[MyAppleMenu] Feb 11, 2003

Tue Feb 11 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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New Mac Tool Is Kon-Fabulous (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57620,00.html>
Konfabulator, released on Monday, is a JavaScript runtime application for Mac OS X that runs little custom programs called Widgets. Widgets can be almost anything, from games to system monitors, stock tickers, utilities or Web services.

Microsoft To Tweak Office For Macs (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-984074.html>
Microsoft is set to offer this summer a long-awaited upgrade to the Macintosh version of its Office suite. The update will give Mac customers access to corporate calendar and contact information stored on a server running the software giant's Exchange software.

Apple Outlines Job Cuts (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-984068.html>
Apple Computer eliminated 260 positions in the last three months of last year as it closed manufacturing operations in Singapore and shifted strategy in its PowerSchool education unit, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Google Tops Branding Poll (Reuters)
<http://money.cnn.com/2003/02/11/news/companies/google.reut/>
Search engine beats out Apple and Coke In Web survey as brand with the most impact.

Apple Pays Jobs For Use Of Jet The Company Bought Him (Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5152110.htm>
Apple has paid Steve Jobs more than $1.2 million for the use of a Gulfstream V jet it bought for him two years ago. Apple paid nearly $90 million for the jet, taxes and its delivery.

Apple Extends Enterprise Reach (Mark Jones, Paul Krill, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/10/06HNapple_1.html>
XserveRAID signal new market opportunities.

IMG Celebrates Its 10 Birthday (Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=7038>

Peachpit Press Releases "Mac OS X For Windows Users: A Switchers' Guide" (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/02/10/peachpit>

Apple Announces WWDC Dates, Tracks (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/10.wwdc.php>
At WWDC, developers find out the direction Apple will be taking in the next 12 months with Mac OS X and other technologies the company has developed. The conference also gives developers a chance to meet with Apple engineers and fellow developers.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple, Sun Embrace Openness (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/10/HNmoore_1.html>
In important ways, Apple and Sun are leading a charge toward inexpensive, scalable, and easily managed enterprise computing.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Virtual PC v 6.0.1 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/vertpc601.shtml>
It is actually a pleasure to use. At least as far as running a PC in emulation mode on your Mac. As far as running Windows, well, that's another story...

Wacom Graphire2 Graphics Tablet (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/03/0210.html>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Memory Overload (Jim Lewis, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/view.html?pg=2>
As hard drives get bigger and cheaper, we're storing way too much.

Moore's Law To Roll On For Another Decade (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984051.html>
Moore's Law will continue for at least another 10 years, according to Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, but it's going to take a lot of work.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Google Tops Branding Poll (Reuters)
<http://money.cnn.com/2003/02/11/news/companies/google.reut/>
Search engine beats out Apple and Coke In Web survey as brand with the most impact.

Corporate Customers In The Driver's Seat (Larry Dignan, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-984108.html>
Newly wiser chief technology and information officers, once persuaded to buy products simply to keep pace with the blinding pace of the industry, are rejecting axioms that have dictated spending decisions for years.

KDE 3.1 (Jason Brooks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,879405,00.asp>
The KDE Project's K Desktop Environment update forms the face of desktop Linux for many users, and it's a face that has grown markedly more attractive in this release.

Creating A Culture Of IDeas (Nicholas Negroponte, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/negroponte0203.asp>
To build a nation of innovators, we should focus on youth, diversity, and collaboration.

Happy Birthday XML! (Shawn Wildermuth, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2788>
Few five years olds have had as much impact as our little XML has these last few years.

BlackBerrys Get In Wireless Sync (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-984050.html>
Research In Motion is adding wireless synchronization to its BlackBerry pagers, a move that puts the company in step with key rival Good Technology.

Sales Increase For U.S. Linux Servers (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984010.html>
Sales in the United States of servers running Linux nearly doubled in last year's fourth quarter from a year earlier, according to new statistics from market researcher Gartner Dataquest.

.Net Patent Could Stifle Standards Effort (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html>
Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative. If approved as is, the patent would cover application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow actions related to accessing the network, handling Extensible Markup Language (XML), and managing data from multiple sources.

Linux Start-Up Wins $10 Million (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984069.html>
Sistina Software, a start-up with software to help numerous Linux servers collectively share a single set of data, has obtained $10 million in venture funding, the company said Monday.

Amazon Tries Word Of Mouth (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/business/media/10ADCO.html?ex=1040360400&en=0af7158d1cc97ad9&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA>
Amazon has turned its quantitative prowess on one of the most vexing questions in marketing: Is television advertising worth the expense? Amazon's answer is no. And it has canceled plans for any television or general-purpose print advertising this year. The company is so sure of its decision that it has dismantled its five-member advertising department, assigning the employees to other roles.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Bush's Credibility Gap On The Economy (David S. Broder, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42808-2003Feb7.html>
When Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle reached back a generation and revived the term "credibility gap" for a rhetorical attack on the policies of President Bush, it was not a casual or accidental choice of words.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Creating A Culture Of IDeas (Nicholas Negroponte, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/negroponte0203.asp>
To build a nation of innovators, we should focus on youth, diversity, and collaboration.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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When Crises Make TV All Too Real (Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-braxton10feb10,0,7013785.story?coll=cl%2Dcalendar>
Broadcast networks may pride themselves on their ability to cover news, but few things cause more agita for executives than when actual events refuse to stay within the confines of the early evening half hour or the prime-time magazines.

TV's Whodunit Effect (Carlene Hempel, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0209/forensic.htm>
Police dramas are having an unexpected impact in the real world: The public thinks every crime can be solved, and solved now -- just like on television.

True Grits (Jeet heer and Steve Penfold, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/040/focus/True_Grits+.shtml>
Forget McDonaldization: In the age of Krispy Kreme and Burritoville, fast-food chains may help preserve regional identity.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Restless (Miranda F. Mellis, BeeHive)
<http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps52/mellis/f01.html>
When Selah's house down in the valley was flooded Justine was there for her. She waded up to her neck to float Selah's gun metal chest to dry ground. She didn't get home until one thirty in the morning, hours late. Martin, her son -the middle child- had been waiting obediently since seven, their agreed upon departure time. Justine came in shaking from the cold. Martin lay in the doorway curled up, watching the door, napping, waiting, playing with shadows.

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