Macworld San Francisco 2004 Report – The Rubin Report

Now first off, not to sound sexist, I should describe Macworld demographics on the floor. To be blunt, the crowd is mostly men of all ages, tilting heavily in the 20 to 40 year range, and a scattering of woman as well, but not nearly as many. Macworld is a total “nerd fest” for Mac lovers of all kind, but mostly young guys.

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Macworld San Francisco 2004 Special Report #2

I left you in suspense, not being able to finish part one. Wrote that first segment in Moscone Media Room (#104, under south escalator, if you’re looking for Nemo + Rubin) on an eMac provided by the conference. Wanted to try Panther out on the eMac. It’s okay, but not as swift as I would like. Room for improvement in OS X performance? Yes, indeed. Will compare to mighty Tekserve iBook tomorrow, which boots into OS 9.2.2.

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E-Rate for Education: It Could Have Been So Simple

Under my proposal, schools would be free to spend money where they know it can be best used. The ability to buy new computers, projectors, and laser printers would do wonders for assisting in implementing technology across all curriculum areas…

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Media Edit Pro
Review

…what do I give up if I ditch iMovie and start using MEP? Well, MEP does everything iMovie does as well as plenty of other neat stuff I haven’t mentioned (for example: you can set the dimensions of the movie).

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The Mouse
Review

A mouse is a mouse is a mouse, no? Well, no, not really. Everyone reading this probably has a mouse nearby, even if you are using a Trackpad on a PowerBook. But there are times, especially graphic manipulation, where using a mouse is simply easier and more accurate.

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What’s your story?

With the twentieth anniversary of the Macintosh upon us, I felt that this would be an appropriate time to tell “my story”, of how I came to be such a fan of this computing platform. Heck, everyone has stories, right

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SmartWrap
Review

SmartWrap instantly removes the quotation marks, and removes any hard carriage returns so the text will wrap appropriately

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