Year: 2002

Apple is offering a new program that will provide users of Mac OS X the opportunity to receive major releases of the company’s industrial strength operating system over a three year period. The Program, which will apply to Mac OS X exclusively and not OS X Server, will allow customers to receive future upgrades to the OS as part of the agreement. [More…]

Sonnet has announced a new G4/X bundle for PCI Power Mac owners. The bundle consists of a 450MHz Crescendo G4 upgrade, Sonnet PCI OS X Installer (which enables Mac OS X to be installed on “unsupported” systems), and a 128MB DIMM, and sells for US$349.00. Sonnet also announced price drops on a number of its other products:

Smith Micro has posted FAXstf X 10.0.4, the latest update to their fax management for Mac OS X. Version 10.0.4 offers several tweaks and bug fixes and the company notes that after applying the updater, you will need to launch the Modem Center application and reconfigure your settings.

MacSlash, a Mac news and discussion site, is accessible again at macslash.org after the site lost the macslash.com domain earlier this week. The site apparently failed to receive its domain renewal notices as a result of mac.com email filters that automatically designated the messages as spam and deleted them.

A federal appeals panel today overturned a law that required public libraries and schools to filter pornographic and other “harmful” Internet content, according to The Washington Post. The two-year-old Children’s Internet Protection Act required libraries and schools to filter content in order to be eligible for some federal funding and was set to begin being enforced in July. The panel ruled that such filtering is in violation of the First Amendment.