[MyAppleMenu] Oct 1, 2002

Tue Oct 1 21:05:05 EDT 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Oct 1, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Rolls Out .Mac For Education (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/01.education.php>
While the services for the education market are the same as the consumer version introduced in July, schools will be able to purchase the services at a reduced cost.

The Mac OS That Can't Be Tweaked (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55395,00.html>
Apple is trying to close the operating system to tweakers, a policy some critics think will ultimately do more harm than good.

Microsoft Cuts Office Price On New Macs (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-960208.html>
On the surface, the bundling deal would appear to be a big price break for Mac users thinking of buying Office. But Windows users have more competing products to choose from and can pay much less for Office.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Eudora 5.2 Beta 10 Now Available (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16765>

Home Networking Wars: PC Vs. Mac (Jay Lyman, NewsFactor)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/19544.html>
Although Apple's AirPort components may be more expensive than comparable PC networking equipment, a Mac network may be easier to set up.

OmniWeb 4.1.1 Gets RealOne, Jaguar Support (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/01.omniweb.php>
The Omni Group  has updated its OmniWeb Web browser to version 4.1.1, adding support for the RealOne player/plug-in, enhancing HTTPS/SSL support and improving compatibility with Mac OS X 10.2.

REALbasic 5 -- With Mac And Windows Support -- Previewed (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/01.realbasic.php>
Real Software Inc., makers of the REALbasic cross-platform development environment, has announced REALbasic 5, which will run on both Mac and Windows platforms. The update will also include other new features, including many Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar-only features.

.Mac Subscribers Grow Steadily (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-960294.html>
Resistance to .Mac has been stiff but appears to be waning.

Opera Offers Cheap Browsers For Higher Education Users (Joris Evers, IDG News Service)
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1001opera.html>
In a bid to get more universities and colleges to use its Web browser, Opera Software ASA launched a special licensing program with the browser costing as little as $1 per copy when bought in volume.

.Mac Subscribers Top 180,000 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/01/mac>
Apple today announced that more than 180,000 users have signed up for the company's .Mac Web services since it was launched in July, with 80,000 of those users signing up since September 17.

Steve Jobs To Kick Off Macworld San Francisco With Keynote Address (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/01/keynote>
IDG World Expo today announced that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will once again deliver the opening keynote address at Macworld Conference and Expo/San Francisco on Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 9:00 AM PT.

Steal Your Interface: A History (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55305,00.html>
Apple gets most of the credit for today's graphical user interfaces. But many standard features came from a different, unacknowledged source: knowledgeable users and small, independent software developers. The little guys.

Aqua Eye-Candy Comes To The PC (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/27346.html>
Stardock has released a small utility that brings several of the dazzling effects seen in Apple's Aqua UI to the PC.

Cell Phones Seek Data Unity (Ephraim Schwartz, Infoworld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/30/020930hnapptrans.xml>
As cell phones and handheld devices become more ubiquitous, new technologies are emerging to give handsets the ability to exchange data with PCs and almost all other digital devices.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Great Leap Forward (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/1,3959,570988,00.asp>
A sea change in Apple hardware is fast approaching, but it won't be as early or as abrupt as some observers have suggested.

Apple, Apple Everywhere (steve Watkins, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/practical/02/1001.html>
I don't know if it is OS X, the "Switch" campaign, a combination of both, or something else entirely, but Apple Computer's profile is higher than at any time in recent memory.

The Do's And Don'ts Of Shareware (Sanford Selznick, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/30/dev_osx.html>
All programmers at one time or another become fed up with middle management, the quality of available software, or just needing something more, and dream of being the next Bill Gates.

Presenting Mac OS X (James Duncan Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2078>
Obviously, people are looking to buy.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple Has A Tiger By The Tail With Updated iPod (Andy Ihnakto, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy01.html>
I think the bottom line with the iPod remains what it was last year: It wins hands-down on form and features.

Spam Killing At OSXCON (Steve mallett, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2082>

The Canon i850 Photo Printer Does It All (M. David Stone, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,562069,00.asp>
All told, the Canon i850 Photo Printer delivers a lot of printer for the price, whether you want to print photos or are just looking for a high-quality, general purpose printer.

The Importance Of Being Sleek (Stephen Manes, Forbes)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/020930/the_importance_of_being_sleek_3.html>
Computer makers want you to forget about dull beige boxes. The hype is moving to flashier, integrated units with built-in color LCD screens.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Analysts See Dell Making More Market Share Gains (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-20484723-0.html>
Dell Computer Corp. has used market share gains to stave off the technology spending downturn that has driven some competitors to losses, and analysts said they expect that push to continue as the company expands.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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What The Net Is Doing To You (Mark Ward, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2288598.stm>
Academics are starting to find out how important an agent of social change the internet is, the opportunities it presents for researchers and how to frame policy and practice to cope with its associated changes.

