[MyAppleMenu] Apr 18, 2002

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

How A Windows Guy Learned To Love The Mac (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-885804.html>
I don't think the iMac is perfect. But with the improvements I know are coming for Office and suspect are coming for OS X, I can live with its limitations.

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

G3/OS X Lawsuit Amended, Goes Before Judicial Review (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/18.g3suit.php>
Apple updated its online information about support for these older systems.

The Coming Battle For DVD-Burining Dominance (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17315.html>
Apple's 23-inch flat-panel display, Final Cut Pro software and some of the fastest MPEG-2 encoding times in the industry have given it the upper hand - for now.

Apple Performance -- Steady As She Goes (Philip Michaels, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/04/18/q2results.html>
Analysts praise 'superb' management, stellar products.

Macs, Lies & DV Tape (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com//hotnews/articles/2002/04/fullfrontal/>

The Mac Show (Live) Is Dead! Long Live Your Mac Life! (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=303>

Increasing Number Of Apple Badges Popping Up At CompUSAs (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/18.compusa.php>
150 out of 200-plus CompUSA s have Apple badged employees, Fred Anderson said.

Brighter Picture For LCD Maker (Dan Nystedt, Taipei Times)
<http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/04/18/story/0000132390>
Chunghwa Picture Tubes expects to earn a profit this year as demand for its flat-panel displays grows stronger.

Apple Walks Tightrope, Begins Jaguar Hype (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/24905.html>
Some interesting sidenotes emerged from Apple's analyst call yesterday.

Yahoo! Messenger Comes To Mac OS X (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=13751>

The Beige Box Fades To Black (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/technology/circuits/18BEIG.html?tntemail0>
The beige-box desktop PC seems headed toward extinction at last.

Apple Talks Various Uses For New Remote Desktop (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/17.remote.php>
The product is targeted mainly to educators, but also has applications in the business world and, heck, even in homes.

Apple Down Slightly In After-Hours (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/#020417-aapl>

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

No Room To Update To 10.1.4 (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/10/02/0418.html>
Maybe Apple can change things so the updater puts the temporary files on another partition if there's insufficient space on the current partition.

Sheep (Brian Rumsey, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=247>
If you were a Lemmings fan, I certainly recommend that you check out Sheep.

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

Web Consortium Officially Recommends P3P 1.0 (Dennis Sellers, Comptuerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/idg2.nsf/cw_AllHeadlines/FCF740F0BDA852E8CA256B9E008070D8?OpenDocument>

Microsoft Urges Support For New IP (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-885664.html?tag=cd_mh>
Microsoft is lobbying the computing industry to start moving the Internet to the next-generation underpinnings that will lay the groundwork for much richer networking.

Yahoo! Messenger Comes To Mac OS X (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=13751>

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

Did XP Woes Hurt Microsoft Earninngs? (David Becker, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-886469.html>
Microsoft on Thursday reported a substantial gain in revenue for its third fiscal quarter but appeared to have missed Wall Street estimates for earnings, due to slow-than-expected Office XP and Xbox sales.

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

Microsoft Witness Defends Passport (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-886400.html>
A key Microsoft executive was scheduled to take the witness stand late Thursday in the continuing antitrust case, setting the stage for a potential showdown over the company's plan in the emerging Web services market.

Advanced Micro's Founder Is Departing On A Losing Note (Chris Gaither, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/business/18PLAC.html>
W. J. Sanders III released his 119th, and last, earnings report as chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, the chip maker he founded 33 years ago.

Microsoft Cuts Xbox Price In Europe To 299 Euros (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-9731100-0.html?tag=ats>

Microsoft Urges Support For New IP (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-885664.html?tag=cd_mh>
Microsoft is lobbying the computing industry to start moving the Internet to the next-generation underpinnings that will lay the groundwork for much richer networking.

Microsoft Backs Bluetooth With Hardware (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-885666.html?tag=cd_mh>
Microsoft will put its muscle behind the Bluetooth wireless networking technology later this year, selling keyboards and mice that connects to PCs.

The Beige Box Fades To Black (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/technology/circuits/18BEIG.html?tntemail0>
The beige-box desktop PC seems headed toward extinction at last.

Independent Counters Say HP Approved Compaq Deal (Brian Bergtein, Associated Press)
<http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/3084002.htm>
The shareholders appear to have narrowly approved the bitterly contested acquisition, though the result still is not final.

