[MyAppleMenu] Dec 18, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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New Microsoft MacBU Manager Named (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/18.macbu.php>
Roz Ho, an eleven-year Microsoft veteran, has been named general manager of the company's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU).

Connectix Unveils Virtual PC 6.0 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/18.virtualpc.php>
Virtual PC 6.0 continues to blur the lines between Mac OS and Windows.

Cherry Hill Students Might Receive Laptops (Barbara S. Rothschild, Courier-Post)
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m121802c.htm>
The school district could launch a pilot program as early as this spring to provide wireless laptop computers for every student and teacher beginning in fourth grade.

Compromised In A Flash (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978270.html>
A flaw found in Macromedia's animation software leaves Web surfers vulnerable to attack when they visit an Internet site or, possibly, open an e-mail, a security firm said Tuesday.

NoteTaker 2003 Released For Mac OS X (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/17.notetaker.php>
NoteTaker 2003 is a Mac OS X product for managing personal notes, Web site URLS, lists, outlines, projects, and information of any type that can be stored on a computer.

Macromedia Releases Director MX For OS X (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1410>
Macromedia has announced the immediate availability of Director MX for OS X, its professional application for creating interactive content for web, kiosks and optical media.

Apple Specialist Haddock Opens Fourth Store (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17756>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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OS 9: Alive Or Dead? (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/02/12/18/index.html>
The bottom line is that it will cost Quark in the long run.

So Where Does The Buck Stop? (Charles Wright, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/18/1040174289300.html>
"In the end, either you stand behind the product or you don't. And I decided that if you want to stay in business, you stand behind the product."

There's No Middle Ground For Apple (Andrew Leckey, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/chi-0212170177dec17,1,3400987.story?coll=chi%2Dprintbusiness%2Dhed>
What's the outlook for Apple Computer?

DoCoMo And MPEG-4 And QuickTime (Oh My?) (PlaybackTime)
<http://playbacktime.com/archives/000145.html>
It's gutsy to try and spin the DoCoMo announcement as part of an Apple master plan, since DoCoMo's plans to support 3GPP had nothing to do with Apple or QuickTime.

Where Are All The Good Apples? (Mike Berman, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/20277.html>
I want the Mac those folks on TV are using.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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New On DVD: A Slideshow Of Your Family's Vacation (Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://ptech.wsj.com/solution.html>
The Mac produced by far the best slideshow discs, not only because they were burned onto DVDs instead of VCDs, but because the iDVD program has the handsomest and most professional-looking options for menus and backgrounds.

Gateway And Apple: Substance Vs. Style? (David Sheets, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/Business/Technology/38056F16A597AD4286256C920071DC5A?OpenDocument&Headline=Gateway%20and%20Apple%3A%20substance%20vs.%20style%3F>
When it comes to Gateway's Profile 4 series and Apple's iMac, the question as to which quality is most apparent between the two becomes as broad as the audience both are trying to reach.

Hopelessly Addicted To .Mac Online Services (Julo Ojeda-Zapata, Saint Paul Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/personal_technology/4759709.htm>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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The New Electric Company (James Surowiecki, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/start.html?pg=1>
Microsoft is a 21st-century utility -- fat , slow, and vulnerable.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Radio Free Software (Sam Williams, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/18/gnu_radio/index.html>
Call them hackers of the last computing frontier: The GNU Radio coders believe that any device with a chip should be able to do, well, anything.

Tuning In To IM (Anne Chen, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,768018,00.asp>
Instant messaging, once banned as a threat to security and productivity, has not only been blessed by IT, it is becoming as critical to communications as e-mail.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Fake Escrow Site Scam Widens (Bob Sullivan, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/846795.asp?0si=->
Auction winners sometimes lose $40,000 at a time.

Are Pop-Ups Defendable? (Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=14237>
Pop-ups are a doomed Web ad format in part because there are so many efforts to squash them by ISPs and software developers.

German City Drops Windows For Linux (John Blau, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/17/021217hngermany.xml?s=IDGNS>
A community of 36,000 in southern Germany, plans to build its entire IT infrastructure on the open source Linux operating system, replacing Windows from Microsoft Corp.

Metrowerks To Buy Linux Tools Company (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,772421,00.asp>
Metrowerks, a maker of software development tools for embedded applications, Tuesday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Embedix Inc., a Linux tools company.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Punching Our Ticket (Charles Taylor, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/12/18/train/index.html>
In just three pictures, a Louis Vuitton ad captures the luxurious eroticism of train travel.

Pop Gets Crackle, Snap Back (Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-vinyl18dec18011425,0,3857319.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
In the high-tech world of pure digital sound, some recording artists evoke the scratchy past by adding in noises from the vinyl era.

After 30 Years, Cozy Bookstore Gets To The End (Dinitia Smith, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/nyregion/17BOOK.html>
The Madison Avenue Bookshop, the cramped little bookstore that for nearly 30 years has been a literary destination for the carriage trade and for the writers of the Upper East Side, will close on Jan. 10.

Hudson Shipwrecks Found, But No Loose Lips (Kirk Johnson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/18/nyregion/18WREC.html>
Centuries of maritime history would be up for grabs by salvagers and collectors before the state -- which claims ownership over everything on the river's bottom -- could even know what was at risk.

How To Get What You Really Want (Ian White, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-516690,00.html>
The plan is simple yet effective.

Doing The Continental (Jan Morris, The Spectator)
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2002-12-14&id=2603>
I am grandly excited by the idea of a confederal Europe, gradually and tentatively defining itself, and at last giving even an offshore visitor a genuine sense of membership.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Small-Town Voice Of God (Michael Chitwood, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2075448&device=>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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The PAP's Ideology Needs Refreshing (Chua Lee Hoong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,161347,00.html>
I can't see the PAP adopting Brave and Free as its clarion call. The technocrats who dominate its leadership will cringe. But still its ideology could do with updating.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Malaysia Turns To Dispute With Singapore Over Tiny Island (Associated Press)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/18/1040174300184.html>
Heartened by a recent World Court decision awarding Malaysia two tiny islands also claimed by Indonesia, the government will now try to win a territorial tussle with neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia's deputy leader said yesterday.

Government Office Space Glut Puts Heat On Rent Market (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,161294,00.html>
Office space rentals in private sector are already at a 10-year low, with slow demand and stiff competition, say analysts.

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