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Apple Takes A Risk With The Retail Store That Is At The Spiritual Center Of Its Chain - And What's The Deal With Francis Ford Copolla, Capisce? - So why is this particular Store more of a risk for Apple than all the previous stores that have opened? First it is the only store Apple has opened, so far. that is not in a Mall setting. It is street front property and, as Ron Johnson , Apple's Retail Senior VP put it, this particular store is an "experiment." An experiment with a long term horizon

Pictures From Inside The Apple Store In Palo Alto - A Clean Well Lighted Place For Technology -Apple brought out the big guns for the opening of this store, but it also helps that Ron lives only a few blocks from this location. Ron also went to Stanford University which is about 2 miles due west from the store location.Steve Jobs also lives within a mile or so of the Palo Alto store location and the store is about 14 miles from Apple's Cupertino headquarters

When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Apple Store. Wait A Minute I Am Almost Grown Up! - Pictures From The Nearly Ready To Open Apple Store In Palo Alto - Things have really changed since our first report about the construction of the Apple Store in Palo Alto - home to Stanford University and Apple's visionary CEO, Steve Jobs. When we last visited the site it was just a boarded up shell of a building - like something destroyed during a riot

Bypass Aqua And Get Right To The Beast! - OS X For People That Don't Like OS X - For many, there just weren't enough reasons to use Mac OS X as a main system. The great power that OS X's UNIX underpinnings gave it, was ignored, as most users didn't understand the command line interface. Xtools aims to extend OS X in conjunction with MIT's X Window system

Back In A Flash - Learning Flash 5 On A Limited Budget - As broadband use of the Net becomes more common, people will come to expect "television like" features in web sites. Yet most of these dynamic qualities require a mastery of ActionScripting -or Flash programming. You cannot be just a good artist with a good concept of layout and design, you also need to know how to do math. Yuk!Index

Is OS X The Villain? - Just The Fonts, Ma'am - OS X is confoundingly confusing about fonts, compared to previous Mac OS releases. As far back as OS 7, users simply dropped fonts onto the System Folder to install them. The Mac recognized that the file's being moved to the System Folder were fonts and asked if the user wanted to put them into the Fonts folder inside the System Folder. Of course, the user would click OK, and the font would be moved into the correct folder in the System Folder, ready to use. With OS X, it's an entirely different detective story

Next generation Speech Recognition software-with a twist - A Guest Review Of iListen 1.0 - When IBM ViaVoice first appeared on the scene, the first generation of speech recognition, it was hailed supreme. Not surprisingly, since it was the only continuous speech recognition software available for the Mac. Now the second wave of speech software has landed with IBM ViaVoice 2.0 and iListen 1.0. This next generation is aimed at dictation and control. By allowing you to control and dictate, this software helps you keep your hands off the mouse. iListen's speech engine (licensed from Philips) is advertised as faster than IBM's, but can it outshine the revolutionary ViaVoice?

Pictures From Inside The AppleStore ... The Original AppleStore - The Future Is Here Now! - Recent reports on the Web indicate that the new Apple stores, that will be appearing soon throughout the country, will be modeled on the Original Apple Store. This store has been up and running for many years and is located at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino California, to the right of the entrance of Apple's corporate headquarters. So we thought we would send our roving reporter out there

Sound Off On The Napster Court Ruling - A quick summary of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling and an opportunity to put in your two cents.

The Freedom To Create A Quality Site - A Web Designer's Story - Imagine being given some of the finest jewelry photography ever, and then being told to build a site. So many clients want the cheapest, functional site you can give them, and their bottom line is the price

Little Things That Might Trip You Up - Troubleshooting Flash Button Problems - Often in creating and previewing Flash documents, the buttons you have created work just fine, but when you publish them to the web, you find all sorts of troubles

And Never The Tween Will Meet - Troubleshooting The Flash Tween Function - One of the joys of working with Flash is the Tween function. It can also be one of the most aggravating, annoying, and frustrating ventures when things don't go as planned

When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Apple Store - It's Location, Location, Location - Apple will soon be opening a series of retail stores around the country, with the first appearing in Apple's own backyard

A Tale of OS X, Photoshop 6.0 And Why A Publishing Conference Seemed More Like An Auto Show - Told In Pictures

An Interview With AltaVista On Their New Free Internet Access Service For The Mac. - Free if you don't mind sitting through a few banners that is. Read the interview and then post your thoughts on our discussion board.

Get Behind the Eight Ball & Customize Your System with 8Tuner - Dragon One's 8Tuner Lets You Tune Your System to Your Personality Quickly, Easily, Safely

Get "With It" and Increase Your Productivity - This Contextual Menu Module (CMM) plugin takes advantage of OS 8's new contextual menu to implement the ability to quickly open files with applications other than the applications that created them. For example, a Macintosh PICT file is most likely to open in SimpleText when double-clicked. But you may not want to open this PICT in SimpleText.

