[MyAppleMenu] Dec 5, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Dec 5, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Sign Of A Rotted Clime (Charles Wright, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/04/1038950089511.html>
Like a growing number of people, Bishop -- an engineer turned business consultant -- is tired of buying software and hardware that doesn't live up to the marketing blurb.

Will Apple Be Expelled From School? (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac120502,0,5880052.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
Survey confirms longtime slide among districts; While some remain loyal, price holds greatest sway over budget-conscious administrators and boards.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Some Resellers Stop Selling eMacs Due To Display Issue (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2002120508011611>

InDesign Updated (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5652>
The update addresses issues identified in InDesign 2.0.1. These include an incompatibility which caused InDesign to quit when launching on Mac OS X when AutoProtect is enabled in Norton AntiVirus.

Adobe Celebrates And Contemplates (Jon Frott, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4670853.htm>
Dreamer geniuses founded Adobe Systems, but the company runs on reality now.

Worshipping At The Altar Of Mac (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56674,00.html>
The Mac community is like a new-age religion, one expert argues, but is it truly a cult?

Macworld Expo Tokyo Cancelled (MacUser)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=36100>
The Macworld Conference and Expo planned for Tokyo this coming March has been cancelled after Apple backed out of its plans to exhibit and a number of other major vendors followed suite.

Intuit Talks QuickBooks 5 For Mac (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/04.quickbooks.php>
The Mac development team recently gave MacCentral a look at the company's short-term and long-range plans for the software.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Technology Beneath The Brand (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2381>
Sometimes companies cling too tightly to brand identity, and I think Apple falls prey to this.

Beyond MHz: It's The Whole System That Counts (Evan Kleiman, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/02/1204ek.html>
The truly fast computer has a balance of components, and while they're not necessarily the fastest individual components, they can work faster than a computer designed around a single very fast component.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Quicken 2003 (MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=47>
Intuit's annual update adds new features but overlooks some old flaws.

Video Editing At Your Computer (J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/technology/circuits/05basi.html?ex=1039669200&en=4ec7d146b0333806&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Holds Monopoly, But Also Vision (David Kirkpatrick, Fortune)
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/04/fortune.ff.microsoft.defense/>
I predict it will eventually become some sort of regulated utility--its monopoly accepted as a necessary evil and the price we have to pay for widespread access to inexpensive computing.

Microsoft: Linux On Desktops A Threat (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976122.html>
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer John Connors said on Wednesday that the software giant's future growth would be hurt if the rival Linux operating system was to establish a foothold on desktop computers.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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The Holiday Card, Set In Motion (Katie Hafner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/technology/circuits/05memo.html>
The holidays simply are not the holidays unless the memories of the year have been fully digitized and the holidays themselves have been shot and reshot, edited and re-edited, viewed and reviewed, posted to a Web site or sent out as e-mail or CD-ROM's or even DVD's to relatives and friends.

Homeland Security Waiting For Wi-Fi (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976114.html>
Security needs to become a priority for users and makers of wireless networking equipment in order to stop insecure connections from being used to attack federal and corporate systems, network experts said Wednesday.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Wi-Fi: Bigger Than Budweiser? (Richard Shim, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-976076.html>
A key figure for standards body the Wi-Fi Alliance says the wireless networking industry will surpass the revenue of household products such as Budweiser beer by 2006.

Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Grip? (Eugene Lacey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-976172.html>

AOL Said To Be Considering Layoffs (Jim Hu, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-976192.html>
America Online CEO Jonathan Miller met Wednesday with top managers, detailing the division's turnaround plans and hinting at layoffs as a way to cut costs, according to a source present at the meeting.

RealNetworks To Release More Helix Code (Matt Loney, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-976176.html>
RealNetworks is expected to release more streaming-media source code Monday, in the latest move to fend off Microsoft and the MPEG-4 standard.

President Signs 'Dot-Kids' Legislation (David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8016-2002Dec4.html>
The Dot-Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act creates a dot-kids domain within America's dot-us addressing space.

Photo Sites Get Something To Smile About (Leslie Walker, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10999-2002Dec4.html>
After a two-year shakeout in the industry, the few surviving Internet photo service providers are seeing a spike in holiday sales, fueled by the growing popularity of digital cameras.

New Strategy From AOL Leaves Many Unconvined (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/technology/05AOL.html>
Investors and analysts walked away from AOL Time Warner's four-hour meeting unconvinced that AOL's product plans were strong enough to reignite its growth anytime soon.

"Security Warning" Ads Draw Lawsuit (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-976090.html>
Web advertisements that masquerade as pop-up "security alert" windows generated by a surfer's computer or browser are the subject of a new class-action lawsuit, which aims to rid the Internet of the deceptive banners.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Can The Supreme Court Change Its Mind? (Kenji Yoshino, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/opinion/05YOSH.html>
How does the United States Supreme Court correct its mistakes?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Screenage Wasteland? (Andrew Leonard, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/12/05/video_game_ads/index.html>
When video games look as good as action films, commercials are more fun than cartoons, and everything screams "Buy!" it's easy to lose your bearings.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Celebrity In The Kitchen (Valli Herman-Cohen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-cater4dec04,0,3510191.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood>
Top-tier chefs are moving in to catering, and you might be surprised to see who's doing your cooking.

The Unbiased Truth About Media Objectivity (Norah Vincent, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-vincent5dec05,0,4118804.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
The reporting of the news is supposed to be objective, a dispassionate recitation of the facts. But of course it never is and never has been. What's more, it never will or could be.

Paradise Frost (Libby Copeland, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11467-2002Dec4.html>
The 3-year-old dream of the Electric Maid is to be a community living room -- with heat.

Poetry Of Praise For New York City (Mel Gussow, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/books/05POET.html>
The Poetry Society of America on Tuesday presented "The Words of My City," and anthology of New Yorkers reading New York poems.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Orange SMS Shorthand Poetry Competition: The Shortlist (The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/textpoetry/story/0,12586,854297,00.html>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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GST To Go Up To 4% In 2003 And 5% in 2004: DPM Lee (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/26325/1/.html>
In a ministerial statement to Parliament, Mr Lee, who's also the Finance Minister, also revealed that despite the staggered rise in the GST, the Government has decided not to cut back the offset package announced in Budget 2002.

No Room For Complacency Over Water (Malaysian Business)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,158842,00.html>
We should pause to ponder whether the joke could very well be on us. The Singaporeans may have the last laugh.

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