Welcome to the first annual “Macintosh Babble Special Mac Stuff Awards”, the awards that are given out to certain Mac creations that stick out in special ways… and some that don’t. Anyway, you get the picture. Now, if you will be seated, I would like to start…
How do you win an award? Well, it’s almost impossible to get a “Macintosh Babble Special Mac Stuff” award. The process is excruciating and time-consuming. First, you have to pass our in-depth checklist of “Mac-like Coolness”, which few survive. Here’s an exclusive glance at our recently declassified and very intricate checklist for choosing who gets an award:
Continue reading »
What does the number 2,700 mean to you? To Apple, it is the number of employees it recently laid off. Not only are 2,700 steadfast Apple workers going to lose their jobs, but technologies like OpenDoc, CyberDog, and Open Transport are going to be cut back or annihilated. That, my friend, is a large piece of the Apple pie.
So, what does it all mean? If you listen to a sizable percentage of the press, it means that Apple’s ultimate demise is closer than we thought. To the optimistic Mac user, however, it is simple “restructuring.”
Many Mac users are concerned about Apple’s future. Every month, I have a different survey posted on my Web site (http://members.aol.com/radarmen99). Last month, one of the questions involved Apple’s future. Thirty-five percent of the visitors that took the survey said they were apprehensive about the future of Apple. Gee. . . and that was last month.
I recently sat down for an electronic interview with Macworld’s “Desktop Critic” columnist, David Pogue. We discuss, among other things, the future of Apple. . .
Continue reading »
PLUGGIN’-IN
InfoWorld (July 15) reports Netscape and Apple are talking about writing Netscape plug-ins as OpenDoc parts. “Such an agreement could lead to a modular, application-on-demand environment that could make network computers a reality.”
In the same issue, Robert X. Cringely (InfoWorld’s fictional computer industry gossip columnist) reports that IBM, using leverage I didn’t quite understand after reading the column, may manage to force Microsoft into a deal where it supports OpenDoc in order to keep using OLE.
Continue reading »
OpenDoc is a new system of working. The basic idea has already been done. “Publish and Subscribe” links different documents into one. When one changes, the final outcome changes with it. OpenDoc has this same idea. It is something that seems very strange at first. It is a system made up of many different components. These components interact with each other to create any type of document you need to make. It isn’t even an application, really. It is built into the System. You create a new document by using the menu command “New” or making a new piece of stationary.
Once you open the document, you will notice something very strange. The menu commands only include the basics like Print and Copy. You start off by pasting a graphic, typing text or using the Embed command. The Embed command loads any component that you request, so you can make the needed type of document. When you click on a block of text, a whole new set of menus appear. They may be Style, Font, Format and Size. When you click on a graphic, the menus may change to Image, Color and Tools.
Continue reading »
Comments. Be heard!