[MyAppleMenu] May 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, May 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Web Music Venture Ignites Industry (Ron Harris and Helen Jung, Associated Press)
<http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030510_630.html>
Apple was the first to piece everything together   with virtually no restrictions, a reasonable price and a relatively easy-to-use computer jukebox program all without charging subscription.

James Gosling: Mastermind Of Java (Barbara Gibson, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/science/gosling/>
"People in the UNIX/BSD community have gotten used to all kinds of little utilities. All of these deep tools are just there. And they just work."

Security Hole In Safari Uncovered (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19412>
Users can't trust the authenticity of a SSL website.

Apple Shares Rise Sharply For The Week (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/09/aapl>
Shares of Apple soared 27 percent this week, gaining over US$3 per share on news that its new iTunes Music Store sold more than one million songs during its first week.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Online Strategy Spouts A Healthy Tune (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134711037_ptmacc10.html>
This is a tale of two stores: one virtual, one real.

The Trouble With Widgets (Dave Hyatt, Surfin' Safari)
<http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/archives/2003_05.html#003241>
It's kind of amazing to think that, because of Internet Explorer's dominance, the very way widgets have to be designed in order to avoid bad page layout must necessarily match the way widgets are designed on Windows.  And people wonder why so many browser engines don't use native widgets...

iPod: My Wishlist (Derek Vadala, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3181>
I just hope that Apple follows up this great product with the add-ons we are all expecting.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple Final Cut Express (Ben Wolf, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0,12070,589917,00.html>
Final Cut Express is the best value in Mac-based nonlinear editing software.

Report On The Relative Quality Of ACC Audio To MP3 (Gunnar Van Vliet, RecordStoreReview.com)
<http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3.shtml>
AAC is higher quality at the same bit rate, so you can use a smaller file to achieve the same quality as MP3 which is a good thing for portable and computer users.  Ultimately, both formats still sound pretty bad in their practical ranges compared to CD.

The Game Room: On Track And Online (Peter Cohen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/05/reviews/thegameroom/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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What's A Wiki? (Sebastian Rupley, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1071705,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K0000530>
A wiki (derived from the Hawaiian term for quick) is essentially a small piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web content using any Web browser and no other special tools. Or, in one simpler description, a wiki is "the simplest online database that could possibly work."

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Verizon To Offer Wireless Web Link Via Pay Phones (Christopher Stern, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36721-2003May9.html>
Verizon Communications Inc. plans to announce next week that it will equip some of its more than 300,000 public telephones with the ability to offer wireless access to the Internet, part of its ongoing effort to build up its position as a major Internet provider.

Mobile Industry Looks Ahead To 4G (James Pearce, ZDNet Australia)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1000756.html>
Third-generation mobile technology has arrived, duly accompanied by a barrage of hype. But the industry is already casting its eyes forward to the next big thing--4G.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Turn Off The Lights (David Adam, Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,952789,00.html>
A campaign against light pollution has been launched today by countryside lovers and astronomers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Parenting On A Dare (Amy Benfer, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/05/10/breeding_benfer/?ref=http://www.salon.com/well/ad/index3.html>
I had a child at 16 because I wanted to prove the world wrong. I was going to raise an extraordinary daughter and still live my life the way I pleased.

Imagine This (David Herman, Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,952691,00.html>
There was a time when television introduced unknown artists, showed writers in close-up and directors in full flow. That age is lost -- but, history might have a lesson for us.

Pod People (Jonathan Reynolds, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/magazine/11FOOD.html>
For such a tiny vegetable, peas sure provoke intense reactions.

Why Is Jonathan Simms Still Alive? (Lisa Belkin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/magazine/11MADCOW.html>
As a result of mad-cow disease, this 18-year-old lost the ability to move or speak, and his doctors said he would soon lose his life. But his father had other ideas.

My Lingerie, A Story In 3 Acts (Valerie Frankel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/fashion/11VIEW.html?pagewanted=1&8hpib>
I don't have the body of a lingerie model, but I have the underwear drawer of one.

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