Monday, February 11, 2002

Where Are The FireWire Drives [MacSlash] - If you are interested in finding a high-speed hard drive, this discussion from Macslash ought to be helpful. Posts so far examine the speed of current FireWire, Ultra-SCSI and USB drives. 5:12:21 PM comment

Making Better iMovies [TidBITS] 5:08:23 PM comment

Printing Digital Photos, Part 1 [TidBITS] 5:07:25 PM comment

PrefsOverload now handles OS X long file names [MacCentral] 2:03:48 PM comment

Macintouch has tips today for those trying to run the patch on Microsoft Office v. X in one of its featured reader reports. 1:40:09 PM comment

Many Mac news sites are trying to figure out how to make ends meet as services for their readers. Some, like MacFixIt, have chosen to restrict access to content, offering a higher-level of access for those willing to pay to look at their archives, and many others are doing a combination of advertising support and soliciting readers for donations. Dan Knight at LowEndMac offers his take on making his site pay for itself in a column today, and he references other columns on the topic while making the argument for his approach - a combination of advertising and reader support. As I start to spend more time working on Mac Net Journal I am contemplating these issues too. I haven't made any final decisions yet...Still digging. 1:24:19 PM comment

MacEase has a good compilation and review of PowerBook accessories by Steve Becker. 10:32:10 AM comment

SF Gate: All Hail Creative Commons. In a boon to the arts and the software industry, Creative Commons will make available flexible, customizable intellectual-property licenses that artists, writers, programmers and others can obtain free of charge to legally define what constitutes acceptable uses of their work. [Tomalak's Realm] 10:24:44 AM comment

Columnist: how schools are tricked into buying PCs [MacCentral] 10:22:06 AM comment

MT-Newswatcher 3.2 released, for OS X [MacCentral] 10:12:47 AM comment

Bob Levitus joins in the chorus of voices railing against recent Microsoft bugs with Office v. X on the OSXFaq site today. He had major problems installing the updater patch to fix Microsoft's faulty code. 9:46:05 AM comment

What Is The Best UPS For Mac OS X? [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] - This should be interesting reading for those working in offices that have either already switched to OS X or that are considering making the move to OS X. I will be reading with interest, since my office machines are not curretly on a UPS. This also gets me to thinking: For those who do most of their work on laptops, who thinks that UPSes are less critical for you? 9:04:01 AM comment

'Unix Guide to Mac OS X' on board MacMania [MacCentral] 8:55:02 AM comment

Olympics Site Not Medal-Worthy. Interface design guru Jakob Nielsen says the official Salt Lake website has a chilling effect on users. Like many 'capitulating' sites in need of revenue, it places ad dollars ahead of sound design. Farhad Manjoo reports from San Francisco. [Wired News] - This is also filed in my Winter Olympic category that I am maintaining throughout the games in Utah 8:53:17 AM comment

Apple: no new CPUs in Tokyo or coming months [MacCentral] - This is bad news for developers and high-end users looking for more processor power and speed 8:51:10 AM comment

Firm says chip to sharpen digital photos. Foveon unveils its X3 image sensor chip, saying it will improve the quality of digital photographs by capturing a larger amount of color resolution. [CNET News.com] 8:40:16 AM comment

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