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04.29.04
Mac OS X Panther: Keeping Things Organized
Mac OS X, like all operating systems, is designed to help you organize data. This data is represented using the industry-standard "desktop" metaphor, originally pioneered by the first Macintosh and its precursors. In the "desktop" metaphor, any meaningful grouping of data under a single name—a picture, an audio recording, a shopping list—is represented by a document (also known as a file, a term which will be used interchangeably with document in this book). Documents can be sorted into folders, which are simply containers for documents. Folders can contain other folders as well as documents, and thus you can organize all your information into a hierarchy that resembles a large, ungainly filing cabinet.
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Mac OS X gives you the ability to manage these documents and folders, to move them around, change their names, create new ones, and get rid of the ones you don't need anymore. In the context of modern computing hardware, this means that Mac OS X must enable you to manipulate disks—hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and other such devices that store your documents. In this chapter, you will see how to use the tools that Mac OS X gives you to accomplish these tasks.
Read The Whole Article | Strong iPod market not helping Mac G5 sales
Apple Computer Inc.'s strategy of getting iPod buyers to also buy Apple desktop computers doesn't seem to be working, according to an industry research report.
The Cupertino computer and consumer electronics maker has seen its share of the personal computer market drop to 2.8 percent, from 4 percent a year earlier, according to IDC, of Framingham, Mass.
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PalmOne Introduces New Handhelds, Reaffirms Mac Support
PalmOne added a pair of color handhelds to its Zire product line Wednesday. But more important to Mac users, the PDA maker also reaffirmed its long-term support for the Mac platform in the aftermath of reports that the next version of Palm OS would drop native Mac support.
"The Mac installed base is extremely important to us," said Stéphane Maes, PalmOne's senior product line manager for handhelds. "We will continue to meet Mac users' needs regardless of what OS we're running."
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Apple's Chip Pain Will Ease -- Later
When IBM sneezes, Apple catches a cold, goes one variation on the old saw. As the maker of the PowerPC chips that run Apple's G5 desktop computers, IBM (IBM ) is Jobs & Co.'s most important supplier. In fact, Apple (AAPL ) has more or less staked its computing future on the G5 line, produced largely out of IBM's Fishkill (N.Y.) facility. Now, IBM is struggling to produce cutting-edge G5 chips of sufficient quality in sufficient quantity, and the upper half of Apple's hardware lineup is in limbo.
Sound familiar? Unfortunately for Apple, it faced a similar problem with the main supplier of its previous-generation G4 chips, Motorola (MOT ). The Schaumburg (Ill.) company caused veins to pop and eyes to bulge at Apple HQ with its pokey pace of improvements.
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OpenOSX Updates WinTel With Internal Modem Support
OpenOSX has released an update for WinTel, bringing it to version 1.2.1. WinTel is an application designed for controlling Bochs, a Windows OS emulator for Macs. The update features internal modem support and setting saving.
OpenOSX announced the immediate availability of WinTel 1.2.1 for Mac OS X, offering an easy-to-use solution for configuring and utilizing the included optimized open source “Bochs” software, allowing operation of x86/Pentium(R)-based operating systems on Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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Mad Macs and the Unshredder
Lindows is no more. Michael Robertson, the madcap who founded MP3.com and then went on to start another company seemingly just to get Bill Gates' goat, has lost his Quixotic battle with Microsoft. He's changed the name of his Linux-based windowing operating system from Lindows to Linspire.
Meanwhile, Apple Corps, the recording label owned by the remaining Beatles and their deceased partners' heirs, is once again suing Apple for muscling into the music business -- this time with the iTunes Music Store. The two companies named Apple came to an agreement in 1981 about the use of the name, and again in 1991, but back then the issue was system beeps, not Norah Jones tracks. There could be a little problem here.
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