[MyAppleMenu] Apr 24, 2003

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Thursday, Apr 24, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Updates AppleWorks And AirPort (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/23/appleworksairport/>
Apple on Wednesday updated its productivity suite, AppleWorks, to version 6.2.7 for Mac OS X, 6.2.5 for Mac OS 9 and 6.2.1 for Windows. The company also released a new version their AirPort wireless networking software.

Apple And AMD Working Together, Claims Senior AMD Official (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30372.html>
We'd caution against reading too much into the AMD official's comments. But we think it unwise to rule out the possibility of co-operation between Apple and AMD, particularly at the HyperTransport level.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple CEO Ducks Questions On Music Strategy (Duncan Martell, Reuters)
<http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2624957>
"There have been a lot of rumors in the last few weeks. Many of them are not true and some of them are true."

Microsoft Unveils Special Edition Mice, Keyboards (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/24/microsoft>
Microsoft today introduced four new hardware products in special edition colors of white and black.

Jobs Finds A Taker For San Remo Penthouse (Braden Keil, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/realestate/74160.htm>
Steve Jobs' mega-million-dollar Manhattan apartment has gone to contract.

iFM: Radio For Your iPod (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/04/20030424000224.shtml>

Macca's Stake In Kidney Charity (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6249>
The most valuable G4 PowerBook in the world -- signed by Sir Paul McCartney -- is being auctioned to raise funds for a kidney dialysis ward for children in the North East of England.

MP3 Sales 'Set To Boom' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6250>
Analysts believe that online music services and portable MP3-player sales are poised for massive market growth, according to In-Stat/MDR.

Apple Unveils Data Storage That 'Rocks Around The Clock' (Marie Feliciano, eTaiwanNews.com)
<http://www.etaiwannews.com/Business/2003/04/24/1051146237.htm>
Apple Computer is betting Taiwan's small- and medium-sized enterprises will bite its latest product offering: A device that company cheerleaders say is ideal for storage space-greedy digital content such as video footage, high-resolution images, and large databases.

Getting A Little Help From Your (Mac) Friends (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac042403,0,6732023.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
User groups endure among Apple's faithful but may be overlooked by newcomers.

Inspiring Design (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/uk/creative/trident/>
With over 300 Macs and two Xserves forming the backbone of their workflow —- much of which is automated using AppleScript —- it’s not surprising that leading UK graphics and design house, Trident, took several months to make the transition to Mac OS X, but the company is now reaping the benefits.

Apple Seen As Unlikely To Bite (Olaf de Senerpont, TheDeal.com)
<http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/CS?pagename=CBS&cid=1050941508063>
Shareholders have been cool to the idea since it surfaced in an April 11 Los Angeles Times report.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Says "NO" To Shattered PowerBook Screen - An Update (John Manzione, MacNetv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=329_0_1_0_M>
The joy of owning a new Mac has died; it?s no longer fun to ride the edge of the technology of computing. And when Apple Customer Relations fails to act on behalf of its customers we all lose.

Do You Follow Mac Rumor Sites? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#rumors>
As much as you say you never pay attention to it, we all know you can't help but take a casual glance at the stuff every so often. That's human nature.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Deluxe Board Games (Michael Phillips, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=368>
With a nifty single-player mode, outstanding multiplayer support, stylish graphics and sound effects that won't make one's ears bleed, the replay value in these games is endless. So, head on over to the Freeverse Store and join in the fun!

The Sims Unleashed Extension Pack (Michelle A. Lemire, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=97>
Furry friends and more jam the largest Sims extension yet.

When Size Counts (Gary Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/23/1050777291821.html>
Big Al has a specification sheet that, a couple of years  ago, would have challenged a workstation in a filmmaker's post-production suite,  yet you can slide it into your backpack and still have room for your lunch,  runners and a copy of Shakespeare's sonnets.

17-Inch PowerBook Laptop Is Worthy Of Envy (Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5704769.htm>
Get one and tourists might even ask to pose with you at the Burbank airport.

Extensis PhotoFrame 2.5 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/photoframe25.shtml>
Extensis PhotoFrame not only does a great job of          providing frames for your photos, but if you like to play on          your computer, this program is addictively fun.

Enigmo (Zack Lipowski, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=367>
Unique and visually appealing, Enigmo brings something to the table that everyone can enjoy. If you take one thing away from this review, let it be that Enigmo is fun, no matter how you play it. And that’s the greatest praise I can give to any game.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Windows Calls On The Enterprise (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-998103.html>
Microsoft on Thursday will launch the most ambitious version yet of its Windows server operating system, as the company looks to push aside Unix servers and mainframes in the enterprise.

