[MyAppleMenu] Apr 15, 2003

Tue Apr 15 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple: AirPort Wireless Will Take Off (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1039-996921.html?type=pt&part=marketwatch-cnet&tag=feed&subj=news>
Overall, retail demand for 802.11g gear is robust. More than 20 percent of wireless networking gear sold at retail in March was 802.11g, up from 5 percent in March, according to NPDTechworld.

Apple Announces Over 150,000 AirPort Extreme Products Sold (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P901_0_1_0>
Apple today announced in a press release that more than 150,000 AirPort Extreme wireless networking products have been sold this past quarter, representing nearly half of all 802.11 products the company shipped during the quarter.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Interview With Jordan Hubbard Of Apple And OpenDarwin (Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3289>

Beige G3s Get 1GHz G4 Boost (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/15/sonnet/>
Sonnet Technologies has announced a 1.0GHz G4 version of its Encore/ZIF product, a processor upgrade aimed at beige Power Mac G3 models.

iCommune Resurfaces; Music-Sharing For iTunes (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/15/icommune/>
With iCommune installed, you and other users can share each other's iTunes libraries. iCommune music collections appear as iTunes playlists. You can browse through them, stream or download the music those playlists contain.

Apple Gets Bruised In Arab-Israel Fight (Paul Tharp, New York Post)
<http://nypost.com/business/73445.htm>
The problem came up yesterday when reports surfaced in the Middle East that Apple is purging Israeli-made components and parts from its computers sold to the Arab world.

Wacom Releases 10.2 Software Updates (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6217>

Mac-Only Comic Thinks PC's A Hott (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,58477,00.html>
Scott Bruce, a stand-up veteran who has performed at venues all over the country, is an unabashed Apple advocate who gently berates Mac-hostile audiences with his partisan brand of humor.

MySQL Plugs Open Source Database At Show (James Niccolai, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/14/HNmysql_1.html>
MySQLthrew its first-ever user conference last week in San Jose, California, promoting its open source database as a viable, more affordable alternative to products from Oracle, IBM and the other top database vendors.

Opera Scales Up To 7.1, Vows Mac Version (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-996793.html>
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, on Monday said Opera had decided to stick with the Mac after all, citing new ease of development for multiple platforms with the company's rewritten browser code base, and what he called market demand for the Mac product.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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TidBITS Turns 13: Setting Goals (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-676.html#lnk3>
You're a good lot, and it's a pleasure and an honor to write for you each week.

Will Apple's Rip-Mix-Burn Tune Change? (Jason Brooks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1024080,00.asp>
I'm holding out hope, then, that Apple realizes all of this, pulls the trigger on the Universal Music purchase, and brings music distribution into the Internet age by injecting some much-needed liberalism into the mix.

Apple Needs To Reclaim Its Education Heritage (John Ward, Vectronic's Apple World)
<http://homepage.mac.com/vectronic/2003/opinion/0414.html>
I cannot see how Apple will hold onto their shrinking education customer base if they do not get back to the fundamentals.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Searching For A Better Video Editor (Bangkok Post)
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/16Apr2003_datacol62.html>
Apple has come up with a winning solution in Final Cut Express, which is neatly streamlined for use with consumer and pro-sumer DV video cameras.

SLIMP3: MP3, Get Thee To The Hi-Fi (Andrew Laurence, TidBITS)
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-676.html#lnk4>
The SLIMP3 player is a neat little device and a great way to bring the computer's MP3s to the home stereo.

The Browser Wars: Safari Update Sparkles (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#charm>
New Safari beta, though bearing that designation, is actually the fourth version released publicly by Apple--and I won't count those reports of leaked betas--and it shows plenty of progress.

ArchiCAD 8: State-Of-The-Art CAD Doesn't Skimp On Details Pros Need (Greg Miller, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/04/reviews/archicad8/>
Make no mistake, ArchiCAD 8 -- the latest version of Graphisoft's architectural CAD program -- is for professionals only. Expensive and relatively difficult to master, ArchiCAD is just not designed for the hobbyist.

Formac Studio DV/TV: Personal Video-Capture Device Records And Plays Television In High-Quality Digital Format (Jonathan Seff, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/04/reviews/formacstudiodvtv/>
If you want to watch TV in large format or record it for DVD, this device is a good choice. If you don't need to capture such a large picture -- and don't need to convert old analog tapes to DV format -- consider the EyeTV.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Judge Rejects Class-Action In MS Suits (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-996838.html>
A federal judge on Monday rejected class-action status for more than 60 consumer lawsuits pending against Microsoft, but allowed a more limited lawsuit alleging overpricing to proceed.

