Month: October 2002

Apple’s fourth quarter financial results by conference call on Wednesday beginning at 2pm PT/5pm ET. A live stream will be available on Apple’s Web site here.

SpyMac is reporting that, “…an upcoming refresh of iChat will feature Jabber compatibility. Jabber is an open platform for instant messaging that is already supported by several Macintosh clients.” Read on here.

From Mediocresoft’s website, “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert,” subtitled, “Mac to PC: Mission Accomplished, Convert Thrilled,” comes another startingly unoriginal piece of tripe from the bowels of Redmond. Read it here.

Writing for Federal Computer Week, “your government IT resource,” Maggie Biggs states, “When you think of Apple Computer Inc. and Macintosh systems, you probably don’t think about servers. Think again. I was amazed at what Apple has done with its first server offering, Xserve. Agencies should consider it as a platform that can easily handle […]

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There are several ways to create and change the standard Mac OS X icons. This is especially helpful in visually identifying frequently-used folders on your desktop or within your hard drive. Here are a few apps, downloads, and links. CandyBar is a new OS X application brought to you by Panic, the creators of Audion, […]

Remember those “Pentium Snail” ads from Apple a few years back? It feels like I’ve got one of those escargots in my PowerBook when I run Mac OS X 10.2.1…

A Mouse Gesture is a combination of up, down, left, and right mouse motions used to perform some command. There are several pre-defined gestures and you can also define your own. You can also choose which button & modifier key combo consitutes a gesture. For example: a gesture left – down – right – up […]

Apple has a new promotion called, “Power Couple.” Get up to a US$400 discount with the purchase a Power Macintosh G4 or PowerBook G4, along with a 17-inch, 22-inch, or 23-inch Apple flat-panel display. The offer expires December 31, 2002. More here.

Looks like Apple will be reserving iTools members’ names who choose not to subscribe to .Mac after accounts expire on October 14. An email sent by Apple states: ” Anticipating the day when you’ll be ready to join .Mac because you want the software and services it’s delivering, we’ll keep reserving your old iTools member […]

“The publishing industry built atop Mac technology is bound for flux, as Apple Computer Inc., of Cupertino, Calif., and page-layout market leader Quark Inc., of Denver, both prepare to pull the plug on the classic Mac OS and focus exclusively on Mac OS X,” Andreas Pfeiffer writes in eWEEK. “While Apple’s September announcement that as […]

Have you ever wanted to make a unique folder icon that stands out clearly on your desktop? Or change a document’s icon, so that when you mail it to a client they know it’s from you and you alone? Try Mscape’s Iconographer. Iconographer is a fully-featured icon editor. It allows you to both change the […]

Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit debuted a new ad campaign today for their Office v. X suite of applications. “The ads, which portray Macs and PCs sharing a meaningful friendship, will launch in Macintosh, business, technology and design publications on October 12, 2002. The focus of the ads is on the importance of cross-platform compatibility and […]

Purchase any Macintosh from October 10, 2002 through December 31, 2002 and double the base RAM configuration for only $40. Terms and conditions here.

“Apple has quietly discontinued the current 15-inch Studio Display,” Spymac confirmed earlier this week. The news follows rumors that the 15-inch iMac is on the verge of extinction. Read it here.

“Apple’s .Mac services are an all-or-nothing proposition. Unlike Microsoft or Yahoo, Apple isn’t offering stripped-down services such as basic Web e-mail for free while trying to charge for enhanced services. When Macintosh users download and install Apple’s new iCal software, they’ll get a gorgeous-looking and feature-packed program for managing their schedules and to-do lists. Best […]

“Xserve is an impressive server with a multitude of potential uses, excellent ease of use, plenty of storage, and a software configuration that allows for an unlimited number of connections

Check out this article from PC Magazine that we reported on back on September 24th. It was entitled, “Editors’ Choice for Consumer Desktops,” the url is http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,544315,00.asp. Since we wrote about it on 9/24/02, they’ve since changed the date on the article to October 15th – unless we’re in some twisted timewarp. Then, today, we […]

ZDNet UK reports, “Microsoft is considering charging for additional security options, and admits it didn’t move on security until customers were ready to pay for it. Microsoft ‘may offer new security abilities on a paid basis,’ according to the company’s chief technical officer Craig Mundie. The possibility is under consideration within Microsoft’s security business unit, […]

Want to see more of what you’re writing in iChat before you send it? iChat Enhancer lets you change the number of lines used to type a new message in iChat. Use iChat Enhancer to set iChat’s input field to as many lines as you’d like. iChat Enhancer is a free download. Get the info […]

Many, many, many email messages have poured in over the past two days asking how the actual themes themselves are created since we ran our story, “Tired of Aqua? How to ‘theme’ Mac OS X Jaguar” on Monday. The answer is ThemePark. ThemePark is an application for actually creating custom themes on Mac OS X. […]