Taking Your Inkjet Printer Where Most Printers Never Dare To Go - People buy computers for many reasons. To play games. To surf the Internet. To do their taxes. To replace their aging typewriters and word-processors. Perhaps some buyers discover they can do other things with their computers, but most have no idea that they can do crafts with their systems and color inkjet printers.

The Good News Is That The USA's Top Spook Uses A Mac. The Bad News........He Got Caught! - For those of you that follow the news daily, you may have heard of the, alleged, Wen Ho Lee spy scandal, which involves a Taiwan-born naturalized U.S. citizen that worked for the weapons section of the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories in New Mexico. He is accused of spying for the government of China .... Read on there is a Mac connection!

My Visit To The Emerald City To See The Wizard Jobs - I approached My first visit in about 12 years to sophisticated city of San Francisco with a certain amount of trepidation. Not only was it my first visit to San Francisco in a very long time but my first Macworld attendance and more importantly my first live Keynote address by Steve Jobs!

Santa Is Ready But Will This Holiday Buying Season Be a Problem For Apple Because Of A Lack Of Software? - Mark Ware went to CompUSA to check out the new G4 PowerMacs and came away worried that it may be difficult to show them off the way Apple is shipping them

Mathematica The 'Photoshop' Of The Computational World - We take a first look at Mathematica 4, its new features and improved performance.

Explorer Speed Questioned - A Performance Review Of Explorer 4.5 and Communicator 4.6- Mike thought Explorer seemed a little pokey over his new DSL connection so he took the new version out for a spin. The results? Well lets just say he is preparing to send a white paper off to the DOJ!

Thinking Of Getting DSL Internet Access To Save You Time On the Net? You Might Want To Think Again! A Performance Review - DSL is the hottest new technology for giving yourself a super-highway to the Internet. Mike Juhaus tells you about his experience in getting connected with DSL and why, despite the performance numbers, he is not saving any time.

What in Blue Blazes is Wrong With The 20th Anniversary Macintoshes - Apple's Porsche Has a Squeaky Wheel. William Tell has one of these elegant machines and yet he is threatening to hunt Spindler down and yodel outside his house!?

To Buy a "B" Or To Buy A "C"? That Is The iMac Question! William Tell is not having second thoughts about buying his iMac........Ok, Ok he is having second thoughts - alright!!

What Causes Startup Problems and What Can You Do About Them - startup problems are rare but when they do happen they can be a headache. Ted Landau in this article, explains in great detail why they occur and then gives you a handful of aspirin for a cure!

Memory Modules Made Meaningful - Deconstructing RAM - Sharon Aker explains the ins and outs of the memory in your Macintosh

Apple's Repair and Service Center Problems - Readers Respond. Readers have interesting stories to tell in response to William Tell's previous article

Apple's Repair and Service Center Not Up To Scratch - Long Waits And Incomplete Repairs - William Tell's recent experience with Apple's repair service leaves him not a happy camper

Bill Gates Attempts To Inoculate Himself - William Tell is not convinced that Gates recent foray into charitable giving is as selfless as it seems - is there a booster upgrade in the future?

Photoshop to the World Wide Web - Creating and Optimizing Photoshop Images For the Internet. Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas describe in detail the process for creating professional graphics for the Web

Just A Little Pizazz - Creating Animated Gifs - Tracy Smith walks you through the process of creating snazzy animated graphics for your web site

The DOJ vs Microsoft and Why Microsoft will Ultimately Fail - William Tell gives his perspective on the current DOJ trial of Microsoft 

Step by Step Instructions to High Speed Web Surfing - Installing USWest ADSL. Rick Geiger previous Manager of Advanced Development of the Apple II Division at Apple in the early 80's guides you through the puzzling but not too daunting task of upgrading to ADSL using USWest

Five Simple Things You Can Do To Minimize Problems With Your Macintosh - Ted Landau explains simple steps you can take to prevent system crashes and other problems that keep your Mac from being in tip top shape

To the Brink and Back- Apple's stock is up over 200% and it is coming out with fast sleek products that "wow" the marketplace what has happened? William Tell offers his opinions on why Apple fell so low and why it is now rebounding

Macintosh Gaming Parisian Style - a report from the Paris Mac Expo by Samy Hachchouch on the new hot games out for the Mac

Reality Check - Ken Gruberman gives Mac users a wake up call on the virus situation and reviews a few of the leading commercial virus protection programs. If you think computer viruses are something you don't need to worry about, you may change your mind after reading this. 

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