Java's Continuing Evolution (Daniel F. Savarese, Java Pro)
<http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_11/magazine/features/dsavarese/default_pf.asp>
In the face of challenges, can Java solidify its position as the current programming language
du jour? Only if it can adapt.

802.11g: The Next Best Thing Or The Next Last Thing (Steven J. Vaughan-Nicholas, Internet.com)
<http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1472641>
Want to have an argument? Get a dozen people who care about the future of 802.11 networking and ask them about 802.1g's prospects and watch the fur fly and the fun begin.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Get Hip With Wireless Sidekick (Bruce and Marge Brown, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,543701,00.asp>
The Sidekick is best for chat, e-mail, sms, and browsing. With the inclusion of a phone and the camera, it's a clever and endearing wireless communicator.

Microsoft Exec Touts Web Services (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,571541,00.asp>
Web services represents the key to meeting the challenge of business agility, a Microsoft Corp. executive said in his keynote address Tuesday morning at the Fall Internet World 2002 show.

Yahoo To Run Multimedia Ads (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960247.html>
Yahoo on Tuesday plans to introduce new display advertising for its Web portal, in a move to attract additional marketers and boost revenue.

Red Hat Linux 8.0 Gets Mixed Reception (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27348.html>
Bluecurve is designed to offer familiar look-and-feel to users of both KDE and Gnome, but has angered some users of both open source desktop environments.

Broadband Disconnect (Vandana Sinha, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21649-2002Sep30.html>
While broadband has vigorously pushed its way into the neighborhoods -- analysts estimate 85 percent of the providers' data lines now snake out to homes -- it has simply straggled into the business sector, unable to fall in step with demand. 

Cell Phones Seek Data Unity (Ephraim Schwartz, Infoworld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/30/020930hnapptrans.xml>
As cell phones and handheld devices become more ubiquitous, new technologies are emerging to give handsets the ability to exchange data with PCs and almost all other digital devices.

Email Newsletter Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off (Jakob Nielsen, Useit.com)
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020930.html>
Users have highly emotional reactions to newsletters which feel much more personal than websites. In usability testing, success rates were high for subscribe and unsubscribe tasks, but users were frustrated by newsletters that demanded too much of their time.

Mr Hollywood Lives In Washington (Lauren Weinstein, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55396,00.html>
Hollywood may be the entertainment capital of the world, but the real song and dance is being played out in Washington.

The Do's And Don'ts Of Shareware (Sanford Selznick, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/30/dev_osx.html>
All programmers at one time or another become fed up with middle management, the quality of available software, or just needing something more, and dream of being the next Bill Gates.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Dealing With W (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/opinion/01KRUG.html>
Bad as Japan's policy has been, it's possible that the United States will do even worse.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Internet Draws The Prying Eyes Of The Voyeur (Kathleen Kelleher, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-lv-birds30_sep30,0,3948232.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
For a voyeur whose behavior qualifies as a paraphilia, the Internet is the equivalent of a drug to an addict.

Seeking Deeper Meaning In The Babbling Of Babies (Mary Duenwald, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/science/social/01BABB.html>
If the baby babbles mainly on the right, the researchers say, it means that babbling is a form of language.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Radio Killed The Radio Star (Todd Spencer, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/01/nab/index.html>
Consolidation has resulted in 10,000 layoffs, the demise of a beloved trade magazine, and a decline in programming quality. But industry execs are fat and happy.

Thailand Like A Local (K.C. Summers, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11833-2002Sep27.html>
In this country rich with exotic traditions, you can't see it all. But with a resident as a tour guide, one visitor got a closer view.

Digital Artworks That Play Against Expectations (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/arts/design/30ARTS.html>
With more than 16,000 members, Rhizome is among the most popular virtual communities devoted to the digital arts.

Hotels Are Doing Business On A Last-Name Basis (Drew Limsky, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/business/01FACE.html>
It has long been common for corporate travelers at luxury hotels to be addressed by name when they call the front desk, the concierge or valet parking. But now many elite hotels are doing such "guest recognition" programs one better, by instructing employees to greet guests by name in hallways, in elevators, even in the gyms.

Carry On (Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker)
<http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?021007ta_talk_paumgarten>
How to take your Emmy Award aboard an aircraft.

Panning For Gore (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20415-2002Sep29.html>
With friends like the New Republic...

One Man, One Big Identity Crisis (Johanna Neuman and Randy Trick, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-lv-saddam30sep30.story>
Should the media refer to Iraqi president as 'Saddam' or 'Hussein'?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Judge A Chef On Culinary Skills, Not His Education (Khng Eu Meng, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,146280,00.html?>
What has a high-school certificate got to do with culinary skills? A chef's 'certificate' is what he is able to cook up.

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