Two upcoming products immediately caught our eye. First was the C-211 Digital Zoom Printing Camera, which can take 2.1 megapixel digital photos as well as generate instant Polaroid prints. This revolutionary joint technology venture with Polaroid will be available in October for $799. The other was the P-400 Printer, a USB and parallel dye sublimation…
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Apple Seeks Information From Real People For Mac OS X Apps
Previously, I have asked for feedback on desired legacy Unix applications to be ported to Mac OS X. That project is complete, and I have ample data. My sincere thanks to all of you who responded. Now, I would like to ask all of you help me identify all the current and proposed Mac OS…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - The Sad Joke Of Public Betas
The Sad Joke Of Public Betas October 4th, 2000 This week’s exercise will be to put you in the writer’s mind to understand how I (and some others) have a gut reaction of hate toward beta software that reaches the hands of the public. Instead of the knee-jerk reaction witnessed everywhere about the price of…
APPL Sees More Than 100 Million Shares Trade Hands
Our favorite computer manufacturer warned investors yesterday that it was going to miss earning expectations for the first time in years. See the Mac Observer full story. Roughly 60% of Apple stock is owned by institutions, such a mutual funds, who must be responsible for the huge intraday trading volume. Now that so much of…
QuickTime Live! Speakers Announced
Keynote speakers for the second-annual QuickTime? Live! conference on October 9 ? 12 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California include: Philip Schiller, Apple?s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing When: Tuesday, Oct. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Frank Casanova, Apple?s director of QuickTime Product Marketing; award-winning filmmaker and director David…
The Nasdaq Falls as Panic Grips Apple's Investors
Brokerage firm downgrades began to roll in this morning. Investors and analysts were rushing to disassociate themselves from the Apple catastrophe, in a wave of selling and downgrades of the likes rarely ever witnessed for a major corporation with eleven robust quarters under its belt. Investors wondered whether Appleis sales shortfall., in conjunction with other…
Tech Stock Come Back Hurdles AAPL Higher By 9.3%, But Then Apple Issues an Earnings Warning After t
The momentum players began to jump in by midmorning as it became clear that the vitality in the stock market wasnit due merely to short covering. Todayis broad rally on good volume may indicate a solid bottom has finally been found after several weeks of searching. Apple stock soared by 4 9/16 or 9.32% to…
AAPL Slips Below $50 Per Share As the Quarter Wraps Up
Itis never a good sign when the big cap technology stocks begin to break through formerly robust support levels, but thatis what going on this month in the stock market. Today, it was Yahoois (YHOO) turn to break through support on fears the company might not meet earnings expectations. Shares of Yahoo! fell 12 1/16…
Motorola Launches New G4 Processor At 550 MHz
Obse rver Richard Ikeda sent us an alert about a Motorola press release about a new G4 processor. The new unit would reach clock speeds up to 550 MHz. According to Motorola: Motorola today introduced the second of its fourth-generation G4 PowerPC microprocessor, the MPC7410 with AltiVec technology. Designed for high-performance, high-bandwidth applications, the MPC7410…
Mangage Your Money Better
Finance is a checking, savings, and credit card account management program. It enables you to quickly enter, view, or modify transactions, search through your records, and reconcile your account balance with your bank statement by just clicking a button. Finance is fully compatible with Mac OS 9 and Year 2000 compliant. Key Features in Version…
iBrotha - WTFM!
WTFM! September 22nd, 2000 The substances of what we think, though born in thought, must live in ink. a publisher once said this Mac-book author Gene Steinberg: ’93 percent of users never crack open a manual’ A Mac-head since 1984, Gene Steinberg has written 19 books on computers and the Internet, plus hundreds…
AAPL Gets Kicked Lower on Unfounded Fears
For the first time in the eurois short existence the central banks of Japan, England, the US, Canada and the European Union intervened in currency markets to support the euro, which climbed several cents against the dollar. On Wednesday, the euro sank to all-time lows of 84.38 cents and 90.04 yen. The surprise concerted intervention…
Apple-Amazon 1-Click, Useless And Controversial?
