Thursday, December 20, 2001
Top Stories
Burning With Ambition
Sales of recordable DVDs expected to heat up, thanks to home movies.
News
Interview: Erik Ryan Of Microsoft
The inside scooop on the MBU, Office v. X, and more.
Bare Bones Releases BBEdit 6.5.1
The new version gains language support for JSP and an improved version of the "bbedit" command-line tool.
Qualcomm: Eudora For OS X Coming In Early 2002
"We will be resuming the OS X effort immediately."
Apple Preps For QuickTime Live Conference
QuickTime Live will give attendees a chance to get more information on Apple's implementation of MPEG-4.
Review
OS X Is Good To Go Mainstream
For many of the niches where the Mac is popular, the transition to OS X will take more time. But for mainstream business and Internet use, OS X has reached its stride.
Digital Cameras For Less: How Much Will $300 Buy?
To see just how much trickling has gone down, I asked each major camera company, How much digital camera does $300 buy?
Sidetrack
Idiot Installers
Now, here are some of things I do when I update software on my Mac...
- Backup my data.
- Move application back to its original folder, if I can remember. Otherwise, just dump it at the top level of Applications folder.
- Pray.
Damn idiot installers.
Random
Dave Winer: It's the perfect workaround for future antitrust problems. Just let the PC die and replace it with [Xbox] that they fully control. Does Microsoft have the power to make the PC die? I don't know. They'll deny it's their intention, but the tea leaves say something different.
Manny, Omni Group: Once a pgorammer has used Cocoa, there's never any question about what the future of programming will be.
Doc Searls: Buy Apple stock.
Is Eudora's OS X development effort still continuting towards a final release, or has it stopped, with just a beta version? MacInTouch's readers weigh in with different hear-say.
Downloading the Internet here.
Wintel
Microsoft Sues Linux Start-Up Over Name
Microsoft filed a motion against Lindows, which is developing a version of the Linux operating system that will run popular Windows applications.