[MyAppleMenu] Feb 1, 2003

Sat Feb 1 21:05:01 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Feb 1, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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12 Hours With iPhoto 2 (James Duncan Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2692>
iPhoto is tons better, but there's still more that they could do. Overall, it's a great effort for 2.0.

Apple On The Cusp (Steve Gillmor, Mark Jones, Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05digconapple_1.html>
Senior VPs AvieTevanian, Jon Rubinstein discuss the convergence of business and consumer markets in Keynote and iLife.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Digital Data Chases Converged Reality (Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05apdata_1.html>
The rising tide of intertwined structured and unstructured data types is threatening to engulf corporations as a multitude of computing devices flourishes in a sea of diverse file formats, protocols, and standards. Chasing user demand for seamless consumption of multiple data types on a single client, technologies earmarked to capture and manage digital data are converging.

Seamus Conlan: Lost And Found (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/conlan/>
"Generally with digital -— as with film negs —- there is a color balance problem. But really all that I do is alter the color balance in Photoshop using a small program I developed around the automatic actions."

Kevin Gilbert: Fast Flow Photography (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/gilbert/>
"If you can beat the next guy by two minutes, you beat him, you won." And nobody is more certain about where his advantage lies: in front-to-back, capture-to-print digital workflow.

Eli Reed: Moving Pictures (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/reed/>

Will Mac Fans Get An iLife? (Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com)
<http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1040-982937.html?type=pt&part=marketwatch-cnet&tag=feed&subj=news>
Analysts and Mac users are questioning the iLife's price tag, as two of the suite's new components--iMovie 3 and iPhoto 2--will soon be available for free download.

Students Get Run Of Apple Stores (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-982932.html>
Aiming to show off what it can do for schools, Apple is letting students and teachers hold open houses in its retail stores to show parents the schoolwork they have done on a Mac.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Is Microsoft Its Own Worst Enemy? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/02/166.htm#enemy>
With Microsoft busy shooting itself in the foot, wouldn't it be a good idea for Apple to help load the weapon?

Mac Meets World (Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/24/030127opconnection_1.html>
Of course, the IT staff can make anything work given the time and money, but with ever-tightening IT budgets and even less time for IT staffers to solve problems, chief technologists have to go with the thing that works for most people -— and works now —- and that thing is too often Windows.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iPhoto 2.0 -- It's Mostly Good News (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2691>
If you carefully back up your data, you should be able to upgrade to iPhoto 2.0 right now and begin enjoying its benefits, including still using iPhoto Library Manager.

Advocating OpenOffice.org (Jason Deraleau, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2671>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Trust But Verify (Brian Livingston, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05winman_1.html?s=tc>
A patch for Windows' problems with security certificates doesn't end all of your headaches.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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AOL-Microsoft? Not Likely, Just Logical (David Shook, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2003/tc20030130_8075.htm>
If Bill Gates bought the online albatross, he'd acquire the subscribers to make MSN a winner. And Time Warner? Its stock would soar.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Once Downtrodden Dot-Coms Turning Into Money Makers (Michael Liedtke, Associated Press)
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5076353.htm>
It's not quite the economic revolution once envisioned by brash entrepreneurs, but a handful of Internet businesses are actually making money.

RFID Is About To Explode (Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05wireless_1.html?s=tc>
Ten-cent pieces of wireless equipment are being deployed by the billions.

Protocol Promises Faster Web Services (Sandeep Junnarkar, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-982905.html>
A proposed method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates.

Could Linux Run Your Power Plant? (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982938.html>
Verano, a company that sells software for controlling everything from power plants to factories, is embracing Linux, along with security features that the U.S. National Security Agency added to the operating system.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Forget Diversity (James Traub, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/magazine/02WWLN.html>
Diversity distracts us from a simple but painful truth, which is that persistent black educational failure (and Hispanic failure, to a lesser extent) has made it impossible for the most selective schools to become substantially integrated using their own traditional criteria of merit.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Clear Thinking On Cloning (Erik Parens, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8684-2003Jan31.html>
The complex range of things we can do with embryos cries out for clear thinking.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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'Soft' Adventure In Alaska (David Laskin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/travel/02passage.html>
I knew from studying the Web site that the Wilderness Adventurer was a dwarf as cruise ships go -- only 160 feet, with room for 72 passengers -- and that was exactly what appealed to me.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Jobless Rate Eases, But Singapore Not Out Of Woods Yet (Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,169472,00.html?>
The gloomy forecasts of 5.5 per cent unemployment proved unfounded, but it could be even worse if US attacks Iraq.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Says It Again: The Real Issue Is Not Price Of Water (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,169461,00.html?>
Unmoved by the rhetoric from its northern neighbour, Singapore yesterday restated its position on the water dispute with Malaysia: The real issue is not money.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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