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• Update And Correction To "MacWorld Gone Fishing" Stories
Colin Crawford, President and CEO of MacPublishing, LLC, dropped me a note to request a clarification of some issues regarding MacCentral's vacation week, currently underway. Mr Crawford writes:
"We had 25 staff from MacPublishing at Expo, their focus was to spend as much time with vendors as possible. This Expo, we decided to do this via meeting rooms and hospitality events rather than a booth on the show floor. 20,000 free Macworld magazines were distributed at the entrances to the Expo - but we ran out on the 2nd day. That's what happens when record numbers attend !!
"This week is relatively quiet and it is financially efficient to have a close down for the whole company. Macworld's September issue went to the printers last week and we were able to include coverage of the announcements at Macworld. The September cover features Apple's new QuickSilver G4s.
"Most of the Mac Publishing staff are located on the West Coast, last year many who went to Expo took the opportunity for a week's vacation on the East Coast - this year it made logistic and economic sense to ask everyone to take the same week off.
"Personally I'm enjoying tennis and golf with my wife and kids and doing things in San Francisco I would normally never get a chance to do - a helicopter ride this afternoon, fishing tomorrow and a chance to see many new movies releases. I'm having a blast !!
"If a major event breaks I'm in contact with my staff so it can be properly covered.
"MacPublishing staff were notified of the company shut down on 5/17"
Best regards,
I hope that will clear up any regrettable misunderstanding created by an earlier, erroneous report that MacPublishing staff were only advised of the close down on the Friday of MacWorld. Once again, I wish Mr. Crawford and the MacPublishing staff a great week of R&R
The Montreal Gazette reports that PC sales to Canadian consumers declined 13.8 per cent in the second quarter compared with the same period a year ago, and a 5.1-per-cent drop overall in Canadian PC shipments marked the first time that computer sales in Canada actually fell year over year, according to IDC Canada figures. On the other hand, Dell shipments increaseed by 28.4 per cent in Canada in the second quarter compared with a year ago. Apple.'s 21.4-per-cent drop in overall Canadian sales masked strong growth in iBook sales, which lifted Apple back into the top five in the second quarter, IDC Canada said. For more, visit:
For a good, short tutorial on choosing an LCD monitor for your Mac, check out this column by the L.A. Times' Jim Heid. Heid notes that Apple's Studio Displays are wonderful, but they won't work with PowerBooks or iBooks or older Macs, PCs or in dual monitor configurations. The solution is a third-party LCD display, of which there are many. He also reviews ADC adapter solutions. Jim summarizes:
"In the end, if you're buying a G4 system and don't care about connecting a flat panel to an Apple laptop or Windows computer, buy an Apple display. Besides the obvious desktop fashion advantages, you'll get the benefits of the single-cable ADC connection scheme and the all-digital signal path. But if broad hardware compatibility is important, look to a third-party display. Beige isn't that hideous, after all."
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In "iMaculate Conception: Return to Grace Part II- Return to the fold" on Applelust, Joel Davies continues his series on his return from the Dark Side. This time, he gets his hands on a BW G3, an iMac, and and a Pismo. But is all rosy? Will these convince him the Mac is the way to go? Not quite... http://www.applelust.com/oped/davies_conception/archives/grace2.html
Cyril at the Cube-Zone brings our attention to an intrigueing bit of scuttlebutt about a possible Cube redesign underway to deal with heat issues that limited the original Cube to 500 MHz. You can check it out at:
Low End Mac's Paulo Rodrigues has an interesting feature on rare Macs, including: • Backlit Portable
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Check out this Web store for Apple Computer Stuff, Signed Books about Apple Computer, a classic Apple watch or a watch to match your new iMac or iBook, T-Shirts, caps, and other apparel featuring the Apple Computer logo and technologies, pens, mousepads, cups and other accessories that feature the Apple Computer logo, promo and retail marketing posters by Apple Computer, Inc. Books signed by their authors. Features Owen Linzmayer's best-selling Apple Confidential and Alan Deutschman's The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. The classic Apple watch features Apple's Think Different campaign slogan and classic 6-Color Apple Logo on white dial. Also features matte black anodized aluminum, anti-allergic stainless steel back, chemically hardened mineral crystal, ISA Quartz counter-clockwise movement, 3 hands, black genuine leather strap with black anodized aluminum buckle. Water-resistant to 3 atm. or 99 feet. $ 169.95 You can check it all out at:
Keyspan Digital Remote v2.0.3b1 for Mac OS 8.5 and greater is now posted on Keyspan's web site. Platform: Mac OS 8.5.1 or greater
