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The Mac Walks On Such A Tight Rope To Prosper! June 6th, 2000 Imagine Apple as the center of a movie with Steve Jobs as well as his management team as a sleepwalker. The scenario? Take a computer platform from Point A to Point B, walking on a tight rope. In 1984, this is exactly…

Mac Advocates Are A Bunch Of Bigots May 16th, 2000 [For the results of last week’s Volkswagen pop quiz, look at the very end of this column] There is something that we, Mac advocates, have to acknowledge. We are such bigots that we become annoying for other computer users. In fact, our bigotry level is…

Mac-PC Networking, Launcher Problems, & Cable/DSL Security May 12th, 2000 Hello! Here we are yet again. We’ve got heaping truckloads of juicy tidbits for you this week, so I’ll spare you with the standard fluff and banter to which I normally subject you. Still, there’s something to be said about Clezmer music as an antidote…

Macintosh: The BMW Of Computers? No, It’s A VolksWagen! May 9th, 2000 We’ve heard it often; the Macintosh is the BMW of computers. The analogy of the car with the computer is more popular today than ever, and it is understandable. Both reflect their industry’s technological position and both generate a lot of interest among…

Making Your Mac Desktop Look Bigger April 5th, 2000   CloseView Thanks to reader Shirley Hershey I found out about a free utility offered by Apple that is built in to System 7, 8, and 9 Mac software. I feel like I should have known about it, but I didn’t and my guilt was slightly…

Is The Mac Spirit Dead? March 7th, 2000 It’s 10:30 PM, I am in the subway in Montreal, getting back late from work. After switching lines and waiting a few minutes for the next subway to pick me up, I enter a wagon. Tired, I take a seat and I look around. The thing about…

VNC (GNU Public License) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge One of the dilemmas one has to face when getting a new machine (your author has a shiny new G4 on the way) is what to do with your old machine. Sure, you could put it in the attic or give it away, but an older Mac can…

Remote Control Another Mac for FREE & Help with Disk Images January 7th, 2000 Greetings, folks — I know you’re busy reading up on MACWORLD Expo, so we’ll get right to it today. We talk more about remote controlling Macs, have some interesting discussion about IDE drives in clones, and try and help someone who…

MIMEs, USB Cameras, & Controlling Someone Else’s Mac December 31st, 1999 Greetings everyone, and happy Y2K. Perhaps, by the time you read this, the witching hour will have passed and all non-MacOS machines out there will die miserable deaths. Or, of course, everything will go smoothly and even those Windows machines that fail every Y2K…

It’s hard to criticize Apple this quarter. Apple is doing unexpectedly well, and PC juggernauts like Compaq are doing unexpectedly bad. But here goes. The problem is Apple’s hardware commitment to high end users who need six (or more) slot machines, serial ports, and built-in SCSI. It was brought into sharp focus by last week’s…

AppleCORE Archive SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1997 AppleCORE MIKE LAMBERT ([email protected]) Mac vs. Windows In The Ivy League Since its inception, Apple Computer has cultivated and maintained a stronghold in both the graphic communications and education markets, and the company’s current leaders have made it clear (especially during the past few months of strategic change and upheaval)…

AppleCORE Archive OCTOBER 6th, 1997 AppleCORE MIKE LAMBERT ([email protected]) A Very Connected Future for the Mac? "Trust me for a few months," Steve Jobs told attendees during his keynote speech at the Seybold San Francisco conference last week . If I had heard him say that a month, or even a couple weeks ago, I…