[MyAppleMenu] Dec 17, 2002

Tue Dec 17 21:05:01 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Strikes Major Blow In Streaming Media Market; Lands Quick (The Online Reporter)
<http://www.onlinereporter.com/charts/tor327/tor327.html#2>
The importance of Apple's win cannot be overestimated considering the enormous size of the cell phone market, the desire for compatibility that content providers will want when they develop videos to deliver on both PCs and cell phones, the impact that DoCoMo's backing of an open standard will have on the world's cell phone makers and service providers and the resulting influence the decision will have in the PC streaming market. DoCoMo is not just saying MPEG-4 is good, it's betting its 3G future on it.

FileMaker Key To Beggars Banquet (Rene Millman, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137608>
The UK's biggest independent record company is using FileMaker database technology to keep track of its artists and music, at what it claims is a fraction of the cost of high-end databases.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Cut To The Chase (Sheigh Crabtree, Hollywood Reporter)
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/emmys/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1772771>
Final Cut Pro breaks into the big leagues with "Cold Mountain" and editor Walter Murch.

New QuickTime Movies Preach Jaguar's Benefits (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/17.jaguar.php>
New movies posted to Apple's Web site help illustrate Jaguar's benefits in whimsical and entertaining ways.

Apple Acknowledges App/Memory Problem On Some G4 Macs (Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/17.5.shtml>

Apple Confirms Plans To Webcast MWSF Keynote (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/17.mwsfkeynote.php>
If you can't make it to Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco next month, fear not. As is customary, Apple today confirmed plans to Webcast the keynote live from its Web site using QuickTime.

Desktop Video Production Set To Take Off (The Star)
<http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2002/12/17/prodit/ghbitnpix&sec=prodit>
Desktop digital video production is set to take off, like how desktop publishing did in the mid-1980s.

New Software May Restore Erased Photos (Larry Blasko, Associated Press)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=FEA%20Hobbies%20Compubug%20Rescuing%20Photos>
Called Image Rescue, it tries to restore erased JPEG, TIFF and RAW formatted photos from Lexar's USB-Enabled CompactFlash cards.

FireWire Blazes The Data Trail (David Frith, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5677237%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (Jean-Luc Dinsdale, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=321>
Combining stealth, quick reflexes, group leadership, over-average artificial intelligence, great attention to detail, and tactical gameplay that's second to none, the designers over at Red Storm have managed to create a game that is engaging and enticing for gamers of every kind.

Font Reserve v3.1.1 (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/fontreserve311.shtml>

Apple Notebooks Get Better And Cheaper (PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,770228,00.asp>

BBEdit 7.0 (Richard Dyce, MacUser UK)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/reviews_story.php?id=36378>
BBEdit 7.0 is good example of how to make something better without bloating it.

The Wireless Networking Starter Kit (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07025>
I think Glenn and I did a good job of including all the information anyone short of a wireless network engineer would want. From what I'm seeing, wireless networking is in certain ways where the Internet was back in 1993.

FastTrack Schedule 8.0: Project-Management Program Moves To OS X And Continues To Make Scheduling A Breeze (Mike Heck, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/fasttrack/>
FastTrack Schedule 8 is a hard-to-find fusion of simplicity and power. Its graphical timelines are perfect for beginning project managers. And its new features, which can automate more-complex scheduling tasks and enable data exchange with Microsoft Project, make it an ideal choice for project-management pros.

Quicken 2003: Financial Powerhouse Rests On Its Laurels (Tom Negrino, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/quicken/>
Quicken is fairly priced for new users and remains a very good product, but new versions have too few compelling new features to justify yearly upgrades.

Switching To The Mac Doesn't Have To Be Difficult (Paul Thrrott, Connected Home)
<http://www.connectedhomemag.com/HomeOffice/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27565>
One of the biggest problems with Mac OS X has always been the difficulty of moving important settings, email, personal information manager (PIM) data, and certain types of documents from the PC to the Macintosh. I've struggled with this problem for more than a year. But two new software products have addressed these concerns.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Unveils Entertainment Software (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978093.html>
Microsoft will announce on Tuesday availability of new personal entertainment software for Windows XP, featuring fresh tools for handling music, movies and photos on the PC.

