Archived Links for July 2006

7.29	Briel Computers	Replica I, Staff: The replica 1 is a functional clone of the apple 1 computer created by Steve Wozniak in 1976. This was the computer that Steve Jobs and Woz used to start Apple Computers in 1976. The latest version of the replica 1 is labeled SE for Second Edition.
7.28	Macworld UK	Ballmer: Microsoft must be "multi-core", Elizabeth Montalbano: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that his company must be able to operate successfully in multiple markets - a phenomenon he called being "multi-core" - for the company to continue to grow well into the future.
7.28	MacNN	Apple clarifies: iPod lasts "for years", Staff: Apple today said that company spokeswoman Natalie Kerris was misquoted in a report on iPod lifespan published by the Chicago Tribune earlier this week. The report quoted Kerris as saying that Apple’s iPod is designed to last "four years," but Kerris said she told the reporter that the iPod was designed to last "for years."
7.28	MacNN	Customizer puts iMac in Mercedes CLS, Staff: MacNN’s Leftlane News has an interesting look at a customized Mercedes-Benz CLS with an integrated iMac personal computer. Created by car customizer Mattes Interieurtechnik, the car has a completely reupholstered interior, wither color-matched leather covering the iMac.
7.28	MacNN	Flip4Mac WMV Player now Universal, Staff: Telestream has released an update to Flip4Mac WMV Player, allowing the software to run natively on Intel- based Macs as a Universal Binary. WMV Player originally was introduced near the final days of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player for Mac, successfully offerring integration of Windows Media (WM) formats into Apple’s QuickTime Player.
7.28	Low End Mac	A 25 Dollar iMac! It’s a Steal, but What to Do With It?, Adam Robert Guha: While browsing the local thrift shop the other day, I decided to take a look at the computer section. Not that I was expecting to find anything good, as most of what they tend to carry are 10-year-old PCs. Surprisingly, amidst 10-15 beige box PCs sat a single iMac - with a 25 dollar price sticker on it.
7.28	Low End Mac	The ’Book Review, Charles W Moore and Dan Knight: Apple ’Books Now 12 percent of Market, MacBook Pro’s ’Daft Power Supply’, Pimp Your MacBook, and More
7.28	Low End Mac	Mac News Review, Charles W Moore and Dan Knight: Is 512 MB Enough?, Macs Gain Share in Business, Wireless Mighty Mouse, Toast Adds Blu-ray Support, and More
7.28	Macworld UK	Microsoft will spend ’millions’ promoting Zune, Staff: Microsoft is preparing to use its financial clout and PC systems dominance to take on Apple, once again.
7.28	Apple Matters	What the World Owes Microsoft, Chris Seibold: If you judged the popularity of OSes solely on the amount of coverage on the internet, you’d be hard pressed to reach the conclusion that Apple and Linux count for less than 10 percent of the market combined. An objective observer would probably peg the market split at somewhere around 40, 30, 30 percent.
7.28	Macworld	Sid Meier’s Civilization IV, Cyrus Farivar: For history and world affairs buffs, there’s just something greatly appealing about Sid Meier’s Civilization IV. In this strategy game, you build a civilization up from spearmen and triremes to mechanized infantry and battleships.
7.27	MacNN	Daystar Titanium PowerBook upgrades, Staff: Daystar Technology today introduced the new XLR8 CPU upgrade for Apple’s Titanium PowerBook G4 series, delivering up to 100 percent improved performance for owners of most classic Titanium systems.
7.27	MacMinute	Ellen Feiss interview available on the Web, Staff: An interview (at the Flux) is now available on the Web with Ellen Feiss, who rose to fame with her Apple "Switch" advertising spot a few years ago. Ms. Feiss did her interview from France, where she was filming a new independent film, "Bed and Breakfast." In the interview she speaks of the film, why she is in France, and her future plans.
7.27	MacNN	Apple’s global brand value grows 14 Percent, Staff: Apple’s global brand value grew by almost 14 percent over the past year, according to a BusinessWeek survey of brands. Google, Starbucks, Motorola, and eBay are among this year’s top gainers in BusinessWeek’s annual ranking of The Best Global Brands, while Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Intel were among top five brands, respectively.
7.27	MacNN	Intel rolls out Core 2 Duo chips, 7.27: Intel today rolled out its Core 2 Duo processor with 10 new dual-core chips boasting higher performance and improved energy efficiency, according to Computerworld. Apple is expected to adopt the 64-bit chips, which queitly shipped late last week ahead of schedule, in the company’s next generation of notebooks and entry-evel desktop systems.
7.27	Apple Matters	OpenDarwin Dies a Lonely Death, Devanshu Mehta: It is a sad day for two communities today-the Apple community and the open source community. The OpenDarwin Core Team announced this week, on their mailing list and on their web site that the project is shutting down.
7.27	Low End Mac	The Secret Life of Computers, Ted Hodges: We all use our computer day in and day out for some task or another. But hat happens when we shut them off or put them to sleep at the end of a long workday? Well, gentle reader, put you mind at ease because you’re about to hear a story that those of us at Vintage Mac Living like to call "The Secret Life of Computers."
7.27	Apple Matters	July 27, 1998: Gil Amelio Describes Proper Apple Management Style, Chris Seibold: A little over a year had passed since Gil Amelio had been ousted from Apple. While others saw it coming, Dr. Amelio wasn’t one of them. Instead of focusing on the ouster Dr. Amelio preferred the high road outlining the positive moves he made while heading Apple.
7.26	MacMerc.com	Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest Winners, RickMacMerc: Today, I posted the winners as well as three runners up, (out of over 40 entries submitted) and I think the results speak for themselves. After one look at these, chances are you’ll be very disappointed come WWDC.
7.26	Apple Matters	Do you want OS X with that PC?, Chris Howard: Good morning, Steve. I know you don’t listen to us, you’ve got a team of experts who display more expertise in a day than I will in a lifetime, but I’ve got the keyboard so I’m writing anyway. I’ve got the idea, you get your experts to find the solution. My idea, my dream, is OS X on an affordable but highly customizable computer.
7.25	Mac Slash	Mightier Wireless Mouse Unveiled By Apple, acaben: Now you can get the familiar feel of Apple’s Mighty Mouse minus the wires. Apple unveiled the new wireless version on the Apple home page not long after pictures of a prototype showed up at Engadget. The new model has bluetooth and some sort of "laser- powered" tracking system Apple claims is 20 times more sensitivity to surface detail than traditional optical tracking engines.
7.24	Computerworld	How to make Windows on the Mac flow like Wine, Neil McAllister: Owners of Intel-based Macintosh computers are still waiting for versions of many of their favorite applications that are built for the new hardware.
