[MyAppleMenu] Jan 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Jan 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Claims BETT Hat Trick (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5796>
For the third year on the bounce Apple has landed an award at the UK IT in education show BETT.

Apple To Send OS X On Safari (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-979938.html>
Apple is planning on taking a page out of Microsoft's book, and integrating its new browser technology into the Mac OS X operating system.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Macworld: It Takes All Kinds (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57155,00.html>
Visitors to Macworld come from all walks of life. Leander Kahney talks to a waitress turned documentary filmmaker, a church musician and an antiques dealer who doesn't even use computers, to mention just a few.

Windows At Macworld? Believe It (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57158,00.html>
Perhaps the most unusual exhibitor at this year's Macworld tradeshow is a company that sells, of all things, glass windows. Also please don't eat the snails.

Nvidia Targets Mac Games Users (Gamesindustry.biz)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28792.html>
Nvidia is muscling its way onto the packaging of a significant number of games for the Mac platform.

Apple UK Tops Schools Poll (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5793>
Schools were asked to detail how satisfied they were with their ICT products and services -- and Apple was ahead of the pack.

Print Shop, Kid Pix Deluxe, More Coming To OS X (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
< Linux will be successful not only in lower-end servers, but also in higher-powered machines at the heart of corporate computing, a new study concludes.>
The logjam of educational and home software that isn't available for Mac OS X will soon be broken if Mac conversion house Software MacKiev has anything to do with it.

Film To Fibre: Price And Proliferation (Jeanne-Vida Douglas, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20271146,00.htm>
At roughly ten percent of the cost of their precursors, the latest in digital editing suites have opened the film production floodgates, placing professional editing equipment within the reach of small scale production houses and independent directors.

Dell Flunks Environmental Test (Austin Business Journal)
<http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/01/06/daily37.html>
IBM and Apple ranked highest among U.S. companies.

Gadget Takes iTunes To The Living Room (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-979988.html>
The HomePod downloads songs one at a time and plays them either through a stereo or by connecting directly to speakers.

MPEG-4 Backers Protest Microsoft License (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980007.html>
Proponents of MPEG-4 are decrying Microsoft's new licensing fees for rival technology, saying that the pricing poses unfair competition and threatens consumer choice.

Apple Embraces Two New Fast Standards (Jim Dalrymple and David Read, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0301/09.apple.php>
During Tuesday's keynote address, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced two new technologies on the new 17-inch PowerBook that should give users more bandwidth for wireless networking and FireWire than ever before.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Installing CD-RW Raises Burning Questions (Gary Kirchherr, Erie Times-News)
<http://goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=GE&Date=20030110&Category=OPINION07&ArtNo=101100214&Ref=AR>
Sooner or later something is going to go wrong, and that means diving back into the addictive world of computer-tinkering.

Macworld: The Real Show Is The Audience (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2565>
I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mac users are the best people in the world of technology ... but certainly, they are the nicest.

More On The Macworld Expo (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/technology/circuits/09POGUE-EMAIL.html?tntemail0>
The truth is, my report was over 2000 words long in its first draft. What a shame, I thought, to have to cut so much interesting secondary information--and what luck to have an email column where I can put it!

Safari A Jaguar In Sheep's Clothing? (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/articles/03/01/10/0044210.shtml>
So what are some other possibilities if we stop thinking of Safari as CyberDog the Sequel?

Where Apple's Going Astray (Arthur Kannas, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2009-1081-979911.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Safari Shows Off The Apple Difference (Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/03/0109.html>
If you can get a sense of this true interface philosophy and integrated design, you can see what it is Apple is trying to market.

The 17" PowerBook G4/1000 With GeForce4 440 Go Versus Other Apple Laptops (Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/pb17.html>

iApp Organize Whom You Know, Where You Go (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1730790>
I sometimes pine for Entourage's superior searching, printing and notifying, but iCal and Address Book have the killer feature I can't live without: They work with iSync.

In-Depth: 12-Inch PowerBook (Sean Yepez, MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=367>
I was able to spend time with the PowerBook and its engineers to examine the finest details of the design with a fine-toothed comb to bring you exactly what you can't know without using the unit.

iPhoto 2.0 Steps, Not Dashes, Forward (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2567>
Lots of other little improvements, such as easier access to your iTunes library, make iPhoto 2.0 a worthy download.

Why Are Safari And Sherlock Two Different Applications? (Jason kottke)
<http://www.kottke.org/03/01/030108why_are_safa.html>
Why the distinction between regular web browsing and web browsing using specialized interfaces for structured data?

Web-Surfing Safari (Jason Brooks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,817915,00.asp>
According to Apple, KHTML was selected as Safari's foundation for its leanness and speed, and these were the two attributes that impressed us most in tests of the Apple browser.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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A Microsoft Watch Will Provide Much More Than Time (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/technology/09SOFT.html>
Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, today introduced designs for a new class of watch that gives more than the time and a pocket audio and video player.

Is There Truth Behind The Macromedia Takeover Rumors? (Cade Metz, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,815771,00.asp>
Chances are, this won't happen—-at least not anytime soon. Microsoft isn't in a position to unceremoniously purchase competitors and kill off their products.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Expert: Alleged Wi-Fi Risks Are Nonsense (Mitch Wagner, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20030109S0001>
A popular technology Weblogger says warnings about the supposed security risks of Wi-Fi networking are nonsense.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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W3C Releases Scripting Standard, Caveat (Paul Festa, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-979976.html>
The Web's leading standards body released a long-delayed recommendation for using scripts in Web pages but urged coders not to rely too heavily on scripting.

Study: Linux Headed For High End, Too (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-980054.html>
Linux will be successful not only in lower-end servers, but also in higher-powered machines at the heart of corporate computing, a new study concludes.

Why Don't They Make Stuff That Won't Break? (David Kirkpatrick, Fortune)
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/09/fortune.ff.break.why/>
Too many machines and software products either don't work very well or don't work at all.

Here Comes 'We Media' (Dan Gillmor, Columbia Journalism Review)
<http://www.cjr.org/year/03/1/gillmor.asp>
Tech-savvy readers want in on the conversation.

No Way For Segways? More Cities May Ban Scooter (Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/4904554.htm>
After San Francisco decided to ban the Segway from its sidewalks late last year, a number of other Bay Area cities -- from Oakland to Santa Cruz -- are considering the same move.

Radio Ditches Webcasts En Masse (Randy Dotinga, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57134,00.html>
Now the slap-happy Internet radio business is reeling from another hit, this time from the nation's most popular network of online stations.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The IMF Strikes Back (Kenneth Rogoff, Foreign Policy)
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2003/rogoff.html>
Slammed by antiglobalist protesters, developing-country politicians, and Nobel Prize–winning economists, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become Global Scapegoat Number One. But IMF economists are not evil, nor are they invariably wrong. It’s time to set the record straight and focus on more pressing economic debates, such as how best to promote global growth and financial stability.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore's Reclamation Works Affecting Naval Base, Says Najib (Malaysia Kini)
<http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/200301090018822.php>

Prices Up Unnecessarily, Consumers Complain (Li-Ann Wee and Grace Chua, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,165215,00.html>
Barely 10 days into the new year, numerous consumers have been complaining that shops and restaurants have raised prices significantly more than the one-percentage-point hike in the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

Malaysia, Singapore To Sign Pact On Feb 6 (The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/1/10/nation/hamidbatu2&sec=nation>
While Kuala Lumpur and Singapore awaited the ICJ verdict, both sides should exercise their right on the island, except on the management of the lighthouse, which remained with Singapore until the dispute was resolved.

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