[MyAppleMenu] Mar 9, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Mar 9, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Lights, Camera Learning: Carbondale Middle School Students Study Filmmaking -- And Teach The Edcators While They Learn (Linda Rush, The Southern Illinoisan)
<http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2003/03/09/build/local/LOC002.html>
Everyone was learning at Carbondale Middle School this week -- the paired students who hunched over iBook computers learning to edit the videotaped images they'd shot, the artist in residence who was teaching them filmmaking techniques, teachers Betsy Brown and Pat Searcy, and the Southern Illinois University Carbondale students who were in the classroom both helping and observing.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Is Mac OS X Only For Techies? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/03/171.htm#technies>
It's up to you to decide whether that change is for the better or not. The workarounds you devised to make the Mac work reliably may no longer apply, so you have to learn new ones.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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ThinkFree Office 2.1: Would-Be Office Killer Trades Features And Speed For Price (Chris Ward, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=83>
ThinkFree Office is an impressive attempt to crack the seemingly impenetrable productivity market. Sure, it lacks features that will matter to some power users, but anyone on a budget should definitely give the free, full-featured, 30-day demo a try.

Personal Backup X 10.0.2 (John Rizzo, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=81>
Personal Backup X doesn't have the power user features of Retrospect--such as encryption, compression, tape drive support or server-based backup--but it offers all of the standard features that the typical home user is likely to ever need.

First Impressions Of My 12-Inch PowerBook G4 (Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/macnetjournal/March2003.html#note_818>
Yes, this baby is small.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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On Being Back In America (Cameron Barrett, CamWorld)
<http://www.camworld.com/archives/000001.html>
It has become fashionable overseas to hate America because of the stupidity of Bush's foreign policy decisions. How said is that?

Public Prayer Fanatics Borrow Page From Enemy's Script (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-edt-ebert05.html>
When Ashcroft and his enemies both begin their days with displays of their godliness, do we feel safer after they rise from their devotions?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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EU Official Pours Water On Singapore FTA (Sonia Kolesnikov, UPI)
<http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-083511-5888r>
EU Ambassador Vassilis Bontosoglou, who arrived recently, said the EU did not want to push forward with bilateral trade talks until the new World Trade Organization's Doha round is concluded.

US Releases Text Of Proposed Trade Pact With Singapore (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,4386,175951,00.html>
Democrats have criticised US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick for not releasing the two texts earlier.

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