[MyAppleMenu] Sep 16, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Sep 16, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Folds In Mac OS 9 Group (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,537093,00.asp>
In yet another sign that Apple Computer Inc. is winding down its efforts to maintain the classic Mac OS 9 to concentrate on Mac OS X, the company last week quietly reorganized its OS development operation.

One Man's Retro Mac Revival (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55153,00.html>
Devan Simunovich trucks his collection of 50 compact Macs to raves, where he sets up classic game lounges. He's part of a thriving group committed to dusting off ancient Macs and getting them working again.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Forces OS X On Users (David Frith, The Barrow)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5095693%5e15327%5e%5enbv%5e15306-15321,00.html>

Computers Fail The Test (Greg Thom, Herald Sun)
<http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5110470%255E662,00.html>
Apple desk-top computers were rated the most reliable: 86 per cent required no repairs in the past 12 months.

Symantec Line Updated For Jaguar (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/16.symantec.php>
You'll have to run Symantec's built-in LiveUpdate feature in order to download the free updates.

Apple's Scary Season (Eric Hellweg, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.co.uk/articles/web/0,1653,43565,00.html>
Market share is down, Microsoft is upset, and Quark is nowhere to be seen. The company has some mean challenges to overcome.

Mozilla Bug Leaks Web Surfing Data (Matthew Broersma, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-958001.html>
Netscape and other Web browsers based on the Mozilla development project contain a bug that leaks users' Web surfing data, according to a new report.

Momentous Downloads: Apple's iCal (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pionneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/4081540.htm>
Welcome to Apple's new world of pay-to-play, where the Macintosh maker's desktop software and Internet-based services increasingly extract cash from those who want to make the most of their beloved Macs.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Mac OS X Ultimatum (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,537058,00.asp>
Whatever spin you choose to put on it, however, the bottom line is that Apple has put users and developers alike on notice: Switch to Mac OS X now, or join OpenDoc and CyberDog in Apple's dead-letter office.

Apple Vs. Gateway (George Wagner,  Brutno, and Tony Martin, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/4081501.htm>
The consensus is that, to get some of the desired results, Gateway may have run the iMacs in Classic mode, which is an emulated environment for compatibility with Mac OS 9 applications. Their numbers just don't compare to the numbers that others are seeing.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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The Feeble Files (Galen Wiley, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=297>
If you're the kind that really likes a challenge, the Feeble Files is for you. It combines that old school adventuring you love with challenging gameplay and a professional feel.

Maya 3.5.1 For OS X (Trey Yancy, MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/reviews/maya/Index.html>
Serious 3D modelers and animators should definitely take a close look at this application.

My First iMovie (Chuck Toporek, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2011>
I know I'm not a video producer by any means, but iMovie is pretty easy to use for hacking together quick movies like this.

Stronghold (Zack Stern, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=17>
Stronghold is an exciting strategy game that balances new people-management elements with city building and battles. Bold graphics and fun units make up for its interface quirks and the confusion of knowing where you can build.

Filemaker Pro 6 (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/filemakerpro6.shtml>
FileMaker has had a powerful program for some time, and now it's also simple. Isn't that what productivity programs are supposed to be?

Low-Cost Machines Fine For Most (Larry Blasko, Associated Press)
<http://www.bayinsider.com/partners/ktvu/news/ap_story.html/Technology/AP.V0967.AP-FEA-Hobbies-Com.html>
The classic iMac, now at $799, has everything you need for the things most of us do, and, although it has its own kinks, many consider the Mac easier to use than Windows-based machines. 

Wireless Wonder (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=333809>
Getting your computer and phone to talk does require a little of the set-up dance we hate.

Objective-C: The More Flexible C++ (Armin Roehrl and Stefan Schmiedl, Linux Journal)
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6009&mode=&order=0>
An introduction to Objective-C for programmers familiar with C++ or any other OOP language.

What Apple Could Learn From MS About Mice (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2880291,00.html>
Redmond is making better mice than stylish Apple. What's more, those MS mice work great with Macs.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Red Hat To Simpllify Desktop Environs (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,537670,00.asp>
Red Hat, the open-source and Linux technology provider, has moved to explain its decision to configure the KDE and GNOME desktop environments to look and behave in similar fashion in the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux.

ISP Dream: We Can Do TV Too (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957972.html>
Forget the revolutionary promises of "new media." Internet companies' newest hope is to model themselves after the business successes of cable TV.

The Net: Singing A New Tune? (Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/807722.asp>
Debate is on over whether the government should jail people who download copyrighted songs.

Here Comes Internet2 (CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-12-957016.html>
The dot-com implosion has left many managers wary of the promised wonders of information technology, but those who ignore the next phase of the Internet--dubbed Internet2--do so at their peril, HBS professor Richard Nolan says.