7.23	MacDailyNews	Computer Weekly poll: Who are the most influential IT people of past 40 years? (Steve Jobs included), Staff: Computer Weekly is celebrating its fortieth year with a "Top People Poll: Who are the most influential IT people of the past 40 years?"
7.23	MacDailyNews	Apple prepping iPod with eBook capabilities?, Staff: We’ve gotten not one, but two bits from separate, trustworthy insiders that Apple’s not satisfied merely vending Audible’s books-on-digital-audio solution.
7.22	CRN	Michael Dell’s Swipe At Apple A Glancing Blow?, Edward F. Moltzen: Amid all of Dell’s news yesterday, remarks by Michael Dell about longtime rival Apple managed to fly under the radar.
7.22	MacUser	.Mac webmail problems, or I’m one straw away, Derik DeLong: One of the reasons I use .Mac’s mail is that it has a web interface that I can use when not at any of my own computers. It’s essential. Normally, I really dislike using web interfaces (one, because they don’t feel organic, and two, because they don’t work without a net connection), but in a pinch, it’s the way to go.
7.22	MacUser	Vintage Apple: PlainTalk microphone, Dan Moren: I’ve been doing some wrestling with my MacBook’s audio input. I wanted to plug in a good external mic, but as my trip through Boot Camp taught me, the MacBook’s audio input is a line-in port, not a microphone port, so it requires a powered microphone.
7.21	Macworld	Microsoft profits off; share buyback program revealed, John Fontana, Network World: Microsoft on Thursday reported a year-over-year profit decline of nearly 24 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2006 due partly to a one-time legal charge, and announced a 40 billion dollar stock repurchase plan.
7.21	Macworld	Net neutrality advocates put pressure on lawmaker, Grant Gross, IDG News Service: Members of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee rejected a network neutrality amendment to a wide-ranging broadband bill on June 28, but it turns out that’s not the last they’re hearing of the issue.
7.21	Playlist	Microsoft will release iPod rival this year, Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service: Microsoft on Friday confirmed it will ship competitive offerings to Apple’s tremendously successful iPod and iTunes digital music products sometime this year.
7.21	Low End Mac	Mac News Review, Charles W Moore and Dan Knight: Why I Won’t Buy an Intel Mac, Mac Users Left Out of MS Messenger Plans, Identify Your iMac, and More
7.21	MacNN	Intel’s Core 2 Duo chips arrive early, Staff: Following lower-than-expected earnings, Intel this week quietly began shipping its next-generation Core 2 Duo processors ahead of schedule.
7.21	The Mothership!	SWEET 16: A Pseudo 16 Bit Microprocessor, jupiter2: For those who enjoy lifting the hood on their vintage Apple Computers, this article by Steve Wozniak will do the trick.
7.21	MacNN	More touch-screen Apple patents, Staff: et another another touch-screen patent from Apple has surfaced, pointing to the possibility of a touch- enabled device from Apple.
7.21	TUAW	So You Want to be a Mac Tech, Damien Barrett: Being a good Mac tech starts with knowing the Macintosh and its operating system--namely, Mac OS X.
7.21	Engadget	Microsoft portable to be a totally "Integrated Experience", Ryan Block: From the looks of it our own Stephen Speicher was on to something in his latest edition of The Clicker. We’ve received word from a trusted insider (no, not Mr. Speicher) that the shape everyone’s been expecting the Zune to take may not be the approach most people (including us) assumed. Here’s what we learned.
7.21	Jupiter Research	Zune is Real and Here’s What it Means - First Take Analysis, Michael Gartenberg: Well, it’s 12pm PDT and my embargo is lifted so I can finally stop talking about this in terms of something Microsoft "might" do and now start talking about what it means.
7.21	Macworld UK	Beirut Apple reseller facing difficult times, Cyrus Farivar: The lone authorized Apple Center in Beirut, Lebanon, has been forced to shut its doors since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah ignited a week ago. And that store faces an uncertain future, as its owner prepares to flee the fighting.
7.21	TUAW	Creating a Bootable Restore DVD, Damien Barrett: I work at a university and we regularly get lots of new computers in that need to be imaged. Normally, people use a NetBoot server with NetRestore to do this, but our network is too clunky and poorly- designed to able to handle network-based imaging. So I have to resort to different methods of distributing our customized ASR images.
7.21	Macworld	Microsoft sees 15M Xbox 360 sales by mid-2007, Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service: Microsoft Thursday forecast its Xbox 360 game console sales will total as many as 15 million by the end of its fiscal 2007, which ends June 30 of next year.
7.21	Macsimum News	My dark secret: I’m on dial-up, Dennis Sellers: Yes, it’s true: for over 18 months I’ve been running this web site off nothing but a dial-up modem, and I can’t take it anymore.
7.21	Mac Night Owl	The Dark Side of Boot Camp, Gene Steinberg: I’ve noticed that some Mac dealers are now selling MacIntels with Windows bundles. Get the full experience of Boot Camp without having to set it up for yourself. I suppose that sounds convenient, but the same people who put packages together, such as MacMall, don’t forget to include the Boot Camp public beta terms and conditions in their catalogs and online sales pages.
7.20	Mac Night Owl	Apple’s Financials: Wall Street Blows it Again!, Gene Steinberg: This is getting to be an old story. In the quiet period before Apple releases its financials, you often hear the doom and the gloom from certain people on Wall Street. The psychological impact throws the stock price into a tizzy, and the end result is a price drop of some sort.
7.20	MacDailyNews	Analysts see vast opportunity in Apple’s Mac story, Staff: "Now might be a good time to put the Apple back into the investor’s cart," Duncan Martell reports for Reuters. "Apple Computer Inc., rejuvenated by its invention of the market-leading iPod more than four years ago, on Wednesday posted a 48 percent surge in quarterly net income, fueled in large part by surging notebook computer sales."
7.20	Macworld UK	Apple retail drives new Mac switchers, Jonny Evans: Apple’s retail stores continue to make a significant contribution to overall sales. The company’s financial results show 216,000 Mac sales through its stores, generating $715 million in revenue.
7.20	MacDailyNews	The Mac is back: Rising Macintosh sales give more momentum to Apple, Staff: The Mac is back. That was the prevailing theme from computer-industry analysts Thursday in response to Apple Computer Inc.’s upbeat third- quarter earnings report.
7.20	MacDailyNews	Intel quad-core chips arriving this year instead of next, Staff: "Intel quad-core server and desktop processors will arrive this year instead of next, Chief Executive Paul Otellini said Wednesday, firing a new competitive volley against rival Advanced Micro Devices," Stephen Shankland reports for CNET News.
