[AppleSurf Inbox] May 23, 2000

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== Top Stories ====================

Kodak Licenses Apple's QuickTime For Cameras (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1931282.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The photography giant said the software will allow digital camera users to quickly make a video clip that can be played on a personal computer.

== Seize the Day! (Great news for Mac users) ====================

Apple Now Hosts Game Trailers On QuickTime Site (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0005/23.qtgames.shtml>
In a short time Apple has amassed a small collection of impressive QuickTime trailers showing off forthcoming Mac games.

Kodak Licenses Apple's QuickTime For Cameras (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1931282.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The photography giant said the software will allow digital camera users to quickly make a video clip that can be played on a personal computer.

== Listen Up! (Opinions around the web) ====================

The Challenge Of Change (Mac OS Daily)
<http://www.macosdaily.com/opinion/columns/jmartellaro_004_20000522.html>
The Macintosh Mystique is not the GUI of MacOS 9. The Macintosh Mystique is in all the minds of men and women who are ready to embrace the future and take a journey with a company, once given up for dead, that has reinvented itself and reinvented the future.

Low End Mac Gets iReviewed (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.net/musings/ireviewed.html>
Thanks to the Apple iReview, I've already made a couple small changes to the site: one in the department links, the other in restoring the link to our "about" page.

Mac OS X Delayed, That Sounds GREAT To Me! (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/flipside/2000/20000523.shtml>
If we believe everything we hear from Apple, users and developers, Mac OS X has to be a masterpiece. For this to become a reality, the extended beta period will be helpful.

Developers Speak On OS X And Game Technology (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0005/23.osxgame.shtml>
"It has been a mistake in the past to have 'game APIs' for graphics and input processing. A game is just an example of a multimedia application with more stringent requirements than most."

Beta Than Nothing (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.net/virtuality/2k0523.html>
Do not install the beta of OX S as the only OS on your only machine. It's being tested, so you don't want to run it as your only OS.

== Reviews (The good and the bad) ====================

Apple's Pismo Four Months Later: A Second Look (The PowerBook Zone)
<http://www.pbzone.com/secondlook.shtml>
It packs an amazing amount of power and versatility for the size of the laptop, as well as the price. It further refined each one of its predecessor's problems, including shipping on time. Lastly, and most importantly, no major engineering issues have come up after the PowerBook's widespread use.

Low End Mac (Apple iReview)
<http://ireview.mac.com/WebObjects/iReview.woa/wa/GoReview?t=e&cat=202&site=285&u=19231608>
Good news first: Low End Mac has almost everything needed for the care and repair of every permutation of Apple computer and peripheral, from a 20-year-old Apple I to the recent Power Macs — not to mention all the Apple models, clones and clandestine machines that proliferated in between.

== Thousand Flowers (News on Macintosh third-parties) ====================

Corel Mac Development Continues Despite Woes (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=12>
"We're definitely moving forward with the Mac applications for Bryce, KPT and Painter. There is no direct connection between our decision to stop development of WordPerfect for Mac and continued development of the former MetaCreations titles."

Kodak Licenses Apple's QuickTime For Cameras (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1931282.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The photography giant said the software will allow digital camera users to quickly make a video clip that can be played on a personal computer.

Maya Dances To The Mac (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/05/21/0522maya.html>
Animators were excited by the news because they now have the prospect of running a professional 3-D graphics tool on the same inexpensive hardware they use to run Adobe Photoshop and other popular applications.

== Know Thy Enemy (Keeping track of the Wintel empire) ====================

Microsoft Lays Next Gen Cornerstone (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2574817,00.html>
Microsoft set to release a beta of its Next Generation MSN -- the first building block for its 'software as a service' vision.

Intel Sets Sights On Embedded Computing (Electronic Buyers' News)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000523S0010>
Intel has added several Pentium III and Celeron microprocessors to its "applied computing" portfolio of embedded cores.

Microsoft Remedy Day Nears (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2574688,00.html>
It's back to U.S. District Court on Wednesday for the various parties involved in the 2-year-old U.S. Department of Justice vs. Microsoft antitrust case. 

Consumer, Business Windows Versions Close To Release (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1931336.html?dtn.head>
Microsoft today neared the completion of two upcoming operating systems spanning the spectrum of PC users, from entry-level home computer users to the most demanding corporate customers.

E-book Business Gets Boost From Microsoft, Time Warner Deals (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1928578.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Several companies are exploring the potential of the online book publishing market, a nascent sector that has caught the attention of companies including Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and German conglomerate Bertelsmann.

== Breaking Barriers (About the internet and the web) ====================

Microsoft Lays Next Gen Cornerstone (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2574817,00.html>
Microsoft set to release a beta of its Next Generation MSN -- the first building block for its 'software as a service' vision.

A DoubleClick Smokescreen? (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36404,00.html>
Privacy watchdogs say there are no true privacy advocates on the board.

Yahoo: French Court Sets Dangerous Web Precedent (Reuters)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,15355,00.html>
The portal stands accused of offending France's "collective memory" by allowing people to bid on Nazi memorabilia.

Chinese Censors Losing Online Race (San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/chinet052300.htm>
Censors delete many controversial postings, but the rapid-fire technology of the Internet allows users to post comments faster than censors can sort through them. As a result, dissenting views are disseminated among millions of Chinese Internet users.

Is Yahoo Vying To Be A Music Portal? (PC World)
<http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,16851,00.html>
Yahoo is in discussions with major music labels on the possibility of becoming a subscription-based online music distributor, according to a source familiar with the talks.

== Press Release (Spreading the news) ====================

Kodak Licenses Apple's QuickTime (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/may/23kodak.html>
Eastman Kodak Company today announced it has licensed AppleÕs QuickTimeª for future Kodak digital cameras currently in development. The licensing agreement allows Kodak to build and sell digital cameras that let users quickly and easily create video clips in the popular cross-platform QuickTime.

== The AppleSurf Reader (Great Reads!) ====================

The Incredible Shrinking Mulder (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/col/mill/2000/05/22/duchovny/index.html>
He's bored with "X-Files" and, frankly, so are we.