[MyAppleMenu] Sep 24, 2002

Tue Sep 24 21:05:06 EDT 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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What's All The Feiss About? (Garry Barker, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/24/1032734164122.html>
Once we would have said about such instant, widespread notoriety, "only in America", but now it's the Internet and the whole world.

Cisco Releases Jaguar-Compatible Aironet Drivers (MacMegasite)
<http://www.macmegasite.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=336>
Cisco Systems has released new drivers for their Aironet series of wireless cards that are compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.

'Final Cut Pro 3 For Dummies' Released (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/24.fcp.php>

SuperCad 4.0b14 Authoring Tool For Mac OS X (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16595>
Solutions Etcetera has released a a public beta of SuperCard 4.0b14, its HyperCard-like authoring tool.

ATI Offers Details On Radeon 9000, Quells AIW Rumors (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/24.ati.php>

Emeryville, California To Get Apple Store (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/24.store.php>
Bay Street, the 20-acre urban village currently under construction in Emeryville, CA, today announced the addition of several new tenants including Apple.

What Will Drive The Next Big Upgrade? (Jay Lyman, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19487.html>
Although Howe was surprised by corporate IT departments' willingness to try Apple's Xserve enterprise server, he expressed doubt that the company will win more than a "fair amount of sidegrading" out of its efforts.

The Economics Of Apple (Teri Robinson, EcommerceTimes.com)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19485.html>
Although Apple has achieved financial solvency in a difficult climate by knowing its audience and preserving its margins, the company's struggle is not over.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Think iCal Is Just About Scheduling? Think Again (Alan Graham, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2002/09/24.1.shtml>
Unlike Microsoft, who believes that everything should occur at their server level, Apple has given us poor schmucks the ability to share collaborative data on a whole new level.

Flirting With Mac OS X (Moshe Bar, Byte)
<http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7620/byt1032475416823/0923_bar.html>
You don't have to be ashamed to go to a Linux guru meeting with Mac OS X, because it's just a UNIX with a very nice GUI.

Ellison's Apple Board Departure An Opportunity For Better Governance (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4135241.htm>
Maybe this is a good time for Apple to think about governance issues.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Mozilla's Conveniences Take Bite Out Of Explorer (Tom Gromak, The Detroit News)
<http://technology.cincinnati.com/cgi-bin/technology/techwrapper.pl?URL=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/18000344.html&AFFIL=CIN>
Mozilla comes with a lot of features that would normally require extra software.

Apple iMac (PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,549610,00.asp>
The iMac isn't just about hip style--it's a bold reminder of Apple's ability to design simple-to-set-up computers and bundle essential and appealing applications.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (Sean Ashcroft, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/hotstuff/sep02/photelements2.cfm>
At the price, domestic digital photographers will find much in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 to commend it. However, even with its improved accessibility, many users will undoubtedly find the learning curve steep, but with some perseverance will discover an exciting new digital world opening up before them.

Apple Courts PC Users With New MP3 Player (Stephen WIlliams, Newsday)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/ny-pigear2938079sep24(0,7046753).column?coll=la%2Dutilities%2Dtechnology>
Steve Jobs being Steve Jobs -- the machine is as wonderful now as it was when I first cozied up to the original.

StuffIt Deluxe 7 - What's In A Filename? (Matt Neuburg, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06942>
The new format isn't compatible with the old, and doesn't try to be, but you can easily tell the formats apart: archives in the new format are distinguished by the ".sitx" suffix.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Ballmer: We'll Outsmart Open Source (Peter Judge, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-959112.html>
Although Microsoft cannot compete against Linux on price, the company will use its community of professionals to outsmart the open-source movement, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told an audience of Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) in London on Monday.

Carly's Biggest Test (John Dickinson, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-959117.html>
If the management foundation that underlies the merger unravels, and the infighters prevail, rest assured that Steve Case of AOL won't be the only big-name tech executive with a question mark hovering over his future.

Beleaguered Dell? (John H Farr, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/09/20020924004239.shtml>
No matter how well they may appear to be doing, Dell Computer Corporation has what is rather chillingly described as "a deteriorating balance sheet."

Microsoft To Pour $3 Billion Into Office (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,548461,00.asp>
Microsoft Corp. plans to spend more than $3 billion over the next three years on its Office productivity suite and hopes to double annual revenue from Office to $20 billion by 2010.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Liberty Alliance Plans Interoperability With Passport (John Blau, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/24/020924hnliberty.xml?s=IDGNS>
The Liberty Alliance Project, which is developing Web technology to facilitate single-sign-on authentication, plans to support interoperability between its system and Microsoft's rival Passport system.

XML Complexity As War Of Attrition (Simon St. Laurent, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2042>
The specifications have grown and grown, far outpacing the SGML specifications that XML was designed to replace.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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MS Touts New Growth In Old World (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55355,00.html>
Microsoft said on Tuesday it was confident about the future, which was why it was raising an army of new recruits and investing tens of millions of dollars in an alliance with Hewlett-Packard.

