[MyAppleMenu] Apr 22, 2003

Tue Apr 22 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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iBook Hit 900MHz (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6237>
Apple this morning improved its iBook, introducing faster processors across its consumer portable line-up.

MyAppleMenu : News
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NPR Responds To "No QuickTime" Decision (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19215>
"Apple and NPR have tried to work out the terms to renew [the] arrangement, but were unable to come to an agreement."

'CREATE' Re-named 'Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo' (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/22/macworld>

OS X Server Tops The Field (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2022>
Network Magazine's editors chose OS X v10.2 Server as the Server OS of the year.

Mac OS X Quietly Adds Smart Card Support (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19206>
Mac OS X quietly adds Smart Card support for Military Use to OS X 10.2.3 and higher with a Federal Smart Card package that supports the Department of Defense Common Access Card to enable login authentication, encrypting and signing of email, and login to protected web sites.

'Check Out Our New Store Design' (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2020>

Software In The Salad Bowl (Charles McDermid, Register-Pajaronian)
<http://www.zwire.com/news/newsstory.cfm?newsid=7782319&title=%3Cp%3ESoftware%20in%20the%20salad%20bowl&BRD=1197&PAG=461&CATNAME=Top%20Stories&CATEGORYID=410>
Since moving to Watsonville in 1991, Aladdin Systems, Inc., producer of award-winning computer products, has become a welcome neighbor in a community better known for its strawberries than its software expedients.

Can Apple Corner Music Market? (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,58568,00.html>
Apple Computer is readying to launch an online service that will cut straight to the core of digital music distribution, winning the praise of some record executives who see it is as a weapon against online piracy.

Liam Lynch: MTV Puppeteer/Screenwriter, Music Videographer And "Fake" Rockstar Uses Macs For "Whatever." (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2003/04/liamlynch/>
"The album is so multimedia and every single part and element was created 100% with Macs."

LaCie To Offer FireWire 800 PCI Cards (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/21/lacie/>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Music Service Is A Huge Risk, Is It Worth It? (John Manzione, MacNetv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=327_0_1_0_M>
Perhaps Apple will unveil a music service that is too good to be true. But I doubt it.

Mac Show Gets Macworld Moniker Back (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30357.html>
You don't change the name of a show as big as Macworld Expo without seriously pondering the strength of the alternatives. But it looks like whoever decided that Create was the way to go got it wrong.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Wi-Fi Antenna Enables Web Surfing By The Pool (Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20030422.htm>
I'm looking forward to wireless freedom this summer. I'm planning to write my columns as I catch some rays by the pool, providing yet another example of why Wi-Fi is so hot.

17-Inch PowerBook G4/1GHz: Big Screen, Big Performance Highlight Apple's Largest Laptop (Rick Lepage, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/04/reviews/17inchpowerbook/>
For people who do not live entirely on planes or who have fairly light travel requirements, the 17-inch PowerBook will be a fine, if slightly oversized, travel companion. It also serves well as a sleek (if expensive) replacement for a desktop Mac.

Wi-Fi Antenna Enables Web Surfing By The Pool (Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<Since moving to town in 1991, this producer of award-winning computer products has become a welcome neighbor in a community better known for its strawberries than its software expedients.>
I'm looking forward to wireless freedom this summer. I'm planning to write my columns as I catch some rays by the pool, providing yet another example of why Wi-Fi is so hot.

Take Note Of NoteTaker (Matt Neuburg, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07157>
NoteTaker is an outliner, a writing tool, a categorizer, a snippet keeper, a presentation tool, a Web site maker. It can organize your thoughts, your files, your life. Its potential seems vast, and everyone will use it differently.

MonacoDCcolor: Color-Profiling Software For Digital Cameras Tries To Solve Color Problems (Bruce Fraser, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/05/reviews/monacodccolor/>
If you're looking for a simple point-and-click solution for camera profiling, keep looking -- you need the knowledge and skill of a professional to get good results from MonacoDCcolor. If you shoot under controlled conditions but spend a lot of time correcting color postcapture, MonacoDCcolor can be a real time-saver.

The Web In A Window (Matt Deatherage, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/05/opinion/thebigpicture/>
A new Watson that's a superset of Sherlock 3 could remain a must-have utility. Otherwise, Sherlock 3 wins. No good code goes unpunished.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Gates Says States' Remedy "Impossible" (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-888110.html?tag=fd_day>
Bill Gates on Monday argued that it would be "impossible" in some cases to comply with a proposed remedy in the nearly 4-year-old antitrust trial. 

