My Mac articles
updated 6/9/8
From ComputerChips
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150 Years of Macking - The Last Episode; Backups and Zip Disks; The New MacBook
Pro; Apple Updates; Items for Sale
149
Weirdness with a Brother printer; New Safari and PithHelmet; Macs now 14%
of sales; Re-calibrating your Laptop Battery; LaCie Power Supply Failures;
OSX Help for Switchers; Spending Your Rebate; Concast Cheats and Sleaze
148
You Software Review; Keep Your G5 Clean; NeoOffice and WordPerfect; MagSafe
and MacBooks; Western Digital Not Wonderful; Network Solutions Steals Domain
Ideas; No Macworld Content
147
10.4.11; The MS Office 2008 Deal; General Leopard Compatibility; Wireless
Network; Rename Your Mac; Canon Doesn't Want Us; Go For Brother Instead; Bye
Bye CompUSA; Don't Forget to Erase Those Disks
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Actual Mac Trojan Is Loose; Dot-Mac Dropping Older Versions of OSX; Leopard
Install Went Flawlessly; Coolest New Feature; Leopard Runs AppleWorks; Programs
That Don't Work; OS9 Classic Compatibility (Gone); So, Stay In The Past; iPod
Nano Video; Office 2008 for Mac
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New Macs Coming?; Leopard; More Updates; iTunes Update Disables Your Ringtones;
No Linux for iPhone Either; AirPort and Mirrors; New Photoshop Elements; Beware
of Your Screen Saver; Fat Bits; Software For Chiropractic Offices
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Apple Revises iPods; Nano Video; Where Are Your CDs?; Macs In Enterprise;
iPhone Hackity Hack; CONcast "Unlimited" Bandwidth; NeoOffice Updated;
AllOfMP3 To Return; Legal Streaming Service from France; Hard Drive Lesson
2; G5 Coolant Leaks
144
FreeGeek Now Handles Macs; Them Wacky Russians; Pron Sites Pwn Windoze; A
Lesson In Hard Drives; Software Updates - Where Should You Be?
143
Save Your Updates; Router Troubles; 10.4.10 and 10.4.11; No iPhone Content;
Short Column
142
Corrosion In Your Mac; Time To Buy A G5? Hilarious Tales of Tech Nightmare;
New Flip4Mac; ABC Dead to Macs; General Tips and Reminders
141
Eight-Core Processor; Apple TV; Leopard Delayed Until October; Mac 101 Site;
Beware The Double Underline; IntelMac Speed Test Results; The Perp Drive -
Not Just Hitachi; Windows Wastes Power; Google Desktop; Blu-Ray Burner; I'm
Worth $1,836; TXT2U PLZ A DFLA; Apple Embedding Ads; StickyWindows Brings Back
Tabs
140
A Replacement For Timeslips; Ask to Cut Your Cable Bill; More on Preferences
139
Beware of Giant Laptop Drives; Retrospect Going Away; The LaCie Yugo Drive;
Another Reason to Dump Earthlink; Verizon Is No Better; The Well-Equipped Video
Server; Getting Content
138
Apple's iPhone A Reality (in June); Word for 2008; AppleTV; New AirPort Extreme;
Cancelling Online Accounts; What's Wrong with Adobe Reader; MacBook Still Working;
Acer Bugging Customers Since 1998; Join PMUG Already
137
Those Rebate Debit Cards; Beware of MSN; Portland's MetroFi Service; iPhone
or Not?; My MacBook Is Still Okay; AllOfMP3 Still Lives; StyleWriter II; Font
Downloader
136
Microsoft Owns Your Vote; Locating Corrupt Fonts with OS9; iTunes 7 Display
Bug; Another Day, Another $50,000; They're Just Shameless; M$ Backs Off on
Vista; Cigarette Ads; Skype Eats Your Bandwidth
135
My MacBook Is Back; Fan Control for MacBooks; How To Use Tabbed Browsing;
Angie's List Now Fee-Based; Be Glad You Can't Run Windows Media 11; Correspondent
Laments End of AppleWorks; 10.4.8 is Fine
134
Battery Recall; My MacBook Sucks; Another AOL Failure; AOL Is Now Free; SpyCam
Fun & Games; Cost of Mac vs. Dell; Sharing Your iTunes Library under Multiple
