November – December 2002 — Vol 24 No 6

Overview

Year-end Vol 24. WAP WebMail service launched (mail.wap.org).

Volunteers — the heart of WAP (Pat Fauquet, 5). BOD Meetings August + September (Craig Contardi, 6, 8). Retired SIG (John Barnes, 10). Power Users SIG (John Barnes, 10). iMovie SIG (Hal Cauthen, 10). WAP General Meetings July, Aug, Sept (12-18). Digital Edge Expo (20). Out of Retirement… & Going Strong (Sally Keyes, 21). Washington Apple Pi Web Mail (23). Life with Macs at a Photo Workshop (Dennis R. Dimick, 25). The Future of Macintoshes in Fairfax County Schools (Thomas Berens, 30). From Eunuchs to UNIX: How Popeye Gets his Spinach (Sheri Gorman, 32) — humorous Unix primer for OS X newcomers. Using OS 10-1, 2, 3 — How I got going with OS X Using Magic (Bob Mulligan, 38). QuickTime 6 Rocks & Validates the value of Apple's .Mac Service (Phil Shapiro, 42). VideoClix — Interactive videos for the web and beyond (Dave Ottalini, 44). Random URLs 6 (David L. Harris, 45).

Macintosh: iChat, you chat (MDJ Laboratories, 51) — iChat 1.0 debuted with Jaguar. Mac OS X 10.2.1 — How Fast Is It? (Bill Fox, 54). Hands-On Review — Adobe GoLive 6.0 for Mac OS X (Bill Fox, 55). Hands-On Report: Mac OS X 10.2 New and Improved Applications (Bill Fox, 57). OS X.2 Jaguar — Necessary or Useless? (Pat Fauquet, 61). Let's Play a Game in OS X (Pat Fauquet, 64). Hands-On Review: Keyspan Presentation Remote (Bill Fox, 66). Eye TV: An Interview with Victor Nemechek, El Gato Software (Dave Ottalini, 67). Rendezvous Part I: Why you need it and how it works (MDJ Labs, 68). Rendezvous Part II: Finding and Using Network Services (MDJ Labs, 74). Printing Digital Photos Parts I+II (Alex Hoffman, 80, 83).

December 14, 2002 Garage Sale at NOVA — "Largest Mac garage sale on the East Coast (that we know about)."

Highlights

WAP WebMail Launch

WAP WebMail service — mail.wap.org — full webmail for members. Pi's e-mail story upgraded from MailDrop-style to true webmail.

Rendezvous (later Bonjour)

Rendezvous (later renamed Bonjour, 2005) — Apple's zero-config networking, introduced in Jaguar. Two-part MDJ Labs deep-dive.

iChat Debut

iChat 1.0 shipped with Jaguar (Aug 2002) — Pi's first iChat coverage by MDJ Labs.

Eye TV Interview — Victor Nemechek (El Gato)

Eye TV product launches; Pi interviews El Gato Software's Victor Nemechek (also interviewed previously about Roxio at 2001-09 — V23 N05).

From Eunuchs to UNIX — Sheri Gorman

Funny Unix primer for Mac users who suddenly inherit Unix with OS X. "How Popeye Gets his Spinach."

"OS X.2 Jaguar — Necessary or Useless?" — Pat Fauquet

Editorial doubt about Jaguar's value — classic Pi "should you upgrade?" tradition.

Sally Keyes — Out of Retirement

Sally Keyes returning to the Mac world piece — local member spotlight.

Entities

People: Pat Fauquet, Craig Contardi, John Barnes, Hal Cauthen, Sally Keyes, Dennis R. Dimick, Thomas Berens, Sheri Gorman, Bob Mulligan, Phil Shapiro, Dave Ottalini, David L. Harris, Bill Fox, Victor Nemechek, Alex Hoffman Topics: WAP WebMail, Rendezvous Bonjour, iChat 1.0, Jaguar Upgrade Doubt, Pi Garage Sale Dec 2002, Fairfax Schools Mac Future References: Mac OS X 10.2.1, Adobe GoLive 6, Eye TV, Keyspan Presentation Remote, VideoClix

Connections to other issues

• WAP WebMail = mail.wap.org launches — Pi's e-mail story upgrade from earlier listservs / FirstClass-era mail
• Rendezvous Bonjour = the Bonjour-zeroconf foundation; major Apple networking tech
• Fairfax Schools Mac Future = local-policy follow-up to 2001-03 — V23 N02 Montgomery County Drops Macs piece
• Closes Volume 24