[MyAppleMenu] Jun 9, 2003

Mon Jun 9 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Jun 9, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Laptops In Schools Click, Win Support (Associated Press)
<http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/030609laptops.shtml>
Maine's first-in-the-nation program that put computers on the laps of students in all 241 public middle schools has received high marks as the first full year of the experiment draws to a close this month.

MyAppleMenu : News
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BugBear Virus Slows .Mac E-Mail Service (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/09/mac>
"While the bug apparently only affects Windows executables files, the massive amount of waste e-mail generated took its toll on Apple's already high-load .Mac mail servers."

Apple Offers Security Update For OS X (Peter ohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/09/security/>
The new security update addresses a potential problem that arises when AFP is used to reshare a NFS mount. Also addressed is a potential situation that causes LDAP bind authentication requests to be improperly sent when using Kerberos authentication.

Macs Against Cancer: Dr. David B. Agus (Chris Mace and Claudia Palz, MacDirectory)
<http://macdirectory.com/ntrvu/MacsAgainstCancer/index.html>

Apple Store Coming To Santa Monica, CA (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/09/applestore>

Greene County Looks At 'Learning With Laptops' Program (Angela Hame, The Daily Reflector)
<http://www.reflector.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/06/09/1055132884.03033.9990.3792.html>
"Apple has a tremendous dedication to education. I'm very optimistic at this point (about a partnership)."

Apple To Spotlight 'Digital Classroom' At NECC (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/09/necc/>
Apple will show how incorporating Apple technology into the curriculum can: promote mastery of basic skills; engage and motivate students; and provide an environment that fosters higher order skills, such as problem solving and collaboration.

Apple Peeling Off (Tim Arango, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/business/662.htm>
While selling a half-million songs a week isn't bad, considering the service is only available to the 3 percent of computer users with Macintosh computers, some music execs had hoped the service would sell 1 million to 2 million tracks per week.

Reader: Misleading iTunes Store Ad (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19685>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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64-Bit Macs May Outpace 'Panther' (Nick Ciarelli and Matthew Rothenberg, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1121730,00.asp>
Apple is nearing the release of desktop systems featuring IBM's 64-bit PowerPC 970 chip, sources report -- but a 64-bit version of Mac OS X may lag behind by a month or two.

Saving Commencement (Dean Browell, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/oped/skewed/archives/skewed_030606.shtml>
This story is not atypical of the jams Apple has gotten me out of by just being a high quality hardware and software maker.

Dad Offers Barometer Of Tech World (Paul Andrews, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134937810_paul09.html>
What my dad does with his computer is in many ways more telling about the state of the industry than what early adopters are doing.

Apple Gets It Right With iTunes System (Randall Rothenberg, AdAge.com)
<http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=38003>
What makes Apple's new music-distribution system so delicious (f not downright insidious) is that you don't think of it as a music distribution system. Apple has managed to fashion a near-perfect retail outlet on the Web.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Want Souped-Up Application Switching? Check Out LiteSwitch X! (John F. Braun, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/macgadget/2003/20030609.shtml>

Uplink (Zack Lipowski, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=377>
Uplink is satisfyingly unique and fresh, and a great addition to the growing Mac library. Don't miss it.

iPod Old Vs New - A Comparative Analysis (Taylor Barcroft, iPod-Zone)
<http://www.ipod-zone.com/>

VR Worx 2.1 (Rick Sanchez, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0305/rev.vrworx2.html>
In one app you can easily create impressive, interactive VR objects, panoramas, and scenes -- and the whole process is deceptively simple.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Still Certifying Leaky Drivers (Paul Roberts, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/09/HNleaky_1.html>
Months after promising to tighten up its procedures for certifying third-party software drivers, Microsoft is still giving the green light to network interface card (NIC) drivers that leak sensititve user information from machines running Windows Server 2003, according to a prominent security company.

Microsoft Plays To Film Industry (Aram Sinnreich, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,59107,00.html>
The software company wants Hollywood to use its Media Player technology in the industry from start to finish -- from filming and post-production to distribution. While some are intrigued, Microsoft still has much industry trust to win.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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States Skirt Internet Tax Ban (Brian Krebs, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33787-2003Jun9.html>
Several states are trying to get around a federal tax moratorium to battle their budget deficits.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Linux Rocket Hits The Launch Pad (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59144,00.html>
This week, a group of amateur rocketeers will present plans to launch a high-power, suborbital rocket controlled by Linux. If it works, the craft will travel at Mach 3 to 50,000 feet.

Bell Tolling For PNG Graphics Format? (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1014236.html>
A patent underlying one of the Web's most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a roylaty-free alternative, will become obsolete.

EU Ends Free Internet Tax Ride (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-1014519.html>
On July 1, a new EU directive goes into effect requiring all Internet companies to account for value added tax, or VAT, on "digital sales."

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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In Gold Ink On A Chip, The World's Tiniest Book (Julie Flaherty, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/technology/09TINY.html>
To the naked eye, it looks like a fleck of tile decorated with the Greek letters alpha and omega. But when it is magnified by a factor of 600, its true nature becomes evident -- the world's most portable copy of the New Testament.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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As Poetry, Is It Defensible? (Renee Tawa, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-tawa9jun09.story>
Humorist Hart Seely has put togther a book of quotations from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that contains some, uh, real gems.

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