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2003

• Bashing, cracking, fighting back – 24 July
  Microsoft courts customers and bashes Linux, again; MS password cracking; Universities fight the RIAA
• Something new in the ProNews space – 22 July
  Pro News has just been sleeping; SCO Registers Unix copyrights; Californians rejoice as Microsoft promises to buy cash-strapped state
• A truckload of trinkets – 13 June
  Speed Download gets faster; Quark ready to roll for OS X; Reporting added to PrefsOverload; iCash provides more detail; New sales tool released; Finder tool gets hot key; EarthDesk gets update; iClip gets faster; Aladdin cleans better; New Stupendous bundles; ThumpsUp gets quick addition
• Whistling down the wire – 10 June
  Revolution 2.0 released; SystemWorks 3.0 on the way; New project manager goes to work; Corel slashes pricing on wares; Coast-to-coast dust up; Stick fun for everyone; Admin tool rolls in X support
• Paling around with the Pros – 5 June
  Vue hops on Bryce’s cadaver; Adobe support for a price; InFocus rolls out heavyweight projector; FireWire learns new tricks; Faster drive cases released; Avid flexes FireWire muscle; 4D revamps WebSTAR, adds business case
• Groping in the grab bag – 3 June
  DEVON revamps free tools; New video controller released; Stupendous keeps adding to iMovie; Intaglio picks up technical tools; Your LC III is not useless!; iListen gets legal; iLink updated for new browsers; Blizzard’s Frozen Throne ships July 1
• Gettin’ down in Print – 30 May
  GIMP connects with Print Center; BBEdit celebrates 10 years of being; Photoshop guru cashes in; xCat serves Quark and InDesign; Intaglio gets needed revs; e-on give Cinema 4D atmosphere; Company eyes small-business design market
• Everybody likes a bargain – 29 May
  New search and catalogue programs released; Easy burn with better compatibility; Colourfull brings weather and eBay utilities; Speed Download gets quicker; Captain makes secure download; Helpful plug-in for FileMaker; Noteworthy updates
• The magic of light and sound – 25 May
  InFocus sets sights on wireless presentations; PowerMate back in black; Digidesign hooks up to FireWire; Musical Macs next great gig gear?; Aladdin goes custom CD route
• New, improved and lemon refreshed – 23 May
  Zip utility for Mac OS X unveiled; Movie effects packs released; Batch downloading improved; Snagging Web sites made easier; Billing for time made better; Addressing information needs; Interesting updates
• Gadzooks, a gaggle of games and gadgets! – 21 May
  World of Warcraft expected this fall; SpyHunter and Law and Order coming to Mac; Scholastic releases fall line up; River Deep unveils new kids programs; Digital hub hooks to 4D, Director; Keyspan delights neat freaks; X marks the spot for thin cam
• Fun and games – 15 May
  Logitech makes with Mac joy; Aspyr launches assault; MYST to enter online age; Halo for Mac this summer? No online naughtiness for Mac kids
• Trinkets and other treasures – 12 May
  Launching from the Dock; Valuable data to be kept in a Safe Place; iClip 2.0 gains clip sets; SubRosa releases new programs; Clicker to add other Bluetooth devices?; MacSpeech adds voice packs to iListen; PUBLICSPACE finishes conversion to OS X
• Workin’ on the weekend – 11 May
  PeopleSoft embraces Safari; Revolution 2 hits FC status; FE77 for educators goes worldwide; Developers’ directory available; FileMaker & PowerSchool carry home Codies; 4D releases Dreamweaver plugin; GRASS gets update
• Goodies from the grab bag – 9 May
  Doublewide drive issued; iTroll for iTunes; A slip of the sip; Eradicate Classic files; iBubble for iMovie; Dog does radio update
• Oodles of kits and caboodles – 4 May
