January – February 2002 — Vol 24 No 1
Source
Open PDF • Jan–Feb 2002 • Vol 24 No 1 • 96 pages
Overview
Volume 24 opens. Welcome to WAP (4). New Year's Report (Lorin Evans, 5). WAP's December Garage Sale (7). SIGs + Slices (David L. Harris, 8-9). Have You Tried OS X? (Pat Fauquet, 12). Get In and Out of OS X (Pat Fauquet). Random URLs (David L. Harris). How to Use Your Digital Camera (Lawrence I. Charters, 19). Building a Web Site at Sea (Lawrence I. Charters, 23). Creating fine art using a Mac — Melding tradition with technology (Kathryn Murray, 37). Setting Up the Dock (Pat Fauquet, 40). Adventures in Babysitting (Chris Campbell, 43). A Pat Fauquet Quick Tip (44). Things Your Mother Didn't Teach You XXVIV (Bob Morrison). For Your Eyes Only (Dr. John Marshall, 45). Bring 'Em Home Alive and Interactive (Skip Mundy, 51).
Macintosh: Basic Anatomy of Your Computer (John Krough, 53). MacNovice — Take Advantage of those Fonts! (Ralph J. Begleiter, 56). MacNovice — Using Stationery (Begleiter, 58). MacNovice — Buying a Hard Disk Drive (Begleiter, 60). Hands-On Review: Double Talk (Bill Fox, 62). Hands-On Review: Our iPod (Bill Fox, 66). Graphisoft's ArchiCAD & Abvent's Zoom GDL (Paul Gerstenbluth, 69). The Arts & Crafts Computer: Using Your Computer as an Artist's Tool (Elsa Travisano, 72). The Little Mac Book (7th Edition) (Travisano, 73). Pi Fillings — the CD, Version 9, list of contents (77).
Highlights
"Have You Tried OS X?" — Pat Fauquet
Pi's OS X-evangelism turn — Fauquet pushes members to try OS X (now at 10.1 / Puma). Companion piece "Get In and Out of OS X."
Building a Web Site at Sea — Lawrence I. Charters
Charters builds a website on a cruise ship — practical web-publishing piece with maritime flavor.
Hands-On Review: Our iPod — Bill Fox
Sequel to 2001-11 — V23 N06 iPod review — Bill Fox + Pi report on their own iPod in daily use. Two months after launch.
MacNovice Trio — Ralph J. Begleiter
Three classic MacNovice columns: Fonts, Stationery, Hard Disk Drive — Begleiter's columns continuing to teach core Mac fundamentals.
Pi Fillings CD Version 9
Pi's quarterly software CD — version 9 — community curation of freeware/shareware.
Things Your Mother Didn't Teach You XXVIV — Bob Morrison
Long-running humorous column in Roman numerals — by 2002 at #29 (XXVIV).
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, David L. Harris, Pat Fauquet, Lawrence I. Charters, Kathryn Murray, Chris Campbell, Bob Morrison, Dr. John Marshall, Skip Mundy, John Krough, Ralph J. Begleiter, Bill Fox, Paul Gerstenbluth, Elsa Travisano Topics: OS X Evangelism, Pi Fillings CD, MacNovice Series, Our iPod Series References: Mac OS X 10.1, Pi Fillings CD Version 9, Little Mac Book 7th Edition, ArchiCAD
Connections to other issues
- Opens Volume 24 — second OS X-era volume; iPod era now in full swing
- Our iPod Series = sequel reviews continue Bill Fox's iPod arc
- MacNovice Series = continuing Begleiter teaching tradition from 2001-03 — V23 N02