[MyAppleMenu] May 8, 2002

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

Apple Announces iPhoto 1.1.1 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/08.iphoto.php>
iPhoto 1.1.1 includes new brightness and contrast controls, integration with Mac OS X's Mail application for emailing photos and controls for setting favorite photos as desktop backgrounds and screen saver slide shows.

Discovery: At A Secluded Rendezvous... (Glenn Fleishman, 802.11b/WiFI News)
<http://80211b.weblogger.com/2002/05/07>
Discovery shifts the burden from a human being acting as a device (click, check, login, click, click, refresh) into a system that handles it for them.

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

Tim O'Reilly Explains Why Mac OS X Might Be The Next Big Thing (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1383>
"Think platform, not just application -- build in extensibility and interoperability, play well with others -- it breeds succeess and you'll have more fun."

Apple Granted New Patent For Graphics Accelerator (Bryan Chaffin and Daniel Miller, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/05/08.1.shtml>

Buy Final Cut, DVD Pro, Get Rebate (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=378>

Apple Designers Gong-Ho (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4623>
Apple's renowned industrial designers have again made it onto the shortlist of nominations for the prestigious British Design and Art Direction awards.

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

What's Next For Apple? (David Rosen, CanadaComputes.com)
<http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,8462,00.html?tag=81&sb=124>
It's time Apple realizes that the average person trying to figure out which computer to buy for their son or daughter isn't particularly interested int he Apple culture, nor are they willing to pay more to look cool.

Can Apple Succeed In School? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc2002058_4951.htm>
Conventional wisdom says this is a crucial market for Macs. Let us know if you agree, and if so, how Jobs & Co. should approach it.

The Struggle For SoundBlaster Live On Mac (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/08/1550211>

OS X Beyond The PowerPC (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/0508.html>
OS X could be perceived as a real world alternative to Windows, something the classic Mac OS was never able to do.

Apple's Classroom Counterattack (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc2002058_9092.htm>
It's launching a strategy that combines low-cost machines and teacher training to beat back Dell and the PC invaders.

Rendezvous Is French For JXTA (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1380>
Rendezvous is going to be really big.

Apple Not Resting On Its Mac OS X Laurels (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1377>
How did the rest of the computing world let Apple capitalize on desktop Unix first? Was everyone else sleeping?

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

Apple's Amazing iPod (Carl Roguel, Bnext.com)
<http://bnext.bworld.net/A&E/May/artstory3.html>
Apple never stops outdoing everybody.

Photoshop 7 Arrives For Mac OS X (David Weiss, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/07/photoshop7.html>
Photoshop 7.0's diverse enhancements is well worth the price of admission.

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

Boom Time Has Passed For Online Porn (Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3200456.htm>
Profits no longer assured.

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

Is Bill Gates Crying Wolf? (Stephen H Wildstrom, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782038.htm>
He says the states' antitrust remedies would stifle innovation at Microsoft. Not likely.

MS Economist: Consumers Will Pay (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-902578.html>
University of Virginia economics professor Kenneth Elzinga said the states' proposed sanctions would cripple the Windows operating system, raise costs, and reduce Microsoft's incentive to improve its products.

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

A Human Touch For Machines (Charles Piller, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000032322may07.story>
The radical movement of affective computing is turning the field of artificial intelligence upside down by adding emotion to the equation.

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

The Matrix Reloads (Jess Cagle, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,235417,00.html>
It's high kicks, high tech and high concepts, as we peek inside the two Matrix sequels now shooting Down Under.

Hottest Food Trend In Marin Is Cuisine That Keeps Its Cool (Rob Morse, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/05/08/MN162838.DTL>
The Bay Area has a haute cuisine restaurant so hot it doesn't have a stove.

Shouting Matches (Mark Leibovich, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49970-2002May7.html>
It is an odd dance of democracy, these spontaneous shout-o-ramas that break out at public rallies. Do they ever result in minds changed, or budged, or anything close to constructive exchanges of views? Ever?

When Giving Birth, Opting To Go It Alone (Randi Hutter Epstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/health/womenshealth/07BIRT.html>
A close-knit network of parents are choosing do-it-yourself deliveries, demonstrating a dissatisfaction that many women perceive with obstetrics today.

Chicago's Photographers And Their Abstract World (Sarah Boxer, New York Times)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc2002058_9092.htm>
A massive photography exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago examines the success of the New Bauhaus, the short-lived stepchild of the old Bauhaus in Germany.

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

The Fruit Cage (Julian Barnes, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?020513fi_fiction>

Landscape With Décolletage (Paul Guest, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064753&device=>

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

LTA Says Light Rail Service Not Up To Scratch (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,118681,00.html?>
In less than three years, the service has been disrupted about 50 times.

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

Drama Queens And Kings (Helmi Yusof, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,118602,00.html?>
Life! checks out the directors, playwrights, actors and designers in this year's DBS Life! Theatre Awards.

Punggol 21 Residents Get Broadband Access In Pilot Project (Chia Hui Kheng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/7387/1/.html>

No Malaysian Vegetable Lorries Denied Entry Into Singapore: AVA (Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/7399/1/.html>
AVA said any country could supply its vegetables to Singapore provided they comply with the pesticide residue requirements.

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