January – February 2005 — Vol 27 No 1
Source
Open PDF • Jan–Feb 2005 • Vol 27 No 1 • 35 pages • $2.95 (down from $4.95)
Overview
Volume 27 opens — the new "Leaner, Greener, Meaner" format continues from 2004-11 — V26 N06. Cover price drops to $2.95. ~35 pages.
President's Corner (John Barnes, 3). A Brief Users' Guide to Washington Apple Pi — member-orientation piece (6). WAP Budget Overview (10) — financial transparency. Mac Bible review (5). Apple Training Series, iLife (12). iTalk on iPod (13) — Griffin iTalk voice-recorder dongle. BBEdit 8 review (15). Tutorial Classes (29).
Upcoming events: MacWorld (Jan 22 viewing event), Open House (Jan 30), Bounty of Open Source (Feb 26 — open-source-themed General Meeting).
Cover sidebar shows the wap.org site structure with "Pi Online Journal" listed alongside "Pi Photo Archive" — the website-mounted Journal has been a section of wap.org since at least this era, foreshadowing the official eJournal launch.
Highlights
Leaner Format Cements
New format is permanent — Vol 27 opens at 35 pages, the new normal. Cover price drops to $2.95 from the long-standing $4.95.
WAP Budget Overview
Financial transparency in print — Barnes publishes the WAP budget to members.
"Pi Online Journal"
wap.org website references "Pi Online Journal" as a navigation item — confirming an online-Journal experiment was already running by early 2005 (4 years before official eJournal launch at 2009-01 — V31 N01). The 2002 Fauquet question ("The Electronic Journal — success or failure?" 2002-09 — V24 N05) was already in the rearview by now.
Open Source General Meeting
Bounty of Open Source — Feb 26 General Meeting — Pi continuing FOSS thread (from 2002-09 — V24 N05 Evans Proprietary vs. Open Source).
iTalk for iPod
Griffin iTalk — voice-recorder dongle for iPod (3rd/4th-gen, pre-iPod-shuffle).
BBEdit 8 Review
BBEdit 8 (Bare Bones Software) reviewed — the venerable Mac text editor.
Entities
People: John Barnes (President + Editor) Topics: Leaner Journal Continues, Pi Online Journal Pre-eJournal, WAP Budget Transparency, Bounty of Open Source References: BBEdit 8, Griffin iTalk, Mac Bible 2004, Apple Training Series iLife
Connections to other issues
- Leaner Journal Continues = first full year in the new short format (begun 2004-11 — V26 N06)
- Pi Online Journal Pre-eJournal = website Journal already running by early 2005 — predates 2009-01 — V31 N01 by 4 years
- Cover price drop $4.95 → $2.95 — reflects shorter content