[MyAppleMenu] Feb 7, 2002

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

Photo Finish (Garry Barker, The Age)
<http://it.mycareer.com.au/opinion/macman/2002/02/07/FFXP8MKFDXC.html>
For speed, simplicity and ease of use, iPhoto hasn't a competitor on any platform.

Eleven Schools To Get Laptops (Brian Thevenot, Times-Pioayune)
<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_laptop07.html>
Each eighth-grader in New Orleans "learning academy" middle schools will have access to an Apple laptop under a $4 million project.

OS Themes Are Only Skin Deep (Kelly McNeill, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16200.html>
Some proponents of themes tout them as a way to help people bond with their software, but I have a different proposal for what to do with most themes: Get rid of 'em.

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

Online Mac Users Face BofA Hurdle (Sandeep Junnarkar, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-831578.html>
Beginning Monday Mac users will find it harder to conduct electronic transactions with Bank of America, one of the largest U.S. consumer banks.

Mac OS X Focus Of Apple Design Awards (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/07.design.php>

PCs Don't Go Gently Into Macworld (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50273,00.html>
Forced to go to Macworld with a Windows laptop, a website editor tries to disguise it as an Apple machine. But the deception ends up attracting more attention than he bargained for.

Office v. X Update Posted (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4214>
Microsoft has posted a security updater for Office v. X.

Apple Acquires Nothing Real's Compositing (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12339>
Nothing Real is the developer of Shake and Tremor compositing software.

Bare Bones Updates Super Get Info (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12336>
"Bare Bones Open With," has been included int he latest version, as well as fixed and refinements.

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

InDesign X Is Here, XPress 5.0 Isn't. Why? (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1479.html>
I realize I'm merely speculating here, but the Quark spokesperson's remarks, to me, seem loaded.

The Un-Vision: What Steve Jobs Won't Do At Apple (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2846005,00.html>
Jobs has done many good things at Apple since his triumphal return. But his greatest feat may have been to bring the Mac to Unix (or vice versa).

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

Toon Boom Studio 1.0 (Galen Fott, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/03/reviews/toonboom.html>
Dynamic, fun application adds fuel to the animation fire.

Podmaster Tiptoes Around Apple's Music Block (Jim Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/ptech/041865.htm>
You can use this software to break the law. More important, it can be used to lawfully enjoy the music CDs you purchased and want to transfer back forth between the Macintosh computers in your life.

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

Got Code? Google's Got Cash (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-831164.html?tag=cd_mh>
Step right up, programmers and hex-slingers: Google's got $10,000 for the most creative coder among you.

Whose Online Is It Anyway? (David Walker, Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,645866,00.html>
Has the government met its ambitious targets?

Sun Opts Out Of IBM, Microsoft Web Services Alliance (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8727935-0.html?tag=ats>
The group brings together rival camps split between using Microsoft's .Net Internet technology and Java.

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

Public Frowns On Microsoft Settlement (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-831678.html?tag=cd_mh>
Roughly half the comments were against the settlement, 7,500 were in favor, and 7,000 expressed no sentiment either way.

Microsoft, U.S. Urge One-Day Hearing On Settlement (Reuters)
<http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/02/07/ms_trial.html>
The two sides said the hearing should not include arguments by outside parties, some of whom would argue against the settlement.

MS Taunted With 'Trustworthy Computing' Web Page (Thomas C Greene, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23966.html>
Links to Google hall of shame.

Notebook Makers Consider Pentium 4 (John G Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-831140.html?tag=cd_mh>
Looking to soup up their notebooks, but not their prices, some big-name computer makers are eyeing Intel's powerful but relatively inexpensive Pentium 4 desktop chip as an alternative to the company's mobile processors.

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

Microsoft Patent Dispute Heats Up (Gwendolyn Mariano, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-831940.html>

Microsoft Shuts Down To Secure Windows (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-832048.html>

Dell Hopes New Gear Speaks Volumes (Wylie Wong and Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8725125-0.html?tag=ats>
Dell Computer on Wednesday expanded its new line of switches that help computers talk to each other, part of a push to attract small businesses.

Office v. X Update Posted (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4214>
Microsoft has posted a security updater for Office v. X.

Sun Opts Out Of IBM, Microsoft Web Services Alliance (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8727935-0.html?tag=ats>
The group brings together rival camps split between using Microsoft's .Net Internet technology and Java.

MS Bitten By Old .NET Vulnerability (Thomas C Greene, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23967.html>
Numerous installations of Microsoft ASP .NET are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (CSS), according to a recent post in the BugTraq mailing list.

=== linux top news =============

Sun Details Plans For Linux Servers (Tiffany Kary, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-831618.html?tag=cd_mh>
Sun said Thursday that it would sell general-purpose Linux servers, a dramatic departure for the company that for years has advocated the use of its own Solaris operating system.

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

Sun Micro Says Will Make Linux Announcement On Thurs (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8728747-0.html?tag=ats>
"I am getting a lot of questions about Linux on the low end" COO Ed Zander told analysts.

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

Olympian Disdain (Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrassel/?id=95001830>
The IOC does its best to make a farce of the games.

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

Hot-Synching With A Heavenly Presence (Debra Nussbaum Cohen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07PRAY.html>
A growing number of people are finding that pocket-size computers are useful for religious purposes, from saying a virtual rosary to relaxing with a virtual Zen garden while using the palmtop's stylus to rake images of digital sand.

You Can Surf, But You Can't Hide (Lisa Guernsey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07HERE.html>
Software can already tell your friends when you log on or off. Now, "presence awareness" capabilities are being designed into other devices. Is this technology helpful or creepy?

When PC Still Means 'Punch Card' (David L. Margulius, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07CARD.html>
As unlikely as it sounds in today's digital era, some punch-card-based information systems are clinging to life.

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

'Tron' Showed The Way (Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Movies-X!ArticleDetail-51145,00.html>
The movie, just released on DVD for its 20th anniversary, was a pioneer of computer-generated imagery.

Where Cash And Culture Go Hand In Hand (Roxanne Roberts, washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36944-2002Feb7.html>
Art and money are like two bickering lowers: It's always something.

=== singapore top news =============

Singaporeans Shrug Off Headscarf Row, Rebukes (Amy Tan and Fauzi Ahmad, Reuters)
<http://in.news.yahoo.com/020207/64/1ftei.html>
While the tudung row is not likely to rock racial harmony, some said Singapore must find ways to accommodate greater expression of religious beliefs as the society matured.

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

HDB Goes The Private Way To Sell Its Flats (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020207/5/singapore20252.html>
Dazzling showflats, glossy brochures, slick adverts - these are part of HDB's new marketing efforts for its flats, just like the private sector.

Optimistic Or Gloomy? Polls Differ On Asian Outloook (Katherine Hunt, Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-88369.html>
Two consumer surveys painted widely differing pictures of expectations for the region's battered economies on Thursday, but both pointed to optimism in China.

Singapore 'The Most IT-Ready Asian Nation' (Steve Dawson, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,101580,00.html?>
The study put Singapore ahead of countries such as Japan and Hong Kong in terms of readiness to participate in a networked world.

Singapore Port To Build On Strengths Amid Malaysian Challenge (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,35531,00.html?>
Singapore government should continue to strengthen the nation's advantages in the logistics sector, an EDB official said today.

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