[MyAppleMenu] Jul 2, 2001

Mon Jul 2 21:05:03 EDT 2001

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Sorenson Video 3 Exclusively For QuickTime (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.sorenson.shtml>
It's here at last. Sorenson Media, the folks who specialize in video compression and Web streaming services, have released Sorenson Video 3 exclusively for QuickTime.

Mac OS X And Music: It's About Time -- And Timing (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.music.shtml>
"OS X Audio Features Documentation," a document distributed at WWDC, outlines Apple's two key goals for audio capabilities in the new OS: to deliver a superior listening experience for Mac users, and to provide developers with an OS-level "Core Audio" system that will free them from having to rely on third-party audio and MIDI protocols in their applications.

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

Prudential Says That Apple May Miss Top Line Earnings (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2001/07/02.1.shtml>
With sales of Apple's portable reportedly doing so well, we would be surprised to see Apple miss revenues by much, but the iMac line has also reportedly been a tad lackluster, and that could easily offset strong sales of the iBook and PowerBook.

Sorenson Video 3 Exclusively For QuickTime (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.sorenson.shtml>
It's here at last. Sorenson Media, the folks who specialize in video compression and Web streaming services, have released Sorenson Video 3 exclusively for QuickTime.

Stitcher Sews Up Mac Version, OS X Version Coming (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.stitcher.shtml>
Targeted to photographers, Webmasters, architects, 3D artists and post-production professionals, Stitcher is a standalone application for creating panoramic images up to 360 x 360 degrees.

Look Out Palm, You've Got Competition (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001s/news/0702-pocketpc.html>
PocketMac, from Information Appliance Associates, is a native Mac-sync tool that will allow you to sync your Mac directly with a Pocket PC device via USB.

iWake Lets You Customize Wakeup Items (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.iwake.shtml>
iWake lets you launches files in a Wakeup Items folder whenever your Mac wakes up. The utility also supports "More Wakeup Items" via an alternative folder that can be triggered with modifier keys.

AppleWorks For OS X Updated (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/07/02.11.shtml>
AppleWorks 6.2 takes advantage of Mac OS X for stability and responsiveness while multiple applications are running, and the ability to automatically create a document in PDF format for viewing and sharing over the Internet. In addition, AppleWorks 6.2 includes DataViz file translators, allowing users to easily open, save and share Microsoft Word and Excel documents.

Long Live The iMac! New iClock Available (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/07/02.9.shtml>

DVD Showdown (Associated Press)
<http://www.ohio.com/bj/home/docs_business/008139.htm>
As the personal computer gets shoved out of the spotlight at the PC Expo trade show, a three-way battle is heating up over standards for recordable digital video devices.

VisorVision Explained (VisorCentral)
<http://www.visorcentral.com/page/0-4-91-1-4.htm>
The entire process from filming an interview to uploading the video to the server took less than fourty minutes per clip.

Mac OS X And Music: It's About Time -- And Timing (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.music.shtml>
"OS X Audio Features Documentation," a document distributed at WWDC, outlines Apple's two key goals for audio capabilities in the new OS: to deliver a superior listening experience for Mac users, and to provide developers with an OS-level "Core Audio" system that will free them from having to rely on third-party audio and MIDI protocols in their applications.

Mac OS X 10.1 Not Ready Until September? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/20093.html>
Mac OS X 10.1, codenamed Puma, may not ship later this month at Macworld Expo New York as many Apple watchers are expecting.

Aladdin Web-privacy App Updated (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3114>
iClean removes Internet and Web browsing tracks by clearing out cache files, Internet histories and cookies. It also summarizes items to be deleted.

== AppleSurf (Opinion) ===============

[Del Miller] One Dead Opossum (Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/abacus/dead_opossum.shtm>
A dead opossum in my garden box and Microsoft's .NET strategy have more in common than you think.

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

PowerLook 1100 (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0107/02.powerlook.shtml>
The scanner gives truly impressive results. It carriers a price tag of US$899, but for those creative professionals and deadline racers (photographers, graphic designers, and other power users) who need top-of-the-line scanning results, it's hard to beat.

SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 2.0 (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001/07/reviews/smartsound.html>
Sonicfire Pro 2.0 is as easy to use as other members of the SmartSound family, and like its siblings, it lets you create and customize dynamic, royalty-free musical scores for your video projects. If your movies would benefit from musical accompaniment, you should certainly give Sonicfire Pro 2.0 a try.

City Air (PioneerPlanet)
<http://www.pioneerplanet.com/tech/ctk_docs/75565.htm>
High-speed but high-priced, Metricom's wireless Ricochet service is aimed mainly at laptop-toting corporate types. But urban consumers may soon join in with newfangled Internet appliances.

