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Does Apple Offer Too Many Different Products? March 14th, 2000 Have you paid a visit to the Apple Store in the last few weeks? If so, did you notice anything? Apple manufactures so many different Macs that there is something for everyone. At the same time, I have noticed some people wondering if there aren’t…

Market Lore, Virgin Territories and Apple’s Geometry February 28th, 2000  Legend has it that when renowned Wall Street investor – some say it was Bernard Baruch – got a stock tip from the guy who shined his shoes in the 1920s, he knew it was time to sell. The idea is that if everybody is…

USB Printer Sharing, Crashes, & PCI ATA Controllers February 25th, 2000 Borscht and Vodka, now THAT’s a good Thanksgiving meal! Yum! Oh… hello… you aren’t here for Americanized Soviet culinary advice are you? It must be time again for another issue of Ask Dave! Ah… well, let me take off my babushka and put on…

Every Picture, Or Chart, Tells A Story, Including Apple’s February 22nd, 2000  Technical analysis (TA) is the fine art of predicting the future price motion of a stock by analyzing the stock’s price and volume chart. Sometimes it’s called visual analysis; sometimes it’s called voodoo. Many investors make light of the arcane science of technical…

Upgrade Advice, Shutdown Freezes, & Using PC Parts February 18th, 2000 Good day, everyone! Today we’re going to answer some reader questions about the new G4s, discuss the troubleshooting process to solve iMac freezes with Mac OS 9, and talk about using PC hardware inside your Mac. If you have a burning question you’d like…

I Had A Dream: I Was Riding In Steve’s New Jet… February 14th, 2000  Gulf Stream Dream I had a dream that I was a big shot on Apple’s board of directors instead of a lonely trader sitting in front of my trusty Mac. Actually, with my acerbic and introverted personality, I probably wouldn’t survive…

Unless you have been living under a rock of late, and even then that rock would have to be at the bottom of at least a medium size body of water, you have heard all about the attacks on several top Internet sites. Yahoo!, eBay, CNN, Amazon.com, Buy.com, E*Trade, and Datek were all victims of…

The Low Down On Ethernet And Data Recovery February 11th, 2000 Good day, my friends! Today we explore and explain the mysteries behind Ethernet, cross-over cables and hubs. Then we talk about options for disk recovery software and finish up with a little correction from last time! There’s lots of good stuff here today, folks,…

Where The Heck Is Netscape? February 8th, 2000 If you follow the browser wars, you probably ask yourself a question I often ask myself. Where is Netscape Communications? Where is its browser? I’m not talking about Communicator 4.7 either, but about that marvelous Mozilla project that was kicked off in April 1998. This was supposed…

Dave Shares Some Of His Techiques For Finding Answers! February 4th, 2000 Greetings, folks. Today we’re going to focus on finding software on the Web. I get many questions like the following each week, and figured it was time to address a few of them together, showing you where I get *my* answers from! As…

Let The Accumulation Begin January 31st, 2000  Accumulation Area: A price range within which buyers accumulate shares of a stock. Technical analysts spot accumulation areas when a stock does not drop below a particular price. Technicians who use the on-balance volume method of analysis advise buying stocks that have hit their accumulation areas, because the…

Buy Low; Sell High – Why I sold my AAPL stock January 24th, 2000  Some individuals make more difference to the character of a nation than others, but none are irreplaceable. It is a precarious organization, indeed, that is tied to the character or personality of a single person however great he or she may…

SCSI-USB Conversion, Upgrade Advice, & AGP Voodoo3 Cards January 21st, 2000 Greetings, folks. Today we talk about migrations — migrating SCSI devices from older Mac’s to newer iMacs and PowerMac’s, and migrating a 3dfx Voodoo3 AGP card into a G4-based machine. It’s bound to be a good one, so read on! If you have a…

Bill Gates Will Improve Software From Now On January 18th, 2000 Nothing surprised me more than reading the news about Bill Gates stepping aside as Microsoft’s CEO to hand day-to-day management to Steve Ballmer. A few industry analysts said that they anticipated the move. However, it remains hard to believe that the cofounder of Microsoft,…

The Rise And Fall Of Microsoft’s Empire December 27th, 1999  It’s the day after Christmas and I am surrounded by family and friends who won’t let me concentrate on writing this week’s article. Ironically, I have a number of relatives who are intimately involved with other operating systems besides our sweet Mac OS. So, in…

It’s Apple’s best Christmas ever. So why am I so nervous? December 20th, 1999  Language is not simply the medium by which we express our ideas and experiences to each other. Rather it is fundamental to the thought process itself. It involves categorizing and naming objects and sensation in the outer and inner worlds and…

NameCleaner 2.0.1 ($20 Shareware) Sig Software The Mac is a good citizen when put in a cross-platform environment. The PC Exchange functionality of the Mac OS (accessed via the File Exchange Control Panel under Mac OS 9) allows the mounting of PC media, and can translate those archaic three-letter extensions to the proper Mac filetype…

Y2K. The bark that didn’t bite? December 13th, 1999  By your patience, Aunchient Pistol, Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that she is blind; and she is painted also with a wheel to signify to you, which is the moral of it, that she is turning and…

For the first time in history Apple ends the trading session above the psychologically significant century mark, as some technology stocks staged a come back after yesterday’s profit taking. After flirting all week with the $100 level Apple advanced strongly, soaring 5 3/16 or 5.30% to close at 103 1/16 on a volume of 5.5…

Apple’s Top Ten Things To Do List for the Year 2000 November 29th, 1999  Do I think machines will ever think? You bet. I’m a machine, and you’re machine, and we both think, don’t we? Claude Shannon Apple has been very busy since Steve Jobs came home in 1996. Much of the heavy lifting is…

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, or Why You Don’t Want an Info Appliance Made by a PC Company November 22nd, 1999  Our goal wasn’t just to differentiate our product, but to create products that people would love in the future. Jonathan Ive, VP for industrial design at Apple As usual, Apple avoided an official appearance at Comdex…

Drop Drawers 1.0.1 ($15 Shareware) Sig Software The Mac OS has steadily improved with features that can be used to organize your data and launch applications. You can organize your data with a folder hierarchy, and even keep track of favorite Internet sites with the new Internet location files. To launch applications, there are several…

AppleCORE Archive SEPTEMBER 30th, 1997 AppleCORE MIKE LAMBERT ([email protected]) Misfits, Rebels and Troublemakers — Oh My! "Here’s to the crazy ones." (That’s you and me, friend.) So begins Apple’s newest advertising era, which premiered September 28 during ABC’s showing of (wink-wink, jab-jab) Pixar Animation’s "Toy Story." The ad is part of the new brand advertising…

Happy Endings Archive OCTOBER 29th, 1997 Happy Endings Todd Stauffer ([email protected]) What’s Next for Newton I’m sitting in front of the Seahawks/Raiders game writing this piece on an eMate, Apple’s two-pound notebook computer based on Newton technology. It’s a useful little computer and a pretty good value. It’s not a multimedia presentation machine by any…