[MyAppleMenu] May 22, 2003

Thu May 22 21:05:01 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, May 22, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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It's A Party In A Pocket (Sarah Gilbert, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/76293.htm>
While most of us see our iPods as a purely private pleasure, some music innovators and tech-heads are using it as the ultimate portable party.

iPod, Therefore I Am (Mary Huhn and Maxine Shen, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/76291.htm>
There are two types of people in New York: Those who have an iPod and those who want one.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Griffin: Limited Edition PowerMates 'Back In Black' (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/22/griffen>

It's QuickTime Over RealPlayer In New AOL Windows Beta (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/22/aol9/>

A Few Of Her Favorite Things: Oprah Gives iPod To Everyone In Audience (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/05/22.4.shtml>
That might make you reconsider attending an Oprah taping, no?

Adobe To Drop OS 9 In Next Major Photoshop Release (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/22/photoshoprelease/>
Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will abandon Mac OS 9 support in its next major version, sources close to Adobe told MacCentral.

Apple Dons A Pinstripe Suit (CanadaComputes.com)
<http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=10416&sb=192>
"The power of Unix, the simplicity of Macintosh."

Hackers Bite Apple In Its iTunes (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac052203,0,6600950.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
The news has not generated the level of distress from the recording industry one would expect, though it clearly is concerned.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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I'm Tired Of RIAA. I Want To Hear From The Musicians (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3221>
I see quotes from industry analysts, RIAA, and the EFF. But once again, I don't know what the actual artists are thinking. They are the ones who  the content that everyone else is arguing about.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Matt Diamond, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=373>
Compared with the original game, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is larger and greatly improved in almost all respects. The OS 9 scripting bug is pretty serious, and until it is fixed I can only recommend playing it under OS X.

EyeTV Works Like A PVR For A Mac (Jim Rossman, Dallas Morning News)
<http://www.kmsb.com/technology/gadgets/052203ccptechgadgets.56aac.html>
EyeTV lacks some TiVo functions... but otherwise I find it very capable.

Making The Switch: Migration Proves Difficult For Personalized Data (Emru Townsend, CanadaComputes.com)
<http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=10431&sb=196>

MSN For Mac OS X (TopTechTips)
<http://www.toptechtips.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=4>
If MSN want this service to succeed, they need to do some big changes and improvements with the Mac version and perhaps offer a free trial to users in the meantime.

Ho Hum! Opera Still Being Developed For The Mac (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#opera>
I don't think Opera Software can realistically expect to sell any reasonable number of user licneses to Mac users unless it can show us it has a better product, or at least one different enough to make it a compelling alternative.

17-Inch Flat Screen iMac (Markkus Rovito, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=107>
That Apple can continue to offer valuable performance enhancements while lowering prices is impressive, even if that is the nature of the industry. All told, the 1GHz iMac exceeded our considerable expectations.

iSkin ProTouch (MacSofa)
<http://www.macsofa.com/more.php?id=82_0_1_0_M>
It is an essential purchase for anyone with kids, companies that have Macs in public areas and even for the loyal Mac fanatic who want to keep their keyboard as new as the day they bought it.

How Apple's Spam Filter Stacks Up (Tieman Ray, E-Commerce Times)
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/21571.html>
Apple's filter is a step in the right direction. It may not be the best filter, but it comes with the platform, it's easy to use, and it works well most of the time.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Get Ready For The Post-PC, Post-Web World (Kevin Werbach, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-1009013.html>
The more one looks at [new technology] developments, the more hidden connections appear. They are pieces of a larger whole, which we don't yet have words to describe.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Sun Tool Targets Microsoft (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-1009183.html>
Sun will show off a new, simplified Java development tool next month intended to steal programmers from rival Microsoft's camp.

Is A Wi-Fi Bubble Building? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2003/tc20030522_7618_tc119.htm>
As one of tech's few groth areas, it's luring startups and VC cash -- in a familiar pattern. First to feel a pop may be consumer outfits.

Computing's Lost Allure (Katie Hafner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/technology/circuits/22comp.html>
Spooked by layoffs and disabused of visions of overnight riches, many undergraduates are turning away from computer science as if it were somehow cursed.

Web 'Shaman' Fights His Demons (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58942,00.html>
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who dreamed up the World Wide Web, is worried that commercial interests threaten the future of the Internet. Speaking at the International World Wide Web Conference, he offers a possible solution.

Enforcing The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Internationally (Brandy A. Karl, FindLaw's Writ)
<http://writ.news.findlaw.com/student/20030519_karl.html>
Why Congress shouldn't lock in the current DMCA by approving the current version of the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Big Blackout (Eric Boehlert, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/05/22/fcc_blackout/>
Surprise, surprise: The TV networks that will benefit from the new FCC rules on media ownership have been keeping their viewers in the dark about the changes.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Shocking New Jacket Hits Street (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58914,00.html>
A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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'Shrek 4-D' Breaks The Mold (Robert Niles, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/family/cl-wk-kidsbright22may22.story>
The idea of a theme-park attraction based on the movie "Shrek" seems absurd. After all, "Shrek" earned many of its laughs mocking theme parks, an irony apparently lost on the creators of the new Shrek 4-D attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood. But a nod to that irony is the only thing missing from this entertaining romp.

'Black Men Are So Much More Beautiful Than White Men' (Rory Carroll, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,961206,00.html>
Nobel laureate Nadime Gordimer talks about writing at 80, cheeky questions and mixed-race couples in the park.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Ministers To Take 10% Pay Cut From July (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,190592,00.html?>

Enforcing The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Internationally (Brandy A. Karl, FindLaw's Writ)
<http://writ.news.findlaw.com/student/20030519_karl.html>
Why Congress shouldn't lock in the current DMCA by approving the current version of the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

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