[MyAppleMenu] Sep 1, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Sep 1, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Unleashes Jaguar For Its Latest Bite At Unix (Stephen Ballantyne, The National Business Review)
<http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=3688&cid=3&cname=Technology>
Unix may be ancient, but it works and better than ever with te fast processors and gorgeous flat screens available today.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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America Online For Mac OS X (Anthony Zurcher, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19247-2002Aug31.html>
The latest version is a quantum leap ahead; it looks as if it was designed by folks who know and love Macs.

Ask MacSlash: Best Mailing List On Mac OS X? (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/01/1610238>

Quicken Wins Battle Of The Upgrades (Alan S. Kay, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19251-2002Aug31.html>
Finally, a real upgrade: Intuit's Quicken 2003 represents a major improvement over earlier offerings.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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MP3 Royalty Scare Over - Not Many Dead (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26153.html>
Thomson Multimedia, who license the MP3 format have confirmed that software players are not under threat, and can remain free.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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My Country, But Not My Home? (Richard Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,140775,00.html?>
In today's decentered, plug-and-play world, is home an outdated notion? Isn't one rooted to ideas, rather than to places? Why be a citizen of a small place, when one can be a global citizen?

A Lost Shortcake Recipe Brings Back Bittersweet Memories (Jane Ganahl, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/01/LV168139.DTL>
"Can you remember how to make Grandma's strawberry shortcake?" my breathless daughter asked on the phone. She was making dinner for her boyfriend du jour, and clearly was pulling out all the stops.

Untouched By Tourism, The Ordinary Can Be Extraordinary (John Flinn, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/01/TR203742.DTL>
It was a nothing-special kind of day in Petersburg, Alaska: The salmon canneries throbbed and hummed, a flyer in a store window advertised an upcoming totem-pole raising, and in the Java Hus coffee shop, two teenage girls chatted about a wolf they'd seen the day before, right on the edge of town.

On The Home Front (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16264-2002Aug30.html>
Short story imagines the Reagans in a strange, painful struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Totally Uncooked (Peggy Orenstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/magazine/01RAWFOOD.html>
The latest trend for the health-conscious is raw food. Whether it's really healthy is a subject of heated debate.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Speakers' Corner Turns Two, Quietly (Selina Lum, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,141070,00.html?>
The free-speech corner in Hong Lim Park turned two yesterday, with evidence to suggest that interest in it is waning.

Scholarships: Why It's Time For A Rethink (Laurel Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,140885,00.html?>
The proliferation of scholarships given by the government, statutory boards and GLCs may be a scholarship bubble in the making. The time has come to examine their usefulness and the possibility that Singapore has outgrown the need for such scholarships.

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