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Monday, March 22, 2004

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iPods Beat In Heart Of The City
by Leander Kahney, Wired News
New York and iPods go together like bagels and cream cheese. Just search for the word "iPod" in New York personal ads, and you get a unique insight into the mentality of the city.

News

Avid AV Apps Support Panther
by Digit Magazine

Mariner Write Update Adds New Features
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
The new version adds "major architectural enhancements," according to the developer.

Apple VP Ron Okamoto On Worldwide Developer Conference
by Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral
At WWDC 2004, more emphasis will be placed on three areas of development that haven't had a strong presense at previous conferences: Enterprise IT, Science, and QuickTime Development.

Review

Apple 17in PowerBook G4
by Ian Cuthbertson, The Australian
Methink I have seen the light.

Grading PCs, Macs Sure To Hack Off Devotees Of Both
by Bill Husted, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Keep in mind that a computer is just a tool. The quality of the work you do with it will be determined by your skill, not by any magic transferred to you by the brand name.

Apple Gets Juiced Up
by Dan Charney, Federal Computer Week
Raw processing power hasn't always been Apple's claim to fame, but the company's latest crop of 64-bit desktop computers might prompt an image makeover.

TechTool Pro 4
by Gary Coyne, Applelinks
TechTool 4 is a pgoram that still needs some kinks worked out.

Snapz Pro X 2
by Kirk Hiner, Applelinks
Snapz Pro X 2 is an astounding achievement. That it's so powerful, so easy to use and so inexpensive should make other software developers hang their head in shame.

Rainbox Six 3: Raven Shield
by Bill Stiteler, Applelinks.com
You'll have to spend a lot of time with the game to learn its intricacies in order to fully appreciate it. It's the shooter of choice for obsessive compulsives.

Sidetrack

Gentleman, Start Your Engines
by Heng-Cheong Leong

'Cos the iPod Race is on.

Wintel

EU Remedy Risks Leaving A Dominant Microsoft
by Victoria Shannon and Nicola Clark, International Herald Tribune
Many people see that the solution as having little efect on the audio and video software's availability or on the ability of rivals to challenge Microsoft's dominance in a market that is becoming critical to managing digital media on the Internet and in the home.

Microsoft Change? Don't Hold Your Breath
by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
The evidence continues to mount that the world's biggest software company hasn't changed the methods that got it this far.

See Also : Microsoft's Isn't Changing Its Bad Behavior, Dan Gillmor Says by Robert Scoble
There are many examples that Microsoft is changing (and note that Gillmor didn't mention even one of these).

Prying Apart Microsoft's Pricing Logic
by Stanford Knowledgebase, CNET News.com

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