Letter from the CEO

Five years of macCompanion!

By Robert Pritchett

I plead the 5th! Happy Birthday macCompanion! This month is year 5 of monthly distribution of macCompanion magazine.

While the computer and telephony industries have been working themselves into iPhrenzies and studying the tea leaves of iPhonomics, we’ve been busy looking at hardware and software solutions that magnify the Mac with this issue of macCompanion magazine.

As a side note, we have had a few staff changes recently loosing a few to less active roles as they graze in greener pastures.

If you have not noticed, we changed the gray-scale animated logo using a combination of Laughingbird Software’s Web Graphics Creator, a bit of Photoshop tweaking and feedback from staff and others to make it more readable.

We also removed web pages and past PDF issues from 2003 through 2005. If no one really noticed, then we did the right thing. All articles and reviews have a shelf life and if you want to find those you can always use the Way Back Engine to pick those up linked in our Index - http://www.maccompanion.com/macc/archives/archivesindex.html

And after attending some funerals and noticing that I did not attend my own, I’ve learned it is more important to have been considered “significant” rather than in just being “good”. Have I done any good in the world today? Have I accomplished anything of real significance? Have I made a positive impact in someone else’s life?

This month our cover has a shutterbug designed by Michele Patterson. The intent is that we would be covering photography as a theme. So we have some book reviews that go that direction. If you want to look at camera reviews, then go to Philip and Joanna Askey’s excellent camera review website at http://www.dpreview.com/

Meanwhile, enjoy the articles researched and posted by our excellent volunteer staff, drop by our advertisers and affiliates and let the world know about us!

May your birthdays be memorable and your lives significant.

Sincerely,

Robert L. Pritchett