[MyAppleMenu] Sep 25, 2002

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Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Opens Code For OS, Rendezvous (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/25/020925hnrendezvous.xml?s=IDGNS>
Apple Wednesday released the code for its networking protocol, Rendezvous, which enables computers to recognize such things as printers and consumer electronics devices over wireless networks without the need for any configuration by end users.

Utilities For Switching On The Cheap (Terrie Miller, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/24/switcher_utilities.html>
If you're considering making the switch, you might be concerned about your additional software costs as well. Those basic utilities can add up fast! In this article, we'll look at some inexpensive options to get you productive on some common tasks.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple VP To Keynote Mac Business Expo (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/25.expo.php>
This year's keynote presentation will be given by John Brandon, Apple's vice president of the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Microsoft Updates IE 5.1, 5.2 For Security Issues (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0209/25.ie.php>
Microsoft has updated Internet Explorer to version 5.1.6 and 5.2.2, for Mac OS 8.1/9 and Mac OS X respectively. The new builds of Internet Explorer fix security shortcomings and other issues.

Stock Advisor Bullish On Apple Due To Strong Cash Position (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2002/09/25.1.shtml>

Opera 6.0 Beta Praises Sung (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5313>
This release includes an array of new features, including user-interface changes, to enhance overall browsing.

Apple Readying Retail Store In Pasadena, CA (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16603>
Apple is preparing the launch of a retail outlet in Pasadena, California, according to a MacNN reader who sighted the unfinished store front on Colorado Boulevard.

Apple 'Dual Offer' Ending Soon (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16606>

PC Mag Recommends iPhoto (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16602>
"Your best bet is to get a Macintosh," says PC Magazine to prospective digital still camera buyers.

DVD Capture 1.0 Grabs Stills From DVDs (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/09/24.html#a2291>

Mailsmith 1.5.4 Released (MacNN)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/09/24/barebones>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Grave Concerns (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Hearld)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/25/1032734206544.html>

Second Thoughts About Intel In Macs (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020925_0770.htm>
A deluge of reader mail has opened my eyes to some very sound reasons why the Motorola PowerPC chip's days may be numbered.

You Can't Buy Community (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2051>
Money can't buy you love, friends, or piece of mind ... only market share. Apparently, that's what "community" means to Microsoft.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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What I Like About Jaguar (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/02/09/25/index.html>

iPod's Deserved Triumph (Paul Gilster, The News & Observer)
<http://newsobserver.com/business/story/1762421p-1772569c.html>
Apple's iPod is the best portable digital music player on the market.

Norton Utilities 7.0: Veteran Disk-Tools Suite Gains OS X Support But Not Speed (Stephan Somogyi, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/10/reviews/norton.html>
Norton Utilities 7.0.1 is a worthwhile addition to any conscientious OS X user's tool chest; however, if you're looking for a bargain, we recommend purchasing Norton SystemWorks 2.0.

Power Mac 1.25GHz MP Versus Others (rob-ART morgan, Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/pmddr6.html>

King Of All MP3 Players (Christopher Allbritton, Popular Mechanics)
<http://popularmechanics.com/technology/audio/2002/9/king_of_mp3_players/>
Look out, Apple. Sure, your iPod MP3 player is sleek and smooth, but as always, upstarts from the PC world are looking to take what you've done and do it cheaper.

Adobe FrameMaker 7.0: Industrial-Strength Document Application Eases Publishing To Expanded Formats (Bill Briggs, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/10/reviews/framemaker.html>
FrameMaker is overkill if all you need is a simple word processor or page-layout application. But if you maintain documents that are both long and long-living, such as books or technical manuals you want to repurpose, you owe it to yourself to check out FrameMaker 7.0, and for authoring structured documents, it's the only game in town.

You Talk, It Types: ViaVoice For Mac OS X (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/viavoice/>
Not too long ago, it was the stuff of science fiction. But, lucky us, the reality is here today.

