From: Nelson Murilo <nelson@pangeia.com.br>
[http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990113/ca_imagine_2.html]
MacAddict Breaks Precedent With "Hacker-Friendly" Issue
SAN FRANCISCO --(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1999--Daring to go where no
computer publication has gone before, the current issue of MacAddict
magazine reveres the ``rebels,'' ``nonconformists'' and ``thrill-seeking
hackers'' as those who define the spirit of the Macintosh.
The February '99 issue (dubbed ``The Pirate Issue'') goes on-sale today at
newsstands across the country and outlines such sensitive topics as 10
ways to void your Mac's warranty, how easy it is to make a fake ID and how
to set up a renegade Internet radio station.
The foreword cites Apple interim CEO, Steve Jobs, as partial inspiration
for the pirate theme, who, as legend has it, flew a Jolly Roger over an
Apple Research facility after being exiled from upper-management in the
early eighties. It was there that the Macintosh computer was first
conceived, essentially as ``an underground project thumbing its nose at
the corporatization of Apple Computer.''
``This is the essence we hope to capture with our latest issue,'' says
MacAddict Editor-in-Chief, David Reynolds. ``We may walk the line of
controversy with some of the topics, but that's what the majority of our
readers appreciate. Our magazine has never been about playing it safe or
catering to the corporate audience.''
The editorial of the pirate issue is not without its disclaimers. Much of
the verbiage is focused on appealing to a reader's common sense when it
comes to choosing how or how-not to apply the various maneuvers. ``We
believe the usefulness or gosh-wow factor of these hacks outweigh their
inherent dangers,'' said Reynolds. ``That said, readers who have any doubt
about wanting to do one of these hacks should just hang out in the
armchair and enjoy reading about them, not doing them.''
About MacAddict
The three-year-old Bay Area-based Macintosh computing magazine is
published by Imagine Media, Inc., and was most notably awarded Best
Overall Magazine from the Computer Press Association and Best Consumer
Computing magazine from Folio magazine in the subsequent years since its
launch in 1996. The magazine most recently surpassed Macworld magazine in
consumer newsstand spending.
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Received on Thu Mar 11 17:03:14 1999