[MyAppleMenu] Jun 22, 2002

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

Improving The Outlook For Entourage (Dale Dougherty, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/21/outlook_applescript.html>
PC users moving to Mac OS X have Paul Berkowitz to thank for helping them port their personal data to a new platform. Apple and Microsoft should also be thankful, as well as a little embarrased that they are relying on an individual developer to make up for their own shortcomings.

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

Interview: Jordan Hubbard (Kerneltrap.org)
<http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=278>
Jordan Hubbard is one of the creators of FreeBSD and currently a manager of Apple's Darwin project. With just a high school education, Jordan has offered some impressive contributions to the world of computing.

Wall Street Braces For Second-Quarter Warnings (Amy Baldwin, Associate Press)
<http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/442564p-3540883c.html>
While concerns about terrorism still haunt investors, the greater influence on trading is the fact that the market is in the throes of one of its most anxiety-producing periods - warning season.

Velocity-X: 200 Gigaflop Mac Cluster (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14869>

Are Macs Really Cheaper To Own? (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18338.html>
Garnter has backed away from its blanket statement that Apple's Mac computers are cheaper to own and maintain than PCs -- but many still believe that to be the case.

Apple Releases Networking/AirPort Updates (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14879>
The update improves network and Internet access after "restarting your computer or when waking from sleep."

Will Apple Release iPod Software For Windows? (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/21.ipod.php>
A research note from Needham analyst Charles Wolf today indicates that Apple may be close to releasing Windows syncing software for its popular iPod MP3 player.

eMaac Debut In Hong Kong Unimpressive (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14876>

Apple Promotions Expiring Next Week (Jim Darlymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/21.promo.php>
Several of the promotions that Apple has launched over the past couple of months are due to expire next week.

Apple And Bioinformatics (Bryan William Jones, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/scitech/archives/scientia_020621.shtml>
Where does Apple fit into this and why are they interested in bioscience?

iPod-Windows Link Getting Stronger (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-938325.html>
Software maker MediaFour plans to release on Monday its XPlay program, the company's first Windows application for connecting PCs with Apple Computer's iPod digital music player.

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

MacHack, Day 1 (Jonathan Gennick, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1608>
Lots of people have their kids with them.

Apple Stock: Is Now The Time To Buy Or Sell? (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=554>
Rather than becoming alarmed at the stock plunge, we should perhaps view tech stocks as settling at something like their real value.

Unicode: Sick Of This Push And Pull (Pierre Igot, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/alust/oped/applepeel/archives/peel_33.shtml>
The problem is well-known to proficient Mac users, but sufffers from an utter lack of attention on the part of those people who are in a position to solve it in a satisfactory manner.

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

ColdFusion MX On Mac OS X (Dick Applebaum, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/21/coldfusion_one.html>
The evolution of ColdFusion MX, one of the hottest new Web development products, and how to get ColdFusion MX running on Mac OS X.

Music Gets Bigger And Smaller (Charles Wolrich, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/2002/06/21/0621tentech.html>
As the storage capacity of hard drives increases and their phyiscal size continues to shrink, the portable music players that use them can only get better.

Moore's Guide To The Best Free And Cheap Mac Productivity Software 2002 (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/free021.shtml>

Quartz Internet Explorer For Mac OS X (Damien Gallop, MacWrite)
<http://www.macwrite.com/criticalmass/quartz-ie-for-mac-os-x.php>
It's just about fantastic.

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

It Takes A Village To Save A Site (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53386,00.html>
Begging for funds to keep your bankrupt site afloat rarely works. Unless you're Rosty Foster, whose tech community site Kuro5hin just raised $35,000 -- and a few eyebrows -- in less than a week.

Bush: Bring Back Library Filters (Julia Scheeres, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53389,00.html>
News that the Bush administration is planning to take its library filtering battle to the Supreme Court didn't come as much of a surprise to advocates on either side of the controversy.

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

Web Thinkers Warn Of Culture Clash (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20577-2002Jun20.html>
The Internet's potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that clash with the medium's long-standing culture of openness, some leading Internet thinkers warned.

