[MyAppleMenu] Dec 23, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Dec 23, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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Mac OS' New Year's Prospects (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,798155,00.asp>
While much of the tech world slows down for the winter holidays, the Mac community is warming up for one of the biggest events of its traditional social calendar: Macworld Expo/San Francisco.

Taking A Bite Out Of Windows (Julie Moran Alterio, The Journal News)
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/122302/D123appleprofile.html>
"We're seeing a real revolution in how technology is used in the house."

Apple Store Pasadena Opening On Jan 7th (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17817>

Apple Nabs 5.2% Of Desktop Market (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1430>

Year In Review : Apple's Harvest (CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1040-978378.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed>
>From iMac to Jaguar.

Three Technologies Vie For DVD Recording Standard (Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/23/BU201446.DTL>
Even though this standards battle isn't as damaging as some, most consumers probably wish -- I know I do -- that it would just go away and the whole industry would unite around one format.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Top 10 Reasons To Give Someone You Love The Gift Of Apple (AppleMatters)
<http://applematters.pmachinehosting.com/comments.php?id=P11_0_1_0>

What's Ahead In 2003? Here's What I Think (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2907413,00.html>
If Steve can pull another iMac from his hat, things will be better for the company. But the real issues are erosion of the education market, due to Windows predation, and increasingly soft sales of Power Macs to business customers.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple's .Mac Service (Sandy McMurray, The Globe And Mail)
<http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20021223/gtdotmac/Technology/techBN/>
If you compare feature by feature, .Mac looks like a good deal, at least for the first year.

Mutant Storm (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/mutantstorm.shtml>

Don't Let That New PC Disappoint You On Christmas Day (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/357/business/Don_t_let_that_new_PC_disappoint_you_on_Christmas_Day+.shtml>
Don't wait till Christmas Day to set up a new computer. Lock the bedroom door and fire it up now. Make sure it's working while you can still get it fixed or replaced before Christmas.

Understanding Zeroconf And Multicast DNS (Heath Johns, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/12/20/zeroconf.html>
Networking was never supposed to be hard -- but it is. At best it's an annoyance, at worst it's a show stopper. Granny May's got her new printer and after hooking it up, she just can't get it to print across the network, damnit. But an emerging standard, Zeroconf, just might help networking become what we've always wanted it to be: easy.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft, Adobe In Document Showdown? (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-978607.html>
Adobe plans to expand the Portable Document Format behind Acrobat Reader into a multipurpose business tool over the coming months. At the same time, however, Microsoft is moving ahead with plans for software that could nibble at the edge of Adobe's market.

Microsoft Plots Macromedia Coup Against Java (Gavin Clarke, ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html>
Microsoft Corp is believed to have trained its acquisition crosshairs on Macromedia Inc, lining up a deal that would throw enterprise Java into a spin.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Blogs Make The Headlines (Noah Shachtman, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56978,00.html>
It's been said that newspapers write the first draft of history, but now there are blogs. These days, online scribes often get the news before it's fit to print.

Many Tools Of Big Brother Are Up And Running (John Markoff and John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/technology/23PEEK.html>
In the Pentagon research effort to detect terrorism by electronically monitoring the civilian population, the most remarkable detail may be this: Most of the pieces of the system are already in place.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Warming PC Sould With Vacuum Tubes (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978617.html>
Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio.

Free Linux Operating System Wins Some Big-Name Fans (Kim Peterson, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134601185_microlinux230.html>
The computing industry might look back on 2002 as the year people got serious about Linux. The operating system has been gaining momentum as an alternative to Microsoft and proprietary versions of Unix, and 2002 was a breakout year for the technology.

What's Ahead In 2003? Here's What I Think (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2907413,00.html>
If Steve can pull another iMac from his hat, things will be better for the company. But the real issues are erosion of the education market, due to Windows predation, and increasingly soft sales of Power Macs to business customers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Betraying Hong Kong's Trust (Stephen Vines, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021230-402039,00.html>
The Hong Kong government's biggest problem is on eof credibility.

The Trouble With Saving The World (Michael Elliott, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/poydoctrine.html>
When President Bush says he wants to spread peace and democracy around the globe, he deserves to be taken seriously. One cautionary note: we've been here before.

Time 2002 Persons Of The Year: Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley And Sherron Watkins (Richard Lacayo and Amanda Ripley, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/poyintro.html>
They took huge professional and personal risks to blow the whistle on what went wrong at WorldCom, Enron and the FBI—and in so doing helped remind us what American courage and American values are all about.

Resigned To Quit (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/opinion/23SAFI.html>
In the aftermath of this flood of lachrymose leave-taking, this tsunami of tsoris, observers of cultural phenomena are obliged to judge the art of quitting. How do the major quitters in this wave of resignation rate on the Way to Go?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Farmers Grow A Field Of Dilemma (Justin Gillis, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27150-2002Dec22.html>
The biotechnology industry is in turmoil because errors by a small biotech company have called into question the whole idea of growing drugs in food crops.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Stone Box, Christ And History (Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110002809>
Science can't ignore Jesus.

The Power Option (John Horn, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-et-horn23dec23.story>
An obscure contract clause is becoming a major force in Hollywood.

Miami: A Literary Loop (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17719-2002Dec20.html>
You've read the books, now see the city.

Propping Up McDonald's Fallen Arches (David Montgomery, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27198-2002Dec22.html>
Yes, McDonald's serves Buffalo wings now. Maybe that's the problem -- a crisis of identity and purpose. Or maybe it's the sodium and the fat -- finally America has had enough? Or it's a sudden and massive loss of business acumen, like the recent decision to tie in Happy Meals with that Disney turkey "Treasure Planet." Or maybe it's the refusal to get hip and roll out a veggie burger nationwide, as Burger King has done.

When The Going Gets Tough, Learn From A Book (Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/business/yourmoney/22ONJO.html>
Many a book is marketed as a recipe for success or a formula for inspirational change. But, it appears, some recipes for success and wellsprings of life-altering change are found in unlikely literary sources.

A Paryer Before Dying (Po Bronson, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer.html>
The astonishing story of a doctor who subjected faith to the rigors of science -- and then became a test subject herself.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Christmas Poem With A Topological Twist (Kathleen Kustin, Topology Atlas)
<http://at.yorku.ca/t/o/p/c/24.htm>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Inflation On The Up (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2600313.stm>
Prices have risen in Singapore for the first time in five months, in a welcome sign that the island state could avert the threat of deflation.

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