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Book Reviews

Friday, May 23, 2003

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Mac OS X Browser Roundup: "While the browser wars ended long ago on the PC, competition among browsers on Mac OS X is heating up. Today Opera released an update, following the recent release of Mozilla Firebird and updates to OmniWeb & Safari. Here are my picks & pans among the the offerings." [MacMegasite]

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How Apple's Spam Filter Stacks Up: "I won't say I don't receive pitches for the occasional mortgage discount or Vegas vacation, the latest performance-enhancing elixir or anatomical wonder pills. In general, though, I've had good results with a built-in spam stopper in Apple's Mail program, which I've used daily since it was released with the Jaguar update of OS X last year." [osOpinion]

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IBM 1980 = Microsoft 2000?: "Aaron Goldberg is writing about the same parallels that I have used in many discussions: Microsoft has contracted the same disease IBM had in the mid-'80s. It's called screw-your-customer-itis. The symptoms go from the ill-timed price hikes last year disguised as license changes to the poorly executed, capricious end-of-life announcements for key products to the carnage they've left in the 'Windows-compatible' software business." [vowe dot net]

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Steve Jobs' half note: "Buying music online got a lot easier with Apple Computer's new music store. It's a promising sign of things to come in the music business. That said, the service feels like half a loaf--it only begins to offer the music experience that is possible with the Internet." [Google Technology News]