At Microsoft's Mercy (Kendall Grant Clark, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/23/deviant.html>
Microsoft's decision to offer the really interesting XML bits of the new Office only in its high-end versions is likely not to be as harmful to as many relevant parties as it might first appear, though it does reaffirm the prudential wisdom of assuming the worst about Microsoft and waiting to be pleasantly surprised by the unexpected.

Microsoft CD Copy Protection Advances (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998066.html>
Microsoft dug its roots a little deeper into the music business Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Futurist Fears End Of Innovation (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58601,00.html>
Author Howard Rheingold believes the freedom of technologists to innovate is under attack as never before.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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How To Make Money On The Net (Mark Athitakis, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,48935,00.html>
The second Internet boom is quietly taking shape -- and this one looks like it's going to last. Here's how six innovative businesses learned from the past and have begun to make the Web work for them.

Group Questions State Site-Blocking Law (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1028-997935.html?tag=fd_top>
A civil liberties group is again trying to gain access to a secret list to determine if Pennsylvania's attempt to block access to child-pornography Web sites is affecting innocuous sites.

Corporations Embrace Online Learning (Leslie Walker, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26874-2003Apr23.html>
Innovation in the fledgling field remains so robust that some pundits think electronic learning will eventually be one of the Internet's top uses -- right up there with e-mail.

The News From Home, Sealed With A Click (Seth Kugel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/technology/circuits/24troo.html>
Improvements in wartime communications work only if family members at home have access to an online connection.

Unsyndicate (Jeffrey Zeldman)
<http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0403a.shtml#unsyndicate>
Some sites can afford to be judged by their words alone. Many others can’t, or might prefer not to be.

At Microsoft's Mercy (Kendall Grant Clark, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/23/deviant.html>
Microsoft's decision to offer the really interesting XML bits of the new Office only in its high-end versions is likely not to be as harmful to as many relevant parties as it might first appear, though it does reaffirm the prudential wisdom of assuming the worst about Microsoft and waiting to be pleasantly surprised by the unexpected.

CodeWeavers Brings Office XP To Linux (Patrick Gray, ZDNet Australia)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-998009.html>
Users are now able to run Office XP on Linux, following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.

Start-Up Talks Up New Blog Service (Margaret Kane, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-998034.html>
Six Apart, which sells popular Weblog tool Movable Type, is launching a new hosting service to compete with Google's blogging unit.

Google Snaps Up Applied Semantics (Dawn Kawamoto and Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-998114.html>
Google said Wednesday that it acquired Applied Semantics, a move that aims to bolster its search and online advertising programs but could throw a roadblock in the path of archrival Overture Services.

Web Standard Spat Heads For Showdown (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1013-998035.html>
An industry split over a key Web services specification could come to a head next month, when companies backing the proposal meet to hammer out details.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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City Without Fear (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/opinion/24VAND.html>
Life without cities was not worth living.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Epidemics Of Fear And Mistrust (William Deverell, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-deverell24apr24,1,1690441.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Ugly reactions to a 1924 Los Angeles plague outbreak offer a lesson for fight against SARS.

The End Of Human Nature (David Gelernter, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/play.html?pg=3>
Bill McKibben bravely explains why designer babies are a very bad thing.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Finding Opportunity In Baggage Woes (Joe Sharkey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/business/22BAGS.html>
Promoting themselves essentially as long-haul bellhops —- one, in fact, calls itself Virtual Bellhop —- they show up at your house or office, take your bags and ship them to the hotel or wherever else you will be staying, before you get there.

In Our Democratic Age, Experts Are Scorned As Elitists. But Isn't Knowledge A Useful Thing? (Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/columns.nsf/Sarah+Bryan+Miller/EE1A2E9FC59DF55186256D0C0072361C?OpenDocument&Headline=In+our+democratic+age,+experts+are+scorned+as+elitists.+But+isn't+>
Once you develop a taste for the good stuff, whether in art, music, literature or cognac, it's hard to go back. If giving a damn makes me an "elitist," then so be it.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq (The Onion)
<http://theonion.com/onion3915/new_fox_reality_show.html>
"It is great that Fox will play a vital role in post-war Iraq," Paul Wolfowitz said. "Heck, we didn't really know what we were going to do."

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