• Ten Greatest
• Ten Great Laptops
• PowerBook 100 specs
• iBook G4 temperature
• PowerBook 5300 Revisited
• Sound-in for Powerbook
• Pismo DVD question
• Re: MCS and Powerbook issues
• Clamshell iBook
• Quick Pismo question
• Re: Pismo Mystery
• PowerBook Lombard Ethernet

Plus: Font Book And The Spinning Pizza Wheel

Do-it-yourself business card creation program is slick, intuitive, easy, and fun to use

• eWeek: iPod, Therefore I Am
• US judges Blast Music Labels' Attack On ISPs And Users
• Mac Night Owl: The iPod Battery Brouhaha: Much Ado About Nothing?
• eWeek: Rise in LCD-Panel Prices Squeezes PC Makers and Consumers
• PC Mag Tests The Apple Power Mac G5
• How You Can Thwart ID Thieves
• Mac Night Owl: The iPod is Definitely a Trip
• The Year Apple Saved Music
• How To Make Sure Your 10.3.2 Update Was OK
• Mac Night Owl: A Paragraph Worth of Monday Rants
• Internet Now ‘Part Of Daily Life’

• OnyX 1.4.0 System Optimization/Maintenance Tool [OS 10.2 up] [OS X 10.3 up]
• GNUMail.app 1.1.2 Email Client [OS 10.2 up]
• Mac Pilot 1.1.1 System Utility
• Move Items X 1.3.3 Moves Files & Folders Using Hierarchical CM [OS 10.2 up]
• FruitMenu 3.2.1 Customizes & Enhances The Apple & Contextual Menus [OS X 10.1 up]
• IC-Switch for Mac OS X
• Powder 1.0.2 Interactive Snow On Your Desktop [OS 10.2 up]
• FastScripts 1.1.5 Script Execution Menu Bar Utility [OS X 10.1 up]
• HyperNext Creator 1.02 Card Based Software Creation For Beginners
• HyperNext Player 1.02 Runs Stacks Built By HyperNext Creator [OS X 10.1 up]
• Mail Scripts 2.0 Variety Of AppleScripts For Mail & Address Book [OS X 10.3 up]
• Mac Messenger 3.0b1 MSN Chat Client [Mac OS 9 - OS X]
• Macabinet 1.5 Released
• Slacker ToDo Lists 2.1.6 [OS X]

• Econ Updates Portraits & Prints To Version 1.3.2
• DVD2oneX 1.3.0 DVD Copying Software
• Apple DVD Studio Pro X 2.0.4 DVD Authoring Tool
• Audible.com And MobilePlanet Announce Retail Promotion Agreement
• Microsoft and the Mac: Then, Now, and Tomorrow Macworld 2004, San Francisco, January 5-9

Gefen has announced it will be showing its new HDTV connectivity solutions at Macworld this year. Each product is designed to offer supreme flexibility for high-definition (HD) systems.

Plus: • Panther is Buggy • Dual booting (9 and X)

• ViaVoice "virtual memory" processing error
• "Fast Company" Article on Apple
• Happy Holidays
• Quick Pismo question, thanks for any response!
• Sound-in for Powerbook

• eWeek: Macworld Expo Primed for Enterprise
• Apple And The Limits Of Innovation
• Your Mac Doesn't Do Windows?
• The Observer Profiles Jonathan Ive
• Mac Night Owl: A Paragraph Worth of Holiday Cheer
• PC Mag: Best Products of 2003
• Mac Night Owl: Spam, Spam and More Spam: Will New Laws Work?
• Gene Steinberg Interviews Macworld's Christopher Breen and Unsanity on the Best of The Mac Night Owl LIVE
• Digital Gear: It's Multimedia Madness

• grepArtee 2.0 UNIX Grep Searches In A Graphical User Interface [OS X]
• Perfect Pitch 1.0 Musical Instrument Tuner [OSX 10.2 up]
• WorkStrip 3.1.1 Launcher, Previewer, Work Management Tool [OSX 10.2 up]
• LimeWire X 3.6.15 Gnutella Peer-to-peer File Sharing Client [OS X]
• NewNOTEPAD Pro 2.0.8 Enhanced Note Pad [OS 9.1 - OS X 10.1 up]
• EarthLink TotalAccess 2004 1.1 Internet Access Software [OS X 10.1 up]
• NTI Dragon Burn X 3.1.04 CD & DVD Burning Software [OS X 10.1.5 up]
• Safari Menu 1.7.4 Safari Bookmarks Utility With Rendezvous Support [OSX 10.3 up]

