[MyAppleMenu] Mar 25, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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iPod Problems Send PC Users In Search Of Zen Solution (Charles Wright, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/24/1048354523039.html>
Apple apparanetly had no means to support a product it was selling.

Top Apple Employees Take Home Bonuses (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1042-993914.html>
Apple Computer has awarded more than 200 of its top workers a bonus, despite the fact that the company fell short of targets it had established for such payments.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Adobe Site Dings Apples (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1045-994070.html>
An Adobe Systems executive denied that the company is advocating Windows PCs over Apple's Macintosh, despite a new page on Adobe's Web site that claims PCs run Adobe software faster.

Classroom On Cutting Edge Of Technology (Oseye T. Boyd, The Star Press)
<http://www.thestarpress.com/tsp/news/local/03/mar/0325burrisstudentsuselaptops.php>
Twenty Macintosh iBooks are changing the way Sandra Murray teaches her class of fifth-graders at Burris Laboratory School.

Apple Starts Rendezvous Logo Program (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/03/25/rendezvous/>
Apple has started a Rendezvous logo program that's designed to give developers a tool for identifying and marketing the products they've created using Apple's zero configuration networking technology.

Adobe Promotes PCs Over Macs (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/24/adobe>
Adobe has added a new page to its Web site that promotes the use of its software on PCs instead of Macs.

A Vintage Palmtop Holds Users In Thrall (Ian Austen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/technology/circuits/20newt.html>
Sticking with the technology is frequently "a point of pride" among the 80 or so Newton users that he has interviewed, Dr. Muniz said. But he has also found that most are demanding computer users with up-to-date desktop machines.

Revolution In Movie Affairs (John Farrell, Tech Central Station)
<http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-032403C>
Saving money isn't so much the issue with DV as discovering what you can do with video on your computer: be much more creative at your own pace and deliver a project of professional-level quality.

Corel Searches For A Buyer (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1046-993850.html>
In an announcement released Monday morning, the Canadian company said it has signed a nondisclosure agreement with Vector Capital that will allow the investment firm to explore a takeover bid.

Apple Discloses Executives Compensation (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/24/appleexecs>
Apple today filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosing the compensation granted to CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple executives for their work last year.

AirPort Version 3.0 Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/24/airport>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Will The 17 In. PowerBook Be One Of Apple's Great Portables? (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/03/25/index.html>
The stuff of greatness? Probably. Time will tell. In any case, the 17 BigAl PowerBook is a landmark machine, and a worthy flagship for Apple’s "Year Of The Laptop."

Is Jaguar Too Good To Upgrade? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#good>
While rumor sites are rife with suggestions that Apple, for example, might exploit the brushed metal interface that graces such applications as Safari across the board, this may not be a terribly good idea.

Publish (Electronically) And Perish? (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07115>
The moral of the story is that there is a downside to electronic publishing, and even those things you do with the best of intentions can come back to bite you if not approached with the utmost care.

Apple WWDC Delay Prompts PPC 970 Speculation (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/29898.html>
Could Apple have something more exciting in mind? A very tempting answer is IBM's 64-bit PowerPC 970 chip.

Pay-As-You-Listen (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,920880,00.html>
If Apple applies its customary sleek design to its proposed music download resource, people will be prepared to pay.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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BBEdit 7.0.1 (Niko Coucouvanis, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0303/rev.bbedit7.html>
BBEdit is still the best all-around text editor money can buy.

New Sizes Finally Give Apple Laptop Users Choices (Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy251.html>
The Apple laptop product line is, at long, long, last, complete. Apple's PowerBooks have been many things, almost all of them good, but until now, "Just Right" has been available only to that minority of lucky users whose needs happened to coincide with the one design available.

Apple PowerBook G4 12" (Cliff Joseph, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/Products/Hardware/1139716>
The new PowerBook isn't exactly an impulse buy but added extras such as Bluetooth and all those multimedia features mean the beauty is more than skin deep.

Configuring A Utility Hard Disk (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07116>
Run through these steps with your external FireWire drive, whether or not it's from Maxtor, and you'll be all set the next time trouble comes knocking on your Mac's door.

Adium Vs iChat: Adium Wins By Demographics (Steve Mallet, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2958>
Adium seems to be the power user's choice seemingly for being unobtrusive and handling many chat sessions at once. iChat integrates with other iApps and handles the wireless and power settings for which Apple's portables are known for.

OS X Wireless Confusion (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000887.shtml#000887>
Airport should let you select only the network you want and not get confused by identical names.

