[MyAppleMenu] Nov 13, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Maine Spawns Budding Kubricks (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56246,00.html>
Digital cameras, laptops and Apple iMovie software help schoolkids tap into their inner filmmakers.

MyAppleMenu : News
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BareBones Releases BBEdit 7.0 With CVS Support And More (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/13/bbedit>
Version 7.0 introduces a number of new features, including integrated support for CVS, the ability to easily configure multiple Web sites, powerful new Sort Lines and Process Duplicate plug-ins, rectangular selection support, ASP/VBScript syntax coloring support, and more.

Stephen King Lends Voice To Laptop Program (Associated Press)
<http://www.wmtw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1009008&nav=7k6rCKZr>
Stephen King is lending his voice of support to Maine's program to equip middle school students with laptop computers. And he's even holding out the prospect of teaching students online.

Apple Releases Sherlock 3 SDK (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/12.sherlock.php>
According to Apple, everything required to develop a channel is provided in the Sherlock 3 Channel SDK.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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An Apple For Teacher Ain't Enough (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2002/tc20021112_5078.htm>
Neither is a Dell. A classroom computer can help, if a teacher knows what to do with it. At least here, Apple is trying.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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The Best Value Apple Portables Ever (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/02/11/13/index.html>
Despite the rumor mills and the premature Website update, Apple managed to surprise us.

Mac OS 10.2: Breaking The iCandy Barrier (Justin Siemens, CanadaComputes.com)
<http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9441&sb=196>
If you can find OS X versions of all your software, OS 10.2 will be a joy to use.

Elegant Engineering (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/13/1037080783677.html>
Now, listen here, Santa, mate ... !

Installing Oracle 9i On Mac OS X (David Simpson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/12/oracle_part1.html>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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WirelessUSB - Better, Faster And Cheaper Than Bluetooth? (Scott McCollum, WorldTechTribune)
<http://www.worldtechtribune.com/worldtechtribune/asparticles/buzz/bz11122002.asp>
The WirelessUSB chip is designed to be a solution for the makers of computer keyboards, mice and other Human Interface Devices (HIDs) who want to offer wireless products but without the cost of implementing Bluetooth, a competing wireless device tech standard.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Toshiba Licenses TiVo Technology (Margaret Kane, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965617.html>
A U.S. subsidiary of Toshiba has licensed recording technology from TiVo and hopes to have products using it available by holiday season 2003.

Gates' Comdex: Net Appliances Redux (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965694.html>
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will show off smart objects--small, Internet-enabled household items--at Comdex next week, as PC makers gear up for the second wave of Internet appliances.

Shift In The Image Of Open Wi-Fi Access (Andy Oram, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2293>
But who will dare to stand up and say that we should prevent anonymity?

The Law Of Leaky Abstrations (Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software)
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html>
While these great tools, like modern OO forms-based languages, let us get a lot of work done incredibly quickly, suddenly one day we need to figure out a problem where the abstraction leaked, and it takes 2 weeks.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Armchair General (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073772>
The ugly idea that non-soldiers have less right to argue for war.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Silicon Hogs (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/13/microchips/index.html>
A new study tars microchip manufacturing as wasteful and inefficient. Whatever happened to high tech's squeaky-clean image?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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If You're Beautiful, Life Is Easy (Giles Whittell, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-478058,00.html>
It began with entertainment, the arts and sport, but now in every walk of life looks are a more important guide to success than talent. It's all over for the fat lady, whether she can sing or not.

It Takes A Wedding (Alex Kotlowitz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/opinion/13KOTL.html>
Might marriage be making a comeback in communities where the vast majority of children are born to single parents?

Waiter, Are There Carbs In My Soup? (Julia Moskin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/dining/13DIET.html>
New York City restaurants are being swarmed by a fat-seeking, protein-craving army.

The Big Flavors Of Little Rhode Island (Paul Lukas, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/dining/13RHOD.html>
If the notion of Rhode Island food specialties seems dubious, think again.

Thong Of The South (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073884&device=>
How a Kentucky smut shop put the starch in Victoria's Secret's shorts.

Putting Letterman On Radio Is A Stupid Corporate Trick (Robert Philpot, Star-Telegram)
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/4492786.htm>
Letterman on radio is a boneheaded idea, largely because Letterman relies on a lot of visual shtick.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Lake (Rosanna Warren, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073776&device=>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Could It Happen In Singapore? (Michael Shari, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_46/b3808165.htm>
Life goes on, albeit with trepidation.

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