[MyAppleMenu] Oct 21, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Oct 21, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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IDG Softens Stance In Macworld Spat (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962810.html>
The trade show organizer said Apple will indeed take part in January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco and said the parties remain in talks about Apple's participation in future East Coast shows.

Governor Angus King Talks About Maine's Laptop Program (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/21.king.php>
"Change is hard and this is a big idea. We have persevered, people in the education community have rallied around the idea, the legislature looked at it and passed the plan and now it's happening."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Adobe Releases Acrobat Reader 5.1 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/21/adobe>
The update adds new capabilities for e-government initiatives, digital signature validating, and the ability to open file attachments from directly within Acrobat Reader.

Apple Opens The Apple Store For Business (Jim Darlymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/21.businessstore.php>
As the name suggests the new Apple Store will cater to the business community.

Macs Making Music: A Producer's Journey (David Ellefson, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/21.ellefson.php>
If you get a chance to check out Ken's work I'm sure you'll agree that he has not only perfected his craft but also helped many aspiring artists soar with the aid of his production skills.

Apple: Microsoft's Friend Or Foe? (Lisa Gill, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/19730.html>
Microsoft's motive for not renewing its agreement with Apple may have less to do with sales of software and more to do with what it needs -- or does not need -- from the relationship.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Four Useful Utilities For OS X (Evan Kleiman, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/02/1021ek.html>

New Flat-Panel iMac's Flash Worthy Of Its Cost (John P. Mello Jr., Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/294/business/New_flat_panel_iMac_s_flash_worthy_of_its_cost+.shtml>
Its $2,000 price tag may cause some consumers to wince, but they'll find their purchase justified.

Hands On With The 20GB iPod For Mac, Windows (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/21.ipod.php>

How Does The Radeon 7000 PCI Graphics Card Compare To The Others? (rob-ART morgan, Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/gr7000.html>
If you are a 3D gamer looking to speed up your favorite graphics intensive game (like Quake3 Arena), don't expect any help from the Radeon 7000.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft's Ballmer: Surge Is Anomaly (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-20558211-0.html>
"We're not trying to say that we think the sales results of our first quarter will be sustainable."

I See Him On E-Mail At 6:30am And On IM At Midnight Or 1. He Sent Me Mail At 2:30 In The Morning And I Had An 8am Meeting With Him (Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4332735.htm>
Microsoft VP is mastermind behind ambitious plan to revamp software package.

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MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Judge: Disabilities Act Doesn't Cover Web (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962761.html>
A federal judge ruled Friday that Southwest Airlines does not have to revamp its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Features For Linux 3.0 Kernel Nearly Set (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,643707,00.asp>
The feature set for the Linux 3.0 kernel, the next major update to the open source operating system, is close to being finalized and contributors are being told to submit their patches to the list of candidates as soon as possible.

Researchers See Strides In Biometrics (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962734.html>
Whether you stroll, stride, lurch or lumber, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying ways to identify and track you by the way you walk.

Year Starts Slow For Web Ads (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962815.html>
Online advertising sales dropped by 20 percent in the first six months of the year compared to 2001, a new study shows, cementing concerns about a prolonged ad slump.

Microsoft Drives .Net Into Car Dashboards (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/21/021021hnwindowsautomotive.xml?s=IDGNS>
Microsoft is giving a tune up to its Windows-branded operating system for use in car dashboards and expects to make a new version of the software available to car makers in the first half of 2003.

IBM To Unveil Plans For Self-Fixing Systems (Reuters)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-preview21.6oct21,0,5233699.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
IBM Corp. this week will unveil to its 500 largest customers plans to broaden its efforts to develop computer systems that not only manage but also fix themselves when they break.

Tuning In To Digital Radio (Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962671.html>
The future of radio--one of the last analog holdouts in an increasingly digital world--is coming into view in the United Kingdom.

Chrysler Crashes With Linux (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-962661.html>
DaimlerChrysler has purchased 108 dual-processor Linux workstations from IBM to run car-crash simulations, highlighting the spread of the low-cost "cluster" supercomputer technique beyond the academic domain.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Candidates Uncovered! (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56996-2002Oct20.html>
Why, with both houses of Congress up for grabs, has the election seemingly been relegated to back-burner status? Is this campaign a bust -- and are the media partially to blame?

The Loss Of A Safe Place (Thomas Keneally, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/opinion/21KENE.html>
Suddenly Bali had become an alien and bitter place to die in.

They Want To Kill Us All (Mark Steyn, The Spectator)
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2002-10-19&id=2376>
Forget the 'root causes'. The massacre in Bali was part of the continuing Islamofascist war against the West, adn those who ignore it are sleepwalking to national suicide.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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A Merger Taken AO-Ill (Alec Klein, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53579-2002Oct19.html>
Financials, culture, ideology divide Time Warner and its new-media partner.

A Boon For Nonprofits With Software Needs (Laurie J. Flynn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/technology/21DISC.html>
CompuMentor, a nonprofit organization founded by Daniel Ben-Horin, has created a software store for other nonprofit groups.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Comedy Club (Virginia Heffernan, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/television/?021028crte_television>
Life after "Seinfeld."

Day Strippers (Mark Singer, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021028fa_fact1>
Clothing-optional swimmers get into trouble with the natives.

Dilbert's A Weasel And So Are You (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/21/dilbert/index.html>
The dot-com bubble was tough for cartoonist Scott Adams. But now that things suck again, it's boom time once more for disillusioned cubicle droids.

Egers' Trail Of Broken Hearts (Shawn Hubler, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-ca-hubler20oct20,0,1344963.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
The Bay Area goes gaga for the local boy who wrote 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.' And his aversion to publicity only feeds the frenzy.

The Gatekeeper For Literature Changes At New Yorker (David Carr and David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/business/media/21MAG.html>
For decades, the fiction editor of The New Yorker has controlled the velvet rope at the gateway to literary stardom, welcoming a fortunate few into the prestigious inner circle of short story writers and a career of lucrative book contracts.

The Poison Ivy Is Beautiful This Time Of Year (Jim Yardley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/national/21LEAV.html>
The Canadian Fall Foliage Festival began nearly 50 years ago, and if the event has not put Vermont out of the leaf business, it has become popular in a land of few trees.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The First Ten Months (Patricia Brodie, Potpourri Magazine)
<http://www.potpourri.org/editor/poetry/poetry14-3/poetry14-3.html>

First And Last (Jonathan Willers, The Richmond Review)
<http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/willers01.html>

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Who Is The Sniper? Blogs Tell All (Noah Shachtman, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55893,00.html>
Conspiracy theories have long been an Internet staple. But a dearth of evidence about the sniper -- and the phenomenal explosion of blogs -- have brought online speculation to a screeching crescendo.

Giant Mystery Bird Spotted In Alaska (The Anchorage Daily News)
<http://www.canada.com/vancouver/news/story.asp?id=%7B2C2ECC21-A263-47E0-A6C4-257C240D20B4%7D>
A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Dr M: We Won't Use Water As A Weapon (Zulkifli Mohamad, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/10/21/nation/zlmoney&sec=nation>
Malaysia will not use water as a weapon against Singapore despite a price disparity that is causing a stumbling block to negotiations, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

Time To Refer Water Issue For Arbitration (Mergawati Zulfakar, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/10/21/nation/mfabit&sec=nation>
Singapore has been taking water from Malaysia for granted just because it thinks Malaysia has no choice but to honour the agreements.

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