[MyAppleMenu] Nov 9, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Nov 9, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Ahead Of Pack In Eliminating Spam (Charles Bermant, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134572303_ptinbo09.html>
The strength of OS X's spam-filtering ability is proprietary technology, something called "adaptive latent semantic analysis" that comes out of Apple's research group.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Shrine: Little iMacs Everywhere (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56247,00.html>
When he came to America, a Brazilian-born photographer struggled to build a successful imaging business. Now he's turned his studio into a pious homage to the technology that helped him hit it big: Macs.

Shooting From The Hip (Joseph Gallivan, Portland Tribune)
<http://www.portlandtribune.com/viewcurr.cgi?id=14746>
If moviemaking is still the American lingua franca, then slang is definitely in.

Original Mac Veteran Leads Sun Desktop Charge (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28020.html>
Sun's Desktop strategy -- "Project Madhatter" -- is taking shape.

Fantom Intros 52x FireWire CD-RW (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/08.fantom.php>

Maine Software Grant Largest Gift Ever To State (Glenn Adams, Associated Press)
<http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/11/08/software_grant.html>
Its attention drawn by Maine's middle-school laptop program, a Texas company said Thursday it's giving Maine schools software valued at $400 million to help the state implement its pioneering effort.

Nisus Writer For OS X Coming Soon (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/archives.html#note_78>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Keyspan USB2+Firewire Card (Ian Johnson, Globe And Mail)
<http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20021108/gtkeyss/Technology/techBN/>

These Two Desktops Contain One-Of-A-Kind Features (Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1654499>
While the price on this may seem a little steep, particularly with the monitor added, it's actually an excellent buy considering the amount of power you get from the dual processors.

Incorporating Rendezvous Into Your Cocoa Applications (Mike Beam, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/08/cocoa.html>

First Look: Updated Apple iBooks, PowerBooks (Brett Larson, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/products/story/0,24195,3406755,00.html>
Apple sizzles with performance improvements and price cuts that are tough to resist.

Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.1 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/stuf-7.shtml>
Magic Menu should have been fixed for X.2 as a repair, not as a paid update. Unless you need the Magic Menu and unless you are willing to risk the possible destruction of application package names being truncated, there is little need to upgrade.

Major Improvements Needed For Mac OS X's Mail Application (Pierre Igot, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/oped/applepeel/archives/peel_43_021108.shtml>
Mail has some rather major annoyances, as well as more minor flaws that get in the way of my computing activities and goals.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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It's Official: No Longhorn Server On Tap (Mary Jo Foley, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,677736,00.asp>
Microsoft has decided to skip a Windows server release to coincide with the Longhorn client and instead jump directly to Blackcomb, company officials confirmed Friday.

Microsoft Settlement: Done Deal (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965117.html>
Microsoft and the Justice Department on Friday filed a revised settlement in the software giant's long-standing antitrust case.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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A Single-Minded Focus On Multiple Threads (Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-intel9nov09,0,6654821.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
In developing a radical new technology, Intel designers and engineers had to change the way they thought about chips.

Computer Stay Powered Down (Megan Graham-Hackett, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/nov2002/pi2002118_1625.htm>
While most hardware makers have hit or beat low-ball third-quarter estimates, few are projecting a hot yearend season. One standout: IBM.

Want Some Wi-Fi With That Sandwich? (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-965070.html>
Hoping people will drop by for free Web access and stay for a sandwich, Schlotzsky's Deli is offering no-cost wireless access at some of its eateries.

Dell Makes A Wireless Connection (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<Microsoft and the Justice Department on Friday filed a revised settlement in the software giant's long-standing antitrust case.>
Dell will include the 802.11b and 802.11a wireless formats as standard features in all of its new Latitude notebooks as it releases new versions throughout the year.

Armor-Plated Linux Gets Backup (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965179.html>
Two companies announced Friday a new version of Security-Enhanced Linux, in a bid to build business from additions to the bare-bones operating system.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Warming Waters And Dying Lobsters (Kirk Johnson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/nyregion/09LOBS.html>
A scientist's discovery may support the claim that a global climate change is responsible for a precipitous decline in Long Island Sound lobsters.

TiVo Is To TV As Slicing Was To Bread (Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/07/DD205379.DTL>
I'm telling you, if you get hooked on a DVR and find others haven't adapted, it's like when you call someone and the phone rings and rings and rings -- and you realize the person doesn't own an answering machine. Damn Luddites.

Rules For A Complex Quantum World (Michael A. Nielsen, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0005C8BF-1B88-1D9B-815A809EC5880000>
Scientists' current understanding of quantum mechanics is like that of a slow-learning student of chess. We've known the rules for more than 70 years, and we have a few clever moves that work in some special situations, but we're only gradually learning the high-level principles needed to play a skillful overall game.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Hide, Seek For Power Bricks (Chris Muldrow, The Free Lance-Star)
<http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2002/112002/11092002/784599>
Those people who tend to buy consumer electronics have not only run out of money, we've run out of wall outlets.

The World, With A Sigh And A Wink (Edward Rothstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/arts/09YISH.html>
Yiddish literature can be unpredictably unsettling, combining innocence and sentiment with dark sarcasm and knowing irony.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Getting To The Heart Of Citizenship (Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,153761,00.html>
The ongoing debate about what it means to be a Singapore citizen highlights the tussle between mind and heart in thinking about nationality.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Symbolic Female Circumcision Embraced By Most Of Singapore's Muslims (Gillian Wee, Associated Press)
<http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=%7B27449F93-3F92-41D0-B5CF-AA5D4A797F1F%7D>
In Singapore's small Muslim community, female circumcision involves nicking the prepuce, the skin covering the clitoris. It is markedly different from the practices of some Muslim communities in Africa and the Middle East that are decried by human rights activists as female genital mutilation.

Singapore Frees Opposition Leader (Associated Press)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2157233,00.html>
A Singapore opposition leader was released from prison Saturday after serving five weeks for holding an illegal rally, and he immediately vowed to continue his battle for more free speech in the city-state.

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