[MyAppleMenu] Jun 21, 2003

Sat Jun 21 21:05:01 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Jun 21, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple To Update Desktop Chips (Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6131212.htm>
IBM has scheduled analyst briefings on the chip to begin after Steve Jobs givs his keynote address. A group of IBM engineers has come to Appe's Cupertino headquarters for last-minute preparations. And Apple's close partners say signifcantly faster Apple machines should arrive before the end of the year.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Expected To Preview Next OS X On Monday (Reuters)
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/06/20/rtr1006985.html>
It has been a big year for Apple.

Safari Time For Mac Users (Mike Musgrove, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17784-2003Jun20.html>
For users of Apple's Macintosh operating system, a certain amount of dependence on Microsoft has long been a practical necessity.

Apple Workers Get 13% Pay Rise (Conor Keane, Irish Examiner)
<http://www.online.ie/business/viewer.adp?article=2034867>
Workers at the Apple plant in Cork have managed to break the computer manufacturer's global pay freeze by winning a 13% pay rise.

Apple Gets A Taste For Speed (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-1019461.html>
Apple appears poised to boost its Power Mac line in what could be a much-needed overhaul of its high-end desktops.

O'Reilly In A Nutshell (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/words/oreilly/>
"When Mac OS X came out, it offered thebest of all worlds, the Office world and the whole Unix toolset all wrapped into that cool new interface, and with all the interesting iApps."

Profiles In Success: Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University: Securing The Internet Age (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/hopkins/>
For this team, security, collaboration, and productivity are mission-critical. That's why they depend on Macintosh systems running Mac OS X.

Apple Ships Shake 3 (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/20/shake/>
Shake 3 includes such Mac OS X only features as Shake Qmaster network render management software that allows visual effects artists to distribute rendering tasks across a cluster of Apple's Xserve 1U rack servers or desktop Power Mac G4 systems.

Apple Acknowledges Continuing .Mac Problems (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19836>
Several outages have affected .Mac within the past 12 hours.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Letters: iTunes Will Save The Music Industry, Not Destroy It (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/letters/2003/06/20/itunes/index.html>
Readers respond to Sahar Akhtar's "iTunes -- The 'i' Doesn't Stand For Innovation."

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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New Computer Tools Help Jam Spam, Spare Ham (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/135047952_ptmacc21.html>
My technique has reduced the 1,000-plus spams a day I used to receive to a few dozen, which are easily filtered for later review.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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The Most Important User Experience Method (Mark Hurst, Good Experience)
<http://www.goodexperience.com/columns/03/0620.org.html>
Results only come if the organization is the primary focus of user experience work.

Biometrics Meets E-Commerce (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2003/tc20030620_3373_tc119.htm>
Personal traits such as vocal or typing patterns could soon serve as powerful fraud-prevention tools for online shoppers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Fighting The FCC (Cynthia L. Webb, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15791-2003Jun20.html>
It was a case of the politicians versus the media barons.

If Sanity Is Forced On A Defendant, Who is On Trial? (Daphne Eviatar, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/arts/21SELL.html>
How does one define free thought and individual identity in an age when technology has provided the tools to radically alter them? What is the dividing line between the mind and body?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Isolation, An Old Medical Tool, Has SARS Fading (Keith Bradsher with Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/science/sciencespecial/21INFE.html>
Reassuringly, SARS appears to have been controlled mainly through one of the oldest of medical tools: isolation.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Correct Me If I'm Wrong (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2084685/>
Errors and the culture of correction in American newspapers.

Hold The Mayo, But Nothing Else: Trillin's In Town (David Shaw, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/cl-fo-matters18jun18,1,2132922.story?coll=la-headlines-food>
Calvin Trillin, longtime New Yorker writer and author of "Feeding a Yen," is in L.A. to promote his book. And he's hungry.

Real Men Wear Girls' Jeans (Michael Quintanilla, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-quintanilla21jun21.story>
"Not all of us guys have big bulging thighs and a big butt."

It Must Be Magic. The Whole World Is Reading. (Linton Weeks, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17923-2003Jun20.html>
Harry Potter has changed the world. You just can't say that about many books.

The Year Of No Money (Paul Auster, Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,980689,00.html>
It was 1972, the Year of No Money. I had just turned 25 and had been living in Paris for 16 months.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Workers Feel The Cold Wind Of Change (Richard Hubbard, Reuters)
<http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2003/06/20/rtr1006013.html>
"The central problem is that the economy faces random shocks from outside."

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Navy Officers Charged In Connection With Fatal Ship Collision (Associated Press)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap06-20-055523.asp?reg=PACRIM>

Singapore Launches Automated Subway (Associated Press)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap06-20-200449.asp?reg=PACRIM>

It's A Smooth Ride On NEL -- Mostly (Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,195802,00.html?>
Minor hitches aside, the Nort-East Line got off to a smooth start yesterday,with more than 140,000 people travelling on the underground trains.

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