[MyAppleMenu] May 31, 2003

Sat May 31 21:05:01 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, May 31, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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If It's Good Enough For Fido... (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/30/22OPcurve_1.html>
Given that very few companies' IT operations are so abused and so scrutinized, that Microsoft and Apple use their own technology -- especially new technology -- is powerfully convincing.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Profiles In Success: Rancho Bernardo High School (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/rancho/>
Using state-of-the-art production and postproduction tools -- including Power Mac G4 systems and Final Cut Pro -- the young videomakers crafted a 30-second spot that had all three dealers asking for more.

Corel Axes Bryce For Mac Development (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/30/corel/>
"We have found that sales for Corel Bryce 5 are strongest with Windows customers, particular at retail. As a result we have chosen to focus our efforts on Bryce 5 for Windows."

Apple Kicks Off 'Buy A Bundle' Promo (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/30/applepromo>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Steve Jobs: 'Death Is A Good Thing' (Ernest Svenson)
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0104634/2003/05/31.html#a1939>
Maybe Jobs is right to factor mortality into his marketing strategy.

Does Size Matter In Your Organization? (Anne Chen, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1113397,00.asp>
Could you imagine what it would be like trying to use that 17-inch Apple PowerBook while scrunched into an economy class seat?

Apple Should Partner With Amazon On Amazon-Branded iTunes Music Store (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/thebackpage/2003/20030530.shtml>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: iRide (Neal Rogers, VeloNews)
<http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/4020.0.html>
At its winter team camp in December, the Saturn men's team looked almost like an Apple commerail, with Phil Zajicek camped near a roaring fire, loading up his PowerBook with digital photos and displaying his iPod, while Tim Johnson fiddled with his own digital music library.

Rob's Top mac OS X Hints, Part 1 (Rob Griffiths, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/05/30/macosxhints.html>
Rob Griffiths has published more than 3,500 Mac OS X tips on his Mac OS X Hints site, much to the delight of this editor and thousands of Mac SO X fans. Rob has pulled together 16 of his fvorite hints to share with Mac DevCenter readers.

XPress In The Slow Lane (Chris Oaten, The Advertiser)
<http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6517188%255E21669,00.html>
Adobe's InDesign 2.0 [offers] pros the features they have craved for years.

Dual-1.42 GHz Power Mac G4: Latest Version Of The Fastest Mac Money Can Buy Provides Attractive Extras, Good Value (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/06/reviews/dual142ghzpowermacg4/>
The dual-1.42 GHz Power Mac G4 is not a lot faster than the midlevel model -- but for $700 more, it has some nice extras that make it a solid value.

SketchUp 2.2: Fun, Inspiring Program Makes 3-D Available To The Rest Of Us (Greg Miller, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/06/reviews/sketchup2/>
We recommend SketchUp to anyone who has a need or a desire to visualize in 3-D but neither the patience nor the time to deal with complicated CAD programs.

The Game Room: Simple Pleasures (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/06/reviews/thegameroom/>
Lots of times I'm happy to just to while away a few minutes with a fast, easy-to-play game that's simply fun. Fortunately, there are plenty of those games to choose from.

Bluetooth Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer (Lucian Fong, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=372>
Despite the shortcomings in OS X, I can't, in good conscience, lower the rating for this product because of it. After all, the hardware does perform flawlessly in WIndows XP.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel Concedes Centrino Snag (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-1011743.html>
Intel acknowledged that a software incompatibility may cause problems for people trying to use a Centrino-based notebook with a virtual private network.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Putting The World Into The Wide Web (Paul Boutin, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2083733/>
An instant messenger that knows where you are.

Court Puts Muzzle on SCO (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1113018,00.asp>
Joe Eckert, spokesman for SuSE Linux A.G., said a German court has ordered SCO to stop claiming that the Linux operating system is an illegal derivative of Unix.

SCO Says It Will Reveal Its Code (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59059,00.html>
SCO Group on Friday said it will begin to open its code in a bid to show it has been improperly used.

Judge Dismisses Suit Against Google (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1011740.html>
A federal judge this week granted Google's motion to dismiss a suit that alleged the company manipulated search results in its powerful Web index.

SCO To Novell: See You In Court (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1011627.html>
SCO Group executives said Friday that the company's copyright dispute with Novell doesn't affect its legal campaign against Linux, but the issue may result in a lawsuit, anyway.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Constitutionally, A Risky Business (Felicia R. Lee, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/arts/31CONS.html>
Drafting a constitution is often the first step in transforming a country to democracy, but the questions seem to be endless.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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When The Snow Melts, The Earth Will Quake (Bill McGuire, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,965636,00.html>
Japan was hit by yet another earthquake this week. Could snow be to blame?

Science's Big Query: What Can We Know, And What Can't We? (sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105424193649280400,00.html>
The 20th century saw an explosion of scientific knowledge. It also brought the first hints of fundamental, inherent limits on the knowable.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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TV's News Central: One Source Fits All (Paul Farhi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60149-2003May30.html>
The "local" news -- direct from suburban Baltimore? It coul dbe the news of the future.

The Call Of The Word (EL Doctorow, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,966953,00.html>
I believe nothing of any beauty or truth comes of a piece of writing without the author's thinking he has sinned against omething -- propriety, custom, faith, privacy, tradition, political orthodoxy, historical fact, literary convention, or indeed, all the prevailing community standards together. And that the work will not be realised without the liberation that comes to the writer from his feeling of having transgressed, broken the rules, played a forbidden game without his understanding or even fearing his work as a possibly unforgivable transgression.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Is Off WHO's Sars List (Chang Ai-Lien, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,192004,00.html?>
Good news comes a day early, showing confidence in action to contain Sars here.

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