7.20	MacNN	Quad-core Intel chips due this year, Staff: Intel has announced plans to release Kentsfield (Desktop) and Clovertown (Server/Workstation) processors as early as Q4 this year.
7.20	TUAW	Apple reports second highest earnings in its history, Scott McNulty: That’s right, boys and girls, Apple reported their earnings for their third quarter today, and things are looking good. Apple had its second highest earnings and sales ever this quarter, which is very impressive if you think back to Apple’s meteoric climb early in its history.
7.20	Macworld	Apple’s Macintosh market share soars 16 percent, Jim Dalrymple: Buoyed by ever increasing shipments of Macintosh computers, Apple has quieted its Intel transition detractors by posting double-digit market share increases. Two market research firms have pegged Apple’s growth at over 15 percent with one giving them a 16 percent increase.
7.20	Macworld	Are movie rentals in iTunes’ future?, Philip Michaels and Jim Dalrymple: We’re a little more than two weeks from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, and already the rumors are flying about what Steve Jobs plans to announce during his August 7 keynote (besides the already scheduled OS X 10.5 preview). The hot rumor this week: ThinkSecret’s report that Apple will start offering movie rentals via the iTunes Music Store.
7.20	Macworld	Beirut Apple reseller: "It’s very difficult", Cyrus Farivar: The lone authorized Apple Center in Beirut, Lebanon, has been forced to shut its doors since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah ignited a week ago. And that store faces an uncertain future, as its owner prepares to flee the fighting.
7.20	MacDailyNews	50 Percent of Apple Retail Store customers are "new to Mac", Staff: Hesseldahl reports, "The surge in laptops offset a drop in desktop sales, largely attributed to weakness in the pro desktop sector, where Apple has yet to ship a new machine based on Intel processors. Introduced in 2003, the PowerMac G5 was last updated in Oct. 2005. A new machine is expected to be called Mac Pro and should be out by the end of the summer."
7.20	Macsimum News	Microsoft sees revenue of 11.80 billion, Dennis Sellers: Microsoft has announced record fourth quarter revenue of US 11.80 billion dollars for the period ending June 30. That’s a 16 percent increase over the same quarter of the prior year.
7.20	TUAW	Life changing software, Scott McNulty: James Fee has posted about software that changed his life, and it struck me as a very powerful idea. Can a bucket of bits and bytes really change anyone’s life? The more I thought about it, the more I knew it was true. Software can change lives, it has certainly changed mine.
7.20	MacMinute	MyMac.com Podcast features Guy Kawasaki, Staff: The most recent edition of the MyMac podcast features an interview with renowned Mac evangelist Guy Kawaski. Kawasaki speaks of his time at Apple, Garage.com, blogging, the Macway EvangeList, Hockey, and much, much more.
7.20	Apple Matters	Apple’s Q3 Numbers: A Closer Look, Chris Seibold: Yesterday, once the stock market closed, Apple reported results for the third quarter of 2006. What the report means to the average Mac user is questionable, but it does provide fodder for the analysts and gives the stock a reason to jump around like a recently landed fish.
7.20	The Weifang Radish	Chinese Buys a MacBook Pro. Why? To Run Windows XP., Kevin Smith: My sister-in-law’s boyfriend is off to college this fall and has bought a new laptop. Specifically, a top of the line 15" MacBook Pro. He’s Chinese. Let me repeat that. He’s Chinese!
7.20	The Mothership!	IIe or not IIe, jupiter2: This Apple Cart column by John J. Anderson originally appeared in the July 1983 issue of Creative Computing. Discovered in the Atarimagazines.com archive, it describes the introduction of the Apple IIe to user groups from the U.S. and Canada.
7.20	MacNN	FeedForAll Mac v2.0 generates RSS feeds, Staff: NotePage has updated FeedForAll Mac v2.0, its software that allows publishers and webmasters to create, edit and publish: RSS feeds, podcasts and videocasts.
7.20	AppleInsider	ML upgrades Apple, says iPhone could be near, Slash Lane: Merrill Lynch today updated its rating on shares of Apple Computer from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $72, saying the risk-to-reward ratio of the company’s stock has recently improved
7.20	MarketWatch.com	Reality check on Apple’s quarter, Herb Greenberg: It’s all about how you want to interpret the numbers. Take Apple Computer, Inc., where analysts, the media and almost everybody else it seems is transfixed on the big year-over-year gains in Mac and iPod unit sales.
7.20	MacUser	Muggers are the real music thieves in UK, Dan Moren: I know Scott was just in London, so I’m sure glad he returned stateside safe and sound. Seems robberies and muggings are up 8 percent in Queen Elizabeth’s realm. The reason? iPods, of course.
7.19	MyMac.com	Can the Argo Kill the iPod?, Robert Hazelrigg: The reason iPod sales are so good is because they have built the entire system and made it easy to use. Since Apple has a tremendous lead that means many people have a large investment in their players already. To make existing iPod users switch to a new system would require some radical new functionality users desire. Microsoft is the only possible company that has the clout to compete in Apple’s MP3 playground.
7.19	Low End Mac	Why Run Linux on a Low-end Mac?, Larry Stotler: Welcome to Linux on the Low End. Over the past year, Low End Mac has answered many of my questions about Macs. This is my attempt to give something back and to give some of you another option for your low-end Macs.
7.19	Mac Night Owl	The Mac Hardware Report: Not Another Mac Pro Rumor, Gene Steinberg: Talk about rising expectations. Not long ago, I was seriously suggesting that Apple might release its Mac Pro desktop early, simply because of the availability of the new Intel Xeon chips, which are ideal for a powerful workstation. If that doesn’t happen, the next moment of opportunity is Apple’s WWDC next month, even though Leopard will be the major talking point.
7.19	Apple Matters	Switch to a Mac and You’ll Never Go Back, Chris Howard: So. You’re thinking about buying a Mac, eh? Good decision. Of course, you have some reservations. You’ve been a Windows user for years. Can you really let go and embrace the upheaval the Mac brings? You’ve been reading Apple Matters for a while and the writers there have made the Mac sound so appealing, but you have a few more questions.
7.19	The iPod Observer	TMO Reports - Apple on Cell Phones: "We’re Not Sitting Around Doing Nothing", Bryan Chaffin: Apple is not "sitting around doing nothing," when it comes to cell phones, according to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer. The comments came during Apple’s Q3 conference call with analysts Wednesday.