Web Services With AppleScript And Perl (Rnadal L. Schwartz and Apple Developer Connection, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/09/24/applescript_perl.html>
You can't create a SOAP web service with AppleScript, but you can have it act as a SOAP web client and use Perl to create the service.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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MS Chief Ballmer Rules Out Services Buys (ComputerWire)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27280.html>
Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer has said that the company has no plans to ramp up its IT services business.

Microsoft Tries Wi-Fi (John Morris, CNET)
<http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1016-8-20433713-1.html?tag=st.co.1016.anc.1016-8-20433713-1>
Home networking gear makes the Rubik's Cube seem like a kid's toy, but the Microsoft hardware group is attempting to change that.

Cattle Drive (Matt Miller, TheDeal.com)
<http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&c=TDDArticle&cid=1032886543480&Box1=1020131906455&Box2=1020131906457&banner=headers/MANDA.gif>
More are betting these days that Gateway will be put out to pasture than beat Apple as the computer of passionate choice.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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MIT At Work On Resilient Internet (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,554451,00.asp>
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with scientists from several other universities and organizations, are designing a new distributed, self-healing Internet infrastructure that they hope will be resistant to attack and failure.

Technology Vs. Civil Liberties? (David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61559-2002Sep24.html>
Government's use of biometrics security technology worries some privacy activists.

Automated News (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2071499&device=>
I predict that by New Year's Day, at least one of the Web's top 10 news and information sites will have partnered with Google News and at least another one will have ripped off the Google News strategy by remodeling their portal to crawl thousands of outside sites.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Study: Stop Trying To Lock Out Pirates (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959388.html>
Media companies have to pull back from protecting content if they hope to beat back pirates, according to a study released Wednesday.

Fifth Release Of Apache 2.0 Available For Download (Wayne Kawamoto, Internetnews.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1469821>
This newsest release is primarily a bug fix that includes updates to the experimental caching module, the removal of several memory leaks, and fixes for several segfaults, one of which could have been used as a denial-of-service against mod_dav.

Apple Opens Code For OS, Rendezvous (Matt Berger, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/25/020925hnrendezvous.xml?s=IDGNS>
Apple Wednesday released the code for its networking protocol, Rendezvous, which enables computers to recognize such things as printers and consumer electronics devices over wireless networks without the need for any configuration by end users.

Web Leak Of Linux Lets Hat Out Of The Bag (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959434.html>
Parts of the newest version of Red Hat's Linux software slipped onto the Internet Wednesday, nearly a week before the operating system's official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users.

A New Way To Read, Not See, Maps (Mark Tosczak, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54916,00.html>
The map-navigation software, dubbed Blind Audio Tactile Mapping System (BATS), takes digital map information and provides nonvisual feedback as a user moves a cursor across the map.

Mobile Breakthrough--Wideband-CDMA (Ben Charny, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-959267.html>
Nokia and Ericsson said Tuesday they've each separately reached milestones for cell phone equipment that uses wideband-CDMA, the cell phone standard expected to dominate its rivals by 2005.

Microsoft Tries Wi-Fi (John Morris, CNET)
<http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1016-8-20433713-1.html?tag=st.co.1016.anc.1016-8-20433713-1>
Home networking gear makes the Rubik's Cube seem like a kid's toy, but the Microsoft hardware group is attempting to change that.

Hutchison To Launch 3G With 'Friendly' Users (Liz Vaughan-Adams, Indepdent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=336411>
The mobile phone operator Hutchison 3G is to launch its long-awaited third generation mobile phone service in the UK next Wednesday to a select group of 1,000 users.

Government Interest In Linux Grows (Kate Mackenzie, The Australian)
<http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5166238%255E15306,00.html>
Government agency CIOs will soon be participating in a Linux briefing, organised amidst growing public sector interest in the open source platform.

Corel Remake Still 'Early Stage' (Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star)
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=66eca35a2cc05c61&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1020809104833&call_page=TS_Technology&call_pageid=972514077954&call_pagepath=Business/Technology&col=972514078019>
Burney's difficult work over, impossible work about to begin.

