[MyAppleMenu] Sep 5, 2002

Thu Sep 5 21:05:06 EDT 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Sep 5, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Mac OS X 10.2 Jagaur (John Siracusa, Ars Technica)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-1.html>
Although Steve Jobs declared version 10.1 to be the "mainstream release" of Mac OS X, Jaguar, with its unique branding and pumped-up feature set, represents OS X's first real step into the mass market. I just hope it's got what it takes to make it. After all, it's a jungle out there.

Mac, Camera, Action! (The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,785874,00.html>
Following the lead of one of Hollywood's biggest names, Ben Hammersley produces his debut film -- on a laptop.

Tear Sheet (Frank Priscaro, Technology marketing)
<http://www.technologymarketing.com/mc/content/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1649522>
While Swtich campaign clearly draws the battle lines on the OS front going forward, other overtures between the two companies do not. Apple's recent release of the iPod for Windows, for instance, points out an uneasy alliance if ever there was one, with the two companies slapping each other with one hand and slapping each other on the back with the other.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Six New 'Switcher' Ads To Debut At U.S. Open (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/05.switch.php>
Apple said the new ads feature "switchers" including an attorney, a veterinarian, a trucking company owner, a software manager and two students.

Credit Card Theft Feared In Windows Flaw (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-956729.html>
Microsoft issued a security alert, calling the flaw "critical." The flaw affects how more than a dozen Microsoft products, including programs for Windows and the Macintosh, handle digital certificates, which are used to certify the authenticity of a Web site or of software code.

faceoff: Macs Vs Windows (Sarah Layden, The Post-Standard)
<http://www.syracuse.com/technology/poststandard/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-0%2F1018431959234542.xml>
An Apple for the teacher? Doubt it. In Central New York, teachers and students alike probably use a Windows-based personal computer.

Apple Set For Paris Expo (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5216>
Apple is preparing for Apple Expo, 2002, which runs September 10-14 in Paris at the Porte de Versailles.

Maine Rings In A New School Year With iBooks (Wilson P. Dizard III, Hoover's Online)
<http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20020904670.2_08ca000572fcfe3d>
The 18,000 seventh-graders in Maine will begin class this year with new iBooks, as the Maine Learning and Technology Initiative begins its first full year of providing the systems to students.

Apple Offers Free Gifts To .Mac Members (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/09/04/macgifts>
Apple has started offering .Mac members 100 free 4x6 Kodak prints through the iPhoto print service and a free copy of the popular puzzle game, Alchemy Deluxe.

An Interview With Tim Bumgarner - Lead Engineer Of AppleScript studio (MacScripter)
<http://macscripter.net/unscripted.html>

Omni Initiates Retail Strategy (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16257>
Products from Mac OS X developer The Omni Group will soon be available for purchase from resellers, following a partnership between the software maker and U.S. distributor Channel Sources.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Thinking Laptops (chromatic, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1950>
It's an opportunity to get used to Mac OS X and wireless networking

Perhaps It's Time To Close A Few Apple Stores (MacNET 2.0)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=163_0_1_0_M>
If you are reading this Mr. Jobs, you have a problem. Whoever you have in charge of hiring people is doing you (and me) an injustice.

Payoffs For Laptop Learning Long-Term, Multifaceted (Blethen Maine Newspapers)
<http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/laptops/020904laptops.shtml>
The Class of 2008 will be unlike any that came before it in Maine.

Beware The Celebrity CEO (Paul R. La Monica, CNN/Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2002/09/04/pf/investing/q_ceos/index.htm>
It's not necessarily a good thing if a company's leader is too well-known.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Scaled-Down Software In Photoshop's Image (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/circuits/05STAT.html?tntemail0>
Having equipped Elements with 90 percent of Photoshop's features for 15 percent of the price, Adobe has just written an attractive little rule of its own.

The Two Faces Of Jaguar (Bob LeVitus, OSXFAQ)
<http://www.osxfaq.com/Editorial/jag09/index.ws>
If you don't have a compelling reason to install Jaguar today, wait for the inevitable 10.2.1 update. And if you just can't do without it, do your homework first.

Bigger And Better (Garry Barker, Livewire)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/05/1031115881812.html>
In short, and just for a moment taking one's eye off the attractiveness of the new big iMac, this thing isn't so much a computer as a lifestyle machine.

Play It Safe (Joe Farace, ComputerUser.com)
<http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2109,4,9,1,0901,02.html>
There are few utilities more indispensable for Mac OS users than Symantec's Norton Utilities for Macintosh.

Speed Is In The Cards (Dennis Sellers, ComputerUser.com)
<http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2109,5,18,1,0901,02.html>
Are processor upgrades worth the money?

Do Ya Think I'm OS Xy? (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,785883,00.html>
Once only a Mac geek's dream, OS X now cuts it as an operating system with something for us all. 

Bigger iPods And iMacs (Brett Larson, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/computing/story/0,24195,3398198,00.html>
Both products have features that will make them desirable to get and a pleasure to own.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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HSBC Rejects Microsoft Licensing Model (Andy McCue, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134807>
High street bank HSBC has criticised Microsoft's moves towards subscription-based licensing, claiming that it forces too fast an upgrade cycle with few benefits for business users.

MS Puzzled By Server Attack Spree (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-956647.html>
Microsoft released further details of a rash of attacks on Windows 2000 servers that has so far stumped the software giant's research team.

