[MyAppleMenu] Feb 22, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Tokyo Crowds Weigh New Mac Wares (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4903166-0.html?tag=lh>
"The new iMacs will be popular with the Japanese girls, since they're so kawai (cute)."

About Those Colors... (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2001/02/18/0222icolors.html>
Because the patterns are injected into the molding, McNulty said, the new iMacs have qualities of depth and transparency that are not apparent from photographs. She described Flower Power as a "layering and range of colors" rather than simply replicating flowers.

iTunes Updated To Support Third-Party CDRW Drives (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2001/02/21/itunes.html>
Apple adds support for 25 external third-party CDRW drives.

Jobs Unveils New iMacs, Slashes Price On Cube (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4895368.html?tag=tp_pr>
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday announced price cuts for the Power Mac G4 Cube, while unveiling new iMac models in psychedelic colors during his keynote address at Macworld in Tokyo.

20 Minutes Into The Future (Graphicpower.com)
<http://graphicpower.com/genesis/2001/20min.stm>
Apple's desktop machines have become so powerful, that they are poised to replace Sun and Silicon Graphics workstation in the demanding field of 3D animation and scientific computer modeling.

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

Tokyo Crowds Weigh New Mac Wares (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4903166-0.html?tag=lh>
"The new iMacs will be popular with the Japanese girls, since they're so kawai (cute)."

iTunes 1.1 Solves PB Issues, Has New Visuals (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=3672>

About Those Colors... (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2001/02/18/0222icolors.html>
Because the patterns are injected into the molding, McNulty said, the new iMacs have qualities of depth and transparency that are not apparent from photographs. She described Flower Power as a "layering and range of colors" rather than simply replicating flowers.

iMovie 2.0.3 Supports iDVD, Gains Speed And Stability (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0102/22.imovie.shtml>
iMovie 2.0.3 adds the ability to export to iDVD, Apple's consumer-oriented DVD mastering software.

Nvidia, Apple: GEFORCE 3 To Debut On Mac (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2688617,00.html?chkpt=p1bn>
In a surprise move at his Macworld Expo/Tokyo keynote speech, Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced that the next generation of Nvidia's popular 3D accelerator processor, the GeForce 3, will be "available first on the Mac."

Cinema Display Price Cut By $1,000 (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0102/21.display.shtml>
Apple has sliced the price of its drool-inducing Cinema Display from US$3,999 to $2,999, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced during his Feb. 22 keynote speech at Macworld Tokyo.

Mac Desktop Sales Slide 62 Per Cent (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/17102.html>
US consumers certainly didn't like what the company was offering last month. Retail sales of desktop Macs fell 62 per cent year on year, according to US retail market watcher PC Data's latest figures. Notebooks sales were down 36 per cent.

iTunes Updated To Support Third-Party CDRW Drives (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2001/02/21/itunes.html>
Apple adds support for 25 external third-party CDRW drives.

Jobs Unveils New iMacs, Slashes Price On Cube (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4895368.html?tag=tp_pr>
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday announced price cuts for the Power Mac G4 Cube, while unveiling new iMac models in psychedelic colors during his keynote address at Macworld in Tokyo.

Apple Booth Shrouded In Secrecy (Go2Mac.com)
<http://www.go2mac.com/displaynews.cfm?newsid=7802>

It's Not Always So Great For Schools To Be Gifted (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com:80/news/state/20010221/t000015533.html>
That old computer and other stuff in your garage may make for a nice donation. But while teachers can be creative with castoffs, some tax write-offs are more trash than treasure.

What Can You Do With Your Aging iMac? Go Fish! (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2001/03/buzz/fish.html>
Or I could just focus on the fact that every iMac destroyed instead of passed on is another new iMac that Apple can sell to someone's disappointed friend or relative.

Will Mac OS X Give G4 Macs An AltiVec Power Boost? (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2001/02/21/altivec.html>
With the G4 now standard equipment on PowerBooks and Power Macs, and rumored to soon appear on iMacs, will Mac users need to wait for Mac OS X to tap the power of G4 computing?

