[MyAppleMenu] Mar 14, 2002

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

UNIX Under The Desktop (Doc Searls and Brent Simmons, Linux Journal)
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5610>
A penguin's-eye look at Apple's OS X.

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

MySQL Studio Released For Mac OS X (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0203/14.mysql.php>

New Symantec Tools For OS X (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4369>
Symantec has announced Internet security and problem-solving products for Mac OS X.

Parents: Bath Not Ready For Laptops (Christopher Cousins, Times Record)
<http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/D5E00F217FB1901C85256B7A0054B7C9?Opendocument>
The school department doesn't have an adequate plan in place to support them.

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

Mac Market Built On Sand? (Matthew Rothenberg, eWEEK)
<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%3D25201%26a%3D24037,00.asp>
Are users going to be as patient about deferring an equipment purchase in the face of months-long delays?

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

MS Office X For Macintosh (vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/Products/Software/1130065>
Apple has been looking for a "killer app" to convince users to upgrade to Mac OS X and, ironically, rival Microsoft has obliged.

Sorenson Squeeze 1.0 (Jim Heid, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/04/reviews/sorensonsqueeze.html>
Inexpensive utility simplifies video compression, but lacks advanced workflow conveniences.

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

Netscape's Folly (Megan McArdle, Salon)
<http://images.salon.com/src/ads/porsche/porsche_flashme.html?http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/14/netscape_vs_microsoft_one/index.html>
The loser in the browser wars has filed a private antitrust suit against Microsoft. But the company doesn't deserve to win.

Cripple All Those Email Clients To Conform To Law (Ben Tilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1200>
It cannot contain a "forward" buton. It cannot allow you to copy and paste test from it. It cannot allow you to create a reply with my words included.

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

AOL Testing Mozilla As Alternative To Explorer-Source (Reshma Kapadia, Reuters)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21756-2002Mar13.html>
CompuServe has been testing the Mozilla Web browser as an alternative to MSIE, a source close to AOL said.

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

MS Office X For Macintosh (vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/Products/Software/1130065>
Apple has been looking for a "killer app" to convince users to upgrade to Mac OS X and, ironically, rival Microsoft has obliged.

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

UNIX Under The Desktop (Doc Searls and Brent Simmons, Linux Journal)
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5610>
A penguin's-eye look at Apple's OS X.

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

Piracy, Or Innovation? It's Hollywood Vs. High Tech (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/14PROT.html>
Leaders of two of the nation's most prominent industries have begun publicly sniping at each other.

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

At Airport Gate, A Cyborg Unplugged (Lisa Guernsey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14MANN.html>
How a traveler will fare once wearable computing devices are such fixture on the body that a person will not be able to part with them.

Behind The Search For The "Afghan Girl" (David Braun, National Geographic News)
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html>
She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was.

Made For The Medium: Photojournalism At MSNBC.com (Brian Storm, Digital Journalist)
<http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0203/storm.htm>
At MSNBC.com we live in a unique world where TV, radio, print and Web techniques work in tandem, often creating more depth than an individual medium could alone.

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

Singapore's Lee Defends Land Reclamation rights (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-94893.html>
Lee Hsien Loong ended a four-day visit to Malaysia on Thursday defending his island state's right to stretch its boundaries despite Malaysian protests.

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