Author: mactech

The Register’s Tony Smith discusses his experience with using Mac OS X for the past two months, including the recent realization that he’s using OS X more frequently than OS 9, thanks to a number of stability fixes and an increasing amount of native applications.

Struggling camera manufacturer Polaroid today announced a new business strategy that it hopes will restore the company to its former glory. Using its new Opal and Onyx instant color and monochrome technology, Polaroid will collaborate with other companies that will build kiosks, printers and related hardware, one of the goals of which will be to allow consumers to make high-quality prints from their digital cameras.

A review of the new iBook in the Boston Globe says “there isn’t much not to love about the new iBook,” but the author faults the iBook due to his experience with the delete key coming off.

Apple’s new iBook is one of “four laptops Lilliputians might like,” according to a New York Times article that praises Apple’s compact consumer offering. “The iBook’s stealth feature is its price. The base model, at $1,300, is $500 less than the lowest-priced similarly configured Windows competitor, pounding a silver spike through the heart of the notion that Macintosh elegance necessarily commands a price premium.”

Alco Blom has posted URL Manager 3.0b12 for Mac OS X, an update to the Carbonized beta version of the excellent bookmark management utility. The software’s shared bookmarks feature are currently supported under iCab and Internet Explorer; OmniWeb does not yet support shared menus. URL Manager is US$25 shareware.