[MyAppleMenu] Dec 31, 2002

Tue Dec 31 21:05:01 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Has OS X Joined The Band? (Daniel Keller, Electronic Musician)
<http://www.industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?magazineid=33&releaseid=10808&magazinearticleid=163043&siteid=15>
So here we are, more than a year and a half later, and only a handful of audio applications have placed both feet firmly on the good ship OS X. Hardware drivers and plug-ins also remain a crapshoot. While the rest of the Mac world has been moving to OS X with only minor hiccups, most audio-related companies have lagged far behind. What's the holdup? The answer, as you might expect, depends on whom you ask.

What's In The Cards (Philip Michaels, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/02/macbeat/predictions/>
No one can say with certainty what to expect from Apple in 2003 -- no one outside of the immediate vicinity of Steve Jobs's office, anyway. But we've managed to find a dozen people willing to give it their best guess.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Macs Making Music: From Twisted Sister To Sesame Street (David Ellefson, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0212/31.ellefson.php>

Screen Supplies 3-D Without Glasses (Craig Crossma, Knight Ridder Newspaper)
<http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=%7B5B73DF99-BC73-4A55-AAA0-1F4A8FD24023%7D>
Three-dimensional viewing has been around for some time now. What makes these screens really stand out is that they require no special glasses to be worn to see the 3-D images.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Ghost Of Predictions Past (Philip Michaels, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/02/macbeat/ghost/>
Who could have predicted that 2002 would bring Mac users a flat-panel iMac, a dual-1GHz Power Mac G4, and the ubiquity of OS X software? Last year's panelists, actually. Here's a look back at some of last year's more notable hits and misses.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Dr. Mac's Favorite Mac Books (Bob LeVitus, OSXFAQ)
<http://www.osxfaq.com/Editorial/bestbook/index.ws>
I love them and try to read at least a couple each week. So here's a list of the best I've read.

iPod, Optical Mouse Among Best Products (Melissa L. Jones, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
<http://www.nwarktimes.com/adg/story_business.php?storyid=17301>
I can’t wait to see what comes up next year.

Battling Spam Not Hopeless Scenario (Mark Kellner, Washington Times)
<http://www.washtimes.com/technology/20021231-5270308.htm>

'Tis The Season To Empty The Warehouses (Matt Foster, Ocala Star Banner)
<http://www.starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=OS&Date=20021230&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=212300013&Ref=AR&Profile=1031&SectionCat=NEWS01>
There’s hardly a computer retailer on the North American continent that isn’t coming up with some sort of deal to clear old inventory out of the warehouses.

... While Visions Of PowerBooks Danced In Their Heads (Troy Dreier, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,801782,00.asp>
Apple's latest high-end PowerBook is an excellent machine--one with greater power and a lower price. Many users will be persuaded to ditch their giant desktops for portability when it's time for the next upgrade.

The Tops In Tech, Tweeters To Printers (stephen Williams, Newsday)
<http://www.newsday.com/business/columnists/ny-pigear3067148dec31,0,3751802.column?coll=ny-business-columnists>
So shockingly fashionable, it made the cover of Time magazine right out of the box. But more than a style statement, the New iMac is still pound for pound the most alluring personal computer on the shelf.

Understanding Weblogs (Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/12/30/weblog_intro.html>
In this article, I'll show you how to build a simple weblog using Radio UserLand, then I'll spend some time explaining the fundamentals behind weblogging.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Happy Birthday, Dear Internet (Justin Jaffe, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57013,00.html>
The Internet turns 20 on New Year's Day. Of course, some experts think it's 34, and others consider its age impossible to determine. But there's no denying that a significant event in the history of the medium occurred on Jan. 1, 1983.

Browsers Go Back To The Future (John Whitfield, Nature)
<http://www.nature.com/nsu/021230/021230-3.html>
Programmers redesign button that accounts for 40% of all Internet clicks.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Biometrics Benched For Super Bowl (Randy Dotinga, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56878,00.html>
Facial-scan technology, which made a flashy and controversial debut at the 2001 Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, Florida, is essentially out of the business of working the crowds.

Penguin Power 2002 (Sephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20270919,00.htm>
The Linux operating system and open-source software in general gained their first foothold on networked server computers in 2002, and emboldened advocates began a push to desktop computers as well.

Why Fight Wi-Fi? (James R. Borck, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/fixup.pl?story=http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/05/06/020506opqq.txt>
Lingering concerns about WLAN security and marginal throughput gains have led many enterprises to duck adoption. Meanwhile, the ongoing commoditization of Gigabit Ethernet makes wired LANs look better all the time.

Economic Reality Check: Price Elasticity And The Music Business (Matthew Gast, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2496>

Understanding Weblogs (Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/12/30/weblog_intro.html>
In this article, I'll show you how to build a simple weblog using Radio UserLand, then I'll spend some time explaining the fundamentals behind weblogging.

Warning: Tough Year Ahead For IT Security (Gregg Keizer, TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20021230S0004>
IT managers should brace themselves for a tough 2003 fighting the world's virus, worm, and Trojan horse writers, according to predictions made Monday by security expert Roger Thompson, the author of the WormWatch Web site.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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McDonald's Opponents Jump On Anti-American Bandwagon (Daniel Finkelstein, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-528055,00.html>
Far from McDonald’s being some evil giant, I think its opponents are much more dangerous.

It's Time To Do The Math (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56757-2002Dec30.html>
The federal government is in a fiscal mess that will only get worse if political plans now on the table come to fruition. The federal mess is compounded by disasters at the state and local level.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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E And mc2: Equality, It Seems, Is Relative (Dennis Overbye, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/31/science/physical/31LIGH.html>
Guided by ambiguous signals from the heavens, and by the beauty of their equations, a few brave — or perhaps foolhardy — physicists now say that relativity may have limits and will someday have to be revised.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Bart Kosko, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kosko31dec31,0,2949431.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Our Gregorian choice of the year 2003 appears to be nothing more than entrenched cultural prejudice in a truly multicultural world.

Voluntary Service (Philip Pullman, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,865561,00.html>
Can literature change the world? Or should it be above the concerns of society?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Class Picture (Tobias Wolff, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030106fi_fiction>
Robert Frost made his visit in November of 1960, just a week after the general election. It tells you something about our school that the prospect of his arrival cooked up more interest than the contest between Nixon and Kennedy, which for most of us was no contest at all.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore's PM Goh: Economy Expanded 2.2% In 2002-3 (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/021231/15/364wp.html>
Singapore's gross domestic product expanded by 2.2% in 2002, within the government's revised forecast, although "full recovery" will likely have to wait till 2004, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in his New Year message Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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PM: Singapore's Approach May Strain Relations (Sa'odah Elias, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/12/31/nation/odbatu&sec=nation>
The approach taken by Singapore in dealing with several bilateral issues with Malaysia has never helped to preserve good relations between the two countries, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

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