[MyAppleMenu] Nov 11, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Nov 11, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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New Wild Multimedia Shows How Suite It Is (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4489846.htm>
"The quality of the picture is unbelievably sharp. It's like you're right there on the front row."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Are Macs Virus-Proof? (Robyn Weisman, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19930.html>
While Unix underpinnings have made Apple's OS more powerful and stable, they also have made it more susceptible to viruses and worms.

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.2 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/11.osx.php>
Apple today posted an update to its Mac OS X operating system, bringing the current version to 10.2.2.

Wedding Saved By Apple's iTunes (Greg Gazin, Canoe)
<http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSTechNews0210/31_gazin-sun.html>
When I left for the coast not long ago to attend a wedding, the last thing I thought of was that my Macintosh iBook was going to be part of the wedding party.

iPods Go Wherever Their Owners Do (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56266,00.html>
The people who have posted more than 550 photos on the iPods Around the World gallery, part of the iPodLounge website, take theirs almost everywhere they go, from exotic travel destinations to their own backyards.

Macromedia To Sell Light-Duty Web Tool (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965085.html>
After years of targeting professional Web developers and designers, Macromedia has a new type of customer in mind for its latest product--you.

Bob Shallit: Switching To Apple Makes Him A 'Big Shot' (Bob Shallit, Sacramento Bee)
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/5158859p-6167951c.html>
The co-founder of the Idea Factory had a great time.

Final Cut Pro Helps India Tackle AIDS (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/uk/hotnews/articles/fcp_india/>
India’s first reality TV show -- edited entirely on Apple technology and produced and funded by the BBC -- is succeeding in combatting the growing problem of HIV and AIDS among the country’s young people.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac OS X Isn't (Or Is?) Stable (Greg Cotterell, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/4489812.htm>
After my dismal experience with the OS X operating system and the less-than-nice DVD results from iDVD, I cannot endorse this machine.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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EyeTV (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/eyetv.shtml>
You can keep all of your fancy pausing and skipping and technological chicanery, I just want to be able to watch TV while I work. EyeTV provides that ability, so I'm good.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Dell's New Toy (Brad Stone, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/832882.asp>
The largest maker of PCs in the world bets on getting bigger by going smaller with a new personal organizer. And dude, there are more changes to come.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Maybe It Is The Magic Kingdom (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56314,00.html>
While so many others are still struggling to make the Web pay, Walt Disney's Internet ventures are thriving.

Teething Pains (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/315/business/Teething_pains+.shtml>
Despite a spate of new Bluetooth devices, the short-range wireless networking technology has yet to live up to its promises.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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AOL Tailors Service To Small Businesses (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965249.html>
The AOL for Small Business is essentially a version of AOL with more links to business-related services and content. AOL subscribers who request it will get a new welcome screen that offers stock quotes and links to services such as domain name registration by VeriSign, stock quotes and a small-business resource page.

Three New 'Net Domains Could Be Added Next Year (David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38130-2002Nov11.html>
Internet users could get three new alternatives to "dot-com" next year, but those alternatives likely will be reserved for specific online communities.

Using Software To Measure Software Buys (Larry Dignan, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965187.html>
With every potential information technology purchase now under intense scrutiny, a few software vendors are working to help chief information officers look before they leap into big expenses.

Tech Needs To Learn How To Lobby (Declan McCullagh, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-965229.html>
Is it time for the technology industry to come up with a similar way to reward friends and punish enemies?

AltaVista Takes A Page From Google (Stefanie Olsen, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-965178.html>
The struggling company is trying to recapture its former glory as a search engine heavyweight with a newly redesigned Web site, featuring a sleek, spare look that takes a cue from current search champ Google. The new site is scheduled to launch Tuesday.

Movie Studios Provide Link For Internet Downloading (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/11/technology/11MOVI.html>
Seeking to protect movies from the rampant online piracy that afflicts the music industry, five major film studios plan to begin offering today rental feature films that consumers can download from a Web site for a fee.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Power Play (Andrew J. Nathan, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021118-389013,00.html>
The Chinese Communist Party still wants nothing less than total control.

Dad, Can I Borrow The Scepter? (Michael Kinsley, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021118-388947,00.html>
Even as our mos tlegendary political dynasty withers away, American democracy is becoming oddly more dynastic, not less so.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The Sugar Habit (Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-sugar11nov11.story>
Just a sweet tooth or a real addiction? Once skeptical, scientists take a closer look at the notion that people can get hooked on sugar as if it were a drug.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Are We There Yet? (Kevin Peraino, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/832465.asp>
Airports have to meet tougher standards for checking baggage this holiday season. Get ready for a big mess.

When The Audience Is Scarier Than The Movie (Al Martinez, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-et-martinez11nov11,0,209509.column?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcolumns>
I challenged movie demographics the other night and ended up in teenage hell. It wasn't so much the film, which was "The Ring," but the audience. Ninety percent of it consisted of those between the ages of 13 and 16, and they were there to be heard.

There Shouldn't Be A Remote Control On How We Watch DVDs (Ernest Miller, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-miller11nov11,0,2035422.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
What would you think if you had to get permission from the architect before you could have your house painted another color? How would you feel if the photographer had to agree with your selection of a frame for a favorite photograph? What if the director of a movie could decide when it was OK for you to fast-forward through a DVD you had rented?

Gone With The Wind (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36712-2002Nov10.html>
Has the once-towering genre of Southern Literature lost its compass?

HarperCollins Plans The Timing Of 'Prey' Almost To A Nanosecond (Bill Goldstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/11/business/media/11MIKE.html>
The planning behind the date's selection, and the intensely concentrated promotion that will accompany "Prey," show how the "opening" of a major book has increasingly come to resemble the opening of a movie.

Aspiring Screenwriters Turn To Web For Encouragement (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/11/arts/11ARTS.html>
Internet sites for amateur screenwriters are opening faster than James Bond sequels.

A Call To Honor (Lucian K. Truscott IV, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/11/opinion/11TRUS.html>
My father died two years ago. He was a veteran of two wars, in Korea and Vietnam, and for reasons of his own, he didn't want the military funeral he was entitled to. But Veterans Day seems like a good time to honor his service to his country with a story about his lifelong love of the bugle call, taps.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Last Night (James Salter, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?021118fi_fiction>
Walter Such was a translator. He liked to write with a green fountain pen that he had a habit of raising in the air slightly after each sentence, almost as if his hand were a mechanical device. He could recite lines of Blok in Russian and then give Rilke's translation of them in German, pointing out their beauty. He was a sociable but also sometimes prickly man, who stuttered a little at first and who lived with his wife in a manner they liked. But Marit, his wife, was ill.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Threatening To Stay (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,154196,00.html>
It would be disappointing if the discourse on citizenship is framed as the same old gripe list, just dressed up with two new labels.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore May Slip Back Into Recession: BG Yeo (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,63382,00.html?>
Brigadier-general Yeo did not rule out the possibility the trade-dependent city-state could run into a another downturn given the gloomy outlook facing the United States, its biggest export market.

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