[MyAppleMenu] Oct 23, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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SuperCard Comes To Mac OS X (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/23.supercard.php>
SuperCard can be used to create a variety of application, according to its developers -- games, teaching aides, utilities, productivity software, automation tools, kiosks and more.

Microsoft Posts IntelliPoint 3.1 Mouse Driver (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/23.intellipoint.php>

Aladdin Releases Stuffit 7.0.1 (MacCentral)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/23/aladdin>

Built On The Back Of iPod (Christina Dyrness, News & Observer)
<http://newsobserver.com/business/story/1853440p-1848715c.html>
Local accessories business booms.

iMac SuperDrive Firmware Update Available (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/10/23/imac>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Bloggers, Macs, And The OS X Blues (Stephen Van Esch, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/scope/02/1023.html>
Apple has to realize that they are gradually gaining a higher profile in the weblog "blogosphere".

Apple Risks Backlash With Macworld Fiasco (Colin Haley, Internet.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/1487261>
Alienating legions of potential PC buyers in New England may cost it more than agreeing to Macworld Boston in the first place.

Apple's Sweet-And-Sour Season (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2002/tc20021022_8966.htm>
The most hopeful news is that a very risky strategy appears to be paying off. Against great odds, Apple is succeeding in establishing its own chain of stores. And they're fulfilling their purpose.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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QuickTime 6 Pro: Apple's Multimedia Technology Adds Welcome Compression Features And Instant-On Streaming (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/11/reviews/quicktime.html>
Although QuickTime Player's interface is somewhat commercial in nature, the benefits of the AAC codec, MPEG-4 video, and Instant-On streaming make this one of the most compelling QuickTime upgrades in years for those with more than a passing interest in multimedia -- and one well worth the paltry price of admission.

Apple eMac (John Shoesmith, Globe And Mail)
<http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20021023/gtemac/Technology/techBN/>
fFor the non-power user -- someone who only requires a computer to run Web, e-mail and productivity software -- the eMac is an excellent machine that will handle the most common computing requirements.

Apple's Rendezvous: Too Open For The Enterprise? (Don MacVittie, Network Computing)
<http://www.networkcomputing.com/1322/1322buzz4.html>
This technology has some potential uses. Systems admins spend way too much time configuring desktops. But we need more due diligence.

Top Ten Mac OS X Tips For Unix Geeks (Brian Jepson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html>
These tips will show you the differences between Mac OS X and other flavors of Unix; help you find the bits that resemble the Unix you are used to; and even feather your nest with XFree86 and ports of popular open source applications.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel Looks To Be Inside Everything (Michael Kanellos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-962995.html>
Intel plans to place its silicon in as many products, markets and geographic regions as possible, the company said Tuesday.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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ID Chip's Controversial Approval (Julia Scheeres, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55952,00.html>
A surprise decision by the Food and Drug Administration permits the use of implantable ID chips in humans, despite an FDA investigator's recent public reservations about the devices.

Servers Bounce Back From E-Attack (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55957,00.html>
An unusually powerful electronic attack briefly crippled nine of the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic this week, officials disclosed Tuesday. But most Internet users didn't notice because the attack only lasted one hour.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Major Net Backbone Attack Could Be First Of Many (Paul Roberts, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/23/021023hnoneofmany.xml?s=IDGNS>
Experts say that Monday's incident opens a new chapter in the history of Internet-based attacks.

HP To Double The Processor Count In Itanium Servers (Ashlee Vance, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/23/021023hnitanium.xml?s=IDGNS>
HP plans to make it possible to upgrade current servers based on the 64-bit Itanium 2 chip by allowing customers to replace existing processor cards with new ones that contain twice as many chips.

AOL, MSN Stumping For Net Software (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963061.html>
The two tech giants on Wednesday took great pains to one-up each other ahead of Microsoft's Thursday launch of MSN 8 in New York.

Panel: Web Services Present Benefits, Challenges (Jeffrey Burt, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,645803,00.asp>
IT managers and developers don't have to worry about interoperability when choosing a Web services platform because the growing number of standards—-from XML to SOAP to WSDL-—will make sure that applications and systems are able to talk to each other.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Anti-Liberal Anti-War Case (Michael Kelly, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2518-2002Oct22.html>
The anti-warriors of the left would rather see Iraq continue as a slave state under Saddam Hussein. Well, it's a point of view. But you might have a hard time convincing the average Iraqi torture victim that it is a liberal one.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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How I Destroyed The New Economy (John F.X. Sundman, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/23/wetherell/index.html>
Dot-com visionary David Wetherell could do no wrong -- until he started building a mansion on an ancient Indian burial ground.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Language Of Exile (Imre Kertesz, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,814806,00.html>
Wherever he writes, in whichever language, the writer of the Holocaust is a spiritual fugitive, asking for spiritual asylum, invariably in a foreign tongue.

Now That's What I Call Music (Alexis Petridis, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,817149,00.html>
A chance of listen to every British number one for the past 50 years?

Age-Old Culinary Quesitons Still Stir A Fire (R. W. Apple Jr., New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/dining/23BBQ.html>
More than 300 people, mostly Southerners, some more knowledgeable than others, gathered on the campus of Ole Miss last weekend to praise barbecue, argue about barbecue and gorge on barbecue, which one overexcited speaker described as "the only truly American food."

Canadian Writer Wins A Revamped Booker Prize (Alan Cowell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/books/23BOOK.html>
Yann Martel, a Canadian writer, won the newly renamed Man Booker Prize tonight for his novel "Life of Pi," the magical fable of a young man shipwrecked in the company of a Bengal tiger.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Dickhead (Michael Ryan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072331&device=>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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KL Holding Up Deal On Water (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,150679,00.html?>
It was Malaysia which had derailed on-going talks with a last-minute decision to abandon the package approach, Singapore said.

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