[MyAppleMenu] May 23, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, May 23, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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TiVo CEO: Select Apple Stores To Sell TiVo Systems (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/23/tivo>
TiVo CEO Michael Ramsay said thursday in the company's first quarter financial conference call that select Apple Stores will son be carry TiVo Digital Video Recorders.

Apple.com At Top Of Computer Hardware Sites, Nielsen/NetRatings Reports (InternetRetailer.com)
<http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=9361>
Apple.com lead all computer hardware sites in number of shoppers for the week that ended May 11. Apple.com logged 3.75 million unique visitors, 73.7% of all visitors to hardware sites.

'Titanic' Studies Keep Students' Interest Afloat (Sherry Conohan, Atlanticville)
<http://atlanticville.gmnews.com/news/2003/0523/Front_Page/039.html>
"Most schools pull out a few children for the gifted-and-talented classes. We reversed it. All the children benefit."

Innovator Insight -- A Chat With Brent Simmons (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/05/22/innovators.html>
In this interview, I talk with Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, and the inaugural first-place winner of the Mac OS X Innovators Contest.

Open Source Version Of .Net Slated For This Year (Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service)
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0522monox.html>
Project Mono, an independent effort to create an open source version of the Microsoft .Net Framework, expects to release version 1.0 of its software this year, probably in the fourth quarter.

Net Names Scramble To Match iTunes (Jane Weaver, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/916856.asp>
Apple's out-of-the-gate success with its digital music store was a wake-up call to record labels and Internet services that there is a market for legal, commercial downloads. However, a legitimate and unrestricted online music service for mass market consumers is still a long way off, digital music analysts say.

Apple Retailer Shuts Stores In Dispute With Computer Maker (Timothy Roberts, San Jose Business Journal)
<http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/05/19/daily59.html>
Elite Computer and Software Inc. has closed its five Bay Area stores. Owner Thomas Armes says the problem is not the economy. Instead he blames his troubles on Apple.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Moral And Economic Clarity (James V. DeLong, TechCentralStation)
<http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-052303B>
So let's drink a toast to Apple, using hard cider of course, and urge it stay the course and defend itself. There is a lot at stake, for all of us.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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MS's ClearType KOs Apple's Quartz In The Lightweight Division (John Kheit, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2003/20030523.shtml>
Everyone seems to believe that Apple's Quartz rendering engine produces the best screen display. Unfortunaely, I don't think that's indisputably so.

Data And Song Coming Out Of Your Ears (Peter Griffin, New Zealand Herald)
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3503434&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general&thesecondsubsection=>
[iPod] may look like something Fisher & Paykel would make, but it is the best MP3 player/storage device on the market.

12" PowerBook G4 An Improvement Over 15" Titanium In Most Respects (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/archive/03/0523.html>

Mac OS X Power Tools (Charles Moore, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/osxpt.shtml>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Why Microsoft Won't Make Your Car Crash (David Coursey, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2913728,00.html>
"We don't have any system that controls starting, stopping, door locks, engine control, or things like that. We just handle the navigation system."

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Why Things Don't Work (Jimmy Guterman, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.co.uk/articles/web/0,1653,49676,00.html>
Maybe it's because the user-experience pros need to learn a new language.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Open Source Version Of .Net Slated For This Year (Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service)
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0522monox.html>
Project Mono, an independent effort to create an open source version of the Microsoft .Net Framework, expects to release version 1.0 of its software this year, probably in the fourth quarter.

Phone Companies See their Future In Flat-Rate Plans (Nicholas Thompson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/23/business/23PHON.html>
Every telephone call in the world may soon become a local call, thanks to increasing competition and technological advances.

Wearable Camera Could Store Your Life In Images (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135096,00.html>
HP's Bristol laboratory is researching a wearable always-on camera that could capture terabytes of images, and then select the mostmemorable ones automatically.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Dividend Voodoo (Warren Buffett, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13113-2003May19.html>
Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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How Does Dyson Make Water Go Uphill? (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3046791.stm>
James Dyson's uphill water feature has been the striking image of this year's Chelsea Flower Show. But how did he do it?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Jokes Spring Eternal: Celebrating Bob Hope's Century (David Montgomery, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28994-2003May22.html>
On Thursday Bob Hope turns 100. He is too frail to have attended the celebration of his career last night at the Library of Congress. He's not delivering two-beat quips much in public anymore. But the jokes live on. They are immortal.

Can A Wild Turkey Find Success And Happiness In The Canyons Of Manhattan? (Thomas J. Lueck, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/23/nyregion/23TURK.html?8hpib>
A mysterious wild turkey has been flying over Manhattan and has been sighted in some unusual places.

The Art  Crowd (Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003525>
What's wrong with blockbuster museum exhibits? Too many people.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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William Who? (Will Pavia, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-688934,00.html>
As Oxford's history faculty enters an eminent professor in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, our correspondent sneaks a preview.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Ministers' Pay Cut: A Good Example, Or A Case Of Too Little? (M. Nirmala, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,190785,00.html?>
With few figures to go on, some are reserving judgment.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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AVA Admits: Yes, We're Culling Stray Cats (Grace Chua, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,190766,00.html?>
It's for public health reasons and not because of Sars, says government body; Animal welfare groups protest the move.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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