[MyAppleMenu] Dec 16, 2002

Mon Dec 16 21:05:01 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Dec 16, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Takes Swipe At Partner Microsoft In Mac Ads (Michael McCarthy, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2002-12-16-apple_x.htm>
Apple's results indicate the ads are achieving their aim.

MyAppleMenu : News
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The Real Deal For Mac OS X? (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978047.html>
Macintosh users are finally getting a finished version of RealNetworks' streaming media player, but they will have to wait at least another several months to rip a CD or play QuickTime files like their Windows counterparts.

iMac Design Team Nominated For Rave Awards (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17736>
The Apple Industrial Design Team has been nominated by Wired Magazine for its work on the iMac as part of the magazine's Rave Awards, celebrating innovation and the individuals transforming commerce and culture.

Apple Launches Slew Of Mac OS X "Jaguar" Ads (Stefano Scalia, TheMacMind.com)
<http://www.themacmind.com/cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1040022657,3734,>

FileMaker Database Software Honored As Finalist For Two Codie Awards (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/12/20021216080041.shtml>
FileMaker Pro 6 is a finalist for Best Business Productivity Product or Service, and FileMaker Pro 6 Unlimited is a Best Numeric/Database Application finalist.

Apple Announces HomePage Creativity Contest (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/16.contest.php>
.Mac members can enter the contest in one of three categories: Creative, Humorous iMovie, and Incredible Pets.

Gold Master RealOne Player Released (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5699>
RealNetworks today released the final build of its RealOne Player for Mac OS X.

MySQL Open To Attack (Patrick Gray, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20270704,00.htm>
Several vulnerabilities have been found in the MySQL database system, a light database package commonly used in Linux environments but which runs also on Microsoft platforms, HP-Unix, Mac OS and more.

Grid Computing From Sun - Open Source And Proud of It (Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, NewsForge)
<http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1630252&mode=thread&tid=11>
The point is to make sharing computational resources across a grid not only efficient, but easy.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Can't Take Its Own Medicine (IT-Director.com)
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=3429>
We wouldn't really care if it wasn't for the fact that Apple does have a history of accidentally leaking its own information.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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What's .Mac Worth? We Put Apple's New Internet Services To The Test (Adam Engst, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/features/mac/>
When deciding whether .Mac is worth $100 per year, you must first figure out which of the services you'll actually use. Although you won't find anything that compares with .Mac for integration with Mac OS or other programs from Apple, it is possible to put together a comparable set of services separately. If you need only a small subset of what .Mac provides, you might even be able to do so less expensively.

Retrospect Backup (John Nemerovski, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/nemo/retrospect_12.16.02.shtml>

A Happy Rendezvous (Chris White, Computerworld New Zealand)
<http://www.computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/9FE29C02E0DA46A6CC256C8C00792DD8!opendocument>
Sometimes we Mac users don't know how easy we have it.

Jukebox Zen Is Neither As Good Nor As Costly As The iPod (Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press)
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3529455.html>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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How Open Is The New MS Office? (Joe Wilcox, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-977880.html>
Microsoft says it's opening up its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to their shared information. But there's a catch: Microsoft has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect that it's using.

High Fidelity XML (Steve Gillmor, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/16/021216opcurve.xml>
There's no mistaking Lucovsky's enthusiasm for these second-generation Office tools.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Creative Types: A Lot In Common (Kendra Mayfield, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56704,00.html>
The Internet is teeming with creative people who aren't famous or rich. A new set of licenses from Creative Commons will allow copyright holders to share their work according to conditions they specify -- and boost their profiles.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Intel Postpones Wi-Fi Chip (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978059.html>
Intel is delaying its first Wi-Fi chip so the company can clean up some engineering issues and clear a few more regulatory hurdles.

Open-Source Group Broadens Its Reach (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-977953.html>
The Eclipse development tools consortium gained momentum Monday with the announcement of 13 members to its board of stewards and the introduction of three new open-source projects.

