Friday, January 21, 2000
Top Stories
News Vs Rumors, Which Is Which
News publications need to print daily, and rumor sites are no exception. And that is the problem inherently built into a strictly rumor site. You have to print something, even if you have nothing to print.
What Happened To The Exclusive Club Mac?
With Apple's recent success, the Mac club is becoming like a New York hot spot that welcomes the bridge-and-tunnel crowd. When anyone with $999 for an iMac can get in, who will left for us to "Different Different" from?... Like beauty, "different" is in the eye of the beholder - a fact Apple is banking on. "The brilliance of the brashness of Think Different is that it's very easy to apply it to yourself, regardless of Apple's intentions. It's an exclusive club and, yet, anyone can think he or she is a member."
News
Nitrozac
Nitrozac is the shadowy and sexy boot-wearing creator of After Y2K, one of the net's hottest comic strips. Growing up in Canada, she studied technology based art, but it was until she booted up her first Apple that her love of computer graphics started.
QuickTime 4.1 Goes Live
QuickTime 4.1 lets content producers insert video advertising into QuickTime streams and adds support for the emerging Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) vector-graphics standard.
3 Years Ago: Be Says Future Is Now
"Apple sees NeXT as an opportunity to go into a market where it has perennial problems, the enterprise market," [Be CEO Jean-Louis] Gassee told a conference... "We have no credibility in the enterprise market. The good thing about NeXT is that it's a proven operating system. We know where it works — in the enterprise. We thought [Apple's] focus was on a rich variety of applications. They changed their mind."
Opinion
Where Is Apple's Net Device Strategy? Could It Be BE?
While newsgroup speculation about Apple and Be crops up from time to time, the rumor mill mostly has been quiet about Apple's Net device plans. We hope Apple surprises us with another fabulous device. However, if its silence is caused by a lack of plans, we believe Apple's much-ballyhooed turnaround will come to a screeching halt.
The Press Starts Noticing (And Commenting On) Jobs' Staggering Compensation
I personally think that the vast majority of the people who do the complaining ar epeople who couldn't do the job themselves. It's always easier for the unable to resent the able. It takes a rare individual to run a Fortune 500 company successfully, and a still mor erare individual to turn a company like Apple around in the manner Mr. Jobs did.
What Happened To The Exclusive Club Mac?
With Apple's recent success, the Mac club is becoming like a New York hot spot that welcomes the bridge-and-tunnel crowd. When anyone with $999 for an iMac can get in, who will left for us to "Different Different" from?... Like beauty, "different" is in the eye of the beholder - a fact Apple is banking on. "The brilliance of the brashness of Think Different is that it's very easy to apply it to yourself, regardless of Apple's intentions. It's an exclusive club and, yet, anyone can think he or she is a member."
Aqua Bashing!?
Aqua. Only barely seen for half a month and drawing criticism. And on points that these people don't/can't even know if they are true or not.
Review
iSub
While the iSub itself is a flawless work of art and engineering, there are a few kinks with the software that need to be worked out.
Mac OS 9: The Gamer's View
Thankfully, there is a lot more to OS 9 than [Sherlock II]. One of those features that isn't listed on the box but most definitely comes in handy is increasd stability - and this time, it is serious.
The Movie Makers: Sony PC Vs Apple iMac
For easy video editing, the iMac wins thanks to its low price, elegant software, and no-hassle hardware support. But don't expect to do anything else with it while you're watching a DVD movie.
When Mice Attack
Tired of struggling with that round mouse? Try one of these USB alternatives.
Sidetrack
It's 12.18 in the afternoon, it's a comfortable 48 degrees out there, and your Windows has just crashed again.
And for those who are not too savvy about URLs (and we shouldn't need to), the above photo came from goodexperience.com.
Wintel
Corel Wins WordPerfect Deal With DOJ
Microsoft's big competitor in the office, Corel, signs a multimillion-dollar-deal with it's big competitor in the courtroom, the U.S. Department of Justice.
Litle Progress At Microsoft Talks, Sources Say
Microsoft and antitrust enforcers have made little progress toward a settlement of the government's landmark antitrust case and it's unlikely mediation will yield an agreement, people familiar with the discussions said.
Gateway Q4 Earnings Meet Expectations
Fourth-quarter profits at Gateway Inc. came in where the company predicted.
Chip Sales Boost AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (nc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the microprocessor market, reported its first profit in a year, exceeding the highest forecasts, helped by rising sales of its new Athlon chip.