[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Dec 10, 2003

Wed Dec 10 21:05:01 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Store: Chain Of Devotion (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61513,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Gary Allen is nuts about Apple Stores. So if you've memorized the blueprints and know the surveillance features like the back of your hand, a flight to Tokyo just to walk into the newest store doesn't seem abnormal.

MyAppleMenu : News
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iPod Tops ESPN's List Of "Favorite Things Of The Year" (Bill Palmer)
<http://www.billpalmer.net/com000067.html>
Is there anyone out there who doesn't love the iPod these days?

iSkin Offers Keyboard Protector For iBooks, PowerBooks (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/12/10/iskin>
The form-fitting ProTouch PB is made of a flexible, high-grade silicone that provides a transparent barrier against spills, dirt, and other unwanted elements that may get in between the keys of the keyboard and potentially cause damage to the laptop.

Three Filmmakers, Three Visions, One Platform (Brad Cook, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/12/10/filmmakers/index.php?redirect=1071067725000>
Three wildly different events that resulted in three disparate documentaries: "The Journey," "Growin' a Beard," and "Live From Shiva's Dance Floor," respectively. All three, however, were made with Macs by filmmakers who love the platform.

A Gift Of Learning: Donated Computer Helps JDHS Student (Masha Herbst, Juneau Empire)
<http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121003/loc_comp.shtml>
Ashley Tomlinson's favorite class is choir. That's the only course in which the 17-year-old alto doesn't have to take notes, an activity her eye condition, aniridia, renders painful. She wants to go to college, perhaps to become a music teacher, and that dream is more feasible now thanks to a $1,400 Macintosh iBook computer the Juneau Moose Lodge bought her.

Five New Mac Books For The Holidays (Chuck Toporek, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/4052>

Poll: Santa Facing iPod Hell (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7462>
A quarter of Macworld readers have asked Santa for an iPod, with a further quarter hoping for a PowerBook, the latest Macworld Online poll shows.

Japan iTunes Store 'Next Year' -- Jobs (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7467>
Apple plans to introduce its iTunes Music Store to Japanese consumers by "as early as next year", said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Tokyo to help launch the company's giant Ginza own-brand retail store there.

Microsoft Releases MSN For Mac OS X v2.01 Update (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/22408>
The update includes fixes for users running Panther, specifically minimizing dialing crashes and enhancing MSN browsing performance.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Panther: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Philip Ben-David, E-Commerce Times)
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32347.html>
While the company speeds forward, it must not lose its focus on quality control or user loyalty.

Does Apple Have The Opportunity Of The Lifetime? (John Manzione, MacNETv2)
<http://macnet2.com/more.php?id=438_0_1_0>
So, have Apple been right along?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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One Is Never Enough (Gene Steinberg, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.cincinnati.com/cgi-bin/technology/techwrapper.pl?URL=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/eteam/mac_reality_check.html&AFFIL=CIN>
Backup methods summarized.

Internet Access On The Cheap (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#cheap>
If you are sick and tired of paying close to broadband prices for old fashioned dial-up, there are really cheap ways to get online with probably the same level of reliability that you get with the higher priced spread.

Panther Delights (David Miller, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/09/panther_surprises.html>
Here's a look at Panther from another point of view, not so much its high-flying features, but rather, the subtle refinements that we've come to expect from Apple products. Here are ten things that won't make you buy Panther, but you'll appreciate them once you have it.

Panther And Acitve Directory (Michael Bartosh, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/09/active_directory.html>
Panther's capabilities have been specifically engineered by Apple to work in much the same way that a Windows client would when joining and participating in an Active Directory.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Flaw Could Unleash Another Slammer (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7349_3-5118580.html>
A research company warned Tuesday that an attacker could use a recently patched Microsoft flaw to create a fast-moving worm similar to SQL Slammer, which spread rapidly across the Internet a year ago.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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New Rules Unlikely To Can Spam (Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/2283613>

Microsoft Patents 'HTML Applications' (Matt Loney, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39118430,00.htm>
The patent describes a new type of application written using Web protocols, but without the security constraints of a browser.

The Second Most Important Property Of The Web (Steven Pemberton, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_pemberton121003.asp>
Companies aiming to cut site development costs tend to de-emphasize usability. A new markup language -- XHTML2 -- should help put an end to that unwise trend.

First Test Of IPv6 Network Goes Well (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/09/HNipv6_1.html>
An early test of a multi-site, next-generation Internet, powered by IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) went well, and the coalition of groups working on the so-called Moonv6 project will conduct more comprehensive tests starting in February, said two people involved in the project Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Attack Of The Killer Bras (Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/opinion/10KRIS.html>
The Bush administration prefers trade war to tapping the potential of industrializing China.

Civil Wars (Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/1001353.asp?0cv=KA01&cp1=1>
Doctors. Teachers. Coaches. Ministers. They all share a common fear: being sued on the job. Our litigation nation -- and a plan to fix it.

A Shot In The Dark (Eric Boehlert, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/10/anthrax/index_np.html>
The U.S. military requires troops to take controversial anthrax shots and court-martials them if they refuse. But critics say the vaccine is too dangerous -- and with Saddam's bioweapons nowhere to be found, needless.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Scientist Links Man To Climate Over The Ages (Kenneth Chang, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/science/10WARM.html>
Humans have altered the world's climate by generating heat-trapping gases since almost the beginning of civilization and even prevented the start of an ice age several thousand years ago, a scientist said on Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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In The Capital Of The Car, Nature Stakes A Claim (Kate Stohr, New YorkTimes)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/garden/04FARM.html>
After decades of blight, large swathes of Detroit are being reclaimed by nature. Roughly a third of this 139-square-mile city consists of weed-choked lots and dilapidated buildings. Satellite images show an urban core giving way to an urban prairie.

The Halo Squard (David Montgomery, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51161-2003Dec9.html>
Guardian angels patrol the rough streets, unpaid but appreciated.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Spamming In Singapore Is Costing Some S$50m In Lost Productivity (Dominique Loh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/61350/1/.html>
In a survey commissioned by Internet software developer Symantec, more than 80 percent of Singaporeans have been spammed, resulting in some $50 million in lost productivity.

Singapore 2nd Most IT-Savvy Country In The World (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/economicnews/view/61220/1/.html>

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