Want To See All Your OS X Screen Savers? You Need SaverLab! (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/macgadget/2001/20010702.shtml>

SpellTools Freestanding Spell Checker (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/01/0702.html>
SpellTools gives you a suite of text tools available to virtually all your applications, like prooflistening, rubber stamps, and text cleanup and editing tools in addition to a powerful spellchecker engine.

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

Intel Ships New Pentium 4 Chips (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6438650.html?tag=owv>
As previously reported by CNET News.com, the chipmaker is trumpeting the availability of 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processors. Intel is also slated to launch a 2GHz Pentium 4 chip in a few months.

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

Look Out Palm, You've Got Competition (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2001s/news/0702-pocketpc.html>
PocketMac, from Information Appliance Associates, is a native Mac-sync tool that will allow you to sync your Mac directly with a Pocket PC device via USB.

Intel Ships New Pentium 4 Chips (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6438650.html?tag=owv>
As previously reported by CNET News.com, the chipmaker is trumpeting the availability of 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processors. Intel is also slated to launch a 2GHz Pentium 4 chip in a few months.

Call My Bluff - How Smart Is Reverse Engineering .NET? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20099.html>
So who's calling whose bluff? An intriguing game of chicken is enveloping Microsoft's plans to port its C# language and run-time to BSD, with software libre leaders vowing to give the Beast a taste of its own embrace n' extend medicine.

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

Porn Sneaks Past Search Filters (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6416982.html?tag=owv>
Search companies are increasingly turning to censorware to court G-rated customers such as corporations, schools and parents, but they're still showing too much skin.

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

Quick, What's The Password? (MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/01/07/02/index.html>
As the Internet envelopes our lives with an ever-tighter grip, we're going to be faced with more and more passwords, and passwords that protect more and more of critical information.

Porn Sneaks Past Search Filters (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6416982.html?tag=owv>
Search companies are increasingly turning to censorware to court G-rated customers such as corporations, schools and parents, but they're still showing too much skin.

City Air (PioneerPlanet)
<http://www.pioneerplanet.com/tech/ctk_docs/75565.htm>
High-speed but high-priced, Metricom's wireless Ricochet service is aimed mainly at laptop-toting corporate types. But urban consumers may soon join in with newfangled Internet appliances.

Hoax Virus Alert Targets MP3 (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20105.html>
A hoax alert warning MP3 users that they might have downloaded songs infected with viral code is doing the rounds on the Internet.

Aladdin Web-privacy App Updated (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3114>
iClean removes Internet and Web browsing tracks by clearing out cache files, Internet histories and cookies. It also summarizes items to be deleted.

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

Call My Bluff - How Smart Is Reverse Engineering .NET? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20099.html>
So who's calling whose bluff? An intriguing game of chicken is enveloping Microsoft's plans to port its C# language and run-time to BSD, with software libre leaders vowing to give the Beast a taste of its own embrace n' extend medicine.

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

Call My Bluff - How Smart Is Reverse Engineering .NET? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20099.html>
So who's calling whose bluff? An intriguing game of chicken is enveloping Microsoft's plans to port its C# language and run-time to BSD, with software libre leaders vowing to give the Beast a taste of its own embrace n' extend medicine.

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

Singapore Gays Find Tacit Acceptance But Some Seek More (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010702/3/17x8o.html>
Strait-laced Singapore, which has firmly relegated its gay community to underground status, is slowly moving towards quiet acceptance of homosexuals.

A Perfect Fit For UOB's Logo (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,13288,00.html?>
The 95-year-old Mr Lien, who stepped down as OUB chairman in 1995, has given an irrevocable undertaking to accept UOB's offer, putting Mr Wee in a very strong position to snatch that elusive Number 5 from DBS' grip.

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

Singapore Gays Find Tacit Acceptance But Some Seek More (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010702/3/17x8o.html>
Strait-laced Singapore, which has firmly relegated its gay community to underground status, is slowly moving towards quiet acceptance of homosexuals.

A Perfect Fit For UOB's Logo (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,13288,00.html?>
The 95-year-old Mr Lien, who stepped down as OUB chairman in 1995, has given an irrevocable undertaking to accept UOB's offer, putting Mr Wee in a very strong position to snatch that elusive Number 5 from DBS' grip.

Cash Vs Shares If OUB Bidding War Erupts (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,54778,00.html?>
A DBS counter-attack is likely to be in the form of more cash while UOB may issue more shares, say analysts.

== SingaporeSurf (Entertainment) ===============

Chew On Singapore's Version Of Mr Bean (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,54688,00.html?>
Getting Channel 8's lobang king to portray a comic book character always on the lookout for the best deal is a smart move.