ATPM 9.01

About This Particular Macintosh enters its 9th calendar year of publishing with the January issue. Yours truly has a small review in this issue, as does my pal Lee, who reviews the ultracool Earthdesk. Paul examines the keyboard I lust after, and Michael has a great article on archiving email with Mail.app or Eudora.

Read it online or download a PDF of your choosing.

Debug your iPod

Slashdot has a post on accessing the secret debugging tools inside the iPod.
(with a nod to Ric)

iUpdates

Apple announced iCal 1.0.1 and final release of iSync 1.0 today. Each requires Mac OS X 10.2.2.

Microsoft to acquire Macromedia?

Yes, that Macromedia. Of FreeHand, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and most of all, Flash, fame. Does Microsoft plan to kill Java through this acquisition? The monopoly rears its ugly head yet once again. . .
(from Lee)

Santa uses a Mac!

www.santaclaus.com
UPDATE (12/26/02): In case you are seeing this link after December 25th, the above link used to redirect back to Apple’s Santa Switch ads. Now the link is back to its regular page. Santa still uses the easiest, most powerful personal computer on the planet, though. On Dasher, on Comet, on Macintosh. . . !
(Thanks, Lee!)

OS X fresh meat

Open source software site, Freshmeat has opened a new section devoted exclusively to OS X.

Transmit 2.2

What is fast becoming my favorite GUI-based FTP client for OS X has an incremental update. Transmit 2.2 was released today, and is the first FTP client for the Mac to support Rendezvous.

I’m glad I use a Mac

New security bug with Windows XP and Nullsoft’s Wimamp MP3 player. Yet more reasons why I love iTunes and Audion. (Thanks, Eric.)

WebDesktop

Well, isn’t this a kick in the pants?

MacScan

SecureMac has released a beta version of MacScan, their spyware detection and removal software for all Macs, from 68K machines to the latest G4s running OS X.