[MyAppleMenu] Jun 3, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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QuickTime 6.3 Adds 3GPP, Improves iApp Support, More (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/03/quicktime/>
QuickTime 6.3 adds support for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard, bridging a connection to passing multimedia content over wireless networks on devices like cell phones and PDAs.

iSync 1.1 Adds Broader Phone Support, Safari Bookmarks (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/03/isync/>
The new version supports more than 20 cell phones. iSync 1.1 also enables .Mac subscribers to synchronize bookmarks using Apple's own Safari Web browser.

Mr iMac Wins Design Prize For Banishing Beige Boxes (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=411956>
Jonathan Ive is admired among designers because he pours elegance into products.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Bluetooth 1.2.1 Improves Phone Support (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/03/bluetooth/>
Thr update provides enhanced stability and support for several Symbian OS-based mobile phones.

Dashboard, Interpol May Be Headed For iTunes As Apple Woos Indies (MTV News)
<http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1472248/20030603/dashboard_confessional.jhtml?headlines=true>
Apple has invited hundreds of indie label representatives to a private presentation on Thursday at Apple's campus to discuss hopping onboard and adding their content to the more than 200,000 songs already available through the service.

The World According To Quark (Pamela Pfiffner, E-Commerce News)
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/21650.html>
For the first time in many years, Quark has to deal with a viable contender to its seat at the top of the page-layout heap. Pressure from Adobe will only increase, and Quark will need to respond.

University Art Departments Requiring 17-Inch PB (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/03/17inch/>
Virginia Tech's Department of Art & Art History is requiring the new 17-inch PowerBook for all of their incoming students in Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Art History.

Will The Beatles Take A Bite Of Apple Computer? (Fox News)
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88439,00.html#2>
Soon Apple Corps is going to want something from Apple Computer besides a few laptops for its executives.

Macquarium: Swimming In Clear E-Business Waters (Elizabeth Millard, ComputerUser.com)
<http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2206,10,46,1,0601,03.html>
As Macintoshc omputers went from being small-screened beige boxes to stylish and sleek desktop machines, some Mac owners had a quandary -- what to do with all those old clunkers?

B'Before Jonathan Ive, Digital Technology Was As Dull As A Suburban Cul-De-Sac' (Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,969340,00.html>
Ive's genius has been to make imaginative what was previously lacklustre, to give a glamorous, desirable and human face to a technology that has been all too much the domain of joyless office managers and electronic professionals for all too many years.

MacExpo 2003 Off To Flyer (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6401>
MacExpo 2003 is shaping up to be a major event, with a series of high-profile exhibitors signed up to appear at the show.

Keeping The Faith In Steve Jobs (Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/2003/06/02/cx_ah_0602jobs.html>
Faith isn't about the cold reality of things like market share. And that's why Jobs, in the face of so much criticism about Apple's long-term viability in the market, still commands wide approval, whent he chips are down as well as when the chips are up.

iMac Designer Who 'Touched Millions' Wins &pound;25,000 Award (John Ezard, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,969347,00.html>
Jonathan Ive won the Design Museum's first designer of the year award for a range of innovations from the Apple iMac to the iPod.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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I Have To Disagree With Many About The iTunes 4.0.1 Update (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3260>
Sure, I wish Apple didn't have to limit the streaming of music. But even more, I hated how things were before April 28, and I don't want to go back. Ever.

Thinking Too Different: Why Mac Users Are Slow To Adopt OS X (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/03/0603.html>
If Apple wants to gain converts, they need to make OS X as easy, as elegant, as simple, as powerful, as friendly, and as comfortable as the best OS these people have ever used -- the classic Mac OS.

Looney Tunes (John Gruber, Daring Fireball)
<http://daringfireball.net/2003/06/looney_tunes.html>
Apple's disabling of Internet sharing in last week's iTunes 4.0.1 update caused quite a stir. I'm baffled -- not by Apple's decision, but by much of the reaction to it.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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What Does Apple's New Wireless Technology Mean For The Future Of Networking? (Glenn Fleishman, E-Commerce News)
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/21651.html>
AirPort Extreme's new speed and the Base Station's bridging option make it a natural choice for businesses or schools looking to expand their networks in a more flexible and potentially less costly way than adding more Ethernet.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Corey Tamas, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=119>
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is cool, original and, above all else, a whole lot of fun.

Letter Perfect: Font-Management Tools For Macintosh (Micah Johnson, ComputerUser.com)
<http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2206,4,44,1,0601,03.html>

Crosswords Online: Cruciverbalizing On The Web (Kirk McElhearn, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07201>
For a reasonable cost, or even for free, cruciverbalists can have their daily fix, and solve crossword puzzles either onscreen or on paper. It may seem like a niche market, and it is, but the advantages provided by the Internet allow it to turn a tidy profit, something relatively few other types of content have accomplished.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Searching For Online Gold (Doug Brown, American Journalism Review)
<http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3027>
Newspapers are trying a variety of methods to wring money from their Web sites. One increasingly popular approach is requiring visitors to register, in order to amass data to help boost advertising. But the paid-subscription model is losing favor.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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The MP3 Economy (Nancy Einhart, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,49472,00.html>
How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar.

Lawyers Against Linux (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/03/sco_linux/>
Armed with old patents, a software company launches a billion-dollar suit against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM -- and only succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.

SCO Actions Prompt Linux Warning (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1012162.html>
Analyst firm Gartner has recommended that customers minimize their use of Linux on important systems because of questions resulting from SCO Group's warnings about legal liability.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Cult Of ID (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2083830/>
Our strange obsession with driver's license photos.

Standard Operating Procedure (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/opinion/03KRUG.html>
It's long past time for this administration to be held accountable.

The News Is Out There (Dennis Roddy, Post-Gazette)
<http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20030601roddy0601p1.asp>
The tragedy of the Jayson Blair incident will soon become that readers will get a lesser story because journalists around thenation proved unable to tell the difference between covering the news and covering their tails.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Playing Music As A Toy, And A Toy As Music (James Gorman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/science/03ESSA.html>
Is there anything wrong with the lure of electronics and computer technology, the easy pleasure of video games, and electronic musical toys?

Better Babies? (Steven Pinker, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/152/focus/Better_babies_+.shtml>
Why genetic enhancement is too unlikely to worry about.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Computer Or The Cradle (Dani Shapiro, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/06/03/shapiro/index.html>
As a novelist and new mother I despaired: How could my book be a serious work of literary fiction and contain the word "poopy"?

Epidemic Of Fear (Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0601/coverstory.htm>
How the SARS scare played into America's culture of panic -- and then, just as quickly, faded from the headlines.

These Days, Business Risk Is Often The Journey (Francine Parnes, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/business/03ATTA.html>
Business travelers today, facing deterrents like terror threats and a flimsy economy, may not want to contemplate a brush with life-threatening illness or injury on the road, but frequent fliers would be well advised to do so.

Can Culture Save Us? (Andy Beckett, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/cityofculture2008/story/0,13282,968796,00.html>
Does pouring money into cultural landmarks actually regenerate run-down areas?

Salam Pax Is Real (Peter Maass, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2083847/>
How do I know Baghdad's famous blogger exists? He worked for me.

Come On Over The Water's Lovely (Mark Steyn, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/01/wsteyn01.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/06/01/ixnewstop.html>
There's no dysentery or cholera, no sign of a human catastrophe, the roads and medical centres are empty and the countryside charming. Yes, there's no place like Iraq for a holiday.

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