May – June 2003 — Vol 25 No 3
Source
Open PDF • May–Jun 2003 • Vol 25 No 3 • 92 pages
Overview
Election issue — ballot insert (centerfold). Summer Garage Sale — June 14, 2003 at NOVA.
Welcome to WAP! (4). Have You Voted? (Pat Fauquet, 5). Minutes of 15 Jan BOD (9). Minutes of 12 Feb BOD (12). Summary of 17 Mar BOD (13). October General Meeting (Craig Contardi, 15). November General Meeting (Contardi, 16). February General Meeting (Lawrence I. Charters, 19). March General Meeting (Charters, 21). March iMovie SIG Meeting (24). Retired SIG Report (Gene Haddon, 25).
Macintosh: Photoshop Plug-In Cooks Raw Image Files — Getting Top Quality from Digital Cameras (Dennis R. Dimick, 26) — RAW format era. Error Message of the Month (30). World Wide Web of Lies (Lawrence I. Charters, 31) — early internet-misinformation theme. Roman Aids (from the Pi Labs Annex, 33). Hotline News (Jim Ritz, 36). Address Book Secrets (Pat Fauquet, 36). Control Those Dreaded Red Underlines (Pat Fauquet, 37). OS X: The Wrong Application Opens My File (Pat Fauquet, 38). The Devil is in the Details — Using Dreamweaver MX to Create a Search Engine for the Animal Rescue (Sheri German, 39). End of the iMac: No More Gumdrops (Lawrence I. Charters, 47) — original iMac G3 discontinued. Mahjong Solitaire: A Review (Brian G. Mason, 48). Address Books — Great Computer Companions (Pat Fauquet, 50). Why Nerds are Unpopular (Paul Graham reprint, 56). Backup for the Rest of Us (David L. Harris, 64). Cheap Web Thrills — Foreign Languages and Mac OS X (Lawrence I. Charters, 67). Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X (Matt Neuburg, 71). DoubleClick (Dave Ottalini + Derek Rowan, 70, 74-78).
Highlights
End of the iMac G3 Gumdrops — Lawrence I. Charters
Original iMac G3 (1998-2003) discontinued — Charters writes its eulogy. The Bondi-blue/colors era (1998-08 — V20 N04) ends; iMac G4 sunflower (2002-03 — V24 N02) now sole iMac.
Photoshop RAW — Dennis R. Dimick
Adobe Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop arrives — Dimick at the forefront of digital photography coverage.
World Wide Web of Lies — Lawrence I. Charters
Early internet-misinformation piece by Charters — anticipates the "fake news" decade ahead.
"Why Nerds are Unpopular" — Paul Graham reprint
Paul Graham's famous 2003 essay "Why Nerds are Unpopular" reprinted at Pi — pre-Y Combinator. Cultural moment for Mac/hacker culture.
Backup for the Rest of Us — David L. Harris
Practical backup primer — Tri-BACKUP featured on cover. Pre-Time-Machine era backup.
Pi Election 2003
Annual election insert. New 2003-2004 BOD.
Entities
People: Pat Fauquet, Craig Contardi, Lawrence I. Charters, Gene Haddon, Dennis R. Dimick, Jim Ritz, Sheri German, Brian G. Mason, Paul Graham, David L. Harris, Matt Neuburg, Dave Ottalini, Derek Rowan Topics: End of iMac G3, Photoshop RAW, Pi Election 2003, Why Nerds Are Unpopular, Backup for Rest of Us, Summer Garage Sale 2003 References: Adobe Camera Raw, Dreamweaver MX, Tri-BACKUP, Mahjong Solitaire
Connections to other issues
- End of iMac G3 = eulogy for the iMac that revived Apple in 1998-08 — V20 N04
- Photoshop RAW = inflection point for digital-photography era
- Pi Election 2003 = annual election cycle continues