[MyAppleMenu] Aug 21, 2002

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

Mac OS X Switcher Stories (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/21/switch.html>
Switchers appear to be adopting Mac OS X at twice the rate of Mac OS 9 users.

Switcher's Remorse (Astrid Storm, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/21/switchers/index.html>
My name is Astrid, I'm an Episcopal priest, and I've been a Switcher for about two months now. And yes, I confess... I wanna go back!

Mac Motivates Maverick Animator (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/uk/creative/rustboy/>
Here’s a good modern fairy tale for you. A man with no experience of computer filmmaking decides that he’d like a new hobby, and settles on 3D animation. He starts work one night on the Mac in his bedroom, and within a year has given up the day job, acquired an old-fashioned patron who’s willing to pay his way through the making of the film and is fielding offers from Hollywood.

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

Power Mac Tests Spark Debate (Matthew Rothenberg and Nick dePlume, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,478975,00.asp>
Are the dual Motorola PowerPC G4 processor within each Power Mac able to draw on the architectural enhancements being touted by Apple?

Wing And A Prayer (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Hearld)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/21/1029114131135.html>
Apple has been driving the trend through its adoption of two wireless technologies, Bluetooth and 802.11b.

Apple Execs Began Buying AAPL Stock In July (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2002/08/21.1.shtml>

Apple To Open Stores At 10.20 PM Friday Night For Early Jaguar Sales (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/08/21.11.shtml>
This should be a much more lively affair thant he various groups of Lemmings lining up to buy Windows 95 at midnight.

A Rush Of Software Updates (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/stories/2002/08/Rushofsoftwareupdates.html>
Expect more as the weeks winds down. We are in for an interesting next few weeks in Mac OS X land.

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

Why Computer Fonts Are So Valuable (Thomas C Greene, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26764.html>
Mick Dimmick sent me an excellent e-mail memo describing just how difficult and time-consuming it is to create a superior font, and perhaps offering justification for the Beast's decision.

What Mac Fans Want From Microsoft (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020821_1477.htm>
Apple users share their thoghts on Redmond's inflated prices, buggy software, and the odd symbiosis that keeps Macs viable.

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

Mac Payne (Patrick Leyden, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=278>
Whether by design or purely as an accident, Max Payne is one of a growing number of mainstream games that fulfills the promise of the interactive movie.

Jaguar Shows Its Teeth (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/21.jaguar.php>
Jaguar is leaps and bounds ahead of Mac OS X 10.1 in both speed and functionality.

Color Laser Printers (Bruce Fraser, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/09/reviews/colorlaser.html>
We were pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of this crop of printers, but the clear winner was the HP Color LaserJet 4600.

MacBack On TiBook/iBook Article (Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1862>
I received a lot of mail about my article on things I wish I'd known about TiBooks and iBooks.

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

Spam's Other Victims (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3901481.htm>
If you're going to use a spam filter, do it the right way. Use a challenge-and response system such as ChoiceMail or filter it yourself on your own computer.

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

AOL Ads Get Bigger, Wider, Richer (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954778.html>
 Months after America Online cut back on sales of imposing pop-up advertisements, the Web property plans to showcase a new style of attention-grabbing promotions.

1,200 Starbucks Offer Wireless Jolt (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-954643.html>
Starbucks is now serving up high-speed wireless Internet access at about 1,200 of its coffee shops, the company said Wednesday.

Web Site Flouts Linking Bans (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954612.html>
Want David Sorkin to link to your Web site? Just ask him not to.

Media Chief Decries Net's Morality (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954651.html>
The president of media giant News Corp. warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy.

Morpheus 2.0 Integrates Web, Commerce (Scarlet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/20/020820hnmorph.xml>
The leatest release offers not only a new engine but a new interface that integrates the file-sharing capabilities with the Web and an e-commerce platform.

The Most Important Open-Source Project You've (Probably) Never Hear Of (Richard Karpinski, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20020820S0009>
Eclipse provides a common platform, user interface, and plug-in framework for integrating development tools.

Web Services Are Delivering Savings (Michael Vizard, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/19/020819opnoise.xml>
Although Web services will eventually turn the Internet into an application development platform, the initial promise of Web services was to lower the cost of application integration.

ICANN Taps ISOC To Run .Org (Scalet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/20/020820hnicann.xml>
ICANN weighed in with its choice on who should run the .org domain name registry.

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

Back To School For Office XP (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-954779.html>
A deal to offer students a cheaper version of Microsoft's Office XP software may be part of a larger plan for the software maker: Increasing sales of the productivity suite to consumers by slashing prices.

Will LindowsOS Run Windows Applications? (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2121163,00.html>
Reality has increasingly intruded on Lindows.com's plans for a Windows-compatible, consumer Linux desktop, causing it to change the way it approaches consumers.

Why Computer Fonts Are So Valuable (Thomas C Greene, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26764.html>
Mick Dimmick sent me an excellent e-mail memo describing just how difficult and time-consuming it is to create a superior font, and perhaps offering justification for the Beast's decision.

Aussies Dump Microsoft For Linux (Nick Farrell, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134470>
Licensing 6.0 angers corporates down under.

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

Will LindowsOS Run Windows Applications? (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2121163,00.html>
Reality has increasingly intruded on Lindows.com's plans for a Windows-compatible, consumer Linux desktop, causing it to change the way it approaches consumers.

Aussies Dump Microsoft For Linux (Nick Farrell, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134470>
Licensing 6.0 angers corporates down under.

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

Yankee Austerity (Peter Du Pont, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110002159>
In Vermont today even George Washington's first campaign woul dbe illegal.

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

Adoring Nature, Till It Bites Us In The Back (Natalie Angier, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/science/earth/20ESSA.html>
Biophilia, humanity's tendency to be drawn toward nature, enfolds biophobia, a fear of being sucked down and overwhelmed by too much nature.

Forever Young (Ronald Bailey, Reason)
<http://www.reason.com/0208/fe.rb.forever.shtml>
Th enew scientific search for immortality.

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

Such Delicious Extravagance (Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-burger21aug21.story>
Have you noticed what's been happening to the hamburger?

Tax Revolt Takes Aim At A County's Libraries (Timothy Egan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/national/20LIBR.html?8hpib>
A group of antitax crusaders are trying to shutter the libraries of Stevens County, in an effort that the American Library Association says may be the first aimed at dissolving an entire county library system by referendum.

Coming Up Next: Ambushed On "Donahue"! (Henry Jenkins, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/20/jenkins_on_donahue/index.html?x>
More dangerous than Grand Theft Auto 3 -- a defender of video games is given the trash talk-show treatment. Here's what he really wanted to say.

Newspaper Ads Are Down Again, Causing Worries (Felicity Barringer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/business/media/20ADCO.html>
Just a month ago, the newspaper industry was somewhat optimistic about the near future after a mildly encouraging ad-page performance in the second quarter. But now it is having second thoughts.

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

Fionn, Finnegas And The Salmon Of Wisdom (Walker Brents, San Francisco Reader)
<http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/salmon.html>

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

Holland Village Bohemian? (Natalie Soh and Shahida Ariff, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,138823,00.html?>
The three areas identified as being 'little Bohemias', have drawn surprised looks from some of the people they are meant to cater to.

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