[MyAppleMenu] Apr 29, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Brings Good Karma To Online Music (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/29/online_music.html>
After one night of testing, I have to say that I do believe that Apple has brought good karma to online music.

Apple Stores To Host 'Live On Stage' Event For iPods Friday (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/29/applestoreevent>
Apple will be holding a special "Live On Stage" event at Apple Stores nationwide this Friday, May 2 to unveil the new iPods to the public.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Belkin Launches Line Of Accessories For New iPods (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/29/belkin>

Palm Desktop 4.1 Adds 'Send To Handheld Droplet' (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/29/palm/>
The new version adds a "Send to Handheld Droplet" that enables users to more easily transfer image and audio files to the Palm PDA or to an expansion card.

CNN Talks To Steve Jobs About iTunes (Miles O'Brien, CNN)
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/industry/04/29/jobs.interview/index.html>
"[We are] making the best music store in the world, and making the most popular and best MP3 player in the world."

Apple Sticks With Akamai (Internet.com)
<http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/2198031>
Apple's choice to stay with Akamai, especially given its high-stakes iTunes launch, is a vote of confidence.

AAPL Rises 4% In Wake Of Music Store Anouncement (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2061>

Vivendi 'To Keep Universal' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6265>
Vivendi Universal appears likely to keep its Universal Music assets, according to a Reuters report yesterday.

Apple's Music: Evolution, Not Revolution (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998675.html?tag=cd_mh>
For all the glitz surrounding the unveiling Monday of Apple Computer's new music service, a quick look suggests that it's a solid, but hardly revolutionary, addition to the market.

Apple, Analysts On The New Music Service (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/28/appleanalysts/>
How was Apple able to get support from the record companies, the RIAA and, judging from the reaction of many users to the announcement today, the buying public? IDC analyst Roger Kay summed it up in two words: Steve Jobs.

Apple Releases iPod AppleScripts (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/28/ipodapplescripts/>
Apple on Tuesday released several new AppleScripts designed for the newly introduced iPod MP3 player. In addition to the music service, the iPod now supports the reading and storage of text-based notes.

Creative Introduces New Speaker Systems To Match iPod (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/28/creative>
Creative Technology today introduced two new white speaker systems designed to look and sound great with Apple's iPod.

Apple Launches Dream On Promotion (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/28/dreamon/>
Dubbed "Dream On," the promotion gives interested users a savings of $500 when purchasing any Mac and Macromedia Studio MX by July 31, 2003.

REALbasic Update Improves Performance (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/28/realbasic/>
Version 5.1 adds enhancements "that improve product reliability and performance," according to Real Software.

Apple Music Ads Posted Online (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/28/ads/>
The ads take a style cue from Apple's Switch advertising campaign: A stark white background showing regular-looking folks singing along with their favorite songs on iPods.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Sweats The Details (David Morgenstern, StorageSupersite)
<http://storage.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,1047634,00.asp>
The emphasis on quality for audio playback, online content and the purchase experience should also differentiate Apple's site from its competition.

Can The iTunes Music Store Reverse Apple's Eroding Market Share? (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/04/20030429115715.shtml>

Ten Ways Apple Could Do Music Better (Michael Tuminello, TheMacMind)
<http://www.themacmind.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=169&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>

Breaking The Digital Music Logjam (Forrester Research)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1122-998707.html>
The iTunes Music Store will raise the bar for digital music under Windows and change the industry, but it won't get Apple out of its 5 percent ghetto in the PC business--at least, not until Steve Jobs' next innovation comes along.

4 Reasons Why The Apple Music Service Will Make It Big (Mac OS Planet.com)
<http://www.macosplanet.com/newsmanager1/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=103>
Apple clearly thought out the online music service concept and covered all the bases necessary to make it in the tough industry of online music.

Is The iTunes Music Store Really Music To Our Ears? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#ears>
Will the iTunes Music Store end up as just another cool idea that just didn't catch on, or will it transform the music industry? A lot of fingers are being crossed on this one, that's for sure.

