[MyAppleMenu] Monday, Aug 18, 2003

Mon Aug 18 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Aug 18, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Ships The G5 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/18/g5ship/>
Apple on Monday announced that its newest desktop computer, the Power Mac G5 is now shipping in the single processor configuration -- the dual processor 2GHz model will ship later this month.

For Those Needing 32 More Bits (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18NECO.html?ex=1061784000&en=a09e39c0281a502d&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
Apple has recently received much applause for its iTunes music service. But its new Power Mac G5 computers, set to arrive in stores today, will probably have a much larger impact on the world of personal computing.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Rolling Stones Will Download Before They Get (Too) Old (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18ROLL.html>
Online music fans  can finally have the Rolling Stones under their thumbs

Apple's Power Mac G5 Hits The Street (Jay Lyman, E-Commerce Times)
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31363.html>
"The performance improvements are so evident that only a few minutes in the store demo area will convince many buyers that it's time to upgrade."

Roxio Introduces Toast 6 Titanium (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/08/18/toast>
With Toast 6, users can now author Video CDs, Super VCDs and DVDs (DVD burner required), complete with menus, buttons and chapters that can be played on either a home DVD player or computer.

Schools Consider Take-Home Laptops (Lauren Glenn, Herald Tribune)
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030818/NEWS/308180530/1060>
Talk of new ways to provide students with better computer and Internet access could eventually venture out of the classroom and into homes.

Aggregators Attack Info Overload (Ryan Singel, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60053,00.html>
Internet news addicts are turning in droves to so-called aggregator services, which relieve information overload by condensing multiple sites into a single feed.

Apple 50th Most Recognized Global Brand (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/08/18/globalbrands>

School Will Provide Laptops (Associated Press)
<http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=1402379>
Students at a suburban Cleveland middle school will find that computers are going to become just as standard as books and other supplies.

The Bits Are Willing, But The Batteries Are Weak (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18DIGI.html?ex=1061784000&en=edd9d412cef65bb9&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
For many Internet addicts, the blackout last week was a rude reminder of just how decisively the vaunted 21st-century digital lifestyle can be laid low by a disruption in 19th-century electrons.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Why The New Power Mac G5 Doesn't Cut It When It Comes To DV Editing (Inside Apple)
<http://www.insideapple.com/editorials.php?id=33_0_4_0_M>

Is It Cool To Be A Mac User Again, Or Is It Just Me? (RandomMaccess)
<http://www.randommaccess.com/news/1061181966.shtml>
I've never had so many Windows users ask me about my Mac, and the things my Mac can do have never seemed so cool -- or attainable -- to a whole Windows-using audience who seem more ready than ever to make "The Switch."

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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The Nisus Files: Nisus Writer Express Reviewed (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/nisusfiles11.shtml>
It's not the best we've seen from Nisus and it's not the best will see from them, but it's better than most of your alternatives.

iPod Skin (Macs Only!)
<http://www.macsonly.com/#8181>
All said and done, we think the iPod Skin is a great product. Ours is a definite keeper!

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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No New Service Pack For Win XP Until Late Next Year (Joris Evers, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/18/HNnoservicepack_1.html>
Microsoft won't release a second service pack for Windows XP until the second half of next year, giving users more responsibilitty for applying individual patches.

Microsoft Outwits Blaster Worm (Helen Jung, Associated Press)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1223331,00.asp>
Microsoft said it had no major problems from the worm's attempt to turn thousands of infected computers into instruments targeting the software company's Web site and network.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Google Is Mot Popular Search Site, But Others Sometimes Do It Better (Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB106115787227742500-H9jeoNllaJ2npyta4CHaqyCm4,00.html>
What's indisputable is that the world of search engines is scene to more innovation and competition than many folks realize.

Jay Walker: Don't Blame Technology (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_34/b3846655.htm>
Priceline founder says too many outfits believed it was "a magic bullet," and now they're paying the price for their own mistakes.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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We're All Geeks Now (Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/08/18/were_all_geeks_now>
Not so long ago, getting rid of the blinking clock on your VCR was a serious challenge.

Wireless Growth Hinders Rescuers (Christian Davenport, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7270-2003Aug17.html>
The explosive growth of the mobile phone industry has crowded and tangled the nation's airwaves to such an extent that wireless company signals are increasingly interfering with emergency radio frequencies used by police and firefighters, public safety agencies said.

Start-Up Plans To Introduce Alternate Wi-Fi Technology (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18WIFI.html>
Airgo Networks, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up, plans on Monday to introduce an alternative to the popular Wi-Fi wireless data standard for connecting to the Internet, capable of doubling Wi-Fi's already high speed and extending its range.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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The Disgrace Of The BBC (Josh Chafetz, Weekly Standard)
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/005iqpvz.asp>
Unfair, unbalanced, and afraid.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Accelerating Change (Ronald Bailey, Reason)
<http://www.reason.com/rb/rb081303.shtml>
Why technology will be the defining battle of the 21st century.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Those Amazing Animals! (Heather Havrilesky, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2003/08/18/amazing_race/>
Who knew Jerry Bruckheimer had the vision to back a show that's basically a relationship compatibility quiz from a women's magazine, set into live action?

Low-Carb Version Of French Fries (Teresa Riordan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18PATE.html?8hpib>
Can there be such a thing as a healthy French fry? Randy Blaun, a writer and self-proclaimed foodie living in Manhattan, claims to have invented just that: French fries that have as many nutrients and as much fiber as a serving of broccoli.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Accept Gays As Fellow Human Beings: Singapore PM (Fridae)
<http://www.fridae.com/magazine/en20030818_1_1.php>
The Prime Minister of Singapore clarified in a speech on Sunday night that his earlier comments in Time magazine "do not signal any change in policy" but urged Singaporeans to accept gay people as fellow human beings.

Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong, A PM In Waiting (Doreen Siow, Reuters)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters08-18-041142.asp?reg=PACRIM>
Being the son of the formidable father of the modern Singapore, who still holds the position of Senior Minister, has been both an asset and liability for Lee.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Who's Crying Wolf Now? (Tang Weng Fai, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,91208,00.html?>
StarHub accused SingTel of playing hardball, but look at its spat with PacNet now. Fortunately there's a solution.

NTUC Accepts Proposed CPF Cuts (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,205254,00.html?>
The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Central Committee yesterday accepted the Government's proposal to cut Central Provident Fund (CPF) rates because the top priority now is to reduce unemployment.

Mobile Phone Numbers Not So Mobile After All (Kelvin Wong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,205251,00.html?>
Users who switched operators recently and paid to keep their old numbers are finding out that 'number forwarding' is not true portability.

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