[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003

Tue Aug 12 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Microsoft Drops Office Price, Offers New Editions (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/11/office/>
While the main Office applications are not being updated, one of the new editions will include Virtual PC, which Microsoft acquired from Connectix earlier this year.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Japan Recruiting For Tokyo Store (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/08/12/ginza>

Bare Bones Ships TextWrangler 1.5 Text Editor (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20577>
The free update now expands syntax coloring and source-code navigation to include Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, Perl, Python, Rez, Tcl, TeX, and Unix shell script.

Macs To Be Sold At Local High-End Video Store (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20589>
Reader Don Kellog provided an update on a new Apple retail presence in Kalamazoo, MI.

Readers Offer Notes About Macs At Best Buy (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20587>

Apple Loses Bias Claim Against Buzzle Liquidator (Marcus Priest, Australian Fiancial Review)
<http://afr.com/articles/2003/08/12/1060588397760.html>
The NSW Supreme Court yesterday rejected a claim by Apple Computers that the liquidator of failed Apple reseller Buzzle had been biased against it.

Apple To Open Store This Week In Seoul, Korea (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20582>

Apple Store Coming To Skokie, IL (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/08/12/applestore>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Musical Madness (Steve Enders, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3490336,00.html>
The absurd rush to supply the world with MP3s is giving me a headache.

Hands-On In A Mac Lab (Graham K. Rogers, Bangkok Post)
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/13Aug2003_datacol84.html>
Unix underneath makes a real difference.

A New Mac Office? Not Yet (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#office>
I have little doubt that Microsoft is going to continue to make Mac software, so long as it proves profitable.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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PowerMail 4.2b1 Notes (Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/August2003.html#note_1525>

Apple's 17-Inch PowerBook G4 (Michael Scott Shappe, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07303>
It's a striking machine for more reasons than just its size.

Mac OS X Scrolling Tips (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07301>
Read these tips to learn how to go beyond the basics of the scroll bar and obvious navigation keys like the arrows, Home and End, and Page Up and Page Down. And all this comes without spending a dime on a scroll wheel-enabled mouse, helpful though such a critter might be.

Which iBook To Buy? (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/08/11/index.html>

Remembering HyperCard (Manuel Mejia Jr, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/triasic/03/0811.html>
The final version of HyperCard was released in 1995. By then, Web pages and their accompanying browsers allowed one to run HyperCard-style files in color on different computer platforms.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Windows Worm Starts Its Spread (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5062364.html>
A worm that takes advantage of what some security experts have called the most widespread Windows flaw ever has started spreading, fulfilling the predictions of many researchers.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Get Your #@%!$ Paws Off My PDA! (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59944,00.html>
Traveling tech aficionados are agitated, even outraged, that airport security workers will be pawing through their belongings to more carefully scrutinize electronic devices.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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SCO Not Exactly The Lovable Little Guy (Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08122003/business/83192.asp>
Sometimes in a David and Goliath story, you want to root for Goliath.

Is Zip Coming Undone? (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1046_3-5062423.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
New versions of software based on a popular file-compression technology could create headaches for users through their use of incompatible formats.

Using Old Strategies To Win New 3G Markets (Ernst Poulsen, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=44183>
A few things may make it easier to convert freebee customers to paying ones. Most importantly, phones come with a built-in payment technology that doesn't require any effort from customers.

Many Bluetooth Gadgets Open To Wireless Snooping (New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994041>
A new software tool could allow sensitive data could be pilfered through the air from laptops, mobile phones and handheld computers.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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The Liberal Spirit In America (Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review)
<http://www.policyreview.org/aug03/berkowitz.html>
Improving by conserving the liberal spirit is easier said than done. But the doing first requires the saying, and to say something useful, the challenge must be accurately understood.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Look Who Was Talking (Stephen Oppenheimer, Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/lastword/story/0,13228,1013222,00.html>
When did we start talking to each other and how long did it take us to become so good at it? In the absence of palaeo-cassette recorders or a time machine the problem might seem insoluble, but analysis of recent evidence suggests we may have started talking as early as 2.5m years ago.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Gilt Trip (Blake Gopnik, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34926-2003Aug8.html>
How great works of art are presented can border on sacrilege, but some cruators are changing their frames of reference.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singaporeans Not Keeping Mum But Are Speaking Up Elsewhere (Laurel Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,204314,00.html?>
The lack of success of Speakers' Corner at Hong Lim Park is not evidence that Singaporeans do not want or need an avenue to voice their opinions, said a sociologist yesterday.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Straits Times Weekly Ends 16-Year Run (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,204298,00.html?>
The Straits Times Weekly Edition, which has kept thousands of Singaporeans overseas in touch with happenings back home and around the region for nearly 16 years, will cease publication from Sept 1.

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