Sunday, March 28, 2004
Top Stories
Apple's Extended Warranty Smart Buy For Laptop Users
Every laptop I've ever purchased from Apple has had to make at least one trip back, sometimes for manufacutring defects and sometimes well after the original warranty would have run out.
News
HyperCard: 1987 - 2004
Well it finally happened, Apple removed the HyperCard sub-directory from the main Apple site and you can no longer buy HyperCard from the Apple store.
Review
Perosnal Finance Software: Five Programs That Make Sense Of Your Dollars
Quicken 2004 is by far the most comprehensive financial package available for the Mac. However, both PigMoney and Budget are good choices for people with less-complicated financial needs.
The Game Room: To Seek Out New Enemies
Mac GEMS: What's Your Function?
Squeezebox: Digital Music Player Fit For A Home Stereo
The Squeezebox is the perfect device for anyone who wants a seamless stereo-component experience from an iTunes music collection.
Setting Up Apple Remote Desktop
If you work in an environment where you need to manage a large number of Macs (such as in a classroom), you might want to take a look at Apple's Remote Desktop.
Panther Secrets Declassified
We go undercover to reveal 40+ Mac OS X 10.3 tips and tricks.
Sidetrack
The Nation: This is what Microsoft calls a "feature". Everyone else calls it a bug.
Apple's iPod for Windows does not support one of the features on Windows that is so great that Steve Jobs has to steal for Mac OS X: Switch User Feature.
Wintel
Off With Their Ads
Microsoft is the latest software concern taking aim at one of the great banes of online life — those annonying ads for diet plans, credit cards and low mortgage rates that suddenly appear on your computer screen while you are perusing your favorite Web page, forcing you to click on them to turn them off.
Microsoft's Concept Home Too Much Of A Wired Thing
Demonstrations like Microsoft's are fun and thought-provoking, but the entire computer industry needs to do a much better job of makin its products painless to use before it earns the right to spread from one desk to the rest of the home.