[MyAppleMenu] May 8, 2003

Thu May 8 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, May 8, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Jobs To Keynote WWDC 2003 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/08/jobswwdc/>
It's no great surprise to attendees of past Worldwide Developers Conferences, but today Apple made it official.

Apple's OS 9 Overstays Its Welcome (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac050803,0,7518458.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
So while a majority of Mac users may not yet be on OS X, they're on the road that will take them there -- whether they realize it or not.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Mac OS X Server 10.2.6 Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/08/osxserver>

MacPlay To Ship 2 New Titles This Month (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19393>
MacPlay has announced that its first two gaming titles developed by Virtual Programming are expected to ship this month.

Corel Painter 8 Now Shipping (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/08/corel/>
The new version features improved compatibility with Adobe Photoshop, more than 400 new brushes, new creative features and a redesigned user interface.

Why The iMac Was Put To Sleep (Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21463.html>
The original iMac debuted in 1998, and more than 6 million units were sold during its lifetime, making it one of Apple's most popular products.

New Mozilla Beta Posted (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/08/mozilla>

Apple, Macromedia To Present At Macworld Expo In July (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/08/mwexpo>
IDG World Expo today announced that Apple and Macromedia will each deliver a feature presentation at Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo.

DiskWarrior 3.0 Has OS X Native Directory Rebuilding (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/07/diskwarrior/>
DiskWarrior fine-tunes your hard drive by ordering the directory structure efficiently and by defragmenting the disk contents.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Music Store Deletions (MacInTouch)
<http://www.macintouch.com/index.shtml#missingtunes>
Apple is apparently deleting musical selections from the iTunes Music Store.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Monsoon PlanarMedia 14 (Greg Gant, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=335>
They?re an acquired taste, but if you give them a chance, you?ll be more than happy you did.

Virtual PC, A PowerBook, And .NET (Brian Jepson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3176>
My experience has been that Virtual PC is quite usable for day-to-day stuff.

Windows Or OS X? (Byron Hinson, TopTechTips)
<http://toptechtipsnet.powweb.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=119&mode=&order=0&thold=0>
Perhaps I am shallow and it is because of the great looks but the likelihood is that it is that on a Mac you have the best software for photos, movies, music and DVDs and a much lower chance of getting a virus than a Windows PC.

Panting For An iPod! (Shoshana Berger, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,49397,00.html>
With 30 gigabytes and a less shocking sticker price, the third-generation Apple music player puts the competition on ice.

900 MHz Pismo - Better Than Son Of Pismo? (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/05/06/index.html>
Powerlogix’ release of their new, Blue Chip 900 MHz CPU upgrade for the Pismo G3 PowerBooks last week got me to thinking.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Fixes Passport Flaw (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1002_3-1000575.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Microsoft security and product teams worked overnight to fix a flaw in the password reset feature of the Passport identity service that threatened to compromise millions of accounts. 

Windows Media Service 9 Raises Bar For Apple, Real Media (P.J. Connolly, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/02/18TCwms9_1.html>
Management and performance is greatly improved over the previous release of WMS. Although shops wishing to use Unix-based operating systems as the underpinnings of their streaming media servers -- or the MPEG 4 media format -- are more likely to choose Real Networks' Helix, WMS9 cannot be ignored.

Microsoft, Best Buy Accused Of Scam (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-1000393.html>
A Los Angeles man has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Best Buy and Microsoft, accusing them of scamming customers by charging them for online services without their knowledge.

Media Player Flaw Flays PC Security (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-1000355.html>
Microsoft warned Windows Media Player users on Wednesday that a flaw in the way the application handles the download of "skins," or interface colors and motifs, could allow an attacker to take over a victim's PC.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Internet Access For The Cost Of A Cup Of Coffee (Katie Hafner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/technology/circuits/08wifi.html>
As the Wi-Fi trend sweeps through the air, one question appears to be cropping up with increasing frequency: to charge or not to charge?

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Intel Gives Glimpse Of Wireless 'Nirvana' (Jeffrey Burt, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1065890,00.asp?kc=EWRSS02129TX1K0000531>
Kevin Kahn has a clear vision of what a "grand and glorious nirvana" looks like: a world where any mobile device can connect into any wireless spectrum at any time.

Balancing Data Needs And Privacy (Leslie Walker, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25316-2003May7.html>
Mind you, I'm not saying the government shouldn't update its technology for analyzing data it already has legal access to, but I do believe the potential for computer errors and abuse in a system probing everything from our telephone habits to our library logs is simply enormous.

