From: Nelson Murilo <nelsonat_private> [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. [snip...] -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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