While Windows applications tend to dominate the religious software category, there are nevertheless quite a few good Bible study and resource programs are available for the Mac platform, including several new and revised ones that are OS X native

Yesterday, Ambrosia Software, Inc. announced the release of Aki Mahjong Solitaire for Mac OS X, an elegant blend of the ancient Chinese game of Mahjong with an enchanting journey across Japan. It's a modern fusion of two ancient Asian cultures, and is as much an experience as it is a game.

IOGEAR will debut BOSS (Broadband Office Storage Server), a network server appliance that combines networking, secure Internet access and data storage in a single unit, at Macworld 2004.

Innovative Office Products, Inc. a designer and manufacturer of ergonomic mounting solutions for LCD monitors and keyboards, will display a new, easier-to-assemble version of the CinemaLift arm at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Jan. 6-9, 2004. The arm, which lifts the Apple Cinema Display above the desk to provide users with greater flexibility and ergonomic benefits, was first introduced at Macworld Expo in New York in 2003.

Plus: • Curse of the Panther Redux • Dual-Booting is a Life Saver for "Cam-Jams"!">Dual-Booting is a Life Saver for "Cam-Jams"!

• The iPod This Year's Most Wanted Christmas Gift
• Running 64-bit Linux on a G5
• Will There Be a Corporate Mac?
• Mac Night Owl: Is Apple Poised for an Extreme Makeover?
• Jane Doe Ruling Limits Effect Of RIAA legal Defeat
• Interview With Mary Percat, Channel Manager Apple Canada, Posted
• New, Inexpensive iPod Competitor From China
• Apple Profiles Virginia Tech'x G5 Based Supercomputer Project
• LindowsOS Reviewed
• SCO Pesters Fortune 1000 Companies For Linux License Fees
• SCO Opens New Front In Linux War
• How To Create Standards-Conforming Websites Tutorial Posted
• lynda.com Announces "Learning Adobe After Effects 6" Movie-Based Workshop
• eWeek: Apple Patches Mac OS X Security Hole
• PC Mag: Tech Support -- to Outsource or Not?
• eWeek: On Beyond Monoculture
• eWeek: Broadcom Jumps the Gun on 802.11n

• Copernican Technologies, Inc. Releases Boswell 3.1.2 Update For Mac Panther OS X
• Sonnet Announces New Tempo Serial ATA Cable Kits
• Circus Ponies NoteBook 1.2v170 Note-taking & Freeform Database
• Portraits & Prints Template Maker 1.0.4
• Symantec Norton Utilities 8.0.1 Disk Repair & Recovery
• SilverNetworks Releases Spy v1.1.1
• Second Life Version 1.2 Offers Easier-To-Use Interface, Virtual Land Auctions
• netTrekker Search Engine for Schools Named Top Award Winner in Technology & Learning's 2003 Awards of Excellence
• MDG Ships Web Server 4D for OS X
• ETGEAR FWG114P ProSafe 802.11g Wireless Firewall with USB Print Server Receives CNET Editors' Choice Award 12/23/2003 8:32:00 AM

• Objectpark Releases LetterWorks 1.5 With Many Stability Enhancements [OS 10.2 up]
• IPNetTunerX 1.1.5 Optimizes Any Type Of Internet Connection [OS X 10.1 up]
• IPNetMonitorX 1.3c4 Monitors & Troubleshoots Net Connections [OS X 10.1 up]
• Ebony&Ivory 1.8 - Analyze, Check, Find & Listen To Any Piano Chord Or Scale [ OS X]
• HazIce 0.2 Simple Fast Web Browser
• ilesa Software Releases SpamSlam 2.1 for MacOS X [OS 10.2 up]
• HP-12C Business Calculator 1.0.1 [Mac OS 9.2 - OS X ]
• Hebrew Spelling Service 1.1 [OS 10.2 up]

In this week's The Road Warrior Charles Moore picks what he considers the cream of Apple's portable computer crop, old and new