[MyAppleMenu] Jul 26, 2002

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

An Apple A Day (Joan Silverman, MetroWest Daily News)
<http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/columnists/colsilverman07262002.htm>
Whatever ails your PC, there's someone else who feels your pain, and is treating it with a Mac.

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

Reader Poll: Thumbs Down For .Mac (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5035>
Just 28 per cent agreed .Mac was worth every penny.

Malaysian School Does Apple Proud (Charles F. Moreira, The Star)
<http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2002/7/26/technology/26apple&sec=technology>
Sri Cempaka became hte first school in Malaysia, and the first in South Asia, to be named an "Apple Distinguished School" earlier this week for its extensive implementation and use of Macintosh technology in its education curriculum.

Apple To Use Radeon 7500 Cards (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5032>
ATI Technologies' graphics board will be installed in Apple's Power Mac G4 the company has announced.

Apple 'World's 50th Best Brand' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5029>
Apple is the world's 50th best-known brand, according to the annual Most Valuable Brands survey conducted by the world's leading brands consultancy, Interbrand.

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

Do We Really Need That New PC? (Patrick Moorhead, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-946534.html>
Too much of today's technology is sold on the features and not the benefits.

The MWNY 2002 Review (Jeff Lewis, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/macskeptic/02/07/24/index.html>
One thing Jobs got wrong in his new zeal to ridicule all things Redmond was his snipe about .Net.

Nail On The Head (Slashdot)
<http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=36731&cid=3951928>
Apple achieved in one stroke everything Microsoft is trying to achieve with .Net.

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

FileMaker Pro 6 (Mark Sealey, Think Secret)
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/reviewfmp6.html>
If you want simply the best database system on your Mac, buy Filemaker Pro 6 now. Unhesitatingly recommended!

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

Tangling The Web (Bill Barnes, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068502&device=>
How Web services are changing the Internet.

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

Tangling The Web (Bill Barnes, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068502&device=>
How Web services are changing the Internet.

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

The Web Didn't Kill Libraries. It's The New Draw. (Steve Friess, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0725/p02s02-ussc.html>
Library-building is booming in US, surprising doomsayers.

A Good Table (Ian Parker, The New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020729ta_talk_parker>
A civil engineer described an invention that he hoped would improve human communication, promote world peace, and reduce the fear of being invited to a large dinner party in a slow restaurant.

In Search Of An English Arcadia In Tune With The 21st Century (Roger Scruton, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-363501,00.html>
Can modern-day writers and artists re-enchant our landscape like Wordsworth and Constable?

Storytime Back With Kid-Ult Books (Rebecca Allison, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,763714,00.html>
The delights of Middle Earth and Hogwarts have enraptured children and parents to such an extent that the number who are choosing to read together has doubled in the last two years.

Shuttle Shows Way To Solve Traffic Woes (Ken Garcia, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/26/WB83686.DTL>
San Francisco may never be able to remove the political bottlenecks that exist throughout the city, but it can at least remove some of the traffic congestion.

She Ain't Necessarily So (Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard)
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/492gjljt.asp>
A look at the newest frontier in sexual politics--Transgender chic.

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

Did TV Boss Breach Royal Etiquette? (The Guardian)
<http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,763818,00.html>
"He absolutely, categorically, emphatically did not touch the Queen."

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

Chee Soon Juan Says He Didn't Break Any Speakers' Corner Rules (Asha Popatial, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/14419/1/.html>
A central bone of contention was whether Dr Chee, in raising the tudung issue at Speakers' Corner, was touching on matters of religion or merely referring to government policy.

SIA Terminates Services Of 2 Pilots Involved In SQ006 Crash (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/14379/1/.html>
Calling the termination harsh and untimely, the AirLine Pilots Association of Singapore says it is very disappointed with SIA.

Priceline, Yahoo! In Asia Join Forces (Internet.com)
<http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1432591>

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