[MyAppleMenu] Aug 7, 2002

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

Followup Mac Conversation With Microsoft (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1805>
I'm pretty clear that the members of the Mac BU at least are solidly committed to the Mac and to OS X.

Apple Frees FireWire Software (Ian Fried, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-948794.html>
Aiming to spur adoption of FireWire in consumer electronics, Apple said Wednesday that it will give away software that helps device makers add the high-speed port to their products.

Hollywood Sets Stage For Piracy Battle With PC Industry (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1023-948672.html>
Michael Eisner and Steve Jobs were once a model pairing of old and new media, but these days they aren't the best of friends.

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

20GB iPods Shipping (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/07.ipod.php>
Several MacCentral readers have sent word that the 20GB iPods they pre-ordered are arriving.

Musical Tribute (Radha Basu, Computer Times Singapore)
<http://computertimes.asiaone.com.sg/v2/spec01.shtml>
Fuhua Primary School combines technology and patriotism to produce a digital music video dedicated to National Day.

Apple Serves Up Big (Eileen Yu, Computer Times Singapore)
<http://computertimes.asiaone.com.sg/v2/updt03.shtml>
Apple is counting on Xserve's price advantage and beefy product specifications to attract users.

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

Why I Made The Switch... To Linux (Jason Brooks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,447550,00.asp>
In order for me to switch to Mac, it's Apple Computer Inc. that'd have to get out of my way.

Macs With Intel Inside? You Bet! Here's How (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2876696,00.html>
The hard part isn't the technology, it's Apple getting its head around the business issues and lining up the necessary support.

Why Nobody Buys Apple (vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134172>
When does your average IT nerd care about 'cool'?

Windows Media Player Looks To iTunes For iNspiration (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=761>
Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 9 sports a number of familiar technologies, some of which users will already be familiar with: on iTunes 3.

Just Say No To Unfinished Software (Beverly Woods, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/woods/02/0807.html>
Why should I support software makers who never finish anything?

Safeway Are A Bunch Of Anti-Mac Bigot Weenies And I Want My Internet Groceries, Dammit! (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing)
<http://boingboing.net/2002_08_01_archive.html#85321662>
Must... restrain... fit... of... self... righteous... Mac... fanatic... pique.

Intuit's QuickBooks Employs FUD Against MYOB (Matt Deatherage, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06894>
There is no product here, just an announcement from a company with one of the greediest, most cynical, and most customer-unfriendly track records of any Macintosh software company.

Smile When You Say That, Microsoft (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc2002087_7792.htm>
I'm not saying the Mac community should turn on Microosft. Redmond has been, and can continue to be, a valuable ally. But we shouldn't take any lip from the company, either.

Discussion: Fine Tuning iTunes Song Ratings (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/07/0134231>

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

RollerMouse Keeps Both Hands Close To The Keyboard (James Cummings, Cox News Service)
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/3805506.htm>
The RollerMouse Station improves the ergonomics of typing on a computer by positing a device that does the work of a mouse directly below the keyboard's space bar.

A Laser Printer Bargain (Gary Krakow, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/790618.asp>
Samsung's ML-1430 impresses with both speed and quality.

Two Books On Mac OS X (Kirk McElhearn, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06896>
One provides a window on the visible side of the operating system and the other looks behind the scenes; many intermediate to advanced users of Mac OS X will need a little from each.

On Hardware Failures And Low End File Recovery (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/02/08/06/index.html>
More on my WallStreet meltdown and how I retreived my non-backed up files.

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

What To Do About Spam? (Cory Doctorow, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/08/05/doctorow.html>
The winner will be the system that never generates false positives.

The Bot Who Loved Me (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/07/crushmaster/index.html>
Are those secret-admirer e-mails real -- or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?

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

Web Standards For Hard Times (Paul Boutin, Web Monkey)
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/33/index1a.html>
Web standards? You can't afford to ignore them anymore.

Smarter Content Publishing (Victor Lombardi, Digital Web Magazine)
<http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-08.shtml>
Building a semantic website to increase the efficiency and usability of publishing systems.

