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You must register by March 3, 2003 for recognition as part of the legal settlement against the recording industry. Members of the RIAA attempted to coerce discount music stores to fix their prices above their normal rates in order to keep them from compe...
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The Los Angeles Times has reported that Apple will soon offer a music-downloading service that is compatible with both iTunes and the Apple iPod. The music files will not be available in mp3 format, but will be encoded using Dolby's AAC (Advanced Audio C...
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Now that the registration deadline has passed, how much are you going to get from the CD price-fixing settlement? If Judge D. Brock Hornby signs off on the deal, those who registered will receive $12.60 each. The judge is expected to sign off on the sett...
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An astounding discovery has been made in the darkest tunnels below our nation's capitol... These posters displayed in D.C. Metro cars portray a adolescent girl called "Stella" who -- at first glance -- bears an uncanny likeness to a young Ellen Feiss. ...
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The Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been the subject of controversy since its inception. The Copyright Office has the ability to exempt limited classes of works from the anticircumvention prohibitions of the Act. The next hearing to decide which cl...
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We've switched to Moreover for almost all of our newsfeeds now that BigNewsNetwork has eliminated most of their useful feeds. It's amazing how much upkeep these "automated" feeds require! Moreover isn't utterly reliable, but they're the best we've been ab...
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Several weeks ago, the perl engine for this site started giving odd errors that prevented any of us from logging in and making changes to the site. It effectively prevented us from adding any content at all. This is a shame because there was a lot of neat...
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Symptom: OS X seems to stall for a long time while initializing network services on startup or you frequently get messages like "a connection failure has occurred." Solution: See Apple Knowledge Base Article 106797, a.k.a. "What the heck happened to the ...
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Sharing a cheap printer between Macs that run very different operating systems may seem impossible, but it turns out that its really pretty easy if you take advantage of free software and a stand-alone print server. My desktop Mac runs only under OS 9. I...
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John Calhoun, a name famous among us Mac oldsters here, has generously chosen to distribute his popular Glider game for free. Glider is a simple, yet challenging game where the player navigates a paper airplane through increasingly complex levels of a hou...
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This gent. has such envy for the new G5 "cheese grater" look that he has modded his G4 MDD "leafblower" case to resemble the G5. A very complex case mod. It runs cooler, but one must wonder whether it also fixes the noise problem....
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I wonder how much longer the American public will be able to endure the compulsory advertising vomiting from DVDs before purchasers stage a boycott. The recent Universal-released Animal House DVD locks out DVD-player controls, forcing viewers to sit thro...
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JetBlue Airways allowed a private security company to have access to a confidential travelers database, which the security company used for research, shared with the military and used in public presentations. Travel information was correlated to social s...
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The Moreover newsfeed stopped again. It seems that several of their newsfeeds simply dried up. We're using a new query method to get our Mac headlines which should improve the reliability of our feeds. Since we were mucking about with the source for the ...
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or the past several months, an attractive but lonely display has resided at the photo counter of my local CVS drug store. This bright yellow kiosk belongs to the Kodak Picture Maker print station which is advertised as "an ideal way for people to print pi...
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All of us at The Cool-Mac would like to extend our warmest holiday wishes to our readers. We lack the words to express our gratitude for your loyalty (and patience) in the most appropriate way to accomodate such a diverse audience, but to our great delig...
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This weekend marks the twentieth anniversary of the Macintosh. Apple celebrated the anniversary by digitally enhancing their original 1984 Superbowl ad to include an iPod. That's kind of lame. Well, today is the day. Maybe Apple was waiting until the ve...
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Many people have learned to their continuous amazement the wonders of nuking CD ROM and CD-R discs. Placing a CD in a microwave oven [DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME] for 5 seconds on high-power will result in a beautiful cascade of sparks as the fine layer of s...
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A site redesign is in progress. The press releases have been taken off-line due to technical difficulties. The other newsfeeds will continue. More news when it happens. :-)...
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We apologize for any inconvenience that you may experience over the next few days. The site-reconstruction is likely to cause some hiccups....