Apple Leaks Confidential Information To Discredit Customer (John Manzione, MacNETv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=330_0_1_0_M>

Better Distribution Of Mac OS X Software (Dan Frakes, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07167>
You put a lot of work into your software, so don't undermine it by making unnecessary mistakes when distributing it to the world.

What Apple Finally Delivered (Dana Blankenhorn, Moore's Lore)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20030401.shtml#31889>
The announcement today of the iTunes Music Store is pure Jobs. It's proprietary, it's overpriced and everyone is going gaga for it.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Master Of Orion III (Michael Phillips, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=370>
The gameplay is so addictive, I often found myself saying, "Okay, just one more turn", 267 times in a row. This game is immersive, richly detailed and full of strategy. Furthermore, multiplayer support is quite fun when friends are involved.

Apple's Stealth iBook Upgrades (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/04/29/index.html>
Any of the iBooks offers excellent value for the money, although as noted, go for the top-of-the-line 14-incher and get a useful amount of RAM.

Apple's New iPods (Eliot Van Buskirk, ZDNet)
<http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/review/18/1/3937.html>
Apple's existing iPods are already cool, but the new models look even cooler.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsof'ts Power Play (Robert McMillan, Linux Magazine)
<http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2003-01&article=palladium>
Will Trusted Computing mean the end of the PC as we know it?

Microsoft Makes Strides On New Windows (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-998598.html>
The operating system, code-named Longhorn, is expected to debut late next year or early in 2005. But analysts who examined the latest test release, dubbed "Milestone 5," which leaked onto the Web last week, said Microsoft appears to be slightly ahead of schedule.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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PGP Creator Sees Threat In Moore's Law (Matt Loney, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009-998728.html>
Moore's law is the biggest threat to privacy today, asserts Phil Zimmermann, who in the early 1990s developed Pretty Good Privacy to bring encryption to the masses.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Why Blogs Haven't Stormed The Business World (Tieman Ray, EcommerceTimes.com)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21389.html>
Blog tools have made amateur publishing easy, but fundamental infrastructure is needed to make it all portable.

Web Sites Shut Down In Spam Fight (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/technology/29SPAM.html>
Scores of Web sites were taken off the Internet over the weekend because of new pressures on a commercial Internet service provider to stop unwanted marketing e-mail, or spam, and the companies that use it.

Unifinished Business: The One Missing Piece (David HM Spector, O'Reilly Network)
<http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/04/28/enterprise.html>
With all of the incredible strides that Linux has made from the smallest embedded devices to the some of the largest supercomputers ever made, there is one piece of its complete adoption in the enterprise that's still missing--a not so little piece still to be done: integration and interoperability with Active Directory.

Web Ads Proving Flashier (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024-998574.html>
More than a quarter of all ads that Web surfers see are designed to play video, audio or animations--what's known as rich media--and that figure could grow to 40 percent by the end of 2003, according to new data.

Siebel, BEA Team Up On Web Standards (Alorie Gilbert, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-998589.html>
Siebel Systems and BEA Systems are investing more than $1 million in a joint effort to develop and market e-business standards, the two software companies said Monday.

Microsoft's Plug-And-Play Biometrics (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009-998666.html>
AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint-recognition sensors, announced on Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate software support for biometrics into the Windows operating system.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Realizing The U.N.'s Promise (Mike Moore, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50259-2003Apr28.html>
No nation, mighty or modest, can combat terrorism, manage a tax system, provide clean air, fight the drug war and prevent AIDS without the cooperation of others.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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'Am I Happy? I Work On It Every Day' (Andrew Billen, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-662240,00.html>
After experiencing divorce, her child's death and a lifelong search for a soulmate, Annie Lennox is finally coming to terms with being alone.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Wholesale Centre Shut For Another Five Days (Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,185958,00.html?>
The quarantine period for wholesalers and workers from the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre is being extended by five days to ensure that none return to work with Sars.

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