Users; Apple Showtime
133
The Mac Pro; Leopard Preview; 10.4.7 Not So Great; MacBook Failed; Apple Stores
Don't Use DiskWarrior; Migrate Your Windows Mail to Mac; Conceal Your Message
in Spam; Stay off Royal Caribbean; Apple Forum Staff Dismantled
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10.4.7 Successful, Maybe; Easy Access to Utilities; Northwest Apple Store
Dead Once Again; Don't Put Vista on your IntelMac; Satellite Internet; No More
Apple CRTs; I Like Mighty Mouse; Your iSight Sees You; Charts Is Coming; YahooGroups
Getting Bloated
131
We're Safe from India; Inside AppleCare; I Got A MacBook; Time To Sell Your
eMac; Macaroni
130
Keep On Fixing Permissions; Fear No Worms; G5 Coolant Leaks; 17 CD-ROMs; Old
Mac Media Player; MacOS Hints Recommended; Thumbs Up to Qwest; Another Portland
Apple Store
129
DRM Eats Battery Life; Another iPod Copy Utility; The 10.4.6 Update; MacWindows
Boot Camp; iPod HiFi vs. Altec Lansing IM7
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Welcome to Bangalore, Mackers; Opera for OS9; Another Drive Space Eater; Your
Mac in 2012; Better PowerBook Battery Life; Netscape Is Really Dead; Documents
in Applications Folder; Okay to Update Now
127
Your Drive is Getting Full; AppleCare Agony; AppleCare Now Available for Displays;
Avoid MacMall; AntiVirus for Macs; Get More RAM; New Browser for OSX; G5 iMacs
Getting Cheaper: Going, Going Gone; Classic May Be Possible on IntelMacs; iTunes
Purchasing Problem.
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The New Intel Macs; Windows Compatibility; First Major Screwup of 2006; 10.4.4
Update, Safari and PithHelmet; New Software.
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File naming problems; PDFPen; PMUG Discount at Mac Store Cedar Hills; Editing
Your Preferences.
124
Sony Malware May Affect Macs; and Where Should You Stop? A tutorial on which
version of the OS you should be running.
123
Password Protect That Sucker!, New Century Boombox, Keeping Your Own ISP,
Burning CDs from iTunes, Giving Up on Staying Old, Bad Installers (repeated
with changes), Palm Fixed Things
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Phishers Getting Really Skilled; Toss That TechTool; FCC Ruling May Raise
ISP Costs; FEMA Is Run By Idiots; Mighty or Meekly Mouse; Tablet Monitor; Credit
Where Due; Don't Update iTunes; Bad Installers; Old Macs and Parts
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I'm Now A Pod Person; Degrading the Mini-Cooper; Where's My Internet? Tiger
At Last; No More Find; 10.4.2 Update; No Discount for Verizon; No Toasty iTunes;
Living Without Internet (briefly)
120
Ten Years of Macking; Fresh Exploit for Tiger's Dashboard; Backplane Problems
with iMac G5s; Quark Causes Serious Security Problem; Apple Tech Support Hell;
AppleMail Addresses; Other 10.3.9 Problems
119
My First Look at Tiger; Nikon Encrypts RAW Data Format; The Well-Equipped
Mac; New Trojan for Macs; Hitachi Increases Density of Micro Drives; Problems
With Latest iPod Update
118
Farewell to ComputerBits; G5 iMacs Showing Problems; AOL Owns Your Words;
Quark Causes Serious Security Problems; Medical Software for Macs; Transparent
Desktops; US Military Now A Spammer; Free Virus Detector; HP Is Worse Than
Reported
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Happy Birthday To Me; Bank Security Through Macs; Jef Raskin Dies; New Save
Utility; HP Ripoff Scheme; Update iMac G3 Firmware; eMac On Way Out; New iPods;
Remote-Control Your Mac
116
The MiniMac Is the iCheap; New Word Processor from Apple Is A Page-Layout
