[MyAppleMenu] Nov 16, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Nov 16, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Software Survivors Fend Off Microsoft (Charles Bermant, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134577164_ptclassic16.html>
Database FileMaker, digital-imaging program Photoshop and accounting-software leader Quicken have managed to stay independent and develop markets amid direct or indirect competition from Microsoft.

Living With The World's Fastest Mac (Gene Steinberg, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/2002-11-15-steinberg_x.htm>
The fastest Power Macintosh of the season is truly an exemplary performer. In some respects, it beats the pants off the fastest available Pentium 4, and offers just about the best gaming performance I've ever seen on the Mac platform.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Bellevue Firm Eases The Move To A Mac (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134577168_ptmacc16.html>
For $59.95, the package includes software for both platforms that allows a relatively painless transition of files using a special USB cable to connect two machines.

Tame Your Devices: Your Mac As A Digital Hub (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/11/heid/>
"It’s kind of an 'Oh, wow!' moment. They think, I can do all this stuff that really has a professional look to it and it all comes right in the box."

Coldplay: Macs In Their Place (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/11/coldplay/>
Macs are integral to Coldplay's songwriting and recording process.

Computers Make Mark In Hope Classes (Steve Rzasa, The Camden Herald)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6079699&BRD=1470&PAG=461&dept_id=188279&rfi=6>
Once upon a time, students carried yellow No. 2 pencils and paper notebooks to their classes. Now they carry white laptop computers.

New Hawaiian Storyteller (Wanda A. Adams, Honolulu Advertiser)
<http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Nov/15/il/il01a.html>
Sometimes, Keola Beamer hears the voice of his grandmother, telling stories of Pele and Hi'iaka, Maui and Mano, the shark.

Bay Street Opening Delayed Again (East Bay Business Times)
<http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2002/11/11/daily55.html>
Last week's stormy weather has pushed the debut of the Bay Street mixed-use development in Emeryville until Nov. 20.

Apple Updates iDisk Utility (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/15.idisk.php>
The iDisk Utility is designed to simplify the use of the Public folder on your iDisk as a password-protected drop box for sharing files with clients, family, and friends.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Rants & Raves: Students Treat Laptops With TLC (Benjamin Brewer, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/rants/0,2350,56433,00.html>
What's the point of giving a powerful device to a student, that is to allow them to seek information and be more innovative, and then sabotaging it so the machine can do one-fourth of what it's capable of?

Discussion: Are Apple Computers More Expensive? (Geek.com)
<http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Nov/bma20021115017333.htm>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Pumping Up Volume On PowerBook G4 (Michelle Speir, FCW)
<http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1118/tec-apple-11-18-02.asp>
It's a fine machine, but a little pricey.

CSS Hints For Internet Explorer 5 (Peter-Paul Koch and Apple Developer Connection, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/11/15/css_pitfalls.html>

Incorporating Rendezvous Into Your Cocoa Applications, Part 2 (Mike Beam, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/15/cocoa.html>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Discloses Its Winners, Losers (Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-micro16nov16,0,7367574.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Microsoft Corp. for the first time is providing details on how much money its individual products are earning -- and losing.

EU Looking At New Microsoft Antitrust Case (Paul Meller, IDG News Service)
<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,75943,00.html>
The European Commission is considering a new antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. based on the suspicion that the software maker is trying to leverage its dominance of PC operating systems into the market for mobile phone software, according to people familiar with the regulator's activities.

Microsoft Security Efforts Just The Beginning (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,709842,00.asp>
After a year of work on the Trustworthy Computing initiative, Microsoft Corp. executives say they are pleased with the progress the company has made thus far, but acknowledge that they've only just scratched the surface of what needs to be done.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Free The Monkey, Keep The $20 And Lose The Ads (Milla Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-vo-goldenberg16nov16,0,6908078.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
We don't have 10 seconds to spare on a full-screen AT&T Web commercial, complete with annoying jingle.

