[MyAppleMenu] Mar 15, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Mar 15, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple's Risky Business (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11curve_1.html?s=tc>
Analysts paint a gloomy picture for Apple again, but are they looking at the same company?

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Ships First 17" PowerBooks (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/18790>
Apple today began shipping its 17" Aluminum PowerBooks to resellers, almost 2 weeks after its announced "February" ship date.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/14/ranchero>
The updated version includes several crashing bug fixes, and improves the news reader so that it is more forgiving of RSS feeds with errors.

iLife For The Classroom (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/ilife/>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Are Older Macs Lower Than Low End? (Eric Schwarz, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/pom/03/0314.html>
I think that older Macs still have value, just a different kind of value. Rather than being put to use as workhorses, we will see them retired as collector's items.

Mac Or MAC (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/03/03/14/index.html>
Using MAC to refer to Macintosh is a blatant way of revealing your ignorance.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Life Isn't Perfect With iLife, But It's Still Pretty Good (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134653528_ptmacc15.html>
Although the programs work well together, a few flaws cast shadows on otherwise nearly great features. A little work by Apple could file off the burrs.

Hands On X11 (Dan Benjamin, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/14/install_x11.html>
How to install and use the latest beta offered by Apple.

Logitech MX500 (Lucian Fong, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=361>
Logitech has consistently designed top quality optical mice and the MX500 is another step in its evolution. The optical engine has been improved, the ergonomics have been refined, and more buttons have been added.

Hands On With Valence's N-Charge Battery (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0303/14.valence.php>
The N-Charge suffers from some inherent shortcomings thanks to its size and bulk, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it provides gobs and gobs of portable juice when you need it.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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IDC: Tablet PCs Off To Solid Start (Ed Frauenheim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1005-992779.html>
Shipments of tablet PCs topped 72,000 units in the fourth quarter of last year, and will "grow considerably" this year, research firm IDC said Friday.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Yahoo To Unveil Platinum Paid Service (Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-992691.html>
Yahoo is planning a Monday launch of its paid video subscriber service, which will feature news, sports and entertainment clips, pitting the company against a comparable service offered by RealNetworks.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Giving Mirth (Elizabeth Austin, Washington Monthly)
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0303.austin.html>
For modern women writers, balancing work and family is agony. For Jean Kerr, it was an art form.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Drops Claim To .Sg Name (Tang Weng Fai, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/innews/story/0,4567,75425,00.html?>
Responding to local and international concerns, the Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC) has dropped its claim for trademark protection of the .sg domain name.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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