7.18	Apple Matters	Are Women Gadget-Impaired?, Janet Meyer: On July 12 I read an interesting article at Gizmodo.com. Comet, a UK electronics retailer, reports that its survey of 1,000 consumers revealed that women and gadgets don’t mix. Specifically, 75 percent of the women they talked to don’t know how to fully use their mobile devices, including phones and mp3 players. 70 percent of them ask their children or spouses for help. One of the things they ask for help with is downloading music.
7.18	The Washington Times	Apple offers one hot portable, Mark Kellner: It may not be the most economic way of field testing equipment, but lugging a laptop computer to a place such as Ephesus on the shores of the Aegean Sea is one effective way to give Apple Computer’s MacBook a workout.
7.18	eWeek	Mac OS X ’Leopard’: Which Machines Will Make the Cut?, David Morgenstern : The feature set of the new Mac operating system will be revealed soon, but there’s no way that all currently supported machines will run it. Which ones will make the cut and which will be left running "Tiger"?
7.18	Geek News Central	I will not buy or rent Movies from Apple!, Staff: With the rumor that Apple will start selling or renting Movies in the iTunes music store out today, I instantly thought about prospect of being for forced to buy movies wrapped in DRM. Guess what I’m not doing it, my DVD collection is lock in enough with country play restrictions. Any movie I rent on line digitally better have a shipped DVD that goes along with it. Sure its gonna cost more but that may push people off dead center.
7.18	Mac Night Owl	The Apple Hardware Report: Design Screw-ups?, Gene Steinberg: Just so you know where I’m coming from, I am not a world-class industrial designer. I’m just a lowly scribe, and I don’t pretend to have degrees in art or architecture, or even engineering. So when I point out what I consider to be something screwy about an Apple design decision, take it as nothing more than a layman’s opinion.
7.17	MacNN	Ars Technica on Mac Pro specs, Staff: A quad-core Mac Pro will likely prove an expensive venture for Apple, according one report detailing predictions about Apple’s forthcoming Mac Pro.
7.17	Low End Mac	Miscellaneous Ramblings, Charles W Moore: More Ways to Add OS 9 Features to OS X, Modem Problems with MacBook and USB Modem, Opera Problem, and More.
7.17	macOSXrumors	Hints at iPhone, iPod Messenger?, Alexandros Roussos: An AppleInsider forum member has discovered very interesting clues found on the latest iPod firmware update, hinting at an iPhone and an iPod Messenger feature.
7.17	MacDailyNews	More information surfaces about Apple’s ’Numbers’ trademark, Staff: Apple’s European filing 004481297 for "Numbers," which has since received "registered status" on July 4, lists two additional classifications in respect to their trademark Macsimum News reports.
7.17	Macsimum News	Poll: Should the upcoming ’Mac Pros’ have redesigned cases?, Dennis Sellers: There’s lots of speculation over whether the Intel version of Apple’s pro desktop - expected to be called the Mac Pro - will sport the same case design as the Power Mac line. So in this week’s poll, we’re asking, "Should the upcoming ’Mac Pros’ have redesigned cases?"
7.17	Macsimum News	Apple financials to be announced July 19, Dennis Sellers: Apple will announce its financial results for the fiscal third quarter on Wednesday, July 19, at 2 p.m. (Pacific).
7.17	TUAW	Apple wants more iPod ready cars, Scott McNulty: Bob Borchers, who is the senior director of iPod worldwide product marketing, told CNET that Apple is interested in making the use of iPods in cars much easier. Apple thinks that the mess of cables and such that accompany current solutions can be done better with factory installed iPod option in cars.
7.17	TUAW	Safari bookmark tips from macosxhints, David Chartier: The never-failing macosxhints.com is at it again, this time with a series of tips concerning Safari, speed and bookmark management. This tip offers a simple method for using the Finder to sort Safari’s bookmarks alphabetically (hint: make sure you hit cmd + j in the Finder and enable the ’Keep arranged by name’ option), while this tip points out that Safari can receive a noticeable speed boost if you organize as many of your bookmarks into folders as possible.
7.17	ZDNet	Did Apple’s concession erase the fine line between bloggers and journalists?, David Berlind: After being at Mashup University and Mashup Camp last week, I’m just now catching up on all my news from last week and noticed that I missed the blockbuster story that Apple has abandoned its efforts to use subpoenas in hopes of unmasking whoever it was that leaked trade secrets to two supposedly "uncredentialed journalists" (one of which is fellow ZDNet blogger Jason O’Grady).
7.17	The Hamilton Spectator	Why your boss may fear iPods, Staff: A new survey by Ipsos-Reid suggests if you work for a mid-sized to large Canadian business, there’s almost a one-in-three chance your boss is telling you to leave your iPod at home.
7.17	AppleInsider	Intel may launch Merom alongside Conroe, Staff: Intel Corp. may launch its Core 2 Duo notebook chips as early as next week, a recent company roadmap has revealed.
7.17	Macworld	Intel finds itself on the front lines in Israel, Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service: Several barrages of rockets fired by Hezbollah guerillas in southern Lebanon hit the Israeli port city of Haifa on Sunday. The coastal city is home to one of Intel Corp.’s most important processor design centers.
7.15	MacUser	Old Mac OSes on Portable Gaming Systems, Cyrus Farivar: Here’s a video of Mac OS System 7.5 running on a PSP. And this guy managed to get Mac OS System 6.0 running on a Nintendo DS. Some folks have way too much time on their hands. But they’re still awesome.
7.15	iTWire	Microsoft may leave Mac users out of messaging plans, Stan Beer: An interesting piece of information to come out of the Microsoft and Yahoo messaging alliance is the news that Microsoft is still evaluating whether to include the Mac version of Windows Live Messenger in its interoperability plans.
7.14	MacNN	Core 2 Duo/Extreme beats AMD 64s, Staff: Tom’s Hardware has posted a review of the Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme "Conroe" chips, comparing the E6300-E6700 and X6800 to an AMD FX-62 as well as an Intel Pentium D 950/850.
7.14	MacNN	Apple to shy away from creative image, Staff: Apple is removing emphasis on its creative edge in an effort to appeal to a broader market, according to one Apple UK director. "There is the challenge of how you address the particular need that the customer has, rather than pitch the Mac purely as the creative tool, as I think that scares a lot of people off," said Mark Rogers.
7.14	Apple Matters	July 14, 2002: Apple Previews Jaguar, Chris Seibold: In the great cavalcade of cat names the first one that really mattered was Jaguar, the code name for OS 10.2. The first iteration of OS X was code named Cheetah and offered as a beta version for $29.99. The second iteration was Puma and retailed for the, now, expected price of $129.00 (though those that took the Cheetah plunge were rewarded with a free upgrade).