Windows Faces New Competition: Itself (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997509.html>
In April 2002, the software maker's chairman, Bill Gates, testified that too many versions of Windows would be bad for consumers and for competition. But since then, Microsoft has essentially doubled--to about two dozen--the number of "current" versions of the operating system software.

Microsoft To Ease Windows License Terms (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997715.html>
Following complaints from some rivals, Microsoft said it would make it cheaper and easier for other software companies to access key pieces of computer code that their server software needs in order to properly function with the Windows operating system.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Internet Is Losing Ground In Battle Against Spam (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/technology/22SPAM.html>
In the cat-and-mouse game of e-mail marketers and those trying to stop them, the spammers are still winning.

Inside Cisco's Eavesdropping Apparatus (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1071-997528.html>
Cisco Systems has created a more efficient and targeted way for police and intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on people whose Internet service provider uses their company's routers.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Is This Tech Rally For Real? (Amey Stone, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc20030422_7804_tc055.htm>
While the sector's stocks are rising smartly, hard evidence of a spending rebound is scarce. Still, sentiment is starting to swing positively.

Microsoft, SuSE, Red Hat TO Weigh In With OS Releases For AMD's Opteron (Paula Rooney, CRN)
<http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8800515>
Microsoft, SuSE Linux and Red Hat Tuesday will launch versions of their respective Windows and Linux operating systems optimized for Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.

Linux Lab Gets New CEO, New Direction (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-997696.html>
The Open Source Development Lab, a programming center devoted to bringing high-end features to Linux, announced a new chief executive and an expanded partnership plan Monday.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Reconstruction Time Again (David Mehegan, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/111/living/Reconstruction_time_again+.shtml>
Amid the shock over the plunder of priceless artworks from Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities, relatively little attention has been paid to the burning last week of Iraq's libraries. While the extent of the loss is not yet fully known, two great libraries, with priceless ancient collections, have been burned, and at least two others looted.

Chinese Whispers (James Gibney, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081765/>
Why has the Bush administration stopped fighting Beijing's human rights abuses?

A Media Empire's Injustices (Richard Cohen, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7962-2003Apr21.html>
Since 1917 the Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to encourage excellence in journalism. I happen to think that more could be accomplished with a prize for the worst in journalism. It should be called the Murdoch.  The first Murdoch would go to Rupert Murdoch himself.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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'Slow Quakes' May Lay Ground Work For Big Ones (Carol Kaesuk Yoon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/science/earth/22QUAK.html>
This spring, as people in the Pacific Northwest have gone about their usual drizzly business, an earthquake has been going on for weeks beneath their feet, unbeknownst to everyone but a very few, very excited scientists.

Emerging Biotech Field Uses Genetics To Predict Drug Reactions (Paul Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/5682016.htm>
Several companies and medical laboratories are developing rapid genetic tests to determine who is likely to respond poorly, or not at all, to standard doses of common medications.

Docs Wrangle Over SARS Death Rate (Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,58552,00.html>
The fatality rate for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has been widely reported as 4 percent. But many experts take issue with the way the CDC is calculating the death rate -- and say that the infection may be much more, or less, deadly.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Not All Parking Garages Are Created Alike (Li Fellers, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-wheel22apr22,1,2255743.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
At the Grove, electronic display boards tell how many spaces are open, two SUVs can use ramps side-by-side and angled parking is extra wide.

Family Man-Hours (Art Buchwald, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8100-2003Apr21.html>
Every time an executive gets fired for screwing up, the corporation puts out a press release that he is leaving because he "wants to spend more time with his family."

The Revolution Will Be Photographed (Katherine Catmull, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/22/fotolog/>
Fotolog combines the community-creation powers of the Internet with the ease of digital photography. The result: Everyone's an artist.

Patience Is A Virtue We Must Relearn (Andrew Billen, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-654625,00.html>
The faster the world gets, the faster we need it to be. The race is between the quick and the dead.

Can Kasparov Be King Of The Castle Again? (Andrew Billen, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-654506,00.html>
The chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was once regarded as invincible. But after defeats by a computer and a woman, he has taken a more measured view. That's not to say that he isn't still competitive or combative.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Why The Lengthy Delay... Minister Asked About Sars At Pasir Panjang (Lee Ching Wern, Today)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/todaynews/view/610/1/.html>
With fears of a cluster of Sars infections at the Pasir Panjang wholesale vegetable market looming, questions being asked are: Has the Government been somewhat slow in taking action?

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