[MyAppleMenu] Jun 2, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Jun 2, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Switches On PowerBook Cuts (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1044_3-1012074.html?type=pt&part=marketwatch-cnet&tag=feed&subj=news>
"We want to get to a point where we are selling as many notebooks as desktops, and you need to do some stuff to make that happen."

Apple Drops 12, 15-Inch PowerBook Prices Up To $300 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/02/powerbook/>
The 12-inch PowerBook G4 is available from $1,599, a price drop of $200. What's more, Apple's 15-inch PowerBook G4 is now available from $1,999 -- a drop of $300.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Formac Introduces New FireWire TV Recording Solution (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/02/formac>

Apple's Ive Wins 'Designer Of The Year' Award (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/02/ive>
Jonathan ive, Apple's chief design guru, has been named "Designer of the Year" by london's Design Meseum.

Apple Canada Cuts Laptop Prices Even Further (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19624>

Xserves Power iTunes Music Store, 'America 24/7' (Jim Darlymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/02/xserve/>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Lower Your Blood Pressure (Sandy McMurray, The Globe And Mail)
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030602.gtsandyjune2/BNPrint/Technology/?mainhub=GT>
I've switched to the Mac because it works and because it doesn't make me miserable.

Apple, Amazon In Online Music Talks (Tim Arango, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/business/135.htm>
Apple and Amazon.com are working on a deal that will make Apple's popular new online music store available on Amazon, The Post has learned.

Resistance Really Was Futile (Andrew Leonard, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2003/06/02/unholy_alliance/index.html>
Far from admitting guilt, it looks as though Microsoft took advantage of AOL's need for cash to establish another major beachhead for its products.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Snowball Run (Karen Halloran, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=375>
It's a solid game that's well worth purchasing, especially considering the amount of entertainment you'll get at the price point.

Bloodrayne (MacGamer)
<http://www.macgamer.com/features/?id=1557>

iBook 14.1in 900Mhz (Kenny Hemphill, MacUser UK)
<http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/reviews_story.php?id=42686>
If you want a robust, reasonably powered low-cost portable, this iBook won't let you down.

Snowball Run (Mark Lowe, Mac Game Database)
<http://www.gamedb.com/ssps/0/8/00038>
Nice idea, but looks like it didn't finish its beta cycle.

d2 External FireWire CD-RW Drive (Dan Boland, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/9.06/d2.shtml>
At a reasonable price, this speedy drive will make anyone who burns CDs extremely happy with the results.

NetNewsWire Lite (Byron Hinson, TopTechTips)
<http://www.toptechtips.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=6>
There are no better RSS news readers around at the moment, and I certainly can't find any faults with NetNewsWire at all.

Need For Feed (Shyma S, Rediff)
<http://www.rediff.com/netguide/2003/jun/02rss.htm>
News aggregators provide an easy and efficient way of surfing the Internet.

Snowball Run (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/snowballrun.shtml>
The monotonous gameplay wasn't incentive enough to keep me playing.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Digital Media Becomes Focus As Microsoft And AOL Settle (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/technology/02PLAY.html?ex=1055131200&en=6219e2a7a6989097&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
The corporate armistice declared last week between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner reflected two companies moving from the past to the future.

Internet Explorer 7.0 (Joel Spolsky)
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20030601.html>
Considering that AOL spent $4.2 billion to buy Netscape, you'd think somebody would have noticed that they already have a browser component.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Everything Has A Price, Including Your Private Information (Jamie Court, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-court2jun02,1,4818991.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Until the individual and society make new demands, corporate power will not concede.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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In Computing, Weighing Sheer Power Against Vast Pools Of Data (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/technology/02SUPE.html>
Innovation in data-storage technology is now significantly outpacing progress in computer processing power, heralding a new era where vast pools of digital data are becoming the most crucial element in scientific research.

SCO's CEO Says Buyout Could End Linux Fight (Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81709,00.html?SKC=home81709>
If IBM wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparanetly all ears.

>From The Battlefield To The Enterprise (InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/reports/SRbattle.html>
Some key technologies -- deployed on a massive scale in Afghanistan and Iraq -- may hold promise for corporate IT.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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In TV News, Taking Credit Is Called Business As Usual (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/rosenberg/cl-et-howard2jun02.story>
Many television newsrooms are surely puzzled by what happened to Rick Bragg at the New York Times. Either that or they're having a big laugh about it.

Bylines, Datelines And Fault Lines At The N.Y. Times (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1358-2003Jun1.html>
How did one of the world's greatest newspapers wind up in a civil war?

More News, Less Diversity (Matthew Hindman and Kenneth Neil Cukier, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/opinion/02HIND.html>
While regulation must remain flexible to account for technological change, the Internet shouldn't be invoked to justify diluting existing safeguards.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Wheelchair Users Take Flight (Karlin Lillington, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59020,00.html>
An experimental mix of virtual reality and input devices tailored for people with disabilities is helping children express themselves artistically.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Scholars Who Blog (David Glenn, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i39/39a01401.htm>
The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of academics.

Music This Beautiful Is Something To Share (Leo Harris, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/920468.asp>
Thousands of black children will grow up without ever hearing beethoven--unless I get to them first.

Light And Darkness In Canada (John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-heroines22jun01174418,1,6515685.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dmagazine>
Photographer Lincoln Clarkes found beauty in Vancouver's female drug addicts. He didn't know he was also documenting murder.

Success Translates (Lewis Beale, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-beale02jun02,0,6117536.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
Foreign crime writers such as Scotsman Alexander McCall Smith and Russia's Boris Akunin are riding a mini-wave of great reviews and booming sales in America.

Ali's In Wonderland (Harriet Lane, The Observer)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,967855,00.html>
When she was voted one of the UK's best young novelists, Monica Ali's first book was only  a manuscript. Now she's being hailed as a new Zadie Smith.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Folklore Of Our Times (Haruki Murakami, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030609fi_fiction>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Only A Matter Of Days Before N-E MRT Line Opens (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,192589,00.html?>
SBS Transit and the Land Transport Authority are hoping 'it will be ready for revenue operation in the middle of the month'.

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