[MyAppleMenu] Jun 26, 2002

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

iMac, iBook, iDolatry (Christina Dyrness, The News & Observer)
<http://newsobserver.com/front/Business/story/1491067p-1521691c.html>
For many Mac users, it's much more than just a machine.

UK Schools Love Macs - Official (Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4863>
Apple's bid to encourage schools to embrace its digital-video solutions is resulting in better-behaved and happier pupils, a UK government education agency revealed yesterday.

IE(eeeeeee) (Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1627>
Yes, Microsoft, your "free" software has finally asked too much of me... I think you've gotten enough of my time, disk space, and most of all, my <i>attention</i>, and I'm officially bringing the relationship to a close.

Back To Mac (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/25/switchstory_one.html>
My switch back to Macintosh was not just a good business decision, it was a life-changing experience. Being a Mac to Windows to Mac user, I can honestly say that the Mac changes you from being a victim of technology to a master of it.

Bushels Of New iMacs Piling Up (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-939363.html>
Apple Computer, which initially could not meet demand for its new flat-panel iMac, now appears to have the opposite problem.

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

iCab 2.8.1: Proxy/Firewall HTTPS Support (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14953>

Collaborating Long Distance On A Digital Mosaic (Barbara Gibson, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/06/mosaic/>
When the project began, no one had met face to face. Yet the project inspired a unique collaboration among amateur and professional artists around the world, including a web designer from Ireland, an art director in New Zealand, a Kansas math teacher, a professor in Spain, a pilot from Hawaii.

Scene Stealers: Product Placement Becomes More Ubiquitous (Sacha Molitorisz, Sydney Morning Hearld)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/26/1023864605634.html>
Indeed, Apple Mac is a film regular.

FireWire Popularity Growing In Japan, South Korea (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/26.firewire.php>
FireWire's future cotinues to look bright.

Umax: No OS X Commitment For Many Products (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14952>

Macs Take Over Photography Summit (David Schloss, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/26.photo.php>
"The Mac is pretty much the accepted computer for imaging... The Mac is easier to use, and it's better at doing things that the photographer needs."

Should You Buy A PC From The Other Steve? (Gene steinberg, The Arizona Republic)
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/etech/etechmain.html?gannet_story=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/eteam/mac_reality_check.html>
Apple Computer is promising a better way to get PC users up and running with their new computers.

Microsoft Mac Boss Responds To Hebrew Snub (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25896.html>
"[The] number of Macs in use by Hebrew-speaking people around the world is regrettably too small for us to consider localizing a product as extensive as Office, and Apple has not named it a top tier localization for Mac OS X, so we will not licalize IE either."

Apple Store Affiliate Scheme 'Coming Soon' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/log/linkme.html>

MacHack: The Ghost Of Macintosh Future (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06855>
The MacHack developers conference - the 17th of which was held last week in Dearborn, Michigan - is tremendously unusual.

Be Inc. Completes Takeover Of Palm (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25886.html>
There's a good precedent for this kind of reverse takeover.

Medal Of Honor (Brad Cook, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2002/06/medalofhonor/>

Apple Releases Repair Privileges Utility 1.0 (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14934>
The utility is available to users of Mac OS X 10.1.5, and solves several file permission-related errors in Disk Copy, the Classic environment and Print Center.

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

Snub Macs, Demo To PCs: Adobe At PC Expo/DV Expo (Douglas Demarco, O'Grady's PowerPage)
<http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=9543>

It's Not Just A Job, It's Apple (John Manzione, MacNETv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=28_0_1_0_M>

John Dvorak Is An Apple Basher (John Christie, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0626.html>
No, John Dvorak, you are a blind Apple basher with nothing better to do than write silly columns.

Understanding Changes In The Macintosh Market (Paul Murphy, MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/1849254>

iPods, Import Licenses, And Apple Engineering (Dirk Pilat, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/pilat/02/0626.html>

Apple Dumps Aussie PR After News Corp (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25897.html>
Gartner's Australian office should be taking the heat.

John C Dvorak On Switching (James Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1631>
Apple is out there working on a campaign to bring more real users to the platform. Those users are the ones that pay all of our salaries.

