[MyAppleMenu] Monday, Aug 4, 2003

Mon Aug 4 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Aug 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Entourage X v10.1.4 Coming Today, With Exchange Support (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/04/entourage/>
With this new update, Entourage vX users will be able to view other Exchange users' free and busy times to schedule meetings. Directory service lookup is supported, and you can synchronize your calendar and address book for offline use, as well. What's more, e-mail received from Outlook for Windows users will look better in this update to Entourage.

Apple Tackles Channel Unrest (Fleur Doidge, iTnews)
<http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=7&Art_ID=12576>
Apple is attempting to soothe the troubled waters of its reseller channel, promising to address the relentless cross-product supply problems besetting the company worldwide.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Microsoft Opens Exchange To Apple Users (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1045_3-5059653.html?type=pt&part=marketwatch-cnet&tag=feed&subj=news>
Microsoft has fulfilled a long-held request of Mac OS X users by allowing them to access corporate e-mail and calendar information stored on a Microsoft Exchange server. 

Apple Seeks To Boost Market Share (Tim Simmers, San Mateo County Times)
<http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11271~1551027,00.html>
Not many merchants could expect the packed house Apple got at the opening of its new new store on Burlingame Avenue.

Drought Of iPods Frustrates Apple Resellers (Sarah Stokely, ARN)
<http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1533461150>
Shoppers wanting to get their hands on the new iPod are turning to internet auction sites like ebay as Apple's Australian stores are dogged by supply problems.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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New Apple Clones (Rob Walker, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2086408/>
They're just knockoffs. It's as if, by borrowing the look and feel of Apple's ads, BuyMusic is explicitly interested in underscoring that its service is a copycat. Why?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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America's Army (Chris Barylick, MacGamer)
<http://www.macgamer.com/features/?id=1599>
Networking issues aside, the game is worth the free download and the time invested in learning it.

Acrobat 6 Professional (Alex Counsell, MacSofa)
<http://www.macsofa.com/more.php?id=59_0_1_0_M>
The ability to run Distiller natively is a must have for all pre-press and print professionals. But even without the need for an OSX native version Adobe have provided a genuinely valuable upgrade to v5.

Dungeon Siege (Chris Seibold, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/seibold/dungeon_8.4.03.shtml>

Windows iPod Fares Well Versus Competitors (Gannett News Service)
<http://www.theadvertiser.com/business/html/8C888A86-EE12-4590-B87A-C99740F4D763.shtml>
In addition to being slimmer and lighter, the iPod shines in quickly getting music and other files from your PC, because it sports both FireWire and USB 2.0 compatibility.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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If You Liked The Web Page, You'll Love The Ad (Bob Tedeschi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/technology/04ECOM.html>
Online publishers are beginning to sense the possibilities of having Google or Overture serve ads to their audiences.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Linux Moves On To Next Battles (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7252_3-5059537.html>
Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.

Supercomputing's New Idea Is Old One (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/technology/04SUPE.html>
After a period of neglect, the intellectual legacy of Seymour Cray, the father of the modern supercomputer, is being revived.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Looking Backward And Ahead At Continent's End (Timothy Egan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/national/04LEWI.html?hp>
Swimmers, artists, historians and legions of the curious follow Lewis and Clark's route and still discover something about the land, themselves or the nation's history.

The Children Who Won't Grow Up (Frank Furedi, Spiked)
<http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DE8D.htm>
The alarm bells started ringing a few years ago. I was showing a friend around my campus when we encountered a group of undergraduates absorbed in watching Teletubbies in the bar.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Bishan Flats Top Premiums For MRT Proximity (Kalpana Rashiwala, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,89849,00.html?>
A study by Knight Frank of 1,462 resale transactions registered with the Housing & Development Board (HDB) in March shows the average price premium is about 2.9 per cent.

PM: Singapore Rich Enough To Pay Higher Price (Simon Khoo, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/8/4/nation/5985887&sec=nation>
Affluent Singapore can afford to pay an even higher price for raw water but it is likely to resort to delaying any arbitration to settle the issue, said Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Singapore Debates Foreign Worker Levels Amid Rising Unemployment (Australian Broadcast Corporation)
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s916896.htm>
Rising unemployment, as wealthy Singapore stumbles into hard times, has rekindled a debate on the presence of about 800,000 foreigners, most of them workers, in the city-state.

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