[MyAppleMenu] Dec 6, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Dec 6, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Baby, Friend, Pet: That's My Mac (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56578,00.html>
Macintosh users associate human characteristics with their machines -- and that's one of the keys to Mac loyalty, psychologists and anthropologists say.

MyAppleMenu : News
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QuickTime 6 Used To Deliver Industry's First MPEG-4 Radio Webcast (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/12/06/radioio>
Radioio, one of the largest Internet-only radio stations in the world, and Limelight Networks, a leader in IP transport services, today announced that they have teamed up with Apple to launch a new Internet radio station based on MPEG-4.

Dark Horse DivX Gains On QuickTime (Sholto Macpherson, Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5588692%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>
Apple's QuickTime leads the pack, with a pedigree stretching back to 1991 and the kudos of donating its file format to the latest MPEG standard.

Sweeter At Apple? (Gene Marcial, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_50/b3812143.htm>
Some pros believe Apple will kick higher starting this month.

LaCie To Debut A 500GB Hard Drive (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/05.lacie.php>
Dubbed the LaCie Big Disk, the drive will be available in two configurations: a 500GB model and a faster 400GB model.

Final Cut Pro Updated (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/05.finalcut.php>
According to Apple, the update addresses performance and reliability issues.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple In OpenSourceLand... And Free Software (Yves de Champlain, OSXFAQ)
<http://www.osxfaq.com/Editorial/open/index4.ws>

Rants & Raves: Apple: It's All About The Brand (janmorren, Liza and Kevin McGinley, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/rants/0,2350,56738,00.html>
Of course Apple sells an image. So does BMW, Mercedes, Coca Cola, Nike, Campbells, Adidas, Puma, Boss. Does this mean these guys don't have good products?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Is Santa Bringing You A New Edit System? (Oliver Peters, EditorsNet)
<http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/article_3511.shtml>
The good news is that for the first time, you can build an uncompressed serial digital editing suite with a lower system cost than a single VTR needed for playback and mastering.

MicroSizers, iPod Tops In Electronics (TJ Accola, La Vista Sun)
<http://www.lavistasun.com/index.php?u_np=11&u_pg=814&u_sid=584594>

Want To Edit Digital Video Like A Pro? (Stephen H. Wildstrom, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2002/tc2002126_5470.htm>
Avid Xpress turned out to be my favorite.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft's Real Problem (Dana Blankenhorn, Moore's Lore)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20021201.shtml#14348>
Microsoft’s real problem is that Moore’s Law demands deflation, and Microsoft has gotten in the way of it.

Microsoft Warns Of IE, Outlook Flaws (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976206.html>
Microsoft late Wednesday warned of new security glitches in some of its Internet software that could expose sensitive data.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Feds Label Wi-Fi A Terrorist Tool (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html>
Attention, Wi-Fi users: The Department of Homeland Security sees wireless networking technology as a terrorist threat. 

AT&T, IBM, Intel Found Nationwide Wi-Fi Network Venture (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/05/021205hncometa.xml?s=IDGNS>
As a wholesale supplier, Cometa will resell access to its IEEE 802.11 network to ISPs, wireless carriers, and owners of public access locations such as hotel chains, airports, and universities.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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3G Networks Deliver At A Snail's Pace (Ben Charny, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-976279.html>
The same landline dial-up services the carriers hoped to challenge with 3G aren't having any trouble keeping up--in fact, they're faster.

Thoughts On RedHat 8.0 (Derek Vadala, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2388>
While it sure looks nice, it's not quite the bargain I expected.

Walmart Backs Off -- Somewhat (Richard Koman, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2386>
Wal-Mart has dropped the demand for a name, and that FatWallet was asking for damages for Wal-Mart's knowingly false invocation of DMCA.

More Linux Desktops On The Way (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976240.html>
Entering a market that has attracted the likes of Sun Microsystems and raised an alarm at Microsoft, Penguin Computing announced Thursday a new desktop PC for businesses that runs on the open-source Linux operating system.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Violence And Islam (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16435-2002Dec5.html>
Is Islam an inherently violent religion?

The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing (Lee Harris, Policy Review)
<http://www.policyreview.org/dec02/harris.html>
Above all it is the America that is responsible for the evils of the rest of the world.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Mathematics Unrvels Optimum Way Of Shoe Lacing (Rachel Nowak, New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993136>
The knotty problem of choosing the optimum way of lacing up shoes has been solved by a new mathematical proof.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Day To Melt Cares Away (Libby Copeland, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16552-2002Dec5.html>
We are all children for the first snow of the year.

It Takes More Than Crayfish To Make A Cajun Wiggle (R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/04/dining/04CAJU.html>
In Acadiana, as a rule, the more rudimentary the surroundings, the more genuine the grub.

In Book Publishing World, Some Reasons For Optimism (Dinitia Smith, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/06/business/media/06BOOK.html>
More book titles than ever ar ebeing published these days. So why do publishers complain?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Union Sacks Official For Ties To Political Opposition (Associated Press)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/12/5/latest/9111Singapore&sec=latest>
One of Singapore's largest unions has dismissed a branch chairman because he refused to cut his ties to an opposition political party.

A Little Chaos Will Give Singapore The Buzz It Needs (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,159029,00.html>
Singapores in Hong Kong suggest 5 Cs -- chaos, creativity, culture, concentration, connectivity -- to inject life into the 'boring' country.

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