[MyAppleMenu] Nov 25, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Nov 25, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Picking Apples At Ikea Singapore (Irene Tham, CNETAsia)
<http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39099443,00.htm>
Jimmy Fong is out to make a splash. His aim? To get his five-month-old computer retail shop in Singapore recognized in a market ruled by Microsoft and discount PCs.

Why You Should Buy An Apple This Christmas (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2898453,00.html>
This column is a blatant attempt to get you into an Apple Store and convince you to maybe even buy something while you're there.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Opened 49th & 50th Locations This Weekend, Touts Reach To 85 Million In US (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/11/25.12.shtml>
Apple has hit its stated goal of having 50 Apple Store retail locations open by the end of this year.

Campus Adds iMac Lab (Keith Shovlin, The Eagle)
<http://www.theeagleonline.com/section.cfm/91/2/4149>

Same Day Shipping Available At Apple Store (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/25/applestore>

Macromedia Introduces Director MX (MacNN)
<http://macnn.com/news.php?id=17490>
The $1200 authoring application adds a number of new features as well, including the new MX interface, QuickTime 6 compatibility, better integration with other MX applications, and the ability to create content for those with (some) disabilities.

Why Apple's Bite Remains Small (Roseanne Gerin, Warsaw Business Journal)
<http://www.wbj.pl/user/article.asp?ArticleID=165145>
The American computer maker’s PCs and notebooks are far out of reach for most cost-conscious Poles who shop at the nationwide network of 16 high-tech self-service retail stores.

Apple's Quirky Ads Evoke Paraodies Of Themselves (John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/25/technology/25PARO.html?ex=1038891600&en=2a4b6ca8547e999f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
The current campaign, with Macintosh users talking of why they switched from the Microsoft Windows world to Apple products, has received so much attention that imitations and parodies are showing up across the Web.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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A New Kind Of Productivity Application (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2353>
For years, we've let office productivity applications define "productivity," yet Apple knows that the new frontier of productivity is not a new spreadsheet, word processor, or email client, but rather, tools for managing a consumer's growing array of digital assets: photos, music, and videos.

Don't Pass The Buck, Mac (Charles Wright, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/25/1038173686823.html>
We think it would benefit the company's culture immensely were Apple to accept responsibility for the problem and stop trying to pass the buck to Telstra.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Soldier Of Fortune II: Double Helix (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/sof2.shtml>

Number Of Ways To Use Math Game (Joseph Szadkowski, Washington Times)
<http://www.washtimes.com/technology/20021121-98877464.htm>
In a world of violent video games, there must be a place for children and their parents to interact and actually learn something from that overpriced multimedia computer/gaming system.

HomePlug Network Adapters: Power-Line Technology Broadens Home Networking Options, But Security Issues Arise For Mac-Only Networks (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/homeplug/index.html>
At a cost of $200 to $250 for a two-computer network, these adapters aren't the most economical solutions around -- 1,000 feet of Category-5 (Ethernet) cable costs less than $80 -- nor are they the speediest.

An MP3 Soul Mate For Digital Music Lovers (John J. Fried, Beacon Journal)
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/4587539.htm>
It sounds great and, for the most part, is easy to use.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Is Microsoft Truly 'Trustworthy'? (Lauren Weinstein, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56490,00.html>
Be afraid. Microsoft thinks it knows what's best for you.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Video On Demand Is Finally Taking Hold (Seth Schiesel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/25/business/25VIDE.html?8hpib>
Video on demand may be the most significant development for the Couch Potato Nation since the remote control, and the cable television industry hopes that it may soon become almost as popular.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Groove Ups .Net Support (Dennis Callaghan, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,723524,00.asp>
Groove Networks Inc. is expected to release version 2.5 of its Groove Workspace peer-to-peer collaboration software by the end of the year, offering improved support for .Net and Web services integration.

Linux 2.6 On Horizon (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,723328,00.asp>
The next major release of the Linux kernel is on track for the first half of next year, with improvements in its ability to handle large amounts of memory and throughput.

