[MyAppleMenu] Aug 26, 2002

Mon Aug 26 21:05:03 EDT 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Aug 26, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Can't Keep Up With Demand For Newest iMac (Jon Swartz, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2002-08-25-apple-imac_x.htm>
Apple's sleek new 17-inch flat-panel iMac is so popular that some buyers have to wait weeks to get one.

Happy Mac Becomes An Icon Of The Past (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/technology/26MAC.html>
Missing and presumed dead: the smiling "happy Mac" icon that for millions of Macintosh users had defined Apple's cuddly alternative to gray flannel corporate computing.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Gateway Publishes Report That Shows Its PC Outperforming THe iMac (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/08/26.14.shtml>
Not surprisingly, the report shows the Gateway Profile outperforming the iMac in every category.

e.Digital Rolls Out New Digital Music Players (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/26.edigital.php>
San Diego, Calif.-based e.Digital Corp. has announced the Odyssey 150 and 800, two new digital audio players that are Mac and Windows-compatible.

Forbes Reports On... Steve Jobs' Wardrobe (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/08/26.12.shtml>
"Dress different? Never."

Epson Launches Two New Inkjet Printers (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16117>
Both feature faster print speeds, support for EXIF, and technology for variable drop sizes and higher optimized resolution.

Apple Planning Store For St. Louis (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16113>

The Mac Is Dead... Long Live The Mac (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=327657>
Apple's new operating system is more than a match for Microsoft's and 'classic' Mac will be no more. But, will this alienate existing users?

Gateway Ads Assault The iMac (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-955300.html>
As a narrator touts Profile 4's advantage over Apple's computer, Gateway's all-in-one PC does flips and backflips over three iMacs.

Happy Birthday, PDA (Margie Wylie, Newhouse News Service)
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3181157.html>
A decade later, we're still waiting for PDAs to match the hype.

Mac OS X Evolves (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/3937034.htm>
"Jaguar" changes everything.

Apple Releases Updates For OS X 10.2 (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16104>
Apple's has released a number of updates for OS X 10.2 as well as other information articles on the new release.

.Mac Offers Slideshow, Backup Utils For Jag (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16102>
.Mac is now offering a new slideshow sharing feature and an updated backup utility.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Jaguar Arrives With Flair! (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/02/08/26/index.html>

Mac Design: Little Room For Improvement (Kevin Webb, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/webb/02/0826.html>
Once you reach the pinnacle of good design, what do you do for an encore?

Tech Writers Are All Wet (Jon Lolliger, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/3937019.htm>

It's Not A Party Till The Cops Show Up (James Duncan Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1895>
Nuts I tell you. Nuts.

Minting Money (.Mac Revisited) (Robert Paul Leitao, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/08/26.1.shtml>
That's better than a Tinker Bell necklace or a Pluto watch... isn't it?

Independence Fro Microsoft (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/3937014.htm>
Very simply, I'd had enough. I was weary, as a Windows "customer," of assisting Microsoft's famous indifference to ethics, fairness, security and so many other values.

Readers Respond To Astrid Storm's "Switcher's Remorse" (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/letters/2002/08/26/switchers/index.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Netscape Communicator 4.8 Mini-Review (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/08/20020826125629.shtml>
Communicator is technically faster on many pages, but iCab is a lot more efficient when you're trying to get your work done.

New 867MP Versus 1000MP (Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/pmddr3.html>
When you consider the clock speed is 20% faster and the cost is at least 21% more when comparably equipped, the 867MP is a better buy.

Readers Confirm Jaguar, Radeon Issues (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16112>

Spam Blockers For Macs (Al Fasoldt, Newhouse News Service)
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3181098.html>
We're finally getting good spam-killing software for Macintosh systems.

USB Or FireWire? The One that's Right For You Is... (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2878128,00.html>
If you're absolutely, positively never going to shoot home video and don't want an iPod, you can probably skip FireWire.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Office Gives Up Some Ground (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-955383.html>
HP is booting Microsoft Office from its Pavilion line of consumer PCs in favor of software from Corel, as more PC makers consider cheaper alternatives to Microsoft software.

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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New Videophone Zooms In On Sign-Ups (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-955327.html>
KDDI, Japan's second-biggest wireless company, said on Monday that it plans to launch a service in October that will allow users to send and receive videos on their mobile phones, intensifying competition in the hot sector.

DoubleClick Pays To End Privacy Probe (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-955356.html>
DoubleClick said on Monday that it agreed to pay $450,000 and alter its policies to settle a 30-month, multistate investigation into the online advertising company's use of consumers' personal data.

A Pretty Picture (Pat Regnier, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020805-331986,00.html>
As 3G languishes, Europe's wireless players find a glimmer of hope in camera phones and multimedia messaging. So what do you want to see?

Happy Birthday, PDA (Margie Wylie, Newhouse News Service)
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3181157.html>
A decade later, we're still waiting for PDAs to match the hype.

Time's Running Out For Giant That Thinks The Web Is TV (John Naughton, The Observer)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,780152,00.html>
If at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again. This seems to be the motto behind the world's greatest media conglomerate, AOL Time Warner.

Microsoft Readies Specifications Compliance Kit For Web Services (Paul Krill, Infoworld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/25/020825hnwskit.xml>
Looking to drive industry adoption of its Web services standards proposals, Microsoft on Monday plans to announce availability of a software development kit featuring its own specifications.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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What Really Makes You Fat? (J. Madeleine Nash, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020902/story.html>
Should you count calories or carbs? The latest research may surprise you.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Slow Lane (John Seabrook, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020902fa_fact>
Can anyone solve the problem of traffic?

A Road Runs Through It (Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,780716,00.html>
How do you build a new office complex in a city already jammed full? Simple: wrap it around a motorway.

Why Not Put Off Till Tomorrow The Novel You Could Begin Today? (Ann Patchett, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/books/26PATC.html>
Life's activities can serve as a series of stalling techniques for beginning to write a new novel.

Ennobled By Jazz (Lucas E. Morel, Christianity Today)
<http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2002/003/5.9.html>
Raph Ellison and the music of American possibility.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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KL May Turn To Courts To Resolve Water Dispute: Minister (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,55485,00.html?>
Malaysia's dispute with Singapore on water supplies could end up in arbitration if both sides fail to agree on a pricing formula, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said today.

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