7.14	Low End Mac	iMovie a Great Tool for Getting Started with Video Editing, Putting Your Movies on DVD, Adam Robert Guha: iMovie first debuted with the iMac DV back in 2000. The idea was for home users to be able to connect their MiniDV video camera and import video to their computer to store and edit footage.
7.14	TUAW	MacTech 25 most influential in the tech community, Scott McNulty: MacTech has posted the results to their top 25 most influential people in the Mac technical community. The list is very interesting and enhanced by the fact that no one currently employed by Apple could be on it (otherwise it would have to be mostly Apple folks). On the list are such notables as Andy Ihnatko, Dan Frakes, John Gruber, and Brent Simmons.
7.14	MacDailyNews	Apple trying to negotiate movie-download price with studios, Staff: "Apple Computer Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are both quietly negotiating with the studios to make movie downloads the next frontier, according to informed insiders," Anne Thompson reports for The Hollywood Reporter.
7.14	Charlotte Observer	Any way you slice it, Apple store is cool, Linda Matchan: To those who dwell in the design universe, Apple Computer has accomplished the near-impossible: making nerdy computing products seem hip and friendly. Sleek, ergonomic and accessible, first their computers and now their iPods have gained raves and a cult following, and they have brought terms like "nano" out of geekdom and into everyday use.
7.14	PC Magazine	Nike + iPod Sport Kit Review, Mike Kobrin: If you have an Apple iPod nano and you enjoy running, power-walking, or even just long walks, listen up. Apple and Nike have partnered to create the Nike + iPod Sport Kit ($29 list), which consists of a shoe- mountable sensor and a transmitter for your iPod nano.
7.14	MacUser	iPods, cell phones, and the future, Scott Silverman: According to MacNN and BusinessWeek Online, consumers are starting to favor mobile phones over their iPods. Rather than carrying both an iPod and a cell phone, many carry a phone which holds anywhere from 100 to 500 songs. The most recent of cell phones have reached the current top capacities of the iPod nano (4 GB).
7.14	MacMerc.com	6,670 Free FontS!, MacManX: While reading through my favorite blogs, I stumbled across a link to a collection of 6,760 free fonts! According to the provider, "These fonts sport a broad range of licenses (some of which are rather idiosyncratic) but they are all freely redistributable." Enjoy!
7.14	AppleInsider	Apple’s Mac Pro to sport modified Power Mac enclosure, Kasper Jade: Contrary to published reports, Apple Computer does not plan to introduce new enclosures alongside its first Intel-based Mac Pro desktops and will instead employ only slightly modified Power Mac G5 casings, AppleInsider has learned.
7.14	Mac Night Owl	See, Other Computers Have Defects Too!, Gene Steinberg: In recent weeks, I’ve read articles that the shine might be fading from Apple’s hardware, simply because some of the new Intel-based models have growing pains. It’s all consistent with my recent rants about rush releases, where Apple is pushing too hard to get products on the shelves as fast as possible, and maybe not paying as much attention to proper Q&A as they should.
7.13	Mac Slash	Firefox 2 Beta 1 Released (Officially), the shiny-and-new dept.: sarnadle_vector writes "Builds of Firefox 2 Beta 1 have appeared for various operating systems. The Mac OS X build can be found here. Firefox 2.0b1 for Mac OS X" All week links have been circulating around, but now it has been officially released. Mine crashed on the first launch after checking for updates, but it has been working fine for the past few hours. It seems faster, and if I’m not mistaken the chrome at the top takes up less space, leaving more real estate for web pages.
7.13	MacNN	Vista may see yet another delay, Staff: Microsoft’s next-generation "Vista" operating system may see further delays even after a decision by MS execs to scrap the project, which was followed by numerous setbacks and criticism from industry watchers.
7.13	iTWire	Why Microsoft should fear Intel Macs, Stan Beer: There has been much talk about the threat that Apple Macintosh computers now pose to Windows PCs - or should we say Windows only PCs. Make no mistake, the talk is well justified, as recent market research shows. However, what hasn’t been talked about as much is the very real threat that Macs now pose to the Windows operating system itself.
7.13	MacNN	Apple limits $899 edu iMac availability, Staff: Apple today quietly pulled its newly introduced $899 iMac from its online education store.
7.13	MacNN	Sony, Dell stronger than Apple brand, Staff: Sony today found itself on top of the Harris Poll of "best brands" for an impressive seventh consecutive year with leading PC vendor Dell taking the No. 2 spot, traditionally strong Coca-Cola brand moving up from No. 4 last year to No.3, and Apple--making the top 10 for the first time--ranking No. 10.
7.13	MacNN	CNBC report: Nike+ is revolutionary, Staff: This evening on CNBC’s, who first broke the story on the Nike and Apple alliance in May, "On The Money" they had an exclusive look at the Nike+iPod system.
7.13	MacNN	Macs skills important for IT jobs, Staff: Mac-related skills are in demand for aspiring techies hoping to become IT pros, following the increase in Mac mindshare that originally spiked from the UNIX- based Mac OS X release in 2001.
7.13	MacNN	Women spark digital player, music growth, Staff: A new research study shows that the digital music market has experienced remarkable growth in the past year with women aged 15-49 emerging as the hottest growth demographic and the iPod maintaining a 10- to-1 margin over its nearest competitor.
7.13	Macworld	Intel to cut 1,000 management jobs, Ben Ames, IDG News Service: Intel executives told employees on Thursday they would cut 1,000 management jobs in an effort to rebound from poor profits in recent quarters, the company said.
7.13	TUAW	Cook breakfast with your MacBook, Dan Lurie: Everyone knows that Apple’s Intel powered portable lineup gets hot, but this is insane! An enterprising fellow figured out that it would be possible to actually fry an egg on the bottom of his black MacBook.
7.13	MacUser	Pane in the butt?, Scott Silverman: A man by the name of Paul Souders recently linked the photo to the right on his blog (click to be taken to flickr). Do you know what that is? It’s an Expose of 34 different window panes. He complains about the number of panes present in applications, with the soon-to-be-famous quote: I like panes and all but. Seriously. Enough. Is. Enough.
7.13	Mac Night Owl	The Leopard Report: The Rush Release Rant!, Gene Steinberg: Look at the situation right now. Microsoft has thrown wasted some $8 to $9 billion struggling to get Windows Vista and office 2007 out at some amorphous time next year. Yes, I know Bill Gates says there’s an 80% certainty that Vista will be available to consumers in January, but I take that with a grain of salt.
