[MyAppleMenu] May 2, 2002

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

Apple Software Elegant, Useful (Dawn Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/3181292.htm>
The Mac OS X operating system is the most elegant interpretation of Unix I've ever seen.

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

Another Apple Exec Files To Sell 125,000 Shares Of AAPL (Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2002/05/02.1.shtml>

Apple's Education Revival (Ben Wilson, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17547.html>
Apple is known for the brand loyalty it engenders, and this phenomenon is nowhere more apparent than at institutions of higher educations.

A Look At The PowerBook G4's New Graphics Hardware (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/02.graphics.php>
MacCentral talked with the company that makes the graphics hardware, ATI Technologies Inc.

Macs Rule At Motor Trend Online (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/05/motortrend/>
"With Quicktime and LiveStage and Flash, we are able to create and add an advertising element to what we're doing. It's opening someinteresting doors for us."

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

My Mac Is Faster Than Your PC (Gene Steinberg, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/etech/etechmain.html?gannet_story=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/eteam/mac_reality_check.html>
It does feel nice to have the latest and the greatest, and to boast that you have the fastest PC on the planet. That is until next week's new model makes it seem obsolete.

An Apple For The Enterprise (Gary Beach, CIO Magazine)
<http://www.cio.com/archive/050102/publisher.html>
Apple should make a special iMac model for enterprises that runs a Linux client OS.

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

Escape Velocity: Nova (Russ Aaronson, MacReviewZone)
<http://macreviewzone.com/html/reviews/house/software/02/escape_v.html>
Very few shareware games are worth purchasing, and this is one of the select few.

Turn Up The Volume (Peter Lewis, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207753>
iPod is expensive, but it's a joy to use. If MediaFour's XPlay software works as promised, even Windows users will find the iPod to be a superior choice.

Keyboard Shortcuts One Way To Unlock Macintosh Mysteries (Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/02/BU142224.DTL&type=business>
Just go to the Finder's Help menu, start up Mac Help and type in "keyboard shortcuts."

After Effects Showdown: Mac Vs PC (Charlie White, Digital Video Editing)
<http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/05_may/features/cw_aeshowdown.htm>
Apple's assertions that G4 workstations are fater than all Pentium 4 or Athlon XP-based systems are exaggerated, at least as far as After Effects is concerned.

Putting A Mac In A PC House (Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/3178216.htm>
Setup's a snap, but networking with Windows laptop a chore.

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

The Age Of Findability (Peter Morville, Boxes And Arrows)
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002595.php>
Do you prefer a future filled with expensive, beautiful airports that jus thappen to be unnavigable?

Hollywood Vs. The Internet (Mike Godwin, Reason Online)
<http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.mg.hollywood.shtml>
If you have a fast computer and a fast Internet connection, you make Hollywood nervious. Which is why the studios, along with other content providers, have begun a campaign "to outlaw general-purpose computers."

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

Hackers Rain On Web Services Parade (Sandeep Junnarkar, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-897283.html>
"Web services absolutely will create new security weaknesses. These services are not being designed by bankers."

AOL Replaces Overture With Google (David F. Gallagher, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/ebusiness/02GOOG.html>
The decision will increase Google's already healthy share of the search market and give its advertising program a stronger foothold.

Is Microsoft Tired Of Web Services? (Phil Wainewright, Internet.com)
<http://www.aspnews.com/analysis/analyst_cols/article/0,2350,9921_1024561,00.html>
Microsoft has placed .NET at the center of its future vision, but some inside the company are showing signs of wear when it comes to Web services?

Google's Genius (Sam Ruby, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1351>
Google's Genius? In short, they did their homework.

Site Barks About Deep Link (Farhad Manjoo, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52213,00.html>
<i>The Dallas Morning News</i> demand that BarkingDogs.org stop linkiing to individual stories from the newspaper's website and link to the front page only. The controversy over deep-linking deepens.

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

.NET: Microsoft's Enterprise Ticket? (Jon Udell, Enterprise Systems)
<http://www.esj.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=90>
Will .NET Framework bring Microsoft and true language-neutral development into the enterprise?

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

Microsoft Witness Dubious Of 'Unbound' Windows (Cara Garretson, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/02/020502hnimpossible.xml>
It is "probably impossible" for Microsoft to provide an 'unbound' version of Windows.

Threat Is Seen To Microsoft Windows (Bloomberg)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/02SOFT.html?ex=1021003200&en=2f410093af1a91d0&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>
The Windows software would collapse like a "house of cards" under an antitrust proposal by nine states to strip Internet Explorer from the operating system, a computer scientist testified today.

