Wednesday, July 26, 2000
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Apple Pro Mouse
Apple's new optical mouse is a work of art carved in Lucite.
The iMac Evolution: Steve Jobs At His Best
When a computer called the iMac was introduced to the public more than two years ago by a nearly dead computer company with a name of a fruit, no one seriously thought that it would sell, much less save the company. Actually, this statement isn't quite correct. No one, except one person.
The Obligatory Cube Article: Design And Marketing Of The New Apple G4 Cube
So here it is. The Cube is going to be a hit. Not a home run like the iMac was, but a nice solid line drive that, with a little pushing, could add significantly to Apples bottom line. The reasons for this lie in its primary selling points, which are; Design, Power, and Price.
Beige Boxes Bog Standard Stays
Beige PCs look like they have a long and healthy life ahead of them, just as long as Intel and the others don't start developing cuboid cases all of a sudden.
News
Writing's On Wall For Mac OS X
Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? Mac users may soon be drawing that conclusion, thanks to forthcoming pen-input software from Apple Computer Inc.
Startup Park At Siggraph
Some of the most interesting products at Siggraph 2000 come from the least-known vendors, including a 3-D mouse that looks like a soccer ball and a Photoshop/AfterEffects plug-in that intelligently removes noise from still or moving images
Web 3D Developers Duke It Out At Siggraph
Metastream, Macromedia, Pulse Entertainment and others are competing to deliver interactive 3-D content to Web browsers. Most are promising improved Mac support.
After iMac, Pressure Mounts On Apple
With the Cube, a new rainbow of iMacs, Jobs' marketing powers and a new operating system on the way, Apple is rolling. It has six months to work on its next act.
Opinion
It's Going To Be A Rough Ride
In the end, Mac OS X may be a remarkable success, both in terms of Apple's Herculean programming efforts and in terms of the ultimate benefit to Mac users. But that's a judgment that can't truly be made for at least another year.
The Eternal Question: Is Apple Corporate Secrecy Justified?
Surely there's a way to bring in more journalists into the process and give them information, under strict nondisclosure, so they can better inform readers when new products are ready to roll.
iMac Colors Good, Bad, The Ugly
Snow seems like an attempt to go back to beige and get businesses more interested, or a way to keep kids from licking the cases, I'm not sure which.
Why Apple Should Open Source Final Cut
Going along the open source route would show developers that Apple is not in the business of competing with them, and that even if the company is forced to develop products in-house in order to kickstart a market, it is not going to continue to dominate that market.
There Is Nothing Wrong With Mozilla
I wouldn't be surprised if a future seminar points to Mozilla as a good example of how to run an Open Source project.
The Obligatory Cube Article: Design And Marketing Of The New Apple G4 Cube
So here it is. The Cube is going to be a hit. Not a home run like the iMac was, but a nice solid line drive that, with a little pushing, could add significantly to Apples bottom line. The reasons for this lie in its primary selling points, which are; Design, Power, and Price.
Review
SoundJam MP
A full-featured MP3 player and recorder, SoundJam MP provides all of the tools to transform any Mac into a versatile jukebox, limited only by the size of a hard drive.
Freeway 3.0
Web tool will please designers, disappoint web professionals.
Sidetrack
Rumormill
The latest trend from Apple: no more buttons! Witness the absense of a power button on the cube...
And here at AppleSurf, we have exclusive picture of the new keyboard prototype. This puts new meaning to the phase touch typing.
(Picture from Robert A. Green.)
Lies, Lies, And Then There's News
The Register: After all, if you're running Excel, PowerPoint and databases on your PC in the office, the last thing you want to do is to be able to see through the case and see the massive heatsink and multiple fans cooling down the Pentium 4 and Ramboids sitting inside. Do you?
ABCNEWS.com: Yahoo! has subsidiaries all around the world, including in Singapore, where publishing information critical of the government is illegal. And that's news to me.
Robin Gross: What the Web is today is a collection of links. Where do we draw the line? We're all two or three clicks away from something illegal or from something someone doesn't like.
Wintel
Let's Put Rambus Out Of Its Misery
Intel—the company that made rambus what it is today—has proved rambus lacks the goods.
Rambus Drops On Intel's Pentium 4 Decision
Shares of semiconductor designer Rambus tumbled today following Intel's announcement that the controversial memory based around Rambus' designs won't be the only option for Pentium 4 desktop PCs.