Rick Merritt, for EE Times (10/09/02, reports, “IBM Corp. may give a peek into Apple Computer Inc.’s 64-bit future when it details a new version of its Power4 microprocessor next week. Aimed for use in desktops and low-end servers, the 64-bit Power4 could be IBM’s first PowerPC-compatible chip to support the Altivec multimedia instruction extensions […]

The member’s section of .Mac featured the following message today. “As a “welcome” gift, .Mac full members enjoy a free copy of Alchemy Deluxe, the latest release from PopCap Games. Can you turn ordinary stone to gold? Test your skills at arranging magic runes to accomplish this transformation. You can set your level of play, […]

“Knowing that ever-faster machines no longer excite buyers, its push to make Macs your “digital hub” makes more sense every day,” Charles Haddad writes in his October 9 ‘Byte of the Apple’ column for BusinessWeek. Haddad states, “Apple understands this change. In fact, it saw the shift before just about anyone else. When CEO Steve […]

In the October 7, 2002 issue of eWeek, Jason Brooks writes, “combining a thoughtfully designed user interface with components culled from the open-source community, Apple Computer Inc.’s BSD-based Mac OS X 10.2 operating system will probably fit into the mainstream enterprise desktop space better than any other Unix-based system.” Read the whole review here.

The Boston Herald reports, “Boston has beat out the Big Apple for the blockbuster 2004 Macworld show, which could pump tens of millions into the city’s hard-hit economy. Sources say IDG World Expo will bring the show back to the Hub from New York in a comeback win for Boston, which lost the show in […]

Anither reason to switch to the light. From the Sophos anti-virus for business site: “Sophos technical support has received a number of calls from users of Apple Macintosh computers concerned they may have been infected by the W32/Bugbear-A worm. Users of Apple Macintosh computers, however, cannot be infected by these Windows viruses.” It’s here.

Subscribers to Apple’s .Mac suite of Internet services were unable to access Web sites hosted by the service. Reports of problems began surfacing yesterday, the service was fully restored sometime today. .Mac Users experienced an error message stating “Gateway Timeout”. iDisk was offline, email couldn’t be sent or received, and none of the .Mac forums […]

According to Mac OS Rumors, “Sherlock might not remain a free application forever; there are signs that Apple may be planning to make it part of .Mac in a future system update (probably OS X 10.3). Although significant new functionality will be added, Sherlock would be based around connecting to Apple servers and acting not […]

With a story that sounds like the “beleagured Apple” pap being published years ago, but for some reason being published in their October 14, 2002 issue, U.S. News and World Reports manages to get almost everything wrong here.

Writing, “the juiciest new product from Apple Computer is the Mac OS X version 10.2 operating system,” Fortune’s Peter Lewis pens an ode to ‘The Wolrd’s Most Advanced Operating System’ in his recent piece. Lewis writes, “code-named Jaguar, version 10.2 is as quick as its namesake, leading to generally faster overall computer performance. As a […]

Bare Feats pits XP on P4 and Athlon XP vs. OS X on G4(s) and concludes, “I think Apple is at a crossroads. It must decide whether to stick with the Motorola/IBM processor which is falling further and further behind in speed or switch to Pentium or Athlon. I’d like to see them go to […]

Tired of Aqua? Duality is an application that lets you change the look and feel of Mac OS X. Using Duality is easy. Simply start up Duality. You can add themes by dragging them from the Finder to the list of themes in Duality. You can add icon sets by dragging them to the list […]

Stephan Somogyi, Contributing Columnist of ZDNet’s AnchorDesk remains “utterly perplexed that Apple doesn’t market the iBook as a professional subnotebook or offer a professionalized version with better hardware specs than the consumer version.” He asks, “Is there a market for such devices?” Read it here.

Subscribers to Apple’s .Mac suite of Internet services were unable to access Web sites hosted by the service. Reports of problems began surfacing yesterday, the service was fully restored sometime today. .Mac Users experienced an error message stating “Gateway Timeout”. iDisk was offline, email couldn’t be sent or received, and none of the .Mac forums […]

Apple has quietly dropped the price across the 15″ iMac line by US$100 returning some original configurations to their original prices when introduced and other configurations to prices lower than their introductory prices. The new iMac prices: The 15-inch flat screen iMac, for a suggested retail price of US$1,699, includes: an 800 MHz PowerPC G4 […]

After some recent .Mac outages caused many .Mac subscribers to complain recently, Apple posted the following on the .Mac members’ online support pages today: Dear .Mac Member, We hope you haven’t been greatly inconvenienced by the two .Mac network outages we’ve experienced in the past two weeks (including this morning) and we sincerely apologize for […]

Diederik Veelo has released iCal Script Integrator, version 1.0. This script allows you to use applescript straight out of iCal’s events by modifying it’s “e-mail notification” script. This means that you can let iCal schedule tasks or start applications for you! “Time to backup my hard drive automatically!” Or “time for iCal to email my […]