Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
VirtualPC Linux
MacNN reported that connectix will be shipping Virtual PC with Red Hat Linux. At only $99, it's a good way to mess around with linux without having to repartition your drive.
Look out, though, you do need 1.1gigs of free space. Hard drives are getting cheap...
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Apple aiming for gamers?
Macweek has an article about Apple actually making another presense at the Game Developers Conference. It's great, as Apple once denied the existance of the a home market.
Of note, they held some conferences including how to optimize for AltiVec. ...
Microsoft X-Box platform
Microsoft officially announced it's ugly X-Box Gaming Platform. Gates is quoted as saying that it provides "better performance than twice that of any previous platform". Uh-huh, with a release date of 2001, it...
Installing PHP3.0.15 on MacOS X
Stepwise.com posted these instructions on how to install PHP 3.0.15 on MacOS X Server as a shared Apache module
PHP3 is an excellent server-side scripting language. Much of this site is built on PHP3.
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Comments on MacOS X
Maccentral posted this article with info and comments from users about MacOS X.
DP3 still seems in an early state... especially in terms of UI issues, but the potential here is insane. Unix based os, with the consumer backing of Apple? This is what Linux people are all crazy about - or feel that they will achieve - a mass-marketable unix. I don't know if they will. Apple may, but they...
End of Iridium
Seen on Slashdot, this link posted by Motorola indicating that it's innovative world-wide satellite communications network is discontinuing service. For those who aren't familiar with this costly network, here's a link to their site....
Lightup keys on Powerbooks?
Appleinsider posted a little nugget about
possible illuminated keyboards in future powerbooks.
A feature which may serve some purpose for the vampires
amongst us... but heck, it'd just be plain cool,...
Microsoft's Game Platform
CNET.com reports on Microsoft's
upcoming announcement for their game console, X-Box. It
sounds like it's a PC-based system with a custom OS.
Looks like Microsoft is indeed looking to control all
markets... With stiff competition from the Sony Playstation
2, I don't know how much to make of it, but you never know
with Microsoft. ...
Sony PS2 Troubles?
This news item reports that Sony is looking into
potential technical problems with the new Playstation 2...
details are sketchy, but Sony having sold close to a million
units at this early date are impressive - and could be
potentially costly if they were to recall them.
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New ATI Graphics chips
Macweek.com posted an
article about next generation graphics chips from ATI.
Aimed towards gamers, the Charisma Engine and
Pixel Tapestry Architecture are some impressive names
for the new technology. The article also gives some nice
details about some added...
Voice rec for Palm?
As a follow up to the "Keyboard is dead" article posted here last week... apparently IBM did demo an embedded version of ViaVoice for the Palm III.
"In the demonstration, billed as only a technology demo, IBM official David Barnes made numerous voice-command and control calls to the unit, which responded by verifying appointments, taking short messages and translating selected words into...
Microsoft Windows 2000 release
Wish I still had the link to the original article... This quote is from an article written by a Mac guy at a Windows 2000 release event, talking about these rollerblanding microsoft "cheerleaders":
"They all wore blue denim shirts with the Windows logo. And they wore Rollerblades -- all the better to skate around the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, whipping the bleary-eyed crowd into a high...
Cheap RAM
xlr8yourmac.com reports cheap ($99) 128mb 2-2-2 SDRAMS for their readers from OWC. Think you already have enough ram? You probably don't. RAM's like sushi - you can never have enough.
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Ads in MP3s?
Ugh... don't get me wrong... ads are great-- they make the internet go. But, read this article about a Canadian company which is trying to create a Mp3 related format with ads. I think what they're missing is that the large popularity of the MP3 format is the popularity of home-encoded...
No Cinema Display?
Mac Central is reporting that the Cinema Display won't be available as a seperate purchase as originally hinted at.
Not that many of us could afford to purchase a $4000 monitor... but still. ...
AMD 1-GHz today
AMD is supposed to introduce a 1Ghz Athlon processor today to beat Intel to the punch. Makes you wonder how the PPC camp is fairing. I know, Mhz isn't everything, but with recent rumors of difficulting maintaining volume, it makes you worry...
I suppose MacOSRumors Friday edition reporting on IBM's supposed new PREVAIL technology could be an answer... but that's still a few years...
Napster interview
Napster is apparently under-fire by the RIAA (big surprise). In case you've been under a rock, Napster is an impressive use of the internet to create a virtual database of MP3s. Shawn Fanning, the creator, speaks out about Napster's future. Of note, he hints at expanding Napster to files other than MP3's. :) If he thinks they're in trouble now...
There's a great Mac port, known as Macster....
Major in Gaming
Why couldn't they have had this when I was in school? University of California Irvine will be offering an Interdisciplinary Gaming Studies Program for their students. "The goal is to create students who are not only able to code and design games but also have an understanding of the societal impact and significance of this $7 billion industry."
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Doubleclick throws in the towel
Well, Doubleclick backed down from it's plan to track users across websites.
A good thought... I guess people just aren't ready for...
Mitnick Speaks
Kevin Mitnick apparently spoke to Congress about hacking and how he could just manipulate people to get the information he...
