[MyAppleMenu] Mar 13, 2002

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

Is Apple Stocking Its Own Shelves First? (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-859163.html>
Shortages of a hot new product have Macintosh dealers grumbling that Apple is showing preferential treatment to company-owned retail stores -- something the company promised would not happen.

Apple Unveils Mobile Content Creation Suite (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4362>
Apple introduces Portable Digital Media Lab, "bringing a radical new perspective to learning, giving pupils the freedom to document, discover and interact with the world around them."

An Anti-Mac Corporate Conspiracy? (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2002/nf20020313_1562.htm>
A reader suggests that info-tech managers are keeping their companies PC-centric to protect their job secrutiy.

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

MacPerl 5.6.1 Improves Performance (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=13114>

Apple Targets Windows Users With iPod (Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4365>
A report from Jupiter MMXI on Apple and its digital music player claims the iPod will lure non-Mac users into buying Apple-made products.

iMovie: Capturing The Real World At 70MPH (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/hed/macsinaction/pepperdine/>
"We quickly got used to working in 24-hour shifts, and editing with iMove while we were going 70 miles an hour down the freeway!"

Notes/Domino 6 Preview Offers OS X Support (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=13086>

A Recording Studio, For A Song (Charles F. Moreira, The Star)
<http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2002/3/12/itfeature/ghragtime&sec=itfeature>
Digital technology has enabled musicians like local singer, songwriter and musician Amir Yussof to set up complete recording studios in their offices or homes -- for virtuall a song (no puns intended).

Virtual PC 5.0.2 Improves Performance (TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06747>
Chief among the improvements are a wide variety of performance enhancements aimed at addressing complaints about glacial performance under Mac OS X.

Tariff On Blank CDs? Blame Canada (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50995,00.html>
Makers of MP3 players would pay $21 in fees for each gigabyte of memory, raising the cost of devices like Apple's iPod by more than $100.

Have Modem, Will Apple (Glenn Fleishman, 802.11b Networking News)
<http://80211b.weblogger.com/2002/03/12>
You can modify an Orinoco RG-1000 to use Apple's AirPort software, too.

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

Simplifying All Those Cords (Edward C. Baig, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/ccarch/2002/03/13/baig.htm>
How did we get stuck in this morass? Call it Darwinism in reverse.

AppleWorks = iOffice? Or, How About iSuite? (Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/03/13.4.shtml>
"Why in the hell doesn't Apple make a bigger marketing push with this!"

Discussion: One Year Of Mac OS X: Reflections (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/12/2321226>

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

Survivor: The Interactive Game (Chris Paretti, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=238>
I don't quite understand why MacSoft decided to publish this game after its failure in the PC world.

A Marvel Of Design (Andy Riga, Montreal Gazette)
<http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/specials/business/story.html?id={B900C89A-7E42-4822-AE8C-B6EAA27A9D24}>
New iMac lives up to its billing as the ultimate digital hub.

Digital Photo Goodies For Mac OS X (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/12/iphoto_goodies.html>
Mac OS X is becoming a great digital photography platform.

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

Google Hit By Link Bombers (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1868000/1868395.stm>
Popular search site Google is being exploited by some net users to mount protests and play jokes on their friends.

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

Wireless LANs Gain Over Cellular (Bob Brewin, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68982,00.html>
Who needs 3G?

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

New Windows Could Solve Age-Old Format Puzzle - At A Price (Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1017-857509.html>
Replacing its antiquated file system with modern database technology should mean a more reliable Windows that's less likely to break and easier to fix when it does.

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

"Ghost" Haunting XP Computers Unmasked (New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992040>
The built-in voice recognition software is installed and activated by some computer retailers as a default option.

Xbox Awaits Friendlier European Arrival (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-859087.html>
Microsoft is expected to begin a comparatively pleasant European holiday this week, after a bruising arrival for the Xbox in Japan last month.

An Anti-Mac Corporate Conspiracy? (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2002/nf20020313_1562.htm>
A reader suggests that info-tech managers are keeping their companies PC-centric to protect their job secrutiy.

=== linux news =============

Will Linux Find A Home In Handhelds? (PC World)
<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_989511,00.html>
Linux is making inroads into the PDA market with a number of handheld companies announcing support.

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

Ridge Against The Machine (Steven Brill, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/721945.asp>
He came to Washington with a target on his back, lacking the power to dent the bureaucracy. But Tom Ridge and his Homeland Security team are quietly making things happen in a hurry.

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

The Universe, In Need Of A Good Decorator (Paul Richard, Wasghinton Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16869-2002Mar12.html>
Science has determined, or rather re-determined, the color of the universe, and it turns out to be beige. <i>Beige?</i>

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

Sex Tips For Victorians (Roy Edroso, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/03/13/becklard/index.html?x>
Dr Becklard's 1845 self-help book is amazingly sex-positive, but probably should not be consulted regarding contraception (it involves trotting a horse).

A Leading Lady (Tim Page, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17356-2002Mar12.html>
Irene Worth was a woman of many parts.

In Philadelphia, A New Taste Of Freedom (Regina Schrambling, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/dining/13PHIL.html>
Philadelphia appears to be the one city in the Northeast rebounding with real energy lately, particularly in the culinary world.

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

O My People (James Reiss, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062531&device=>

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

Teacher Seeks Ban On Guinness Books (Amy Hetzner, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/mar02/26616.asp>
Waukesha grade school boys too interested in record bikini, she says.

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

Public-Sector Bulge A Short-Term One (Seah Yam Meng, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,108135,00.html?>
Once the economy picks up, graduates would move to the private sector in hopes of better pay.

Guards Retain ICs So Passes Are Returned (Ngiam Shih Tung, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,108166,00.html?>
There are legitimate reasons for inspecting a person's identity card to verify his particulars. There are no legitimate reasons for retaining it.

Road Diversions For Circle MRT Line Works Less Disruptive: LTA (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020313/5/singapore2314.html>
LTA has assured that road diversions due to the building of the Circle MRT Line will be less disruptive compared to the construction of the North East Line.

Singapore's Land Reclamation To Go On Until Malaysia's Claims Verified (Sa'odah Elias, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/3/12/nation/odsinga&sec=nation>
Singapore has assured Malaysia that it will look seriously into any concern raised over the republic's reclamation project provided there is proper study and proof.

Drive To Make Malay Official Asean Language (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/3/13/nation/malaylingo&sec=nation>

Contractor Faces Dilemma Moving Merlion Statue To New Fullerton Site (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020313/5/singapore2237.html>
Moving the Merlion under the Esplanade Bridge's six-metre height is giving contractors a headache.

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