[MyAppleMenu] Aug 1, 2002

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

Amazon.com Pulls Jaguar Special Due To Demand (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/01.amazon.php>
"We're taking stock to see if we'll reinstate the offer, but we're not continuing the rebate at this time."

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

Are Macs A Sign Of Higher Intelligence? (David Sheets, The Post-Dispatch)
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/entertainment/3DACB0513A043F5386256C080021A804?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2CMacs?opendocument&headline=Are+Macs+a+sign+of+higher+intelligence%3F>

Microsoft, Apple Give Bluetooth A Boost (StephenLawson, IDG News Service)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103544,00.asp>
Wireless technology will be built into upcoming operating system, but all Bluetooth's past problems won't disappear.

Apple Looks Like Good Value In The Big Picture (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/01.value.php>
Apple is among the financially stable companies that look like good values over the long haul.

Corel Ships CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#0200801-core>

Seybold Keynote To Feature Apple, Adobe Execs (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020801-seybold>
Seybold Seminars today announced that senior executives from Apple and Adobe will present keynote addresses at Seybold San Francisco 2002.

Epson Ships Image Trio (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5055>
Epson has announced a trio of solutions -- two scanners and a printer -- for home and SoHo users.

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

Broadband Nightmares And .Mac (Jeff Lewis, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/macskeptic/02/08/01/index.html>
It might be time for telcos and cablecos to rethink the discrepancy between what they think a typical user's bandwidth needs are and will be, as opposed to what it really is and will be.

iApps? My Eye! (Jason Walsh, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/maclife/02/0801.html>
I don't want Apple to stop making the iApps; I just want them to stop pretending that having them equals instant creative professional.

Quartz Anti-Aliasing: Jaggies Be Gone! But At What Price? (Matt McIrvin, MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20020730.php>
It comes at the price of blurrier, harder-to-read text, and other anomalies in font rendering.

$50 Amazon Rebate Disappears (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/07/31.html#a1865>
If the rebate is off, I am out of luck either way.

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

More Ergonomic Keyboards (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/08/20020801112124.shtml>

Lasso Professional 5 (Geoff Duncan, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/08/reviews/lasso.html>
If you're already using Web-enabled FileMaker Pro databases and need more power and performance, Lasso Professional 5 is an excellent choice and offers a manageable migration path to other database platforms. And if you're just getting started with data-driven Web sites, the program's power and flexibility merit serious consideration.

Hands On With The 700MHz iBook (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/01.ibook.php>
Unless you need a supercomputer-on-the-go, the iBook should serve you well.

Macintosh Poses Fewer Problems Than Windows (Don Lindich, Post-Gazette)
<http://www.post-gazette.com/interact/20020801lindich5.asp>
If you are looking for a new computer and are open to a superior ownership and computing experience, look at an Apple before you buy.

iBook Takes A Lickin' (Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/lab/02/0801.html>

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

Dot-Coms Bucking The Trend (Leslie Walker, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28437-2002Jul31.html>
More dot-coms than you'd guess are reporting genuine profits -- not fake "pro forma" income, but real black ink.

How Weblogs Keep The Media Honest (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25354-2002Jul31.html>
It's called influencing the debate, in real time.

Delicious Irony (Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_07_28_tidbitsarchive.htm#85302400>
Spam filters, especially the increasingly popular SpamAssassin, ar ehurting ethical e-mail publishers.

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

Web Services And The Eight Fallacies (Mark Baker, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1681>
HTTP defines the single most general coordination language ever developed.

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

Corel Targets Irked Microosft Customers (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-947695.html>
Corel is offering businesses a free one-year trial of its WordPerfect word processing application.

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

Bootleg Culture (Pete Rojas, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/01/bootlegs/index.html>
Powerful computers and easy-to-use editing software are challenging our conceptions of authorship and creativity. As usual, the entertainment industry doesn't like this one bit.

Tablet PC Makers Embrace A Dying Art: Handwriting (Michel Marriott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/circuits/01HAND.html>
At a time when handwriting is in such decline, the computer industry is making a new push to embrace it.

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

Is F*** OK? (Giles Whittell, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-370716,00.html>
It is no longer what you say, but the way you express it that matters.

A Mystery Begins In The Backyard... (Charles Perry, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-sauce31jul31.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood%2Dmanual>
Barbecue sauce, ketchup, steak sauce--where do they come from?

Citi Of Fear (Tim Carvell, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068683&device=>
What are Citigroup's weird ads really saing?

Where Summer Just Isn't What It Used To Be (Dan Barry, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/nyregion/31CATS.html>
In the mountains of New York's Greene County, the less-familiar Catskills, the once-booming ethnic resorts only offer an echo of their past.

PBS Defies Reason (Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/31/DD126579.DTL>
It should have been easy to figure out. Follow the money.

Jim Wood -- A Giant In Bay Area Journalism (Patricia Yollin, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/31/BA57256.DTL>
"Having covered so much of San Francisco history, Jim became one of the better parts of that history."

French Intellectuals Don't Age Well (Robert Fulford, National Post)
<http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=AA3AB297-C017-46F2-A290-373EBD026565>
Today, in universities across the West, Michel Foucault exemplifies the bad French idea at its most brilliant and its mos tpoisonous.

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

Singaporeans Abroad Call For New Measures Of Success (Li-Ann Wee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,135222,00.html?>
Success in Singapore must be defined by yardsticks other than high income and status symbols if the country is to reinvent itself.

Muslim Girls To Fight Singapore Over Headscarf Ban (Amy Tan, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=KBWI0O4CFGGRCCRBAELCFEY?type=topnews&StoryID=1278476>
The father of a girl suspenfded from school in Singapore for wearning a Muslim headscarf has vowed to battle the government inside and outside court in a rare challenge over constituional rights.

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

Malaysia Has No Right To Object To Singapore-US FTA: Rafidah Aziz (Ynja Bjomsson, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/14975/1/.html>
Malaysia's Minister for International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz says Malaysia has no right to object unless the FTA includes tariff reductions.

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