[MyAppleMenu] Oct 18, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Oct 18, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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IDG: Macworld Expo Will Go On As Planned (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/17.macworldexpo.php>
Despite a statement given to MacCentral earlier today from Apple saying they didn't agree with the move and would not attend the show, IDG said the shows in New York and Boston would go on as planned.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Says It Won't Join Macworld In Boston (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/291/nation/Apple_says_it_won_t_join_Macworld_in_Boston+.shtml>
To city officials who were crowing at yesterday's press conference about Boston's victory over New York, the Apple news came as a shock.

Sour Apple (Cynthia L. Webb, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45396-2002Oct18.html>
"I'd say this is a case of Apple playing hardball with IDC. Apple will have a tradeshow on the east coast in 2004."

Apple Releases QuickTime 6.0.2 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/18.quicktime.php>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Straight Talk About The Education Market (Steve Wood)
<http://www.mathdittos2.com/columns/view/v021018.html>
Apple, particularly Apple Education, is in a death spiral.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Filemaker Pro 6: Database Software Enhances Ease Of Use And Adds XML Support -- Without Rocking The Boat (Scott Love, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/11/reviews/filemaker.html>
While we may wonder whether version 6 can justifiably be called a major release, the new features it contains are quite helpful, and FileMaker remains the easiest database to use or develop for on any platform.

OS X Makes 9 A Distant Memory In Mac Realm (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1622000>
OS X saves me at least three or four hours a week.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Can A Hacker Outfox Microsoft? (Pete Rojas, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55807,00.html>
Cypherpunk Lucky Green files a defensive patent to prevent the software giant from using Palladium to block piracy efforts. Analysts say it just might work.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Digital Radio: Small Guys' Ruin? (Brad King, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,55757,00.html>
The noise big radio conglomerates are making about digital radio is likely to drown out community radio stations -- dashing small broadcasters' hopes that the new technology would boost their signal.

Stop With The Hacks, Mobile Users Don't Browse (Timothy Appnel, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2179>
Studying mobile users’ needs and tendencies, getting content into easily consumable formats and developing more usable and appropriate mobile applications are the real answers.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Step-By-Step Prompts Put The Blind On Track (Thomas J. Fitzgerald, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/circuits/17blin.html>
An interactive personal navigation system developed at the University of Florida could someday guide blind people through corridors and along busy city sidewalks.

Can A Hacker Outfox Microsoft? (Pete Rojas, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55807,00.html>
Cypherpunk Lucky Green files a defensive patent to prevent the software giant from using Palladium to block piracy efforts. Analysts say it just might work.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Logic Of Irrational Fear (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1393418>
The reaction to the sniper reveals a lot about Americans' perception of risk.

Even After 9/11, Media Bungled The Bali Blast (Barbie Zelizer, Newsday)
<http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpzel172968342oct17,0,7321579.story?coll=ny%2Dviewpoints%2Dheadlines>
News coverage of the horrifying explosions in Bali last weekend shows that not much has changed in journalism since Sept. 11.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Step-By-Step Prompts Put The Blind On Track (Thomas J. Fitzgerald, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/circuits/17blin.html>
An interactive personal navigation system developed at the University of Florida could someday guide blind people through corridors and along busy city sidewalks.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Dread Reckoning (Kevin Merida and Hamil R. Harris, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43397-2002Oct17.html>
In these unsettling times, anxiety is becoming a way of life.

Digital Magic On Broadway (Jesse McKinley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/circuits/17thea1.html>
Little more than a decade after a helicopter first landed onstage in the musical "Miss Saigon," theatrical designers are stretching the boundaries of what is possible with a variety of new digital tools that allow them to coordinate and control dozens of independent elements from a keyboard. 

The Red And The Brown (Ronald Radosh, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/286/focus/The_red_and_the_brown+.shtml>
With his new magazine, Pat Buchanan links the old right to the new left.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Questions KL's Sincerity Over Water Talks (Reme Ahmad and Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,149673,00.html?>
Two days of talks end with no progress on issues related to water, with both sides merely noting each other's positions.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Talks End With No Immediate Solution In Sight (Mergawati Zulfakar, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/10/18/nation/mffail&sec=nation>
Malaysia, it is learnt, maintained that it has a right for the review because the two water agreements signed in 1961 and 1962 provided for a price review after 25 years.

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

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