[MyAppleMenu] Feb 6, 2003

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Thursday, Feb 6, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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European Apple Retail Stores 'In 6-18 Months' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5922>
In an interview with Sunday Business newspaper, Pascal Cagni, Apple's vice president and general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa, revealed that the company is planning aggressive expansion into the consumer retail market.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Mac Games Return To Founder, Twin Cities (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/5079054.htm>
Now Tamte is back in the Twin Cities, once again churning out Mac games as part of his fledgling software firm, Destineer Inc.

Microsoft Plans New Switcher Campaign (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=18372>

Apple Still Says It Won't Attend '04 Macworld Boston (D.C. Denison, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/037/business/Apple_still_says_it_won_t_attend_04_Macworld_Boston+.shtml>
The departure of IDG World's chief executive -- the man who apparently angered Apple Computer by working out a deal to move the annual Macworld trade show out of New York City and back to Boston -- changes nothing, Apple said yesterday.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Timing (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/03/02/06/index.html>
No doubt Apple could have announced these at Macworld, but instead they chose to wait. Why?

Apple's Cozy Niche (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac020603,0,5814517.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
Over the years Jobs has often likened Apple to BMW or Mercedes-Benz, saying that catering to a smaller customer base willing to pay more for the Mac's tangible advantages is a valid strategy. There always will be those who see the computer as Jobs does. Apple's task is to make more such people aware of the Mac alternative.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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A User's Comparison Of The 12" iBook And 15" TiBook (Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/lab/03/0206.html>

Logitech Z-340 (Lucian Fong, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=317>
The Z-340 is an able performer, especially considering its $50 price tag.

Airport Extreme... The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (John Manzione, MacNET 2.0)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=268_0_1_0_M>
Apple is known as the company that produces high-priced hardware, but hardware that’s the best you can get, what will they think when they discover their ‘Extreme’ Airport isn’t very ‘extreme’ at all?

Mac OS X Disaster Relief (Kirk McElhearn, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/9.02/mac-disaster-relief.shtml>
This is a fine book for understanding Mac OS X and setting it up, and especially tweaking it so it works the way you want. It is less effective for actual troubleshooting, but reading through the entire book will give you enough information that you may end up with fewer problems just by dint of better understanding the operating system.

Easy Ways To Adapt To Mac OS X (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#easy>
I really think you'll find little reason to dread Mac OS X, and plenty of reason to embrace the changes.

A Bioinformatics Web Service With Mac OS X (Brian Gilman, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/04/omnigene.html>
Using objective-c and Mac O SX's core web services to consturct an OmniGene analysis engine client.

iPod FlipStand (Bill Fox, Macs Only!)
<http://www.macsonly.com/ipodflipstand.html>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft May Get 'Slammed' In Korea (Winston Chai, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983578.html>
A South Korean civic rights group may take Microsoft to task for the carnage caused by the Slammer worm last month.

Microsoft Looks To Rive 'iWave' (Barbara Darrow, CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=39805>
The software vendor aims to get the most bang for its marketing and messaging buck out of the Office 11, XDocs and SharePoint 2.0 product releases expected in June.

The Real Threat (Dana Blankenhorn, Moore's Lore)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20030201.shtml#20396>
We keep shipping crap, people won't buy it.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Opera: Microsoft Is Hurting Our Style (Paul Festa, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-983500.html>
Opera Software on Wednesday said Microsoft has been sending its browser a faulty style sheet, which determines the presentation of graphics and text in a browser window.

What Are The Chances? (Seth Schiesel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06risk.html>
A rapidly evolving set of conceptual and computing tools allow mathematicians, engineers and insurance executives to assess the risk of what are euphemistically known as low-probability, high-consequence events.

TiVo Mutes Sales In Britain (Matthew Broersma, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983432.html>
TiVo, the digital video recorder company, has confirmed that it is scaling down its business in the United Kingdom, and has stopped manufacturing its DVR set-top boxes for sale there.

Red Hat Aggressive With Premium Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983546.html>
Leading Linux seller Red Hat is becoming more aggressive in pushing its premium operating system products, using support contracts, pricing changes and certification restrictions to drive customers and partners to its more expensive "advanced" line.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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'Irrefutable And Undeniable' (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/opinion/06SAFI.html>
Reasonable people take as a clear indication of underlying crime such activity as lying about that crime, suborning perjury about it in others, and intimidating scientific witnesses.

>From Sarajevo To September 11 (John Micklethwait and Adrain Wooldridge, Policy Review)
<http://www.policyreview.org/feb03/micklethwait.html>
The future is contingent upon the quality of our political leaders in Washington, London, and the other capitals of the world. Globalization promises a better world, but we have to build it.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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What Are The Chances? (Seth Schiesel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06risk.html>
A rapidly evolving set of conceptual and computing tools allow mathematicians, engineers and insurance executives to assess the risk of what are euphemistically known as low-probability, high-consequence events.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Companies Use Cash Incentives To Save On Travel Expenses (Melinda Ligos, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/04/business/04COST.html>
As companies continue to clamp down on their travel spending some are using cash rewards to induce employees to eke out even more savings.

Poets Pit Pens Against Swords (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/books/06BOOK.html>
Perhaps the ultimate role of poets is to be hidden but ready like firefighters to come forth in emergency.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Births In Singapore Hit A New Low Of 40,800 (Wendy Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,170159,00.html?>
The gift under the baby bonus programme, introduced in April 2001, did not reverse the downward slide in the number of births. On the contrary, it got worse, hitting a 14-year low of 40,800 last year.

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