Program; G5 Users Group; PMUG General Meeting New Site; Why The Home Directory
Is A Good Idea; AppleLegal Harasses ThinkSecret Site
115
About Authentium Anti-Virus; No Mac News in December; ThinkSecret Speculates
about the iCheap Mac; Apple at Oracle OpenWorld; Recording High Quality Sound
on your iPod; Amazon's Secret Customer Service Number; Register Your Mac Immediately
114
MSN Is Beyond Terrible; Bizarre AppleWorks Problem; Scientology Protests;
PatchBurn Lets iTunes Use External Drives; 30" Display Is REALLY Big;
Dismounting and Mounting Drives; The iMac of The Future; Microsoft Makes Life
Difficult for San Jose Police
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Mackers Finally Get Our Own Destructive Exploit; Another Virus Fighter; All
About the Activity Monitor; Apple Kills the iPod Download Patch
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Buy An HP iPod; Evidence Eradicator; Read Mac Disks on Windows; Print Spool
Freezing; MS Bash of the Month: Air Traffic system crashes; Dot-Mac Gets User
More Space; Preserving Video; Revive A Dead Powerbook
111
New iMacs; Sad Loss to Portland computer community; Printing a Selection of
a Web Page; Quark Going Bye Bye; Laser Printer Repair; Caches; Security and
Anti-Virus; Font Issues; Image Flaw pierces PC Security
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Beware of Silver Sharpies; Forget Earthlink Wireless; Rendezvous Farewell;
Manipulate Your Email; Topical Toilet Paper; BBC Treasure Hunt; EyeTV; The
Broadcast Flag; MythTV; Discounted 20" Cinema Display
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Tiger's Loping Along; Apple's 30" Display; More On Offing Spammers; Bypassing
Parental Lockout; Get Your Apple Updates from PMUG; About Apple Remote Desktop
Client; Get That AirPort Card Soon; Alternatives to MS Office
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Videos Online; Get Some Cables; InDesign Users Group; Another VGA-ADC Converter;
More SGI News; Avoid Office 2004; OSX Update 10.3.4
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New Macs; Pocket Flash Drives; Beware of WPA; FireWire DV Cable Problems;
Bypass iTunes Copy Protection; Deletion Dangers in AppleMail and with Norton
AntiVirus; Forward Delete on PowerBooks; AppleWorks Spinning Beachball
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Personalizing Your Mac Under OSX; The New SGI Display Card; "Ghost City," the
Website of the Month; Burnz Saves the Disk; Bypass iTunes Copy Protection;
As Palm Sinks Slowly in the Sunset
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Shuffle Off to Buffalo; Netgear Unreliable; Stealth Serial Port; Another One
Bites the Dust; Another Reason to Dump AOL; Quark Diminishes in Importance;
Another Microsoft Bash
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Nightmares and Headaches; Wireless and Wired Networking; Ethernet USB Server;
Alternative to MacJanitor; OCR for OXX (Finally!); Good News for Owners of
SGI Displays
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Quark 6 vs. InDesign 3; Macworld Expo Highlights; My Favorite Shareware; Why
Creativity Is Pointless; Letters: Recommending Speakeasy, Beware of Word Exploit
that reveals personal information
102
Jiggler Redux; Wait to Upgrade to Panther; Repairing Permissions; The New
Apple Store; Letters: Recommending Verizon, Free/Near-Free ISPs; The Blob;
Inaccurate CPU Readings from Terminal
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Macking 101 (Tutorial); First Experience with Panther; PocketMacking the PocketPC;
More Spammer Trouble
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