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…
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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…
Desktop Utility Updated
Desktop Magician 2.0.1 offers a wide range of options for saving andrestoring your Macis running environment for whatever purpose you need. Nowyou can easily save and restore your complete desktop environment, includingcontent and placement of icons, open windows, running applications, opendocuments, mounted servers, mounted disk images, and monitor settings.Version 2.0.1 is a maintenance release and…
Alternative QuickTime Player Updated
Version 1.1 makes the following changes:Improved AppleScript support, adding many user-requested commands.Improved the Slide Show setup process.Added the ability to scale by number of pixels, rather than just percentages.Made several general performance improvements.Made a wide variety of bug fixes, a full list of which is provided in the included documentation. ABOUT PIX LITEPix Lite is…
The Back Page - Mac OS X Would Have Been Better Without Aqua
Those of you who have been reading The Mac Observer in general, and my columns and editorials in particular, will probably be surprised at the title of this piece. However, I think that it is true. Apple and Mac OS X would have been better off without Aqua. This is coming from one of the…
iBrotha - Should OS X Be Dumbed Down?
Should OS X Be Dumbed Down? December 15th, 2000 A while back, I mentioned that I lurk on a few mailing lists that discuss things related to OS X. Lately, one list has been abuzz with discussion concerning whether or not our favorite Aquafied OS should be, well, dumbed down so as not to confuse…
Renaming Files Has Never Been Easier
PUBLICSPACE.NET is pleased to announce version 3.4 of its “A Better Finder Rename” Macintosh Finder enhancement. The new version extends the existing features by allowing manual renames to be performed in a more effective manner. A Better Finder Rename is a contextual menu plugin for the Macintosh Finder, which allows users to quickly rename multiple…
No Intel On OS X Part I: Economics 101
The “OS X on Intel” movement is unquestionably an exercise in futility, to say nothing of a fine example of outright foolishness. Apple is no more likely to port OS X to Intel than Microsoft is to make Windows open source. There are many reasons for this. First, the publicity the movement has been given…
Mac OS X Tip - Classic Apps Not Launching?
While OS X Beta is a truly remarkable piece of software, the system still has some “beta-ish” quirks that need to be worked out. Among the most troubling is the system’s inability to deal with file pointers, or aliases, if the original application is moved. For example, when installing OS X Beta, a series of…
Mac OS X Tip - What Do You Do With Those .tar.gz Files Anyway?
Now that people have been using OS X Beta for some time now, problems with downloading file formats and how to “Unstuff” them have become commonplace. OS X Beta does not handle traditional Stuffit archives particularly well, even launching the Classic environment to try and decompress the file. Many users have complained that the .tar.gz…
Mega Minesweeper Gains OS X Compatibility
Carrot Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Mega Minesweeper v1.5b0 for Mac OS X Public Beta. ?Mega Minesweeper is a modern version of minesweeper that supports exterme fields sizes, plug-in Themes and Sound effects, saving and opening games, and much more. ?It runs natively under OS X, so you no longer have…
Tips And Tutorials For Marathon Posted
What is the difference between a stock scenario and a total conversion scenario? Iim glad I asked. Lots! Introducing the Anvil Tips department at the Battle Catis Marathon Page. These pages will showcase talented individuals who will show you how to create a customized scenario every step of the way from generalized graphics information to…
Mac OS X - Native Java Program Ported To OS X
Pascal Beaujeant has ported a native Java application to OS X, and claims it was a very simple process. NIH, a scientific application, now runs natively under OS X Beta. More importantly, Mr. Beaujeant said the porting process was remarkably easy. According to Mr. Beaujeant: I’m very enjoy to annouce the porting (so simple) on…
OS X Was Released This Summer, And I Lost A Bet
W ay back in January, when Steve Jobs first showed off the Aqua interface and promised OS X to us sometime “…this Summer” I started to get excited about the prospect of an operating system that, well, didnit suck. OS 9 was not cutting it for me, and was more prone to crashing than working…
Ask Dave - Hard Drive Tips For Mac OS X Beta, Networks Problems, & iMac DV Crashes
Hard Drive Tips For Mac OS X Beta, Networks Problems, & iMac DV Crashes September 18th, 2000 Good day, folks! Yes, we’ve moved Ask Dave to an "every other week" column. It keeps things fresh for you, and gives me more time to get your answers together. That said, the current edition is chock full…
The Mac Observer: The Apple Trader - Mac OS X: Gentle Migration Or Chaotic Diaspora?
Mac OS X: Gentle Migration Or Chaotic Diaspora? September 18th, 2000 My Mac OS X Public Beta is in the Mail! I bought my Mac OS X Beta for $29.95 at the Apple Store this weekend. It’s pretty audacious — though savvy — of Apple to actually have the temerity to make people pay for…
Viva La France! Tomorrow is Mac OS X Public Beta Day!
Ciscois stock closed below its $60 support level at $58 7/8 per share on twice normal volume. Wall Street has been watching Ciscois stock as a proxy for the Nasdaq, todayis break down bodes ill for the broader tech stocks according to conventional wisdom. Robert McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - Mac OS X Delayed, That Sounds GREAT To Me!
Mac OS X Delayed, That Sounds GREAT To Me! May 23rd, 2000 Before we start, do you remember Copland? I found the original press release from Apple’s site. In keeping with the spirit of operating system history, we will discuss the delay of Mac OS X, announced last week at the WWDC. I understand how…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - Mac OS X Performance On A G3, Here Are The Answers!
Mac OS X Performance On A G3, Here Are The Answers! February 22nd, 2000 A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about Mac OS X on a G3, and raised questions about how well it would perform on the machines that dominated Apple’s product line for a couple of years. As you can guess,…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - Will Mac OS X Run Well On A G3?
Will Mac OS X Run Well On A G3? January 31st, 2000 Have you watched the keynote from MACWORLD Expo in San Francisco from this past January? If so, did you notice what Steve Jobs gloated about when he unveiled Mac OS X for us to drool at? To make it short, he did an…
Mac OS 8 - Resistance Is Futile
The hype surrounding Mac OS 8 hasn’t been on a par with, say, the Rolling Stones bellowing “Start Me Up” during Windows 95’s rollout a couple years back. However, if you pilot a Macintosh regularly in your work or play, Mac OS 8 is currently, and should remain, the biggest blip on Apple’s radar, at…