Some Hope In The Fight Against Spam (Rich Gordon, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_08_04_tidbitsarchive.htm#85323522>
A start-up company called Cloudmark is offering a "peer-to-peer" solution called SpamNet.

Spam Filters Even Block Anti-Spammers (Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_08_04_tidbitsarchive.htm#85323899>
"Our own validation e-mail, sent to people that register for our service, was scoring a 5.9 in Spam Assassin and not reaching many of our users. Ironic, isn't it?"

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

If I Hear One More Word About .Net (Jennifer LeClaire, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18935.html>
It is amazing that a company could spend millions hyping a product for two years without generating enough interest among its customer base.

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

Smile When You Say That, Microsoft (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc2002087_7792.htm>
I'm not saying the Mac community should turn on Microosft. Redmond has been, and can continue to be, a valuable ally. But we shouldn't take any lip from the company, either.

=== linux news =============

Linux Slips But Won't Fall (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-948698.html>
Linux sales lost some ground to Windows last year, but are expected to climb in coming years as distributors create new revenue streams.

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

The Bot Who Loved Me (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/07/crushmaster/index.html>
Are those secret-admirer e-mails real -- or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?

U.S. Rule On Stem Cell Studies Lets Researchers Use New Lines (Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/07/politics/07STEM.html>
The administrator told federaly financed researchers they could go beyond the president's strictures -- as long as they did so with private money.

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

The Golden Age Of Eastwood (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-ftr-ebert01.html>
Clint Eastwood looks more like Clint Eastwood than ever. The furnace of time has burned away everything that is not essential.

An Attractive Propsect (Mary Ann Sieghart, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-376073,00.html>
Apart from traffic jams, how little experience we have these days of frustration, impotence and delayed gratification.

The Teenage Way To Enjoy Ab Fab Sex (Amelia Hill, The Observer)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,769069,00.html>
The real Edina's daughter has written a sex manual. Just what would Saffy make of it?

A Day In The Life, At 90 (Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-julia7aug07.story>
Keeping up with Julia Child, who has a new home, a new book deal and a balky oven.

The Empire Stirkes Back (Eric Boehlert, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/08/07/pfp_empire/index.html>
As the music industry's "pay-for-play" scandal deepens, the big five record labels try to crush the expanding power of the dreaded indie promoters.

Nachman's Knack (Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110002090>
The latest on talk TV: Comment, analysis, a feel for words.

Fluff Jews (Cynthia Cotts, The Village Voice)
<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0232/cotts.php>
Jennifer Bleyer, the 26-year-old editor of <i>Heeb</i>, a magazine aimed at young Jewish hipsters, once boasted that it's easy to come up with story iteas for her editorial mix--because she can find a Jewish connection to almost anything.

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

Wasps In August (Andrew Hudgins, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068961&device=>

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

Popular Orchard Road Taxi Stand To Go (Karamjit Kaur and Low Siok Hwee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,136258,00.html?>
LTA moving Centrepoint stand to carpark across the road to help smoothen traffic flow, but shoppers chafe at longer walk.

KL Study On Singapore Reclamation Work To Be Completed In Sept (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,53656,00.html?>
"We are seeing some interesting results but it is premature to tell you what they are."

Musical Tribute (Radha Basu, Computer Times Singapore)
<http://computertimes.asiaone.com.sg/v2/spec01.shtml>
Fuhua Primary School combines technology and patriotism to produce a digital music video dedicated to National Day.

Apple Serves Up Big (Eileen Yu, Computer Times Singapore)
<http://computertimes.asiaone.com.sg/v2/updt03.shtml>
Apple is counting on Xserve's price advantage and beefy product specifications to attract users.

SingTel First Quarter Net Profit Down 37.3% (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,53635,00.html?>
SingTel said today net profit fell 37.3 per cent in the first quarter to June over the previou syear due to interest costs and goodwill hcarges from its acquisition of Australian subsidiary Optus.

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