[MyAppleMenu] Sep 17, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Pioneer Warns Of "Hot" DVD Drives (Richard Shim, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-958251.html>
Pioneer Electronics said Tuesday that its DVD rewritable drives can cause PCs or DVD players to overheat when recording on certain high-speed disks.

.Mac Subscribers Top 100,000 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/09/17/mac>
Apple today announced that more than 100,000 users have signed up for the company's .Mac Web services since it was launched in July.

Apple Readies First Jaguar Update (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958160.html?tag=fd_top>
The Mac OS X 10.2.1 update, which includes bug fixes and enhancements, would come less than a month after Apple launched the desktop and sever versions of Jaguar.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Now Shipping 1.25GHz G4s (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16477>

Digital Detectives In Wake County, NC (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/09/forensics/>
Both the police and the general public benefit from one important change in Wake County’s switch to digital photography: speed.

Apple Plays Up .Mac Subscriptions (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1042-958215.html>
While .Mac signups may be progressing slowly, the move to paid services also is the right thing to do, say analysts.

Apple Mac Treat For The Avid (James Norman, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/common/search_form_handler?SEARCH_ACT=display&story_id=5095327&TotalPage=3&searchTermIMT=%28Apple%29&pageNum=1&resNum=20&searchLog=20020917230513-21921&searchBy=date&Intro=No>
In the same way that Photoshop overtook Paintbox in the last decade as the industry and consumer standard in image manipulation, high-quality digital video editing software is becoming much more accessible to the mass market.

Are Apples Good For Your Teeth? (Peter Sayer, IDG News Service)
<http://idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/C074579202FAFCDD48256C3700095BB1?OpenDocument>
"Today, people are more likely to buy a Macintosh because it's beautiful, it makes the [dental] consulting room more attractive."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Switcher Stories Follow Up (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/17/switcher.html>
A lot of people responded to that column, and I'd like to post some of their comments here, as well as invite the rest of you to weigh in.

Mac OS X On x86 Could Be A Good Idea (Robert Accettura, MacVillage.net)
<http://www.macvillage.net/news/articles/103227155618456.shtml>
No matter what happens with the AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorola) alliance and the future of the PowerPC, Apple would have a business plan.

2003 Predicted As 'Tough Year' For Apple (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/17.hellweg.php>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iPhoto (Scott Dewbre, MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/reviews/iPhoto/Index.html>
iPhoto takes the drudgery out of organizing your digital photos and makes it fun to view and share your pictures with the rest of the world.

Ultimate Home PC Showdown: Apple iMac Vs. Gateway Profile 4 (Gene Steinberg, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/etech/etechmain.html?gannet_story=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/gear/18000324.html>
In our own tests, the Gateway still bested the iMac, but our results, which duplicated some of Gateway's tests and added some others, showed it was no slam-dunk.

Two More Tools For Fixing Photos (Miami Herald)
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/4091996.htm>
While Elements 2.0 requires more learning, it is stuffed with far more effects, tools and improvements.

Avid Xpress DV (Brett Larson, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/computing/story/0,24195,3399799,00.html>
With a price tag of over $1,000, Xpress DV won't find itself in the hands of as many people as Final Cut Pro or Premiere, but it will suit the needs of its owners just fine. Its flexibility, compatibility, and real-time effects will be a dream come true for many video editors.

Final Draft Could Provide A Hollywood Ending (Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy17.html>
If you're an aspiring screenwriter, though, you've lucked out. You deserve the perfect tool. Scrape together $249 in tip money and buy Final Draft.

UC Berkeley's Harvey On The Logo Experience (John Jerney, The Daily Yomiuri)
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020917wo63.htm>
In addition to being interactive, where you enter statements using the keyboard and watch the results appear immediately on screen, Logo has two addition features that make it an obvious selection for kids.

XML On OS X (Jon Gales, MacMerc.com)
<http://www.macmerc.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=54>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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PC Squeeze Means DVDs For The Masses (John G Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-958287.html>
Budget PC buyers could land a once-luxury DVD burner as computer makers use lower prices to chase sales ahead of the holiday season.

MSN 8 To Foist Fees On Outsiders (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958302.html>
Microsoft this week plans to move one step closer to launching MSN 8, a major overhaul of its online service that for the first time will charge people who use an alternative Internet service provider.

