[MyAppleMenu] Nov 20, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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WMP Only Works Under Internet Explorer (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17440>
Internet Explorer is the only browser designed to work with Windows Media Player Plugin, leaving users of Chimera and other browsers in the dark.

Adobe Sued Over Photoshop 7 Feature (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/20/shellandslate>
Shell and Slate Software and Ben Weiss have filed suit against Adobe on "numerous allegations, including misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract concerning the Healing Brush texture-cloning tool included in Adobe Photoshop 7.0."

Apple To Open Emeryville Store Nov 23 (San Francisco Business Times)
<http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/11/18/daily36.html>
Apple is opening its 50th Apple retail store in Emeryville Nov. 23 at 10 a.m. at the new Bay Street commercial development.

Apple Computer Signs To Open First Store In Puget Sound Area (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134579691_apple20.html>
Apple Computer apparently has found a location to open its first Seattle-area retail store, nearly two years after the bricks-and-mortar outlets were introduced to the national market.

PCs, Gadgets Scrap For Home Dominance (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-966399.html>
The home computer, tired of being relegated to the office, is trying to put on new clothes so that it can hang out with the television, the set-top box and the DVD player. Meanwhile, those gadgets are also trying to grab more leverage in the home, adding new abilities to record and edit the images and videos they're playing.

Comdex: Apple's Schiller, Microsoft Talk On Digital Hub (David Schloss, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/19.schiller.php>
Panelists and moderator alike agreed that the future of the digital home is only starting to take shape, with changes in technologies over the next few years allowing for a level of connectedness and simplicity that isn't possible ... yet.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac Gaming Nostalgia: The Way We Were (Vern Seward, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/11/20.1.shtml>

Kudos To Apple. Getting PHP & MySQL On My iBook (Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2330>
This sounds not like a company, but a member of a community. Hats off.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Installing Oracle 9i On Mac OS X, Part 2 (David Simpson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/oracle_part2.html>
What the FileMaker developer can expect from Oracle 9i on Mac OS X.

Connecting Mac OS X To Windows PCs (Wei-Meng Lee and Brian Jepson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/mac_pc.html>
Apple has incorporated technologies into Mac OS X that allow easy file sharing among platforms. And with the release of Mac OS X 10.2, networking became even easier.

OS X: Dive Right In! (Andre Rocke, Videograpy.com)
<http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/article_3217.shtml>
Even more important than asking why we should go to OS X, perhaps, are the reasons to stay.

Mac OS X Server 10.2: Apple's Latest Server Environment Does Something For Every Mac Server Administrator (Mark H. Anbinder, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/osxserver/index.html>
Organizations that need to set up a new server will clearly get their money's worth from this package. What's less clear is whether anyone who already owns OS X Server should bother upgrading.

Battle Of The Browsers: Which One Should You Take To The Web? (Jeff Carlson, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/features/browsers/index.html>
Microsoft's Internet Explorer effectively controls the Mac OS X browser market -- its overall rendering quality and its support for Web standards made it the browser to beat in our tests.

iCal 1.0: Free But Flawed: App Needs Some Work (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/ical/index.html>
iCal is a promising -- if wobbly -- first step. If you demand little from a calendar application or find iCal's integration with other OS X applications and .Mac enticing, download iCal with our blessing. We, on the other hand, will stick with free competitors such as Palm Desktop until we see what iCal 2.0 holds in store.

Mac Chronicles: Smile For iPhoto (Dwayne R. Brown, CanadaComputes.com)
<http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9477&sb=124>
Digital photography has hit the mainstream in a big way over the past year, but taking the picture is only half the battle. What to do with the image file is where Mac steps in.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Flaw Leaves IE Open To Attack (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,717062,00.asp>
The flaw lies in the Microsoft Data Access Components, a collection of components used to provide database connectivity on Windows.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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The Evil That Is The DMCA (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-656.html#lnk3>
My main ray of hope is that the reason most of the software industry voluntarily gave up copy protection technologies -- primarily that consumers hated copy protection -- will rise again, but unless we speak out now, all of our content may be locked up in a trusted system protected by the DMCA.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Big Retailers Squeeze FatWallet (Brian McWilliams, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56504,00.html>
Can the unpublished discount price of a DVD player for next week's big sale at Wal-Mart be copyrighted?

Copyright Law Gets A Second Loow (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966525.html>
Foes of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have a second chance to tweak a section of the controversial law.

Three Strikes For U.S. Cybersecurity (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-966444.html>
The U.S. government flunked a computer-security review for the third consecutive year on Tuesday, showing no improvement despite increased attention from high-level officials.

Another Boost For E-Books (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-ebook20nov20001425,0,9079.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Armed with new technology, a leading distributor of electronic books unveiled a service Tuesday allowing libraries to offer more than 35,000 titles that can be borrowed through the Internet and read on portable devices.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Phantom Empire (Alan Wolfe, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/321/focus/The_phantom_empire+.shtml>
The Left and Right agree: the United States -- once a republic that minded its own business -- has become an empire that looks after everyone else's. They're wrong.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Black Holes Are Double Trouble For Galaxy (New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993088>
Two monstrous black holes are jostling for power in the same galaxy, the Chandra X-ray satellite has revealed. The pair will slam into each other in a few hundred million years, giving the fabric of space-time a good shake.

Who Wants To Live Forever? (Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,56482,00.html>
What kind of person believes it's possible to live forever? An Internet entrepreneur, a psychiatrist, an artificial intelligence expert, a nanotechnology expert, a science-fiction writer, a nurse and the wife of a professional wrestler, just to name a few, all very much believe in that possibility.

Political Spam: Get Used To It (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/20/political_spam/index.html>
An outraged constituent is suing Elizabeth Dole's campaign for sending junk e-mail. Is spam from politicians a crime -- or a vital First Amendment right?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Another Boost For E-Books (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-ebook20nov20001425,0,9079.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Armed with new technology, a leading distributor of electronic books unveiled a service Tuesday allowing libraries to offer more than 35,000 titles that can be borrowed through the Internet and read on portable devices.

Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (And Chicken) (Amanda Hesser, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/20/dining/20THAN.html>
They call it turducken: testing the Southern tradition of a bird within a bird within a bird.

England's Must-Pay TV (Jacob Sager Weinstein, TV Barn)
<http://www.tvbarn.com/archives/006929.html>
And you thought HBO had a brilliant business model.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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November 18 (David Lehman, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074167&device=>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore's Surprise Pact With Uncle Sam (Michael Shari, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2002/nf20021120_0127.htm>
Stepping outside the WTO framework, the U.S. has rewarded a staunch supporter in the war on terror with an unexpected free-trade deal.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Opposition Leader May Lose Trade Union Post (Ahmad Osman, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,156091,00.html?>
A recently appointed opposition leader faces the threat of being expelled from his trade union post because his political appointment runs counter to the National Trades Union Congress' (NTUC) ties with the ruling People's Action Party.

Singapore Gum Ban Comes Unstuck (Associated Press)
<http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/11/20/singapore.gum.ap/>
As part of a landmark trade deal with the United States, tightly controlled Singapore has agreed to loosen its 10-year ban on chewing gum and allow those who need it to chew it -- as long as they have a prescription.

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

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