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July 25-31, 2001

Macworld Expo Wraps Up Though Apple fell short of exhibiting "the most important Macworld Conference ever," there was no shortage of new software announcements and other good news for Apple fans.

• The conference began on a positive note as Apple announced a $61 million net profit for their third quarter.
  
• On Wednesday, Steve jobs announced Apple's new line-up of Macs, including a face-lift for the new G-4's. Apple did not surpass the GHz "barrier." They did, however, focus on the Megahertz Myth.
  
• Mac OS 10.1 was demonstrated and a September ship date was announced.

Plenty of new software was announced (especially for OSX) as well as Microsoft pumping up the show by announcing its continued support for Apple with apps like Media Player, MSN Messenger, and Office 10 for OSX. As the Macworld Expo wrapped up events, Apple announced the Best of Show awards:

• Apple OS 10.1
• Apple 867 MHz PowerMac G4
• Asante FriendlyNet Wireless Ready Cable/DSL Router
• Canon D2400UF
• DiamondSoft Font Reserve Server for OS X
• IBM ViaVoice for OS X
• MicroMat Drive 10
• Microsoft Office 2001 for OS X
• SmartDisk FireLite 5GB FireWire Hard Drive
• Toon Boom
• Xerox Phaser 860

The Macworld Expo may not have achieved its goal of being the "most important ever," but Apple fans certainly did not walk away empty handed. Even when an apple falls, great discoveries tend to be made!

Code Red Virus Targets White House Last week, a worm type virus named "Code Red" infected over 225,000 servers. Specifically, computers vulnerable to the attack are those running the server software on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. It is the worst of its kind in years. The purpose of the virus was "to gather strength by infecting more computers and then have them all attack a numerical Internet address that represents the White House Web site." It was to accomplish its goal with a denial of service by flooding the computer with large excessive amounts of information. The White house escaped the attack by rerouting its traffic to an alternate address. Microsoft was not so lucky. ZDNet reports that "One of the servers on its www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com domain was infected with the worm Thursday and displayed the trademark 'Hacked by Chinese!' defacement." Hmmm...Got Mac?!
--from ZDNet & Excite News

You Win! You Lose! A computer glitch creates havoc for America Online. While participating in an online contest, several AOL users (possibly hundreds) were told they won $10,000! One "winner" even called three times to verify their winning status. Twice the person was "guaranteed' to be a winner. However, the third time they were told of the computer glitch and offered a $200 gift certificate and three free months of AOL in place of the "grand prize." -from Excite News

Have you Heard?

MacMonkies learned about two weeks ago that the Mac OS 9.2 had gone Golden Master and that it would be available by the time of the Expo. This is somewhat true. According to Apple's Tech Info Library, Mac OS 9.2 is only available with the Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver) computer.

As expected, Micromat's Drive 10, "the first and final disk utility for OSX," is now shipping!

Dantz Development has announced a carbonized version of its back-up software, Retrospect for release this fall. Retrospect 5.0 will be compatible with OS9 and OSX. If interested, you can download a beta version of Retrospect Client HERE.

Alias|Wavefront's Maya Software for Mac OS X will ship by September 25th. They are now accepting pre-orders for this professional 3-D animation and effects package.

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Check 'em Out!

Kaleidoscope is by far one of the most influential Mac GUI sites on the Net. PERIOD! They have literally change the face of the Mac since way back in the days of System 7. Kaleidoscope changes the appearance of the user interface with Schemes. No longer is the Mac user limited to the Platinum theme provided by Apple. There are literally thousands of third party schemes available on the Kaleidoscope Scheme Archive. So if you want to beautify your Mac, or simply want to give it a new look, drop by KaleidoscopeDotNet!

Do you like Apple's Contextual Menus option? Tired of having to deal with the "control" issues? Then Click Different! With turly's FinderPop, all you have to do is click and hold and you're ready to go (Look ma! One hand!). FinderPop also gives you great features like the ability to navigate with Hierarchical menus at the click of your mouse! Know what's even better? It's free unless you choose to pay for it. And this is one utility that MacMonkies can't go without. Pop over to turly's and download your copy of FinderPop today!

Lookin' for a good laugh?? Check out TVdance.com! There are plenty of animated giggles just waiting to tickle your fancy. One of our favorites is the Bush-Gore Dance. The Election may be over, "but the dancing never ends!" Check 'em out!

Just Plain Nutz!

A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS!

Perhaps the two biggest oxymorons in the computer industry are:

• Apple Marketing
• Microsoft Innovation

PROVERBS FOR THE MILLENNIUM

• Home is where you hang your @.
• The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
• A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.
• You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
• Great groups from little icons grow.
• Speak softly and carry a cellular phone.
• C:\ is the root of all directories.
• Oh, what a tangled website we weave when we first practice.
• The modem is the message.
• Too many clicks spoil the browse.
• The geek shall inherit the earth.
• There's no place like <http://www.home.com>
• Don't byte off more than you can view.
• Fax is stranger than fiction.
• What boots up must come down.
• Virtual reality is its own reward.
• Modulation in all things.
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
  Teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
  -Contributed by Tina

KNOCK! KNOCK!

Man helping person working at a computer: "I'm no expert, but I don't think you have you knock before you hit 'enter'." - Bunny Hoest and John Reiner

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Face to Face

Are you good with faces? Like a good puzzle? If so, here's a puzzle for you to face. Take a look at the PICTURE we found a couple years ago. How many faces can you come up with? If you look really close, you should be able to come up with 9 faces in the picture. Keep in mind, looks can be deceiving! Can't find nine? Stop back August 1 for the solution. So what's that puzzled look on your face?! Take a LOOK!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft announced that Windows XP will not include Java. However, for those who must have it, Microsoft announced a "painless" download direct from their own site. This news came as part of their "Java damage control."

A Thai elephant park is now making paper from elephant dung! Gads! I am glad I gave up making spit wads!

Tool to help alter the appearance of OS X

Teen smashes six cars and injures one person while taking driving test! With driving like that, we'll stay off the sidewalks!

Eridanus releases Archer - its first Mac OS X product

Netscape's popular web browser

Public Beta version of Roxio's CD authoring software for OSX