Balls, Strikes And Videotape (Seth Schiesel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/technology/circuits/08ball.html>
Computer databases and digital video are adding a new dimension to baseball’s eternal quest.

How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open Source (David Strom, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9600125>
So why did he decide to change things?

Your TV Is Watching You (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/05/08/future_tv/>
Advertisers want to use new technology to monitor your every click -- and prevent you from tuning out their ads. And don't even think of trying to escape.

Feds Defend Data-Mining Plans (Grant Gross, IDG News Service)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110614,00.asp>
Plans to collect info on U.S. citizens do not pose privacy problems, lawmakers say.

Flexible E-Paper On Its Way (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58765,00.html>
Inching closer to the dream of electronic newspapers and books, scientists have created an ultra-thin computer screen that can be bent, twisted and even rolled into a cylinder without losing its image quality. Its creators say it's the first flexible computer screen of its kind.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The War, As Told To Us (Diana Abu-Jaber, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28079-2003May7.html>
If the world is ever going to close the fatal cracks opening up between nations and peoples, it's crucial that we start questioning the omnipotence of our mainstream media, for all of us to ask for more searching queries about the true effectiveness of war and occupation, and to demand -- of our media, our writers, our scholars and leaders -- a narrative of Iraq and the United States that is more than a small sliver of the true story.

Man On Horseback (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/opinion/06KRUG.html>
There was a time when patriotic Americans from both parties would have denounced any president who tried to take political advantage of his role as commander in chief. But that, it seems, was another country.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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A Hotbed Of SARS Warfare (Richard C. Paddock, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-singsars8may08,1,1736547.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dleftrail>
Mass temperature testing is just one of the tools that the autocratic city-state of Singapore is wielding in its winning assault on the disease.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Gulp! Just Look At That Tab (Valli Herman-Cohen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/cl-fo-cocktail7may07,1,5016522.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood>
Even as restaurants lower menu prices to match the times, the cost of cocktails is rising. And so is the entertainment value.

Asian Markets Go Super (Walter Nicholls, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19517-2003May6.html>
>From peanut butter to kimchi to canary beans, these multicultural stores have something for everyone.

The Zen of Tornado Survival (R. M. Kinder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/opinion/08KIND.html>
Tornadoes lashed the Midwest and South this week, killing 18 in my state and more than a score elsewhere. But in spite of all the horror —- and it is horrible —- there's a calm in this storm that you can't see in the newspaper and television pictures of sudden powerful destruction. People continue to shop, they make mad dashes to the store, cover their flowers, phone friends. It's a paradox: take cover, but first cover what you can.

Women In Place (Melissa Ann Pinney, DoubleTake)
<http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/photo/html/pinney/>
Although I have always been drawn to what is hidden, especially concerning women’s experiences, I couldn’t say for certain that I would have recognized the secluded diaper-changing scene at Disney World as a possible subject until my daughter, Emma, was born.

It's Not In Our Nature To Nuture (Cary Tennis, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/05/08/breeding_tennis/index.html>
Most people have a powerful wish, a yearning, for children. My wife and I don't.

Mother's Day, USA (Tina Brown, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-672479,00.html>
Growing up, I was proud of how original my mother was ... it made her a great conspirator and ally.

Why It's OK Not To Like Modern Art (Julian Spalding, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-672489,00.html>
Modern art's duty to shine an aesthetic light on the soul has been eclipsed by commercialism, says the founder of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.

Just Stop Teasing Us, Please (Diane Werts, Newsday)
<http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-p2kitman3270368may07,0,246163.column?coll=ny%2Dentertainment%2Dheadlines>
Now, an entire TV show can serve as an ad -- for itself in the lucrative DVD market.

Gerry Volgenau Starts A New Journey (Gerry Volgenau, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/features/travel/ger4_20030504.htm>
What good is a great meal when eaten alone?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Conduct Becoming (Anna Rabinowitz, DoubleTake)
<http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/poetry/html/rabinowitz/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Commuters To Pay 5-25 Cents More Per Ride On N-E MRT Line (Bhagman Singh, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/39313/1/.html>
The Public Transport Council, which approved the NEL's adult fare structure on Thursday, said the fare was still 5 to 10 cents lower than what its operator, SBS Transit, had proposed.

A Hotbed Of SARS Warfare (Richard C. Paddock, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-singsars8may08,1,1736547.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dleftrail>
Mass temperature testing is just one of the tools that the autocratic city-state of Singapore is wielding in its winning assault on the disease.

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