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Jeff and Brett at Carbon Glacier Originally uploaded by necoffee. Saturday was spent away from the computer, enjoying a 7-mile hike to Carbon Glacier (near Mount Rainier) and back. The weather here in the Seattle area has been spectacular the past week, so my friend Brett suggested we actually get out in it. The hike ...

My latest Seattle Times column is now online, which looks at the valuable menu bar utilities and notes the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Menu-bar icons prove invaluable.

Cory at BoingBoing.net points out that AOL has changed their AIM Terms of Service: Many readers have written to point out that AOL’s new Terms of Service for AIM “include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: ...

Josh Marshall reprints an email he received from a volunteer in Florida who is helping people get out and vote (Florida’s polls are open for voting). It’s heartening no matter who you support, honestly. Only about half the people in the United States votes at all; hopefully this year the numbers will be much, much ...

It’s easy to find examples of what the Bush administration has done wrong (see yesterday’s post). My question is: what has Bush done right? Can he count any successes? The only thing I can come up with is the invasion of Afganistan and the overthrow of the Taliban for harboring and supporting Bin Laden and ...

MacCompanion published a nice review of my iMovie 4 & iDVD 4 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide: This is a comprehensive book that communicates the knowledge of integrating iMovie4 and iDVD and is a superb value for the price. It has great pictures of equipment and setups, screen shots of what to do ...

(I’m just coming off of a vacation, but thought this was worth mentioning.) Apple has released a security update that fixes a potential flaw in iChat that would let people launch programs on your machine if you clicked a link. MacCentral has a few more details.

Looking for some iChat AV tips? Peachpit has created an iChat AV Tipsheet with tips and tricks from my iChat VQS. Check it out! It’s a free 165K download (PDF).

Apple says it’s conducted the first ground-to-air videoconference using iChat AV and the wireless high-speed broadband connection in a Lufthansa-owned Boeing 777 between Munich and San Francisco. Well, first “not counting Air Force One or other ultra-expensive solutions,” says Apple product manager Kurt Knight.

Hot on the heels of iChat AV 2.1: iChat AV 2.2 Public Beta Adds MSN Support. [Be sure to read the rest of the April 1, 2004 issue of TidBITS, too!]