[MyAppleMenu] Aug 2, 2002

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

Jaguar: Time To Stop Pussyfooting Around (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/01/jaguar.html>
Apple is going to sink or swim with Mac OS X. You're going to have to upgrade sooner or later, so why not do it now? The sooner the Mac community unites under one OS, the faster Apple can move forward, lower prices, and innovate more.

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

Analyst: Apple To Lie Down With Intel (Michael Kanellos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-948239.html>
Apple will likely shift to using Intel chips, predicted Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff.

Apple Releases August Security Update (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/02.update.php>
Updated components include Apache, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, SunRPC, and mod_ssl.

Apple Stores To Open In Florida, Detroit, Milwaukee (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/02.stores.php>
Apple is set to open three new retail locations this month, bringing the total number of retail stores to 37.

Apple Ships New 20GB iPods To Retail (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15689>
Apple has begun shipment of the new 20GB iPods to some of its retail outlets.

Apple To Slam Lid On Mac OS 9 (Daniel Drew Turner and Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,431382,00.asp>
A tweak to new models in its Macintosh line of desktop and portable computers will prevent booting into Mac OS 9, sources said.

Apple, Dell Sets Up Purchasing Offices In Shanghai (Nikkei BP)
<http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/199517>
After setting up an operational outlet in Shenzhen, China, Appel will establish another representative office in Shanghai soon.

Inkwell No Longer Publically Linked To Newton (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/articles/02/08/01/183226.shtml>
Apple has removed references to the Newton from its description of Inkwell technology.

Apple Markets Products At Moby Concerts (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15677>

Quark Snubs Euro Apple Expo (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5061>
Quark will exhibit at neight Apple Expo, Paris, nor Seybold San Francisco next month - and is unlikely to ship a Mac OS X version of QUarkXPress until 2003.

Apple Keynote Clash 'Likely' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5060>
Apple is likely to deliver two keynote speeches on Sept. 10, one at Seybold, San Francisco, the other in Paris, launching Apple Expo 2002.

Sun Retracts Accusations Against C|Net Regarding StarOffice (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020802sun.shtml>
Sun has retracted an earlier statement accusing C|Net of deliberately taking out-of-context comments made by a senior director who said Sun was working with Apple on the development of a Mac OS X version of StarOffice.

Sun Muddies StarOffice Plans For OS X (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-947746.html?tag=fd_top>
Sun, in an e-mail sent to an open-source mailing list on Thursday, backpedaled on working with Apple on the development of a Mac OS X version of StarOffice.

Quark Tones Enterprise Offerings (John S. McCright and Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,429670,00.asp>
In what could prove a decisive moment for professional Mac publishers waiting to adopt Mac OS X, sources said. Version 6.0 of QuarkXPress will be the first release to comply with the new OS' Carbon APIs.

Apple Unveils Shader Language, QE APIs (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/26495.html>
Apple has published deetails of its Quartz Extreme extensions, and if there were any doubts that Apple was less than hardcore about OpenGL, this document should expel them.

Jaguar Goes Gold (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020801jaggm.shtml>
Mac OS 10.2 Jaguar has reached Golden Master status, developer sources inform MacMinute.

Apple Cuts iMac Prices In U.K. (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-947730.html>
Faced with sluggish PC demand and a slumping dollar, Apple has trimmed the price of flat-panel iMacs in the United Kingdom.

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

Could Apple Go Subscription? (Oliver Thylmann, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1466>
Services and services only.

Mac Users On Linux (CIO)
<http://www.cio.com/archive/080102/feedback.html>
"Why wouldn't thoughtful Unix pros take a look at buying a Mac with OS X and its robust BSD underpinnings?"

Esmoke Ads Snuffed Out Of Radio Channel On iTunes (Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/01/BU77186.DTL&type=business>
Since we all know that iTUnes is probably most used by teenagers or younger, don't you think the [cigarette advertisment] is a disgrace?

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

New PowerBook Is Fast, But Is It A Two-In-One? (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/weekly/1518486>
A PowerBook is the best darn notebook computer of all time.

Now Up-To-Date & Contact 4.2 (Tom Negrino, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/08/reviews/nowuptodate.html>
Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.1 is almost equivalent to past versions running in OS 9 and earlier, so if you're a now user who has yet to make the jump to OS X, there's one less reason to hesitate.

A Keychain Never Forgets (Larry Armstrong, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_31/b3794054.htm>
Why tote a laptop? Pocket-size pods of memory plug into PCs anywhere.

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

Taking The Air Out Of Pop-Ups (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947732.html>
Some online publishers are taking pins to pop-up advertisements, but Web surfers won't likely notice a decline in the annoying marketing ploy anytime soon.

A Shift Registers In Willingness To Pay For Internet Content (Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html>
More Internet users are showing a willingness to pay for content online, suggesting a shift in consumers' expectaions that online services should be free.

Journalists Are From Mars, IT Managers Are From Venus (Steve Outing, E-Mail Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_07_28_tidbitsarchive.htm#85305118>
I get the impression that many IT managers care only about "solving the spam problem," and don't see the threat to content as important.

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

Microsoft EULA Asks For Root Rights - Again (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.htmlhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html>
Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack  contain a new condition which asks you to allow Windows to go and install future updates.

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

Dubya's Double Dip? (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/02KRUG.html>
On the surface, the sharp drop in the economy's growth is disheartening. Under the surface, it's quite a lot worse.

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

The One That Didn't Quite Get Away (Felix Soh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,135124,00.html?>
In the end, the man who won fame and fortune for being the one who got away did not get away after all.

Circular Logic (Vanessa E. Jones, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/213/living/Circular_logic+.shtml>
Crop formations may be shrouded in mystery, but the media are betting they'll make sense at the cash register.

Boutique Surfing (Valli Herman-Cohen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-lv-shop2aug02.story>
Malibu's smart shops reflect the luxury and leisure of the beachfront life.

It's Not A Loan, It's A Venture (Art Buckwald, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29045-2002Jul31.html>
"We don't make loans. We arrange for people to use the money we give them so nobody can make heads or tails of it."

Copyright As Cudgel (Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm>
Today, due process is a lot harder to pursue, and the burden of proof increasingly is on those accused of copyright infringement.

The Death And Life Of America's Cities (Fred Siegel, The Public Interest)
<http://www.thepublicinterest.com/current/article1.html>
Giuliani's ascent to the status of a national hero, "America's mayor," has eclipsed not only his own accomplishments but the mixed if hopeful condition of big-city America.

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

Farhters (Alice Munro, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?020805fi_fiction>

=== reader : eof =============

How Much Starbucks Is Too Much? (Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,41189,FF.html>
Perhaps it means something that in San Francisco, there are now more Starbucks outlets than publicly traded Internet companies.

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

KL And SIngapore To Meet Again Next Month (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/8/2/nation/megapak&sec=nation>
The second ministerial meeting to discuss a bilateral package of issues will be held on Sept 2 and 3 in the island republic.

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