[MyAppleMenu] Feb 5, 2002

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

Power Mac G4s Get Nvidia GeForce4 Titanium Option (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/05.applenvidia.php>
GeForce4 Titanium can pump out 87 million triangles and 4.9 billion textured pixels per second.

The Apple Of My i (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.pioneerplanet.com/tech/ptk_docs/242785.htm>
iPhoto is a good reasons to consider buying a Macintosh instead of a Windows PC.

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

"Digital Hub" Pushers Need Marketing (Christopher Saunders, Internet.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_968491,00.html>
Only 6 percent of U.S. homes with PCs have invested in home networking.

FileMaker Launches I-Mode Database Software (CW360)
<http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQSESS=wt3RAI4Q&690REQEVENT=&CARTI=109729&CARTT=14&CCAT=1&CCHAN=12&CFLAV=1&CPAGEN=ArticlePage&CPAGET=-99999&CSEARCH=&CSESS=-99999&CTOPIC=>
FileMaker, Apple's database-software subsidiary, has launched a new software package that will enable users of its database software to access their data via I-mode wireless Internet handsets.

Apple Trains Telstra Staff In OS X Etiquette (Rachel Lebihan, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20263311,00.htm>
Telstra's beleaguered broadband network should be OS X compatible for Apple users by April this year, with support staff soon to be in training to adequately handle customer queries.

Apple iPod: Coming To A PC Near You (Sean Captain, PCWorld)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,82204,00.asp>
The impressive iPod MP3 player will become even more appealing with the help of new third-part Windows software.

The Paasion For Designing Macs (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49971,00.html>
An entire culture exists in which people's lives are dominated by designing Macintosh computers. But they usually realize the Apple folks do it better.

Putting The World Firmly In The Picture Frame (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Hearld)
<http://it.mycareer.com.au/opinion/macman/2002/02/05/FFXZAL359XC.html>
Adobe Systems, the creation of two brilliant engineers from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, all but owns the creative space, as we have come to call the making and managing of text, images and multimedia.

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

How Fast Is The New G4 iMac? (Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/pm04.html>
The new iMac is impressive. Is it the best performing Power Mac under $2000? Not in my opinion.

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

Apple Trains Telstra Staff In OS X Etiquette (Rachel Lebihan, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20263311,00.htm>
Telstra's beleaguered broadband network should be OS X compatible for Apple users by April this year, with support staff soon to be in training to adequately handle customer queries.

Net Surfers Set Out To Squelch Spam (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-829399.html>

Priceline.com Tops Forecast For Quarter, But Its Shares Fall (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/technology/05PRIC.html>

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

Apple iPod: Coming To A PC Near You (Sean Captain, PCWorld)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,82204,00.asp>
The impressive iPod MP3 player will become even more appealing with the help of new third-part Windows software.

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

In Bush Plan, A Return To A Golden Era (Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23538-2002Feb4.html>
Wartime budget a boon for area defense, health, tech industries, but other agencies would suffer.

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

Years Of Research Yield Nothing, And That's Good News For Physicists (George Johnson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/science/physical/05PART.html>
"If one were hunting for gold, this would be the map of where not to dig."

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

Sex And The Scandal (Art Buchwald, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23058-2002Feb4.html>
"The trouble with Enron," said Baldwin, an investigative reporter, "is that there is no sex."

A New Lease On Life For An Old Hotel (Bettijane Levine, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-020502macleod.story>
A developer throws himself into creating a new kind of high-class, low-income housing -- and finds it's a bumpy ride.

Was Presidnet Bush Abducted By Aliens? (Chris Colin, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/02/05/encounter/index.html>
When Dubya had his close encounter of the pretzel kind, did he in fact take a trip far, far away?

Lost Boys (Amy Benfer, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/02/05/gender_ed/index.html>
While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"?

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

Panpac Media Makes Foray Into Dotcoms - Again (Teh Hooi Ling, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,35321,00.html?>
After losing about $40 million in its dotcom ventures, Panpac Media.com is back at it again.

Airport MRT Stop Next In Line (Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,101228,00.html?>
New station at Changi Airport could open soon; bus services are likely to change, while cabbies are worried about business.

The X Factor (Karl Ho, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,101205,00.html?>
Xiang Yun, now 40, has moved on to play mostly mothers and aunties and has landed a plum role in Jack Neo's latest movie, I Not Stupid.

DBS Opts For Plain, Simple English (Hugh Chow, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,101256,00.html?>
DBS is considering a move away from the traditional legalistic format towards a more user-friendly version with simpler terms.

MUIS Urges Parents Of Tudung-Wearing Students To Let Them Attend School (Surita Salim, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/02/05/singaporenews20039.htm>
Islam gave precedence to those rules which benefit the masses.

Singapore's 'Osama' May Have Targeted U.S. Interests (Richard C. Paddock, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-020502singa.story>
Officials say jailed Muslim is local leader of regional terror group linked to Al Qaeda.

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