[MyAppleMenu] Aug 10, 2002

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

Homemade Dot-Mac With OS X (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/09/homemade_dotmac.html>
The greatest ironies is that Mac OS X is packed full of features that make many aspects of .Mac unnecessary.

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

Apple Discloses Acquisition Prices; $30 Million For Emagic (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/viewnewsitem.php?item=20020810102118>
In a recent SEC filing, Apple disclosed how much it paid for a number acquisitions it made during the quarter.

Online ABNs Out Of Reach For Apple users (James Pearce, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20267278,00.htm>
Mac users are having trouble applying for an Australian Business Number online, forcing them to use snail-mail to register their business.

Home Work (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/08/1028157956039.html>
The application, Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac, is one of the most important that Microsoft's Macintosh business unit has done outside Office:mac v.X.

Macworld Waits On Menino's Call (Scott Van Voorhis, Business Today)
<http://www.businesstoday.com/business/business/mac08102002.htm>
A top executive of the giant Macworld convention says he has yet to hear a serious offer from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, despite Menino's vow to lure the lucrative trade show back to the Hub from New York.

Apple 'Switch' Star Flies High (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,54333,00.html>
Ellen Feiss, the young star of one of Apple's new switch ads, is gaining a large following online. She's the subject of fan sites, icons, desktops and photoshop parodies. Can Mahir-like fame be far behind?

AOL Puts Heats On Media Player (Paul Festa, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-949195.html>
AOL has updated its popular Winamp MP3 player, adding video capabilities that bring the program into direct competition with streaming media giants Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks.

Rix, Mix, Burn (Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer, First Monday)
<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/bowrey/index.html>
The politics of peer to peer and copyright law.

New Jersey To Get Third Apple Store; Menlo Park Mall Location Will Open This Fall (RandomMaccess)
<http://www.randommaccess.com/newspro/articles/1028908828.shtml>
A mall official confirmed the new store will open "sometime this fall."

Apple Disc Recording Update 1.3.5 (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/08/09.html#a1925>

Apple Confirms A Small Number Of Layoffs (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/09.layoffs.php>
Apple representatives declined to detail the number of emloyees affected by the layoffs or whether all of the affected employees were located in the company's Cupertino headquarters.

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

Time To Set Up Shop (John O'Brien, The Courier-Mail)
<http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4868490%5E8362,00.html>
Photoshop 7 packs enough new features to make it a worthwhile proposition, and if you're a Mac user, its OS X compatibility alone is reason enough to upgrade.

Apple Remote Desktop (Jonathan A. Oski, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/08/reviews/remote.html>
Network-management software combines classroom and remote desktop access -- with some glitches.

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

Rix, Mix, Burn (Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer, First Monday)
<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/bowrey/index.html>
The politics of peer to peer and copyright law.

Why Ads On The Net Don't Work (Bill Thompson, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2179141.stm>
There will be no room for the net's equivalent of small and medium sized businesses, the powerhouse of the real economy.

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

Microsoft And Free Software At The Same Show? It's True (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/technology/10LINU.html>
Significant forces at work inside the computer industry suggest that the free-software movement is rapidly gaining momentum.

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

Airport Insecurity (Richard A. Muller, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/7150.asp>
Until there is a workable technology to detect explosives, let's force the terrorists to use suicide bombers, and let's spot them at the airport.

The Death Of Sushi? (Velisarios Kattoulas, Far Eastern Economic Review)
<http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0208_15/p048current.html>
Japan's passion for sushi is fuelling a huge trade in illegally caught seafood that's endangering fish stocks and enriching organized crime.

Coasting British Columbia (Margo Pfeiff, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-061602vancouver.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtravel%2Dmanual>
On a road trip along Canada's "Sunshine Coast," two sisters enjoy breathtaking beauty, quirky villages, native totems and sibling companionship--but little luck catching fish.

A Slightly Immodest Proposal (Alastair Gordon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/garden/08SHOW.html>
Standing naked in the open air as the sun glistens through a veil of water: to anyone who still relishes the simplicity of country life, that is the essence of summer.

Center This Headline? (Mario Garcia, Poynter)
<http://www.poynter.org/visual/eyes/080802.htm>
How one aligns headlines does have an overall effect on the look of the page.

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

The Treatment (Roxana Robinson, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/robinson.htm>

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

Malay Village Shrugs Off 'Ghost Town' Tag (Krist Boo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,136719,00.html?>
With $600,000 poured into repairs and refurbishment each year, the attraction has been making profits.

Unique Building Not Being Preserved (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,136658,00.html?>
The owner is resigned to losing the building to road-widening works for Lavender Street.

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