[MyAppleMenu] Saturday, Aug 2, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Aug 2, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Laptops Face More Decisions (Mike Musgrove, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14126-2003Aug2.html>
There are more choices to be made, and more to think about, than ever before when shopping for a laptop.

iTunes And The Technology Beyond MP3 (Phillip D. Long, Syllabus)
<http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7895>
Audio file formats 101.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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iPod What's The Frequency (Dana Blankenhorn, Moore's Lore)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20030801.shtml#47308>
Frequencies are not a set of railroad tracks, but an ocean.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Hydra Multiplies Heads Involved In Text Editing (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001360241_ptmacc02.html>
Hydra is a simple text editor with a twist. Active documents can be shared over a local network using Rendezvous or over the Internet and edited by many people at once, with every contributor seeing everyone's changes, selections and even typing in real time.

The Importance Of Removing "Bad" RAM From Your Mac (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2003080107264938>
One of the most common culprits of general system instability, problems installing or re-installing Mac OS X, and various other issues is defective RAM. Mac OS X 10.2.x in particular has been noted as being "picky" about installed memory.

Europa Universalis II (Chris Barylick, MacGamer)
<http://www.macgamer.com/features/?id=1598>
Europa Universalis II may not be everything Civilization is and need a fair number of bug fixes with its networking architecture, but it remains a fun, attractive, well-designed game.

Geneforge 2 (Kevin Lindeman, MacTeens)
<http://www.macteens.org/reviews_more.php?id=122_0_8_0_M>
It has a great story, is very action oriented and any RPG lover will have great fun with this game.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Guess What? Microsoft Won (Charles Cooper, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5058613.html>
Bill Gates' cyberempire is growing richer all the time.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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End Of The Road For SMTP? (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5058610.html>
The protocol that has defined e-mail for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: It trusts you.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Senator Wants Answers From RIAA (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59862,00.html>
Sen. Norm Coleman is concerned the recording industry is taking an extreme approach in its attempt to quash online file trading and may hurt innocent people in the process.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Less Power, More Influence (Richard H. Pildes, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/opinion/02PILD.html>
Three years into the new century, America continues to struggle over what W. E. B. DuBois famously called the problem of the last century: the problem of the color line.

Hack The Vote (Paul Boutin, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2086455/>
How to stop someone from stealing the 2004 election.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Would You Like Fries With The Endive? (Bill Barol, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2086311/>
Taste-testing fast food salads.

Jury Duty Is One Of The Prices We Pay For Justice (Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-vo-curtis2aug02,1,2393034.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>
Selective Citizens never know when they might need a jury of their peers. And what a pity if none of their kind bothers to show up.

Sunken Treasure Points To Forgery In Gold Collection (Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13437-2003Aug1.html>
A gold bar at the National Museum of American History, long thought to be a sample from the 19th century California Gold Rush, is a fake, according to a well-known geologist.

The Probability That A Real-Estate Agent Is Cheating You (And Other Riddles Of Modern Life) (Stephen J. Dubner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03LEVITT.html>
Steven Levitt tends to see things differently than the average person. Differently, too, than the average economist.

Picturing A New Webster's (Rory Evans, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03CLOSE.html>
The illustrator for the 11th Collegiate Dictionary explains why streetcar, skeleton and skunk made the drawing cut and botox and dot-commer didn't.

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