[MyAppleMenu] Jan 12, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Jan 12, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Surfin' Safari (Michael Calore, Webmonkey)
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/03/02/index3a.html>
Good job, Apple. Now get to work!

Come Together (Steve Gillmor, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/03/01/13/030113opcurve.xml>
The messages are building one on top of the other -- control of our destiny, freedom of choice, the elegant marriage of design and vision.

MyAppleMenu : News
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The X Factor: Apple Rolls Out New Version Of X11 Windowing Environment (Doc Searls, Linux Journal)
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6566&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>
Latest move for OS X is intended to bring parity with other UNIXes and deepen its Open Source community involvement.

Enthusiasm Returns To Macworld (Ellen Lee, Contra Costa Times)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/4930058.htm>
Attendees feel more upbeat after calling last year's event 'depressing,' but critics say there's little new to get excited about.

Apple At Work (J.N. Sbranti, The Modesto Bee)
<http://www.modbee.com/workmoney/story/5869438p-6833721c.html>
Macintosh vendors are fighting hard against the notion that only personal computers can compete in the business world.

The Science Of Learning (Michael Seville, The Register-Pajaronian)
<http://www.zwire.com/news/newsstory.cfm?newsid=6662998&title=%3Cp%3EThe%20science%20of%20learning&BRD=1197&PAG=461&CATNAME=Top%20Stories&CATEGORYID=410>
Technology has changed education, including the daily procedures in the classroom.

MWSF '03 FireWire 800 Roundup (Sean Yepez, MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=372>
Eager to market faster transfer rates and longer range of FireWire 800 technology, solution providers have been quick to adopt the new standard. A few key early adopters of IEEE1394b exhibited their new products at January's Macworld Expo.

The Macworld SF Audio Report: More Goodies For Mac OS X (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2003/01/mwsf/mwsf03audio/>
Much to the joy of the ever-thirsty Mac audio crowd, nestled among the aisles of San Francisco’s 2003 Macworld Expo were many new arrivals for Mac OS X audio.

More Fun Than A Barrel Of iPods (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57177,00.html>
There was a rumor circulating on the show floor at Macworld concerning a well-organized gang of thieves stealing new PowerBooks from Apple's booth.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Yes, The World Needs Another Browser (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/01/163.htm#browser>
Yes, Safari's initial popularity and performance potential shows that the Mac world did indeed need another Web browser. It may not be your cup of tea, but this is one cool program, dude.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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In Pro Digital Photography, Megahertz Matters (Rob Galbraith)
<http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2003-01/2003_01_07_macpc.html>
What's there to say but the obvious: The fastest dual processor Mac has been soundly thumped by one of the fastest single processor PCs.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Collaboration Cure (Russell Kay, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/03/01/13/030113apcollab.xml>
The real opportunity behind the Tablet PC involves collaboration and markup.

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

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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You've Got (A Lot Of) Mail (Don Aucoin, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0112/currents.htm>
Baby boomers and Gen Xers persuaded their folks to go online. Now life at the office will never be the same.

If Chickens Are So Smart, Why Aren't They Eating Us? (William Grimes, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/weekinreview/12GRIM.html>
PETA has started a worldwide "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" campaign, but are chickens really as intelligent as dogs or cats?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Urban Scrawl (Robert Campbell, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0112/coverstory.htm>
Is Boston's obsession with history stifling new architecture, making it timid, dull, and sometimes downright ugly?

Of Age And Attitude (Lucille deView, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-deview02jan12,0,6699957.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dmagazine>
I'm 82, and I'll conduct my own interview, thanks.

Affordable Access To Asia (Jerry V. Haines, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-accessasia12jan12,0,3971209.story?coll=la%2Dtravel%2Dheadlines>
Too much of a good thing is wonderful on a low-cost airline pass trip to Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Taiwan

Nightmare On Constitution Avenue (Jim Myers, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24948-2003Jan7.html>
The logistical horror of making movies in Washington is getting worse. Just ask Carol Flaisher, the capital's location queen.

Crafting Hope (Phil McCombs, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37985-2003Jan10.html>
The journey of a human soul from dust to dust can be a bumpy ride, and so it's been for Beverly Reighard of the little town of Jersey Shore, Pa.

Prison Is A Member Of Their Family (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/magazine/12PRISON.html>
Toney and Lolli are one of the growing number of couples trying to raise kids, pay bills and fall in and out of love with bars between them.

Los Angeles Becomes A Base For Cutting-Edge Performance (John Rockwell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/arts/theater/12ROCK.html>
Today, seemingly all of a sudden, theater, dance, music and strange hybrids thereof are cropping up all over the Los Angeles basin.

Where The Girls Aren't (Karen Stabiner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/edlife/12STABINE.html>
Computer science has become the new math -- boys only. Is it nature or conditioning?

A Different Drum (Ariel Dorfman, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,872161,00.html>
With the world on the brink of war, the need for stories of peace is paramount.

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