August 26, 2002 Today’s news fawning, reviews with 3, MSN for Macin- tosh, the true story of prebinding, and more. Up-to- Aer the double-plus-sized issue this weekend date imperatives, page 1. (MDJ 2002.08.24), we weren’t going to publish again until Tuesday, and even said so on our Web site, but Stuff to buy we managed to get Monday’s News finished, and thought (especially for our non-US readers still Product Showcase continues on the Jaguar updates, awake), “Why wait?” Follow-ups from MWJ edit- but once again, #1 is not 10.2 related: the mysteri- Professionals ing include more on Wired’s “cult” manipulations, ous and undocumented reappearance of Microso ™ another way to open second optical drive trays, and Handheld Synchronization for Entourage. ere are why Steven den Beste’s defense of his screen is still updates to .Mac programs, a hidden Dock feature wrong. Maarten Hekkelman is discontinuing his for free, CD Session Burner 1.0.1, and…well, you’ll Pepper text editor and DeLorme isn’t advancing just have to read it yourself. We need a bit more time Street Atlas, we note, along with Steve Jobs in Paris on the late Monday releases like Retrospect’s driver and more questions (and some answers) about the update and FileMaker Pro 6.0v3, so look for them in Power G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors). Briefs our next issue, along with iChat insights. Productiv- include HP printer dominance, more Ellen Feiss ity, page 5. Monday’s News

follow-ups decided to call Anderson a “Mac Icon” in the story’s headline “to get people to read u e one time we chose not to dissect a the story.” “Cult of Macintosh” article from Wired’s Kahney knows Anderson is no “Mac Leander Kahney (for fear we’d made the Icon,” Wired knows Anderson is no “Mac point too strongly), the MacJournals- Icon,” and yet the site printed something its Talk list made us realize we should have. editors and author knew to be a mischarac- We noted previously Kahney’s article on terization to fit the “Cult of Mac” stereotype how controversial Macintosh list manager and to sensationalize an otherwise-minor Shane Anderson had been arrested in Iowa story. If Wired has any Macintosh journal- on misdemeanor charges of unauthorized istic credibility le aer ruining a perfectly computer access and third-degree criminal decent story by a deliberately false head- mischief. line, it’s been hidden pretty darn well. (MDJ Kahney covered the dispute, which 2002.08.21) seems minor, fairly well and should get credit for it – but his clear reporting shows u Another drive tray opening note that there is a massive lack of support for An- came up during MWJ editing and was star-

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