[MyAppleMenu] Jan 31, 2002

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

Apple Wins Technical Grammy Award (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/31.grammy.php>
Apple is considered the leading architect in bringing computer technology into the studio and revolutionizing the way music is written, produced, mixed, recorded and creatively imagined.

Ersatz Designs Honor Apple (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49898,00.html>
Under Steve Jobs, the company's become obsessively secretive. The information vacuum has fostered a strange manifestation of wishful thinking: fans who design their own Macs.

Apple's Tower Of Power (Matthew Rothenberg, eWEEK)
<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D25201%2526a%253D22082,00.asp>
What's the thinking behind this latest Power Mac G4 release, and what does it portend for Apple's future moves on the pro desktop?

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

Master Maker Of Mockup Macs (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49918,00.html>
The Thomas Kinkade of amateur Macintosh designers is Isamu Sanada.

AppleWorks 6.2.2 Update Today: Optimized For OS X 10.1 (Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/01/31.12.shtml>

7th-Graders Get Computers (Miriam Stawowy, Hampton Daily Press)
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-21647sy0jan30.story>
Hampton begins test of education's future.

He's Wired Up (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000007664jan31.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Rock musician embraces technology in the studio and at home.

No Bones About It: BBEdit 6.5.2 Released (Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/01/31.9.shtml>
Performance enhancements and bug fixes.

MusicMatch Makes Play For Mac Users (Gwendolyn Mariano, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-827339.html?tag=cd_mh>
MusicMatch, which makes programs for creating and organizing digital music, has launched one of the first music subscription services for Macintosh computers.

Pupils And Porn And Games, Oh My (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,50001,00.html>
Regardless of the rationale, the scenario is bound to be played out across the country as more and more school districts head toward the inevitable day of One Student, One Wireless Laptop.

Playing To Apple's Strengths (Jim Heid, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000007675jan31.column?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Many media producers will need to stay with or occasionally return to OS 9 until the software plug-ins and other utilities they rely on become available for OS X. But the pieces are falling into place.

Musicmatch Makes Mac Move (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4179>
Musicmatch has introduced a Mac music-subscription service.

X Scanner Support 'Coming Soon' (Jonny Evans and Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4180>
Scanner manufacturers Epson and Canon have hinted at up-coming support for Mac OS X across their ranges.

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

Will Microsoft Dump Apple? Who Cares? (David Morgenstern, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2844062,00.html>
What Mac users want from Microsoft are real Mac applications, not ports from Windows. Microsoft got that message a number of years ago, and the Mac community appreciates the result.

Why iPhoto Matters - A Lot (David Schultz, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/alust/oped/Editorials/Archives/iphoto_matters.shtml>
iPhoto has turned our Macworld upside-down. It is, in an interesting way, very different from iMovie and iTunes.

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

The State Of OS X Web Browsers (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/stories/2002/01/30/theStateOfOsXWebBrowsers.html>

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

Weeding In The Garden Of Good E-Mail (Leslie Walker, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/washtech/techthursday/A72-2002Jan30.html>
A group of Internet companies is starting public tests this week of a new form of commercial e-mail. The idea is to separate legitimate advertising pitches from junk e-mail.

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

Judge Drops Napster Bombshell (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23906.html>
Marilyn Hall Patel questioned if the record companies copyright extended to digital distribution of music.

The State Of OS X Web Browsers (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/stories/2002/01/30/theStateOfOsXWebBrowsers.html>

ISP Failures Put E-Mail Into Limbo (Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000007669jan31.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Consumer advocates and others are pushing for stronger laws to protect subscribers, but they face opposition.

AOL Time Warner Lost $1.82B (Alec Klein, Washington Post)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14930-1.html>
The world's largest media company fell victim once again to the one-two punch of a national recession and a slowdown in advertising.

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

Microsoft Judge: Settlement Changes? (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-827027.html?tag=cd_mh>
A federal judge has asked Microsoft and the Justice Department to file a joint status report on their proposed settlement and, in an unusual move, has asked if they're planning any changes to the settlement in response to public comments.

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

Microsoft To Appoint Security Chief (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-827421.html>
Microsoft plans to appoint a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney to its top security position, company sources said Thursday.

EU Approves HP-Compaq (CNN/Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2002/01/31/deals/hp/>
Europeans give all clear, Compaq calls it "important milestone."

Will Microsoft Dump Apple? Who Cares? (David Morgenstern, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2844062,00.html>
What Mac users want from Microsoft are real Mac applications, not ports from Windows. Microsoft got that message a number of years ago, and the Mac community appreciates the result.

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

Bridging Linux Language Barriers (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-827414.html>
An industry consortium of the largest server and Linux sellers released the first result of an effort to ensure that different versions of Linux will work similarly.

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

New Tools Are Freeing TV Journalists To Roam (Susan E. Reed, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/technology/circuits/31REPO.html>
For all its utility in showing a correspondent on the front lines, the videophone did not show much action there.

Blazing A Trail Before A Single Tree Falls (Julia Lawlor, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/technology/circuits/31SNOW.html>
Today ski trail design is an exacting art.

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

Put Yourself In The Picture (Hillary Johnson, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Art-X!ArticleDetail-50864,00.html>
Collecting art isn't just for the rich and famous. All it takes to get started is a bit of cash and a lot of gallery browsing.

A Welcome Home (Ted Johnson, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-013102rodriguez.story>
Architect returns to make crime-riddled East L.A. projects of his youth more attractive and livable.

Frappe Society: The Trend To Blend (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64-2002Jan30.html>
Time was, you could tell a cookie from a candy bar, a spoon from a fork, a restaurant from a playground and a hot dog from a hen. But then began the blending of America.

=== reader : eof =============

Celeb Web Logs: Too Much Information? (Catherine Donaldson-Evans, Fox News)
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44282,00.html>
Become one of Mariah Carey's "lambs" and peak into her stream of consciousness, read RuPaul's descriptions of jaunts to drag-queen joints or scan Moby's account of removing a toothpaste stain from the crotch of his pants.

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

Singapore Accuses Malaysian Official Of Meddling In Headscraft Affair (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020131/1/2e12s.html>
Singapore on Thursday accused a senior Malaysian official of interfering in the city-state's internal affairs after he commented on the threatened suspension of four Muslim schoolgirls for waring Islamic headscarves in class.

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

IDA May Set Standards For SMS Service (Jennifer Toh, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,100369,00.html?>
IDA recognises that, with increase in data traffic, the imposition of a feasible and meaningful Quality of Service standard on SMS needs to be assessed in order to minimise network-related delays.

No Second Medical School For Now (Salma Khalik, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,100386,00.html?>
Health Ministry rejects the proposal by international expert panel, but idea to set up graduate school likely to be taken up.

Three Girls To Wear Tudung To School Today (Chua Lee Hoong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,100237,00.html?>
Parents say it is a matter of faith and they will defend it in court if they have to.

Airline Passengers Flying Out Of Singapore To Pay S$6 Security Tax (Lee Siew Hoon, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/01/31/singaporenews19560.htm>

Malaysia Minister Interfering In Singapore's Internal Affairs: MFA On Tudung Remark (Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/01/31/singaporenews19553.htm>
Just as Singapore respects the choices which Malaysia has made, the Republic expects Malaysia to do the same.

PMO Minister Rebuts Malaysian Politicians' Criticism On Singapore's No-Tudung Rule (Fiona Tan, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/01/31/singaporenews19528.htm>
"How we manage our social issues is for us Singaporeans to decide."

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