[MyAppleMenu] Nov 10, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Nov 10, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Connecting To The Schools: Studnet Information Systems On The Rise By Districts In The State (Gretchen Fowler, The Grand Island Independent)
<http://www.theindependent.com/stories/111002/new_schools10.shtml>
The days when students could try to hide their report cards from their parents or skip out of school are quickly slipping away.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Macs Sound Out success For Musician And Engineers (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/sacramento/>
"It would be hard to imagine a movie, TV spot, or television show today that has not been touched in some way by Pro Tools... and most of it's done on Macs."

District 54 Students To Take Laptops Home If Parents Agree (Alan Crowell, Maine Today)
<http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/021109sad_54_l.shtml>
Students will be able to take their Apple iBooks home after they and their parents attend a family orientation meeting and parents sign a form taking responsibility for the machines.  

Fighting Microsoft The Open-Source Way (Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,45073,FF.html>
Apple, IBM, and Sun have opened up their software code to the public in their battle against Redmond. It just might work.

Q&A With Adobe's Susan Prescott (Andrew Shalat, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/macbeat/prescott.html>
Macworld recently spoke to Susan Prescott, Adobe's vice president of cross-media publishing, about her company's efforts to attract new users to InDesign, XML support in the page-layout application, and Adobe's network-publishing strategy.

Xerox Settles, Apple Awaits (MacUser)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/front_index.php?ip=1&page=%2Fnews%2Fnews_story.php%3Fid%3D32521>
Xerox is the latest company to settle a dispute over a printing technology patent held by Pitney Bowes.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Friendly TiBook - iBook Rivalry (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2283>
I'm sure to the eyes of uninformed visitors who surf the Apple Store, the iBooks are the "entry level" notebooks and the Titanium PowerBooks are for pros. Ha! Nothing could be farther from the truth.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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'Rapunzel' CD-ROM Lets Barbie Free Her Prince (Gene Emery, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1709050>
So how does Barbie respond to this devastating tragedy? She redecorates, of course!

Speakable Web Services (Jon Udell, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/11/08/udell.html>
Apple has done a marvelous job with the recognition and control systems, and now that you can script the Internet so easily in OS X, it's straightforward to build useful voice-driven commands that invoke external as well as local services.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Can Tablets Cure PC Industry? (Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/11/07/financial1053EST0068.DTL&type=tech>
So, if you pine to take digital notes at meetings, or do a lot of on-screen reading of long documents and don't mind spending an extra $250 or so, the Tablet PC may be for you. For everyone else, I'd advise waiting until these things get better.

Tablet PCs Mix Science Fiction And Real-World Fiction (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30442-2002Nov8.html>
In trying to combine the simplicity of paper with the power of a computer, they lose both qualities.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Euopeans Outlaw Net Hate Speech (Julia Scheeres, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56294,00.html>
The measure, which bans the publication of material that promotes racism and violence online, clashes directly with U.S. laws protecting such speech.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Amazon Writes A Drama In Canada (David Streitfeld, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-amazon10nov10,0,2244303.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Booksellers, usually protected from foreign rivals, are irked by lack of government action against U.S. e-tailer.

Fighting Microsoft The Open-Source Way (Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,45073,FF.html>
Apple, IBM, and Sun have opened up their software code to the public in their battle against Redmond. It just might work.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Are We The Wave Of The Future Or Have We Just Gone Surfin' (John Balzar, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-balzar10nov10,0,6265173.column?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcolumns>
California seems to have lost its direction.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Sensors Gone Wild (Benjamin Fulford, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/1028/076.html>
An experiment in the California desert and an executive suite in Tokyo provide tantalizing hints of how a networked world could make everyday life a lot more precise and profound.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Art Of Entertaining (David Lansing, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-lansing10nov10.story>
Dinner parties are back, but formality is not. Think intimate late-night gatherings with an eclectic guest list and surprising presentation. Southern Californians show us the new wave of party-giving.

The Parent Trap (Christopher Shea, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9113-2002Nov5.html>
What happens when parents wield too much power over what goes on in their children's schools?

A Classroom Crusade (Darragh Johnson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9133-2002Nov5.html>
Eric Smith wants to prove he can eliminate the achievement gap that divides blacks and Hispanics from Asians and whites. His stint in Maryland will put him to the test.

Knocked Off (Charles McGrath, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/10WWLN.html>
If a novel has already brought to life -- real life -- the world it invented, can a sequel by another writer possibly get the job done?

For All You Observers Of The Urban Extravaganza (Herbert Muschamp, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/arts/design/10MUSC.html>
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have defined a new building type for the contemporary city: the urban viewing platform.

A New Platform For The New Poets (Jon Pareles, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/arts/theater/10PARE.html>
"Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" combines the ancient traditions of bards and griots and the more recent resurgence of spoken-word and hip-hop.

An Animal's Place (Michael Pollan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/10ANIMAL.html>
Animal rights advocates present a compelling vision of a more moral world. But this vision is ecologically foolhardy -- and based on a naïve definition of animal happiness.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Is Ban On Satellite Dish A Mistake? (Denesh Divyanathan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,154008,00.html?>
The entrance of a new pay TV operator may lower prices and provide greater choice for viewers. The new entrant is likely to be a telco. But it will have its work cut out: there are a lot of pay TV subscribers around.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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