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Column Report for Year 2008

 

[May 12, 2008] Ted Landau's User Friendly View - In search of headphones for my iPhone
[May 09, 2008] Free on iTunes - Aussie UFOs, StrangeThings, Hometown Tales and More
[May 07, 2008] Just a Peek - Yahtzee for iPod
[May 02, 2008] Free on iTunes - Rich Man, Poor man, Everyman, Art & More
[Apr 25, 2008] Free on iTunes - 3 Sheets, Nimitz Under A Microscope, Lunchbox and More
[Apr 23, 2008] Hidden Dimensions - Why the Apple TV Doesn't Make Toast
[Apr 18, 2008] Free on iTunes - News, News, More News, And More
[Apr 11, 2008] Free on iTunes - Classic Movies, Classic Watches, Classic Gadgets and More
[Apr 07, 2008] Monday's Mac Gadget - Want to View Your Processes? Check out Peek-a-Boo!
[Apr 07, 2008] Ted Landau's User Friendly View - A Guide to Installer for Jailbroken iPhones
[Apr 04, 2008] Free on iTunes - Gamers, Hackers, Cultural Smackers and More
[Apr 02, 2008] Just a Thought - On The Go With Google Docs, N800, And iGo
[Mar 31, 2008] Computing with Bifocals - Nancy Looks at a Couple of Outstanding Mac Products
[Mar 28, 2008] Free on iTunes - Chinese Culture, Dog's Life, Fast Draw and More
[Mar 25, 2008] Just a Peek - Big Words on the Small Screen: Scrabble for the iPod
[Mar 24, 2008] Monday's Mac Gadget - Want to Prevent a Mac Meltdown? Better Get Temperature Monitor!
[Mar 21, 2008] Free on iTunes - Adult Humor, Geeky Pastimes, Bar Jokes and More
[Mar 14, 2008] Free on iTunes - Getting The Ax, Immortals, Lawyers and More
[Mar 14, 2008] Ted Landau's User Friendly View - The iPhone: Everything in Your Pocket (Except a Mac)
[Mar 07, 2008] Free on iTunes - Unhitched, Sprout, Stunt Kitty, and More
[Feb 28, 2008] Hidden Dimensions - Apple's Success in the Enterprise Won't be Due to Apple
[Feb 26, 2008] Computing with Bifocals - How Time Machine Saved the Day
[Feb 22, 2008] Free on iTunes - Faith, Loaded, Door Number 2 and More
[Feb 15, 2008] Free on iTunes - The Animation Show, B&B Comedy, Free TV and more
[Feb 15, 2008] Just A Peek - Go Fast, Really Fast: Pole Position Remix
[Feb 13, 2008] Just a Thought - Thoughts On Razr2 And iPhone Sales
[Feb 13, 2008] iPodObserver - Roll Your Own iPhone Ringtones...for Free
[Feb 08, 2008] Free on iTunes - Valentines Day Prep Special: Looks, Cooks, And Foots
[Feb 01, 2008] Free on iTunes - In Treatment, Discovery News, Mortified Shoebox and More
[Jan 31, 2008] Just A Peek - Kodak 5500 All-in-One Printer
[Jan 25, 2008] Free on iTunes - Model Fitness and Yoga, Mile High Airlines and More
[Jan 21, 2008] Ted Landau's User Friendly View - Macworld Expo: Past, Present, and Future
[Jan 18, 2008] Free on iTunes - Termination, Artists, Exquisite Corpse and More
[Jan 18, 2008] Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - Macworld Expo on $0 a Day...
[Jan 17, 2008] Just a Thought - Macbook Air: The Wrong Envelope
[Jan 16, 2008] The Devil's Advocate - Buying TiVo for All the Right Reasons
[Jan 16, 2008] Ihnatko - Andy's Q&A with Apple for MacBook Air & Time Capsule
[Jan 14, 2008] Just a Thought - Macworld Keynote: Getting Down To Business?
[Jan 14, 2008] Ihnatko - Andy's Pre-Macworld Keynote Predictions
[Jan 11, 2008] Free on iTunes - College Daze, Woo-Hoo Rabbits, Seal Gas And More
[Jan 11, 2008] Computing with Bifocals - Nancy's Favorite Apple Utilities
[Jan 04, 2008] Free on iTunes - Belly-Buttonless, Cheap Eats, Political Yuks, And More
 
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TMO's Regular Columns

Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves
Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus has been a Macintosh user for a long, long time and has written 47 computer books including Mac OS X For Dummies, Panther Edition.