MySQL Supports Transactions (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,550118,00.asp>
The addition of transaction support will help users of the standard version of the popular open-source technology develop and deploy enterprise applications better equipped for commercial e-business environments, officials at the Seattle-based company said.

Ballmer: United, We'll Stomp On Linux (Peter Judge, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959165.html>
Microsoft's taking a leaf out of Linux's book to fight off its open-source rival&mash;it's calling its dedicated band of supporters to arms.

Ballmer: We'll Outsmart Open Source (Peter Judge, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-959112.html>
Although Microsoft cannot compete against Linux on price, the company will use its community of professionals to outsmart the open-source movement, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told an audience of Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) in London on Monday.

Lindows, Netscape Team Up (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959124.html>
Lindows, the maker of a consumer-friendly version of the Linux operating system, announced Tuesday that it would bundle Netscape Communication's Web browsing and communication technology into its software.

Open Source, Shared Source Or Secret Sauce? (Peter Judge, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-959039.html>
It looks very much as if Microsoft is genuinely learning something from the open-source movement. Is it possible that both communities may gain from this?

Burned By CD Burners (Stan Bernstein, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57856-2002Sep23.html>
My Isla Vista store didn't fail because I had suddenly lost the ability to contend with legitimate competitors. It went out of business because its customers found a way to obtain the product we sold without having to pay for it.

When Having A Meeting Is Like Going To A Movie (Joe Sharkey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/business/24ROAD.html>
For years, companies have been gingerly evaluating various video and Web-based teleconferencing systems both as an extension of, and increasingly as an alternative to, expensive and time-consuming long-distance business travel.

Turning The Play Button Into The Pay Button (Eric de Fontenay, MusicDish)
<http://musicdish.com/mag/?id=6657>
In a speech at the Optical Storage Symposium, Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO, Gary Shapiro, appealed to the content community "to work with, not against, the technology industry."

Biometrics Moves To Center Stage (Patience Wait, Washington Technology)
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/17_13/cover-stories/19077-1.html>
Industry grows, but agencies rely primarily on fingerprinting solutions in the war on terrorism.

Companies Adapt On Electronic Signing (Jeff Bennett, Knight Ridder)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4127969.htm>
Two years after the federal government legalized electronic signatures, many consumers are relying on mouse clicks and passwords rather than writing their names on a dotted line.

Nokia Exec Sees Little Need For Much-Touted 3G (Paul de Bendern, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1483416>
On the eve of the launch of its long-awaited mobile of the future, a top Nokia official on Monday toned down hopes for a cellphone revolution and said consumers would probably be happy with current technology.

DoCoMo 3G Stumbling One Year On (Martyn Williams, IDG News Service)
<http://idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/ED106621AD7E913448256C3E0006BE2C?OpenDocument>
Far from revolutionize the way Japanese people communicate, everything is pretty much the same.

A New Breed Of Wired Warriors (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020924_7929.htm>
The Pentagon is racing to ready broadband communications systems for combat. They may prove to be the most potent weapons of all.

802.3af Specification Makes A Lot Of Sense (Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,547658,00.asp>
Power over ethernet, the 802.3af specification, is an impressive standard that will affect everything from IP telephony to wireless LANs.

Reporters Who Blog, Get Scoops (Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_09_22_tidbitsarchive.htm#85482097>
"The weblog has... been an outlet to help those affected by the scandal or covering it..."

Learn For Free Online (Ian Hardy, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2270648.stm>
People will soon be given access to knowledge from one of the world's foremost technology institutes for free over the internet.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Hitler And Bad History (Richard Cohen, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57857-2002Sep23.html>
What worked for Stalin may be working for Hussein.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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No Island Is An Island (Duane Silverstein, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/23/ED11429.DTL>
Although islands conjure up images of pristine tropical paradises, they are also among the world's most threatened ecosystems.

Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments (George Johnson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/science/24BEAU.html>
What they have in common is that they epitomize the elusive quality scientists call beauty. This is beauty in the classical sense: the logical simplicity of the apparatus, like the logical simplicity of the analysis, seems as inevitable and pure as the lines of a Greek monument.

The Clockwork Computer (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337165>
An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Battle Of The Planets (Michael Holden, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,795913,00.html>
Selling the future is a dirty business.

What Matters To Us (Peter Carlson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57608-2002Sep23.html>
Us magazine looks like a cheesy gossip rag. And it is a cheesy gossip rag, of course, but it's also a brilliant anthropological study of the folkways, the mores, and the bizarre mating habits of that exotic tribe known as celebrities.

Publishers Trying To Salvage Troubled Magazines (David Carr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/business/media/24ADCO.html>
Publishers of magazines old and new are trying to salvage brands that advertisers and readers have left behind.

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