The Keyspan Digital Media Remote is a powerful infrared remote which allows you to control multimedia applications on your computer in the same convenient way that you now control your home TV. Great for PowerPoint, QuickTime, DVD players, CD players, and MP3 Players! How it Works... The Keyspan Digital Media Remote controls your multimedia applications by sending them the same keystrokes that you do when you control the application from the keyboard. For example, if your program uses the "N" key to advance to a new slide, the Keyspan DMR Remote Control can send the same key to your application allowing you to control your application from across the room. System requirements:
Keyspan Digital Media Remote sells for $54.95 For more information, visit:
World Expo and Apple have announced that more than 64,000 attendees packed the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City last week for the Macworld Conference & Expo. This year's record attendance is the highest ever for the New York event. The final attendance numbers contrast sharply with lowered attendance figures at other technology shows this year - most notably, PC Expo held at the same convention center just three weeks prior. Macworld has now surpassed both PC Expo and Internet World as the largest annual technology event in New York City. ``The loyalty of the Mac community is astounding,'' said Charlie Greco, president and CEO of IDG World Expo. ``While other tradeshows struggle with low attendance numbers, Macworld Conference & Expo continues to set new records. As the number one technology tradeshow in New York City and San Francisco, Macworld is proof positive that the Macintosh platform is hotter than ever.'' ``The growing enthusiasm for the Mac platform is contagious. Our customers and developers demonstrated phenomenal support for Apple's latest innovations at Macworld this year,'' said Philip Schiller, Apple's vice president of product marketing. ``It's really great to see this strong show of support and excitement by so many customers for Mac OS X and all of Apple's digital lifestyle products demonstrated at this year's show.'' In addition to the show's record attendance, more than 44,000 people around the world tuned in simultaneously for a live stream of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote via their QuickTime Player. QuickTime 5, Apple's industry-leading software for creating, playing and streaming high-quality audio and video over the Internet, is available for free download to Macintosh and Windows users at www.apple.com/quicktime. Highlights from the opening keynote address included a preview of Mac OS X version 10.1, with demonstrations of native Mac OS X applications by 10 major developers including Adobe, Aspyr, Alias|Wavefront, Blizzard, Connectix, FileMaker, IBM, Microsoft, Quark and WorldBook. More than 1,000 native applications are now available on Mac OS X and more than 50 third-party developers made announcements at the show supporting Mac OS X. Apple introduced major upgrades to its desktop computing family with the introduction of a new line of faster Power Mac G4s with the revolutionary SuperDrive, and faster, more powerful iMacs for today's digital lifestyle. iDVD 2 for Mac OS X v 10.1 was also previewed.
Pioneer Electronics Business Solutions Division has announced new, lower prices for its recordable and re-recordable DVD media. DVD-R for general media from Pioneer is now available at the suggested retail price of $9.95, with DVD-RW media available for $19.95. Both formats offer up to 4.7GB of storage capacity. "The usage of DVD-R media has increased significantly over the past three years," said Hani Gabriel, senior vice president of optical systems sales and marketing for Pioneer Electronics, Business Solutions Division. "DVD-RW is also following this trend now that affordable writers supporting both formats are becoming widely available. These new media prices should help to make DVD-R and DVD-RW even more attractive for a growing number of mainstream consumer and business applications." The DVD-R and DVD-RW formats are members of the DVD Forum's family of DVD specifications. DVD-R is a write-once format that is compatible with most DVD Video players and DVD-ROM drives. DVD-RW is a re-recordable format that allows users to record, erase and re-record their own DVD discs more than 1,000 times. Key applications for DVD-R and DVD-RW include digital video archiving, audio recording, digital image storage, computer backups and burning home movies onto DVDs. Pioneer offers 4.7GB DVD-R for general media packaged both in jewel cases and 50-disc spindles. It is available in both Pioneer brand and inkjet printable versions. Pioneer brand 4.7GB DVD-RW Ver. 1.1 media is also available in jewel cases. Pioneer was the first to offer a DVD-Recordable drive back in 1998. Since then the prices for recordable DVD have steadily decreased and now Pioneer's award-winning DVR-A03 combines the writing capabilities of DVD-R with DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW. It is also the first drive to offer a 2X DVD-R recording speed. In addition to the DVR-A03, Pioneer also offers an OEM version of the drive which is currently available in select desktop systems from Apple, Compaq and Sony. For more information, visit:
IBM IDG News Service's George A. Chidi Jr. reports that
"IBM's all-encompassing pilgrimage to Linux continues with its Wednesday announcement offering Linux on its iSeries servers.
"The Linux initiative for iSeries servers - IBM's server line for midsized companies - began with beta-testing of the open-source operating system using versions made by SuSE Linux and TurboLinux, said Ian Jarman, product marketing director for IBM's iSeries servers. Wednesday's announcement moves Linux on iSeries machines to general market availability."
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