[MyAppleMenu] Mar 5, 2003

Wed Mar 5 21:05:01 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Laptops Win Over The Skeptics, Even In Maine (Sarah Mahoney, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/nyregion/05LAPT.html>
Attendance is up. Detentions are down. Just six months after Maine began a controversial program to provide laptop computers to every seventh grader in the state, educators are impressed by how quickly students and teachers have adapted to laptop technology.

Mac Fans Wait For 17-Inch PowerBook (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1044-991051.html>
Mini Me may have his 17-inch PowerBook, but the rest of the world is having to wait as Apple Computer is apparently having problems ramping up production of the extrawide notebook.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Former Palm Executive Rejoins Apple (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-991061.html>
Longtime software developer Steve Sakoman, a former Palm and Be executive, has rejoined Apple Computer as a vice president.

MYOB Sees Sunny 2003 (The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6079392%5E15344%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15321,00.html>
Accouting software maker MYOB is predicting profit growth of around 50 per cent for the coming year, coming off a $26.1 million EBITDA result in the full year 2002 on revenue of $75.8 million.

That 70's Problem (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030304095428750>
The bottom line is that for critical enterprise applications (where Macs are playing a larger role lately), unpredictable date and time problems are not acceptable.

MSN Software Coming To OS X "Soon" (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=18653>

Apple Ships 1.42GHz PMs To Resllers (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=18660>

Macromedia Reports Critical Hole In Flash Player (James Niccolai, IDG News Service)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0303/04.macromedia.php>
The security flaw affects version 6 of the Macromedia Flash Player, which was released a year ago this month and has been installed on an estimated 75 percent of personal computers worldwide, according to the company.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Reading The Apple Patent Tea Leaves (John Kheit, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml>
Apple has been busy patenting everything under the sun it seems, and some of those patents may promise interesting things to come. Others might make you stop, scratch your head and ask "huh, you can do that?"

MacSlash Interview: Brent Simmons (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.org/Interview/03/03/04/1535234.shtml>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Streaming Media (Warren Ernst, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,907759,00.asp>
Streaming media can enhance your Web presence—and your bottom line. Let's look at the basics.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Don't Live With Broken Windows (Bill Venners, Artima.com)
<http://www.artima.com/intv/fixit.html>
Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk about software craftsmanship and the importance of fixing the small problems in your code, the "broken windows," so they don't grow into large problems.

Fluffing The Numbers (Mark Sakalosky, ClickZ)
<http://www.clickz.com/res/analyze_data/article.php/2001021>
The whole thought of manipulating the demographic profile of the average visitor by creating and promoting unique content to draw in a younger audience is ludicrous. Advertisers would never fall for such a ploy, would they?

Building Communities With Software (Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software)
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html>
Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels.

Google Swings Its Partners Into New Ads (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024-990960.html>
Google formally announced a new advertising program Tuesday that allows advertisers to place ads on the company’s partner sites.

Google Rival Unpins Banner Ads (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024-991005.html>
Fast Search & Transfer's AlltheWeb.com has dropped the use of banner advertisements in a Web site redesign that recalls the look and feel of rival search provider Google.

Sun: P2P Is Alive And Well (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-990970.html>
Sun Microsystems, aiming to demonstrate that its open-source peer-to-peer software is gaining ground, on Tuesday announced a new version and highlighted how customers are using it.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Thirty Year Itch (Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones)
<http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/ma_273_01.html>
Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington's hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil. Now, with the same strategists firmly in control of the White House, the Bush administration is playing out their script for global dominance.

God, Satan And The Media (Nicholas D. Kirstof, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/opinion/04KRIS.html>
One of the deepest divides in America today is the gulf of mutual suspicion that separates evangelicals from secular society, and policy battles over abortion and judicial appointments will aggravate these tensions further in coming months. Both sides need to reach out, drop the contempt and display some of the inclusive wisdom of Einstein, who wrote in his memoir: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The Case Of The Mute Scientists (Elizabeth M. Whelan, ACSH)
<http://www.acsh.org/press/editorials/scientists022703.html>
Sherlock Holmes once solved a murder mystery by asking why the watchdog did not bark. It is time to ask why, in light of this ongoing distortion of scientific reality, American scientists are not barking in protest.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Fake Accent For 'Voice' Of Hussein? (Elizabeth Jensen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-jensen5mar05.story>
In an environment in which many inside and outside the media business worry about the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment, the notion of CBS News hiring someone to fake an accent has met with some gasps, a few laughs and a lot of puzzlement.

The Marvelous Michelin Man (Mike Steinberger, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2079644/>
Don't blame the top restaurant guide for a French chef's suicide.

Some Reality Shows Have Survival Value (Alessandra Stanley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/arts/television/05WATC.html>
Like dung beetles, Fox reality shows are not always lovely to look at, but they have an ingenious ability to put embarrassing material to use.

Fluffing The Numbers (Mark Sakalosky, ClickZ)
<http://www.clickz.com/res/analyze_data/article.php/2001021>
The whole thought of manipulating the demographic profile of the average visitor by creating and promoting unique content to draw in a younger audience is ludicrous. Advertisers would never fall for such a ploy, would they?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Trampoline (Joshua Weiner, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2079613/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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What A Waste, Say Readers (Helmi Yusof and Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,175166,00.html?>
Waste of money -- especially when the zoo has asked for public donation recently.

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