November – December 2000 — Vol 22 No 6
Source
Open PDF • Nov–Dec 2000 • Vol 22 No 6 • 100 pages
Overview
Year-end Vol 22. You be the judge (Lorin Evans, 5). BOD Sept + Oct Meeting Notes (9-10). Cartoon (Charles Stancil, 11). Untangling the Mac OS X Desktop Application — An Open Letter to Apple Computer Inc. (Jon C. Thomason, 12) — Mac OS X Public Beta dropped September 13, 2000; full release March 24, 2001. Graphic Arts SIG meetings—Aug, Sept & Oct (Blake Lange, 17). MacWorld New York City 2000: In Review (Lawrence I. Charters, 24). Best of the TCS (John O. Ludwigson compiler, 63). Surfing the 'net: Ethnic Sites (Janet Mobley, 85). Guy's Pick's—Have you seen these sites? (86). Mailing Lists are a Great Way to Stay Informed on a Whole Host of Different Topics; Here's a Beginner's Guide (Chuck Joiner, 88) — Joiner later known for MacVoices podcast. Capturing the Eyeballs and E-wallets of Captive Kids in School: Dot com Invades Dot.edu (conclusion) (Dr. Nancy Willard, 93).
Macintosh: OS X: Proceed or Wait? (Lazlo Vajda, 20). A New Player & Spherical Movies — First Peek at QuickTime 5 (Dennis R. Dimick, 30). High-End Macintosh Benchmarking (Lawrence I. Charters, 34). Using the Application Switcher (Pat Fauquet, 36). Of Fonts and AppleWorks (Pat Fauquet, 38). Power Mac G4 Cube: What's In A Name? (Lawrence I. Charters, 40) — revisited from V22 N5. Willow Design: Cross Country Protection + Kerouac 3+6 Backpack (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 43+).
Highlights
Open Letter to Apple on Mac OS X — Jon C. Thomason
Mac OS X Public Beta (Sept 13, 2000) — Pi member Jon C. Thomason writes an open letter critiquing the Desktop Application (Finder). Mac OS X Final shipped March 24, 2001.
OS X: Proceed or Wait? — Lazlo Vajda
Should you upgrade to Mac OS X? — early adopter advice piece. The classic Pi "upgrade now or wait" tradition.
MacWorld NYC 2000 In Review
Comprehensive review by Lawrence I. Charters — Pi's MacWorld coverage tradition.
Mailing Lists Guide — Chuck Joiner
Chuck Joiner — later prominent Mac community voice (MacVoices podcast since 2003) — writes mailing-lists beginner guide.
QuickTime 5 first peek
QuickTime 5 previewed — Spherical movies (QTVR replacement).
Power Mac G4 Cube revisited
Cube re-examined — design analysis. (Apple discontinued the Cube July 2001 — commercially failed.)
Pat Fauquet rising
Two Pat Fauquet articles — Application Switcher + Fonts. Fauquet becomes regular contributor. Will be Director by 2009.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Charles Stancil, Jon C. Thomason, Blake Lange, Lawrence I. Charters, John O. Ludwigson, Janet Mobley, Chuck Joiner, Dr. Nancy Willard, Lazlo Vajda, Dennis R. Dimick, Pat Fauquet, Washington Apple Pi Labs Topics: Mac OS X Public Beta, Power Mac G4 Cube, QuickTime 5, Mac OS X Upgrade Question, Pat Fauquet Rising References: Mac OS X Beta, QuickTime 5, Willow Design
Connections to other issues
- Mac OS X Public Beta = the dawn of Apple's biggest OS transition; Final ships March 2001
- Pat Fauquet Rising = future Pi Director takes regular writing role
- Chuck Joiner = future MacVoices podcaster, first Pi appearance
- Closes Volume 22 — eve of OS X era