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50 Awesome Open Source Resources For Online Writers
The New 17-in. MacBook Pro Wins Over A Skeptic
Proposed Secret Copyright Deal Takes Aim At iPods, Providers
What To Expect From Steve Jobs On June 9
Apple Takes Delivery Of 188 Mysterious Ocean Containers
The Mac Night Owl: Don't Believe Everything You Hear or Read!
50 Awesome Open Source Resources For Online Writers
[A tip of the hat to reader John Dennis for bringing this item to our attention]
JobProfiles.org's Christina Laun says:
With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it. And if you're working online, why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work? Here's a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better.
Categories included are:
Word Processors
Reference
Organization
Helpful Tools
Web Tools
Some of this stuff is presumably Windows-only, but a lot of it supports the Mac - EG: Open Office, NeoOffice, Bean, AbiWord, the GIMP, NVU, and so forth.
You can check it out at:
http://www.jobprofiles.org/library/students/50_awesome_open_source_resources_for_online_writers.htm
The New 17-in. MacBook Pro Wins Over A Skeptic
Computerworld's Ryan Faas says the 17" MacBook Pro is "a desktop replacement 'in virtually every sense of the word"
There's something I have to say at the outset of this review: From the time Apple Inc. announced the first 17-in. PowerBook G4 models five years ago, I've always been a little prejudiced against them. I'd never have tried to talk someone out of buying one, but I always shared my opinion that a laptop with a 17-in. display barely qualifies as a laptop at all. It seemed to me that the 17-in. PowerBook and its successor, the Intel-based MacBook Pro, was simply too big, too bulky and too heavy -- though I confess I'd never carried one around.
With that out of the way, let me say this: I have spent a week getting to know Apple's newest 17-in. MacBook Pro - the 2.6-GHz model with LED backlighting, to be specific - and I'm still not sure it's the perfect machine for me. Much like the ultraslim MacBook Air isn't for everyone, neither is the biggest of the MacBook Pros. But it is one incredibly impressive laptop, and it doesn't seem as bulky as I'd always thought.
For the full review visit here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9087318&source=rss_topic12
Proposed Secret Copyright Deal Takes Aim At iPods, Providers
The Ottawa Citizen's Vito Pilieci reports:
The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
The agreement could also impose strict regulations on Internet service providers, forcing those companies to hand over customer information without a court order.
Called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the new plan would see Canada join other countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, to form an international coalition against copyright infringement.....
"If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like? This is pretty close," said David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.....
In Canada, border guards already perform random searches of laptops at airports to check for child pornography. ACTA would expand the role of those guards.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=557b8515-4cca-4302-8877-56ac6d28e822
What To Expect From Steve Jobs On June 9
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:
....it was refreshing to receive a note to clients from Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster on Friday morning with some sensible advice about what to expect when Steve Jobs takes the stage at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference on June 9. According to Munster, look for:
A new iPhone
A new OS
Focus on integration
New MacBooks
For the full report visit here:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/23/what-to-expect-from-steve-jobs-on-june-9/
Apple Takes Delivery Of 188 Mysterious Ocean Containers
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:
Here's an intriguing report from ImportGenius, a search engine that gathers "competitive intelligence" by monitoring U.S. Customs records of ocean containers entering American ports.
Searching for shipments to Apple, Inc., employees at the Scottsdale, Ariz., company reported on Friday that they've spotted a "major spike" since mid March in ocean containers marked with a mysterious new label: "electric computers"
For the full report visit here:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/23/apple-takes-delivery-of-188-mysterious-ocean-containers/
The Mac Night Owl: Don't Believe Everything You Hear or Read!
On Thursday, May 21, Apple's stock took another nosedive, and it's clear that facts and logic weren't behind this not-so-anomalous event.
Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/05/newsletter-443-preview-dont-believe-everything-you-hear-or-read/
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