[MyAppleMenu] Feb 13, 2002

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

QuickTime 5.x? No, QT 6 With MPEG-4 (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/12.qt6.php>
QuickTime 6 is finished and ready to go, but Apple is waiting for MPEG-4 video licensing terms to be improved before it officially goes out the door.

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

Learn IT (Adam Turner, The Age)
<http://www.it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2002/02/13/FFXCD020MXC.html>
Armed with digital camcorders and iMacs running Apple's iMovie, year 5 and 6 students are producing educational films to complement their studies into the structure of the human brain.

Apple Accused Of Hobbling Streaming Standards (Silicon.com)
<http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=51294>
"We don't need any more standards out there. Apple, Sun and Ericsson should use those currently available."

Microsoft Adds ODBC Support Update To Office 2001 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/13.office.php>

Huron District Implements Web-Based Program For School (Bette Pore, The Plainsman)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3244230&BRD=1128&PAG=461&dept_id=97933&rfi=6>
Huron School District is in the process of implementing a Web-based record-keeping program that will ultimately give parents the opprotunity to access information on their children's grades and performance at school through the Internet.

Dale Carnegie Inc. Says No To Macs, OS X (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/12.carnegie.php>

Apple, Ericsson, Sun Announce Partnership (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/12.partners.php>
The relationship will enable network operators to deliver standardlized multimedia content to a variety of wireless devices, including mobile phones and PDAs.

Apple Releases QuickTime Streaming Server 4 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/12.qtss.php>
The new version provides the ability to serve ISO-compliant MPEG-4 files to any similarly com pliant MEPG-4 clients.

Aple Spurns Proposed MPEG-4 Licenses (Gwendolyn Mariano and Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8786553-0.html?tag=ats>
Apple Computer has rejected proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo.

QuickTime Family Expands With Broadcaster (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/12.broadcaster.php>
QuickTime Broadcaster is a new member of the QuickTime product family that allows live broadcasting of events over the Internet.

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

Why OS X Suits Some Users A Lot Better Than Others (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/02/20020213132505.shtml>

Apple At UNIX Workstation Crossroads (Gary Rogers, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16300.html>
Apple could choose to stay the course that has put $4 billion into its bank account, or it could explore the broader UNIX server and workstation market.

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

iPhoto Makes Collating Images A Snap (Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend12_20020212.htm>
Thanks to Apple's new iPhoto digital image management program for the Mac, I'm falling in love with my digital camera all over again.

Aliens Vs. Predator Gold Edition (Vern Seward, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/review/2002/02/11.1.shtml>
Nothing relays the feel of actually being there as convincingly as AvP does.

Mozilla 0.9.8: Impressive (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/02/0212.html>
Mozilla is now demonstrably the fastest Mac OS browser.

Mac Backup Alternatives To Dantz Retrospect (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/02/20020212145645.shtml>

Nvidia GeForce4: A Must-Have Upgrade (John Morris and Josh Taylor, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-835070.html>

Come Together (Tobey Grumet, Popular Mechanics)
<http://popularmechanics.com/technology/audio/2002/2/come_together/>
Is it worth it? If you'are looking for something that holds lots of music and has great portability, and you've got 400 bucks to spend, then yes.

Apple iBook (14-Inch) (James Kim, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/products/hardware/story/0,23008,3371862,00.html>
Bigger display headlines fastest iBook ever. But it isn't for everybody.

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

Web Surfers Snubbing Search Engines (Gwendolyn Mariano, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-837035.html>
Internet surfers are increasingly favoring direct navigation and bookmarks over search engines and Web links, according to a study released Wednesday.

The In Crowd (David Stritfeld, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.02/lists.html>
Need a metafilter to make sense of your info-soaked world? Meet the minds behind five elite email lists.

The Crime Of Sharing (John Perry Barlow, New Architect)
<http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2444/new1011650821755/index.html>
How excess legislation will kill your freedom of expression.

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

ICANN Warns Firms Of Domain-Registration Back Doors (Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes)
<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174465.html>
Providing registry access to third parties could violate their ICANN agreements.

Are Amazon's Travel Ties Heading South? (Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1017-837056.html>
Expedia is not seeing enough of a return on the investment it made in jointly operating a Web travel store with Hotwire and Amazon.com.

Comcast Privacy Move Its Latest Woe (Stefanie Olsen and Rachel Konrad, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-836937.html>
The cable giant's latest problem stemmed from reports Tuesday that it had installed software the compiled detailed records of its customers' Web usage.

Mozilla 0.9.8: Impressive (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/02/0212.html>
Mozilla is now demonstrably the fastest Mac OS browser.

Overture Locks In Microsoft Deal (Margaret Kane, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-835692.html>
Internet search company Overture Services announced that it has extennded a relationship with Microsoft for at least a year.

SafeWeb's Holes Contradict Claims (Declan McCullagh, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50371,00.html>
SafeWeb's anonymous-surfing technology turns out not to be very safe after all.

Loosening Government Hold On .us (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-836077.html>
NeuStar, which won the right to manage the United States' Internet country code last October, said it would begin accepting registrations from the general public April 24.

Flaws In Common Software Threaten Net (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-835602.html>
Software flaws in a fundamental language of the Internet have left the Information Age's basic infrastructure in danger of disruption, said an Internet security watchdog Tuesday.

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

Windows XP From A Mac Perspective (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/02/12/xp_review.html>
For the way I use a Windows computer, XP is a huge step forward.

Judge Asked To Press Microsoft On Code (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-836459.html?tag=cd_mh>
The states said they need to see the source code of Windows so they can verify the company's claim that it is not technically feasible for Microsoft to offer a stripped-down version of Windows.

