[MyAppleMenu] Oct 14, 2001

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

Apple Store Opens In Land Of Elvis (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0110/13.store.php>
Despite torrential downpours, flood warnings, torando warnings and hazardous materials warnings, almost 120 Mac fans were on hand when the Germantown store opened at 10 am.

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

Douglas Delivers High-Tech, Exotic Blend (Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0110130060oct13.story?coll=chi%2Dleisure%2Dhed>
It's an exotic blend, this merger of high-tech noise and low-tech trumpet blues, but it proved remarkably persuasive Thursday night at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Apple Store Opens In Land Of Elvis (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0110/13.store.php>
Despite torrential downpours, flood warnings, torando warnings and hazardous materials warnings, almost 120 Mac fans were on hand when the Germantown store opened at 10 am.

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

Microsoft Will Remain A Monopoly (North County Times)
<http://www.nctimes.com/news/2001/20011014/65155.html>
The vaunted Apple advantages of smart design and style will appeal to an elite, but by definitions elites are not a mass market.

Discussion: Apple Shouldn't Have Killed The Cube (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/13/1340256>

Discussion: Run Mac OS X On Those Old Macs (SlashDot)
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/13/0953256>

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

Mac OS X v10.1 Pleasant Surprises (MacWrite)
<http://www.macwrite.com/criticalmass/mac-os-x-surprises.php>
The OS X user experience is as good as computing gets.

FreeHand 10 (MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0110/13.freehand.php>
Despite some minor disappointments, FreeHand is a fine, and timely, enhancement to a long-time favorite piece of software.

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

Microsoft Profits Expected To Dip (Anaova)
<http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_421583.html>
Analysts are predicting the company will have to lower its targets for the coming year.

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

Microsoft Will Remain A Monopoly (North County Times)
<http://www.nctimes.com/news/2001/20011014/65155.html>
The vaunted Apple advantages of smart design and style will appeal to an elite, but by definitions elites are not a mass market.

Microsoft's Xbox Steals Show (Asahi Shimbun News Service)
<http://www.asahi.com/english/business/K2001101300308.html>
Game players got their first taste of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox console at the Tokyo Game Show, which opened Friday.

Microsoft Profits Expected To Dip (Anaova)
<http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_421583.html>
Analysts are predicting the company will have to lower its targets for the coming year.

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

Personal Web Logs Put A Face On A Faraway Disaster (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-101401blog.story>
Heartfelt commentary that mass media don't provide boosts the popularity of 'blogs.'

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

Personal Web Logs Put A Face On A Faraway Disaster (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-101401blog.story>
Heartfelt commentary that mass media don't provide boosts the popularity of 'blogs.'

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

Goh Says Singapore Faces terrorist And Economic Threats (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011014/3/1ke2c.html>
Groups in Southeast Asia, such as those operating in the Philippines and Indoensia, had links with the al Qaeda group.

Masterplan For Potong Pasir Unveiled (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,76833,00.html?>
Potong Pasir Community Development Council's chairman, Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, made it clear that the degree of electoral support for the People's Action Party government would determine the constituency's position in the queue for upgrading programmes.

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

Goh Says Singapore Faces terrorist And Economic Threats (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011014/3/1ke2c.html>
Groups in Southeast Asia, such as those operating in the Philippines and Indoensia, had links with the al Qaeda group.

Buzz Over New Faces At DPM Tan's Walkabout (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,77077,00.html?>
Accompanying the MPs on their walkabout were grassroots activists and three unfamiliar faces who shook hands with stallholders, stopped to talk to shopkeepers and said 'hello' to parents and grandparents carrying babies.

Masterplan For Potong Pasir Unveiled (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,76833,00.html?>
Potong Pasir Community Development Council's chairman, Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, made it clear that the degree of electoral support for the People's Action Party government would determine the constituency's position in the queue for upgrading programmes.

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

The Beach Is Back (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,76952,00.html?>
ZoukOut, the all-night beach music and dance party, is back. Coswting twice as much as last year's event, it promises to bigger, brighter and bolder than before.