7.13	MacUser	Ballmer is infinitely quotable, Derik DeLong: You have to love Steve Ballmer. When he’s not dancing up a storm, he’s doing a standup routine.
7.13	MacUser	The lost Mac ads, Cyrus Farivar: Ok, so it’s a little old, but still pretty damned funny. Or as Valleywag put it: "despite this funny video macs are still better than pcs so suck it."
7.13	O’Reilly	Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for Windows now free; What about the Mac?, Todd Ogasawara: Microsoft changed its Virtual PC 2004 product for Windows XP desktops and notebooks from fee to free on July 12. This follows making its Virtual Server 2005 R2 product free earlier in the year.
7.13	macOSXrumors	"Asteroid" case follow-up, Alexandros Roussos: According to CNET, Apple will not file appeal in the "Asteroid" law-suit it filed against rumour sites AppleInsider and PowerPage last year. By the way, the company is giving up subpoena requests against these sites, regarding information published on a music peripherial code-named "Asteroid". The information was qualified as "trade secrets" by Apple when the company decided to sue the two sites which had posted similar reports.
7.13	MacDailyNews	Microsoft should fear Intel Macs, Staff: "There has been much talk about the threat that Apple Macintosh computers now pose to Windows PCs - or should we say Windows only PCs. Make no mistake, the talk is well justified, as recent market research shows. However, what hasn’t been talked about as much is the very real threat that Macs now pose to the Windows operating system itself," Stan Beer writes for iTWire.
7.13	Macworld	AMD to file Intel anticompetitive complaint in Germany, Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to file a complaint with the German competition authority regarding alleged Intel anticompetitive behavior, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday.
7.13	Macworld UK	EU fines Microsoft 280.5 million Euros, Paul Meller and Peter Sayer: The European Commission has fined Microsoft 280.5 million Euros for failing to comply with the terms of a March 2004 antitrust judgment against it, the Commission said on Wednesday.
7.12	MyMac.com	What to do with your old iMac, Tim Robertson: n its heyday, it seemed you could not throw a stick without hitting a G3 iMac. They were everywhere, from sitting in the background of some television show, airport kiosks, art houses, or your cousin’s house. The first iteration of the iMac was a PowerPC 750, also called the G3. When it was first released in 1998, it ran at 233MHz, which was quite speedy for its time.
7.12	seattlepi.com	Ballmer vows timelier Windows, Todd Bishop: Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told the company’s industry partners Tuesday that future versions of Windows will be developed at a much quicker pace.
7.12	Apple Matters	Top 4 Ways to Keep Your Mac Humming, Chris Howard : We all hate them - the spinning beachballs. We all get them too. Today I’m going to provide you a list of four easy things you can do to keep your Mac humming along, and not feel like a glugged-out Windows system.
7.12	Mac Night Owl	The Browser Report: Would You Tell 20% of Your Customers to Take a Hike?, Gene Steinberg: It is an old story. You try to access a commerce site, when you get the dreaded message that Windows Internet Explorer is required. Sure, you could try that aging Mac version, but more likely than not, it won’t work either.
7.12	Low End Mac	Adding ’Lost’ OS 9 Features to Mac OS X, Charles W Moore: I’ve been very happy in OS X since Panther (OS X 10.2) debuted in 2003, at which point I found that I missed more OS X features when running in OS 9 than I did Classic features when booted from OS X. I’ve gotten addicted to preemptive multitasking, virtual crash free-ness, Spotlight, and perhaps most of all the superior Web browsers that are available for OS X.
7.11	Wired News	Are Apple’s Customers Rebelling?, Leander Kahney: here’s been rash of press recently suggesting Apple is weathering a growing consumer recoil following claims about poor quality control, anti-iTunes legislation and allegations about Chinese sweatshops.
7.11	InfoWorld	What is this Windows of which you speak?, Staff: Forget Vista. Everyone else has. Windows XP 64-bit and Windows 2003 Server R2 64-bit will be the foils for Leopard and Leopard Server, and at a core level. Microsoft is frankly in good shape. It has assembled a quorum of 64-bit device drivers and is up to speed with install-time support for most AMD and Intel 64- bit x86 CPUs, and for homegrown and 3rd-party chipsets.
7.11	AppleInsider	Jobs, Spindler amongst those named in Apple investor suit, Kasper Jade and Prince McLean: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, former Apple CEO Michael Spindler as well as other high-profile company execs are named in the most recent investor lawsuit over stock option grant irregularities and may be forced to return the monies they made from grants received as part Apple’s executive stock compensation plan, if the lawsuit is successful.
7.11	Apple Matters	Why Microsoft Sincerely Fears the iPod, Chris Seibold: Recently rumors have been flying like bats out of a New Mexican cave that Microsoft is all set to foist, yet another, digital music player upon the market. The rumors feature a delicious new twist in the never ending game of iPod dethronement.
7.11	Mac Night Owl	Windows on a Mac: Welcome to the Fear-Mongering Season, Gene Steinberg: The other day, I got a letter from a reader suggesting that now that it was so convenient for Mac users to run Windows, developers would quickly decide that it wouldn’t be worth the bother building software for the former. Instead, might as well let you all run the Windows version, and save on all those programming costs. Ah, what a convenient way to save money, and all companies want to reduce expenses.
7.10	Apple Matters	Three Ways to Run Windows on Your Mac, Chris Howard: One or two people out there supposedly want to pollute the sacred temple Mac with other operating systems, most specifically, Windows. In an effort to find out who they are, I hope to flush them out by laying this trap for them by discussing ways to get said evil operating system up and running on the Mac. I’ve got the matches and kerosene, everyone else grab some kindling and try to look inconspicuous.
7.10	MacUser	Piling on .Mac, Derik DeLong: I’m certainly less than thrilled with Apple’s .Mac (to the chagrin of some readers). Regularly, I’ll come across someone that also has problem. Today though, was a banner day. Started by a rant on the Tao of Mac, the frustration poured out of Om Malik and Michael Heilemann.
7.10	MyMac.com	Is AOL dead?, Tim Robertson: An interesting article online at New York Times. AOL’s CEO Jonathan Miller is asking the higher-ups at Time Warner (who owns AOL) to halt almost all of AOL’s marketing (read: trying to get new AOL paid subscribers) and give price cuts to existing customers. And firing thousands of employees, of course.
7.10	GigaOM	dotMAC, Time For A Makeover?, Om Malik: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and most technology companies are using newer technologies (collectively called Web 2.0) to enhance the consumer experience inside the browser. Apple, however, is yet to incorporate these technologies and enhance the user experience for the customers of its for-pay dotMac service.