A Mac Success Story (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/firstmac/2001/20010221.shtml>
She said she could still remember that feeling of amazement and sense of accomplishment when she turned it on and it worked right off the bat.

Jobs Expected To Unveil New iMacs In Tokyo (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4883177.html?tag=lh>
Mac fans may need to make a quick "satellite dish" run if they want to catch Steve Jobs' keynote address from Macworld Tokyo on Thursday.

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

75 Mac Advantages: Part 2 (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/010222.html>
Advantages 16-32 updated.

Honey Did You Puke On The iMac? (MacMonkey.com)
<http://www.macmonkey.com/editorials.php?task=view&articleID=135>
Just when Apple really started to get the color thing right, they go and screw it up. It's one thing to innovate, it's yet another to have people puking in the aisles of CompUSA and Circuit City.

20 Minutes Into The Future (Graphicpower.com)
<http://graphicpower.com/genesis/2001/20min.stm>
Apple's desktop machines have become so powerful, that they are poised to replace Sun and Silicon Graphics workstation in the demanding field of 3D animation and scientific computer modeling.

OS X Everywhere (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/intelligence/01/02/21/index.html>
A Mac would become a very nice platform for distributed and shared applications, and a great platform for server-side web pages.

Hold The Pickles, Hold The Lettuce (Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/HTML/MacinThoughts/html/Archives/ceolaf010_pickles.shtml>
Today's laptop computers all look the same. If you bought a PowerBook in the last three years, it looked like mine.

Mac Advantages Feedback (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/lab/010221.html>

Apple's Biggest Challenge: Overcoming Stereotypes (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/scope/010221.html>
What Jobs must do is to convince the population that the computer plays music, displays images, accesses the Internet in addition to a thousand other things.

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

iMac 2001: A Better Value? (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/imac/imac2001.html>
The confusion isn't completely gone, but the 2001 iMac models do simplify the product line.

Iomega Zip CD-RW 4x4x6 (ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/7.02/zipcd.shtml>

Formulas And Graphs Are At Your Fingertips (Macworld)
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/2001/03/howto/excel.html>

RasterOps 24Sx (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/video/rops24sx.html>

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

AMD Follows Intel With 5 March Price Cuts (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17094.html>
AMD will cut its Athlon and Duron prices across the board next month - on the day after Intel's next major round of price cuts.

Microsoft To Pay Bristol Under Settlement (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4885239.html?tag=owv>
Microsoft and Bristol Technology on Wednesday abruptly ended their long-standing legal battle.

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

AMD Follows Intel With 5 March Price Cuts (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17094.html>
AMD will cut its Athlon and Duron prices across the board next month - on the day after Intel's next major round of price cuts.

Microsoft Man Calls The Linux Kettle Black (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/7662.html>

Microsoft To Pay Bristol Under Settlement (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4885239.html?tag=owv>
Microsoft and Bristol Technology on Wednesday abruptly ended their long-standing legal battle.

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

Deja 'Revolt' Against Google (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41926,00.html>
One former Deja user wants to create an open-source, community-based Usenet archive and has asked Google to contribute the programming code of the old Deja service to the open-source community and give the project full access to the Usenet archive.

Speed Up Internet Explorer (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/ibasics/010221.html>
Since the release of version 5, Internet Explorer became the Mac world's number one browser, with many Netscape users dumping the Navigator or Communicator 4.x in order to get Microsoft's latest offering. In any case, Explorer is very popular in the Mac crowd, and a few of you may want to maximize its performance. Here are tips to achieve this.

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

Is About.com Hot Or Not? (Interactive Week)
<http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2688497,00.html>
Primedia's About.com has found two new ways to drive up traffic numbers: Cheesecake and beefcake.

