[MyAppleMenu] Apr 20, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Apr 20, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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NeXT Still Stands Out In Its Mac Incarnation (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5676137.htm>
Software developers loved what they could create with the NeXT platform. And for many, OS X has meant a phoenix-like rebirth.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Beware Extended Warranty Hard Sell (Jenny Callison, The Cincinnati Enquirer)
<http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/04/20/biz_fineprint20.html>
The expense may not be warranted.

CEOs' Options Keep Them Flush (Todd Wallack, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/20/BU75842.DTL&type=business>
Apple's stock plummeted 79 percent over the past three years, sending many workers' options undersater. But don't cry for co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Steven Jobs.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Dead Again: How Does An Irrelevant, Struggling Company Keep Delivering New Technology? (Tom yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/16curve_1.html>
If Apple is dead, it?s the most productive corpse I?ve ever seen.

Why So Many Bugs? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/04/177.htm#bugs>
As Apple looks to how things might go better in Panther, one issue would be reliability. A Mac user should feel comfortable that an upgrade installation or an incremental update could be installed with near absolute success.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Cleaner 6: Video Compression King Is A Must-Have App For Serious Videographers (Zack Stern, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=94>
Casual users won't get as much out of Cleaner as they invest in its cost and learning curve and they should be fine compressing a Web-ready video in programs like iMovie. However, advanced users, moonlighters and video pros will have complete control over all aspects of compression for online, CD, DVD and other formats.

Mac OS X Unix Package Management (Jason Deraleau, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3076>
With tools like Fink and DarwinPorts, installing these Unix utilities is easier than ever (especially when you look at the GUI management tools that are being developed for both projects).

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Why TiVo Owners Can't Shut Up (Warren St. John, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/fashion/20TIVO.html>
Not since the PalmPilot debuted in 1996 has a new electronic contraption sparked a cultlike following and so many zealous proselytizers.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Novell's CEO Issues An Apology For 'Immature' Linux Comment (Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,80475,00.html>
In a posting on the Linux Weekly News Web site, Messman said he regretted some of his remarks.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Wielding A Big Stick, Carefully, Against SARS (Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/health/20QUAR.html>
According to experts in the history and law of quarantine, the most draconian laws are seldom needed because frightened citizens usually cooperate.

Was Einstein Wrong? (Paul Davies, Prospect Magazine)
<http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=11889>
The idea of a variable speed of light, championed by an angry young scientist, could one day topple Einstein's theory of relativity.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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When Skies Were Friendlier, They Were Its Caretakers (Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-spano20apr20,1,1956720.column?coll=la%2Dtravel%2Dheadlines>
Before the threat of terrorism, air rage, flights without meal service and bankrupt airlines, boarding a plane was almost as exciting as getting wherever you were going.

The Internet: A Novel Approach (Danielle Crittenden, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-bk-crittenden20apr20,1,3406854.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
As a writer, I've often wondered what it would have been like to live during the Great Age of the Novel.

America's Maul (Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/knight/cl-ca-knight20apr20.story>
The sublime emptiness of Washington's National Mall stands for nothing less than democracy. If the nation's politicians won't protect it, the public must.

Care For A Drink Before Your Meal? Sure, But Hold The Meal (William L. Hamilton, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/fashion/20BARS.html>
Underscored by the economic moment, which is bad, meeting for drinks has produced a new version of the old night out ? not the prelude to the evening, but the main event.

Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch (Frank Rich, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/arts/20RICH.html>
Throughout the war, Jon Stewart has turned his parodistic TV news show into a cultural force significantly larger than any mere satire of media idiocies.

Back At Work, Iraqis Discover Offices In Chaos (Ian Fisher, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/worldspecial/20IRAQ.html>
Thousands of public employees reported for duty at the start of the workweek today, yearning for normalcy but finding in the debris of their charred and looted offices few clues of how to begin.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market Closed For 10 Days, Quarantine For Workers (Lee Foong Ming, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/37929/1/.html>
The Health Ministry has imposed a 10-day quarantine on all those who have worked or conducted businesses at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market between April 5 to 19.

SARS, The Lonely Disease (Andrew Brown, CNN)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/19/singapore.sars/>
SARS patients in Singapore who have been sent to an intensive care ward are not just sick -- they are also very lonely.

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