AOL Set To Layout New Broadband, Content Strategy (Scarlet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/25/021125hnaolbroadband.xml?s=IDGNS>
With executive reshuffling and a new software launch out of the way, it looks as though AOL is focused on two things: broadband and content.

Foreign Countries Blocking Net Calls (Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/25/BU15282.DTL>
Panama the latest to curb residents' use of Internet telephony.

Linux Companies Name New CEOs (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-971151.html>
SuSE and MandrakeSoft, two sellers of the Linux operating system, on Monday named new chief executives whose goals will be to attain profitability.

HomePlug Network Adapters: Power-Line Technology Broadens Home Networking Options, But Security Issues Arise For Mac-Only Networks (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/homeplug/index.html>
At a cost of $200 to $250 for a two-computer network, these adapters aren't the most economical solutions around -- 1,000 feet of Category-5 (Ethernet) cable costs less than $80 -- nor are they the speediest.

Home Is Where The Computer Is (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-971060.html>
Computers are playing a more central role in the home, with more and more people citing them as the most important electronic device in their household.

Microsoft And AOL Neck-And-Neck In Nielsens (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28264.html>
According to Nielsen, in October Microsoft-owned brands had a unique audience of 92.619 million, compared to 92.608 million from AOL-owned brands. The statistics are extrapolated from Nielsen's panels of volunteers at home and work.

IBM Outs WebSphere 5.0 (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/28269.html>
IBM will push Web services and simplified management and administration in the latest version of its delayed WebSphere application server, expected to launch today.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Rebuilding Tomorrowland (Scott Kirsner, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/rebuilding.html>
For 50 years, Disney's Imagineers have put the tech magic in the Magic Kingdom. Now economic pressures are bringing the grand ambitions back down to earth, where it's a smaller world after all.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Secret Life Of Us (Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,846846,00.html>
We censor it, sentimentalise it, treat it as a commodity. But we can't reduce its power. Why art now matters more than ever.

Neverending Siesta (Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26143-2002Nov22.html>
At Mexico's Hacienda de San Antonio, the only stress is saying no to all the pampering. So don't.

Writer Dan Savage's Sins And Sensibility (Peter Carlson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34890-2002Nov24.html>
"The Internet enabled the 42 American guys who like to have sex while dressed up as stuffed animals to find each other. And now they have conventions, too."

A Pig Returns To The Farm, Thumbing His Snout At Orwell (Dinitia Smith, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/25/books/25ANIM.html>
An American novelist has written a parody of "Animal Farm," and the estate of George Orwell is not happy about it.

Oversimulated Suburbia (David Brooks, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/magazine/24SIMS.html?pagewanted=all&position=top>
I don't know if it strikes you as odd that of all the arenas of human endeavor, the one that has produced the best-selling computer game of all time is the American suburb.

They Call Me Assassin (Caroline F. Campion, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/nyregion/24CATS.html?tntemail0>
Hidden within one of the most benign of New York establishments, the neighborhood deli, dwells a silent killer. The fiend in question is not insidious bacteria, or even Steven Seagal. He is a cat, and that is often the only name he has: "Cat."

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Workout (Roberta Spear, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/spear/workout.htm>

Shamengwa (Louise Erdrich, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?021202fi_fiction>
At the edge of our reservation settlement there lived an old man whose arm was twisted up winglike along his side, and who was for that reason named for a butterfly--Shamengwa.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Tightens Control Over Goods Used In Making Weapons Of Mass Destruction (S. Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/25506/1/.html>
Singapore has become the first country in Southeast Asia to pass legislation to tighten control over the movement of goods that can be used to make weapons of mass destruction.

Picking Apples At Ikea Singapore (Irene Tham, CNETAsia)
<http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39099443,00.htm>
Jimmy Fong is out to make a splash. His aim? To get his five-month-old computer retail shop in Singapore recognized in a market ruled by Microsoft and discount PCs.

Singapore To Cut Landing Fees And Airport Rentals (Reuters)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-135471.html>
The Singapore government said on Monday it would discount landing fees and rents at Changi Airport in a bid to maintain its position as one of Asia's busiest airline hubs.

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