[MyAppleMenu] Mar 8, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Mar 8, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Keynote: Be Like Steve (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/5342192.htm>
If you need to create presentations in Mac OS X and can have your pick of programs, you must give Keynote a look.

Mating A Mac With A Cell Phone (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57941,00.html>
Remember the home of the future, where the lights and the heating automatically turn on as you come up the driveway after a hard day's work? Well, a 30-year-old Swedish programmer named Jonas Salling and dozens of Internet collaborators are starting to realize that dream, thanks to Bluetooth-enabled phones and compatible Macs.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Army's Apple Shines In The Desert (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57961,00.html>
Macs aren't normally associated with the military. In fact, in the buildup for the conflict in Iraq, only one Mac exists in the entire theater of operations, according to an Army major. It does have its uses, though.

Camino -- Formerly Chimera -- v0.7 Released (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0303/07.camino.php>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Boxed In (Jack Schofield, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,909693,00.html>
Apple's strategy shows that the 'expandable box' model of computer may have to make more room for machines designed along the lines of games consoles and clock radios.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Two PowerPoint Veterans Test-Drive Apple Keynote (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/business/technology/personal_technology/5343325.htm>

Virtual PC 6.0 For Mac OS X Has Reached Practicality (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2887>
I have version 6.0.1--running Windows XP--on a 1GZ 15" TiBook, (in full screen mode even). And I have to tell you, for the first time I'm impressed with VPC's performance on Mac OS X.

FileMaker Pro Design Tips (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/07/filemaker.html>
There's designing a database, and then there's designing a database. In this article we're going to discuss the latter, or at least some best practices for building an effective UI for an FMP solution.

Avid's Symphony Number 10 In A-Sharp Major (Charlie White, Creative Mac)
<http://www.creativemac.com/2003/03_mar/reviews/cw_avidsym_mac.htm>
Most of these features will be used and appreciated not only by Hollywood filmmakers, but by Mac users who need to pull some world-class Ultimatte chromakeys, who need to do real time color correction that's highly sophisticated, and who need to master in a number of formats on the fly.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel To Releases 3.06GHz Xeon Monday (Jeffrey Burt, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,921907,00.asp>
The faster chips have been on Intel's roadmap for months, and some OEMs, such as Dell Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., began offering workstations featuring the processors in February.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Five Reasons To Hope (Charles Piller, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-svnewthings9mar09.htmlstory>
New technologies that may help Silicon Valley rise again.

World Of Ends (Doc Searls and David Weinberger)
<http://www.worldofends.com/>
What the Internet is and how to stop mistaking it for something else.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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The Comeback's Missing Piece (Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-svventure10mar09143420.story>
Silicon Valley's venture capitalists need more than technological innovation to begin investing again. They need guts.

SCO: We're After IBM, Not Linux Developers (Doc Searls, Linux Journal)
<http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6706&mode=thread&order=0>
SCO does business on both sides of the proprietary / open source fence. With its lawsuit against IBM, it shows which side it's really on.

IBM Takes Issue With SCO Unix Suit (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991622.html>
IBM began hitting back Friday against a SCO Group lawsuit that charges Big Blue with misappropriating Unix trade secrets and using them in Linux.

Sun Working On StarOffice Update (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-991641.html>
Sun expects to post the public beta, or test version, of StarOffice 6.1 on its Web site by Wednesday, said Iyer Venkatesan, product line manager for Sun.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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To Get More Voters, Make Voting Easier (Sam Goodstein, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-vo-goodstein8mar08,1,2374620.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
Effective election reform requires more than replacing "butterfly ballots" with electronic voting machines, as some states started to do last year. It requires encouraging people to use those new machines. In short, it isn't enough to make voting possible. We need to make it as easy as possible.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Smart-Mobbing The War (George Packer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09ANTIWAR.html>
Eli Pariser and other young antiwar organizers are the first to be using wired technologies as weapons. But some of the old difficulties won't go away.

World Of Ends (Doc Searls and David Weinberger)
<http://www.worldofends.com/>
What the Internet is and how to stop mistaking it for something else.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Buyer's Market (Jason Epstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09FOOD.html>
You don't need to speak Chinese to get the freshest and cheapest provisions in town.

Our Snoopy Pups (Charles McGrath, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09WWLN.html>
Like the rest of the entertainment industry, the toy business sometimes offers revealing clues about what's on our collective mind -- or, at any rate, about what the people in the marketing department think the rest of us might be thinking.

Blond Power: Its Siren Call (Alan Riding, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08BLON.html>
Blondes. The very word sets off reactions: identification, hostility, envy, attraction, even jokes. All are relatively harmless compared with the impact of blondes through the ages. In the West alone, they have variously personified seduction, sanctity, innocence, immorality, intellectual simplicity and racial superiority. What exactly is the strange power exercised by blondes?

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