[MyAppleMenu] Nov 18, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Nov 18, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Online Casting Calls Snub Apple (Stefanie Olsen and Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966115.html>
Last week's slight from Hollywood is an embarrassing rebuff for Apple, which has positioned itself as the computer maker of choice for consumers hungry for digital media.

A Whole New Initiative (Eric Fetters, Daily Herald)
<http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/02/11/18/16088786.cfm>
Renee Radcliff envisions a larger role for computers in the classroom in her new position with Apple Computer.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Offers 'X For Schools,' 'X On Campus' Promotions (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/18.schools.php>

Apple Expands AppleCare Protection Program (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/18.applecare.php>
The plan features several enhancements for the mobile and desktop user alike.

Apple Extends Mac OS X Up-To-Date Program (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/18/uptodate>
Upgrade orders must now be postmarked or faxed by November 30.

Apple Announces After-Thanksgiving Special Event (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/18/thanksgiving>

Apple At The NSBA T+L Conference (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/tl2002/>
Apple demonstrated its commitment to helping students excel in a big way by showcasing Mac OS X, the new Curriculum Mobile Labs, and PowerSchool, and highlighting Henrico County Public School's (Virginia) one-to-one technology initiative.

Apple Xserve Server Hits The Spot (Marc Spiwak and Mario Morejon, CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/Sections/Infrastructure/infrastructure.asp?ArticleID=38511>
The new Xserve server from Apple Computer is great news for resellers that specialize in networking the vendor's computers.

Grey Matter Animates Clay For Disney (Post Magazine)
<http://www.postmagazine.com/post/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=38462>
Each capture station consists of a Fuji S2 digital camera, interchangeable Nikon prime lenses, an iMac DV 500 MHz computer with a 20 GB hard drive and a minimum of 512 MB of RAM.

Laagan, Tikawali Style (Sumit Bhattacharya, The Times Of India)
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=28670925>
An Apple Macintosh computer, a digital movie camera and five young boys huddled in front. There's nothing striking about the scene, except that the boys are from a non-descript Haryana village, and they are working on what will be the third movie written, shot and edited entirely on their own.

Fetishists Really Love Their Macs (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56409,00.html>
Some Apple devotees take their love for all things Mac farther than others. In one case, a man fell in love with his PowerMac G3.

Businesses, Big And Small, Bet On Wireless Internet Access (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18WIFI.html?ex=1038286800&en=0dec6e0bbdc53ebe&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
The next industry cycle may revolve around a wireless data technology known as Wi-Fi, which has the potential to eventually let anyone with a computer or computing device connect to the Internet at high speeds, without cables.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Waiting For The Mac Tablet (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,713606,00.asp>
The Mac maker isn't talking yet, but I predict it will have plenty to say about Microsoft's new portable-computing initiative next year--if the pen-driven slate takes hold in the market.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Adobe InDesign 2 (Lisa Swanson, macDVonline)
<http://www.macdvonline.com/more.php?id=18_0_1_0_M>
The days of Quark’s arrogance are over. Adobe has come to town to slay the beast, and it’s armed with the right tools.

Camera, Action! Movie-Editing On Your Desktop (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=353335>
Apple's product is still the gold standard for these sort of things, and it's easy to see why.

Talking Tomes (Lee Dembart, International Herald Tribune)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/77262.html>
The Internet offers an alternative to buying or renting audio books by mail: Download the books you want to hear.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Gates Proposes Web-Enabled Alarm Clocks (Mark Hachman, ExtremeTech)
<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,713183,00.asp>
Do you need a Web-enabled alarm clock that can tell you traffic conditions, too? What about the luxury of carrying the Web into other parts of the house, rather than walking to and sitting down at a desk? If you answered "yes" to either question, you're just what Microsoft—and the tech industry—needs.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Publish Your Heart Out With Easy-To-Use Web Tools (Eric Auchard, Reuters)
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XFELHQXX01EHWCRBAEOCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=1753837>
A decade later, grass-roots publishing tools are putting the power of authorship in the hands of millions -- although ease of use often comes at the expense of creative control.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Bring Back The New Economy! (Suneel Ratan, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/18/new_economy/index.html>
Neither Bush nor the Democrats have grasped how to get the country moving again: Spurring innovation back to boom-time heights.

UnitedLinux Makes Its Comdex Debut (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-966075.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.

Credit Cards Seek New Fees On Web's Demimonde (Matt Richtel and John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18PORN.html?8hpib>
New financial industry rules could threaten the growth of one of the most vibrant drivers of the Internet's early success: naughtiness.

Gates Proposes Web-Enabled Alarm Clocks (Mark Hachman, ExtremeTech)
<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,713183,00.asp>
Do you need a Web-enabled alarm clock that can tell you traffic conditions, too? What about the luxury of carrying the Web into other parts of the house, rather than walking to and sitting down at a desk? If you answered "yes" to either question, you're just what Microsoft—and the tech industry—needs.

Watchmaker Gives Palm Another Shake (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-966107.html>
Fashion watch maker Fossil is having a second go at melding a wristwatch with a handheld computer--but this time it'll run on the Palm operating system.

Businesses, Big And Small, Bet On Wireless Internet Access (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18WIFI.html?ex=1038286800&en=0dec6e0bbdc53ebe&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
The next industry cycle may revolve around a wireless data technology known as Wi-Fi, which has the potential to eventually let anyone with a computer or computing device connect to the Internet at high speeds, without cables.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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No Time To Go It Alone (Alexandr Vondra and Sally Painter, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3363-2002Nov17.html>
Europe and the United States and their mutual need for NATO.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Bring Back The New Economy! (Suneel Ratan, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/18/new_economy/index.html>
Neither Bush nor the Democrats have grasped how to get the country moving again: Spurring innovation back to boom-time heights.

The Power Of Regret (Benedict Carey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-regret18nov18.story?null>
Regret is as old as conscience itself. Yet only recently have researchers begun to clarify its emotional impact, and learn how it affects our health and behavior.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Asia Scares America (Richard Corliss, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021125-388107,00.html>
A Japanese thriller gets a Hollywood remake, and suddenly U.S. moguls are mad for Eastern movies.

Ha Ha Ha Ha--Huh? (Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021125/misc/25cartoons.htm>
Fred Flintstone on trial. Scooby Doo on dope. There's something funny going on in TV cartoons.

The Calculator (Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021125fa_fact>
How Kenneth Feinberg determines the value of three thousand lives.

Trading Fiction's Comfort For A Chance To Look Life In The Eye (Amy Bloom, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/books/18BLOO.html>
I didn't know that exploring the truth of some people's lives, and the stories they had to tell, would overturn my prejudices and my common sense and poke a sharp stick into the blind spots.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Ant Of The Self (ZZ Packer, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?021125fi_fiction>
"Opportunities," my father says after I bail him out of jail. "You've got to invest your money if you want opportunities."

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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'Double Dip' Fears Grow In Singapore (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2487455.stm>
Singapore's chances of avoiding a slide into renewed recession are looking more and more bleak as the US recovery slows and war on Iraq looms.

Singapore Cuts Economic Growth Forecast (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1755464>
Singapore cut its economic growth forecast for 2002 to 2.0 to 2.5 percent on Monday, as a slowdown in the United States and a possible Middle East war threatened to slow down its recovery in the fourth quarter.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Study Shows Stressed-Out Singaporeans Give Sex A Miss (Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1756190>
The result is that Singaporeans below the age of 40 have sex six times a month, far lower than many other societies.

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