Letter from the Editor
What a Way to Start Spring!
by Robert Pritchett
This month is the 30th anniversary of Apple and last month was the 5th anniversary of Mac OS X. Happy Birthday Apple!
Each week we participate in the Mac ReviewCast podcast, so if you would like to hear what is going on in the Mac environment, go take a listen at http://www.surfbits.com.
I tend to have grabbed a bunch of links on Mactels, and discussions around Microsoft’s possible Copland with the current name of “Vista”, Windows XP on Mactels and getting non-Mac Operating Systems working on Mactels in the Letter from the CEO.
Jonathan Hoyle looks at Java Compilers in According to Hoyle…
Meanwhile, please give a warm welcome to our new columnist, Kale Feelhaver, aka Applemacpunk, who is currently employed in Information Security as a Security Awareness Trainer for a large US corporation and has been given permission to write for us in his new macCompanion Mac Security 101 column. This month, he discusses passwording. He also wants to build up participation in his own Applemacpunk Forums at http://www.applemacpunk.com/forums/index.php. Go register, if you are interested.
We have two articles by Gene Steinberg in this month’s The MacNight Owl on Apple’s Golden Opportunity and questions why anyone would want to run Mac OS X on a PC.
Ted Bade talks about Hackers and Mactels, Windows and French Law in his Views from the Ivory Tower this month.
Daphne Kalfon tells us what to watch for when writing musical scores for videos in GarageBand 3 in her column on Music and the Mac.
We have another article on Video Podcast Basics in the Mac Pro Podcast column. This time, Joseph Nilo discusses editing and encoding Vidcasts. Joseph’s audio and video projects are beginning to blossom, so we may not see too many more of his columns. Let us know and also send him Emails if you want to see more of his work in print.
We have combined four published articles from Dennis Sellers, as he writes about his musings and prognostications on the latest Intel Developer Forum activities as the Intel Team discussed plans for future possible Apple projects in this month’s Macsimum News column.
Don’t forget Tim Verpoorten’s Freeware column in his Mac ReviewCast article.
Leland Scott was busy this month with a few articles on his website at http://www.musingsfrommars.org. We strongly suggest going there to read his archived articles for March on his excellent discussion on AJAX and DHTML, pricing issues he found at PC Magazine on the G5 Quad and this issue of macCompanion captured the one on his take on a Windows environment for accessing browser bookmarks named Netjaxer. He points out that this kind of technology has been available in Mac OS X for 5 years now in his Musings From Mars column.
Steve Stanger opted out this month. He too has been really busy lately. Go see what he has been doing at The Mac Attack at http://themacattack.libsyn.com/. Write to him if you would like to see more of his efforts in macCompanion as well and of course, listen to his The Mac Attack podcast each week.
We also have another article from Christopher Duncan’s Reality Check about Political Correctness (the other PC) in his Practical Strategies column.
Harry {doc} Babad rounded up some more tips for us to devour in his Macintosh Tips column.
And we snuck in a guest article that just seemed to fit April from Billy James about Windows Vista that could possibly not be 31 Baskin-Robbins flavors, but rather, Chipotle.
And of course, we have a bunch of book reviews that run the gamut of the computer industry that are intended to educate and inform. If you like what you see, go check out the books via our links and buy one or two.
Our software reviews are running a little scant this month. Promised software hasn’t showed up yet. Seems everyone is getting Ubinary-happy what with the move to Mactels, but Harry was able to do a combo of Business Card Reader II and CardIRIS and Ted Bade was able to review Flip4Mac for us.
Please take the time as Spring begins to drop by our links, macCompanion links to our staff and other folks who enjoy Macs as much as we do, and our affiliates, so we can continue to give you interesting reading items each month.
Once again, happy birthday Apple! We dedicate this issue to all those folks over the years that have made this industry and magazine possible. May we all be fruitful!
May peace, health and prosperity be yours.
Sincerely,
Robert Pritchett
