March – April 2002 — Vol 24 No 2

Overview

Cover: iMac, Generation 2, It's Here! — iMac G4 'Sunflower' (launched January 7, 2002 at Macworld SF) hits Pi pages.

A New Road Warrior (Lorin Evans, 5). Frustrated by your Computer? Try a User Group (Dave Ottalini, 8). The Journal Wants You! (David L. Harris, 10) — call for contributors. How to Partition the Drive of New iMac (Pat Fauquet, 10). Problem with printing solved! (Brian G. Mason, 12). Keeping Your Assets in Line — iView Corrals Images, Movies, Sounds and Fonts (Dennis R. Dimick, 13). Mac OS X for Dummies (book review by David L. Harris, 18). AppleWorks Tabs 1, 2, 3 (Bob Mulligan, 21). The Little Mac OS X Book: A Review (Lawrence I. Charters, 24) — sequel to 2001-07 — V23 N04 excerpt. Transferring Files from Your Old Mac (Rick Rodman, 26). The Root of All Evil: A Review (Lawrence I. Charters, 30). How to Wire Your Home for Ethernet (Rick Rodman, 31). iMac, Generation 2, It's Here! (Pat Fauquet, 34). Making a Virtual Internet Server (Richard Sternberg, 36). An Interview with Chuck Joiner, President, Hershey Macintosh Users Group (Dave Ottalini, 42). Things Your Mother Didn't Teach You XXVIV (Bob Morrison, 44). Random URLs 2 (David L. Harris, 45).

MacNovice quartet (Ralph J. Begleiter / Dave Ottalini): Viva la Difference (51), Mac Lingo 1 (52), Mac Lingo 2 (54), Nesting Habits (56).

Maltese Cube (Guy B. Serle, 58) — continues from 2001-09 — V23 N05. Printing Digital Photos (Alex Hoffman, 72).

Highlights

iMac G4 Sunflower — Pat Fauquet

Cover story. iMac G4 (Jan 7, 2002) with the dome-and-arm 'sunflower' design — first Mac G4 designed for OS X from the ground up. End of the original iMac form factor.

Chuck Joiner Interview — Dave Ottalini

Pre-MacVoices Chuck Joiner as Hershey MUG president — sister-MUG networking; Joiner launches MacVoices podcast March 2003 (a year later).

Little Mac OS X Book Review — Lawrence I. Charters

Robin Williams' Little Mac OS X Book finally arrives — Pi reviewed the excerpt at 2001-07 — V23 N04; now Charters reviews the finished book.

Wire Your Home for Ethernet — Rick Rodman

Home-networking how-to — pre-Wi-Fi-mainstream era. Practical broadband-era piece.

Virtual Internet Server — Richard Sternberg

Sternberg returns (2001-05 — V23 N03 "Rotten Apple Server Part III") with a virtual-server piece.

Journal Wants You! — David L. Harris

Writer-recruitment plea — perennial Pi tradition; Journal needs articles.

Entities

People: Lorin Evans, Dave Ottalini, David L. Harris, Pat Fauquet, Brian G. Mason, Dennis R. Dimick, Bob Mulligan, Lawrence I. Charters, Rick Rodman, Richard Sternberg, Chuck Joiner, Bob Morrison, Ralph J. Begleiter, Guy B. Serle, Alex Hoffman Topics: iMac G4 Sunflower, Chuck Joiner Pre-MacVoices, The Maltese Cube, Pi Journalism Recruitment References: iMac G4, Little Mac OS X Book, Mac OS X for Dummies, iView MediaPro

Connections to other issues

• iMac G4 Sunflower = successor to original Bondi/colors iMac G3 of 1998 launch and after
• Chuck Joiner Pre-MacVoices = bridge from 2001-09 — V23 N05 mailing-lists piece to his March 2003 podcast launch
• The Maltese Cube continues serialization
• MacNovice Series expands further