Issues That Will Shape The Internet (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4079611.htm>
Let's look at some upcoming decisions that will shape communications for the next 50 years -- and ponder the consequences for openness and innovation if we make the wrong choices this time.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Microsoft Revs Up Mobile .Net (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/16/020916hnmobilenet.xml?s=IDGNS>
Microsoft released a second test version of its .Net Compact Framework, a runtime engine that allows .Net applications to run on small Windows devices, such as those running the Pocket PC operating system.

College Students: Internet's Necessity (Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-957874.html>
College students consider the Internet as integral to their lives as the television and the telephone, according to a new study on their Web habits.

P2P Boost For Microsoft's .Net? (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957929.html>
Microsoft's acquisition of XDegrees, a small company known for its secure peer-to-peer technology, could help bolster the software giant's .Net Web services plan, according to analysts.

Wireless Wonder (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=333809>
Getting your computer and phone to talk does require a little of the set-up dance we hate.

China Masters Art Of Internet Censorship (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/China_masters_art_of_Internet_censorship+.shtml>
Even though the Chinese censors are deploying some very sophisticated technology, their best weapon appears to be what Mulvenon calls "low-tech Leninism" -- the shrewd application of traditional government power.

RMS: Why Open Source Needs Free Software's Ideals (Richard Stallman, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27121.html>
The term "open source" was coined to avoid politics.

Lotus Ponders KM Future (Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/09/16/020916pllotus.xml?s=IDGNS>
Seeking to bolster its position in the deflated KM (knowledge management) segment, IBM's Lotus Software is going back to its collaboration roots.

Using Web Services To Keep Corba Apps Relevant (Rick Whiting, InformationWeek)
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/IWK20020913S0004>
Iona is readying a new release of its Web-services software that supports the Corba object architecture.

On A Single Chip, Intel Joins Realms Of Analog And Digital (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16CHIP.html>
Intel plans to announce today a new manufacturing process that it says will make it possible to blend both digital and analog functions on a single silicon chip.

Another Take On Swing And Java's Success (Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Net)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2008>
If Sun does nothing to address the strengths of Microsoft's Windows Forms/Web Forms model, that model might wind up being a wedge for Microsoft to break Java's server-side dominance.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Against All The Odds (Jeffrey Kluger, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020923-351207,00.html>
Christopher Reeve tells how he is regaining control of his body, one finger at a time.

Vision of The Future (Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-eye16sep16.story>
Researchers are on the right track to produce artificial sight for the blind.

Scientist Gives Voice To Blind (Paula Schleis, Beacon Journal)
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/4073203.htm>
Ray Kurzweil was 12 years old when it became pretty obvious that the world could expect great things from him.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Accidental Laureate (Matt Seaton, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,792893,00.html>
Twenty years ago a shy, lovelorn Cumbrian baker, David Harkins, wrote a poem. This year, the Queen read it out at her mother's funeral.

Baggy Clothes Conceal Bigger Issue (C. W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/15/LV192418.DTL>
So did clothes go baggy first, or did we just get fat?

Double Takes (Zahid Sardar, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/15/CM1739882.DTL>
After the radical social shuffle of the '60s, the Bay Area experimented with communal living, an idea that stretches back centuries in other parts of the world. But for some in the Bay Area, the experiment became a way of life and a stylish way to age together within environments of their own design.

Cheatin', Writin', & 'Rithmetic (Brigid Schulte, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4968-2002Sep11.html>
How to succeed in school without really trying.

Cinema At The Cineplex (Paul Farbi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22248-2002Sep15.html>
"Independent" cinema has come to the burbs, and the burbs seem to like what they're seeing.

Secrets of Digital Creativity Revealed in Miniatures (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/arts/design/16ARTS.html>
Most of us seem to want to experience an artistic creation as a finished product, not as a mound of raw materials. So an exhibition called "Gobs of Paint" or a concerto titled "Loads of Notes" would probably have some problems attracting an audience. Which means that "Codedoc," an online exhibition of digital artworks that focuses on their underlying computer code, is a daring endeavor.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Tries To Loosen Up (Associated Press)
<http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020915_756.html>
Closely regulated Singapore tries loosening up in hopes of attracting creative types.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Arrests Further 21 Suspected Islamic Militants (AFP)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020916/1/32t3l.html>
The arrests were made last month, the home ministry said in a statement which gave no reason for the delay in making the news public.

Orderly Singapore Seeks More Heart And Soul (Jacqueline Wong, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1451236>
A new committee will take social engineering to new levels as its assigned goal is to create a more soulful society.

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