  iPod goodies abound; New software for star gazers; Typing tutor gets a rev; Stop motion animator gets new feature; New screen capture utility released; Nisus launches into new era; An update for Mariner Write
• Servers with a smile – 1 May
  Stalker bundles with Vocal Data for total solution; Only the admin knows who’s got what where; One package for total control; We’re different from them, says survey; Stock market shot to Hell
• Kickin’ back in consumer row – 28 April
  Ambrosia releases a slew of updates; Griffin catches some waves; Digital hub gets hooked up; Everything gets a label; Who needs want ads?
• Web wonders wing their way – 25 April
  HMTL email package for Mac; Wireless printing made easy; Macromedia retools for Web developers; 3D Web tool for Mac X; Server software update
• Dat’s all da data dare is – 24 April
  Server management made easy; Old name on a new platform; Old dog does neat new tricks; FileMaker plug-ins released
• Speedy trinkets and other toys – 22 April
  Firewire 800 cards shipping; Portable backup hits 80GB; More stuff to go
• Oh, let’s have a little fun – 21 April
  Laser-guiding puzzler released; New Harry Potter appears at retail; Stupendous updates plugin pack; Starry Night wins award
• Just keeping everything on track – 18 April
  Voice recorder support for iListen; Another budgeting tool hits the street; Epson rolls out new projectors; Safari gets speed enhancement; PathFinder goes open source; Web creation made easier
• Little shops with killer chops – 15 April
  New Budget on the table; HAM radio operators get trio of new wares; Corel to release new Painter; Security for passwords; Finder gets user control; Company entices animators with free ware
• All work and no play (makes this column a dull read) – 13 April
  Tony Hawk 4 hits streets in May; Warbirds battle of the Pacific; SuperCollapse goes retail; Sony-Ericsson Clicker gets update; Trolls get own Web site; Bay-area MUG formed; Web hangout for Web designers launched
• Partnerships and other proposals – 10 April
  Letraset fonts offered online; Online soundtracks for off-line videos; Photo scooper for the Net; Runtime snuggles with Valentina, beta in the mix; Smile sends message for LetterWorks; Maya 5 to bridge 2D and 3d worlds
• Acrobat drops the .doc bomb – 7 April
  Announcements from the big two publishing software outfits
• It’s action time at NAB2003 – 4 April
  Media 100 shows new wares; Contour issues new jog wheel; ADS rolls our new combo cards; Griffin updates PowerWave software; New clipboard utility released; Note taking software hits the street; Mariner Write sails into general release; NASCAR 2003 makes starting grid
• New ways to get hitched – 3 April
  FireWire to run over Ethernet; USB print server announced; Stalker sets sights on spam; Wireless security claimed for 802.15
• The Web and whole lot more – 27 March
  Web Crossing releases new softwares; Stupendous incorporates ASCII into iMovie; Stick Software updates three titles; 24U does database to Web; HAM radio VoIP client for OS X released; 4D plugin runs Mac OS X; Unique app to embrace all
• Mr. Music Please! – 20 March
  Trinfinity scripts iTunes; Developers seek user input; Musical lessons on net radio; Digital hub gets disconnected; HAM radio app gets update; German browsers get IE toolbar icons; Flashcards for the digital set; New movie editor hits the streets
• Your stuff in print and photos – 17 March
  Extensis lands preflight deal; Your preprint files go anywhere; Shutterfly makes independent move; HP starts trial run for photo kiosks; New cameras from HP; Kodak tries computing end run; Canon releases high-resolution scanner; Vendor releases 16-megapixel chip
• The pitter patter of tiny feats – 14 March
