[MyAppleMenu] Jul 22, 2002

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

Macworld Expo Keynote Served Up To 50,000 Viewers On Apple Hardware (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020722-key4>
Approximately 50,000 people used QuickTime to view the live webcast of Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote last week, according to an Apple press release.

The Mac User, The Web's Elite (Marty Beard, Media Life Magazine)
<http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2002/jul02/jul22/1_mon/news4monday.html>

Apple Announces Shake 2.5 (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/2010211>

After Dark X For OS X (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/1643258>
Features eight modules, including the classic flying toasters.

Apple Store Coming To Philadelphia (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15443>

Bungie Co-Founder Steps Down (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020722-bung>

Adobe Teams With CompUSA For InDesign Training (MacMinute.com)
<http://www.macminute.com/index.shtml#020722-cusa>

Adobe Updates Video Editing Software (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-945306.html>
Adobe on Monday will announce a new version of its Premiere video editing package.

Jaguar Roundup (Neal Parikh, MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=356>

Microsoft Pulls Handheld Sync For Entourage X (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15429>

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

Apple And The Angry Consumer (MacView)
<http://macview.com/mainpages/view6.html>
Let them know how you feel (good or bad) and support them if you can.

Apple -- There's Still Time To Do The Right Thing (Daniel H. Steinberg, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1732>
Come on Apple -- do the right thing. We can't keep rooting for you as the good guy if you are going to engage in business practices like this.

Macintosh... Not Just Yet (Kirk L. Kroeker, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/18686.html>
To get more users to adopt Macintosh, I think it's time for Apple to bring prices down to the industry norm, open the closed box and target multiple processors.

Just A Thought - iTools "Free For Life?" Well... (Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/07/21.1.shtml>

Faster G4s Coming Some Day (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/musings/02/0722.html>
If Apple can clear out the current inventory soon, we may see an August announcement.

Making Jaguar, .Mac More Palatable (Daniel Jansen, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0722.html>

Apple Immigrants (Paolo Valdemarin)
<http://paolo.evectors.it/stories/appleImmigrants.html>
Apple has been making some good coiches, and Mac OS X is a very good environment, so, maybe it's time to get back home.

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

Real Takes The Open-Source Route (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945406.html>
RealNetworks on Monday unveiled a new open-source version of its streaming media technology that supports multiple file formats for audio and video, including those that use Microsoft's Windows Media technology.

Investors May Have Repudiated The Internet, But Consumers Have Not (Amy Harmon and Felicity Barringer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/technology/22NET.html>
Some analysts and executives caution that the Internet's capacity to change the rules should not be discounted too quickly.

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

Scripting Flaw Threatens Web Servers (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-945480.html>
A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some case control,computers over the Internet.

RealNetworks Poses Challenge To Microosft (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/technology/22REAL.html>
In a signficant challenge to Microsoft, RealNetworks plans to announce a new version of its software on Monday that can distribute audio and video in a range of formats, including Microsoft's own proprietary Windows Media.

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

Hollywood, Tech Make Suspicious Pairing (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3703600.htm>
Microsoft and its technology-industry allies still have time to show that they're not handing absolute dominion over digital media to the entertainment cartel, that open source software is not a target -- and that, in general, [Palladium] is genuinely designed to give computer users greater control, and not a technology designed to control them.

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

Intel Moves Up Pentium 4 Price Cuts (Ken Popovich, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,393662,00.asp>
Intel has decided to move up price cuts originally set for late October to Sept 1 in a bid to boost sagging sales, according to a market analyst.

Microsoft Deepens Links To Groove (Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/22/020722hnmsgroove.xml>
Microsoft and Groove Networks took their relationships a step closer on Monday with the announcement that the companies plan to integrate Groove Workspace with Microsoft SharePoint Team Services.

MS Planning To Tackle Leaked WinXP Keys With SP1? (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26301.html>
Mass zeroing of corporate keys mooted.

RealNetworks Poses Challenge To Microosft (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/technology/22REAL.html>
In a signficant challenge to Microsoft, RealNetworks plans to announce a new version of its software on Monday that can distribute audio and video in a range of formats, including Microsoft's own proprietary Windows Media.

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

The Us Movement (William Raspberry, Wasington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41842-2002Jul21.html>
What seems increasingly clear is that the sort of rescue I'm thinking of requires the intervention not merely of institutions, but of people -- of us. A lot of us. A <i>movement</i> of us.

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

Taking Programming To The Extreme (Erik Sherman, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_sherman071902.asp>
The quest for quality software may require programmers to lose the cowboy attitude and learn to cooperate.

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

I Was A Teenage Drive-In Freak (Mark Rahney, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestlife/134496917_drivein21.html>
Whether you're an Indoor Person or an Outdoor Person, if you're a Greenpeace car-hater or a casual moviegoer who couldn't tell Connery from Moore, there are few summer pastimes as sublime and as American as watching a movie under the stars.

Finding Fisherman's Wharf (Marianne Costantinou, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/21/CM63547.DTL>
The wharf is now defined more by what it is not -- Italian, a mecca for family fishing businesses -- than by what it is.

Variation On A Theme Park In Gilroy (Robert Smaus, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-061602escape.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtravel%2Dmanual>
Bonfante Gardens is a new amusement park with an unusual theme: trees.

In New York Tickets, Ghana Sees Orderly City (Robert F. Worth, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/nyregion/22GHAN.html?8hpib>
If you are caught playing your radio too loudly in Times Square your ticket does not just go to City Hall to be processed. It goes to Ghana.

When A Crop Becomes King (Michael Pollan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/opinion/19POLL.html>
Today corn is the world's most widely planted cereal crop. But nowhere have humans done quite as much to advance the interests of this plant as in North America, where zea mays has insinuated itself into our landscape, our food system -- and our federal budget.

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

Government Cuts Apron Strings With Home-Loan Policy Shift (Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,133286,00.html?>
If a wrong move by you means eating into the saving for your golden years, then it is a fate you have to face up to.

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

Civil Service Plans CPF Top-Up For Older Staff (Bertha Henson, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,133284,00.html?>

CPF Cuts: Fast Action Or Quick Fix? (Laurel Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,133255,00.html?>
Freezing CPF contributions a wquick fix that won't secure jobs if seniority-based system not addressed, warn some MPs.

Private Feeder Services Allowed On Trial Basis (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,133275,00.html?>
Private bus operators who wish to run feeder services in HDB towns must meet the same service standards that are imposed on public bus operators, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said.

Government Accepts All Proposals On CPF, HDB, Taxation (Edna Koh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,133220,00.html?>
The government on Monday accepted all the proposals made by the Economic Review Committee's sub committee on taxation, the CPF system, wages and land.

HDB To Stop Giving Out Market Rate Loans From Next Year (S. Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/13956/1/.html>
Private property buyers can also pay 10 percent of their downpayment from their CPF savings from September 1st.

Singapore Denies Local Air Buy (AFP)
<http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4746662%255E1702,00.html>
Singapore Airlines has dismissed a report that it is backing a consortium that is preparing to enter the lucrative but failure-strewn Australian domestic aviation market.

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