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

Microsoft .Net Software's Hidden Cost (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938394.html>
Companies plannning on moving their old programs to Microsoft's new .Net software plan had better prepare for sticker shock: Making the conversion could cost roughly half of the original development cost, Gartner says.

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

iPod-Windows Link Getting Stronger (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-938325.html>
Software maker MediaFour plans to release on Monday its XPlay program, the company's first Windows application for connecting PCs with Apple Computer's iPod digital music player.

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

The Political Intolerance Of Academic Feminism (Mary Zeiss Stange, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i41/41b01601.htm>
Academic feminists have yet to adequately address the issue: how to reach politically conservative yet "liberated" women.

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

Science And Secrets (Alan Leo, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_leo062002.asp>
Lawmakers and universities seek a balance between academic freedom and security in the war on terror.

Music Piracy Not Hurting Recording Industry After All (Michael Fraase, Arts & Farces)
<http://www.farces.com/stories/storyReader$526>
The Grateful Dead were among the first to figure it out more than 30 years ago. What goes around comes around.

Watch This Airspace (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1176136>
Four disruptive technologies are emerging that promise to render not only the next wave of so-called 3G wireless networks irrelevant, but possibly even their 4G successors.

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

Natural Wonders (Demian Bulwav, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/21/CC96440.DTL>
In a time of sliced-and-diced school budgets and shrinking extracurriculars, the Wagner Ranch Nature Area in Orinda seems like an impossible oasis, a mirage that is sure to vanish at any moment, frog pond and all.

Welcome To The World (Gary Kamiya, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/sports/2002/06/22/worldcup/index.html>
In defeat, the U.S. soccer team won an epic victory: It brought America into the world of sports.

Score (Sara Mosle, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067219&device=>
The new (and improved) theology of the SAT.

At The TV Anchor Desk, Let's Talk Man-To-Man (Paul Farhi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26237-2002Jun21.html>
Perhaps someday, someone at one of the news stations in town will get hip to a radical, courageous and utterly old approach to presenting the local news: the all-guy anchor team.

Soccer Alive And Kicking On U.S. Playing Fields (Phil McCombs, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26190-2002Jun21.html>
Soccer is winning the battle for the hearts and minds of America's youngsters.

Big, Bigger, Biggest: The Supersize Suburb (Blaine Harden, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/garden/20BIGG.html>
The American house has been swelling for decades. It has swollen even though it stands on a smaller lot. It has swollen even though a smaller family lives in it.

Under A Clunker's Paint, A Masterpiece Emerges (Gay Jervey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/automobiles/21AUTO.html?8hpib>
A special exhibition, "Speed Sport Transport," has been organized to showcase a 1959 VW Beetle, a 1952 Jeep and a 2002 Smart Car at the Museum of Modern Art.

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

Robot On The Run (Dave Higgens, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/20/1023864460978.html>
Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives".

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

Where Local Davids Go To Take On Their Goliaths (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,127564,00.html?>
More than 2,000 letters are sent every month to The Straits Times Forum Page. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently lauded its contribution to the policy-making process. Our correspondent examines its appeal.

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

PM: It's Singapore's Choice (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/6/22/nation/umwater&sec=nation>
Malaysia has no problem if Singapore decides not to buy raw water from Johor because this will mean that the state can be assured of adequate water supply in future.

PTC Tries To Minimise Fare Hikes' Impact (Eric Gwee Teck Hai, Public Transport Council, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,127635,00.html?>
The PTC would like to assure readers that it has always sought to balance the interest of public-transport users with the need for bus and train operators to remain financially viable.

Small, Close Group Of Appointees Not GOod (Chew Yong Jack, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,127633,00.html?>
The process of appointing persons to important positions within the Government seems to be narrowed down to and decided within a small fraternity of notables.

$2 Is Great, But Why Charge At All? (Ginnie Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,127563,00.html?>
More than 50 people polled welcome the move to slash Sentosa's admission fee, but some wonder why it is still not free.

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