[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Dec 9, 2003

Tue Dec 9 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Dec 9, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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A Return To Those Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear... (Ted Landau, MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20031209012044449>
I have never regretted my decision to go with a Mac back in 1984. Not even for an instant. Thanks for the ride Apple. It's been great. Happy 20th anniversary!

iTunes Music Store Tops 20 Million Song Downloads (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/12/08/itunes>
Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketing for applications and services, said Monday that more than 20 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it launched in April.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Shooting The D1X For National Geographic (Eamon Hickey, Rob Galbraith DPI)
<http://65.110.81.28/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6450-6561>
Instant review and tethered shooting let McNally execute the big production shots more quickly and efficiently.

LaCie To Ship FireWire 800 PC Card For Laptops (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/22395>
LaCie today announced it will begin shipping in December its a FireWire 800 PCMCIA card, allowing users to add 3 seperate FireWire ports to their Mac or PC laptop: two external FireWire 800 ports and one FireWire 400 port.

SpamSieve 2.1 Adds Apple Mail POP Support (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/12/09/spamsieve>
Version 2.1 includes support for Apple Mail POP accounts.

BBEdit Update Adds 'Refresh BBEdit Preview' Command (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/12/09/bbedit>
The update adds a new "Refresh BBEdit Preview" command, which can be used to refresh a BBEdit Preview window when files have been changed outside of BBEdit, as in the case of linked images, style sheets, and other external content.

Jupitermedia: iPod, iTunes 'Energized Music Industry' (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/12/09/jupiter/index.php?redirect=1070981398000>

Now Up-To-Date & Contact Gains Panther Support (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/12/09/nutd/index.php?redirect=1070953483000>
The new version includes performance enhancements and feature updates, and has been thoroughly testing with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther," according to its developers.

Knofabulator 1.5.3 Offers Numerous Fixes, Tweaks (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/12/09/konfabulator>

Euro iTunes Petition Raised (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7459>
UK Mac users are growing restless for the chance to buy music online.

Profiles In Success: Columbia University, College Of Physicians And Surgeons -- Bringing Training To Life (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/columbia/>
If someone who's learning to do a procedure has carefully watched a video... the total time needed to train that person could be dramatically reduced -- by as much as half. So for us, Final Cut Pro is an incredibly valuable tool."

How Much Is Digital Music Worth? (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1027_3-5117275.html>
As the early buzz over new music services such as Apple Computer's iTunes fades, record labels and technology companies are struggling to turn the services into profitable businesses.

Free Utility Brings Long-Lost AvantGo Back Into The Mac Fold (Chuck La Tournous, RandomMaccess)
<http://www.randommaccess.com/news/1070929395.shtml>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Holy Dichotomy! Writer Calls iPod 'World's Most Elegant' Nine Days After Writing Dell DJ 'Surpassed' iPod (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2307_0_1_0_C>

The Genius Of The Laptop (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/12/09/index.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Jailbreak (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=265_0_1_0_M>
There's not a great variety of play in Jailbreak, but for a nice time-waster that you can pick up and put away with fun characters and solid design, you need look no further.

NASCAR Racing 2003 Season (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=258_0_1_0_M>
For people who are into NASCAR, this is probably a dream come true. But for someone who just wants to drive fast and watch beautiful vistas fly past, or for someone who is looking for a simple game to pick up, play, and put down, NASCAR 2003 will be as exciting as sitting in the sun all day, smelling gas fumes.

iPod Gift Offerings, Part 1 (Dan Frakes, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07464>
To help you decide on such a gift, the following are some of my favorite iPod-related products.

MacPAD: The Future Of Mac Software Updates (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07463>
You can think of a PAD file as an RSS feed for software updates.

Hands On: Easy Mac Maintenance (Dan Frakes, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/12/secrets/handson/>
Get the most from Disk Utility's repair permissions and OS X's Unix maintenance scripts.

For Mac Sysadmins, An Upgrade Checklist (Ryan Faas, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,87967,00.html?SKC=macos-87967>
Like many Mac administrators, I'm confronted with a question: How and when should I begin upgrading to Panther?

