January – February 2004 — Vol 26 No 1

Overview

Volume 26 opens. Welcome to WAP! (Dave Ottalini, 4). Getting Older and Hopefully Better — President's Corner (Pat Fauquet, 5). Summary of 8 October BOD Meeting (7). Summary of 12 November BOD Meeting (8). iMovie SIG October 9 Meeting (Hal Cauthen, 11). WAP New Member Orientation Program (John Barnes, 11). Vendors who helped make the December CS&S a success (Dave Ottalini, 12). TCS Room Cleanup 2003 (13). Calculating Pi: Redesigning the Washington Apple Pi Web Site (Lawrence I. Charters, 14). The Revolutionary Pi (Sheri German, 19). Why Can't I Send (Receive) my E-mail? (John Barnes, 24). Apple Firsts (Ottalini ed., 28). BTCS: Strange Window Behavior + BTCS for November (Richard Rucker, 28-30) — Beginner's TCS series begins. Security in Depth: or how to think about security (James Kelly, 34). Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Blues (Alice Marshall, 35). Router Setup Suggestions (Bill Kingsley, 37). Interview with Aaron Adams, "Switcher" (Part 2) (Craig Contardi, 41) — continued from 2003-11 — V25 N06. How to crack Mac OS X passwords (James Kelly, 45). OS 10.3 Tips: Software Update Preference Panel (Dave Ottalini, 47).

Macintosh: First Sips of Cocoa (Richard Rucker, 50) — Cocoa programming series begins. Mac OS 9 Web Browsers — A mini review (Richard Sternberg, 54). How to Roll Your Own Hard Drives (John Barnes, 55). Archiving Genealogy Information in a Generic Fashion (Richard Robusto, 59). Choosing & Using Optical Media for Storage (Bryan Villados, 60). An Overview of Knockout 2 (Bill Kingsley, 63). The Apple /// in Ten EZ Lessons — a DVD by Dave Ottalini (67). The Maine Experience — Executive Summary (Greater Albany Apple Byters reprint, 75). In the Henrico Public Schools in Virginia (Greater Albany Apple Byters, 76). New CDs a Hit!! (Dave Ottalini, 78). Storing and Organizing Bookmarks in the Finder (Jay Darmstadter, 82). Nomia 1.2 by Sphera Software (Carol F. Bruml, 84). DoubleClick (86-87).

Highlights

Website Redesign — Lawrence I. Charters

"Calculating Pi: Redesigning the WAP Web Site" — Charters writes up Pi's wap.org refresh. Pi enters cleaner modern-web era.

Cocoa Programming Series — Richard Rucker

"First Sips of Cocoa" — beginning of a programming series for OS X-native Cocoa. Rucker also doing the BTCS (Beginner's TCS) series.

Aaron Adams Switcher Part 2 — Craig Contardi

Continuing the PC-to-Mac switcher narrative begun in 2003-11 — V25 N06. Reflects Apple's "Switch" marketing campaign era.

Apple III in Ten EZ Lessons DVD

Dave Ottalini releases an Apple III tutorial DVD — Ottalini's signature long-running Apple III preservation work.

Security Themes Continue

Three security pieces: Kelly's "Security in Depth," Kelly's "How to crack Mac OS X passwords," Marshall's UCE Blues. Pi is taking security seriously.

Pi 25-Year Reflection

Fauquet's "Getting Older and Hopefully Better" — reflecting on 25 years (Pi founded Feb 1979 1979-02 — V01 N01). The Pi 25th anniversary year continues from 2003-03 — V25 N02.

Entities

People: Pat Fauquet, Dave Ottalini, John Barnes, Hal Cauthen, Lawrence I. Charters, Sheri German, Richard Rucker, James Kelly, Alice Marshall, Bill Kingsley, Craig Contardi, Aaron Adams, Richard Sternberg, Richard Robusto, Bryan Villados, Jay Darmstadter, Carol F. Bruml Topics: Pi Website Redesign, BTCS Series, First Sips of Cocoa, Security Themes 2004, Apple III in Ten EZ Lessons DVD References: Knockout 2, Nomia 1.2, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Connections to other issues

• Opens Vol 26 — Pi enters 26th year of publication
• Aaron Adams Switcher = Part 2 continues from 2003-11 — V25 N06
• Apple III in Ten EZ Lessons DVD = Ottalini's signature Apple III work since the 1980s