7.10	BBC News	Is Apple feeling the heat?, Darren Waters: Apple Computer has one of the strongest brands in the world. But are reported problems with some of its newest products in danger of damaging that reputation?
7.10	MacDailyNews	Intel aims for 32 cores by 2010, Staff: "Five years ago, Intel envisioned processors running at 20 GHz by the end of this decade. Today we know that the future will look different. CPUs will sacrifice clock speed over core count: Intel’s first "many core" CPU, will run at only two thirds of the clock speed of today’s fastest Xeon CPU - but achieve 15x the performance, thanks to 32 cores," Wolfgang Gruener reports for TG Daily.
7.10	Macworld UK	MacBook Pro whine problem resolved?, Staff: Apple seems to have traced the problem that reportedly caused some first-generation MacBook Pros to make a whining sound when used.
7.10	Low End Mac	Installing OS X 10.4 ’Tiger’ on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode, Charles W Moore: Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" ships on DVD media, which is great if you have a Mac equipped with a DVD drive (as most of us do these days), since the entire set of installer files can be contained on one disc, eliminating the necessity of disc-swapping in the middle of the process.
7.10	macOSXrumors	Apple denies rumours on a "Leopard virtualisation feature", Alexandros Roussos: In a Macworld report, Charlie Wolf, a famous technology analyst claims to have asked Apple’s Phil Schiller if the company would add a virtualisation solution on the next major release of Mac OS X, codenamed Leopard.
7.10	MacNN	New Nano may debut in October, Staff: American Technology Research senior analyst Shaw Wu today reiterated his belief that Apple’s new iPod nano will miss its expected summer introduction. "We continue to believe that the new iPod nano (aka mini vPod) refreshes are facing transition issues due to an architecture move to an SoC vs. its present 3-chip solution," Wu said.
7.10	Macworld UK	Microsoft stays quiet on ’iPod-killer’ plans, Staff: Microsoft’s spin doctors have rushed to dispel growing rumours the company plans to launch its own MP3 player.
7.10	Low End Mac	Is the New Edu-iMac a Good Value or Simply Too Compromised?, Dan Knight: What do you think about the new education-only iMac? That’s the question of the day as educators contemplate whether to pick up the new low-cost iMac or its slightly more capable, more expensive 17" sibling.
7.09	Mac Night Owl	Newsletter Issue #345 Preview: What’s the Best Way to Run Windows on a Mac?, Gene Steinberg: My friends, although it’s gotten a lot of press of late, the truth is that you’ve been able to run Windows on your Mac for years. It wasn’t always a pleasant solution, however, not because Microsoft builds a mediocre operating system, which is largely true. But there were other reasons why you would find the task to be an unbearable chore.
7.07	Low End Mac	$899 Education iMac, Classic on Intel Macs, LCD in an eMac, Mac mini in a Prius, and More, Dan Knight: Also Mac mini "almost sinfully attractive", Mac mini benchmarks, iPod Updater 2006-06-28, new iPod car options, and more
7.07	MacDailyNews	What makes Mac OS X a great operating system is Apple’s attention to detail, Staff: A couple of weeks ago I found time to install Dapper Drake, the latest Ubuntu Linux release. In the same week my wife bought a brand new MacBook. The inevitable comparison got me thinking about what makes an otherwise good operating system great," Alastair Otter writes for TECTONIC.
7.07	Mac Night Owl	Apple: Please Stop the Silent Notifications!, Gene Steinberg: Some months back, a new iTunes feature caused havoc. When you clicked on the name of a track on your playlist, tunes of a similar genre appeared at the bottom of the iTunes window in a so-called "mini store." Talk about havoc, because, in order to accomplish this magic, information about that selected song had to be sent to Apple.
7.07	MacNN	MS to match iTunes purchases?, Staff: When Microsoft launches its own iPod-killer later this year, the company may be planning to lure iPod users to its own camp by offering iTunes customers free musical tracks to match those purchased from Apple’s online store.
7.07	AppleInsider	A closer look at Apple’s educational iMac, Kasper Jade: For the most part, Apple Computers new educational iMac is a stripped down version of the company’s 17- inch consumer offering that ships with a couple of internal component changes but also some outstanding issues, reliable sources tell AppleInsider.
7.07	NY Times	Strategy Shift by Microsoft to Fight iPod, John Markoff: Microsoft’s interest in making its own hand-held music and video player, disclosed by entertainment industry executives this week, indicates that its old way of doing things is not working in its battle against Apple Computer’s iPod.
7.07	Macworld	EBay bans Google payment system, Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service: EBay customers won’t be able to use the newly launched Google Checkout service to buy products, according to the auction Web site. Google Checkout is now listed among other payment services such as Netpay.com, Qchex.com, ePassporte.com and BillPay.ie that are not permitted on eBay.
7.07	MacDailyNews	Analyst: 6GB - 8GB 2nd-gen iPod nano to hit shelves in November rather than September, Staff: Shares of Apple Computer continued to trade near 6- month lows on Friday after a second Wall Street analyst said the company’s redesigned iPod nano digital music player may face delays of up to two months," Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
7.06	Apple Matters	5 Reasons Why Low Marketshare is a Good Thing, Devanshu Mehta: For the longest time Mac users have lamented their low market share. We theorize about why people do not switch, produce lists of reasons why they should switch, construct conspiracy theories on why the Mac is kept down and generally obsess over unverified statistics of marketshare.
7.06	Macworld	Apple sees no future for CRTs, Ben Ames, IDG News Service: Following an industry trend toward smaller, more efficient PCs, Apple phased the bulky CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor out of its product line on Wednesday, moving entirely to LCDs (liquid crystal displays).
7.06	MacNN	Apple cancels Portland store plans, Staff: Apple has cancelled its plans for a store in Portland, Oregon after two designs were rejected by the community’s Historic Landmarks Commission.
7.06	Low End Mac	Vintage Macs with System 6 Run Circles Around 3 GHz Windows 2000 PC, Tyler Sable: One common recommendation for the use of System 6 is word processing and creative writing. I’ve tested three System 6 machines against a typical modern computer, and the results may surprise you! Prepare for Ludicrous Speed!
7.06	BBC News	Threats prompt Mac switch advic, Staff: Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm.
7.06	Yahoo!	Review: MacBook excels at Windows, OS X, ROBERT WESTON, Associated Press Writer: Apple Computer Inc.’s latest laptop looks sleek, runs fast and should give makers of Windows-based notebooks considerable cause for concern.