  Stick Software adds screen saver to revamped line; Devon retools Think Griffin extends ADC connections; Two developers offer file navigation for OS X; Virtix adds iDVD themes to plug-in offerings; Stupendous revamps for iMovie 3; Web tuner for the rest of the world released; Server tool released for education market
• No strings attached – 11 March
  Toshiba aims to put 802.11 everywhere; HP tries to hit the handheld Hotspot; Radio broadcasts for wireless networks; Sony adds to the digital hub; Mitsumi stretches Bluetooth further
• Work, work, work...it’s about being productive – 7 March
  Menubar widget for AppleWorks; Finder alternative offers speed boost; Time-tracking softwares get updates; Gecko spawns three OS X browsers; Worldwide presentations made easy; Open-sourced Windows emulator released
• The weird and the wonderful – 4 March
  Better utilities released for OS X; New Tool for FileMaker fiends; Macromedia makes flashy moves; Blog by phone; Long arm of the law can rat you out; Captain FTP gets update
• New toys and new tricks – 3 March
  1U Mac-compatible server released; Backup system gets bigger; Drive maker hits 250GB plateau; Apple to display wares in Boston show; Mariner releases new Write public beta; Neat use for Bluetooth; Free kalenders for everybody; Mass mailing software gets update
• All new and improved – 28 February
  Stop-motion animation app comes to OS X; Group aims to put Mac in home theater; Mask Pro gets X rating; Quark opens a Jaguar-lined kimono; Snowmint updates Budget, unleashes Planner; Ham radio apps get updated; iLink get tweaked; ODBC middleware moves to X; 4D gunning for Apache; Scrapbook apps finetuned; Online training app gets new features
• Teaching old dogs new tricks – 20 February
  FreeHand becomes more than a drawing tool; Developer seeks graphics gurus; Rip and burn MP3 software ships; 4D developer launches full meal deal; Software promises to speed up downloads; iCash for those who say, “iBroke” iPod gets a new home
• Things just evolve – 18 February
  xDarwin Group announces new X11 windowing software; Web Help Desk upgraded; Zik updates Prefs Overload; MacSpeech’s iSpeak extended to control iLife and Mail; Philips unveils router design with Voice over IP
• A mishmash of hot hash – 13 February
  Devon speeds up Finder tool; Stalker Software lands Indonesian deal; New browsing utility released; Long arm of law reaches notebook drives; FileMaker programming template released; iListen gets South Pacific distributor; Updates galore
• New ways to get connected – 11 February
  Texas Instruments ships FireWire 800 chips; Linksys ships 100,000 units of 802.11g product; Belkin to provide built-in net filtering; Networking innovator ships powerful hubs; Seattle company puts email up in the air
• Advice for the love-struck and those running amuck – 4 February
  “I love you,” Hollywood style, iMovie plug-ins take control of time, Virtix takes plug-ins to After Effects, New clip management tool for Mac OS X, Golden oldies hit the digital age, Belgian company to rent out G4 clusters
• Hubzilla attacks US, pictures in 11 x 44 – 30 January
  FireWire Depot to carry FireDINO hub; Konica cranks out high-volume color printers; Witango dances to OS X; Apple’s Safari gets tabs; Publicspace launches beta test
• Big deals, little price tags and some security – 28 January
• Up, up and away! – 24 January
• Can we communicate? – 22 January
• An open road or a warm bed – 14 January
• The wayward trip home – 14 January
• Quiet on the set: and, action! – 11 January
• And now for the cleanup crew – 10 January
• PM Edition: One more thing – 9 January
• Lots more from the floor – 9 January
• Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… – 8 January
• New toys for girls and boys – 7 January
• Shapes of things to come – 3 January

