Were The Pismo PowerBook And The Clamshell iBook The Last Tough Apple Portables?

Plus: • Panther Problems Redux

MacGurus.com now authorized to sell the XLR8 MAChSpeed 500MHz-550 MHz G4 PISMO upgrades.

Browser Wars IV
• Mac users revolting?
• Dated Service Document Noted iBook Video Problems More Than Two Years Ago - Report
• MW SF Hess Events Last Call - Internet-related Show Activities
• New Accordance The Essential IVP Reference Collection Bible Reference Tools Reviewed
• Mac Night Owl: Are You Ready to Fire Your Phone Company?
• Israel To Suspend Microsoft Buys - Will Seek Open-source Options
• Using Apple's CHUD (Computer Hardware Understanding Development) Tool to lower your Power Mac G4 Mirror Drive Door's temperature.
• Mac Night Owl: A Paragraph Worth of Monday Rants Don't like it, make it legal.
• Atari Signs Ridley Scott Associates to Deliver DRIV3R Original Live-Action Short Film; First-Ever Original Production Created to Promote a Video Game

• New iBreeze Acrylic Cooling Stand For Apple Powerbooks
• Miglia Technology Announces G5 Compatibility For AlchemyTV DVR
• Diskology To Help Users Upgrade Digital Video Recorders, Including TiVo On the Mac
• Backup Battery Pack for iPod w/ Dock Connector
• Tactile Interactive Ships Tactile Interrogator Early Access
• Design Intuition 1.0.3.0 Cabinetry / Woodworking CAD Software
• SilverNetworks releases SilverCreator v1.1
• TeamAgenda 4.5 Cross-Platform Group Scheduler & Resource Manager

• Tofu 1.0 On-Screen Text Reader, Arranges Text In Columns [OS X 10.1 up]
• Desktop Manager 0.4.2 Virtual Desktop Manager [OS X 10.3 up]
• Impression 2.0 Backup Software For Mac OS X
• BackTrack 1.0 Records Everything You Type [OS X 10.3 up]
• Lyrictracker X 4.5.1 Gets Lyrics From The Lyrictracker.com Database [OS 10.2 up]
• AquilaCalendarMB 1.17 Tear Off Menu Bar Calendar; Todo, Notes, Alarms [OS 10.2 up]
• Poisoned 0.5 Front-End For giFT daemon: FastTrack, Gnutella, OpenFT [OS 10.2 up]
• WinJack 1.0 Remotely Control Windows From A Mac [OS X 10.1 up]
• QuoEdit 1.0.8r2 AppleScript & WorldScript Savvy Text Editor For Plain Text {System 7.1 - Mac OS 9.x]
• Palette 1.1.1 Painting Application For Children [OS X]
• Mac Flight Planner 1.13 Planning Application For Real World Aviation [OS 10.2 up]
• Global Warmth 1.0 Monitors Global Weather In 5 Different Ways
• Net Monitor 3.6.0 Graphs Network Activity Of Local/Remote Computers [OS 10.2.5 up]
• Entourage Email Archive X 1.8 Available [OS 10.2 up]

Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., will today introduce combustion 3 for Apple Macintosh, the latest version of its award-winning visual effects and 3D compositing desktop software. combustion 3 for the Mac will deliver industry-leading features benefiting customers who produce Web content and professional video motion graphics, repurpose video content for the web, and create effects for independent feature films and HDTV content.

Phelios has announced a major update to Helix, its chopper rescue mission game. This update consists of a significant amount of changes, including an overhaul to the control system.

Games of this genre are the bane of the software reviewers. We have to spend our free time playing a game that becomes more of a chore to complete than a privilege. These games are repetitive, unoriginal, uncreative, and require the endless memorization of thousands of button combinations that must be input lightning-fast at precise moments.

Plus: • Panther Problems Cont.

• Wireless Question
• LimeWire Support/Alternatives
• eMac issue
• iPod's battery

• Will Protesters Rain On Apple's Expo Parade?
• Has Apple Quality Control Bitten The Dust?
• Shattered iDreams - Apple iBooks and the Logic Board Failure Scandal
• Mac Night Owl: Apple's Quality Control Revisited
• Mac Night Owl: How About Some Good Things About Apple?
• Power Mac G5 Is Apple's Best Work Yet - Infoworld
• OSNews 2003 Awards -- Best Desktop OS: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
• Turf Battle: Dock vs. Menu Bar
• Safari vs. Camino
• 99-Cent Songs, Lawsuits Marked Watershed Year In Ongoing Downloading Wars
• Apple Leads In Visits To Computer Hardware Sites
• Gene Steinberg interviews Macworld's Christopher Breen, Steve "Mr. Gadget" Kruschen and Internet telephone service provider Vonage this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE
• Wal-Mart Downloads Have Some Kinks

