[MyAppleMenu] Dec 4, 2002

Wed Dec 4 21:05:02 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Offers IP Over FireWire Preview Release (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/04.ipfirewire.php>
Apple's Developer Connection (ADC) Web site is now offering an IP over FireWire Preview Release -- technology that enables Macs and other devices to communicate using TCP/IP through FireWire instead of Ethernet or other common networking media.

Apple: It's All About The Brand (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56677,00.html>
Ask marketers and advertising experts why Mac users are so loyal, and they all cite the same reason: Apple's brand.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Opera 'Should Be Default Mac Browser' (Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5644>
Opera should be the default browser in all new Macs, Opera Software's chief executive officer Jon von Tetzchner revealed as the company releases Opera 6 for Mac Beta 3.

Out Of The Boutique, Into The Big Time (Garry Barker, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386319174.html>
Where Xserve has gone into operation in Australia, corporate users have been impressed by performance and price but critical of documentation and what some of them call Apple's "retail" approach to corporate buyers.

For Mac Users, It Takes A Village (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56678,00.html>
Consumer behaviorist Tom O'Guinn thinks the key to Apple's loyalty is the Mac community itself. Apple users are not loyal to Apple per se. They are loyal to Apple and to each other.

New S.J. School Gives Every Studnet A Laptop (Maya Suryaraman, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4661960.htm>
At San Jose's new Evergreen Valley High School, the idea of a computer lab is virtually obsolete.

Apple's Wireless LAN Problem (Robyn Weisman, NewsFactor)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/20129.html>
Despite its striking industrial design, speed and versatility, the TiBook has an apparent Achilles' heel that has gained increasing attention of late. Its wireless LAN setup has been reported to be very limited in comparison with other notebook computers.

Apple Connects With New Bay Street Store (East Bay Business Journals, David Goll)
<http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2002/12/02/story5.html>
"We want to grow our market share, pure and simple."

High-Tech Jacket Developed In Vermont (WCAX-TV)
<http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=1035722&nav=4QcSCiVD>
A textile data strip allows buttons on the jacket's sleeve to communicate with a digital music player located in a compartment in the chest.

Usability Is Next To Profitability (Jane Black, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2002/tc2002124_2181.htm>
Software companies have finally grasped the value of easy-to-fathom programs, and they're pouring resources into the task.

New OS Creating Macintosh Converts (Deni Connor, Network World)
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1202macmanage.html>
Unix-based Mac OS X 10.2 offers network executives more familiar administrative tools.

Mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 1.2.1 Mac OS, OS X Browser (The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/03.13.shtml>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Macworld Readers Divided Over Digital Hub (Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5648>
Just over half of Macworld Online readers think Apple's focus on the digital hub alienates professional users -- 56 per cent replied: "No, it forgets pro users."

An Interview With Tim O'Reilly (Jennifer Buckendroff, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/03/timinterview.html>
We set the tape rolling--yes, we still use tape--and from iPod to Web services to O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference, here's what Tim's thinking about as of late.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple Laptops And OS X - How Much Power Do You Need? (Charles Moore, macOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/02/12/03/index.html>

iApp Power Play (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/03/power_iapps.html>
You probably didn't realize this because Apple's marketing focus to consumers is simplicity, not integrated environments. But there's certainly more to the iApps than initially meets the eye.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Xerox Scientist Sees Promise In Plastic (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1001-975903.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
A scientist at Xerox on Tuesday detailed how to create inexpensive semiconducting plastics that may finally fulfill the promise of reducing the cost of display technology for laptops, cell phones and other devices.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Sun Accused Of Shading Open Source (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-975941.html>
A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.

IBM Debuts Linux-Only Server (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-975940.html>
IBM will announce a new low-end server Wednesday, its first Power processor-based system that can run the Linux operating system without needing IBM's AIX as well.

Holiday E-Cards: Handle With Care (Kendra Mayfield, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,56462,00.html>
Online greetings were once considered a free and relatively harmless alternative to paper cards. Now companies are charging users to send them, and recipients have to worry about fake e-cards that carry viruses.

Competition Forces AOL To Emphasize Faster Links (David D. Kirkpatrick and Saul Hansell, New york Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/04/technology/04AOL.html>
AOL Time Warner yesterday presented a new strategy for its AOL division to compete for high-speed Internet users, acknowledging that the service that helped make the Internet a mass medium is now in danger of falling behind as consumers seek faster connections online.

Usability Is Next To Profitability (Jane Black, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2002/tc2002124_2181.htm>
Software companies have finally grasped the value of easy-to-fathom programs, and they're pouring resources into the task.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Islam's Outdated Domination Theology (Yossi Hlein Halevi, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-halevi4dec04,0,6025056.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Only when Muslims accept religious pluralism will peace have a chance.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Teacher Dilemma: Sued If You Do, Sued If You Don't (David D. Perlmutter, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-perlmutterdec04,0,2496528.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Perhaps all of us, parents and teachers, need to reclaim our rights to oversee the behavior of children, even those who can vote or join the Army.

A Perfectionist Does It His Way (Alex Witchel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/04/dining/04JEFF.html>
Perfecting recipes and cooking techniques in the most obsessive ways possible is pretty much Mr. Steingarten's job description. He goes somewhere in the world, watches someone do something, then comes home and tries it 50 different ways himself.

Another Berkeley Daily Bites The Dust (Z Byron Wolf, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/03/ED185577.DTL>
Blame advertising or editing or bad design or the lack of home delivery for the demise of daily city journalism in Berkeley. But don't forget to throw in the readers.

Singapore Offers An Architectural Symbol For The Arts (Wayne Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/arts/design/03ARTS.html?ex=1039496400&en=7821225e5ad5f826&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
Singapore has cast the Esplanade complex, which includes shops and restaurants, as part of a plan to regain its luster.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Nail Broth (David Barber, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074776&device=>
Rusty, twisted: scrounge one from a scrap-heap plank.
How long did you say you've been down on your luck?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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State Capitalism Faces Scrutiny In Singapore (John Burton, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1037872523686>
Although state capitalism has proved successful in developing Singapore into a first-rank economy over the past 30 years, it is becoming outmoded as the island nation shifts away from manufacturing.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Says Will Continue To Halt Land Sales (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-136483.html>

Singapore Bans Poles From Go-Go Dancing Stage Show (Associated Press)
<http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=%7BF5016E99-BD00-4122-806E-097CBC6E1729%7D>
Censors banned the opening three minute sequence in the show by the ABC Spice Girls, when women in miniskirts and sequined vests shimmy around metal poles like go-go dancers, hours before they took to the stage in front of 5,000 people on Tuesday.

Singapore Offers An Architectural Symbol For The Arts (Wayne Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/arts/design/03ARTS.html?ex=1039496400&en=7821225e5ad5f826&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
Singapore has cast the Esplanade complex, which includes shops and restaurants, as part of a plan to regain its luster.

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