now sports a sleeker, cleaner interface with loads of…

(Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine Only Too Heavy). After that Steven went after the obvious goal of computing and communicating on inland and nearland waters, building the one-person floating micro-technology wonder: the Microship. Microship Photos. Newest photos. Do read A Day In The Life Of A Technomad, it reads like science fiction, but it is real.…

Processors The main trend in PC processors that will affect the Mac is the growing emphasis on floating point operation speed. Intel largely designed the Pentium 4 around boosting floating point speed at the cost of integer performance. Intel did this because they see future PC usage centering floating point intensive tasks, like digital video,…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In that year, Apple introduced three new computers: the Mac Classic, literally a Mac designed with slightly more modern components in the form factor of the original Mac; the Mac IIsi, one of Appleis crappiest models; and the Mac LC, another Road Apple, but one…

This week, we are bringing you part 2 of the huge Newsweek spread that we started last week. In todayis Remembering piece, we are going to take a look at some screen shots from the original Mac, and better yet, we are contrasting them to some screen shots from PCs of the same era. What…

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Apple is pushing its "digital hub" concept and showing us slides of the Mac in the center, acting as a hub or middle ware, for digital media devices like MP3 players, DV cameras and DVD players. The Mac has several current software products that link different devices together through the Mac hardware (USB/FireWire) like iMovie…

Donit raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. Quoted by John M. Shanahan, in the Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

Apple® today announced it has begun shipping its new 733 MHz Power Mac™ G4 with the SuperDrive, a combination CD-RW/DVD-R drive that can read and write CDs as well as DVDs that can be played in consumer DVD players. Apple unveiled the SuperDrive at MACWORLD Expo in San Francisco last month. The Power Mac G4…

As part of our series of articles remembering the early days of Apple, the Mac, and computing we bring you two more great ads from Apple. Observer Charles Mangin has sent us several vintage Apple ads (and a really great Microsoft ad from 1983 we will share with you later :-), including these two ads…

The ProFile was the 5MB disk that in the brochure is sitting on top of the Lisa. I believe this was also used with the Apple II, but I donit recall. The 10MB disk was code-named the "Widget" and it was an internal hard drive. Thanks for the information Larry! Last week, we brought you…

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…

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…

Our friends at iDevGames.com have posted an interview that will be of interest to Mac gamers, especially people interested in making Mac games. The site has interviewed Mark Adams, the now-legendary cofounder of Westlake Interactive. Westlake Interactive has been the porting house behind most (but not all) of the top Mac games you have played…

Connectix Corporation, makers of the best-selling and award-winning Virtual PC? family of products, today announced Connectix DoubleTalk, a software application for the Macintosh that allows users to access Windows networks from their Mac. This new product is designed for the Mac user who has little or no Windows knowledge, but needs to share resources, such…

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Todayis keynote brought a number of multimedia surprises. One of the more welcome surprises helps answer the question that many current owners of DVD-RAM drives have, namely, “but can I record DVD movies with it?”. Unfortunately, the answer for DVD-RAM owners was no. But with the introduction of the new iDVD and DVD Studio Pro…

Thatis a stinging title, I know, but itis true. Blizzard Entertainment is doing more for Mac gaming than Apple, and I think that is sad. What is Blizzard doing, you may ask? They mention the word Macintosh in a TV ad about a computer game. That, my friends, is more than Apple seems to be…