[MyAppleMenu] Jul 11, 2002

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

Mac Software Bargains (Rob Griffiths, Ted Landau, Rick Lepage, Anton Linecker, Adam C. Engst, Jonathan Seff, and Jason Snell, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/07/reviews/bargain.html>
60 essential utilities that won't break the bank.

Living Under The Snow Dome (Eolake Stobblehouse, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06865>
The iMac is so good that it almost makes me wish I was in its target audience, just to have the pleasure of getting such a fantastic computer for the first time.

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

An Expensive Christmas (Chris Morris, CNN/Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/10/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm>
If you're the parent of a gamer, you could be facing an expensive holiday season.

MacSoft Passes On MWNY (Andy Largent, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=5824>
Not enough games to justify the expense.

Smokin'! Apple Officially Posts Xserve Benchmarks (Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/07/11.1.shtml>
Looking at the charts, it is easy to see why Apple is a happy camper.

Mac-Based Artist Rocks New York (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53730,00.html>
Isca Greenfield-Sanders is a hot digital artist whose work doesn't look like digital art.

Consumers Like Apple, Dell, Handspring (Jim Krane, Associated Press)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52973-2002Jul11.html>

Legislators Ask For Review Of Laptop Contract (Associated Press)
<http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/news/newengla2002/me__laptopletter_07y02y08_2002.shtml>
Two legislators are asking the Attorney General's office to determine the state's liability if it breaks a contract with Apple Computer for thousands of laptop computers.

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

Are Apple Rumor Sites The Enemy? (Ron Mwangaguhunga, MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/4u/wire.fm$RETRIEVE?value=4007135&field=Serial&html=wirelessdetail.html&doscript=findall>

Browser Numbers On The Rise (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/newsletters/20020705.html>
If the open source community label as "early adopters" has any merit at all, we should see a rise in Apple's market share over the coming months.

Wanna Be A True Mac Fan? Here's A Guide To Get You Started (Derek Arndt, Macteens.com)
<http://macteens.com/news/news.php?id=1840041587>

Are Gadgets Already Too Small? (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11POGUE-EMAIL.html?tntemail0>
Because of the limitations of the human body, designers are already up against the wall.

Our Passion For The Mac (Jason Walsh, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/maclife/02/0711.html>
Why in the world are we so passionate about our Macs?

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

eMac Versus iMac Versus iBook (Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/emac.html>
The hard drive and the flat screen make the iMac G4 the overall performance winner of the three.

iMac (.Net Magazine)
<http://www.netmag.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?subsectionid=9&articleid=63603&pagetype=2>
The build quality is excellent. A good specification that will handle any task from browsing to video encoding with ease.

Flash Cards Add Memory To Grow (Mark Glassman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11GEE3.html?ex=1027051200&en=4cdfe78f62c40548&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>

Burn Before You Crash (Garry Barker, Livewire)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/11/1026185061584.html>
The best bit about Retrospect is that the application is bascially "set and forget".

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

The Dot-Coms That Survived (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,53769,00.html>
Call them survivors. Or hangers on. But two years and counting since the air started coming out of the Internet bubble, there remain a number of money-losing companies that have ducked the storm.

Groups Call For Open Broadband (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-943033.html>
Free expression on the Internet could be endangered if cable television providers continue to dominate high-speed access services, civil liberties groups said Tuesday.

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

DoubleClick's New Focus Leads To Profit (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943179.html>
Internet marketing company DoubleClick on Thursday reported a small second-quarter profit on lower revenues and said it had largely completed a transition to focus on more lucrative businesses.

Money Matters Force Standards Stalemate (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943014.html>
A key Web standards body has deadlocked over how to handle patented technology that comes with royalties attached, raising questions about the future architecture of the Net.

Dear Member: You've Been Deleted (Julia Scheeres, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53658,00.html>
A man wakes up to find his website no longer exists, and all that's left is an e-mail from a Web hosting company telling him his site is too offensive for the mainstream. It could happen to you.

Oracle Software Targets Microsoft (Wylie Wong, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-943023.html>
Oracle entered a new software market Wednesday by announcing new e-mail, calendar and messaging software--a market dominated by Microsoft.

Ad Resurgence Helps Buoy Latest Figures From Yahoo (Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/11YAHO.html>
Yahoo posted quarterly sales and profit figures today that exceeded the projections of Wall Street analysts.

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

MS Licensing Deadline Looms - Buy Or Die (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26141.html>
In three weeks time, your Microsoft software licensing regime is completely screwed if you haven't done something about Licensing 6.

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

MS Fixes More Holes In SQL Server (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,369721,00.asp>
Microsoft releases patches for four new serious vulnerabilities in its SQL Server 2000 database software, two of which could give an attacker control over the database.