The reactions to Apple licensing the 1-Click technology from Amazon.com seem mixed. There are users and writers who believe that the Apple Store is simple enough – not without reasons – that the 1-Click technology adds very little to an already simple shopping experience at Appleis online store. A different reaction, this one coming from…
Dow Trends Higher While Tech Stocks, Apple Included, Take a Fall
A Reuters article noted that investors are in a cautious mood, "Bullish comments from one of Wall Streetis most influential market watchers, Abby Joseph Cohen, failed to rally the market. Investorsi worries that high oil prices and a weak euro will bite into corporate profits are "overdone" and will be "short-lived," according to Goldman Sachsi…
Apple Borrows Amazon's "1-Click" Ordering Method
Apple announced today that they have taken a page out of Amazon.com’s book, and have licensed their patented 1-Click ordering system. The Amazon system allows users to register all relevant information with the company, and then purchase products by having to only click one time, rather than go through a long series of ordering pages…
The Boston Globe Interviews Former Apple Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki
Thanks to Applelinks for the tip. From the interview: Asked for his thoughts on Apple, Kawasaki responds that as a consumer he would like to see Apple make an ultra-lightweight laptop to compete with Sony Corp.is VAIO line of computers. "Iid like a laptop I can carry to five meetings a day," he said. As…
Apple Expo 2000 - Radeon Now Available As BTO Option (Updated)
Update: This article was originally posted at 6:30 AM and updated at 11:00 AM with a Spin. Several months afer the expected announcement, Apple has announced that ATI’s new Radeon graphics card is immediately available as a build-to-order option at the Apple Store. Original speculation had the Radeon replacing the Rage 128 across the line,…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - The Megahertz Can Of Worms
The Megahertz Can Of Worms September 12th, 2000 There are moments when you have to face serious problems and you wonder if there is a simple, or at least viable, way to save the day. Apple and its processor issue is one of these cases. How does one get out of it? For those who…
Global Mac Games Opens Doors, Gamers Everywhere Rejoice!
After spending some time away, the Global Mac Games web site is again open for business. Providing a place for gamers to chat, form clans, monitor progress, keep scores, and get the latest gaming news, Global Mac Games is a must for any serious Mac gamer. According to Global Mac Games: One of the Macintosh’s…
Tech Stocks Bounce and Apple's Stock Soars
PC stocks bounced back after IDC said, "unit volume for the worldwide PC market should climb to 33.4 million in the third quarter, a 18.5 percent jump from the year-ago period, " according to a CBS MarketWatch article. IDCis Bruce Stephen was quoted as saying, "The consumer market will once again propel global PC growth…
The Coming Revolution Of Online Comics. Popimage.com Interviews Mac User Scott McCloud
Mr. McCloudis first nonfiction book Understanding Comics, which is written/drawn in comic book fashion, achieved the very unusual combination of being eminently entertaining, becoming a bestseller in many languages, and becoming a widely used textbook on understanding comics. The book covers so many basic concepts it contains many important ideas that apply to creative subjects…
Default Folder Updated
Default Folder 3.0.7 delivers several compatibility fixes, including an important fix for problems that could cause applications to unexpectedly quit when using Default Folderis Recent Folders menu. St. Clair Software recommends that all existing Default Folder 3.0 users download this free update. Highlights of the changes in Default Folder 3.0.7 include: The Recent Folders menu…
Interview With Macintosh Godfather, Jeff Raskin
If you said you were a user interface specialist, you wouldnit have been understood. And certainly in the computer industry, it was a totally unknown concept: you just didnit worry about that. The idea of building a whole computer system starting with the user interface and working from there was completely alien, at least in…
The Mac Observer: On The Flip Side - The Perfect Dual Platform Computer, A Possibility Or A Pipe Dream?
The Perfect Dual Platform Computer, A Possibility Or A Pipe Dream? September 5th, 2000 Before we start, let me tell you that this week’s column could be nothing more than a wish for a crazy utopia. After all, perfect platform integration is not necessarily an easy thing and Windows is not necessarily everybody’s favorite operating…