PDA? No Way (Jack Kapica, Globe And Mail)
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/business/RTGAM/20021113/gteinov13/Business/businessBN/breakingnews-business>
Personal digital assistants, the pompous name for handheld computers, were supposed to transform the way e-business is done. They haven't.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Visa Suit: Dictionary Discredited (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56432,00.html>
Legal experts say Visa's recent win over a one-man website is the first time a corporate trademark has prevailed over a word in the dictionary.

Webcasters Free To Reach Deals (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-webcast16nov16,0,458782.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
The Webcasting bill passed by Congress early Friday morning could save many small Internet radio stations from financial ruin, but it does little to solve the fundamental problems facing the Webcasting industry.

Comdex 2002: Smaller But Alive (Paul R. La Monica, CNN/Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2002/11/15/technology/comdex_walkup/>
The tech landscape is so bad that even Comdex's organizer is considering filling for bankruptcy.

Switched Computing Introduced (Scott Tyler Shafer, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/se/xml/02/11/18/021118seio.xml>
While systems giants, including IBM and Sun Microsystems, tout visions for the future of distributed computing, startups TopSpin Communications and InfiniCon Systems are emerging with components of the puzzle available today.

W3C Promotes Royalty-Free Web Services Standards (Paul Krill, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/14/021114hnw3last.xml>
To achieve the goal of royalty-free specifications, the proposal stipulates that participants in development of W3C Recommendations must agree to license "essential claims," defined as patents that block interoperability, on a royalty-free basis, W3C said.

Congress Approves 'Dot-Kids' Measure (David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58610-2002Nov15.html>
Congress early this morning approved legislation designed to seal off a G-rated "neighborhood" for kids on the World Wide Web.

UnitedLinux Products Making Comdex Debut (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-966075.html>
The UnitedLinux effort will bear its first fruit Tuesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, with SuSE and the SCO Group announcing new products based on the common software underpinnings.

"Noisy Light" Is New Key To Encryption (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965957.html>
Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of light to encrypt information into code that can be cracked only one way: by breaking the physical laws of nature.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Food For Thought (William R. Leonard, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0007B7DC-6738-1DC9-AF71809EC588EEDF>
It is not just changes in diet that have created many of our pervasive health problems but the interaction of shifting diets and changing lifestyles.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Seven Inches Of Heaven (Peter Paphides, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,840996,00.html>
In the century of popular culture, no item of software wielded as much influence as the seven-inch record.

Teachers Wrap Lessons In Fiction (Patricia Cohen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/16/arts/16NOVE.html>
Looking for fresh ways to engage overloaded students, a growing number of professors at big universities and small colleges are supplementing traditionally sober textbooks with a curious genre: the textbook-novel.

Toy Makers Hope Children Will See Oldies As Goodies (Tracie Rozhon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/16/business/16TOY.html?8hpib>
For toy makers approaching Christmas, this is not a big year for originality.

A Life That Gained In The Translation (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61853-2002Nov15.html>
Tatiana Kudriavtseva, bringing Russia the best of American literature.

Soft News And Hard Candy (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074016>
The Wall Street Journal's "Personal Journal" is too much of a good thing.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Waiting For Singapore's Response To Avert Coastline Threat (Shahrum Sayuthi, New Straits Times)
<http://www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/NewsBreak/20021115165945/Article/>
Malaysia will wait for Singapore to respond to its findings on the impact of the republic's reclamation project before formulating a mechanism to avert its potential environmental threat to the Johor coastline.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore May Lift Gum Ban (The Scotsman)
<http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1272272002>
Singapore may lift its ban on chewing gum as part of a landmark free trade agreement with the United States.

Uncertainities, So No CPF Restoration Yet (Ahmad Osman, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,155129,00.html?>
The Government will postpone restoring the last 4 percentage points in employers' CPF contributions, and indicated that any revision is likely to come after next July.

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

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