[MyAppleMenu] Oct 27, 2002

Sun Oct 27 21:05:02 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Oct 27, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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Hard Disk Drive Market Heats Up (Jeanne Lim, Asia Compter Weekly)
<http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=17393&Catid=7&subcat=63>
Recent announcements by vendors Maxtor and Seagate indicate just how the hard disk drive marketplace is becoming increasingly commoditised and competitive.

All In The Brand Family (Noel C. Paul, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1028/p13s02-wmcn.html>
Faced with a widening array of personal-electronics devices, a growing number of shoppers now seek simplicity by limiting new purchases to a single manufacturer.

Bugdom 2 Available From iDisk For Mac.com Users (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/26.bugdom2.php>
Bugdom 2 offers more varied gameplay than the original, with surfing trips down drainspouts and aerial assaults on anthills from the cockpit of a balsa wood flier.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Carrara Studio 2: 3-D Animation Software Offers Realistic Rendering And Animation, Without Breaking The Bank (Ben Long, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/11/reviews/carrara.html>
While the program is a sometimes inelegant amalgam of Ray Dream Studio and Infini-D, Carrara Studio 2 is a good, low-cost, easy-to-use 3-D solution for creating a wide variety of graphics and fairly modest animations.

Avid Xpress DV 3.5: Answer To Apple's Final Cut Pro Was Worth The Wait (Anton Linecker, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/11/reviews/avid.html>
Avid Xpress DV 3.5 will meet the expectations of video editors seeking a reliable, feature-rich DV editing solution. But if you want expandability or low-resolution offline capabilities, consider Final Cut Pro or Avid's higher-end offerings.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Prada's Smart Tags Too Clever? (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56042,00.html>
The Italian fashion company's use of radio ID tags is designed to improve the shopping experience, but privacy consultants say they pose new privacy risks for consumers.

A New Company Tries To Sort The Web's Chaos (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/technology/27SOFT.html>
Grokker software, which is intended to allow personal-computer users to visually make sense of collections of thousands or hundreds of thousands of text documents, is creating a buzz.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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When The Spam Hits The Blogs (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56017,00.html>
Owners of the conversational websites known as weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.

Securing The Cloud (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1389589>
Digital security, once the province of geeks, is now everyone's concern. But there is much more to the problem--or the solution--than mere technology.

The Do's And Don'ts Of Shareware, Part 3 (Sanford Selznick, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/25/dev_osx.html>
Today we conclude the series with a discussion about press releases, payment processing, user support, a launch checklist, localization, and working from the road.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Life, And Death, In An Abortion Culture (George F. Will, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20101-2002Oct26.html>
Abortion kills something. What is it?

Lessons From Japan About War's Aftermath (John Dower, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/opinion/27DOWE.html>
Does America's successful occupation of Japan after World War II provide a model for a constructive American role in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq? The short answer is no.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Ninth Hawaiian Island (Lisa Leff, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-island43oct27,0,3877323.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dmagazine>
What could possibly lure so many people from a real tropical paradise to the conjured mirage of Las Vegas?

Saving Uncle Phil (David Maraniss, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2000-2002Oct22.html>
Phil Cummins, quirky and beloved, happened to live in his parents' basement. The author only learned the truth years later, in a cache of old letters.

Supermom Fictions (Margaret Talbot, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/magazine/27WWLN.html>
No surprise ending: Women just have to live with ambivalence about work and home.

Not Quite Right For Our Pages (Charles McGrath, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/books/review/27MCGRATT.html>
The rejection letter in Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is a masterpiece of the form.

Fare Idea Returns To Haunt Airlines (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/business/yourmoney/27ORBI.html>
By disseminating their Web fares so widely on Orbitz, the airlines have created another way to ratchet fares even lower when they can least afford it.

There's Sheer Wizardry In Us Muggles (Chris Mooney, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20034-2002Oct25.html>
Harry Potter may be fiction, but Rowling's depiction of Muggles is clearly a commentary on reality.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Capitol Hill's Alternative To The Mall (Jake Batsell, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134562970_indie26.html>
It doesn't have a food court, acres of parking or the usual lineup of chain stores, but a new mall has arrived on Capitol Hill.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Govt May Downgrade Economic Growth Forecast This Year (Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/economicnews/view/22934/1/.html>
The Singapore Government may not stick to its full-year economic growth forecast of 3 to 4 percent, with a possible downgrade soon, says Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

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