Sanders: Microsoft Testimony Not A Favor (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,51903,00.html>
AMD CEO Jerry Sanders countered charges that he testified on behalf in the antitrust trial to get the software giant to support an upcoming chip from his company.

Microsoft Keeps Battling Back (Robert Zarate, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,51903,00.html>
An economist defended Microsoft in federal court on Wednesday, charging that proposed antitrust sanctions against the embattled software company would prove detrimental to consumers.

=== reader : world =============

What's The Big Idea? (Eric Alterman, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/738568.asp?0dm=C11PO>
PoliSci 101: Carving a grand theory about the war on terror.

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

Battle.net Goes To War (Howard Wen, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/18/bnetd/index.html>
Is an open-source version of Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service an illegal copyright violation, or just a good example of how the Internet works?

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

Lost In The Magic Kingdom (Richard Todd, The Atlantic Monthly)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/todd.htm>
On being kissed by a chipmunk and othe rperplexities of travel in Disney World.

Rock Solid (Ben Greenman, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/?020422crmu_music>
The future of rock and roll, with the White Stripes, the Strokes, and the Hives.

Why Quitting Is Back (Rob Walker, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064427>
Employee disloyalty is back -- or that it never went away. The most important reason is that in the last 15 years or so we've all learned how great it is to quit.

The Fine Art Of Packaging (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/books/18BOOK.html>
Why are first literary novels -- the hardest sell in book publishing -- afforded the most expensive hardcover start? Because so many book reviewers are snobbish about things literary and get nervous about reviewing even trade paperbacks, a format they tend not to take seriously.

Of Canvases And Coefficients (Scott McLemee, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i32/32a02001.htm>
New book uses statistical methods to analyze avant-grade art.

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

Who The Meek Are Not (Mary Karr, The Atlantic Monthly)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/karr/meek.htm>

August Walk (Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic Monthly)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/warren/augustwalk.htm>

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

Singapore To Grow 3.2% This Year, 5.1% In 2003 (Raju Chellam, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,42407,00.html?>
The International Monetary Fund said it expects Singapore's economy to grow a firm 3.2 per cent this year, in line with projections by private sector economists and other multilateral institutions.

Port Of Tanjung Pelepas Not A Threat To Singapore: Yeo (M. Hamzah Jamaludin, New Straits Times)
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/Frontpage/20020418145408/Article/>
Singapore has never regarded the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Johor as a threat to its seaport but more as rivals in a healthy competition.

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

Giving Pho A New Twist (Geoffrey Eu, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,2276,42372,00.html?>
Nam Quoc Nguyen, named most promising chef at the World Gourmet Summit, tells how he has refined the dish.

Open Up Access To Local ATMs If Competition Needed (Burton Ong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,115083,00.html?>

Artistic Differences (Tan Shzr Ee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,114933,00.html?>
Hongkong and Singaproe may have many similarities but both their arts festivals have developed in their very own distinct directions.

Kedah Matches Perak's Business-Park Offer To Singapore (Reme Ahmad, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,114966,00.html?>
George Yeo welcomed the keen competition between the states and said this would boost Malaysia's growth dynamics.

Hong Kong Activist Can't Be Lawyer For Singapore Opposition Leader (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020418/1/2o7f8.html>
Chee said Judicial Commissioner Tay Yong Kwang dismissed his petition on grounds that the case against him was not complex enough for him to engage a Queen's Counsel.

Campaign To Get Singaporeans To Speak Proper English Launched... Again (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020418/1/2o7gy.html>
Singapore authorities on Thursday launched a national campaign to urge its citizens to speak proper English for the third year running, maintaining it was vital for economic competitiveness.

Singapore Environment Group To Shame Shark Eaters (Planet Ark)
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/15523/story.htm>
Environmentalists have recruited an award-winning underwater film maker to try to help weane people off shark fin, considered a delicacy in Asia.

Pay For Shopping, Cab Fare Via Your Cellphone (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,114908,00.html?>
Paying your Citycab fare or shopping bills in Suntec City can now be done with your mobile phone.

Singapore's Last Unique Animals Face Extinction (Reuters)
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/3087430.htm>
Singapore's only unique wild animals -- one of the world's largest squirrels and a monkey that lives high in the forest canopy -- are perilously close to extinction, a researcher said Thursday.

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