Saturday, June 22, 2002
Top Stories
Improving The Outlook For Entourage
PC users moving to Mac OS X have Paul Berkowitz to thank for helping them port their personal data to a new platform. Apple and Microsoft should also be thankful, as well as a little embarrased that they are relying on an individual developer to make up for their own shortcomings.
News
Interview: Jordan Hubbard
Jordan Hubbard is one of the creators of FreeBSD and currently a manager of Apple's Darwin project. With just a high school education, Jordan has offered some impressive contributions to the world of computing.
Wall Street Braces For Second-Quarter Warnings
While concerns about terrorism still haunt investors, the greater influence on trading is the fact that the market is in the throes of one of its most anxiety-producing periods - warning season.
Velocity-X: 200 Gigaflop Mac Cluster
Are Macs Really Cheaper To Own?
Garnter has backed away from its blanket statement that Apple's Mac computers are cheaper to own and maintain than PCs — but many still believe that to be the case.
Will Apple Release iPod Software For Windows?
A research note from Needham analyst Charles Wolf today indicates that Apple may be close to releasing Windows syncing software for its popular iPod MP3 player.
eMaac Debut In Hong Kong Unimpressive
Apple Promotions Expiring Next Week
Several of the promotions that Apple has launched over the past couple of months are due to expire next week.
Apple And Bioinformatics
Where does Apple fit into this and why are they interested in bioscience?
iPod-Windows Link Getting Stronger
Software maker MediaFour plans to release on Monday its XPlay program, the company's first Windows application for connecting PCs with Apple Computer's iPod digital music player.
Opinion
MacHack, Day 1
Lots of people have their kids with them.
Apple Stock: Is Now The Time To Buy Or Sell?
Rather than becoming alarmed at the stock plunge, we should perhaps view tech stocks as settling at something like their real value.
Unicode: Sick Of This Push And Pull
The problem is well-known to proficient Mac users, but sufffers from an utter lack of attention on the part of those people who are in a position to solve it in a satisfactory manner.
Review
ColdFusion MX On Mac OS X
The evolution of ColdFusion MX, one of the hottest new Web development products, and how to get ColdFusion MX running on Mac OS X.
Music Gets Bigger And Smaller
As the storage capacity of hard drives increases and their phyiscal size continues to shrink, the portable music players that use them can only get better.
Moore's Guide To The Best Free And Cheap Mac Productivity Software 2002
Quartz Internet Explorer For Mac OS X
It's just about fantastic.
Sidetrack
Damien Barrett found this: Computers are like air conditioners, they don't work when you open windows.
Wintel
Microsoft .Net Software's Hidden Cost
Companies plannning on moving their old programs to Microsoft's new .Net software plan had better prepare for sticker shock: Making the conversion could cost roughly half of the original development cost, Gartner says.