[MyAppleMenu] Feb 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Feb 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Live The iLife (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,892713,00.html>
Cheap, simple video editing software, and now a cheap, simple means of distribution: it all adds up to something that's well worth making a fuss about.

Apple Upgrades Xserve, Intros Xserve RAID (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/10.xserve.php>
Apple Computer on Monday upgraded the company's Xserve 1U rackmount server adding a dual 1.33GHz Power PC G4 processor. The company also released the long awaited Xserve RAID, a 3U rack storage system with a 2.5TB storage capacity.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Updates X11 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/10.x11.php>
Apple on Monday released an update to its implementation of the X11 Windowing system, bringing the current version to 0.2.

Apple Upgrades Servers, Unveils Storage (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983982.html>
"Apple is entering the storage market pretty late in the game at a time when battle lines have been clearly drawn and loyalties are firmly entrenched."

Fed-Up iPhoto Users Lobby Apple (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5936>
Apple today faces being swamped by angry iPhoto users demanding to know when they can expect full-feature parity with users based in North America.

Macromedia Pushes Subscription Plan (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130145,00.html>
Software makers are increasingly turning to subscriptions as a way to generate steadier revenue by ensuring adoption of product upgrades.

New Website For Mac Users (Massey)
<http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2003/masseynews/feb/feb10/stories/nzmac.html>
A new website has been developed by Massey staff member Philip Roy in response to a need for local information for New Zealand’s growing Mac community.

Macromedia Unveils FreeHand MX (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/10.freehand.php>
With the latest version, FreeHand joins Macromedia's MX line of products and will be included in the Studio MX package.

Apple Aims For Bigger Local Market Share (Amit Roy Houdhury, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,72145,00.html?>
Apple Computer will aggressively showcase its new notebooks and mobile wireless solutions in Singapore in order to grab a bigger market share.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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New Wireless 11g 'Standard' Ends In Tears (Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/29250.html>
It is nearly a year since NewsWireless Net warned of the disasters looming if American wireless manufacturers went ahead with 802.11g - the go-faster WiFi standard. Now, we hear of incompatibility problems between rival 11g products - discovered in "secret" testing sessions. Are we really supposed to be surprised?

Apple: It's The Software, Stupid (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2910528,00.html>
It's nice to report a warming of the Microsoft/Apple relationship even as Apple finds it necessary to compete even more aggressively with Microsoft products. This should be an interesting spring and summer for the two companies' shared customers.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Running To Stand Still (Charles Arthur, The Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=377115>
What's not so nice about iMovie is its chronically bad playback and tendency to bring on the "spinning pizza of death".

The New 12" PowerBook: Slick And Sexy, But Not Without Its Faults (Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2776>
If you want a cheaper Powerbook to boast to your friends, or you want a fast-ish Powerbook that is able to do its job fine and be small and really be portable, this is the Mac laptop you were looking for. And no matter what, don't buy an iBook.

Freedom Force (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/freedomforce.shtml>
Freedom Force ends up being a game full of missed opportunities.

1.2 GHz PowerForce G4 Series 100 In A Cube (Bill Fox, Macs Only!)
<http://www.macsonly.com/pl1200.html>
The 1.2 GHz PowerLogix PowerForce Series 100 G4 CPU upgrade makes our Cube very fast. It's cool to have the fastest single CPU Mac on the planet, even if for just a little while.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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eMachines Turns Support Into Profit (Paul Andrews, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134631194_paul10.html>
Not only is eMachines making money selling computers, it is experiencing rapid growth in a stagnant market. Moreover, it's doing so in the long shadow of the industry's Pac-Man, Dell Computer.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Broadband Over Power Lines? (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57605,00.html>
Coming to a home or office near you could be an electric Internet: high-speed Web access via ubiquitous power lines, of all things, making every electrical outlet an always-on Web connection.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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New Wireless 11g 'Standard' Ends In Tears (Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/29250.html>
It is nearly a year since NewsWireless Net warned of the disasters looming if American wireless manufacturers went ahead with 802.11g - the go-faster WiFi standard. Now, we hear of incompatibility problems between rival 11g products - discovered in "secret" testing sessions. Are we really supposed to be surprised?

Scientists Of Very Small Draw Disciplines Together (Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/technology/10NANO.html>
Nanotechnology, biotechnology, electronics and brain research are converging into a new field of science vital to the nation's security and economic clout. Or so say influential research agenda-setters like the National Science Foundation, along with a loose-knit group of government, academic and industry researchers who are trying to accelerate the convergence process.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Sanity And Justice Slipping Away (Jonathan Turley, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-turley10feb10,1,7339230.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Ashcroft rolls over legal rights to pursue a demented terror suspect.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Publishers Give Classics A Makeover (Bill Goldstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/business/media/10BOOK.html?8hpib>
Forget about agents and auctions and multimillion-dollar contracts. The stiffest competition in the book business may be among the many publishers staking claim to Dickens, Austen, Herodotus and Plato.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Apple Aims For Bigger Local Market Share (Amit Roy Houdhury, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,72145,00.html?>
Apple Computer will aggressively showcase its new notebooks and mobile wireless solutions in Singapore in order to grab a bigger market share.

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

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