2002

• Ho, ho, ho and away we go! – 23 December
• Part 1: A little this, a little that and a little lust – 12 December
• Part 2: Smarter solutions abound all around – 12 December
• Partitions, prints, projects and other potpourri – 3 December
• The answers to life’s little questions – 2 December
• PDFs GoLive, contests and other neat stuff – 25 November
• Ballmer be damned! It’s developers, developers, developers for the rest of us – 20 November
• Fix leaks, add effects, accounting wars, and a tad more – 14 November
• Teaching old hardware new tricks – 12 November
• Plugged into every outlet – 8 November
• Speedy engines, water-tight skins, tweaks and T-shirts – 5 November
• Nasty tricks and sweet treats the order of the day – 31 October
• Sharing transmits revolutionary belt update – 29 October
• Bigger, faster keyboard prefs contact helpdesk – 24 October
• Numbers big or small; we got stuff to crunch ’em all – 23 October
• Switch your office in a time deal – 20 October
• Transiting to a hex of a java break – 16 October
• TV times drives iPod skins – 10 October
• Disco dimensions and a wampum load of prepress wallops for Quark – 8 October
• In another Dimension, the planet spins, and X is learned, Captain! – 3 October
• Recalled basic Gimps hunt contacts – 1 October
• Big, knobby, bouncy, and supported – 27 September
• Flying into a creative fix and fading into thinking text – 26 September
• Fast Spreading Prize Mail – 18 September
• Listen, Dump, Fire! … Sweet! – 16 September
• Goodies, goodies, and more goodies (Games, Graphics, and Gamuts) – 12 September
• Watery stock, tuneful software, debugged video, fond nostalgia – 6 September
• Type, display, game, rename, learn – 5 September
• FireWire flexibility, improved for Jaguar, Core programming – 30 August
• DigiChats, Microdrives and (more) driver updates – 27 August
• Haxial RATs, Explorer icons and hair, toasters and a smile? – 25 August
• iDev goodies, Virtix freebies and more Jaguar taming – 23 August
• Filemaker TrapEases, random audiovisuals and a dash of Flash – 19 August
• O’Reilly and X, More tastes of Ambrosia, Grilled Bott – 15 August
• Game programming, Budget balancing, ArcherPro and free seminars – 8 August
• FileMaker gets funky, Jaguar gets trained, DVDs get burned – 4 August
• Sonnet strikes back, spookware and Fourbucks.net – 26 July
• QuickTime gotchas, EyeTV, storage and revolutions – 19 July
• Gigahertz upgrades, AntiWords and iCurves – 15 July
• Standards statements, donationware, shareware and suggestionware? – 5 July
• Political footballs, PowerMate updates and the little Mac that CAN – 4 July
• Warm fuzzies, typing thumbs, ScriptEase and a hint of leather – 27 June
• JavaScript jumpstarts, moving museums, Mail Magic and that damn DMCA – 24 June
• Realbasic plugins, security seminars and Cocoa nerds – 21 June
• Pismo power-ups, FireWire fire sales and iBook bags – 18 June
• Elementary training, IM enclaves and bad hair days – 13 June
• Trash decisions, EV Nova updates and ShuttlePro partnerships – 11 June
• New appearances, disappearances and corporate gouging – 7 June
• Pocket drives, Bubble Trouble, Finder nomenclature and NewerTech returns – 3 June
• Dongling iMates, terminal emulation, Diemos updates and a touch of style – 30 May
• Training day – 29 May
• Dolby dissent, radio reprieves and shareware – 24 May
• Copyright karma, sound choices and Xproofing – 21 May
• Offices, T-shirts, Mac fly-buys and get-well-soons – 16 May
• Utilities! Utilities! Utilities! – 13 May
• Royalties, Cocoa students and virtual keyboards – 9 May
• Condolences, freeware foot soldiers and covering your tracks – 29 April
• Update numerology, musical propellerheads, glowing knobs and basic crossgrades – 25 April
• MacEdition Weekend ProNews: Almost famous, trooper profiles and a “MMORPG” is born – 20 April
• Copyright clowns, X updates and menu manipulations – 17 April
• DV dudes, demographics, iMovie freebies and Macs literally doing what you say – 14 April
• MacEdition ProNews PM Edition: Clix, clacks, Blade is back – 9 April
• Sonnet slices, CSS feng shui and Bozo bashin’ – 9 April
• Ain’t no foolin’ around hereProNews – 1 April
• Apple students, iMovie magic, Top Gun 2002 and shareware soldiers – 29 March
• Glucose firewalls, fingerless keyboarding, hotrodding vintage laptops and faster Harmonis – 25 March
• Encores, Liliputians, colorful coverings, and gaming antiquities – 8 March
• Standards, sillyness, stupidity, and even more stupidity – 20 February
• CD-to-DVD, short press releases, bye-bye RSI, OS X server tools – 18 February
• Be blunt, be quick, be optimistic, be plugged-in, be cheap – 15 February
• Funny names, bad pirates, fancy labels and questions left unanswered – 4 February
• WebMerges, warbirds, snoops and scoops – 31 January
• Prefs, Play, Play, Signal – 28 January

