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Okay, I know what I want for my birthday, now.
Apple just introduced the new MacBook, its replacement for the iBook series of laptops. Priced from $1,000 to $1,500, the MacBook looks like the perfect consumer laptop computer. It's got everything you could need already built in. And it's using the Intel Core Duo chip so you can dual-boot it with, Heaven forbid, Windows. Looks to be another home run for the folks in Cupertino. Nice work. I just hope it will outlast its 12-month warranty period (unlike my recently deceased iPod Photo—I made it under warranty by a mere 3 days!). Little help, Steve...?
How to somewhat correct your huge error of buying a Windows computer.
The big buzz in the Silicon Valley right now is Linux. It's a free Operating System much like Windows98, except for the fact that it doesn't crash every five minutes.
Public service to all Yahoo!Mail users
Yahoo!Mail has just opened up new “dot” addresses to all users. Now get an extra email address like stunt.racer@yahoo.com or poetry.stud@yahoo.com or whatever.youwant@yahoo.com. It’s perfect for getting your actual name (instead of some odd combo of letters), and it's absolutely free.
Use it interchangeably with your primary Yahoo! address. To make things handier, you use the same Inbox to send and receive messages to and from both addresses. Just do it now, the good names are going fast.
Microsoft, I cast thee out! (Finally.)
After many years of searching, I have at last found a way to kick all Microsoft products off my Mac. The whole .doc format compatibility thing has been giving me—and, apparently, the State Of Massachusetts—fits for years now, but some folks associated with the free office suite, OpenOffice, have finally released a Mac version that duplicates damn near ALL the functionality of MSOffice (minus the bugs and security holes, of course). And it's fully read/write compatible with .doc, .ppt. and xls file formats. The Mac version is called NeoOffice (DOWNLOAD IT NOW), and I heartily recommend it. Did I mention that it's free? Cuz it is. (The PC version is available for download here.) Overall, it's a little rough around the edges, interface-wise, but it works. And that's more than you can say about Microsoft products.
