[MyAppleMenu] Jul 19, 2002

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

MS/Apple: Can This Marriage Be Saved? (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-945065.html>
Apple is preparing for life without Microsoft.

Blogs: They're All Over Apple (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53977,00.html>
Apple is clearly on webloggers' minds. Thursday's list of the top 40 Web links at Daypop is dominated by items related to Apple.

Macworld: It's Like A Holiday (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53964,00.html>
The secret is out: Macworld isn't merely a tech tradeshow -- it's also an insanely great vacation destination.

It's A Big Big Apple Apple Store (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53952,00.html>
In a town where shopping is a comeptitive sport, Apple Computer opened its biggest-ever store on Thursday morning.

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

Economy Takes Its Tool, But Expo Happy With Turnout (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020719turnout.shtml>
While attendees roam empty space of red carpet and red curtains, Macworld Expo is realistic that under current conditions the show is doing well.

Special Interest Area A Growing Hit At Expo (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020719sia.shtml>

Apple Sticks With Monitors, For Now (Matthew Rothenberg and Nick dePlume, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,390759,00.asp>

Apple Skinned Over Jaguar Charge (Sean Ashcroft, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5004>
Showgoers are furious that Apple is charging $129 for its 10.2 update.

Exhibitors Note Changing Buying Habits At Expo (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/lib/020719exhibitor.shtml>
"We're seeing trends towards laptop add-ons, a lot more than a year ago."

Debating The Price Of .Mac (J.D. O'Grady, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,390938,00.asp>
"How many features do I really need?"

New 17-Inch iMac Has Some Little Tweaks, As Well (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/19.imactweak.php>
The display though bigger is actually slimmer (it's just an inch thick) than the ones on the 15-inch flat panel iMacs.

WarCraft III Takes MWNY 'Best Of Show' (Daniel Krechmer, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=5882>
"Blizzard has reinvented its legendary game series with a new installment that features role playing elements mixed with a strong dose of strategy."

Sorenson Files Counterclaim Against Apple (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15413>

Adobe Honors Students With Design Award (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020719-adobe>

Apple Clarifes .Mac Email-Only Conversion (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15414>
"If you want to convert your .Mac trial account to an email-only account... you must have a full .Mac member."

Photoshop 7.0 Updates Posted (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4998>

John Cocke, Chip Wizard From I.B.M.'s Research Labs, Dies At 77 (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/obituaries/19COCK.html?tntemail0>
Mr Cocke was the principal designer of the type of microprocessor that serves as the engine of most of today's large, powerful computers and the Apple Macintosh personal computers. Machines using his chip design are reduced instruction-set computers, or RISC.

Trying To Connect At Macworld (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-944852.html?tag=cd_mh>
Apple may have turned off the 802.11b wireless connection as a number of keynote demonstrations required the ability to trade instant messages and share files with those connected to a nearby wirelessly equipped Mac.

Apple Software Allows Multiple, Simultaneous Syncs (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/18/020718hnapplesync.xml>
Users will be able to synchronize contact and calendar data among a Bluetooth phone, a Palm-based PDA, an Apple iPod MP3 player, and a Mac desktop and notebook all at the same time.

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

Is It Time To Put An End To Macworld? (John Manzione, MacNETv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=128_0_1_0_M>
Would you rather spend $1000 attending the Expo or spend the same $1000 on new Apple products?

The Mac: Worm In THe Apple (Michael De Bose, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18680.html>
If Apple wants the world to believe it has a superior chip, it's going to have to give the world a superior chip, rather than two inferior ones.

Clarification/Misquote: Steve Jobs And OS X On Intel (Mac Rumors)
<http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/07/20020719012400.shtml>

Microsoft Mac FUD, Phooey! (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1710>
The comments from Microsoft are in exceedingly poor taste. And it's a shame.

.Mac - A Distinctive Experience (Neema Aghamohammadi, MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/letters/letters_20020719.php>

Old Macs Getting More Valuable & Charging For Jaguar Makes Good Sense... For Apple (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/07/19.1.shtml>
Apple has shifted its footing off the hardware business, to balance on hardware, software and net services.

Switch - Or Bait & Switch? (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/bait.shtml>
Going from a free service to a $100 service on two months' notice is changing the rules in the middle of the game pretty drastically.

