[MyAppleMenu] Apr 30, 2003

Wed Apr 30 21:05:01 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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American Icons: The iPod (Rolling Stone)
<http://www.rollingstone.com/features/coverstory/featuregen.asp?pid=1628>
In two years, it has changed how we listen to music.

Apple's Music: Microsoft's Sour Note? (Joe Wilcox and Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998880.html?tag=cd_mh>
Apple Computer's new music service could help shift the battle to control digital media away from Microsoft's proprietary file formats, according to analysts.

Apple Seeking Coder To Port iTunes To Windows (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30466.html>
According to the Mac maker's employment opportunities site, the company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer. His or her key responsibility: "Design and build Apple's newest Consumer Application, iTunes for Windows."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Dr. Bott Offers AMP Interface For iPod (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/30/amp/>

Wi-Fi Security Gets A Boost (Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039-998779.html>
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the certification of products using the latest security specification, as it works to allay concerns about wirelessly transmitting data over networks.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The 10-10-220 Of File-Sharing (Paul Boutin, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2082157/>
A few record execs must have wandered into Steve Jobs' reality distortion field.

Steve Jobs, Pied Piper Of Online Music (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc20030430_9569_tc056.htm>
I think Jobs's maneuver will go down in history as the final straw that broke the back of the old music-distribution system -- and the industry's pyramid hierarchy that gives big stars big treatment and gives nearly everyone else squat.

iTunes Music Store (Todd Dominey, What Do I Know)
<http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/000915.php>
Quite possibly the best part is what you don't see -- the pop-up ads, annoying news feeds, or other "push" data.

I Have Seen The Future Of Music And Its Name Is iTunes (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/29/itunes/>
Apple's new online music-buying system is everything Napster promised to be -- cheap, easy and, best of all, legal.

Steve Jobs Blesses DRM, And Nothing Happens (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30458.html>
Today, the bugnotes begin to appear.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Expression 3: Illustration Program Combines Vectors, Rasters, And Something That Has Been Missing -- Fun (Andrew Shalat, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/05/reviews/expression3/>
Expression 3 might just be the illustration world's best-kept secret. If you're an illustrator, a graphic designer looking for an interesting type effect, or a fine artist working on a computer, this program is for you.

Neat Stuff In iTunes 4 Files (Chris Adamson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3130>
Very cool. So how does it work? What follows is some stuff that might be handy for devloping helper apps, or just poking around.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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For Windows, Less Fat Means Fewer Bugs (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc20030429_6540_tc047.htm>
With Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is promising greater security. However, its 50 million lines of code mean it'll never be secure enough.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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What's 64-Bit Computing To Linux? (Richard Seibt, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-998918.html>
These two trends--commodity 64-bit architectures and Linux--are intersecting.

Spam Sent By Fraud Is Made A Felony Under Virginia Law (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/technology/30SPAM.html>
In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Virginia enacted a law yesterday imposing harsh felony penalties for sending such messages to computer users through deceptive means.

What's In A Name (Tag)? (Paul Eng, ABC News)
<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/FutureTech/smartbadges030429.html>
Smart badge shows personal info to stir social discourse.

Licensed To War Drive In N.H. (Brian McWilliams, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58651,00.html>
The state, known for its Live Free or Die motto, could become the first in the United States to provide legal protection for people who tap into insecure wireless networks.

Six Technologies That Will Change The World (David Pescovitz, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,49104,00.html>
Imagine robots that can read your mood and ink-jet printers that can crank out transplantable hearts. The visionaries you are about to meet have not only imagined these things -- they're hard at work building them.

SuSE Rolls Out Carrier-Grade Linux (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1047502,00.asp>
 As the Linux operating system continues to break new ground and win new customers, SuSE Linux A.G. will on Tuesday announce the availability of a Carrier-Grade Linux (CGL) edition of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, while IBM will open a new Linux competency center in London that is focused on the British financial community.

Mobile Promos Drop Off McDonald's Menu (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039-998830.html>
McDonald's has pulled the plug on a pioneering marketing push based on text messaging, but the move doesn't bode ill for such campaigns, say analysts.

Wi-Fi Security Gets A Boost (Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039-998779.html>
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the certification of products using the latest security specification, as it works to allay concerns about wirelessly transmitting data over networks.

This Just In: Spammers Fib (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1029-998750.html>
A new Federal Trade Commission study on spam reaches a conclusion that shouldn't surprise anyone with an in-box: Most spammers lie.

'New' Rating Confirms Google's Crown (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024-998845.html>
An audience-measurement business is raising competitors' hackles by claiming its new service provides more accurate data. But the company's conclusion that Google leads the search site pack, with Yahoo close behind, is unlikely to provoke controversy.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Beyond Bush (Jay Walljasper, Utne)
<http://www.utne.com/pub/2003_117/promo/10454-1.html>
Now, before you sigh and throw up your hands, please recall what a different country this was three years ago.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Simple Science Fairs Go The Way Of The Dinosaurs (Sam Dillon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/education/30FAIR.html>
The simple fair of times past, when parents wielding encyclopedias turned the kitchen sink into a makeshift laboratory to help their children, has become a research extravaganza in which students armed with computers, electron microscopes and other powerful instruments explore ever more ambitious terrain.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Got Mustard? An Angeless Pleasure Between The Rye (Ed Levine, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/dining/30PAST.html>
Pastrami is deli food, and deli food is something New Yorkers have argued about ? and loved ? for as long as there have been delis in New York.

How Following The Rules Can Be Disastrous (Julian Champkin, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-663307,00.html>
Noble, yes, but is "women and children first" really such a good idea?

Iraq War 'Souvenir' Stories Reawaken Guilt (DeWayne Wickham, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030429/5110626s.htm>
I long ago lost track of the "mementoes" I brought back. While they clearly had little monetary value and hardly could be thought of as national treasures, it bothers me to think of how readily I accepted items that had been stripped from the bodies of dead soldiers as souvenirs of war. And it worries me to think that, a generation later, so little has changed about the way some journalists view war.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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That And This (Alan Shapiro, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2082107/>

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