[MyAppleMenu] Jun 16, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Jun 16, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Send Your Kids To Apple Camp (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/16/applecamp>
Conducted at your local Apple retail store, Apple Camp "enhance the learning, study, and research skills of students in grades 1 through 9."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Profiles In Success: B. F. Yancey Elementary School: Transforming Kids With Technology (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/yancey/>
"Working with the computers has given [the students] a sense of competency and initiative. They're starting to seek out their own learning opportunities."

Apple Store Coming To Cleveland, OH (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19770>

Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/16/internetexplorer>
The update enhances browser compatibility for users who work on a network with secure authentication or with proxy servers.

Apple To Introduce New Mac OS X Server At WWDC (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/16/wwdc/>
Apple will introduce the new version of OS X Server based on Panther and discuss how Apple products and technologies fit into today's IT environment.

Apple Shipping iLife 1.1 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/16/ilife>
The new version adds iTunes 4.0.1 to the bundle.

Apple Hardware VP To Keynote Macworld CreativePro (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/16/joswiak/>
Apple vice president of hardware product makreting Greg Joswiak will deliver the opening feature presentation at next month's Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo in New York City.

Updates To Microsoft Internet Explorer Expected Today (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/16/mie>

New Mac Site Launches For Mac Server Help (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/16/macservers>
A new Web site has launched that seeks to provide help to users looking to develop and serve Web sites on a Mac.

Windows iTunes Service 'By End Of Year' (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6455>
Apple remains on track to deliver a Windows version of its iTunes Music Store by the end of the year, a senior executive confirmed last week.

Maine Ushers In A Laptop Revolution In The Schools (Abraham McLaughlin, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0616/p01s03-usec.html>
Now, at the end of the experiment's first year, the consensus seems to be that it's a hit.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Mac Chronicles: What's In A Dot Mac? (Dwayne R. Brown, CanadaComputes.com)
<http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=10542&sb=124>
When used as a complete package $159 is not a bad deal. But if you're only looking for a couple of features, put your wallet away and opt out for the freebie services that are scattered across the Web.

Apple's Net-Sharing Smarts Overcome Apple's WiFi Woes (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001099.shtml#001099>
Apple needs to fix whatever is making some networks invisible to Airport Extreme cards. But it deserves some praise for the simple way you can create a low-end mesh network, with just a few clicks of a mouse.

Uplink (MacSofa)
<http://www.macsofa.com/more.php?id=86_0_1_0_M>
While this game might not appeal to everyone, it does what it does good.

FreeHand MX (Matt Osborn, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0306/rev.freehandmx.html>
New features and tools, better stability, and seamless program compatibility make FreeHand MX a good contender for future standards.

Price Cut Bolsters PowerBook's Value (Gannett News Service)
<http://www.theadvertiser.com/news/html/9994D380-70A6-47B3-AA9A-6FC31DE2ECB6.shtml>
A recent $200 price drop makes Apple's 12-inch G4 PowerBook one of the more attractive options if you're looking for an ultraportable laptop with powerful multimedia capabilities.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Standards For Personal Jukeboxes (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-muse16jun16224416,1,3891789.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Start-up foresees world in which users listen to their music anywhere but the labels still profit.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Defense Dept. Backs Next-Generation Net (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1017861.html>
The U.S> Department of Defense said it plans to support the next-generation Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, in as little as five years.

HP Sets Up Separate Linux Unit (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1017851.html>
HP has broadened its Linux effort, establishing a separate division to house its business interests in the open-source operating system.

SCO Claims IBM Unix Contract Void (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1017719.html>
SCO Grop on Monday said it revoked IBM's license to sell its version of Unix, called AIX, and requested that a judge permanently block IBM's Unix business.

Why Europe Still Doesn't Get The Internet (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2010-1071_3-1017333.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>

Big Blue: Defender Of Open Source (Cynthia L. Webb, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64458-2003Jun16.html>
Is there any irony in the fact that IBM -- one of the biggest companies in the world, an icon of American commerce -- now finds itself carrying the banner for an open-source software movement that had what can only be termed anti-corporate roots?

Java 'Ready To Be Open Source' (Carol Sliwa, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6454>
Sun vice president James Gosling -- the company's 'Mr Java' -- believes his creation should become "more open source".

Roadway Relief Begins With Smart Measures (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6093648.htm>
Some kind of pricing system is probably inevitable. So let's do it right from the beginning.

Can E-Mail Be Saved? (Barry Shein, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/dialog0703.asp>
Barry Shein is founder, president and CEO of the company that launched the first commercial dial-up Internet service. Dave Crocker authored or contributed to most of the technical standards that makes Internet mail possible. These two patriarchs of e-mail will discuss what has become of the medium they helped create.

Computing's Big Shift: Flexibility In The Chips (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/technology/16CHIP.html?ex=1056340800&en=efd09f76ef2d2120&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
An emerging type of chip architecture known as adaptive, or reconfigurable, computing could transform technology.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Don't Separate Mosque And State (Amitai Etzioni, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-etzioni16jun16,1,1546732.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>
U.S. should stop trying to export its secular system to Iraq.

Regulate The F.C.C. (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/opinion/16SAFI.html>
The effect of the media's march to amalgamation on Americas' freedom of voice is too worisome to be left to three unelected commissioners.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Steve Jobs And Jeff Bezos Meet "Ginger" (Steve Kemper, HBS Working Knowledge)
<http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3533&t=innovation>
The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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New Sign On Harry Potter's Forehead: For Sale (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/business/media/16POTT.html>
J. K. Rowling, the author of the series, has often said she wanted to protect her stories from becoming encrusted with marketing pitches and merchandising plugs, but she may have finally lost the battle.

A Tale Of Two Fish (Paul Greenberg, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/166/focus/A_tale_of_two_fish+.shtml>
Since the 19th century, well-heeled fishermen have come to Martha's Vineyard in search of the noble striped bass. Why can't its lowly rival, the bluefish, get any respect?

Down And Out In White-Collar America (Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/careers/articles/0,15114,457284,00.html>
Professionals have never had a tougher time finding a job. It's not just the economy; the rules of the game are changing.

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