[MyAppleMenu] Jan 28, 2002

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

Apple Refreshes Power Mac G4 Line (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020128g4.shtml>
Apple updated its Power Mac G4 line with 800MHz, 933MHz, and dual-1GHz configurations.

X Photoshop Delay 'Not Deliberate' (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.uk.mw/editorial;pos=one;sz=125x60;tile=3;ord=92047912?>
Adobe has denied it is deliberately an OS X version of Photoshop because of a strained relationship with Apple.

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

Apple Offers Discounts On Flat Panel Displays (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/28.flatpanelpromo.php>

Apple Offers Office 'Suite Deal' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4163>
Half off the cost of Microsoft's Office v.X when buying a new Mac.

Apple Product Managers On The 1GHz Power Mac (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/28.powermac.php>
"When we encode DVD video at 300 percent faster than a 2GHz Pentium 4, it really shows we are delivering what our customers are looking for."

Apple Eyes Workstation Biz With G4 Revamp (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/23851.html>
Real and potential bandwidth improvements suggest that Apple is serious about taking on SGI's low end business with its own professional Unix workstation.

Apple Brings Power Macs Up To Speed (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8621589-0.html?tag=ats>
Apple on Monday broke the 1GHz barrier not once but twice with the delivery of new Power Macs.

Artist Fred Durst: iPod "Amazing" (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12194>

New iMac Begins Shipping: 150,000 Pre-Orders (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020128imac.shtml>

Europe: More Critical Than Ever (Victoria Shanon, International Herald Tribune)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/46084.htm>
Pascl Cagni, Apple Computer Inc.'s top manager in Europe, hadn't used a Macintosh computer until he took the job in April 2000.

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

Is The Mac Web Selling Its Soul? (Bob McCormick, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/mccormick/1.28.02.shtml>
It just seems that it's the antithesis of what the Mac community has always been about.

Mac OS X: Game Developer's Playground (Troy Stephens, Stepwise)
<http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/2002-01-21.01.html>
Mac OS X goes a long way toward rewriting the economic rules of GUI application development.

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

PowerMail v3.1 (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/powermail3.shtml>
For people serious about their e-mail, that thirty day demo will most likely result in years of devoted use.

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

Keeping An Eye On Your Image, Online (Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/emerging/14889-1.html>
If someone is tearing apart Burger King's latest promotion in an Internet chat room, Pete Snyder wants to know about it.

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

Is The Mac Web Selling Its Soul? (Bob McCormick, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/mccormick/1.28.02.shtml>
It just seems that it's the antithesis of what the Mac community has always been about.

These Help-Wanted Ads Are Found Wanting (Carrie Johnson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/atwork/14888-1.html>
To hear some techies tell it, the help-wanted ads could use a little, er, help.

Homestore Fights For Life As Bad News Piles Up (Miguel Helft, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/27HOME.html>
It is increasingly clear that the troubles at Homestore, a company that operates the site for the National Association of Realtors, started much earlier and ran much deeper.

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

Bill's Biggest Bet Yet (Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/694130.asp>
The richest people on earth have created a fund of more than $24 billion to save the poorest from disease. How much of a difference can Bill and Melinda Gates make?

Has Microsoft Met Its Match? (Catherine Yang and Jay Greene, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_05/b3768081.htm>
AOL could be the one company to offer it a real court battle.

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

Microsoft, AOL End Document Scuffle (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-824373.html>
AOL Time Warner and Microsoft on Monday resolved their differences over which documents will be released as part of the ongoing litigation int he software giant's antitrust trial.

It's My Party And I'll Infect You If I Want To (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23843.html>

Intel Tweaks CPU Prices (Drew Cullen, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23838.html>

Compaq Blade Servers Go On Sale (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8614732-0.html>
Compaq Computer has begun selling its first "blade" servers, networked computers stacked side-by-side so that 280 can fit in a single six-foot-tall rack, the company will announce Monday.

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

Linux On Mainframes Enters Phase 2 (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823787.html>
The mainframe push dovetails with a shift under way at the twice-annual Linux show.

Red Hat To Offer High-End Linux Version (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823866.html>
Red Hat will begin offering a higher-end and more specialized version of Linux later this year that won't be as easy to find as the current all-purpose package.

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

Into The Punditry Vacuum, Fresh Wind (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47180-2002Jan27.html>
A new study says that the media's outpouring of analysis, opinion and speculation in the war on terrorism now exceeds the level during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a low-water mark for journalistic prestige.

What's A Recovery Without Jobs? (Bob Herbert, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/28/opinion/28HERB.html>
While it may be true technically that the economy is executing a modest turnaround, it remains to be seen just how secure that next paycheck is for millions of working Americans.

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

When Automatic's Teller Ran Dry (Mathew Honan, Online Journalism Review)
<http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=687>
The rise and fall of Plastic.com.

BBC's 'Reality' Show May Be Cruel And Unusual Television (Matthew B. Stannard, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/28/MN142494.DTL>
Program based on Stanford Prison Experiment.

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

Why I Think The Smithsonian Is Misguided (Milo Beach, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33010-2002Jan24.html>
The present administration of the Smithsonian Institution seems to view "the life of the mind with astonishing indifference."

Hometown Boy Makes Waves (William Kennedy, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/28/books/28KENN.html>
The truly achieved writers are the ones one who deceive themselves so well that they can pursue a lie that becomes true in spite of its implacable falsity.

At Grand Canyon, No Way To Run A Railroad (Blaine Harden, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/28/national/28GRAN.html>
As this sublime hole in the ground succumbs to its second century of mass tourism, there is a weird new wrinkle in the love-it-to-death romance between the Grand Canyon and the nearly five million people who descend upon it every year.

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

She (Richard Wilbur, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/wilbur/she.htm>

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

Malaysia, Singapore Ties Not Affected By Water Talks: Mahathir (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,34464,00.html?>
Malaysia's bilateral relations with Singapore will not be affected by the current failure to reach a water supply agreement.

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

Feedback Open To All Overseas Singaporeans (Alamelu Subramaniam, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/views/story/0,2276,34555,00.html?>

Open Bidding For All COEs From April (Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,99612,00.html?>

Chee Involves Singapore Media In Defamation Fight (Alethea Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,99567,00.html?>
Dr Chee Soon Juan has applied to the High Court to make media companies SPH and MediaCorp third parties in his ongoing legal tussle.

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