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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SoBig Blamed For Four-Fold Rise In Spam (Munir Kotadia, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118369,00.htm>
The amount of spam email has increased by a factor of four during the past year, according to email-security company MessageLabs -- and the SoBig virus is being blamed

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Shoppers Flip-Flop Their Web Strategy (Dinesh C. Sharma, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1030_3-5116515.html>
Consumers have been using the Internet to browse for products before buying offline for some time. But a new survey says they're now starting to reverse that shopping method.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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The Magic Of An Empowered Consumer (Dana Blankenhorn)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20031201.shtml#62760>
What's wrong with the current talk of a UN takeover of Internet governance is just that -- it's all about the money.

Wi-Fi Concerns Shift Gears (Scott Tyler Shafer, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/08/48NNwifi_1.html>
Interoperability, RF management emerge as new areas of focus.

Upturn Seen For IT Spending In 2004 (Dinesh C. Sharma, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1014_3-5116470.html>
Small and medium-size companies are set to lead a recovery of IT spending in 2004, with priorities returning to more traditional patterns.

Intel Researchers Open 'Learning Library' (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7337_3-5116544.html>
The chipmaker's research arm on Monday said it is offering the Open Source Machine Learning Library, a collection of software that can help computers learn from various experiences. It will offer the library to interested parties for free via the Web.

Time Warner Cable Reaches VoIP Deals (Ben Charny and Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7352_3-5116936.html>
Time Warner Cable and two U.S. telephone service providers announced agreements Monday that may help the cable company's attack on the local and long-distance phone service market.

Saying No To Games (Clint Swett, Sacramento Bee)
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/7920261p-8857902c.html>
While males spend millions on action-packed video fun, females don't, and the industry is looking for keys to this lucrative kingdom.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Humanity? Maybe It's In The Wiring (Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/09/science/09BRAI.html>
Neuroscientists have given up looking for the seat of the soul, but they are still seeking what may be special about human brains, what it is that provides the basis for a level of self-awareness and complex emotions unlike those of other animals.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Xeni Jardin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61485,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
David Byrne, who climbed to fame with the Talking Heads, lately has been wrapping his brain around PowerPoint, cranking out art.

Higher And Higher (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?031215crbo_books>
The tall building is the symbol of all that we hope for -- height, reach, power, and a revolving restaurant with a long wine list -- and all that we cower beneath. It is a symbol of oomph and of waste, the lighthouse of commerce and the outhouse of capitalism, the tallest candle on the biggest cake, and the cash-economy prison made up of countless anonymous cells.

MyAppleMenu Reader: EOF
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Price For '12 Days Of Christmas Jumps' (Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA Today)
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/1208Xmas-Prices-ON.html>
According to an annual inflation gauge based on purchases included in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," inflation is up 16 percent this year as rising prices for services, such as drummers, outweighed declines in prices for goods, such as pear trees and gold rings.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Airlines Moves Into Budget Fare Market (Hasan Jafri and Abdul Handhi, Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/031209/15/3gj98.html>
Singapore Airlines and its parent, Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., the Singapore government's investment arm, will own a majority in the new airline called Tiger Airways. The family that owns Dublin-based Ryanair will also be a shareholder along with Indigo Partners LLC, a U.S. investment company.

Singapore Economists See GDP Rising 1.0% This Year: MAS (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/61146/1/.html>
Private sector economists expect Singapore's economy to grow strongly in the October to December quarter, resulting in 2003 full-year growth of one percent before rising to 5.4 percent in 2004.

Banks' Credit Card Hard-Sell Curbed (Hugh Chow, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,224307,00.html?>
Banking regulators have clamped down on hard-sell tactics in public areas used by financial institutions to promote credit cards and other types of unsecured loans.

Virgin's Singapore Partnership Hits Turbulence (Andrew Clark, The Guardian)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?031208fi_fiction>
A rift has opened up between Virgin Atlantic and its part owner, Singapore Airlines, over a new treaty allowing Sir Richard Branson's carrier to begin flights to Australia.

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