Microsoft Seeks Role For Media Software (Jon Healey and Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-micro5sep05005046.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
The company hopes to persuade entertainment firms to deliver their products digitally.

Microsoft's Control-Freak "Entertainment PC" (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4000480.htm>
Microsoft's most important customers are not end users. They are the intermediaries.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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U.S. Privacy Officer: Listen Up! (Fran Maier, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-956687.html>
The appointment of a national chief privacy officer makes public sense. But we need a system of checks and balances to ensure that issues of confidentiality, data collection and the secure handling of personal information always weigh heavily in the office's decision-making.

Shops Reveal Plans To Replace Barcodes (Steve Ranger, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134796>
So-called 'smart tags' could mean the end of long waits in checkout queues.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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W3C Members: Do As We Say, Not As We Do (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-956778.html>
In a test of whether members of the Web's premier standards group are willing to eat their own dog food, companies and organizations from Microsoft to the United States Environmental Protection Agency were found to be picky eaters.

Heard Of Drive-By Hacking? Meeting Drive-By Spamming (Graeme Wearden, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2121857,00.html>
'Warspammers' are taking advantage of unprotected wireless LANs to send out millions of junk emails.

Games Push Limits Of PC Hardware (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-955999.html>
Your new PC has the latest operating system, a speedy processor and lots of cool software. But can it handle the latest PC games?

Red Hat Founder Joins The Circus (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-956636.html>
Known for sporting a crimson fedora at trade shows, the founder and one-time chairman of Linux software maker Red Hat now plans to don the duds of a ringmaster when he kicks off his latest venture, Lulu Tech Circus, at the end of this month.

Is Linux Poised To Topple Microsoft? (Renay San Miguel, CNN)
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/09/03/hln.wired.linux/index.html>
Linux is starting to gain momentum with computer companies as an alternative to Microsoft. Unlike the penguin, Linux seems to be taking flight.

Proxim Ships Dual-Band Wireless Equipment (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1033-956535.html?tag=cdshrt>
Wi-Fi equipment maker Proxim on Wednesday began shipping a dual-band wireless access point capable of creating 300-foot wireless zones using both the 802.11b and 802.11a technologies.

Warflying For Wi-Fi (David Stevenson, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3398350,00.html>
Wireless Internet access node seekers take to the air in their search for open connections.

BlackBerry Attracting Third Party Improvements (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/04/020904hnblackberry.xml>
Despite a market share that pales in comparison to Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld devices, Research in Motion's BlackBerry handheld is still attracting major cell phone vendors as well as enterprise-level infrastructure providers.

Microsoft's Control-Freak "Entertainment PC" (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4000480.htm>
Microsoft's most important customers are not end users. They are the intermediaries.

'Turn Down That Blog!' (Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_09_01_tidbitsarchive.htm#85412860>
"What about having his or her real voice come through?"

New Media Delivers To The Old (Laura Ruel, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_09_01_tidbitsarchive.htm#85413808>
Some alternative media, such as FIRE, are realizing that there are many creative ways to deliver their news to a truly international audience.

What's Next For HTML? (Micah Dubinko, XML.com)
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/xhtml20.html>
XHTML 2.0 marks the beginning of a new phase of development for HTML. The key goal in version 2.0 is to factor away the accumulated baggage in the language while retaining the familiarity and simplicity that has always been associated with HTML.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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State Of Despair (Pete Du Pont, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110002212>
Only freedom can produce truly sustainable development.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Math = Beauty + Truth / (Really Hard) (David Appell, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/05/math_prizes/index.html>
Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Hey Buddy, PayPal Me A Quarter? (Amit Asaravala, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54929,00.html>
Proving that P.T. Barnum's theory holds true, a growing number of tech-savvy debtors are taking their sob stories to the Web -- and it's working.

The Early Genius Of Wodehouse (Richard Lambert, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-404049,00.html>
One hundred years ago P.G. Wodehouse left his dead-end job and started his writing career with a series of school stories.

Big Gap For A Poet To Bridge (Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,785595,00.html>
Coughing back the black exhaust fumes of screeching buses, a handful of poets collected on Westminster Bridge yesterday to commemorate the 200th anniversary of William Wordsworth's sonnet about the spot, now one of London's most clogged-up traffic routes.

Missing The Message On Sex (Laura Sessions Stepp, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37971-2002Sep4.html>
Moms in America, take heed: What you think you're telling your teenagers about sex, and what they hear, may be two very different things. And it's your kids' perceptions that shape their behavior.

One Year Later, Standard Time (Dan Fost, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/04/BU116041.DTL>
It has only been a year since the Industry Standard, the bible of the bubble, shut its doors.

The Laws Of Applause (William Littler, Toronto Star)
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026144487733&call_page=TS_Entertainment&call_pageid=968867495754&call_pagepath=Entertainment/News&col=969483191630>
Clapping has long been the bond between audiences and performers, but is it losing its meaning?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Bessie (Loraine Campbell, Circle Magazine)
<http://www.circlemagazine.com/bessie.html>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Malaysia-Singapore Officials Get Ready To Convene Early Meeting (Mergawati Zulfakar, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/9/5/nation/mfsnag&sec=nation>
A day after Malaysia and Singapore agreed to discuss reviewing the price of raw water being sold to the island republic, officials got down to work to convene a meeting at their level soon.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Drivers Face Parking-Coupon Blues (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,141744,00.html?>
Many are having a hard time getting their hands on new URA/HDB coupons, but the authorities say problem has been licked.

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