[MyAppleMenu] Feb 28, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Feb 28, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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iPod Jacket Designed To Cover Any Midlife Crisis (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/5275908.htm>
So launch your persuasion campaign. Drop comments like, "It's way cheaper than a convertible, right?" Better yet, sprinkle Boxster brochures around the house. Better even yet, get the local Porsche dealer to leave eager messages on your home answering machine. That'll do it.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Adobe Vice President Moves To Apple (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/27.prescott.php>
For the second time in two years, an executive of Adobe Systems Inc. will move to Apple taking a high level position in the developer group. Susan Prescott, vice president of Product Management and Marketing, Cross Media Publishing at Adobe, will move to Apple as a vice president in the creative group.

Apple Releases Keynote Update (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0302/27.keynote.php>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Run What You Need On Whatever You Like (Peter Coffee, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,905496,00.asp>
Platform choice is a terrible reason for picking one computer over another.

How Virtual PC (Still) Helps Apple (Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,905744,00.asp>
Watching Microsoft control the destiny of Windows on the Mac might roil platform orthodoxy among some Apple partisans, but Microsoft is at heart a secular company single-mindedly focused on promoting its agenda of "Microsoft everywhere," by any means necessary. Those who question that goal might look askance at this latest acquisition, but it certainly doesn't equal Mac extinction.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Personal Storage 5000XT (Rik Myslewski, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0302/rev.ps5000s.html>
Maxtor's new Personal Storage 5000 series of hard drives offers speedy file transfers, push-button backup, quiet operation--and a few surprises.

Keeping iPod Exciting (Arik Hessldahl, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/2003/02/27/cx_ah_0227tentech.html?partner=lycos&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance%2Elycos%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Easp%3Fstory%3D31862867>
Getting an iPod or other digital music player is great fun for the first few months that you own it. But after a while of carrying around a good chunk of your musical collection in your pocket, the novelty does wear off. That's when it's time to start buying accessories that can make it do more.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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The Complete Home Entertainer? (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1606326>
Sony has gone about things differently. But its ambitions are in many ways even bolder than those of the other media giants.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Analysis: Microsoft To Fight For Your Digital Rights (John Fontana, Network World Fusion)
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0227microdrm.html>
Microsoft’s move last week to help users secure corporate documents with digital rights management will bring needed awareness to the technology but will hardly signal wide-spread adoption, according to observers.

Three Top Tech Choices For 2003 (Michael Gartenberg, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,77843,00.html>
Corporate instant messaging, Wi-Fi, and streaming video.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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It's Worse Than You Imagined (Hugh Russell, The Spectator)
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-03-01&id=2832>
There are a lot of myths about why Aids is widespread in Africa. But the facts are more bizarre.

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