[MyAppleMenu] Nov 8, 2002

Fri Nov 8 21:05:01 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Nov 8, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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MS 'Preparing .Net For X' (Paul Krill, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5523>
It appears that Microsoft is preparing the ground to bring .Net to the Mac.

Hey Mac, Can You Burn A DVD? (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56267,00.html>
Just because Apple is making a DVD burner available with its new high-end PowerBook doesn't mean you'll be able to make illegal copies of Hollywood movies.

MyAppleMenu : News
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SuperDrive Firmware Updated (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5525>
Firmware Update 1.0 addresses an incompatibility with the recently introduced 4x DVD-R and 2x DVD-RW media, and the 2x SuperDrive in the Power Mac G4. These incompatibilities can damage the SuperDrive in extreme cases.

Mac EverQuest 'In Feb 2003' (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5526>
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) plans to ship its 3D multiplayer fantasy role-playing game EverQuest for Mac in February 2003.

Hoover Elementary Earns Grant For New Portable Computer Lab (West Branch Times)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5969092&BRD=1877&PAG=461&dept_id=134494&rfi=6>
Hoover Elementary earned a $25,000 grant, which will be used for a portable computer lab.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Just A Thought - Apple Targets My Wallet With iPod (Vern Seward, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/11/06.1.shtml>
Man! I really want an iPod!

Little Room For Improvement In New PowerBook, iBook (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/02/1108.html>
What Apple really needs to concentrate on is getting its act together when it comes to processors.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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ePresnce (Michael J. Martinez, Kiplinger's Personal Finance)
<http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2002/December/spending/techtoys.html>
These ten holiday gifts will put friends in tune and in the picture.

Dual-1.25GHz Power Mac G4: Top-Of-The-Line System Offers Impressive Performance -- At A Premium Price (Jonathan Seff, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/g4/index.html>
If you simply must have the world's fastest Mac, do lots of video and graphics work, and can pony up the dough, this is the ultimate Mac.

Chimera Continues To Challenge IE On Mac OS X (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2273>
One of the most delightful projects to come out of the Mozilla effort is the Chimera browser.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Magazines Plan Tablet PC Editions (Stefanie Olsen, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-965026.html>
Six major magazine publishers, including Forbes and the New Yorker, plan to don a new image for tablet PCs, creating digital facsimiles of their periodicals and pushing the fold on Web advertising.

States At Crossroads In Microsoft Case (Jonathan Krim, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25400-2002Nov7.html>
To appeal, or just police the accord?

Microosft Calls 'Foul' On OS Vulnerability Data (Paul Robert, IDG News Service)
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,75721,00.html>
"There's no way to determine if the same issue is counted multiple times, or if erroneous vulnerabilities are being reported."

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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All CDs Will Be Protected And You Are Filthy Pirate (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28009.html>
"We will do anything within our power -- whether you like it or not."

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Internet2 Pumps Streaming Media (Andy Patrizio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56110,00.html>
For most Internet users, streaming media means sound that cuts in and out and a choppy picture viewed in a window the size of a deck of cards. But for Internet2 users, it's a different story.

DoCoMo Scales Down 3G Target As Income Slumps (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/28004.html>
NTT DoCoMo Inc expects to have only 320,000 subscribers for its 3G services by the end of its current financial year, and has abandoned its original optimistic forecasts that it would have 1,380,000 users by that date.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Machiavelli In Mesopotamia (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073634&device=>
The case against the case against "regime change" in Iraq.

Losers In The War Of Ideas (Ted Halstead, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25746-2002Nov7.html>
Where Democrats lost is in the war of ideas.

Into The Wilderness (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/opinion/08KRUG.html>
For those of us who think the nation has taken a disastrous wrong turn these past two years, Tuesday's election changed everything and nothing.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Sky Mall Reminds Us You Can Never Be Too Careful (Lawrence Cohen, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/311/at_home/Sky_Mall_reminds_us_you_can_never_be_too_careful+.shtml>
It wasn't the heightened security efforts at airports that got me, or the need to look carefully at all the other passengers' shoes, but a fascinating catalog provided on airplanes called Sky Mall.

It's Deja Vu For Nostalgic Diners (Corby Kummer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/arts/08EATS.html>
"New York Eats Out" at the New York Public Library gives an all-too-fleeting overview of the city's high and low cuisine for the last 150 years.

Professor Soundbite (Amy Roe, Willamette Week)
<http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3319.lasso>
Gary Perlsgtein is a "terrorism expert." Because we said so.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Magazines Plan Tablet PC Editions (Stefanie Olsen, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-965026.html>
Six major magazine publishers, including Forbes and the New Yorker, plan to don a new image for tablet PCs, creating digital facsimiles of their periodicals and pushing the fold on Web advertising.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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A New Hall Showcases Culture In Singapore -- But Whose? (Elena Park, Andante)
<http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=19083>
Esplanade will affect the evolving cultural identity of Singapore, even as it seeks to reflect local traditions.

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