Future Intel Chips - Hacker Proof? (Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/10/BU179891.DTL&type=tech>
Intel Corp. will begin hard-wiring security features into future generations of chips in order to help fend off hackers and viruses, Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini said Monday.

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MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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A Battle Over Software Licensing (Laurie J. Flynn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16NECO.html>
A proposed law intended to standardize software licensing from state to state has ignited a battle between its supporters -- most notably, the business software industry -- and the many forces who have joined to defeat it.

European Union Reseaches The Benefits Of Open Source Software (Andy Oram, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/09/16/platform.html>
Although these efforts are tentative, someday they may help to firm up our understanding of the unique opportunities for education, code reuse, and synergistic evolution presented when programmers publish source code to the whole world.

Hit Over The Head With Heavy Blogs (David Docherty, The Guardian)
<http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,792676,00.html>
Anything that makes it easy for us to use the networking and community features of the internet will further drive the changes we already see around us.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Showdown Over Digital Show Guides (Brad King, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,55000,00.html>
Forget the eternal battle for the remote control. The real power struggle over television starts with electronic programming guides.

IBM Server Runs Unix, Linux At Same Time (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,538818,00.asp>
IBM is planning to roll out new hardware that will run both its AIX 5L Unix operating system and Linux simultaneously on a single server.

Penn State Plugs Into Dell Cluster (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-958311.html>
Dell Computer is enrolling more customers for its computing clusters.

Web Services Impact (Timothy Dyck, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,537414,00.asp>
Never before has such a large portion of the technology industry agreed on a single way to call functions on a remote system.

Sun Expands StarOffice Giveaway (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-958165.html>
Sun Microsystems will give away its StarOffice software to ministries of education in Europe and Africa, the company is expected to announce Tuesday, in an effort to undermine rival Microsoft.

PalmSource Ships Web Browser (Richard Shim, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-958161.html>
PalmSource, a subsidiary of Palm, has begun shipping a Web browser to licensees of its operating system, in an effort to distinguish itself from Palm's mostly hardware history.

Broadband Gold Rush Dreams (Cynthia L. Webb, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23550-2002Sep16.html>
The broadband race is on.

A Microsoft Pioneer Leaves To Strike Out On His Own (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/technology/17SOFT.html>
Charles Simonyi's start-up is called the Intentional Software Corporation. Its goal is to build software tools and technology to make the task of programming less complicated and more productive.

Getting Started With C#, Part 1 (Jesse Liberty, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/learningcsharp_2/index1.html>
Find out how to write your first C# program in this book excerpt from Learning C#.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Wretched Excess (Hannah Beech, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020923/story.html>
Flush with the spoils of capitalism, China's fledgling multimillionaires are living large. Mao would have had a cow.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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In Nature Vs. Nurture, A Voice For Nature (Nicholas Wade, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/social/17PINK.html>
Steven Pinker, a psychologist of language, is trying to make it safer for biologists to theorize about the genetics of human behavior.

New Eyes In Space, Even Sharper Than Hubble's (Warren E. Leary, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/space/17TELE.html>
The Next Generation Space Telescope will allow astronomers to close in on the beginning of time.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Still Sexy After All These Years (Celia Brayfield, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-417462,00.html>
The ground-breaking bestseller that 30 years ago encouraged us to have more erotic fun has been reborn as sexist as ever but with added social responsibility.

Novel Is Restored, But The Grudge Continues (Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-lv-media13sep13.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
The things that pass between serious writers and their editors usually are intensely private. Like any process involving genuine intimacy, literary editing presumes both parties' discretion. Its absence is what makes this week's unusual publishing event--the reissuing of Gore Vidal's historical novel "Creation"--more interesting still.

Trent Reznor's Pretty Hate Machines (David Kushner, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/17/reznor/>
A geek before geeks were cool, the high-tech musician explains why he had to reclaim his programming roots for his next album.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Lawyer: No Personal Agenda To Act For Girls (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/9/17/nation/cctudung&sec=nation>
"My criticism of the ban was perhaps in strong terms but it does not and cannot mean I am interfering in the domestic affairs of that country. And it cannot be legitimate ground to deny me an employment pass."

"We Have Audited You And You Owe Us $40,000 In Back Taxes" (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,143744,00.html?>
More than 100 families fear the taxman's move to backdate taxes on interest-free loans to company directors will wipe out their businesses and savings.

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