Sun Drives Java Beyond Handsets (Michael Singer, Internet.com)
<http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1469671>
Sun hopes to expand its cross platform computer language into new realms such as PDAs, automobile telematics and game consoles.

SMC Networks Offers Dual-Band 802.11a, b Adapter (RCR Wireless News)
<http://www.rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=5095>

Internet Films Venture Draws Fire (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Video-Lawsuit.html>
A joint venture by five movie studios to distribute their films over the Internet has been accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to put a competitor out of business.

Online Fans Start To Pay The Piper (Neil Strauss, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/arts/music/25DOWN.html>
These fans once scoffed at the attempts by the record industry and others to create such subscription services, in which users pay monthly fees for access to large online music libraries. Now they are joining them.

Start-Up Banks On Hack-Proof Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959319.html>
Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system.

HP -- The Switzerland For Servers? (Steve Anglin, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2050>
Is HP becoming the Switzerland for server software and middleware solutions?

Web Services With AppleScript And Perl (Rnadal L. Schwartz and Apple Developer Connection, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/09/24/applescript_perl.html>
You can't create a SOAP web service with AppleScript, but you can have it act as a SOAP web client and use Perl to create the service.

Mozilla Browser Gets Some Bite (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959310.html>
The Mozilla development project introduced a new, swifter Web browser, called Phoenix, to smooth over some of the speed bumps of its previous navigation tool.

Top Five Open Source Packages For System Administrators (&Aelig;leen Frisch, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/09/24/essentialsysadmin.html>
Amanda is a network-based enterprise backup utility that includes features previously available only in expensive commercial packages.

Roll Your Own Browser (Brian King, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2002/09/24/mozilla_custom.html>
The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the concept of customizing, or creating, your own browser using the wonderful toolkit that is Mozilla.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Roaring Nineties (Joseph Stiglitz, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/10/stiglitz.htm>
As the chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, and subsequently as the chief economist of the World Bank during the East Asian financial crisis, Joseph Sitglitz was deeply involved in many of the economic-policy debates of the past ten years. What did this experience tell him? That much of what we think we know about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Here is a revised history of the decade, by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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TV Ads Show Generation Y's Anti-PC Attitude (Michael Walker, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/fashion/22ADS.html?ex=1033617600&en=14a5a929941b5da8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
Television ads are increasingly seen as a way to reach under-25 viewers for whom television is merely another spoke in a personal media hub.

Naples, By Pizza Possessed (Daniel Williams, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59527-2002Sep24.html>
The pizza has soul here, and you can't alter soul.

Tips Past The Tipping Point (Florence Fabricant, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/dining/25TIPS.html>
Handy tip charts showing up lately on restaurant credit card receipts all over the country do more than spare you the math.

Online Fans Start To Pay The Piper (Neil Strauss, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/arts/music/25DOWN.html>
These fans once scoffed at the attempts by the record industry and others to create such subscription services, in which users pay monthly fees for access to large online music libraries. Now they are joining them.

Despite Starbucks Jitters, Most Coffeehouses Thrive (Kevin Helliker and Shirley Leung, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB103281584070907553,00.html>
The battle between independent coffeehouses and Starbucks may be one of the most hostile -- and most misunderstood -- rivalries in retailing.

Michel Houellebecq: Drunken Racist Or One Of The Great Writers? The Jury Is Out (John Lichfield, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=335138>
Prophet; pornographer; fascist; racist; trouble-maker; drunk; nihilist; moralist; self-publicist; misogynist; martyr to freedom of speech; one of the greatest living writers. Which is the real Michel Houellebecq?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Piazza Pilo (Rosanna Warren, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2071344&device=>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Time To Level Political Playing Field (Chandra Mohan Nair, Lam Peng Er, Harish Pillay, Roundtable, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,1870,145178,00.html?>
We should consider seriously setting up an independent electoral commission.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Clash At Case (Kirst Boo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,145216,00.html?>
Disagreements lead to resignation of 13 members of consumer watchdog.

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