[MyAppleMenu] Feb 25, 2002

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

Friends And Foes (Pia Sarkar, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/25/BU107610.DTL&type=business>
Despite squabbles, Apple and Adobe hae benefited from one another.

The iMac Challenge (Jim Heid, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000014380feb25.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Apple's latest desktop or Gateway's 500SSE: Which wins?

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

Focus On Design (Erik Rhey, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1490&a=21891,00.asp>

Adobe Updates Web, Animation Software (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-843986.html>
Adobe on Monday will release new versions of its GoLive Web authoring application and LiveMotion animation software.

Apple Launches Two New $100 Off Promos (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12737>

Interview: Sony Station.com (Chris Barylick, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/view.php?ID=114>
Why the sudden change to support the Mac?

Passion For PCs (Julie Moran Alterio, The Journal News)
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/022402/24usergroups.html>
Though the Web has millions of pages devoted to PCs and bookstores have rows of how-to manuals, people are still joining clubs to meet up with others as enchantged with computers as they are.

Finally, A Photoshop For OS X (Farhad Manjoo, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50600,00.html>
When it's released in April, its biggest draw will be that it runs, finally, on Mac OS X.

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

Will 'Total Impact' Turn Out To Be 'Nothing Real'? (Gary Rogers, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16494.html>
The only thing stopping Apple from being able to provide a complete Computer Graphics Imaging solution is its lack of a render farm.

Try A Mac? Why It Won't Hurt As Much As You Think (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2849950,00.html>
What does it take to turn a Mac voyeur into a Mac user?

Demystifying The Digital Hub (Clif C Hirtle, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0225.html>
It is important to consider that the Mac hardware layer makes the Mac not just another TV, VCR, PVR, or "dumb" electronic device.

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

MacReporter (John F. Braun, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/macgadget/2002/20020225.shtml>
MacReporter provides OS X users with a nifty way to check out the maximum number of news sources, but take up a minimum amount of space.

Pursuing Portable Perfection (Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun)
<http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=92459CBF-F93B-43E8-90EA-71D2EE3B71BF>
It's better to know exactly what you need before you head to the store.

Adobe Photoshop 7 (Andrew Shalat, OSXFAQ)
<http://www.osxfaq.com/Reviews/PS7/index.ws>
The watchwords for this newest version are Elegance, Integration, and Workflow.

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

Head Of Internet Body Recommends Major Restructuing (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/02/24/national2140EST0550.DTL&type=tech>
The goal of leaving the Net in private hands has proven unworkable.

Online Diarists Rule An Internet Strewn With Failed Dot Coms (Henry Jenkins, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/jenkins0302.asp>
Bloggers are turning the hunting and gathering, sampling and critiquing the rest of us do online into an extreme sport.

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

How Microsoft Will Conquer And Rule Web Services -- For Now (Eric Knott, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2849891,00.html>
Let's forget the politics, launch those pilot programs, and get there sooner rather than later, even if Redmond scores the first few points.

Broadband Legislation Will Squash Competition (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/2733094.htm>
Ask yourself if the Internet woul dhave grown so quickly if the phone monopolies had kept this kind of ocntrol over dial-up connections in the past decade.

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

Microsoft Case Files Open To media (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Microsoft-Antitrust.html>
"Microsoft fails to offer any explanation as to why provision of the transcripts and video recordings... would be so troublesome and vexatious."

Microsoft Tunes MSN Music Site (Margaret Kane, ZDNet)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-843986.html>
Microsoft has redesigned its MSN Music site, adding a feature that allows certain music files to be downloaded and shared.

Microsoft Gets Down To Business (Ben Heskett, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1017-844465.html>
Microsoft is expected to disclose some of its plans for moving into the customer relationship management (CRM) software market.

Microsoft "Ambassador" Calls It Quits (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-844121.html>
Linda Stone is leaving the campany less than two years after assuming the role of introducing the world to a kinder, gentler software titan.

The iMac Challenge (Jim Heid, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000014380feb25.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Apple's latest desktop or Gateway's 500SSE: Which wins?

Xbox Success In Japan Crucial For Microsoft (Alex Pham and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000014384feb25.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Japan is disporportionately important for Microsoft because the country is the center of the gaming universe.

How Microsoft Will Conquer And Rule Web Services -- For Now (Eric Knott, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2849891,00.html>
Let's forget the politics, launch those pilot programs, and get there sooner rather than later, even if Redmond scores the first few points.

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

The Sun Also Sets (Tim Larimer, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/changed_japan/cover.html>
Shadows have been gathering over Japan for more than a decade. Only now is the country facing up to the devastating turth: the future is probably not going to be any brighter.

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

Sky City Fantasies (Erik Baard, The Village Voice)
<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0208/baard.php>
For the fallen world of September 12, visions of a vertical future.

The Chrysler Building (Stephanie Zacharek, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/02/25/chrysler/index.html>
New York's most glorious skyscraper, its art deco eagles poised for flight, is a timeless work of jazz Age poetry in steel.

Rising In The East (Janine Defao, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/24/MN191011.DTL>
Long a tortoise to San Francisco's hare, downtown Oakland gains momentum despite downturn.

With Pen In Hand (Lynell George, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-022502penmanship.story>
Put it in writing? Wielding anything but a keyboard makes some people nervous. Make peace -- and practice, experts say.

Saluting All The King's Mentors (jay Parini, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/books/25PARI.html>
Writers, perhaps like anyone trying to learn a craft, look anxiously around them for mentors.

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

OCBC Goes The Distance - For $30 (Edna Koh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,104817,00.html?>
To ensure that customers were not caught out, OCBC had four 'swat teams' and $50,000 in cash on standby.

TV Works To Become Channel i (Suzanne Sng, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,104827,00.html?>
Name change heralds new era of closer cooperation with Channel U.

Pay-Per-Mile Singapore Style (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1839000/1839910.stm>
If Britain is to adopt a route pricing scheme, the lessons learned in Singapore indicate that it may not be a solution in isolation.

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