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Oxford got its start in England, making application specific integrated circuits (ASICis) for customers to their specifications. As the company began to build and market its own standard chipsets, USB was all the rage. "USB was coming along at that point, but we could see some issues with USB in that there were lots of…

I then said that writing wasnit easy and it wasnit fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed. I then said that rewriting is the essence of writing. William Zinsser, On Writing Well

MacNN published a mention of an interview with Michael Dell in TechnologyReview that contained a glaring innacuracy. In the interview, Mr. Dell makes some claims about things his company did before anyone else. The only problem is that in one of those cases someone else did do it first, and that someone was Apple. Wanting…

Mr. Nagel will be helping Palmis transition into two companies, a hardware company and a software company. Mr. Nagelis interests include wireless connectivity and other related technologies. From the Wall Street Journal piece: The hiring of Mr. Nagel, who already is a member of Palmis board, reflects the Santa Clara, Calif., hand-held-computer makeris plans to…

400 new intense custom shapes for Photoshop 6 – super intense zigzag/dynamic shapes – great for web design and layer effects; can be distorted, twisted, effects applied, liquified and more. PC and Mac Demos available. You can find more information for this product at the companyis Web site. Shapes Volume 6 is available for US$25.19.

I know this is a Mac newsletter but this was too much fun to pass up. Be sure to choose Shutdown and check the credits. Click the above image for a larger version.

"There you are!" "Do I know you?" "No, but there you are!" Dialogue exchange from the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

"The personality of these objects is incredibly important," said Paola Antonelli, the curator of Workspheres, a recent exhibition that included several Apple products. "These objects give more meaning to the desk and the work. They are pleasant companions." We applaud the Museumis taste. Something will be of even more interest to those who regularly follow…

The action was largely seen as a delaying tactic designed to keep legal action from stopping the release of Windows XP. Microsoft is scheduled to release the next iteration of Windows in October, and has aggressively moved up the time period it will allow PC manufacturers to ship the OS into September. The new OS…

iBrotha: Be Incorporated, the creator of the BeIA and BeOS operating systems, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its intellectual property and technology assets to Palm, Inc. The purchase price is $11 million, to be paid in common stock of Palm, which Be currently intends to liquidate as soon as…

SETI@home is a research project from some graduate students at UC Berkeley who are taking data from a radio telescope in Peurto Rico and searching for a signal that might be coming from another planet. The researchers made a breakthrough in what is called distributed processing and broke that data up into 350K chunks that…

While you are checking out this movie, notice the controls in the upper right hand of the movie. Those allow you to stop the animation, play it again, or to step forward and backward, frame by frame.

I have a big complaint about the Apple Store. No, itis not about the products in stock. I love the fact that this is a store where thereis nothing but things Macintosh. Itis not about the employees. What better way to sell Macs than to staff the store with energetic Mac users? No, itis not…

Huge Mac sighting! Just got back from the movies, and away we go! American Pie 2 – Jim (the nerdy guy) has what appears to be either a 7100, 8100, or Desktop G3 at his home, and a Grape iMac in his college dorm. The first one was also seen in the first movie. Trailer/Teaser…

Just got the e-mail a little bit ago. Apple has officially closed the CQF program. Here is the main snippet: "Apple thanks you for your loyalty and participation in the Customer Quality Feedback Program (CQF). CQF was a part of Appleis Hardware Engineering Division. Recently, Apple has decided to permanently discontinue the CQF Program and…

The movie is 45 seconds in length, with a total file size of 1.1 MB. The audio sounds like it was recorded with an on-board condensor-mic inside a hugely crowded Mall, but thatis only because it was. Inside The Mall of America Apple Store <embed src=”https://homepage.mac.com/tmo12/.Movies/RodneyInterview.mov” width=”260″ height=”200″ autoplay=”true” controller=”true” cache=”true”></p>

Uh oh! Whatis this? It turns out you are *still* in that line that stretches 3 times around the Mall of America! Or maybe you live in Oklahoma where there isnit much chance that you will get an Apple Store within a dayis drive. Maybe you just canit get to one of the locations that…

Whatis that? You werenit there? Or, if you were, you were the guy at the very end of the line who had to wait for 3 hours to get in, and you couldnit even hear the cheer when the gate went up? Never fear, because we bring you another great movie from Observer André Benassi…

The movie is 1 minute and 56 seconds in length, with a total file size of 6.3 MB. The Line at The Mall of America Apple Store <embed src=”https://homepage.mac.com/tmo10/.Movies/TheLine10AM.mov” width=”260″ height=”200″ autoplay=”true” controller=”true” cache=”true”></p>

Observer André Benassi (or Retro as we call him the TMO Forums), an engineer from Minneapolis, attended this weekendis opening of the Apple Store in The Mall of America with Rodney O. Lain and Randy Hanson and offers the following images from the store opening. This series includes the first three people in line, some…

Iid swallow my class envy and spend a few hours with the "cheese eaters," shocking my digestive system by imbibing "adult beverages" that didnit, for once, come from bottles with screw-off caps commonly sold in six packs for a buck-ninety-five. Couple this with suffering hours of listening to people with way too much disposable income…

For example, Observer “mambamac” alerted us to a link at The Register containing hilarious QuickTime footage of M$ CEO Steve Ballmer doing an ugly imitation of “Thade” from Tim Burtonis “Planet of the Apes.” After viewing this, you will agree that no Micro$oft devotee should ever again utter a single disparaging word against the Mac…

Intel is reportedly about to initiate a price war against AMD that sent shudders through the chip sector today. Dan Niles of Lehman Brothers issued a report this morning saying that Intel would be making a move to recapture lost market share from AMD this Fall. From a Reuters report: For those who thought the…

What: Adobe will present the latest information about their extensive line of products at the August meeting of the Houston Area Apple Users Group.When: Saturday, August 18, 2001, 9 AM – 4PM, the Main Presentation begins at 11:00AM.Where: Rice University Campus, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium. See http://dacnet.rice.edu/maps/space/, then select “Duncan Hall” for directions. The primary…