Is Microsoft Tired Of Web Services? (Phil Wainewright, Internet.com)
<http://www.aspnews.com/analysis/analyst_cols/article/0,2350,9921_1024561,00.html>
Microsoft has placed .NET at the center of its future vision, but some inside the company are showing signs of wear when it comes to Web services?

Embedded XP Isn't The Remedy (Larry Seltzer, ZDNet)
<http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2863457,00.html>
The climax to the Microsoft remedy trial--Bill Gates' testimony--has come and gone and it's a fair time to analyze where things stand and to imagine what the software industry will look like post-judgment.

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

An Apple For The Enterprise (Gary Beach, CIO Magazine)
<http://www.cio.com/archive/050102/publisher.html>
Apple should make a special iMac model for enterprises that runs a Linux client OS.

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

The Fall Of The Libertarians (Francis Fukuyama, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105002013>
Sept. 11 might have also brought down a political movement.

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

Silicon Pets, But The Pride Is Real (Eric A. Taub, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02AIBO.html?homepageinsidebox>
Aibos, the first mass-produced entertainment robot, have grown in popularity in the three years since they were introduced. The reason for their appeal lies in large part in their petlike appearance and behavior, and in the software that allows them to "mature" emotionally.

Hollywood Vs. The Internet (Mike Godwin, Reason Online)
<http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.mg.hollywood.shtml>
If you have a fast computer and a fast Internet connection, you make Hollywood nervious. Which is why the studios, along with other content providers, have begun a campaign "to outlaw general-purpose computers."

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

10 Years Of Jay Leno Makes One Weak (Robert Bianco, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020430/4069226s.htm>
A great platform goes to waste.

My Father's Brain (Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?010910fa_FACT1>
What Alzheimer's takes away.

Stop Eating, Get High (Mark Morford, SF Gate)
<http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/>
Feeling toxic? War and bloat and Bush got you down? Maybe you should try fasting.

Bye-Bye, Dancing Baby (Carina Chocano, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/diary/2002/05/02/ally/index.html?x>
Sure, she was scary-skinny and her skirts were too short. But don't blame the unfiltered neuroses of "Ally McBeal" for the crisis contemporary women (and men) face.

Roads Way Too Much Traveled (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18001-2002May1.html>
Why would Robert James Waller, author of the phenomenally successful "Bridges of Madison County," push his luch by publishing a sequel? Let's do the math.

Suburbs In A New Light (David S. Broder, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11912-2002Apr30.html>
The notion that suburbs are the key battlegrounds of American politics has become so accepted it is almost a cliche. But the anatomy of suburban life and suburban elections remains much harder to define.

Pitchers At The Fair (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/books/02BOOK.html>
This weekend's national booksellers convention, the sales-pitch happening of the year, will highlight the importance of the publicist.

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

How Much Say Should Public Have Over Public Buildings? (Arthur Sim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,117518,00.html?>
When the Straits Times published a computer-generated picture of new Supreme Court complex last week, it generated a series of Forum letters.

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

Familiar Favourties (Corinne Kerk, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,2276,43776,00.html?>
Fosters may have moved to a more exciting location but its menu remains rather staid.

Adjust Salaries Rather Than Change CPF Rate (See Kwee Ming, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,117591,00.html?>
It is better to leave the CPF contribution alone and for the workers to decide whether they will accept a lower salary to remain employed.

Policy Change Makes It Easier To Retrench (David Lok Seow Kang, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,117561,00.html?>
Any change in retrenchment benefits should apply only to newly-employed workers.

Singapore Workers Struggle As Iron Rice Bowls Vanish (Jacqueline Wong, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=N10EY3LXWDNV2CRBAE0CFFAKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=908634>
The "iron rice bowl" of guaranteed employment for white collar workers in Singapore, suffering its worst recession in four decades, is history.

Poor Likely To Be Hit Hard By Singapore Tax Changes (Amy Tan, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=HAI5J4DNFFERICRBAE0CFEYKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=910344>
Big business should get a helping hand from tax cuts in Singapore's budget on Friday, but poorer families are likely to suffer as the government claws back money by boosting the levy on goods and services.

Feedback Unit To Set Up British-Style Forum (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,117501,00.html?>
The Feedback Unit plans to widen its net and finetune the way it conducts straw polls to ensure that the views it gathers actually represent those of Singapore's population.

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