[MyAppleMenu] Thursday, Aug 21, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Aug 21, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Mac Users Watch From Sidelines (Sam Diaz, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/6583164.htm>
Macs -- especially those running the newer OS X operating system -- tend to offer more peace-of-mind to their users when it comes to viruses, worms and other infections that can wreak havoc on a computer.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Hits 52-Week High (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/08/21/aapl>
Shares of Apple rose 67 cents, or more than 3 percent, to close at a 52-week high of US$21.68 Thursday.

Apple Posts Xserve RAID Admin 1.1 TOols (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20728>

The GIMP Gets Accelerated For Power Mac G5s (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/21/gimp/>

OmniOutliner 'Export To iPod' Add-On Released (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/21/exportipod/>

Students Sharing Computer Knowledge With Classmates (Cristel Mohrman, Barrington Courier-Review)
<http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/ba/08-21-03-66553.html>
Sunny Hill School will bring a new meaning to student teaching this fall, when third- and fourth-grade students help train their peers to use computers.

Long Wait For Mac OS X OpenOffice (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32436.html>
A Quartz version of version 2.0 of the suite -- which takes advantage of the OS X display model, rather than the Unix standard X11 -- is slated for Q1 of 2006. The reason cited is major API changes in OpenOffice itself.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Window Of Opportunity (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#window>
Apple will have plenty of time to smooth over Mac OS X's rough edges, improve the user interface, performance and reliability. Maybe even introduce a few more features that'll inspire Microsoft to include in Longhorn's successor.

Marching To A Different DRM (Alan S. Horowit, EcommerceTimes.com)
<http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31387.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Go To Rio Or Get Creative, But iPod's The One To Beat (Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://afr.com/articles/2003/08/21/1061434989148.html>
Largely due to a great design, the iPod still comes out on top, in my view. But its rivals are finally showing some promise.

Apple iPod 30GB -- Apple Of Your Ears (Business Standard)
<http://www.business-standard.com/ice/story.asp?Menu=119&story=21243>
Undeniably one of the coolest portable digital music players available, the new iPod is another marvel of technological innovation by Apple.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Air Force Seeks Better Security From Microsoft (Byron Acohido, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/03/11/gilligan.htm>
A top U.S. Air Force official has warned Microsoft to dramatically improve the security of its software or risk losing the Air Force as a customer.

Microsoft Warns Of Critical IE Flaws (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1002_3-5066511.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows on Wednesday, as the MSBlast worm and its variants used a previous vulnerability in Windows to spread across the Net for a second week.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Strong Attackers, Weak Software (Charles Duhigg, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23036-2003Aug20.html>
Computer security experts say the recent upsurge in virus activity is not a sign of anything new. Instead, it's the culmination of a trend that has been building for years as virus programmers have become more adept at creating malicious programs, and software companies have sold products increasingly vulnerable to attack.

In Frayed Networks, Common Threads (Seth Schiesel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/circuits/21nett.html>
Taken together, the blackout and the worm underscore a far-reaching challenge in managing modern technological societies: the difficulty of reaping the benefits of networks -- railroad networks, airline networks, telephone networks, power networks and computer networks, among others -- while minimizing their vulnerabilities.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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A Stroll Through The Ivy, With A Tour Guide That Beeps (Jim Carrier, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/technology/circuits/21gpss.html>
A research project at Cornell University explores "context aware" computers -- devices that can orient themselves in the real world and provide information about what is around them.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Science As Democratizer (Robert Lawrence Kuhn, American Scientist)
<http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/25691;jsessionid=aaa4KxL1uKYE6_>
Taken seriously, support of scientific literacy and research in the developing world could become America's most efficient use of foreign aid. By increasing the scientific spirit in the world, we would be catalyzing a converging way of thinking.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Lunch In L.A.: It's Nearly Extinct (David Shaw, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-matters20aug20192421,1,370231.column?coll=la-headlines-food>
The sprawling nature of our megalopolis -- and the local obsession with health and diet -- have long made lunch a dicey proposition, especially for fine-dining establishments. But it's worse now than I can ever recall.

In Los Angeles, Strip Mall Food Is Way Cool (Janelle Brown, New York TImes)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/dining/20STRI.html>
Little-known hole in the walls, lurking on just about every major intersection in town, are the antidote to everything flashy and velvet-roped, which is why they remain so popular with Hollywood's next wave, even as trendy boites come and go.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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My Mother's Old Kitchen (Joyce E. Peseroff, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2087090/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Revisiting Newater And Sars Lessons To Win Hearts (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,205752,00.html?>
Government spin doctors who successfully sold Newater to the public and quelled fears during the Sars crisis have to tackle another national challenge now -- helping Singaporeans swallow the bitter pill of cuts in the CPF rate.

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