Whiplashed By Market, Standard Lays Off 17 Percent Of Its Staff (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=24124&pod_id=7>
With its 'profitability at stake,' the Internet economy media company makes job cuts for a second time this year. Editorial and conference departments are among the hardest hit.

ICANN: Can't Beat The Domain Heat Down Under (ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2688547,00.html>
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is getting ready for its next round of meetings to be held for the first time in Australia next month.

Deja 'Revolt' Against Google (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41926,00.html>
One former Deja user wants to create an open-source, community-based Usenet archive and has asked Google to contribute the programming code of the old Deja service to the open-source community and give the project full access to the Usenet archive.

Record Labels Scroff At Napster's $1 Billion Plan (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4891103.html?tag=owv>
Record industry insiders on Wednesday responded to Napster's $1 billion music licensing offer by suggesting the deal was little more than a publicity stunt.

Speed Up Internet Explorer (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/ibasics/010221.html>
Since the release of version 5, Internet Explorer became the Mac world's number one browser, with many Netscape users dumping the Navigator or Communicator 4.x in order to get Microsoft's latest offering. In any case, Explorer is very popular in the Mac crowd, and a few of you may want to maximize its performance. Here are tips to achieve this.

Writing On The Web (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/techref/010221.html>
I love this job, really. It's low-pressure, I set my own hours, and it's fun as all get-out.

Can John Doe Stay Anonymous? (Wired News)
<http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,41714,00.html>
Rural/Metro dropped the suit Tuesday, saying it had accomplished its goal of having the messages stop. But the defense attorneys said they were disappointed the case didn't go to trial, because they hoped to set a legal precedent saying companies couldn't gain access to private information just because they allege they were wronged.

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

VA Linux: Caught By the IPO Jinx? (ZDII)
<http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp?mode=news&doc_id=ZE507635&pic=Y>
Is there an IPO jinx for those one-day highfliers? VA Linux, which holds the record for the highest first-day jump in an public offering, saw its stock fall 22 percent Wednesday after the company announced layoffs amid slowing growth.

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

Microsoft Man Calls The Linux Kettle Black (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/7662.html>

Linux: Not Ready For Prime Desktop Time (NewsFactor Network)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/7663.html>

VA Linux: Caught By the IPO Jinx? (ZDII)
<http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp?mode=news&doc_id=ZE507635&pic=Y>
Is there an IPO jinx for those one-day highfliers? VA Linux, which holds the record for the highest first-day jump in an public offering, saw its stock fall 22 percent Wednesday after the company announced layoffs amid slowing growth.

Turbolinux Acquires Linuxcare (InternetNews)
<http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_594731,00.html>
Two leaders in the Linux community merged on Wednesday. Turbolinux Inc., a software solutions provider, purchased Linuxcare Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

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

Drop Petrol Prices Or Else... (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,25196,00.html?>
Case says oil companies are making token efforts to lower prices, despite crude oil prices tumbling 30 per cent.

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

Tailor Your Own Degree Programme At NUS (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,25110,00.html?>
Dropping its cookie-cutter approach, the university will allow undergrads to select courses from across disciplines.

Drop Petrol Prices Or Else... (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,25196,00.html?>
Case says oil companies are making token efforts to lower prices, despite crude oil prices tumbling 30 per cent.

Not Wrong To Devote More Resources To Train The Gifted (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,25119,00.html?>
Tan Pei Jiun: Would you want your tax dollars to be pumped into additional educational programmes for ordinary students, while the brilliant ones leave the country for some place more willing to groom talent?

Lower Bus Fare With Mobile TV (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,25137,00.html?>
Muk Koon Hoong: As it has generated more advertising revenue, would Singapore Bus Services (SBS) consider lowering bus fares to compensate commuters for what they have to endure?

== SingaporeSurf (Technology) ===============

One In Two Teens 'Tricked' Into Porn Websites (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,25106,00.html?>
They stumble onto sex sites by typing the wrong address or by clicking on innocent-looking links, says NTU study.