[MyAppleMenu] Dec 28, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Dec 28, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Not Forbidden Fruit: Try A Mac; You May Find A Taste Is All it Takes (Charles Bermant, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134604378_ptmacswitch28.html>
"There is another, and its name is Macintosh."

School District Signs On To New Technology (Dave Milbrandt, San Bernardino County Sun)
<http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208%257E12588%257E1077055,00.html>
A recently approved contract between the Chino Valley Unified School District and Apple Computer will change the way some students take standardized tests and turn in homework.

5-Step Recipe For A Well-Done Apple Switch (Charles Bermant, The Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134604377_ptmacsidebar280.html>
The experience will differ person to person, but the move from the PC to the Macintosh can be traced in five basic steps.

An Apple In Old Pasadena (Don Jergler, San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
<http://www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,205%257E23283%257E1074798,00.html>
Mac users are typically interested in digital photography, making movies, accessing music and other creative activities. "That is a large part of the whole L.A. culture."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Talking Tech Trash: The Afterlife Of Computers (Tamara Chuang, Orange County Register)
<http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=18171&section=BUSINESS&year=2002&month=12&day=28>
Trade it in, upgrade it, recycle it but don't trash it –- that could be illegal.

Users Note MSN Messenger Fix (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17833>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Business "How-Not-Tos" At PowerSchool (Think Secret)
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/powerschoolanalysis.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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My Top Freeware Picks For 2002 (MacMegasite)
<http://www.macmegasite.com//modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=553>

Configuring Jaguar's Firewall (Chris Cochella, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/27/macosx_firewall.html>
Don't let the Unix heritage deter you; instead, let it motivate you.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Spiritual Connection On The Internet (Mindy Sink, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/national/28RELI.html>
Requesting prayers and joining virtual prayer circles has become commonplace on the Internet, as worshipers can e-mail an order of nuns and request a prayer or enter a chat room and ask whoever reads their message to pray on their behalf. But e-mailing a prayer for the intercession of a saint is new.

Wired For A Party (Natalie Hopkinson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46233-2002Dec27.html>
Online invitations are a click away. That's when the fun -- or not -- begins.

Yahoo Gets A 'Beautiful System' (Brian Morrissey, Internet.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/1561791>
Having long partnered with Google for algorithmic search and Overture for paid listings, Yahoo! now has a beautiful system of its own, after laying down $235 million in cash for Inktomi, a veteran search provider that had fallen on tough times.

No Tilting At Windows (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/361/business/No_tilting_at_Windows+.shtml>
Novell has new approach to recovery after failed battle with Microsoft.

Return Of The Independent Game Developer? (chromatic, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/12/23/indiegames.html>

In-Room Chat As A Social Tool (Clay Shirky, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/26/inroom_chat.html>
The in-room chat created a two-channel experience -- a live conversation in the room, and an overlapping real-time text conversation.

A Peek At History, Piracy-Free (Patrick Di Justo, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,56667,00.html>
Media company British Pathe, which produced 3,500 newsreels between 1910 and 1970, puts its entire collection online. But rather than adding digital copyright protection, the company simply stamped its logo on each downloadable clip.

AOL: It's Got Subscriber Problems (Cory Johnson, CNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/852209.asp?0cv=TA00>
ISP gives away service, faces uncertainty in DSL era.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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President Bartlet, Please Take Me Back (Frank Luntz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/opinion/28LUNT.html>
There is a small, humorless segment of conservative society that is now convinced more than ever that NBC's "The West Wing" is a plot, a weekly Hollywood conspiracy to overturn the electoral outcome of 2000. I should know.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Golden State In A Golden Age (Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-rutten28dec28,0,6827025.column?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
The artists, artisans and architects who built California.

How TV Is Changing Casinos (Gary Dretzka, TV Barn)
<http://www.tvbarn.com/archives/007763.html>
If you haven't strolled through a casino in last six years, you probably aren't aware of the revolution that began when the first Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy machines were placed alongside such time-tested one-armed bandits as Red, White and Blue and Double Diamond.

UCSB Professor Offers A New View Of WWII (Teresa Mendez, Santa Barbara News-Press)
<http://news.newspress.com/topsports/122702profhasegawa.htm?now=29973&tref=1>
American surrender demands created reason to drop bombs on Japan.

Gobble Up: Gluttony Is The Gift Of Civilisation (Felipe Fernadez-Armesto, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-523948,00.html>
Moralists, dietitians, fashion advertisers and lifestyle journalists try to nag us into frugality. I doubt whether even so formidable a combination of forces can reverse evolution and history.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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'Media Has Right To Report Issue' (Badrolhisham Bidin, MM Focus)
<http://www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/MM/Saturday/National/20021228091609>
There was nothing wrong for the local media to report on the matter as “we are just writing on our rights, not to hear Singapore’s arguments only”.

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