• Mac Memory Myths
• Pocket Knives For Computer Users
• OmniWeb 5.0 To Debut At MacWorld Expo
• XtremeMac Announces the SportWrap iPod Armband - The First True Sport Case
• Prosoft Engineering to Demonstrate Award-winning Products at Macworld San Francisco 2004
• Flash AV Players version 2.8 Released
• rootsolutions announces Virtual WineCellar 4.5
• XtremeMac Demonstrates Advanced Wireless Audio Technology
• X-Plane 7.40b1 Flight Simulator With Accurate Flight Models

• Sound Shuffler X 1.0 Replaces The Alert Beep With Random Sounds [OS X 10.3 up]
• inkBook 0.3.0a1 - A Use For Apple's InkWell Technology [OS X 10.3 up]
• MimMac 1.0.6 Bootable System Backups, Merging, Data Backup [OS 10.2 up]
• Inquisitor 0.6 As-you-type Web Search [OS X 10.3 up]
• DockDisks 1.0b5 Preference Pane To Auto-mount Disks In The Dock [OS 10.2 up]
• Backup Simplicity 1.1 Simple Automatic Daily Backup [OS 10.2.3 up]
• TrueNav 1.2 GPS software, Garmin Import & Export [OS 10.2.8/ OS 10.3 up]
• AnaBuilder 2.35.5 Create Stereoscopic Photos [OS X]
• DiscBlaze 2.2b1 Multisession CD/DVD Burner, CDRW Eraser, Images [OS 10.2.6 up]
• The Unread 1.0 Displays Number Of Unread Mail Messages In Menu Bar [OS 10.2 up]
• iWork 1.4.6 Intuitive Time-billing And Invoicing App [OS 10.2 up]
• HairerSoft Releases Amadeus II 3.7 For Mac [OS X]
• Apples to Oranges 1.2 Simple Unit Converter [OS X 10.1 up]

Pricey, hard to replace iPod batteries and faulty iBook logic boards cast a shadow over Macworld Expo hoopla

Plus: Panther Problems - possible solutions?

• NewerTech Ethernet Driver For PowerBook 1400
• iMac spazzing out
• Research Bible Program Distributors Sought
• Route 66
• BitPass

• Dead iBook Owners To Protest At Macworld
• Mac Night Owl: Do You Need an Extended Warranty?
• Would $100 iPod Compete Or Cannibalize?
• Want To Switch To Mac? You Won't Die
• Where Is My "Made For Linux" Computer System?
• Where is my "Made for Linux" computer system? Comment
• Mac Night Owl: Does a Cheap iPod Make Sense?
• eWeek: eWeek's Stand on the Top Tech Issues of 2003
• eWeek: Year of Our Discontent -- Except for Linux
• Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
• Anticipation Builds for Innovative Product Introductions at Macworld Conference & Expo; Event Kicks off Its 20th Year Next Week in San Francisco
• XBox 2 for Mac?
• PC Mag: Logitech QuickCam Orbit Review

• MisFox 1.2.1 GUI For Hidden OS X Intenet Settings [OS X]
• Repair Disk Utility's Permissions 2.0 [OS 10.2]
• Zingg! 1.3 CM Lists Some Or All Apps That Can Open A File [OS 10.2 up]
• Postfix Enabler for Panther 1.0.5 Turns On Panther's Mail Server [OS X 10.3 up]
• BackgroundSaver 1.2.5 Accesses Screen Savers For The Finder Background [OS X 10.3 up]
• IlohaMail 0.8.10 Multilingual Webmail Program [OS X 10.1 up]
• Xupport 2.0b7 Systam Utility [OS 10.2 up]
• A-Dock X 1.0.1 App Switcher/Launcher [OS 10.2 up]
• Booxter 1.0.1 Manages Your Book Collection [OS 10.2 up]
• Books 2.0b2 Personal Book Library Management Software [OS 10.2 up]
• Bambini 3.1.1 Simple Games For Babies & Toddlers

• RadTech PodSleevz Give-Away // Geekshelter
• Maxum Updates iAssist
• UPresent X 3.0 Flexible Multimedia Presentation Manager
• CodeTek VirtualDesktop Pro 3.0B3 Multitasking Environment
• TouchCAD 3.0.4 3D Modeling/Unfolding For Physical Model Production