Looking for a Macintosh developer? Or are you a developer looking for somebody to hire you? The Mac Developer Directory may be the place for you.

For Amateur Radio enthusiasts who are interested in communicating using voice over the internet, check out EchoMac from Dog Park Software. It integrates with the EchoLink service (available for PCs originally) and seems to work pretty well. Particularly nice for those of us wimps who only have our technician's license …

Check out Terrabrowser from Chimoosoft, it allows you to look at the USGS satellite and topo maps from Microsoft's TerraServer.

Apple is listing the demo for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as available for download.

O'Reilly's MacDevCenter has a nice article on free software available under OS X.

For Mac users who are looking for business accounting software, there's a good debate on MacSlash over the merits of QuickBooks vs. MYOB.

For those Macintosh OS X aficionados who are interested in putting more Unix- like services on their machines, this weblog entry on MacDevCenter (courtesy of O'reilly) has a good comparison of the current state of the art of the two big competitors in this area, Darwin Ports and Fink.

According to a transcript of an interview with a senior official at FWB, they are working on directly supporting 3D graphics cards in future versions of RealPC. The RealPC product has been out of the Mac picture for a few years, apparently due to an agreement with Connectix that expired …

According to an article on CNet, Opera has decided that they need to make a Macintosh browser after all. Citing a new cross-platform development architecture, they indicate it is now easy for them to make a Macintosh version, so why not produce one (which I believe is what we said …

As promised when I did the initial review of my new 17" AlBook, I flew on an airplane yesterday. Not only was it a plane, but I was in coach and it was a Canadair Regional Jet (about the smallest plane that is large enough to use a laptop on …

Apple released 10.2.5 (client only, Server is in test, but doesn't appear to be out yet) updates yesterday. There were a ton of security-related fixes (many for things that were only made public in the last week), along with performance increases and some other fixes. I was particularly …

Based on information from this page on Adobe's web site, Adobe is readying the Acrobat product for movement to version 6.0. Many of the features appear aimed at solidifying the position of the company's PDF format and heading off Microsoft's new generic document format, slated for release with …

I've now had a few days to get used to the big boy of the Macintosh world, and I'm becoming used to it. However, it's still rather large. So, what does that mean from a practical perspective? When open for normal use (such as you might attempt to do on …

OK, it's big. I don't mean a little big, I mean quite extraordinarily big. OK, enough about the 17" G4 PowerBook's width (and, a bit more regrettably, weight). Let's talk about the other interesting features. This is just an initial set of thoughts, so expect a more considered discussion after …

Here's a fun site to look at for tricks to play on your other Mac friends tomorrow.

Apple Computer has announced availability of the third beta version of their X11 for Mac OS X product. This version contains some more stability and performance enhancements as well as the inclusion of options to handle command-key equivalents for operations such as quit. Click here1 for the download page …

In a non-announcement, the Apple Store is now listing a "Cluster Node" configuration for the Xserve product that includes no video card, no second gigabit Ethernet card and no additional drive space, but costs only 2/3 of the price of the entry level 1.33GHz dual-processor configuration. It appears …

An article on CNet and originally from Reuters, Bungie (now owned by Microsoft) is saying that they have delayed the release of Halo 2 so that they can complete the Mac and PC ports of Halo.

According to an article in Wired, the Army has but one Macintosh deployed for the war in the Gulf. It was an uphill battle to get it there, but the Macintosh PowerBook G4 (15.4 inch, most likely) is doing duty handling reconnaissance data.

Woo hoo! Count me in! I saw this game at MacWorld and it's looking great. The only significant issue is the server segregation from the rest of the EQ world, which is a disappointment, but I'd love to be able to get some EQ done while on the road. Besides …