[MyAppleMenu] Feb 8, 2003

Sat Feb 8 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Feb 8, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple iPod Is My Favorite Portable Music Player (Linda Knapp, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134630413_ptgett08.html>
The iPod is the best of all the portable players I've used. Not because the music quality is excellent, as most players have achieved that, but because the important details are better.

Apple (Sort Of) Denies European Retail Plans (MacUser)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=38284>
Alan Healy, Apple's European marketing and communications manager claimed that the company 'officially' has no current plans to launch in Europe.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Pixar Switches From Sun To Intel (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983898.html>
Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world Monsters Inc. and Toy Story, is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the server market heats up.

Apple's Byte (Ranjeet Rayen, Cyber India Online)
<http://www.ciol.com/content/news/repts/103020711.asp>
Apple India is working behind scenes to bring about a radical change in its channel sales.

Apple To Open Retail Store At Arden Fair (Clint Swett, Sacramento Bee)
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/6074804p-7030961c.html>
Apple Computer will open one of its high-profile retail stores at Sacramento's Arden Fair this spring, giving the Macintosh faithful a place to worship and the mall a tenant that has proven it can draw traffic.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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iWave Vs. iLife = iEnvy? (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2743>
I like to say that with the iApps, Apple has identified a new kind of productivity application.

2003: Year Of The Apple (Jason Deraleau, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2699>

Macs Suddenly Head To Head With PCs On Price (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/weekly/1768510>
The iLife software is free with every Mac, and Apple guarantees it will all run perfectly. Can you think of a single PC vendor willing to make that claim?

If Apple Went To Intel: Two Developers Explain Impact (Architosh)
<http://www.architosh.com/features/2003/2003-apple-intel-devtalk1.phtml>
Architosh talks to Sean Flaherty, CTO, Nemetschek N.A., and Naer Family, CEO, BOD Research Inc.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Lights! Camera! Action! It's Easy, Cheap To Edit Film (Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1770181>
You won't turn into a Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg after a few hours, but you will have a lot of fun.

X11 And OpenOffice On Mac OS X (Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/07/x11.html>
Today I'll show you how to install X11 for Mac OS X on your system and how to start using OpenOffice, a popular open source free Microsoft Office-like application for Unix-based systems.

BBEdit 7.0: Excellent Tool For Text Specialists Gets Even Better (Jason Snell, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/03/reviews/bbedit7/>
BBEdit continues to be a remarkably powerful text editor for a wide range of users, from Web designers to programmers. This update further improves the program's text-handling and Web-design capabilities while also offering version control via CVS.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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In Europe, Microsoft Faces A Harder Sell (Robert J. McCartney, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42416-2003Feb7.html>
The software giant emerged virtually unscathed in November from an eight-year battle with U.S. federal and state authorities over how its violations of antitrust laws should be rectified. But it may not fare as well in another major antitrust case, now entering its final phase at European Union headquarters in Brussels.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Tangled Up In Spam (James Gleick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09SPAM.html>
I know what your in-box looks like, and it isn't pretty.

Memo Criticizes Java Platform, Solaris OS (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,873887,00.asp>
In what appears to be an internal Sun Microsystems Inc. memo, Sun engineers criticize the Java platform and the Solaris operating system.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Publishers Settle With Gator In Fight On Web Pop-Up Ads (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/business/08GATO.html>
The nation's largest newpaper publishers have settled a dispute over pop-up ads that were being placed over their Web sites without permission.

Pixar Switches From Sun To Intel (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983898.html>
Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world Monsters Inc. and Toy Story, is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the server market heats up.

Tale Of Two Stories (Doc Searls, Linux Journal)
<http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6616>
What does coverage of Google's success tell us about what's really going on with Linux?

New Foe For Webcasters In Royalty Fight (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-webcast7feb07001433,1,7886108.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Acacia Research says many online sites infringe its patents on digital transmission.

Linux Solutions Everywhere (Russell C. Pavlicek, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/06osource_1.html?s=tc>

The Internet Might Just Save The Planet (Jeff Davis, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-983745.html>
I expect the future to be greener as old consumer goods are no longer consigned to landfill, coupled with the fact people will get products far more tailored to their individual needs, and therefore harder to supplant for manufacturers.

Yahoo To Launch Paid Net Video Service (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983894.html>
Yahoo has been in discussions with television networks to become content partners in the new service, which could feature video clips from News Corp.'s Fox network, Viacom's CBS and Walt Disney's ABCNews.com, according to sources close to the negotiations.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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In Stalin's Footsteps (Masha Lipman, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42683-2003Feb7.html>
In just over a decade as independent states, the various former Soviet republics have gone their separate ways so fast and so far that it's hard to believe they were once parts of the same empire.

Destined For Failure (A.O. Scott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09WWLN.html>
The problem with schools isn't the teachers or the curriculums; it's our conflicting priorities.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Bad Seed Or Bad Science: The Story Of The Notorious Jukes Family (Scott Christianson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/arts/08JUKE.html>
For more than a century, the Jukes clan has been presented as America's most despised family. It turns out that many family members were the victims of distorted research.

The Weblog: Tough To Beat On Breaking News (Bill Mitchell, Poynter Online)
<http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=19421>
Florida Today reporters discuss the Landing Journal they used to track -- and report -- critical early hours of the disaster.

Tale Of Two Stories (Doc Searls, Linux Journal)
<http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6616>
What does coverage of Google's success tell us about what's really going on with Linux?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Rebirth For Old Office Buildings (Dale Yonkin, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-vo-yonkin8feb08,1,3965892.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Postwar structures could be turned into desirable housing in L.A.

House Of Cards (Jason Wilson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31912-2003Feb5.html>
At Hallmark, an army of verse writers claim to express exactly how you're feeling. The proof: countless millions in sales. So why can't they get a little respect?

A Song Of Themselves (Leonard Garment, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/opinion/08GARM.html>
Last week a group of American poets showed once again that artists can be the worst enemies of the arts.

'This Was Bad, Real Bad.' (Scott Audette, SportsShooter.com)
<http://www.sportsshooter.com/news_story.html?id=875>
Last night at dinner I cried. It came so suddenly it took me by surprise.

Bi For Now (Amy Sohn, New York Metro)
<http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/columns/nakedcity/n_8301/>
Call them hasbians. Women who came out of the closet only to end up in heterosexual relationships. Switching teams is never easy—-no matter which side you're on.

Spaced Out (Jonah Goldberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110003039>
Another maudlin, media-crazed moment. But hold the scorn.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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What Does 'Leaving No Stone Unturned' Mean For ERC? (Ignatius Low and Soh Wen Lin, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,170569,00.html?>
The question is: Could the stones -- the ones that were returned and those deemed hot -- have been handled differently?

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