[MyAppleMenu] Jun 6, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Jun 6, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple iTunes + Independent Music (Derek Sivers)
<http://www.cdbaby.net/itunes>
I got an invitation to go to Apple's offer for a presentation/meeting about how to get independent artists into the iTunes Music Store. I wrote down all the major points of their presentation as they went.

MyAppleMenu : News
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.Mac Email Difficulties Continue (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19683>
.Mac users have reported email-related problems for over a week.

'iCreate' Mac Magazine Launched (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/06/icreate>
Paragon Publishing has announced the launch of "iCreate," a new UK-based magazine aimed at creative Mac users.

Aladdin Ships Spring Cleaning 6 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/06/spring/>
The new version is optimized for Mac OS X, and sports improved performance, organization and privacy capabilities, according to the developer.

Pogue To Speak At SoHo Apple Store (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/06/pogue/>

George Spyros: Directing In DVD (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/dvdstudiopro/stories/spyros/>
While DVD Studio Pro is often the star of the show, it doesn't stand alone either.

iTunes Music Swap Just Won't Die (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59127,00.html>
Apple may never be ablet o stop Mac users from sharing music over the Internet, despite its best attempts.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Discussion: Celebrating 26 Years Of The Apple ][ (Slashdot)
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0459252>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Legion (Dean Browell, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=376>
This is a game that could provide hours of up-late-all-night intensity, or even casual pick-up play on a portable.

Installing A Wiki On Your iBook (Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/06/05/wiki.html>

The Browser Wars: New OmniWeb Beta Improves On Original (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#omniweb>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Alters Settlement To Address Apple Concerns (Karen Gullo, Bloomberg)
<http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0306/06/technology-184923.htm>
Vouchers are good for software "produced by other companies that compete with and/or have substantially similar functionality to" Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel and Office.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Phoning Over Wi-Fi Getting Easier (Elisa Batista, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,59129,00.html>
The so-called "voice over Wi-Fi" service is not ubiquitous today. But it is a breakthrough that could roll the cell-phone business, some analysts say.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Economy Will Revive But IT Job Market May Take Months To Bounce Back (Margaret Quan, EE Times)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030606S0010>
Economists and management experts are cautioning that it will take six months to a year for the technology sector and IT job market to return to positive territory despite the Bush administration's plans to simulate the economy through tax and interest rate cuts.

Wired To Publish Slammer Code (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-1013974.html>
Wired magazine plans to publish the underlying code for the Slammer worm that slowed Internet traffic to a crawl in January, raising questions over whether such articles inspire future hackers or educate potential victims.

New IBM Supercomputer To Begin Its Weather Work (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/technology/06SUPE.html>
The federal government will use the new computer to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts, particularly to help predict the path of hurricanes three to five days in advance, providing additional time to prepare for the storms.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Weapons Of Mass Deception (Jake Tapper, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/06/06/wmd/index_np.html>
The Bush administration goes into full spin mode and Tony Blair battles to save his political life, as charges mount that they lied their way into war.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Pixar: The Geniuses Behind Finding Nemo Are The Next Disney. Uh-Oh (Chris Suellentrop, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2084011/>
Pixar needs Disney because that's how it outsources its Evil.

Sound Familiar? A Leak, An Uproar And Talk Of A Suit (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/05/national/05BOOK.html>
The pre-publication reports of some emotional details from the memoir of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sent her publisher scrambling yesterday to protect its carefully calibrated marketing plans.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore's Sars Checks Satsify KL (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,193345,00.html?>
Malaysian officials say they feel 'very reassured' after visiting Woodlands checkpoint to see how screening is done.

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