[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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iPod Strikes Right Note With Consumer Market (Jim Jamieson, The Province)
<http://www.canada.com/vancouver/news/story.asp?id=79367C06-B6BA-49CF-8CAF-0970102DDD29>
"The way you can move your music seamlessly is great -- it's much less complicated and faster than on the PC side. The other thing I like about it is the form factor -- it's so small and light and the number of songs that can be stored on it is phenomenal."

Photoshop G5 Plug-In Update Ready For Download (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/20/photoshop/>
Hot on the heels of Apple's release of the Power Mac G5 this Monday, Adobe Systems Inc. has released a plug-in update for its flagship digital imaging software, Photoshop. The update optimizes Photoshop for use with the G5.

MyAppleMenu : News
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MSN Messenger Upgrade Blocks Trillian (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5066412.html>
Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application.

What, Me Worry? (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac082103,0,7518456.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
Few hackers attack Mac, but just because it's a niche product doesn't make it vulnerable.

Apple Expo Coming To Paris (MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/4u/wire.fm$RETRIEVE?value=4010824&field=Serial&html=wirelessdetail.html&doscript=findall>
This year's show focuses on specific solutions for professionals    from the design, education, business, architecture, legal, property, health-care    and music sectors.

Intuit Ships Quicken 2004 For The Mac (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20696>

Apple Kicks Off 'iPod-A-Day Giveaway' (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/08/20/ipodpromo>
"Create a new iTunes Music Store account during this time, and you will automatically be entered into our daily drawing."

Opera 6.03 Offers Compatibility With Panther (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20695>
"Additional changes include bug fixes, performance improvements, better security, kiosk mode, and the removal of the start-up dialog for unregistered browsers."

MSN Messenger Now Denying Access With Old Releases (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030820064154385>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Poll: 99 Cents Too Expensive For Downloads (Billboard)
<http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1957940>
A single song download is too pricey at 99 cents, according to a Billboard.com poll.

Mac Myths And IT (Michael Gartenberg, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/20/myths/>
Does this mean Mac OS is right for your organization? Not necessarily. But it does mean your organization has more viable choices for desktop systems than you might have thought.

Wanted: Smarter Updates (Sandy McMurray, Globe And Mail)
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030820.gtsandyaug20/BNStory/Technology/>
Self-updating systems should be the norm, not the exception, and personal responsibility may have to give way to "the good of the many."

Taking It Slow With A Superfast Chip (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2003/tc20030820_5175_tc056.htm>
By delaying the lava-hot G5's use in iMacs and laptops, Apple is wisely awaiting the improvements that will make a good thing even better.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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BloodRayne (Richard Hallas, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=400>
Buried deep beneath all the conceptual and performance-related problems, there is actually quite a fun game here.

Apple's AirPort Meets The Concrete (Paul Maidment, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/2003/08/20/cx_pm_0820tentech.html>
Where Airport Extreme shows its paces is in peer-to-peer connections between machines equipped with the new $99 Airport Extreme cards.

In Search of A Unviersal Jukebox (Joseph D. Lasica)
<http://www.jdlasica.com/blog/archives/2003_08_19.html#001304>
While I'm in agreement with the glowing reviews Apple has received for its service, my experience has been a less satisfactory one.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Geeks Grapple With Virus Invasion (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60109,00.html>
Summer vacation, peer pressure, Swiss-cheese programming code and too-quick-to-click Internet users have combined to make the last two weeks a true adventure in computing.

Outlook Is Bleak (Scott Rosenberg, Salon)
<http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2003/08/20.html>
Where do you want to go today? Anywhere but Outlook!

ISPs: Sobig's The Biggest Virus So Far (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5066444.html>
The computer virus clogged corporate e-mail systems on Tuesday and Wednesday, as every message had to be digitally checked for the virus before being passed on to the recipient's computer.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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RIAA Subpoenas And The Final Failure Of The DMCA (Ed Foster, InfoWorld)
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2003/08/17.html>
Even Congress must soon come to understand had badly its purposes have been perverted by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and those who make use of it.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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FTC Chief Critical Of Proposed Anti-Spam Bills (Roy Mark, Internet.com)
<http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3066111>
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Tim Muris said Tuesday proposed anti-spam bills in Congress would "do little or nothing" to halt unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Google Co-Founder: No Rush For IPO (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5066227.html>
Despite frenzied speculation of an imminent Google public offering, company co-founder Sergey Brin said he's still casually debating the pros and cons with board members and has not yet set a date.

FCC To Allow Video On AOL Messenger (Jonathan Krim, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11638-2003Aug18.html>
The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to allow America Online to transmit video entertainment over its popular Instant Messenger system, ending a restriction imposed when it approved the merger of the online company with media giant Time Warner Communications in early 2001.

Canada: The Next Target Of The RIAA? (Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3680>
If I'm interpreting this properly, then all recordings of music, whether made in Canada or in any country that is a WTO member, become public domain (in Canada) fifty years after they are created.

IPv6 Isn't Just About More Addresses (Bob Frankston, ZDnet)
<http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0%2C14179%2C2914431%2C00.html>
It would be a shame if we failed to grow the Internet by waiting for a problematic transition, and a tragedy if we fail to recognize that the issue is not v6 itself, but the need for a larger, more dynamic, yet simpler and safer, Internet.

Microsoft's Eye On E-Mail Lists (Paul Festa, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5065460.html>
Thanks to the expertise of sociologist Marc Smith, Microsoft is keeping a close eye on newsgroups and other e-mail lists, which it has identified as the Internet's undervalued "knowledge management application."

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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'The Race' Puts Global Spin On Reality TV (Duane Dudek, Journal Sentinel)
<http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/aug03/163073.asp>
Its serial and treasure-hunt qualities give the show the page-turning appeal of a beach book, while its global scale is as grandiose as a summer blockbuster.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Should SBS, SMRT Marry? (Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/5075.asp>
When a company makes an investment, it is revenue it is after, not management awards.

Singapore Births Could Be Heading For A 26-Year Low (Lee Hui Chieh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,205556,00.html?>
The number of babies born in the first six months of this year has fallen at such a rate that if it continues, Singapore will, at year-end, record its lowest number of births in 26 years.

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