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

Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault (Christopher Paretti, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=262>
Medal of Honor is one of the best games to ever grace the Macintosh. It is crisp, fresh and incredibly immersive.

I've Switched From Windows, Now What? (Terrie Miller, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/25/wintomac_one.html>
Like that first middle-of-the-night excursion to the bathroom in a dark, unfamiliar house, there was some clumsiness in getting used to the new iBook/Mac OS X environment.

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

Want Wi-Fi? Learn The Secret Code (Matt Loney, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-939546.html>
Warchalking, as the practice has been coined by Matt Jones, entails simply drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node.

Declare E-Mail Independence (Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0702.asp>
Big e-mail providers snap their fingers, and the masses obey, like sheep. But there's a way to reclaim control.

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

Net Cafes Trouble Vietnam (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939519.html>
Communist-ruled Vietnam said Wednesday that it is looking to tighten controls on Internet cafes, which are an increasing challenge to the state's media monopoly.

Is It Time To Stop The Pop-Ups? (Rachel Konrad, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-939442.html>
Companies are struggling with the concept of "adware"--programs bundled with other downloaded software that monitor consumers' Web browsing and serve them ads based on their online habits.

Lawmaker Tries To Foil Illegal File-Sharing (Robert MacMillan, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43256-2002Jun25.html>
While content owners now can try to block access to intellectual property pirates, they cannot use the range of technological options that they want, chiefly because some tactics are illegal under state and federal law.

Yahoo To End Broadcasting Services (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Yahoo-Broadasting.html>
Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. is scrapping two free broadcasting services: FinanceVision, which provided streaming video clips with business and stock news, and a radio channel that came with its $5 billion acquisition of Broadcast.com, the company disclosed Tuesday.

Palladium Revisited (Johan Peter Lindberg, Tesugen.com)
<http://tesugen.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/2002/Jun/26#palladium2>
The future will certainly be about controlling content by technology, so let's hope that this is done in a way that doesn't obliterate fair use and doesn't put Microsoft/VeriSign in control of the competition in the software market.

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

"Mod Chip" For Hacking Xbox Discoontinued (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-939591.html>
One of the companies making Xbox "mod chips"--add-on components that modify the game machine so it can run illegally copied discs and homemade software--has gone out of business, possibly because of legal pressure from Microsoft.

Microsoft's Mira Software Gets Name (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-939635.html>
Although devices using Microsoft's Mira technology are still a few months from hitting shelves, the software giant said Wednesday that it has settled on its name for the software that will power the Web-surfing tablets.

Microsoft To Make China Education Push (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-939439.html>

Why Breaking Up MS Was Sure To Fail (David Berlind, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-939429.html>
The Appellate Court admitted in its opinion that finding effective remedies in technologically dynamic markets is problematic. Absent of a crystal ball, Penfield-Jackson did what any judge might have done to keep a crook off the streets--throw the biggest book he could at Microsoft. But now, that option is off the table.

Microsoft Mac Boss Responds To Hebrew Snub (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25896.html>
"[The] number of Macs in use by Hebrew-speaking people around the world is regrettably too small for us to consider localizing a product as extensive as Office, and Apple has not named it a top tier localization for Mac OS X, so we will not licalize IE either."

IE(eeeeeee) (Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1627>
Yes, Microsoft, your "free" software has finally asked too much of me... I think you've gotten enough of my time, disk space, and most of all, my <i>attention</i>, and I'm officially bringing the relationship to a close.

Palladium Revisited (Johan Peter Lindberg, Tesugen.com)
<http://tesugen.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/2002/Jun/26#palladium2>
The future will certainly be about controlling content by technology, so let's hope that this is done in a way that doesn't obliterate fair use and doesn't put Microsoft/VeriSign in control of the competition in the software market.

Microsoft Wireless Rumors Unfounded (Carmen Nobel, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,278792,00.asp>
Reports of the ubiquity of Microsoft Corp.'s wireless operating systems have been greatly exaggerated, company officials acknowledged on Monday.

