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Apple's
Little iTunes Pricing Problem
in Europe (9-17-04) Dr.
Neale Monks. A British consumer's
rights organisationbelieves
the iTunes Music Store breaks
European Union law by making
the British pay 17% more per
song than the French and Germans.
Neale Monks looks at how this
situation came about and what
it means for Apple.
The
New G5 iMac: A Reality Check (9-10-04)
Dr. Neale Monks. Is the new
iMac as compromised as the original
Bondi Blue iMac? Before we get
too excited, Neale takes a quick
reality check.
Trust But Verify - Look Beyond
the Hype this Election (9-10-04)
Amy Denton. In this year of
politics and campaigns, conventions
and protests, I would ask one
thing of everyone who reads
this article to stop and think
before going to vote.
Editorial:
Used Macs (7-16-04). Dr. Neale
Monks. What's the best way to get
a used Mac? Neale Monks has some
advice for buyers on a budget.
How
the Grinch With the Green iPod
Stole Macworld (1-9-04) András
Puiz. No Macs at MacWorld. The
$100 iPod sells for $250. What's
going on here? Is everything alright?
Well, Apple certainly is, thank
you very much.
Will
There Be a Corporate Mac? (12-22-03)
András Puiz. How Xserves,
NetBoot and some ingenious crippling
could pave the way to a $500 Mac
that could take the enterprise
world by storm while keeping iMac
sales intact.
Remembrances
of Macs Past - Part 2: The Lows
(11-11-03) Dr. Neale Monks. Not
every Apple out of Cupertino was
made of gold. Neale Monks had the
misfortune to come across a few
of them.
Not
Fond of Font Book (10-30-03)
András Puiz. Looking for
an excuse for upgrading to Panther?
Look elsewhere. The underpowered,
buggy and confusing Font Book is
frustrating for beginners and pros
alike.
FileVault:
A Secure Image (10-27-03) András
Puiz. With Panther, comes the welcome
addition of 128-bit on the fly
encryption for your Home directory.
András details its setup,
and the pros and cons of using
FileVault
Mail
(10-27-03) Marc Messer. It's been
a year since the last major upgrade
to Mail. What has Apple been up
to?
What's
New Pussycat (10-25-03) Dr.
Neale Monks. Neale Monks takes
a look at the key new features
in Panther and wonders whether
they're enough to make the home
and small office user want to change.
Why
Every Major Desktop Application
is Archaic: Implement Internal
Multitasking Now! (10-10-03)
András Puiz. Despite all
the innovation taking place on
the Mac and elsewhere, mainstream
document-based applications are
pathetically stuck in their old
ways. Just one simple question:
Why can't I edit one document while
the other is printing?
Classic
Games: Diablo (9-12-03) Dr.
Neale Monks. Neale Monks looks
at another Mac game with a remarkably
long life, Blizzard's epic sword-and-sorcery
role-playing game, Diablo.
Knocking
on Heaven's Door: Is the World
Ready for Buying Music Online?
(8-22-03) András Puiz. The
music industry is facing transition.
We need to watch the five giant
record labels very closely: the
actions they will be taking in
the near future are going to determine
how many will fall victim to the
new paradigm shift. Because there
will be casualties. This is a cruel
world, after all, where consumer
satisfaction is often bought at
ungodly prices.
Classic
Games: SimCity (8-8-03) Dr.
Neale Monks. SimCity is the definitive
micro-management game, and uniquely
four generations of the game, spanning
ten years of development, are still
being played. Neale Monks wonders
why city-building games are so
popular.
Classic
Games: Quake (8-1-03) Dr. Neale
Monks. In the first in a series
on classic games that have made
the jump to OS X, Neale Monks takes
a look at the definitive action
game, Quake.
What
No Browser Ever Gets Right: Don't
Freakin' Interrupt Me! (7-18-03)
András Puiz. András
thinks web browsers should finally
grow up and behave like adult applications.
No, daddy won't look at that nasty
pop-up window. Let him do his work
now, will you?
Panther
Thoughts, Digressions and Wild
Speculation (6-27-03) András
Puiz. Is Panther a toy for graphics
professionals, a technology showcase
for Apple, a clever ploy to get
your money, or a devious plan to
wipe Microsoft off the Macintosh?
All
good things come to an end: an
iMac retrospective (5-16-03)
Dr. Neale Monks. In March the original
iMac was dropped from Apple's product
line-up after a production run
of over five years. Neale Monks
reflects on the life and death
of the computer that quite probably
saved Apple Computer and the Mac
operating system.
Lust
Gone Awry - Don’t Mix Macs
and Politics (3-17-03) Pierre
Igot. Pierre explains why he disagrees
with the recent publication of
a political piece by Charles Moore
at Applelust.com
Apple's
Post-Macworld Product Matrix: We're
Cubed, and Loving It! (1-17-03)
András Puiz. András
looks at Apple's product matrix
after the Macworld announcements,
and comes back with a revelation:
the Cube is alive and kicking.
But will there be an eBook or an
XMac? András thinks he knows
the answer.
APSL
and the Open Source Community
(1-17-03) Sabin Densmore. Comparing
the APSL to the GPL. How committed
to the Open Source community is
Apple?