E-Mail Viruses Double (Matt Loney, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-977935.html>
E-mail viruses are now almost twice as prevalent as they were in 2001, with one e-mail in every 200 containing a virus.

IBM Moves Toward Chip Breakthrough (John G. Spooner, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-977894.html>
IBM will announce Monday that it has passed another milestone on the road toward adopting an improved process for manufacturing semiconductors.

In The World Of The Very Small, Companies Make Big Plans (Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/technology/16NANO.html>
More and more businesses are moving into the world of nanotechnology, where particles of common materials are shrunk to such a minuscule size that they behave in unexpected -- and often useful -- ways.

Grid Computing From Sun - Open Source And Proud of It (Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, NewsForge)
<http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1630252&mode=thread&tid=11>
The point is to make sharing computational resources across a grid not only efficient, but easy.

CBS: "No Copy Protection, No HDTV" (Barry Willis, Stereophile Guide)
<http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?1450>
One of HDTV's strongest supporters could pull away if an effective copy-protection system isn't in place by next year.

Couch Potato Heaven (Brad Stone, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/847250.asp?cp1=1>
Cable companies may have finally figured out how to give TV viewers what they want: the ability to watch a movie, any time, without a schlep to the video store.

One-Miniute Photo (Chris Taylor, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021223-400011,00.html>
Smile! Cell phone-camera combos are here. Just don't expect perfect pictures.

Friendnet (Lucas Gonze, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2428>
A friendnet is a network topology where every TCP/IP connection is backed up by a meatspace connection.

High Fidelity XML (Steve Gillmor, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/16/021216opcurve.xml>
There's no mistaking Lucovsky's enthusiasm for these second-generation Office tools.

ICANN To Approve New Domains (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-977921.html>
The group that oversees the Internet's traffic system said Sunday it plans to approve a host of new address suffixes to join the likes of .com and .org in the coming year.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The "Axis Of Evil" In Action (Michael Elliott, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021223-400018,00.html>
Was Bush right when he made Iraq, Iran and North Korea a loathsome trio?

How To Ruin American Enterprise (Benjamin J. Stein, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2002/1223/225.html>
We're well on our way to squelching what gives this country an edge. What would it take to kill innovation altogether?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Scientists Exposed As Sloppy Reporters (Hazel Muir, New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993168>
A cunning statistical study has exposed scientists as sloppy reporters. When they write up their work and cite other people's papers, most do not bother to read the original.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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I'm Dreaming Of A Green Christmas (Brendan Miniter, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110002779>
What's wrong with commercialization? Nothing.

Some People Can Get Very Possessive About Apostrophe's (Arianna Huffington, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-huff16dec16,0,1045401.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
That's it. I'm at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, my rope's end -- because that's the thing that's got me so worked up: the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe.

A Hundred-Candle Story And How To Blow It (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59425-2002Dec15.html>
When Trent Lott priased the 1948 segregationist candidacy of Strom Thrumond, most of the mainstream press was, rather embarrassingly, caught napping.

A Surprise Second Helping For Drooling Barbecue Fans (Jim O'Grady, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/nyregion/15barb.html>
If barbecue is a religion, and many populist gourmands will tell you it is, then the barbecue shack is its temple.

Carried From The Couch On The Wings Of Enchantment (Rebecca Goldstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/books/16GOLD.html>
What I try to do in writing is to pay homage to philosophy and fiction, the forms of enchantment that took hold of me at such an early age.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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That Divide: Same Debate, Same Answer (Lee Hui Chieh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,160923,00.html>
Estrangement? Let polls speak for the people. That's still PAP's stand, same as in 1994 when the Great Affective Divide issue was first raised.

Why Laud Only The Ones Who Finished? (Tan Chor Hoong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,160953,00.html?>
I have a lot of respect for the spirit of all the pariticpants, regardless of whether or not they crossed the finish line.

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