'Lintel' Turns Up The Heat (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,767343,00.asp>
Whether or not Microsoft Corp. ends up porting its software to Linux, as a research company suggested last week, the battle between Windows and Linux on Intel Corp.- compatible hardware could have at least one positive effect: lower prices for Windows software, users said.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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U.S. Says No To Aussie Libel Lawsuit (Declan McCullagh, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-978069.html>
Less than a week after Australia's high court issued a ruling suggesting that online publishers are fair game for libel suits anywhere their content appears, a U.S. federal court has veered in the opposite direction.

Limits Sought On Wireless Internet Access (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/technology/17WIRE.html>
The Defense Department, arguing that an increasingly popular form of wireless Internet access could interfere with military radar, is seeking new limits on the technology, which is seen as a rare bright spot for the communications industry.

The Web Bites Back (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2580089.stm>
Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Jury Finds ElcomSoft Not Guilty (Joanna Glasner, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56894,00.html>
Russian software developer ElcomSoft has been cleared of charges that it illegally created a program to disable encryption on Adobe e-books.

Patent Creates IM Wrinkle (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978234.html>
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.

Red Hat Reports Slim Profit (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978248.html>
Red Hat's revenue increased 14 percent to $24.3 million for its third fiscal quarter with a small profit of $305,000, the Linux seller reported Tuesday.

'Lintel' Turns Up The Heat (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,767343,00.asp>
Whether or not Microsoft Corp. ends up porting its software to Linux, as a research company suggested last week, the battle between Windows and Linux on Intel Corp.- compatible hardware could have at least one positive effect: lower prices for Windows software, users said.

LindowsOS Due To Hit Retail Shelves (Scarlet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/16/021216hnlindows.xml?s=IDGNS>
Software buyers may be doing a double take in retail stores over the coming months as they see Microsoft's familiar Windows OS sitting next to the new OS from Lindows.com.

Intel, iPass Team On Wireless Access (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-977982.html>
Intel is working with Internet service provider iPass to help keep business travelers connected at all times.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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New Premise In Science: Get The Word Out Quickly, Online (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html>
A group of prominent scientists is mounting an electronic challenge to the leading scientific journals, accusing them of holding back the progress of science by restricting online access to their articles so they can reap higher profits.

Testing The First AIDS Vaccine (Richard Martin, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/aids.html>
Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned - Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Making It (David Brooks, Weekly Standard)
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/017ickdp.asp>
Love and success at America's finest universities.

The Gift Of Virus (Nick Altebrando, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/17/giftvirus/index.html>
In the spirit of the holiday season, a tale of one man who clicked too soon but discovered that missent e-mail can still lead to a wonderful life.

What I've Learned (Garry Shandling, Esquire)
<http://www.esquire.com/features/learned/030101_mwi_shandling.html>
I had a car accident when I was twenty-seven in which I was nearly killed. I had a vivid near-death experience that involved a voice asking, "Do you want to continue leading Garry Shandling's life?" Without thinking, I said, "Yes." Since then, I've been stuck living in the physical world while knowing, without a doubt, that there's something much more meaningful within it all. That realization is what drives my life and work.

Cat People (Louis Menand, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?021223crat_atlarge>
What Dr. Seuss really taught us.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Trickle-Down Effect (Annie Proulx, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?021223fi_fiction1>

The Trials Of Finch (Zadie Smith, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?021223fi_fiction>
Finch had three friends: Claire, Karen, and Jemima. These were tall, lucky, professional Englishwomen in their early forties who had been ever so kind to Finch, and who felt, with some reason, that they had saved her.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Post/SingTel: Seeking Postal Rate Hikes (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/021217/15/35sgu.html>
SingPost is talking to the regulator about raising domestic postal rates for the first time since 1995 in light of the planned hike in goods and services tax,

Consumers Loosen Their Purse Strings (Ginnie Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,161093,00.html?>
However, retailers said this may just be festive year-end buys or purchases made ahead of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike. They were not confident the momentum would be sustained.

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