New & Noteworthy: Netscape X; Mulberry; TIFFany;
New & Noteworthy: Netscape X; Mulberry; TIFFany;
Netscape X 6.2.3 is out. No word yet on what has changed. [OS 9 & X]
Mulberry 3.0a1 is a scalable IMAP email client with SSL support. This update includes major user interface improvements throughout the application plus a host of other changes and feature updates. [OS 9 & X]
TIFFany3 3.5.5 is a desktop image processing application with batch processing. This release adds an Open Recent command, supports additional file formats, displays text properly on Japanese language systems, adds a better path display, and fixes the Pen Cursor Only brush.
Power Mac rebates Apple has effectively cut the price of its G4 Power Mac line with a new set of rebates, which are in effect until July 7th. (Which happens to be one week before Macworld New York.) The rebates are $200 for a G4/800, and $300 for a G4/933 or dual 1 GHz. See Apple's Hot Deals page for this and several other offers, including the next item.
Apple Power Mac G4 and Apple flat-panel display promotion Buy any Power Mac G4 and a large flat-panel display at the same time between April 5 and June 30, 2002, and you’ll get $300 back when you purchase a 22-inch Apple Cinema Display, or $200 back on a 17-inch Apple Studio Display.
MacHack 2002 Volunteer Opportunities Available The MacHack conference has sold out all its discounted registrations for students, but students can still attend for less than the full conference admission price by working as volunteers.
Mac OS X 10.2 Rendezvous overview From IT Enquirer: "The charter of the ZeroConf group is to enable Zero Configuration IP networking. This means the group wants to make it possible to have small IP-networks without any intervention of humans." More.
Macromedia wins $4.9 mln in countersuit vs Adobe From Reuters: "Macromedia has said a jury had awarded it damages of $4.9 million in a patent infringement suit against Adobe Systems Inc., one of several legal disputes between the rival Web design software companies." More.
Much ado about blogging From Salon: "[blogs] have recently become the topic du jour among the media whose job it is to follow Web trends -- a beat whose pickings have lately been lean. " More.
Use the blog, Luke From Salon: "The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times -- but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web's infinity of links." More.
Old Personal Computers Never Die; They Just Fade Into Deep Storage From the New York Times: "Morris had a Kaypro to administer his life and to churn out what we digital have-nots assumed could only have been flawless English papers. Never before, it seemed, had such formidable technology been mustered for such prosaic ends. Most astonishing, his Kaypro was portable. When he'd lovingly pack it in its steel traveling case, the thing weighed in at a nimble 30 pounds." More.
On Internet of the Future, Surfers May Almost Feel the Spray From the New York Times: "The new project, called Remote Media Immersion, offers video imagery better than today's high-definition television broadcasts, plus surround-sound audio that gives the listener the unexpected sense of being in another place." More.
A look at how Microsoft can thwart innovation By Keith Teare, founder and CEO of RealNames: "In this case the widespread use of the browser and its absolute requirement for our system means that Microsoft's decision has resulted in innovation being stopped. The only naming technology in the world capable of allowing non-ASCII characters to be used as Web addresses is being killed at birth - before it succeeds and becomes 'out of control.' A small private company is being denied an audience - not because of money - but because of fear of losing control.' More.
Large-scale identity theft is painful reminder of risk From the Boston Globe: "[It is] another painful reminder of how prevalent identity theft has become. It is the fastest-growing white-collar crime in America and is being conducted on a scale unthinkable just a few years ago." More.
The Yahoo Privacy Storm That Wasn't From the New York Times: "Internet privacy is like the weather. Everyone complains about it, and no one does anything about it. The latest example involves users of Yahoo, the vast Internet portal that set off howls of protest when it abruptly changed its marketing policy in March. Suddenly, Yahoo granted itself the right to send advertising messages to tens of millions of its users who had previously asked to receive none. The blanket permission went beyond e-mail to include postal mailings and telemarketing phone calls." More. Note: the article's link to the opt-out page contains a typo. Here is the correct link.
Vulnerability Is Discovered in Security for Smart Cards From the New York Times: "Two University of Cambridge computer security researchers plan to describe on Monday an ingenious and inexpensive attack that employs a $30 camera flashgun and a microscope to extract secret information contained in widely used smart cards." More.
Credit Card Theft Thrives Online as Global Market Losses Grow From the New York Times: "Tens of thousands of stolen credit-card numbers are being offered for sale each week on the Internet in a handful of thriving, membership-only cyberbazaars, operated largely by residents of the former Soviet Union, who have become central players in credit-card and identity theft." More.
Nightmare in Cupertino: The OS that would not die The latest from our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy.