[MyAppleMenu] Apr 17, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ===============

Apple Lawyers Target Mac Themes Project (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=2773>
Apple claims the editor enables third parties to copy its copyrighted trademark themes by "improperly copying Apple's copyrighted software code and graphic files".

Seybold Vendors Take On X (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/04/16/seybold-osx.html>
If everyone's so committed to OS X, exactly where are all the products?

== AppleSurf (News) ===============

Apple Lawyers Target Mac Themes Project (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=2773>
Apple claims the editor enables third parties to copy its copyrighted trademark themes by "improperly copying Apple's copyrighted software code and graphic files".

Apple To Webcast Earnings Conference Call (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=5512>

Seybold Vendors Take On X (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/04/16/seybold-osx.html>
If everyone's so committed to OS X, exactly where are all the products?

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ===============

Cube hitting Its Stride? (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/010417.html>
It's probably a bit ahead of its time, but the world will eventually follow in its direction.

Macs Still Cost Too Much (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/04/20010416120054.shtml>
One of the biggest obstacles to Mac evangelization is still a price issue -- Macs are simply a lot more expensive than PCs feature, power, and value-wise.

Apple Sales People In CompUSA: Shame Follow-Up (Right On Mac!)
<http://www.rightonmac.com/articles/01/04/17-shame_pt2.html>
"Epson, Sony, HP and Compaq have reps in my local CompUSA all the time."

Apple's Retail Stores (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=886>

OS X Prime Time Problem (Macinstein)
<http://www.macinstein.com/pressrelease.cfm?ID=888>
Not wanting to further delay OS X to all the anxious Mac users, as well as getting final APIs out to their developers doesn't change the fact that OS X is not ready for prime time and the whining that it has been unfairly judged is more fair than we would like to admit.

State Of The X Address (theiMac.com)
<http://www.theimac.com/articles/categories/features/story420.shtml>
My advice, as idiotic and wrong as it may be is jump on the bandwagon!

Sun And Apple: The Enterprise Dream Team (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/8956.html>
This Enterprise Dream Team includes Mac OS X on the desktop and Sun's Solaris on the data center.

== AppleSurf (Reviews) ===============

Do More With OS X (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/itc/010417.html>
As you can see, Stone Studio comes with a good mixture of applications and looks like it could be a promising suite of software with a bit of tweaking.

eZ-Motion 1.0 (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/05/reviews/motion.html>
Web animation tool is easy to use, easy on your wallet.

HanDBase 2.5 (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/04/11/reviews/handbase.html>
Even for the neophyte, HanDBase makes it easy to create customized databases on your Palm. But the HanDBase Desktop application proves to be virtually useless on the Mac.

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ===============

DoS Bug Bites Microsoft's First Security Product (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18301.html>
A flaw with Microsoft's first security product leaves it vulnerable to denial of service attacks.

New Notebooks Hover At $1,000 (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5630524.html?tag=owv>
Dell Computer on Monday released a new consumer notebook with middle-of-the-road features and a low-end price.

== The Wintel Empire (News) ===============

DoS Bug Bites Microsoft's First Security Product (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18301.html>
A flaw with Microsoft's first security product leaves it vulnerable to denial of service attacks.

New Notebooks Hover At $1,000 (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5630524.html?tag=owv>
Dell Computer on Monday released a new consumer notebook with middle-of-the-road features and a low-end price.

== Breaking Barriers (Top Stories) ===============

Disappearing Act (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,23640,00.html>
Online advertising is already hurting. Now software that zaps Web ads is about to go mainstream.

Web Publisher Turns Pages For Online Diaries (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5631679.html?tag=lh>
Trellix, a leading supplier of easy-to-use Web publishing tools, said Monday that it has agreed to license Blogger, the grassroots Internet publishing phenomenon behind the online diary-writing craze.

== Breaking Barriers (News) ===============

Report: Government Tracks Visitors To Its Web Sites (Associated Press)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/560316.asp>
People who log onto dozens of federal government Web sites may be unknowingly tracked despite a privacy policy forbidding it, investigators say.

Disappearing Act (The Industry Standard)
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,23640,00.html>
Online advertising is already hurting. Now software that zaps Web ads is about to go mainstream.

Web Publisher Turns Pages For Online Diaries (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5631679.html?tag=lh>
Trellix, a leading supplier of easy-to-use Web publishing tools, said Monday that it has agreed to license Blogger, the grassroots Internet publishing phenomenon behind the online diary-writing craze.

Yahoo Fights Hate Through Empty Ad Space (Associated Press)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5631609.html?tag=owv>
Yahoo, an online portal long criticized for running forums for racist groups, is donating hundreds of millions of free ads to five charitable causes, including racial tolerance.

eZ-Motion 1.0 (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/05/reviews/motion.html>
Web animation tool is easy to use, easy on your wallet.

== PenguinSurf (Top Stories) ===============

Red Hat's New Linux Boosts Server Functions (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5630528.html?tag=owv>
Red Hat introduced a new version of its take on the Linux operating system aimed at improving multiprocessor performance and keeping out bugs.

== PenguinSurf (News) ===============

Red Hat's New Linux Boosts Server Functions (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5630528.html?tag=owv>
Red Hat introduced a new version of its take on the Linux operating system aimed at improving multiprocessor performance and keeping out bugs.

== SingaporeSurf (Top Stories) ===============

Will You Die For Singapore? (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/0,1381,16243,00.html?>
Junior college students are unhappy with questions in the annual National Education survey. They are questioning the very purpose of the exercise, as our reporter found out.

== SingaporeSurf (News) ===============

Singapore Economy More Resilient Than Thought? (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,4277,00.html?>
The Singapore economy is more resilent than most people think, and some economists believe it will perform better than the government has projected.

Will You Die For Singapore? (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/0,1381,16243,00.html?>
Junior college students are unhappy with questions in the annual National Education survey. They are questioning the very purpose of the exercise, as our reporter found out.

If Abortion Is OK, Euthanasia Is Too (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,37484,00.html?>
Singapore legalised abortion many years back. Isn't that another form of terminating a life? If we could legalise that, then why not euthanasia?