IE Scripting Flaw Uncovered (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/26147.html>
Security researchers yesterday released details of a cross domain scripting flaw in Internet Explorer ahead of a fix by Microsoft.

Oracle Software Targets Microsoft (Wylie Wong, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-943023.html>
Oracle entered a new software market Wednesday by announcing new e-mail, calendar and messaging software--a market dominated by Microsoft.

Another Bug In Outlook, IE (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-943018.html>
A Danish security researcher warned users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express applications that a recently discovered software flaw could leave their system open to malicious code carried on Web pages or in e-mails.

How Would You Improve The Next MS Office? (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-943020.html>
If you were responsible for building Microsoft Office, what would you do with the next version?

MS: Our Phone Software Might Not Be Good Enough (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/26142.html>
A refreshing wind of honesty seems to be blowing out of Microsoft's phone division these days.

Meet Microsoft, Home Networker (Jay Greene, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc20020711_7959.htm>
The Colossus of Redmond's next bold move is into routers that'll let consumers connect their digital devices together and to the Net.

Microsoft Arms Enterprise Developers (Darrly K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,367904,00.asp>
Microsoft provides enterprise customers with a resource center for architectural guidance and integration tools to meet the needs of enterprise developers building applications on the .Net platform.

Microsoft To Get Lift From Licensing Plan (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-942951.html>
At a time when other software and computer-hardware companies are being hit hard by the slump in corporate spending, Microsoft appears on track to post a fourth-quarter profit at the high end of its own guidance, analysts said.

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

Now, The Synchronized Family (Peter Meyers, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/circuits/11FAMI.html>
The current wave of families keeping group schedules owes much to the growing number of households with PC's and the rise in palmtop usage among mainstream consumers.

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

A Book Fix For Web Refugees (Tim Rutten , Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-lv-media10_jul10.story>
Think of it as a literary halfway house for recovering dot-comers and their codependents.

A Camel Ride To Remember (Nigel Tisdall, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2002/07/10/etken07.xml&sSheet=/travel/2002/07/10/ixtrvhome.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=38585>
The best way to go on safari in Kenya is sitting astride a docile dromedary.

A Reporter's Week As A Trash-Free Warrior (Samar Farah, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0711/p11s02-sten.html>
A reporter investigates what it takes to forsake a trashy lifestyle.

Blind Tom's Tombstone (Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020715ta_talk_kolbert>
Born blind, and possibly autistic, Wiggins spent the early part of his life in slavery and the latter part essentially indentured.

Baseball Ruins Everything It Touches (Keith Olbermann, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/sports/2002/07/10/olbermann/index.html>
Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome.

Voice Of The Gulag (Susan V. Lawrence, Far Eastern Economic Review)
<http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0207_18/p048current.html>
Zhang Xianliang has been hailed for his memoirs from China's labour camps. So how does he reconcile his past with his status today as a wealthy businessman and Communist Party member?

The Goat Cheese Divas (Emily Green, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-goat10jul10.story>
Thank a small group of California women for one of the true gifts of summer.

Filming Without The Film (P.J. Huffstutter and Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-highdef11jul11.story>
Emraced by some directors and feared by others, high-definition digital cameras are changing the art form.

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

Singapore On Recovery Path But Pace May Slow: MAS (Anna Teo, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,50973,00.html?>
Optimistic but cautious. This sums up the Monetary Authority of Singapore's assessment of Singapore's recovery prospects.

Private Operators Keen To Run Feeder Bus Services (Karamjit Kaur and Bryan Lee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,131336,00.html?>
Following call made in parliament, 2 firms have shown interest.

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

All 21 DBS Hacking Victims Were Broadband Users (Catherine Ong, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,51018,00.html?>
Broadband's fixed charges lead many to leave PCs logged on permanently.

IDA Must Make Amends For $388m Mistake (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,131391,00.html?>

Auditor-General Uncovers 35 Lapses In Government's Accounts (Sim Chi Yin, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,131338,00.html?>
Some ministries and stat boards had failed to collect money owned or overpaid for services, others had over-collected fees.

Transport Fare Debate Helps Focus Attention On Commuters' Wants: Analyst (Hwee Goh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/13002/1/.html>
The parliamentary debate on the recent fare hikes has not resulted in lower fares, but an analyst says it helps to focus attention on commuters' needs.

Unemployed Singaporeans Picky Over Work Conditions (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,50917,00.html?>
Retrenched Singaporeans are willing to take a smaller wage cheque and even switch careers to find a job but they are less flexible when it comes to working conditions, a government report said today.

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