July – August 2002 — Vol 24 No 4
Source
Open PDF • Jul–Aug 2002 • Vol 24 No 4 • 100 pages
Gap
2002-05 — V24 N03 (May–June 2002) PDF is missing from the source set. No content extracted yet for that issue. Tracked in _meta/backlog.
Overview
Cover: MacWorld NY 2002 (July 16-18). Things Change (Pat Fauquet, 5). Give a Market Share to a Friend (Lorin Evans, 8). Garage Sale photos (Dave Ottalini, 8). Volunteer Time (Pat Fauquet, 10). How to Write an Article for the WAP Journal (Dave Ottalini, 11). Random URLS III (David L. Harris, 11). Tuesday Nights & Keeping Your Computer Up to date (Pat Fauquet, 15) — Tuesday Night Clinic tradition continues.
Macintosh: Here Comes MPEG-4, QuickTime 6 in Preview (Dennis R. Dimick, 16). OS X Windows (Pat Fauquet, 20). Cliff Diving: Moving to Mac OS X (Lawrence I. Charters, 27). Ballet Animation in Prep (Stuart Bonwit, 32). Securing Your Mac (Lawrence I. Charters, 35). How Strong a Password? (Lawrence I. Charters, 37). Review: SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 2.0 (Paul Gerstenbluth, 41). Twiddler2: for those with too much time on their hands (Jim Hebblethwaite, 43). Burning Music and Data CDs on OS X (Glenn Brynjulson, 44). Making Cross-platform Autostart CDs (Jayson Lee, 46). Central Office Tour: Where Does that Wire Go? (David Ogburn photos, 51). Mighty Mouse (the design) (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, 55). MacNovice — MacLingo 1 (Ralph J. Begleiter / Dave Ottalini, 60). Using AppleWorks to Make a Poster (Len Adler, 62). Review: iMovie 2 "The Missing Manual" (Paul Gerstenbluth, 63). Random URLs 4 (David L. Harris, 64). Keeping Color Consistent from Pixel to Pixel (Kris Fong, 65). Printing Digital Photos Parts 1+2 (Alex Hoffman, 68, 71).
Highlights
Cliff Diving: Moving to Mac OS X — Lawrence I. Charters
Charters' OS X transition narrative — 18 months after public beta, a year after retail; making the leap.
Security Series — Lawrence I. Charters
Two-piece security feature: Securing Your Mac + How Strong a Password?. Post-9/11 era; Pi reflects general security concerns.
QuickTime 6 + MPEG-4 — Dennis R. Dimick
QuickTime 6 + MPEG-4 preview — major video codec turn (released summer 2002).
Mighty Mouse Design — Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Design analysis of a "Mighty Mouse" — note: this is design-history, not Apple's later 2005 Mighty Mouse product.
Twiddler2 — Jim Hebblethwaite
One-handed chord keyboard — wearable computing precursor.
Tuesday Night Clinic Anchored
Pat Fauquet writes "Tuesday Nights & Keeping Your Computer Up to date" — the Tuesday Night Clinic tradition documented again.
Entities
People: Pat Fauquet, Lorin Evans, Dave Ottalini, David L. Harris, Dennis R. Dimick, Lawrence I. Charters, Stuart Bonwit, Paul Gerstenbluth, Jim Hebblethwaite, Glenn Brynjulson, Jayson Lee, David Ogburn, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Ralph J. Begleiter, Len Adler, Kris Fong, Alex Hoffman Topics: Cliff Diving OS X, Securing Your Mac, Tuesday Night Clinic, Strong Password, QuickTime 6 MPEG-4, Mighty Mouse Design References: QuickTime 6, Sonicfire Pro 2, Twiddler2, iMovie 2 Missing Manual
Connections to other issues
- Tuesday Night Clinic = same tradition documented in 1996-11 — V18 N06 (Tuesday Night Tech Assistance) and again in 2010-09 — V32 N05
- Cliff Diving OS X = personal-narrative sequel to "Walls: Mac OS X and Freedom" (2001-03 — V23 N02)
- GAP: 2002-05 — V24 N03 is missing from the source set