Victor: Software Empire Pays High Price (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1032-995681.html>
"Now you're back to doing everything the way it was pre-Netscape, where everything goes back to Redmond."

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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EMail Is A Big Factor In Recovery (Joe Sharkey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/business/15ROAD.html>
Airlines, hotels and other travel suppliers have discovered something remarkable about frequent travelers, who tend to be people who are also high users of the Internet (and subscribers to broadband Internet services). We actually want to get e-mail messages from these companies.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Mozilla's Phoenix, Minotaur Get New Names (Ryan Naraine, InternetNews.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2190891>
The Phoenix browser, launched last September to strip away browser bloat will now be known as 'Firebird' and the Minotaur mail client will adopt the 'Thunderbird' moniker, the open-source group said.

20,000 Nodes Or Bust! (Lucas Graves, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/cometa.html>
Everybody talks about the Wi-Fi future. Cometa CEO Larry Brilliant is building it - with some help from three little outfits called IBM, Intel, and AT&T.

It's Another Bug, Confirms Google (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30248.html>
We're shocked! Shocked!

Computer Mag Advice Can Kill! (Drew Cullen, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30249.html>
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today expressed concern about advice given in some computer magazines to home computer owners on how to install electrostatic sensitive components in computers.

Lotus Takes Open Tack (Dennis Callaghan, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1022190,00.asp>
IBM's Lotus Software division, under the direction of its newest general manager, is moving to open up its platforms in an effort to make the company's collaboration technologies more attractive to developers who rely on open Internet standards.

MySQL Plugs Open Source Database At Show (James Niccolai, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/14/HNmysql_1.html>
MySQLthrew its first-ever user conference last week in San Jose, California, promoting its open source database as a viable, more affordable alternative to products from Oracle, IBM and the other top database vendors.

Economist: Tougher Times For Techies (Ed Frauenheim, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-996666.html>
Jared Bernstein, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, concludes that inflation-adjusted wages for professional and technical workers have fallen and that unemployment for mathematicians and computer scientists has risen to its highest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting that data in 1982.

IBM Takes Simple Aim At Office (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-996738.html>
IBM is preparing a slimmed-down alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office suite with a set of applications that run on corporate Web servers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Democrats In A Dilemma (Harold Meyerson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26665-2003Apr14.html>
The campaign for president is still taking shape, but divisions in the Democratic ranks over the war have already made 2004 look a little like the Democrats' nightmare year of 1968.

Lawsuits By AOL Escalate Fight Against Junk E-Mail (Jonathan Krim, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26420-2003Apr14.html>
America Online Inc. has launched an intensified legal assault on junk e-mail by filing five lawsuits against more than a dozen individuals and companies accused of being major purveyors of "spam."

Behind Our Backs (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15KRUG.html>
As long as the nation is at war, then, it will be hard to get the public to notice what the flagwavers are doing behind our backs. And it just so happens that the "Bush doctrine," which calls for preventive war against countries that may someday pose a threat, offers the possibility of a series of wars against nasty regimes with weak armies.

Free To Do Bad Things (Brian Whitaker, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/dailybriefing/story/0,12965,935381,00.html>
War leaders are trying to damp down bad news coming out of post-invasion Iraq.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Celebrated Math Problem Solved, Russian Reports (Sara Robinson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/science/15MATH.html>
A Russian mathematician is reporting that he has proved the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics.

Nobody Shakes Hands Any More (Damian Whitworth, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-646388,00.html>
What is it like living with the daily fear of contracting Sars? As secondary school children in Singapore return to classes, our correspondent discovers that the virus is still affecting every facet of life there.

Food For Thought (Sanjida O'Connell, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=394807>
Our response to the taste and smell of food has far less to do with the basic building blocks of taste -– bitter, sour, sweet and salt -– and rather more to do with what is happening inside our heads.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Nightly News Feels Pinch Of 24-Hour News (Bill Carter, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/business/media/14TUBE.html>
With the most televised war in history winding down, executives at TV news organizations are noticing one startling detail in how Americans are watching the coverage: viewers are increasingly tuning out the broadcast networks' evening newscasts.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Tourist Arrivals To Singapore Plunge 56% In Early April (Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/37543/1/.html>
Tourist arrivals to Singapore dropped by about 78,000, or a staggering 56 percent, in early April from a year ago due to the SARS outbreak and the war in Iraq.

Nobody Shakes Hands Any More (Damian Whitworth, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-646388,00.html>
What is it like living with the daily fear of contracting Sars? As secondary school children in Singapore return to classes, our correspondent discovers that the virus is still affecting every facet of life there.

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