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Ihnatko
Andy Ihnatko digs the Mac, and has been writing about the Mac for longer than most of us could tell the difference between a bite of Apple Sauce from a byte of Apple code. You can read his monthly column at Macworld magazine, and his blog at the Colossal Waste of Bandwidth.

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Ted Landau's User Friendly View
Ted Landau is the founder of MacFixit, and the author of Mac OS X Help Line, Tiger Edition and other Mac help books. In his column, Ted looks for the user-friendly approach to making the most of your Mac and iPod.

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The title of this column, "The Devil's Advocate", really says it all. John Kheit is an attorney, and he often takes a critical (some might say an overly critical) look at the issues. Also, John has unearthed some rather interesting developments from Apple and Microsoft alike.

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Just A Thought is Vern Seward's editorial cyber-home. Vern is an IT guy, though his columns run the gamut from spam, to Steve Jobs, to Biofuel Cells, to the iTMS, to just how much AppleWorks sucks (and everything in between)

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The Back Page is the space that Bryan Chaffin carved out for his own thoughts. He suffers from the delusion that there are folks out there who care what he has to say. Topics include just about anything related to the Mac market.

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iPontificate marks the kick-butt return of Gary Randazzo to the pages of The Mac Observer. One of TMO's earliest columnists, along with his writing partner Randy Soare in Wasting Time with the Idiots, Gary turns his attention in his new column to the latest news and events in the Mac community.

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Frameline is written by professional film maker Mike Washlesky, and follows trends, news, and other issues important to the Digital Video market

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This Week in Apple History looks back at more than 30 years of history relating to Apple and the Mac industry. Cowritten by Owen Linzamyer, the author of Apple Confirdential 2.0, and Bryan Chaffin, this series sinks itself deep into the roots of the phenomenon known as Apple.

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Computing With Bifocals is aimed at the generation that remembers what the world was like before there was color, Nancy Carroll Gravley covers issues for people who don't care how their computer works, but rather what their computer and the internet can do for them.

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Reality Check is TMO's political-style cartoon taking a critical look at the tech industry. Created by Cory Harrison (art and ideas) and Bryan Chaffin (ideas), this cartoon pokes fun at the things that need poking.

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Additional Perspectives

Recent Headlines - Updated Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Wed., 4:50 PM
CW: Nine Apps to Tweak the Look of Leopard
3:30 PM
WWDC "Sold Out" For First Time
2:15 PM
iSobre Unveils MacBook Air Envelope-style Sleeve
1:40 PM
YML: The Boston Apple Store and Photoshop: The Missing Manual
1:15 PM
User Friendly Blog by Ted Landau - The iPhone needs a faster better Safari
1:00 PM
MacTech Releases Office Scripting Advisor
12:35 PM
iPodObserver - MS: 40 Percent of Smartphone Market by 2012
11:30 AM
iPodObserver - O2: 3G iPhone Only Weeks Away
10:45 AM
Cocktail 4.1 Improves Safari 3.1 Support
10:15 AM
Hot Forum Topic - The iPhone's Feature and Expectation Balancing Act
9:35 AM
Icahn May Push for MS/Yahoo Merger
8:50 AM
iPodObserver - Swisscom Bringing iPhone to Switzerland
8:20 AM
GhostReader 1.5 Improves iPhone/iPod Export
7:55 AM
"Sad Song" Joins the Get a Mac Lineup
7:30 AM
iPO Quick Tip - iPhone: Backing Up the Important Stuff
 

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