[MyAppleMenu] Dec 20, 2001

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=== top =============

Burning With Ambition (Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/20/BU15233.DTL&type=business>
Sales of recordable DVDs expected to heat up, thanks to home movies.

=== news =============

Mac Browser-Email Service Launched (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4002>

Interview: Erik Ryan Of Microsoft (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01%2F12%2F20%2F1729205>
The inside scooop on the MBU, Office v. X, and more.

Bare Bones Releases BBEdit 6.5.1 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/20.bbedit.php>
The new version gains language support for JSP and an improved version of the "bbedit" command-line tool.

Qualcomm: Eudora For OS X Coming In Early 2002 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/20.eudora.php>
"We will be resuming the OS X effort immediately."

Apple Preps For QuickTime Live Conference (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/20.quicktimelive.php>
QuickTime Live will give attendees a chance to get more information on Apple's implementation of MPEG-4.

QT Streaming Server Beta Posted (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4006>

=== opinions =============

MacFixIt's Year In Review: 2001 (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/extras/margin-notes/2001review.shtml>

Appleholics Anonymous (Batonking, Motley Fool)
<http://www.fool.com/imo/2001/a011219.htm>
Today was not a good day to be married.

=== reviews =============

OS X Is Good To Go mainstream (Jim Heid, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000100907dec20.column?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
For many of the niches where the Mac is popular, the transition to OS X will take more time. But for mainstream business and Internet use, OS X has reached its stride.

Digital Cameras For Less: How Much Will $300 Buy? (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/technology/circuits/20STAT.html?homepageinsidebox>
To see just how much trickling has gone down, I asked each major camera company, How much digital camera does $300 buy?

=== internet top news =============

Amazon Access: How Accessible? (Kendra Mayfield, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,49195,00.html>
Amazon.com's new site for the blind or visually impaired doesn't deliver the goods, critics say.

E-Mail Cards Often Come With A Personal Touch (James Barron, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/technology/circuits/20GREE.html>
More and more design-it-yourselfers are choosing easy-to-read typefaces, cropping the photographs to just the right size and figuring out layouts that are eye-pleasers -- and then sending the result with a click.

=== internet news =============

Qualcomm: Eudora For OS X Coming In Early 2002 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/20.eudora.php>
"We will be resuming the OS X effort immediately."

Adcritic.com: A Victim Of Its Own Success? (Andrew Zipern, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/business/media/20ADCO.html>

=== wintel top news =============

Microsoft Issues Patch For "Serious" XP Hole (Wylie Wong and David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8244349.html?tag=owv>
Microsoft may have touted Windows XP as the msot secure operating system it has made, but the company on Thursday released a bug fix for a security hole that could leave some people's systems open to malicious attack.

=== wintel news =============

Microsoft Sues Linux Start-Up Over Name (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8246647.html?tag=owv>
Microsoft filed a motion against Lindows, which is developing a version of the Linux operating system that will run popular Windows applications.

Interview: Erik Ryan Of Microsoft (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01%2F12%2F20%2F1729205>
The inside scooop on the MBU, Office v. X, and more.

=== linux news =============

Microsoft Sues Linux Start-Up Over Name (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8246647.html?tag=owv>
Microsoft filed a motion against Lindows, which is developing a version of the Linux operating system that will run popular Windows applications.

=== reader : tech =============

Ghost Arcade (Scott Rosenberg, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2001/12/20/supercade/index.html?x>
Old video games never die -- they just become collectibles and haunt our dreams.

=== reader : life =============

Internet Art: More Click Than Point (Jessica Dawson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3958-2001Dec19.html>
Spending almost two hours at a computer terminal raises the question: Will we want to squander our artgoing time clickiing, scrolling and HTML-reading, just like we do all day at work?

Yes, Publishers Read For Fun (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/books/20BOOK.html>
If book publishers and editors actually had to go into a store and buy all the book sthey say they are going to read over the holidays the slump in book sales might be over.

=== reader : expressions =============

Francs (Edith Pearlman, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fiction/2001-12pearlman.htm>
We had rented the fussy apartment of a bachelor professor -- every wall sateen, every curtain eyelet. It was like living inside a petticoat.

=== reader : eof =============

2002: A Name Odyssey (Alex Beam, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/354/living/2002_a_name_odyssey%2b.shtml>
For the record, the year just ending was the Year of the Bible, the Year of the Great Bear, and the International Year of Volunteers.

=== singapore top news =============

Are Government Scholarships Still Needed? (Warren Fernandez, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,92120,00.html?>
The world in the 21st century is a markedly changed one from that in the 1960s and 1970s, when the scholarship system was first conceived and developed.

=== singapore news =============

High Charges Hinder Technopreneurship (Ong Meng Yi, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,92171,00.html?>
Singapore banks and payment gateway service providers appear to have demanding requirements and exorbitant charges.

Casino In Singapore? No Dice (Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,92130,00.html?>
It is not the only way to woo more tourists, says Wong Kan Seng; it would only bring to life a host of social ills.

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