The inventor of the only real multitasking Apple II computer, Michael Mahon has moved his website. The move of the Apple Crate II website was necessitated by the decision by America Online (AOL) to discontinue hosting websites. Michael has chosen Comcast as his new host for the site. The new URL is http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
Product: iListen (with USB Headset/Microphone) Cost: $149.00 Publisher: Mac Speech Website: www.macspeech.com Over the years, there have been many speech recognition packages come and go. Unfortunately none of them have been very good. Until Now. iListen came on a single CD, installed in 10 minutes on out iBook 1.33 and went off without a hitch. Upon installing it, attaching our headset which came with the package, we started to configure the system to prepare it for speech recognition. While…
The latest version of the Google Maps Plugin for Mac OS X is now available from the Google Map Plugin site. We decided that since we use Google Maps quite often, we would download and install the package on an iBook that we had sitting around. While most packages are take a lot to install, these plugins are about as easy as it gets. Just unpack the zip file from the download. Copy the plugin files from the Google Maps…
Well another month has passed, and it seems that every month we get a will later in later in the production process. The this month we have a few special items in the magazine, including reviews of iListen, by emulator, and various other software packages. In the world of innovation, Vince Briel has been working on a new version of the replica one. The latest version will include a USB connector as well as power connectors for the newer ATX…
If word of what’s really going on ever got leaked by the media, it would trigger a world panic. It would immediately destroy the economy of every country in the world. Every business would close down. Money would become worthless. Highways would become impassable. Food stores would quickly be stripped by mobs. Power would shut down, taking water supplies with it. All communications would end. No radio, TV, telephones, mail, Fed-X, UPS, and so on. Would this mess cause fewer deaths than…
Press Release 19 November 2003 A.P.P.L.E. Releases Call-A.P.P.L.E. Complete Collection (Seattle, Wa.) – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange is pleased to announce the release of the Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine Complete Collection. This collection is a 15 CD Set which includes every issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine released from 1978 through 1990. This collection has been two years in the making and now thanks to the efforts of David Craig, Bill Martens, and Val Golding, the collection is now available to all Apple…
Apple recently astounded developers (some of whom had made plans, including hotel reservations) by moving WWDC from San Jose to San Francisco and postponing the affair by a month. This after the date had supposedly been set a year in advance. Ostensibly this was done in order to place into developers’ hands copies of the new version of OS X, code named “Panther”. However, there is apparently much more going on at One Infinite Loop than meets the eye. What…
OS X Ramblings The Spy has mentioned problems and concerns with OS X in this space several times. Applications quit suddenly, permissions get unglued, and updaters fail to solve the problem. Recently the Applications folder on a new 1G TiBook got a mind of its own: Any attempt to move an application to it or to a subfolder caused the finder to quit and restart, the attempted action not performed (a self-taught folder action). No problem with text and other…
“Hey, Professor, how’s it going?” “Oh, hi, Nellie,” I replied, sparing her a mere nibble of attention from the article I was writing. Then I did a doubletake. She shouldn’t be here. When I turned around, Nellie had claimed a chair and was perusing one of my Macintosh magazines. (Of course I read the competition.) “What are you doing here on a Monday morning? Aren’t you supposed to be working?” “Worm”, she announced laconically, flipping to the game reviews. “What…
The introduction of the one Gigahertz version of Apple’s TiBook, closes the gap between the high end laptop and desktop units. Compared with the 500MHz model of two years ago, the new units have twice as much of almost everythingÑspeed, cache, video and main memory, and disk drive space. Both the video memory and the 1M L3 cache are DDR, which ought to improve throughput on many common functions. The main memory is PC-133S. There’s also a Super Drive in…
‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes– and ships– and sealing-wax– Of cabbages– and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.’ –from The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll appropriately introduces this annual (four times at least) roundup of next year’s happenings, especially since this is the second anniversary of the all-electronic, eclecticly meandering Northern Spy. The Spy fared well last year as some forecasts for 2002…
The Spy has written and spoken many words concerning the fourth civilization or, as some term it, the information age. The universal availability of information via the Metalibrary that is its paradigm and premise is not yet been fully effected, but is clearly nascent in the primitive web we now have. Availability provokes some to worries about information ownership, accuracy and security, and there have indeed been some unpleasant incidents surrounding these issues. But far more pressing are the concerns…
The usual shill suspects (say that quickly) at the various Mac mag rags universally laud the advent of Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) as though it were the Olympic 100m, the Stanley Cup, and the return of Elvis rolled into one. The Spy has an alternate view. Throughout the OS X era thus far, I’ve regarded the new look as experimental, running it only on one of my four machines and staying with 9.1 or 9.2 on the others (depending…
About this ListThe A.P.P.L.E. Links list is one of the most complete Apple and Macintosh lists available on the internet today. As the Internet is one of the most fluid entities in existence, this list is also always in transition. The Apple II list is a compilation of many lists of URL’s and has addition information and comments added by the staff of A.P.P.L.E. You will find almost any link that you will need for any Apple related project contained within this…
“An (abstract) metalibrary is the entire collection of a society’s data, information, and techniques, together with the means by which it is stored, accessed, and communicated. The Metalibrary of the fourth civilization is the complete, electronically linked and accessed version of its abstract metalibrary.”—from “The Fourth Civilization–Technology Society and Ethics” by Rick Sutcliffe “What kind of title is that?” Nellie Hacker demanded, looking over my shoulder at the beginnings of my latest Northern Spy column. “Everybody knows you can’t…
Over the previous month, we here at A.P.P.L.E. have been remodeling our online store and adding new items to the catalog trying to enhance our content and making unique products available to our members. You will find our new product catalog online at www.callapple.org. All of the products in the catalog which have a Add To Cart button are available now and may be purchased. We have also included some hardware items which are not available anywhere else. This included…
The Houston Area Apple Users Group (HAAUG) will be holding a swap meet on Saturday 28 July 2002 from 9am to 4pm. This swap meet is for Apple enthusiasts and is open to the general public. This is the place to take your chance to pick up relatively inexpensive Apple equipment. HAAUG members can get a table for free while non-members can rent the table for $50 per table. If you need electricity for your display table, there is an…
Over the years, there have been many programming languages, which have come and gone, sometimes in the blink of an eye. However, one programming language which has has a nice long legacy and continues to be used on some platforms today is the simple language Pilot. The language itself has come in several flavors over the years, both in full-blown compiler size and the mini size. N. Dealy programmed one of the first versions of Mini-Pilot in 1978. Scott Knaster…
Our editorial staff from the large number of product announcements and news releases sent to us daily selected the following items. They are presented solely to keep you informed about the current market for Apple related hardware and software. As we have not tested many of these products, appearance here does not necessarily represent endorsement or recommendation by A.P.P.L.E.. Further information about items appearing in The Marketplace can be obtained through the A.P.P.L.E. Web Site. If you contact any manufacturer…
The following letter appeared in the Michigan Apple-Gram as well as the International Apple Core produced Apple Orchard volume 1 number 1. While the idea behind it was unbelievable at the time, history had a way of making it work. We hope that you enjoy this little bit of history as much as we did. The Apple Rumor Mill Courtesy of Paul KnevelsFrom The Michigan Apple-Gram It has been rumored that Apple Computer, Inc. is working on an Apple III…
