[MyAppleMenu] Mar 4, 2003

Tue Mar 4 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Labels Think Apple Has Perfect Pitch (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music4mar04,1,7646945.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes>
The new service was developed by Apple Computer Inc., sources said Monday, and offers users of Macintoshes and iPod portable music players many of the same capabilities that already are available from services previously endorsed by the labels. But the Apple offering won over music executives because it makes buying and downloading music as simple and non-technical as buying a book from Amazon.com.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Kudos To Bare Bones Software! (Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/macnetjournal/March2003.html#note_798>
Bare Bones Software seem to have reversed their original decision to pull BBEdit Lite.

Net Hacker Tool Du Jour: Google (Christopher Null, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57897,00.html>
Why bother pounding at a website in search of obscure holes when you can simply waltz in through the front door? Hackers have recently done just that, turning to Google to help simplify the task of honing in on their targets.

Open-Sourcers Draw Up Graphics Update (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-990881.html>
An open-source project to develop XFree86, a key part of Linux, has issued an update to let the software work with more-modern graphics chips and operating systems.

Software Gives Everyone Chance To Make Movies (Cathy Shouse, Chronicle-Tribune)
<http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/news/stories/20030304/localnews/1099973.html>
Studnets trying hand at making full-length films.

Malaysia AppleCenter Opens Over Weekend (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=18648>
Apple this weekend opened an AppleCenter in the Great Eastern Mall along Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia.

Chimera Web Browser Renamed Camino (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/04/camino>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Should Take A Page From Intel's Playbook (Daniel Miller, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.1.shtml>
Apple needs to shout "64 bit powered" from the mountain tops. If consumers want to see larger specifications, that's what should be provided to them. Let them draw their own conclusions.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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A Better Windows Than Windows? (Peter Coffee, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,910476,00.asp>
It's not that this is a "better Windows than Windows" because I'm still running Windows code. I'm just running it on my own terms, complementing my other options, and that's certainly better for me.

Download Your Way To DVD Stardom (Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend4_20030304.htm>
Apple's iMovie 3 bests MovieMaker 2 in the way it is integrated with other Apple multimedia applications.

Getting Inspired By Inspiration 7 (Kirk McElhearn, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07096>
Inspiration represents not only a new way of creating documents on their computer, but a new way of thinking as well.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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New Ways To Untether Travelers (Joe Sharkey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/business/04ROAD.html>
Broadband wireless Internet and e-mail services are becoming available on airplanes, in public places and hotel rooms.

Homeland Security Becomes An Opportunity For Biotech Firms (Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-bioterror3mar03,1,4024262.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
With private investment in the dumps, small biotechnology companies in need of funds have a new mantra: homeland security.

Net Hacker Tool Du Jour: Google (Christopher Null, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57897,00.html>
Why bother pounding at a website in search of obscure holes when you can simply waltz in through the front door? Hackers have recently done just that, turning to Google to help simplify the task of honing in on their targets.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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In Bad Days, Science Must Muzzle Itself (Jeremy C. Marwell, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-marwell4mar04,1,6871332.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
In this age of terror, when should science silence itself? Apparently, now.

At South Pole, New Home For A New Era (Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/science/earth/04POLE.html>
Residents of the South Pole -— astronomers, chemists, technicians, cooks, construction workers — are carrying their possessions 100 yards across snow and ice, bidding farewell to the windowless geodesic dome that has served for three decades as a symbol of polar exploration. On March 4, they begin taking up residence in a huge enclosure on stilts that resembles an economy motel, complete with windows.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Christine (Caitlin Macy, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030310fi_fiction>
When you met Christie for the first time, it took only minutes to learn that she was from Greenwich, Connecticut, but months could go by before you got another solid fact out of her.

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