[MyAppleMenu] Feb 15, 2002

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

Apple Final Cut Pro 3.0 (Erik Holsinger, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0,12070,548924,00.html>
Final Cut Pro's combination of robust tools makes version 3.0 the most powerful software-based video-editing program on the planet.

Lamkin The Mac Evangelist (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4249>
Adobe has never been more committed to the Mac, the company's senior vice president of Web publishing told Macworld.

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

Colour PCs Are So Four Years Ago (Mark Evans, Financial Post)
<http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020215/63275.html>
Colour has nearly disappeared from the PC market.

Apple Offers Locked OS X Applications Folder Fix (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/15.apps.php>
A small application called, appropriated enough, "FixApplicationsFolderPermissions" is now available.

Apple Adopts New Auditor Policy (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/15.auditor.php>
Auditors will not be doing non-financial consulting.

Home-Studio Solution Ships (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4250>
Digidesign has introduced Mbox, a complete portable sound mixing, recording and editing solution.

Holocaust Site Open To Broadband Users (Gwendolyn Mariano, CNET News.com)
<http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8812719-0.html?tag=ats>
A Steve Spielberg-backed foundation launched a Web site Thursday designed as a high-speed gateway into its vast catalog of testimonies from Holocaust survivors.

Apple Bidding To Regain Speed Throne (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16364.html>
Depending on the type of search performed, Apple claims its Power Mac delivers anywhere from 3 to 50 times the performance of a Linux workstation.

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

Apple: Forget "Cool" -- Think Servers (Philip Ethan Grossman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1081-838811.html>

Apple Exec Refused 'Kill Dock' Bribe (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24082.html>
How long before the Dock becomes like Microsoft's Clippy the paperclip?

Apple: Don't Flub It Again (Charles Cooper, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-838457.html>
The problem is a wishful belief that millions of PC users will switch to the Macintosh simply because it's the better platform for hosting digital media and music.

Market Share? That's So 1980s! (K. Chang, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0215.html>
Why Apple can't win for winning.

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

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual (Charles Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/xtmm.shtml>
It is a marvel how much useful, well-organized and easy to access information David Pogue has succeeded in packing into this relatively compact volume.

iBook v. Pismo: Ice Over Charcoal (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/features/020215.html>
The Pismo still wins in some areas, but its FireWire is last-generation and expansion bay modules are relative expensive.

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

SafeWeb Promises Security Fix (Declan McCullagh, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,50424,00.html>
SafeWeb has pledged to repair security problems reported this week in its anonymous-surfing technology.

Amazon Fulfills Wedding-Registry Vow (Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1017-838298.html>

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

All Hail .Net! (Peter Wright, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/14/dot_net/index.html?CP=RDF&#38;DN=310>
Microsoft's new software development tools are more than just nifty -- they are a great boon to humanity.

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

Microsoft To Cast .Net In Ad Campaign (Tiffany Kary, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-838605.html>
Microsoft will begin translating its complex .Net strategy into business-friendly terms with a $200 million ad campaign that launches Monday.

MS To Block Internet Apps By Default In .NET (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24089.html>
As shipped, the default policy will be not to allow managed code to run from the Internet. Think about that one for a moment and then think about what you thought .NET was supposed to be about, folks.

Did MS Bug Alarm Go Off Too Early? (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-838219.html>
Some security experts criticized the quick public announcement as irresponsible.

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

Apple Bidding To Regain Speed Throne (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16364.html>
Depending on the type of search performed, Apple claims its Power Mac delivers anywhere from 3 to 50 times the performance of a Linux workstation.

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

The Threat To Patriotism (Ronald Dworkin, New York Review Of Books)
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15145>
What has al-Qaeda done to our Constitution, and to our national standards of airness and decency?

Jiang Looking To US For Help In Preserving Legacy (Ching Cheong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,102790,00.html?>
China's No 1 leader Jiang Zemin and his supporters are making sure his influence is preserved after his retirement later this year.

The Philippine Wars (Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/opinion/15KRIS.html>
I didn't know how to explain to Filipinos the need to add firepower to an island already bristling with machine guns.

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

Gender Vendors (Samar Farah, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0214/p12s01-stct.html>
Electronics marketers are eager to answer a question that even Freud had trouble with: What does a woman want?

Losing The War On Patents (Damien Cave, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/15/bountyquest/index.html>
Attempts to fix the intellectual property system from below are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds?

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

Shape Of Things to Come (Michael Quintanilla, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-fashionweek021502.story>
Two newcomers to Fashion Week cause a buzz with bracking contrasts and fierce femininity.

Getting Under Your Skin (Eve Zibart, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9573-2002Feb14.html>
Modern day spas are to beauty salons as Dean & Deluca stores are to convenience marts.

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

Lost And Found (Tessa Hadley, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?020218fi_fiction>

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

Local Movie 'I Not Stupid' Tops Box Office Records Over Lunar New Year (Chia Hui Kheng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/02/15/singaporenews21105.htm>

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