[MyAppleMenu] Nov 4, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Nov 4, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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New Stores Make Fast Mac Friends (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56123,00.html>
Crowds always line up at Apple Store grand openings -- including a contingent of Macintosh fans who travel cross-country to attend every one so they can bond with like minds.

MyAppleMenu : News
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.Mac Woes Continue With Account Deactivations (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17202>
Apple continues to struggle with its .Mac subscription services as dozens of readers report temporary, but inconsistent outages over the weekend, quadruple billing for a single .Mac subscription and unexpected account deactivations for paid account holders as of November 1st.

Apple To Open Edison And King Of Prussia Stores Saturday (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/03/retail>
Apple will open its two newest retail stores in Edison, New Jersey and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania on November 9, according to the company's retail page.

Family Tragedy Puts Bare Feats Site On Hiatus (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/04/barefeats>
A recent death in the site administrator's immediate family has, understandably, resulted in the stellar Web site closing down for a period of time.

Fink Named Sourceforge Project Of The Month (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/04.fink.php>
The Fink project purports to "bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X." Folks involved with the Fink project modify Unix software to compile and run on Mac OS X and make it available for distribution.

Library Boost For Opera 6 (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5499>
Opera Software has unveiled its speed-enhanced Opera 6 for Mac Beta 2, offering shared library support.

Impressons On Laptops: A Great Tool For Schools (Tess Nachelewicz, Press Herald)
<http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/021103laptops.shtml>
Now that the state's 17,000 seventh-graders actually have the laptops in their hands, educators are seeing another benefit: Students seem more eager to learn.

All Aboard! (But No PCs Allowed) (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56154,00.html>
Most weekends, multimillionaire tech executive Doug Humphrey takes to the seas in his ex-British Royal Navy patrol ship. As a security measure, the only computers he uses -- or allows -- on board are Macs.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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New Laptop Crop For Apple? (Matthew Rothenberg, ExtremeTech)
<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,667593,00.asp>
The evergreen Mac grapevine is flowing again, as Apple-centric sites and discussion boards across the Web sound off on rumors of new laptops on tap for this week.

Why Don't All Macs Come With RAID? (Robert Crane, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/myturn/02/1104.html>
Redundancy can sell more machines, especially if Apple advertises the fact.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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My Big Fat Wedding DVD: Latest Software Converts Wedding Video To DVD (Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/04/BU104639.DTL&type=business>
Both iMovie and iDVD were easy to use but not close to being automatic.

HP's Color-Laser Printer Offers Divine Indulgence (Simson L. Garfinkel, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134568881_btsoho04.html>
The installer didn't work for the network-based printer, but I was able to manually add it using Apple's Print Center utility. Once added, all my Mac could do was print.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Ruling May Blunt Other Cases (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-964366.html>
Friday's antitrust ruling may give Microsoft powerful ammunition to defend against more than 60 private lawsuits pending against the software giant, legal experts say.

Many Consumers Discount Ruling (P.J. Huffstutter and David Colker, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-consumer4nov04,0,7120526.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
The antitrust battle has failed to resonate for computer users as they have seen innovation, competition thriving in the industry.

Microsoft's New Set Of Hurdles (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/technology/04SOFT.html>
While Microsoft has squelched the competitive challenge posed by Internet browsing software, the "Internet threat" that so worried it in the 1990's is still alive and well, though in a very different form.

MS Job Ad Seeks Evangelist To 'Demolish Competition' (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27903.html>
The kind and gentle convicted monopolist is now seeking a Developer Evangelist who can: "Demolish competition by knowing everything they do and thwarting their every move in the relevant spaces."

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Wi-Fi That Follows You Around (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56166,00.html>
Using a computer-controlled antenna array, Vivato’s prototype bases can reach large groups of users on existing laptops and other computers, with an operating range up to 7 kilometers outdoors, the company claims.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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AOL Offers Corporate Instant Messaging (Margaret Kane, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-964402.html>
America Online has released a version of its popular instant messaging product aimed at the corporate market.

Borland Reworks Java Tools (Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-964404.html>
Borland Software, which leads the market for Java development tools, on Monday announced a new version of its toolset.

Wireless Comes Of Age (Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/04/BU101976.DTL&type=business>
These technologies have already matured to the point where they make sense for anyone -- even a nontechnical consumer -- who wants to take full advantage of the mobility a notebook computer allows, or simply to share broadband access between two computers in distant rooms.

Handhelds Speed Up Restaurant Service (Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59248-2002Nov2.html>
"It's a lot more convenient. Now it would be hard to move back to pen and paper."

Telecom Strategy Is Take It Or Leave It (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4434498.htm>
Broadband everywhere isn't just about vast new economic opportunities. By decentralizing the workforce, we are increasing our collective safety, too.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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For Turnout Turnabout (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/opinion/04SAFI.html>
It's time to get practical and solve the problem of poor voter turnout in America. Here are four different Swiftian ways.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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What Freud Got Right (Fred Guterl, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/829644.asp>
His theories, long discredited, are finding support from neurologists using modern brain imaging.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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This Contest Was Won Four Centuries Ago (Roy Hattersley, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,825469,00.html>
Shakespeare is the greatest Briton. He invented our national identity.

The Honeymooners (Libby Copeland, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52331-2002Nov1.html>
68 years later, couple travels in parents' footsteps.

Magazine's Ink Running Out (Frank Ahrens, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59282-2002Nov2.html>
Business Foward gets its own lesson in local economics.

Fir The Irish, Long-Windedness Serves As A literary Virtue (Maeve Binchy, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/books/04BINC.html>
The Irish don't really think about writing, it is just a natural extension of what we do all the time, which is talking.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Dogology (T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?021111fi_fiction>
It was the season of mud, drainpipes drooling, the gutters clogged with debris, a battered and penitential robin fixed like a statue on every lawn.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Need A Used-Book Store? Write An Essay Online (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/technology/04BOOK.html>
Karen Tolley thought her used-book store in the tiny town of Roseburg, Ore., might fetch about $150,000 if put up for sale, but she wanted her payment to come with a touch of poetry, too.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore, Australia Reach Trade Pact (CNN)
<http://asia.cnn.com/2002/BUSINESS/asia/11/03/aust.safta.biz/>
Singapore and Australia have agreed to a landmark free trade deal that will remove all tariffs on goods and services between the two countries by early next year. 

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Plan For Single Asean Market (Chua Lee Hoong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,153037,00.html?>
The proposal, for zero tariffs and free movement of goods and services, made by PM Goh at Asean summit yesterday.

Singapore Hangs Hopes On Asian Arts Role (Jacqueline Wong, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1673124>
The growing pool of art collectors in Singapore, a magnet and a refuge for the wealthy of Southeast Asia, has not shied away from buying such luxuries despite a prolonged economic downturn.

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