Microsoft's Balnacing Act (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8785039-0.html?tag=ats>
Buffeted by criticism of the way it handles privacy and security matters, Microsoft is trying to batten down the hatches on both fronts in simultaneous efforts.

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

Gates Courts Developers For .Net (Wylie Wong, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-836803.html>
Bill Gates wooed software developers with a box filled with new software programming tools.

Ballmer: Proposal Would 'Debilitate' Microsoft (Chicaco Tribune)
<http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-020213ballmer.story?coll=chiDbusiness>
"If that order was entered today, I wouldn't even know how to comply, let alone innovate."

Get Real, Microsoft! (Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Jerusalem Post)
<http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/02/13/Digital/DISoftwareReview.43360.html>
How about checking facts?

Microsoft Adds ODBC Support Update To Office 2001 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/13.office.php>

Microsoft Security Chief Has Work Cut Out For Him (Charles Piller, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000011075feb13.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness%2Dmanual>
Hiring of Scott Charney is seen as a critical, and timely, move for the software firm.

Microsoft Putting Its Muscle Behind Web Programming Tools (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/technology/13SOFT.html>
Microsoft begins a huge campaign today to woo millions of computer programmers to use its new generation of Internet software tools.

Borland Brings .Net Into View (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/12/020212hnborlandnet.xml>
Tool maker Borland Software pledged to add support for Microsoft's .Net development environment in future versions of its products.

Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipse Enron (Matt Loney, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-835267.html>
Microosft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of Enron, the judge residing over the antitrust case has heard.

A Microsoft Star Shines Brightly (Charles Cooper, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-835433.html>
After what he describes as oneo f the best product launches in the company's history, Jim Allchin's star at Microsoft has never shined more brightly.

Overture Locks In Microsoft Deal (Margaret Kane, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-835692.html>
Internet search company Overture Services announced that it has extennded a relationship with Microsoft for at least a year.

Dell Laptops To Hold GPRS Wireless (Charles McLellan, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1103-835738.html>
Laptops provide always-on, wide-area wireless access to the company network or the Internet.

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

Torvalds Looks Into Linux Bottleneck (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-835717.html?tag=cd_mh>
Addressing concerns that tweaks to the operating system aren't being pushed through fast enough, Linus Torvalds has taken steps to formalize control over the project's underlying source code.

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

North Korea: Threat Or Menace? (Anne Applebaum, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061973&device=>
Does North Korea deserve its ranking as a member of the "axis of evil"?

It's Not Reform, It's Deception (Robet J. Samuelson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1997-2002Feb12.html>
"Washington think" is less about logic than political hustle.

Crazier Than Thou (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/opinion/13FRIE.html>
Reading Europe's press, it is really reassuring to see how warmly Europeans have embraced President Bush's formulation that an "axis of evil" threatens world peace. There's only one small problem. President Bush thinks the axis of evil is Iran, Iraq and North Korea, and the Europeans think it's Donald Rumsfled, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice.

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

The In Crowd (David Stritfeld, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.02/lists.html>
Need a metafilter to make sense of your info-soaked world? Meet the minds behind five elite email lists.

Still Dreaming Of Star Power (Diane Martindale, Discover)
<http://www.discover.com/mar_02/feattech.html>
Fusion could solve all our energy problems, if only we could get it to work.

Springtime, Taxes, And The Attack On Irqa (Richard A. Muller, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/muller020702.asp>
UC Berkeley physicist and former MacArthur Fellow Richard A. Muller teaches a course called "Physics for Future Presidents -- what every world leader needs to know." Here he adapts his latest musings on why a U.S. attack on Iraq is inevitable.

The Worldwide Computer (David P. Anderson and John Kubiatowicz, Scientific American)
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0302issue/0302anderson.html>
An operating system spanning the Internet would bring the power of millions of the world's Internet-connected PCs to everyone's fingertips.

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

Voices From The Fringe (Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=100001676>
Who's nuttier, director Robert Altman or the head of the NRA?

Interior By Curbside Unlimited (Carol Lloyd, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/12/carollloyd.DTL>
San Francisco residents recycle their lives.

Giving It Up For Lent: The Cuisine Of Denial (Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-000011012feb13.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood%2Dmanual>
Most of the 2 billion Christians in the world live in countries where Lent and special foods go together.

Daddies' Girls (Beverly Beyette, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-021302dance.story>
At a magical Valentine's gathering, fathers and daughters make memories on the dance floor.

What Makes Johnny Write? (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061919&device=>
For one thing, Grisham proved with <i>A Painted House</i> that he could write serious fiction. For another, <i>The SUmmons</i> is not the same old legal thriller.

Why Is Jennifer Connelly A Supporting Actress? (Chris Suellentrop, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061982>
How does the Academy decide who is in a "leading role" for the Oscars and who is a "supporting role"?

Big Brother Is Watching You Read (Christopher Dreher, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/02/13/bookstores/index.html?x>
Increasingly, the government is demanding that bookstores reveal what books their customers have purchased. Bookstore owners and privacy advocates say that's scarier than a Stephen King novel.

A Restaurant Called 'The Last Meal' (Bob Levey, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1980-2002Feb12.html>
The menu would consist of the final food that famous people consumed.

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

Finish This (Mark Cox, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061874&device=>

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

Asians Take A Closer Look At Islamic Schools (Michael Richardson, International Herald Tribune)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/47803.html>
Across Asia in countries that have significant Muslim communities, governments, intelligence services, law enforcement agencies and the military are taking a long, hard look at Islamic religious education.

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