[MyAppleMenu] Apr 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Apr 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.5 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/10/macosx/>
As expected, Apple on Thursday released an update for Mac OS X, bringing the current version to 10.2.5. The update is also available through the Software Update control panel.

Apple Offers Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update CD (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/10/updatecd/>
Apple on Thursday added a new product to its online store for customers running Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar: The Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update CD.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Parts Ways With Some Resellers (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-996366.html>
A number of Apple Computer's resellers are no longer authorized to sell Macs as of April 1, following a shake-up that occurred during the company's annual renewal process.

Final Cut Pro 4 Wins NAB Best Of Show Awards (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/10/nab>
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the advancement of the art and science of video technology.

Corel: Painter 8 Due In May, Procreate Brand Nixed (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/10/painter/>
Corel Painter 8 will be released by Corel Corp. in early May. The next version of the application that offers advanced natural-media painting and image editing capabilities will offer new mixing, brush, and sketching features, as well as a tweaked interface.

Merrill Lynch Bearish On Apple; Recommends Intel Switch (Brad Gibson, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/stockwatch/2003/04/10.1.shtml>
Saying Apple's primary markets will continue to be weak for some time to come, investment firm Merrill Lynch is telling its customers Apple stock is too expensive and they should continue to stay away from owning it.

Free Games .Mac Deal (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6199>
Apple is offering another deal for .Mac members -- eight free Freeverse board games, plus a discount on Freeverse's 3D Hearts and 3D Spades games.

Desktops Add Biometrics To Their Lineup (Vandana Sinha, Government Computer News)
<http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21687-1.html>
Seeing a demand from federal agencies, PC makers said they are increasingly launching new desktops that boast of biometric authentication, either embedded in the hardware or added as a separate scanner. 

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple + Intel (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/03/04/10/index.html>
I'm not ready to predict that this will (or won't) happen, but I will say that for the first time I find the idea truly intriguing and if Apple did indeed release a dual-platform Mac I'd be buying one.

The Browser Wars: First Safari, Now OmniWeb (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#browsers>
So what does WebCore mean for OmniWeb?

Apple Service Price Structure... And The 4589 USD Plastic Clip (Charles Siegel, New Mobile Computing)
<http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/story.php?news_id=3061>
If you break anything on your iBook, and it's not under warranty it will cost you a minimum of $459.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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How To Hook Up (Paul Boutin, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/network.html>
A step-by-step guide to building your own network.

Virtual PC, Airport Extreme And The 17" PowerBook Workaround (O'Grady's PowerPage)
<http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=10862>

Sherlock Or Watson? It's Elementary (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac041003,0,5355762.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
If you like Sherlock, you'll love Watson.

PrintReady: Online Alternative To Preflighting Falls Short (Sandee Cohen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/04/reviews/printready/>
Some people can benefit from PrintReady, but most should either choose more-versatile preflighting software that resides on their desktops or wait until the service supports more applications and file formats.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Flaw Leaves Windows Open To Java Attack (Matthew Broersma, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996317.html>
Microsoft has warned of three flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a PC using Java applets.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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It Adds Up (And Up, And Up) (Rob Fixmer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/circuits/10cost.html>
All that cheap computing power embedded in scores of new gadgets and married to communications networks has resulted in a growing number of subscription services that most consumers cannot resist - and continuing charges that they cannot escape.

Google Turns News 'Bug' Into Payola Feature (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30178.html>
Curiously this falls under the description of "Business Development", not "Editorial". 

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Desktops Add Biometrics To Their Lineup (Vandana Sinha, Government Computer News)
<http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21687-1.html>
Seeing a demand from federal agencies, PC makers said they are increasingly launching new desktops that boast of biometric authentication, either embedded in the hardware or added as a separate scanner. 

Penguins Are Human Too (Matthew Langham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3034>
I would like to just add a few observations made over the past couple of years when it comes to companies getting involved in open source communities (and also forming their own).

Wi-Fi Weakest Link (Pyramid Research)
<http://www.pyramidresearch.com/info/wifi/gw030409.asp>
Wi-Fi is a location-based network; you can't have a network without the location. Locations, acting alone or in concert, will come to realize that they are worth a lot more than 20%.

Yahoo's Good News: Profits Up (Joanna Glasner, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58408,00.html>
The Sunnyvale, California, company attributed its strong showing to growing sales of subscription services, sponsored search and high-speed Internet access provided through a partnership with SBC Communications.

IBM To Play Up Linux At Developer Show (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1009634,00.asp>
At developerWorksLive, which kicks off Wednesday in New Orleans, IBM will highlight developer successes on the Linux platform and also deliver a new Linux-based solution for small and medium-size businesses. The company also plans to announce several new initiatives with the IBM-sponsored Eclipse open-source Java-based application development platform.

Linux PDA To Launch GPS Navigation (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-996171.html>
Sharp is to offer a mapping service for its Linux-based handhelds, integrating GPS data from an add-on card.

Microsot Plays Up PC-Phone Union (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-996189.html>
A Microsoft executive Wednesday detailed the software giant's vision of PCs and Internet-based phones working hand in hand as part of an overarching strategy to power real-time communications in the workplace.

Google Filter Blocks Innocuous Sites (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-996259.html>
Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, which was designed to filter adult Web sites, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Toppled (Fred Kaplan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081309/>
National styles of pulling down statues.

Spoils Of War (Bob Herbert, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10HERB.html>
The war against Iraq has become one of the clearest examples ever of the influence of the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned against so eloquently in his farewell address in 1961.

Embeds From Smaller Papers Take Different Approach (Rafe Bartholomew, Editor And Publisher)
<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1860269>
Embeds from smaller papers have delivered up-close looks at the lives of soldiers to the people who need them most -- their families.

The Last Refuge (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08KRUG.html>
For years to come, then, this country may be, in some sense, at war. And all that time, if Mr. Racicot and his party are allowed to set the ground rules, nobody will be allowed to criticize the president or call for his electoral defeat. You know what? If that happens, we will have lost the war, whatever happens on the battlefield.

The True Clash Of Civilizations (Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, Foreign Policy)
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=13562>
The cultural fault line that divides the West and the Muslim world is not about democracy but sex. According to a new survey, Muslims and their Western counterparts want democracy, yet they are worlds apart when it comes to attitudes toward divorce, abortion, gender equality, and gay rights–which may not bode well for democracy’s future in the Middle East.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Sharing Advice, And Pills, For Woes Of Jet Lag (Susan Stellin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/business/08PILL.html>
It is not surprising that for tips on combatting two of the most maddening afflictions of business travel, insomnia and jet lag, business travelers turn to other business travelers.

Uncompromising In Poetry Since A First Example At 16 (Dinitia Smith, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/books/09MULD.html>
Paul Muldoon, the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, says he writes difficult poetry for a difficult age.

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