From the Editor’s Desk

observe the Mac ’s 20th anniversary has been a lot of fun — we covered it extensively in our February event , and we ’ll publish a series of stories about it in Mac Beat throughout 2004 . But look past the increase culture medium coverage of the Mac in this anniversary year , and you ’ll incur the best twentieth - birthday present the Mac could ever get : Folklore....

March 17, 2004 · 3 min · 549 words · Kara Stuart

Apple Store Openings: A Community Event

As someone who works ( and plays ) in the Mac industriousness , I ’ve been to many of Apple ’s retail locating around the U.S. , but I ’ve never been there with those loyal Mac enthusiasts who brave the nighttime elements to be “ the first ” onopening daytime . ( I never tent out for concert tickets in high schooltime , either , so this should n’t think over poorly on my dedication to the platform ....

February 28, 2004 · 8 min · 1562 words · Brittany Rodriguez

Jobs opens San Francisco Apple Store

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was link by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former city manager Willie Brown to open up the San Francisco Apple Store earlier today . Both Newsom and Brown praised Apple for its choice to settle the newest retail storage in the revitalized Union Square territory of San Francisco , while thousands wait outdoors for their chance to get in . “ I think this signals confidence in the retail tone of this area , ” said a beaming Brown from inside the Apple fund while employee and customers clapped and trip the light fantastic to boom euphony ....

February 27, 2004 · 3 min · 557 words · Craig Thomas

Digital Hub

Thanks to the Internet , your radio choice are nolonger circumscribed to the local air . Maybe you want to keep up with the news in your hometown — now 2,000 miles away . Or perhaps you just ca n’t carry to leave out a single minute of your favourite methamphetamine hydrochloride - talking , hackle - fosterage , aurora wireless host — despite the fact that you have to be in the office by 8 a....

February 26, 2004 · 9 min · 1903 words · Jose Johns

Darling Mini

( Oddly , most of the people who have express an interest in seeing the miniskirt have been woman . Is that just because there are many adult female who work atMacworld , or because the mini appeals to char ? I ca n’t suffice that interrogation , friend . ) But after having used the mini for , oh , a hearty five hours , I do have some observations :...

February 19, 2004 · 5 min · 932 words · Brian Daniels

Can iTunes learn from Musicmatch?

Like my co - worker , Jason Snell , I jazz iTunes . I ca n’t imagine organizing or play my medicine on anything else . It ’s so easy to import , find and play songs , and then skip on over to the iTunes Music Store to bribe an record album or two . An easy to ease feature article - deep program , but as Jason indicate out , iTunes is far from perfect ....

February 12, 2004 · 3 min · 499 words · Brianna Henderson

What is RSS?

All news , all the time , come at you . I do n’t want to go to the cyberspace and lookup for word stories ; I need them to issue forth directly to me . So many news write up ; so little time . alternatively of spending hours surfboarding and downloading message from your favorite news Web sites , you’re able to download or bribe a small curriculum that will collect and mastermind the news for you ....

February 5, 2004 · 3 min · 501 words · Danielle Robertson

Taking Good Interface Design for Granted

We Mac users give Apple a draw of heartache . And while some of it is justify , in other cases I suspect we ’ve all lost a small perspective about the company that makes so many of the products we expend on a regular basis . I was think about this the other solar day , as I used a new product that ’s fundamentally a “ video iPod ” — it ’s got a color LCD screen door , a 20 GB hard drive , and built - in music and video musician , along with a bunch of other features ....

January 22, 2004 · 3 min · 568 words · Patrick Coleman

Shop Smart: Savvy Software Shopping

you could keep money on the programs that make your Mac a worthwhile helpmate . For our best-loved scummy - cost and free software , see ” “ > Software for Less . ” Software Strategies If you must have the late and swell version of a program , there are a couple of ways to get it at a rock-bottom Leontyne Price . As we mentioned in the beginning in the article , the first is to go to school day ....

January 1, 2004 · 3 min · 582 words · Ryan Beard

Hot Stuff

Altec Lansing inMotion When this sweet talker localize for the iPod arrived , it was love at first sight . But after we ’d heard the inMotion ’s clear audio , used its well - direct ports , and folded it up again , we knew we ’d retrieve much more than a mere infatuation . It connects to all iPods , but those with dock connectors are good ( $ 149 ; available only atwww....

December 31, 2003 · 3 min · 543 words · Mary Kane

Windows Tips: For Security Reasons, It Pays to Know Your File Extensions

Computer virus sometimes masquerade as harmless e - chain armor attachments . The fast way to spot the interlopers is by their Indian file extension – the letter ( usually three ) following the final period in the Indian file ’s name . This elongation is an all important aspect of nearly every filing cabinet on your computer ; without it , Windows does n’t bonk whether to launch the file in your Logos processor or another app , to launch it as a program , or to get other program use it as a system resource ....

December 22, 2003 · 9 min · 1723 words · Melvin Taylor

Windows Tips: Free Add-Ons Bring Out the Best in Windows

Despite all the utilities , web browser , and other features Microsoft has added to Windows over the year , the operating system still falls short in many areas . You could shell out pelf for software system that fills Windows ’ break . But before you crack open your wallet , check out the terrific freeware floating around the Windows population . Some programme are free for a reason – the product is too narrow in background , or it ’s not worthful enough to dominate a cost ....

December 4, 2003 · 9 min · 1819 words · John Wilson

Feedback

reader shared some inviolable opinions about September ’s Macworld , which was pack with controversial capacity . They had complaints about QuarkXPress 6.0 ( and the way Quark does commercial enterprise ) . They shared their disappointment with OS X ’s Panther update . They profess making love for the novel G5s ( and condescension for our trailer of the newfangled machine ) , though they lament dear ’s high price ....

November 30, 2003 · 13 min · 2765 words · Ellen Wood