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The largest and oldestof these is TidBits (was started in 1990 by Adam and Tonya Engst and is now e-mailedweekly to almost 50,000 subscribers worldwide in English, andmore in Chinese, Dutch, French, German and Japanese translations.TidBits arrives every Tuesday morning with an entertaining mixof news, opinion and software reviews.
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Very usefulis the archive of past news items, which is often the best placeto look when you suspect a bug in some software you're using.Īnother way to get Macintosh news from the Internet is to subscribeto one of the e-mail news periodicals. Those looking for news about technical problems with the latestMacintosh software and hardware should check out the MacFixItpage (Compiled by Ted Landau, MacFixIt doesan excellent job of tracking bugs and workarounds. Often wrong in its predictions, itnevertheless has a pretty decent track record predicting the nextcool toy to come from Cupertino. It prints leaks and speculation about upcomingMacintosh-related products. More for entertainment than news, MacOS Rumors (fun to read. MacWeek(is what's left of MacWeek magazine.
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The MacintoshResource Page (has decent coverage ofnew items, but does not update as often as MacCentral and oftenseems to over-report news from its advertisers. MacNN: Macintosh Network News(has not been around very long, but appears quitepromising.
Mac,a question and answer column similar to the one he used to writein MacUser.Ī couple of other news sites deserve honorable mention.
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Don Crabb has moved his curmudeonly Mac Managercolumn lock, stock and barrel from MacWeek over to MacCentral.Bob Levitus, well known Macintosh guru, writes Ask Dr. MacCentral has several well known Mac columnists writing editorials.Andy Inhatko, inventor of the MacQuarium, who used to write aneclectic column for MacUser, has taken his somewhat warped observationsto MacCentral. Especially interestingare the foreign links which reveal what people in places suchas England, Australia and South Africa think about the Macintosh.
The QUICKclicks feature of MacCentral collects together linksto Macintosh articles from all over the Internet.
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Of note is the specialpage listing programs which require updates for Mac OS 8.5 compatibility. It also has linksto online updaters, when they are available. VersionTracker is the bestway to find out if your software is current. MacCentral works very closely with another site called VersionTracker(which tries to keep track of the latestversion numbers of all Mac software. MacCentral (a flashier site with more eye-candy and visual noise than MacinTouch.It does almost as good a job as MacInTouch at reporting breakingnews, but has several other features which make it stand out. I especially like the fact that graphics are at a minimumon MacInTouch, so it loads quickly. Items are updated every day except Sunday.In addition to the daily news, he also gathers special reportson topics as varied as iMac peripherals, credit card fraud andviruses. There are several sites I check regularly for all the latestnews.įirst among these is MacInTouch(Ric Ford, a long-time columnist for thenow defunct weekly magazine, MacWeek, runs a no-nonsense, fastand accurate news site. Of course, on the Internet, where The NewYork Times and The DrudgeReport are only a click apart, the problem is where to goand what to believe? Luckily, the Internet has more Macintosh news than you'll everneed. This incident illustrates a problem with the mainstream press.Since the rise of the Wintel duopoly, much of the news media equates"personal computer" with "Microsoft Windows PC."Those of us who prefer a less ubiquitous operating system mustwork harder to stay abreast of the latest news about our computers. The next day, I was among a group of computer users havinglunch and passing the time of day, when one of them brought upthe television report, wondering whether she should be worried.Since that virus only affects Windows 95 and she is a Mac user,we assured her this virus held no danger for her. Thelatest computer virus is here, and it's a bad one!" The worriedlooking reporter then went on to give a brief description of thevirus du jour, with a closing admonition that all personalcomputer users should beware.
This article first appeared in the February 1999 issue of the Louisville Computer News.It was written by LeeLarson.Ī month or so ago one of the local television news anchorsstarted an item by solemnly intoning something like "Personalcomputer users have another problem to worry about today. MacNews, MacRumors and Perhaps a Few MacLies
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