2001

• Privacy, pixellations and petitions – 14 December
• Searching, connecting, changing – 7 December
• Too short? Too old? Too pixelated? (and Too Long Away) – 5 December
• Voyeur, auteur, provocateurProNews – 3 December
• Doctors, winners, and losers – 15 November
• David and Goliath – 8 November
• Painting, shredding, vengeance – 5 November
• Synthesizing Sonnets – 19 October
• Seeing tunes, seeing stars, seeing BMPs – 12 October
• Sunshine, Song, Sadness – 3 October
• Better printers and beta browsers – 14 September
• Dr. Bott and the Ballmerfunk? – 4 September
• Gadgets, upgrades, prices – 31 August
• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? – 1 August
• Real bar codes, RealBasic, really – 23 July
• DAVE, plays, in a new, Key(span) – 19 July
• Do USB too? Hubba-hubba! Stomp that CD! – 5 July
• Poetic upgrades, Atmospheric scenes – all on tape! – 15 May
• Plug it in. Print it out. Plug it in. – 4 May
• Press. Release. Press. Release. Press. Release. – 2 May
• Played this before? Read this before? – 11 April
• Others also want more crayons. Good news for X on pre-G3s. Bill's Mac resources. Filemaker's return (key). Vote for us! – 6 April
• Well, that's a mouthful. Think Different about the NASDAQ. It's the drivers, stupid! (pt. 1) – 23 March
• Going to the circus? Buy a bag of chips – 16 March
• The afterlife, .ORG. – 7 March
• Short and sweet, VCD watchin’, Dog Smackin’ – 5 March
• Too much mail? Seek streaming pussy – 21 February
• Use it, burn it, praise it – 14 February
• Secret squirrels, radio transmissions, sick puppies – 12 February
• Good stuff, Sony stuff, and aPOS. – 9 February
• A great view, thin cats and hot bread – 26 January
• Crash and burn, knead and burn, plead and burn – 24 January
• Chips, no chips, scribble pads – 18 January
• Napoleon? Oscar? Hey, let’s just watch the tube! – 12 January
• Smokin’ Cubes, CES rubes, Gates hath spoke, and Belgians, broke – 8 January
• Blue Alpha, stripped Java, dangerous merger, cold lager – 5 January
• Lock it, sell it, color it – 3 January
• Will it be great? Must we wait? Or just emulate? – 2 January

2000

• Lose your money to Uncle Sam, the economy and Slim’s, but save some for Dragon – 29 December
• Open your eyes, trust no one, cut all ties – 27 December
• Nice threads, bad ideas, organized techies, Mercurial expectations – 22 December
• Clueless, wireless, Nautilus (and Eazel) – 20 December
• 3dfx (buy us), Microsoft (pay us), Swedish people (findus) – 18 December
• End of the year? Lots of beer – 15 December
• Soap operas, acid trips and bugs – 13 December
• QuickTime, more troubleshooting, Apple Turns and pundits churn – 11 December
• Troubleshooting Professional, Norman Neilsen and Tog, Apple’s earnings warning – 6 December
• One (syllable): WAP. Two (syllables): Eazel. Three (syllables): CVS – 5 December
• Inprise snuggles up to the Mac OS X market, colored PCs fall flat, MS and US government fail to strike chords – 12 July
• Intel in schools, immersion games, and Macs in space – 20 June
• Broken Microsoft, friendly Sun, dead upgrade vendor – 12 June
• Golden, Streaming, Splitsville – 25 May

MacEdition News Features

• Earthlink authorizes additional share repurchase – by MacEdition Staff, February 27, 2003
• CE Software posts continued loss; directly refers to major upgrade – by MacEdition Staff, February 20, 2003
• O’Reilly’s X-factor – by Daniel Drew Turner, October 4, 2002
• Schiller Pitches Pros on Jaguar at Seybold – by Daniel Drew Turner, September 11, 2002
• WWDC 2002
  • Friday, May 10
  • Thursday, May 9
  • Wednesday, May 8
  • Tuesday, May 7
  • Monday, May 6
• MacEdition is sad to note the passing of Rodney O. Lain – 18 June 2002
• News Analysis: New hardware, just in time for... what? – Part 1 (TiBook) – Part 2 (eMac) – 29 April 2002
• MacWorld Expo: Day 1 – 10 January 2002
• MWSF ’01: Expo thoughts – 15 January 2001
• MacWorld SF News Extra – 8 January 2001
• QuickTime’s stealth marketing is off the scope – 11 August 2000
• MacWorld New York 2000 Keynote: The point of diminutive returns – 20 July
• Real-Time Communications – 14 June 2000

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