Watson Developer Speaks Out On Sherlock 3 (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/19/0719211>

iPod, iTunes More BeOS-Like; Macworld Smells Funny (Scot Hacker, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1704>
Don't foget all the iTools logos you stuck on your product boxes, and the iDisk item in the Finder menu, all implying that iTools was part of the purchase price of this "premium brand" product.

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

On iTunes 3: Third Time Is The Charm (James Duncan Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1712>
iTunes 3 cleans up my one big complaint--the gap between tracks on mix discs and classical music.

Benchmark Duel: Mac Vs PC, Round II (Charlies White, Digital Video Editing)
<http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm>
Dell 2.53GHz Pentium 4 runs circles around fastest Mac G4.

Apple Final Cut Pro 3.0 (Michael Tate Jones, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/alust/resources/Reviews/Archives/fcp3/rev_fcp3.shtml>
Final Cut Pro 3 is an amazing video editing package at an extremely affordable price for small to medium sized production facilities or design houses.

Burning Labels Directly Onto Your CD (Craig Crossman, Knight Ridder)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3686698.htm>
Yamaha has just introduced a novel approach to their line of CD burners that just might give them an edge over the compeititon. And I mean that literally, since you can now burn a label along the edge of a CD.

Codewarrior 8 Keeps App Focus (Peter Coffee, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,388927,00.asp>
With an environment that looks and acts the same on either Mac or Windows workstations and that keeps our code front and cneter in a project manager environment that we still like after all these years, CodeWarrior is a tool that we're glad to have in our lab.

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

Blogs: They're All Over Apple (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,53977,00.html>
Apple is clearly on webloggers' minds. Thursday's list of the top 40 Web links at Daypop is dominated by items related to Apple.

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

China To Build Own Version Of Windows 98 (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26278.html>
Break the "monopoly of foreign office software."

Is IBM Toast? (John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,369682,00.asp>
This isn't your father's IBM. I'll be shocked if there is anything left but a compnay much like Unisys--a haven for desk jockeys.

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

Bill Gates Spams The World On Trustworthy Computing (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26292.html>
Integrity? He's heard of it too...

Ballmer In Charge (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/07/22/020722plballmer.xml>
In an interview, Ballmer discussed the progress of .Net, chnages in the company's approach to product development, and Microsoft's efforts to simplify product licensing and inspire trust in customers and partners.

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

Words Fail Me (Michael Fishwick, The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1234575>
Wild or comic, coupling in animals is quite frighteningly varied, and makes human sex look tame. Is that why most sex writing is so dull?

Mall Of America (Christopher Hawthorne, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068270&device=>
The shopping complex that ate the World Trade Center memorial.

Summer At 12: The Pool Grows, The Mystery Deepens (Sara Rimer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/realestate/19GIRL.html?8hpib>
This is what being 12 is like: during the summer the community pool represents the center of your universe, a place of fast friendships and blissful independence.

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

Proposed CPF Property Cap Inconsistent: Daiwa (Andrea Tan, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/innews/story/0,2276,51837,00.html?>
The proposal to cap withdrawal limit at 120 percent of property value appears to be inconsistent with the government's aim of discouraging over-investment in property.

Keep Up Or Lose Licence, Doctors Here Told (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,132768,00.html?>
They need to earn points through courses or self-study programmes to ensure their skills and knowledge get upgraded.

Safe Singapore Hit By Crime Wave (BBC)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020719_4551.htm>
The Singaporean authorities are worried that their city's reputation as one of the world's safest may be in jeopardy.

Singapore Backs Embryo Cloning (Associated Press)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020719_4551.htm>
The Singapore government will allow the cloning of human embryos for certain research projects giving the island state some of the world's most liberal guidelines for stem cell research.

Singapore, RI Torn Between Love And Hatred (Kornelius Purba, The Jarkarta Post)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020719_4551.htm>
Singapore cannot just turn a deaf ear while showing off its wealth. It often fails to show that it really has a heart and not just brains. Their leaders are expected to be wiser and prove that they are also friends even in difficult times.

SIA In Taipei Airport Mishap (Reuters)
<http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/07/19/singapore.crash.reut/index.html>
Taiwan aviation officials say a Singapore Airlines plane was on the wrong taxiway at Taipei airport -- the scene of a deadly SIA crash in 2000 -- when its wing hit two objects before taking off.

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