Burning To Go (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/5459082.htm>
We're taken with the PowerBook as an ultraportable DVD-authoring station — no other DVD-burning laptop even approaches the Mac laptop's petite dimensions — with the best consumer software for this purpose.

CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11 (Paul Yoon, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0303/rev.cdgs11.html>
As much as we'd like to see the existing graphics-software mafia shaken up, Corel makes a pretty timid advance with this suite--if you need the best graphics apps you can get, this ain't it. However, it's ideal for folks with modern hardware and modest imaging needs--and buying it won't require a second mortgage.

Switching PCs? Read This First! (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2913001,00.html>
My favorite software for switching to a new PC comes from a company called Detto Technologies. In fact, it's created three products--IntelliMover, IntelliMover Business Edition, and Move2Mac--that all do roughly the same thing.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Expert: Windows Flaw Is Serious (Patrick Gray, ZDNet Australia)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-993983.html>
A critical Microsoft vulnerability discovered last week is much more serious than previously reported, according to security experts.

Open-Source Movement Gains Ground On Microsoft (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,971259,00.asp>
A significant customer opportunity is emerging for open-source software, as more state and federal governments loosen their restrictions on implementations of such software.

Microsoft Logo Scheme Means Office Depot Won't Sell Non-Compliant XP Products (Mike Magee, The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8472>
Suppliers who will be affected by the scheme tell the Inquirer that they believe the primary goal of Microsoft is to push digital rights management (DRM) through the back door. If products cannot be sold unless they have been subjected to a whole battery of Microsoft tests, they will have to conform to the rules of the software giant.

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MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Portable PC Pioneer Dead At 64 (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1044-993918.html>
Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness.

Paid Content Slowly Winning Converts (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025-993832.html>
Consumers are warming to the notion of paying for online content, but that isn't likely to translate to a significant source of revenue for Internet companies anytime soon, according to a new study.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Red Hat, SuSE Intensify Linux Efforts (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,973809,00.asp>
The major Linux vendors continue to step up to the plate, offering product upgrades and new functionality as the battle for new customer wins in the lucrative but highly competitive corporate market heats up.

Latest Anti-Fraud Tool? The Signature (Ian Austen, New York Times)
<http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=LL&Date=20030323&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=303230609&Ref=AR&Profile=1001&SectionCat=BUSINESS>
A system to verify the identity of credit-card shoppers could soon be based on an old-fashioned, even ancient, piece of biometric information: the handwritten signature.

Open-Source Growing Pains Give Sun Aches (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,971676,00.asp>
Is Sun Microsystems Inc. as much a friend to open source as it claims to be?

Microsoft Pitches Tough Open-Source Crowd (Spencer F. Katt, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,971686,00.asp>

Linux Use To 'Explode' In 2004 (Karen Dearne, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6180399%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>
Forrester predicts Linux will reach the "tipping point", where "it is good enough for most workloads on commodity hardware" later this year.

German Town Dumps Microsoft For Linux -- Is A Trend Starting? (David McHugh, Associated Press)
<http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03242003/monday/41107.asp>
It is the first city in the world to do that, local officials claim, saying the switch will save money, improve security and break their dependence on just one supplier. 

Open-Source Movement Gains Ground On Microsoft (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,971259,00.asp>
A significant customer opportunity is emerging for open-source software, as more state and federal governments loosen their restrictions on implementations of such software.

New Police Tactic -- Phone Spam (CNET Asia)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-993822.html>
Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in.

Non-Profit Corporations In Open Source On The Rise (Robert Kaye, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2959>
As Open source projects get larger the developers tend to expose themselves to greater liabilites and should seriously consider some form of legal shelter for their project.

KT Shows Off 2.3GHz Wireless Internet Technologies (Ahn-Ku Toh, eWeek Korea)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,971679,00.asp>
Having achieved nearly 100 percent penetration of mobile phone service, South Korea's telecommunication providers are now competing to offer wireless Internet services. Earlier this month, Korea Telecom (KT), South Korea's largest broadband provider, began demonstrating early iterations of its 2.3GHz wireless Internet service technology.

Court Upholds Junk Fax Ban, Spam Next? (Grant Gross, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/24/HNantispam_1.html>
Anti-spam crusaders plan to use an appeals court ruling against unsolicited faxes last week to push harder for a U.S. federal law against unsolicited e-mail.

Hotmail Restricts Outgoing Messages (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025-993774.html>
The Redmond, Wash.-based company on Friday said that Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day "in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam," said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager.

