[MyAppleMenu] Jan 13, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Jan 13, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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How To Turn Apples Into Ferraris (John Carroll, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-980319.html>
Apple needs to make it easier and less expensive for  developers of desktop applications to write products  that run on the Mac OS.  Since most desktop developers  are Windows-oriented, that means they need to make it  easier for Windows developers to target the Mac.

The Byte From The Apple Is Rotten At Its ore (Mitch Stone, Ventura County Star)
<http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/technology/article/0,1375,VCS_129_1669769,00.html>
No matter how much Apple's critics disdain Apple, one thing probably will never change: Year after year, the relentless Steve Jobs continues to make them pay attention.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Macworld Organizer Bets On Apple (Matthew Rothenberg and Radhika Kaushik, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,825703,00.asp>
IDG reportedly expects to settle issue of Apple's participation in New York by the end of the this month.

iCab 2.9 Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/01/13/icab>

Apple Q1 Earnings Due Wednesday (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/01/13/aapl>

Mac Boss Seeks Switchers (Alex Katz, PC Advisor)
<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=3015>
Apple UK's Mark Rogers explains his plans to win over PC users.

School District Considers Computers For All Students (Veronica Whitney, Vail Daily)
<http://www.vaildaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=VD&Date=20030113&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=301130101&Ref=AR>
"Students at Henrico schools are more collaborative."

Math Department Rewires Laptops To Increase Student, Faculty Access (Sara Wedell, Central Michigan Life)
<http://www.cm-life.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/01/13/3e22401a3a1e5>

Software For Your 'Digital Lifestyle' (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4932470.htm>
Computers aren't just for word processing and Web browsing anymore. They have become "digital hubs" for manipulating electronic photos, movies and music.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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News.com Invents "MPEG-4 Backers Vs. Windows Media License" Protest (PlaybackTime)
<http://playbacktime.com/archives/000233.html#000233>
News.com's story is just irresponsible journalism.

The Ripe Apple -- Giving The Devil His Due (Doug Mohney, The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7166>
Apple has gotten a few things right over the years.

The MP3 Winners Of 2002 (Richard Menta, MP3NewsWire)
<http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/2002winners.html>
Capturing 15% of total MP3 player sales despite an average $400 price tag, Apple is looking at 4 million units sold since the iPod's introduction.

Apple Kills Small Developers (Dan Shafer, Eclecticity II)
<http://www.scraprap.com/WebX?14@179.mIviaeovabb.0@.1e6f62b3!discloc=.1e6fcdf0>
I don't know why Apple doesn't spend more money on its OS and less on application software best left to third parties.

Why Not An Even Smaller Powerbook? (Jonathan Gennick, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2589>
Just as some would willingly trade screen size for a smaller form-factor, preferring the 12-inch model over the 15- and 17-inch models, there are some who would trade in the CD drive as well.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Keyspan 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/misc/03/0113.html>

Apple's Safari Browser Is Hard To Close (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2586>
If Apple continues to show the intelligence and discipline with this software that they have so far, I think it will become the primary browser for many Mac users.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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The Two Faces Of Linux (Brian Fonseca and Ed Scannell, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/se/xml/03/01/13/030113selinux.xml>
While Linux continues to make inroads among corporate accounts, it is also is taking on one of the burdens typically assumed by archrival Microsoft, as it becomes a more attractive target for hackers.

New Database War Shapes Up (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-980196.html>
IBM plans to debut the first fruits of a long-standing research project later this year, setting the stage for a clash with rivals in the multibillion-dollar database software market.

Digital Rights Reach Beyond Tech (lauren Weinstein, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57169,00.html>
Thirty years ago, electronics geeks figured out a way to make free phone calls -- just to stick it to greedy phone companies. Today's battle between entertainment moguls and consumers over digital content shows that not much has changed.

In The Virtual World, A Place To Chat (Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/business/13NECO.html>
A nerdy entrepreneur dreamed of a better place. Now he's made one, using $33 million and some virtual dune buggies.

Case Resigns As AOL Chairman (Chris Isidore, CNN/Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/12/news/companies/aol/>
Steve Case, the embattled chairman of AOL Time Warner Inc., surrendered to critics Sunday, announcing he would give up the board's top post at the shareholders' meeting in May.

More On SPOT, From E-Paperback Reiter (Alan Reiter, Moore's Lore)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20030101.shtml#17675>
Just about everyone writing about the SPOT watch doesn't realize that it's an old concept, an old technology and old -- and incredibly banal -- applications.

Cartel's Copyright Control Loosening (Dan GIllmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4929834.htm>
Maybe it's the new year. But for the first time in a while, I'm starting to feel more optimistic. On at least this issue, the public interest might, just might, be making a comeback.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Remember The Fear (Bob Herbert, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/opinion/13HERB.html>
It can be easy to say that the budget demands a reduction in policing. Sometimes it's not so easy to live with the consequences.

The Triumph Of Hope Over Self-Interest (David Brooks, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/12BROO.html>
Every few years a group of millionaire Democratic presidential aspirants pretends to be the people's warriors against the overclass. They look inauthentic, combative rather than unifying. Worst of all, their basic message is not optimistic.

An Unnecessary War (John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy)
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/wwwboard/walts.html>
This war would be one the Bush administration chose to fight but did not have to fight.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Digital Rights Reach Beyond Tech (lauren Weinstein, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57169,00.html>
Thirty years ago, electronics geeks figured out a way to make free phone calls -- just to stick it to greedy phone companies. Today's battle between entertainment moguls and consumers over digital content shows that not much has changed.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Local Bounty (Calvin Trillin, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030120fa_fact>
A New York-San Francisco showdown.

The War Against Movie Critics (Charles Taylor, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2003/01/13/bart/index.html>
So the editor of Variety thinks film criticism is pointless elitism. Does he speak for the moviegoing public -- or the Hollywood studio execs and corporate media bigshots who'd like to ditch the critics?

is TV News Being Driven Out Of The Chase Business? (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/rosenberg/cl-et-howard13jan13.story>
Memo to the TV news staff: Don't despair.

All Too Real (Tom Shales, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47885-2003Jan12.html>
With 'reality' TV, the networks are embarrassing teary, cringing Americans in record numbers. And those are just the viewers.

A Storyteller's Starter Kit, Stocked With Family Memories (Richard Price, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/books/13PRIC.html>
Verbal heirlooms, inspired by old family photos, had been the starter kit for 30-odd years of writing.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030120fi_fiction>
It was 1974: not a good year, clotheswise, if you were an eighteen-year-old girl, tall and overweight, with thick, curling hair and glasses.

Ojos Nuevos (Silvia Brandon Perez, Poems Niederngasse)
<http://www.niederngasse.com/published/brandon-perez_pub.html>

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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A Novelist Who Walks The Walk (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57152,00.html>
An award-winning science fiction writer and digital rights activist has persuaded the publisher of his first novel to make the book available free online for anyone to read, print or even republish on paper.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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KL Patrols Near Pedra Branca Unhindered (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,165858,00.html?>
While the Singapore authorities keep a close watch near Pedra Branca, they have not stopped any Malaysian Navy vessels from carrying out patrols as near as one nautical mile from the island, Malaysian Defence Minister Najib Razak has said.

PM Concerned At Spate Of Exits By Foreign CEOs (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,165840,00.html?>
The recent spate of departures by foreign chief executives of government-linked companies (GLCs) has Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong concerned because of the wrong impression this might create -- that Singapore no longer welcomes foreign talent.

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