7.06	Economist.com	Apples are not the only fruit, Staff: Apple Computer prides itself on creating products that fit together without ugly joins or haphazard stitching. The iPod is a prominent example. A portable digital jukebox, it works seamlessly with Apple’s own iTunes music store, a popular site for buying downloadable music. But on June 30th France’s Senate and National Assembly did their best to unpick Apple’s careful weaving.
7.06	AppleInsider	Apple seen countering Microsoft with wireless iPod, AppleInsider Staff: icrosoft Corp. may have plans to debut a wireless digital music player this year, but likely so does Apple Computer, say one Wall Street analyst.
7.06	ZDNet	Is four Mac OS launches in 5 years really a good thing?, George Ou: When I read "Apple taunts Microsoft with faster OS launches", I did sort of a double take and wondered what in the world they were talking about. After reading the Mercury news article, it turns out that Apple is actually touting their fourth OS launch in the span of 5 years while Microsoft hasn’t released any new operating system in the same period of time. Now is this really a good thing?
7.05	O’Reilly	New, cheaper iMac for education, Giles Turnbull: Apple has released a new, lower-spec version of the 17inch iMac, on sale to students and teachers via its education store.
7.05	MacMerc.com	Uh boy...Apple being sued over stock option grants, RickMacMerc: Apple today announced that it has been notified of derivative lawsuits filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Superior Court for Santa Clara County. Both suits make claims against current and former officers and directors with respect to the company’s awarding of stock option grants.
7.05	Mac Slash	Apple Phases Out, Replaces The eMac, eMac-hine: Jennifer DeLeo writes "Apple has replaced its CRT- based eMac personal computer with a $899 derivative of its existing Intel-based iMac. The cheaper model uses Intel’s integrated GMA 950 graphics chipset, a smaller hard drive, and a 24X combo drive, rather than the 8X SuperDrive Apple offers on its more expensive model." I’d like to see a comparison chart of the eMac vs. the iMac.
7.04	Mac Slash	Ellen Feiss Coming To The Big Screen, Staff: Marion writes "Hi there, I’m just writing to say that a friend of mine was working on a film shoot with Mac star Ellen Feiss last year in a castle in south- west France. It’s a French short film called "Bed and Breakfast" and is due to screen this summer in Paris. She had one of the main roles but the production company is being pretty sneaky about letting photos out but there’s a web site up.
7.03	MacNN	Apple adds ultimate MacBook models, Staff: Apple has added two new MacBook configurations to its retail line consumer-oriented laptops, expanding its available MacBook models to a total of five.
7.03	MacDailyNews	CrossOver Mac allows Mac users to run Windows apps without Microsoft Windows, Staff: CrossOver Mac -- CodeWeavers’ latest Windows- compatability product -- is on its way. Intended for Intel Mac OS X machines, CrossOver Mac will allow Mac users to run their favorite Windows applications seamlessly on their Mac, without the need for a Windows OS license of any kind. Below are answers to some of the questions we are receiving on the product.
7.02	The Advocate	Hard-core Mac fans rise early for Apple opening, Alexandra Fenwick: STAMFORD -- Hundreds lined up to be among the first at the Apple Store that opened yesterday in Stamford Town Center. Some were there to make purchases or get help with MacIntosh products they already owned. Many said the offer of free T-shirts for the first 1,000 customers was a draw, but most were there for what they called "The Apple Experience."
7.02	MacDailyNews	Should Microsoft reinvent itself and develop new businesses outside of software?, Staff: "Bob Frankston is one of the smartest people I speak to. If you don’t recognize his name, Bob is best known as the programmer who wrote VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, realizing the design of his partner, Dan Bricklin," Robert X. Cringely writes for PBS. "In a sense Microsoft is a lot like the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire’s growth and economy was driven by conquering and plundering neighboring regions."
7.02	MacDailyNews	Symantec warns of new OS X trojan horse, Staff: Symantec on Friday issued an alert warning Mac OS X users of a new Trojan horse that looks to patch the recently described (and patched) Launchd vulnerability, which could provide root access on Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.6 or earlier.
7.01	Mac Slash	The Apple Of Alternate Reality, Posted by acaben: Todd Edwards writes "These guys are having a contest to see who can design the coolest "not-yet-existing" Apple products. Some pretty cool stuff there already.
7.01	Low End Mac	Why I Want Apple to Make an Ultralight Notebook Computer, Andrew Fishkin: Ultralights in the PC world range from 2 to 4 lb., with most hovering within a half pound of 3 lb.
7.01	MacNN	Microsoft sued for producing spyware, Staff: A California resident has filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company violated spyware laws with anti-piracy features of its Windows Genuine Advantage software.
7.01	MacMegasite	Leopard Screen Shots Posted, Staff: A new blog called Trinity Rubicon has posted screenshots that are supposedly Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The screenshots, if they are real, seem to demonstrate the ability to run Windows applications natively.
7.01	MacNN	Google launches Checkout service, Staff: Google today launched Google Checkout, designed as a fast, secure, and convenient checkout process for Google users.
7.01	Macworld UK	Apple statement on MacBook stain claims, Jonny Evans: Apple has responded to widespread reports that claim some MacBooks become discoloured after a few short weeks of use. A vocal minority of customers have claimed that the new Macs become discoloured, mainly around the areas on which users rest their hands on the keyboard.
7.01	ZDNet	Attack code out for Apple flaw, Joris Evers: Attack code that exploits a flaw in Apple Computer’s Mac OS X was publicly released Wednesday, increasing the urgency to patch.
7.01	Softpedia	Apple Acknowledges MacBook Stains As Manufacturing Defect, Staff: A small, but still significant number of people have been reporting an unnaturally fast discoloration of their new Apple portables, especially in the areas where the hands come into contact with the device. While initially passed off as improper handling by their owners, it turns out that there is indeed something strange about the plastics used in some models of the white MacBooks, that causes the discoloration, sometimes after not even two weeks of use.
7.01	InformationWeek	The Job-Less Factor, Alice LaPlante: Industry analysts evaluate Apple’s chances with and without Steve Jobs at the helm. InformationWeek editor Alice LaPlante talks to several longtime Apple observers and pundits, to get their take on the extent of CEO Steve Jobs’ influence over the company he co- founded. Can the two be separated?
7.01	AppleInsider	New nano faces hurdles, but delays unconfirmed, Prince McLean: Engineers working on the hardware design of Apple Computer’s second-generation iPod nano are facing several technical challenges, but it’s currently unclear whether the obstacles will delay the player’s release.
7.01	Netscape News	Jobs asks to be excluded from Disney board pay, Staff: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. board of directors has modified its compensation policy to exclude director Steve Jobs from receiving compensation for serving on the board, Disney said in a securities filing Friday.