The Changing Face Of Search Engines (Stefanie Olsen and Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-993677.html>
Ken Abbott knows the ins and outs of search engine marketing: Dollars for clicks are in, directory listings are out.

For AOL, 8.0 Is Not Yet Enough (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025-993826.html>
America Online is planning to launch an enhanced version of its AOL 8.0 service next week as part of an effort to revitalize its struggling Internet service and to burnish the appeal of its broadband technology.

Intel Plans Linux Support For Centrino (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1006-993896.html>
Intel is working on Linux support for Centrino, its package of chips for mobile computers with wireless networking abilities, but the company hasn't yet decided how or when to release it.

Microsoft Takes Code To The Classroom (Andrew Swinton, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009-993921.html>
The University of Leeds in the United Kingdom has received partial funding from Microsoft to teach would-be developers to write secure code.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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By Flouting War Laws, U.S. Invites Tragedy (Erwin Chemerinsky, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-war-oechem25mar25,1,7851951.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
For two years, the Bush administration has ignored and violated international law and thus has undermined the very legitimacy of the treaties and principles that constitute the law of nations.

Firing First Without The Cover Of Rhetoric (Michael Powell, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21384-2003Mar24.html>
The claim that this preemptive war is something new in our history registers as a touch naive.

I'm Afraid To Look, Afraid To Turn Away (Denise Gonsales, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/889474.asp>
Day and night, I watch my husband’s war play out on TV. I know what a mixed blessing that can be.

America Shows Its Colors (Joe Klein, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030331-435965,00.html>
Humility, not hubris, is crucial to winning the peace.

The American Prime Minister (Andrew Sullivan, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030331-435977,00.html>
Why Blair has gained rare influence: he has strengths that Bush lacks.

POW TV: Why Rumsfeld Should Be Careful About Lecturing Saddam About The Geneva Conventions (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2080616/>
To be sure, the Iraqis aren't taking their human rights cues from Guantanamo. But if they want a precedent, there it is.

This Is Not America (Gregory Dicum, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/03/25/no_return/index.html>
In increments, we have become a different nation. Will I have to flee my country as my ancestors did theirs?

"Shut Your Mouth" (Tim Grieve, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/25/liberties/>
As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America.

Using The News As A Weapon (Lucian K. Tuscott IV, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25TRUS.html>
The Pentagon may have been dragged kicking and screaming into its current embrace of the news media. But it is making the most of it.

Just Following (Saddam Hussein's) Orders (Ibrahim Al-Marashi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25ALMA.html>
In Iraq, lamentably, nothing has changed.

The Goal Is Baghdad, But At What Cost? (Michael R. Gordon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25STRA.html>
There is little doubt that the United States military has the skills, training and weapons to take the capital and dislodge the Hussein government. The questions are how long it will take, and what the cost will be in terms of casualties, both allied and Iraqi.

'Bias' That Bends Over Backward To Right Itself (David Shaw, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-ca-shaw23mar23.story>
The better journalists do their job, the more likely conservatives are to see them as liberal.

Operation Anglosphere (Jeet Heer, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/082/focus/Operation_Anglosphere+.shtml>
Today's advocates of American empire share one surprising trait: Very few of them were born in the United States.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Wheeled Robots Are Ready To Explore Mars, Past And Present (Stefano S. Coledan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/science/space/25MARS.html>
Mars is rising over NASA's horizon even as engineering analyses and soul-searching continue over the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts. Two identical rovers are to be launched in May and June, and are scheduled to land next January near the planet's equator.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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When I Woke Up This Morning, Everything I Had Was Gone (T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030331fi_fiction>
The man I want to tell you about, the one I met at the bar at Jimmy’s Steak House, was on a tear. Hardly surprising, since this was a bar, after all, and what do people do at bars except drink, and one drink leads to another-—and if you’re in a certain frame of mind, I suppose, you don’t stop for a day or two, or maybe more. But this man—-he was in his forties, tall, no fat on him, dressed in a pair of stained Dockers and a navy-blue sweatshirt cut off raggedly at the elbows-—seemed to have been going at it steadily for weeks, months even.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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How About Thinking Out Of The Box? (Yuen Ka Wei, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,179219,00.html?>
There is a box. We don't know why it is there but there can be nothing wrong with it being there since it has been there for a long time, and other people are having the same type of box.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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700 Quarantined In Singapore To Control Killer Pneumonia (ABC News)
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-25mar2003-46.htm>
Singapore is invoking its rarely used Infectious Disease Act to quarantine hundreds of its citizens to stop the spread of mystery pneumonia, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

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