Why Intel Loves Palladium (Drew Cullen, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25892.html>
Who remembers PSN?

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

The Last Conglomerateur (James Surowiecki, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020701ta_talk_surowiecki>
Call them what you like--conglomerates don't work. What investors want now, post-Enron, is transparency, clarity, and security, and conglomerates offer the opposite.

The Poor's Best Hope (Jagdish Bhagwati, The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1188714>
Removing trade barriers is not just a job for the rich. The poor must do the same in order to prosper.

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

Declare E-Mail Independence (Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0702.asp>
Big e-mail providers snap their fingers, and the masses obey, like sheep. But there's a way to reclaim control.

No New Dot-Com Job (Joyce Slaton, SF Gate)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/06/25/postrush.DTL>
Ex-tech workers are creating their own non-tech businesses.

How Music Is The Food Of Brain Cells (Paul Gallagher, The Scotsman)
<http://www.arts.scotsman.com/headlines_specific.cfm?id=5492>
Medical scans found that instrumentalists and singers have 130 per cent more grey matter in a particular part of their brains compared with those who are unable to play a note.

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

In Japan, Cute Conquers All (Brian Bremner, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2002/nf20020625_7574.htm>
What is it about the culture that young people -- men as well as women -- are so hooked on cuteness? The answer isn't simple.

Power Of The Penne (Tim Struby, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020701ta_talk_struby>
Ballplayers can be superstitious about food.

A Cook's Frontyard (Emily Green, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-landscape26jun26.story>
Long hidden in the back, fruit and vegetable gardens are now on display all over the Southland.

Connie Chung, Dishing Up The Nightly News (Tom Shales, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44814-2002Jun25.html>
Connie Chung has earned the right to do pretty much whatever she wants, and "Connie Chung Tonight" made a relatively smooth debut.

East Of Midtown, It's The Art Of The Meal (Mark Bitman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/dining/26QUEE.html>
"That is food to one man may be fierce poison to others," wrote the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius. He might as well have said the same of contemporary art -- and of New York neighborhoods. This weekend, as the Museum of Modern Art opens in its new temporary location across the East River in Long Island City, Queens, visitors will have a chance to determine the validity of all three claims.

Beyond The Briefly Inflated Canon: Legacy Of The Mysterious 'W.S.' (William S. Nielderkorn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/books/26SHAK.html>
A byline that read "W.S." on the poem "A Funeral Elegy" was the first piece of evidence that led scholars to suspect the author was Shakespeare, a theory they have now retracted.

Luxury Jet Outfitters Help Their Clients Live Large (Jlie Flaherty, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/business/25LUX.html>
Lufthansa Technik, a German company that specializes in luxury interiors for large private jets, has had its share of requests for Jacuzzis, dog kennels and even garages. But one of the features it is most proud of is the paper doors.

Can't Watch The Beheading Video (Leonard Pitts, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/chi-0206250025jun25.story>
It's not seeing him dead that I can't handle. It's the idea of watching it happen.

=== reader : expressions =============

Temperament (Jim Powell, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067353&device=>

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

Top Foreign Talent Quit Singapore Firms (Rebecca Lee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,128611,00.html?>
Pace of resignations has picked up recently but the affected companiessay the exodus is a mere coincidence.

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

Bus, MRT Firms Spend Too Much (Irene Lim Chue Chue, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,128618,00.html?>
Rather than spending lavishly on upgrading, maybe the money could be used to offset the fare increases.

HDB May Cut Jobs Next Year If It Corporatises Unit: Sources (Katherine Tay, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/11614/1/.html>
Singapore's Housing and Development Board could cut some of its workforce next year, if it proceeds to corporatise its Building and Development Division, sources from HDB say.

New NDP Ticket Distribution Centres To Eliminate Overnight Queues (Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/11589/1/.html>
Organisers say the locations of the seven ticket distribution centres will only be announced on the day of distribution itself, which is Sunday, July 7. To rule out speculation, organisers say none of the previous centres will be used.

Singapore In 2nd Place In "Economic Freedom" Index: Report (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,49428,00.html?>
Hong Kong remained at the top while the United States came in third.

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