[MyAppleMenu] Monday, Nov 3, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Nov 3, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Official Weighs In On 15-In. PowerBook Problem, Laptop Successes (Ken Mingis, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,86802,00.html?SKC=macos-86802>
Dave Russell, director of product marketing for portables and wireless at Apple, said late last week that the company is aware of the white blemishes on some new 15-in. screens, but hasn't yet "captured" enough of the computers to figure out why the spots are appearing.

'Bundle iTunes', Apple Exec Urges PC Makers (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7201>
Apple's applications marketing chief Peter Lowe has urged PC manufacturers to bundle iTunes for Windows with off-the-shelf PCs.

OS X Insecure -- How Do You Like 'Dem Apples? (Patrick Gray, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000048630,20280461,00.htm>
Say what you want about how great OS X is, but Apple dropped the ball when it found out there were vulnerabilities in its flagship operating system. It didn't release a patch when the issues became public, didn't ask the company that found the flaws, @Stake, for any time to produce a free fix, and has resorted to spin to save itself further embarrassment.

MyAppleMenu : News
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iTunes Offers Legal 'Sharing' (Daniel Holevoet, Yale Daily News)
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=23898>
Yalies have rushed to download the iTunes music player and iTMS since it became available to Windows users two weeks ago. Many Yalies said they use it mainly to "share" others' music, not to buy songs from the iTMS.

FileVault Problems Continue Apple's OS Woes (Jim Darlymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/03/filevaultissue/index.php?redirect=1067862911000>
FileVault is suspected of resetting or destroying the data for Safari, Address Book, the Dock, Mail and the Keychain, among others.

Apple Vendor Will Move To PC Sales (Chris Jenkins, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7759341%5E15327%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15321,00.html>
Apple retailer NextByte is planning to sell its own brand of PCs in the first of what it hopes will be a national chain of Windows-compatible outlets.

Digital Music Biz Faces Hurdles In Europe (Juliana Koranteng, Reuters)
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=3738339&pageNumber=0>
Apple's success with its digital  download store in the U.S. is irrefutably sweet, but the  European market could prove to be bitter fruit.

PC Sales May Be Coming Out Of Doldrums (Paul Andrews, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001781368_paul03.html>
The numbers are encouraging to a sector that has been languishing for the past three years, battered by the dot-bomb, a flagging economy and a mountainous inventory of used equipment that sold at auction for far less than even the cheapest new computers.

Fink 0.61 Brings Panther Compatibility (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21850>

Microsoft Moves Virtual PC From Linux (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1370335,00.asp>
When Microsoft Corp. launches Virtual PC 2004, a Linux version of the software won't be along for the ride -- at least not officially.

For Many, It's Still No Sale (Daniel Rubin, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/7158618.htm>
Many industry observers say the new services will provide little lift for the beleaguered record business. In fact, they say, the pay services will only steer more people toward the freebies.

Digital Singles Close To Eclipsing Hard Copies (Brian Garrity and Geoff Mayfield, Reuters)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53081-2003Nov2.html>
Digital tracks are outselling physical singles by a growing margin, a sign that consumers increasingly are embracing the brave new world of Internet downloading.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Paying For Fewer Features (Steven Garrity)
<http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2003/november/payingforfewer>
There are some new features, but the important improvements are subtle and all over the place. The end result is that the system just feels better.

Mac.Ars Takes On Apple's Quality Control (Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/mac/>
Apple is in a stronger position than it has been in some time. Capitalizing on its position and growing its market share both in the home and corporate spaces requires an increased commitment to quality.

Apple's Bad Hair Day (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/11/205.htm#day>
Let's not point fingers of blame at this point, except to point out that hard drives are a fragile lot. And you see now how easy it is for something to go awry.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Huevos And iSeek (Michael Tsai, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/9.11/huevos-iseek.shtml>
Huevos and iSeek are both solid, easy-to-use utilities, and I recommend them for most users.

An Early Eval Of Apple's Mac OS X 10.3 (Chris Gulker, NewsForge)
<http://www.newsforge.com/os/03/10/30/0537250.shtml>
Will Panther tempt Linux users? Sure! But I don't think there will be widespread defections, given the price points of the Apple hardware required to run it.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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5 'Exabytes' Of Information Created In '02, Report Says (Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7130206.htm>
Last year, people generated five exabytes of information, the equivalent of a half-million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Borland Looks Back -- And Pushes Forward (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1369460,00.asp>
Borland Software Corp. is thinking big once again.

Sendmail, Cloudmark Team Against Spam (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5101065.html>
Sendmail, whose technology shuttles nearly 60 percent of e-mail on the Internet, has agreed to make Cloudmark's antispam filtering tools a centerpiece of its commercial mail management software.

Hunt For 'Napster Of Good Causes' (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3228339.stm>
Good ideas that use technology to improve life offline are being sought by a new non-profit organisation.

Howard Dean's Internet Push: Where Will It Lead? (Glen Justice, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/weekinreview/02JUST.html>
Dr. Dean's Internet fund-raising presents the first new addition in years to time-tested strategies like direct mail, phone solicitation and events in restaurants and hotels that mix donors with candidates in exchange for a check.

British Library Archives Websites (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3231483.stm>
The British Library is now able to store web pages and e-mails in its archive after a legal change.

How Intuit Bested Microsoft (Knowledge at Wharton, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2030-1012_3-5100925.html>
What "Inside Intuit" offers is a straightforward, if not dramatic, portrait of a company in a constant state of crisis or change that accompany shifts in the software industry, software bugs, new products, acquisition decisions (good and bad) and changes in top management.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Congress To Big Business: Oooooh, Hurt Me Again! (Joyce McGreevy, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/mcgreevy/2003/11/03/love_letter/index_np.html>
No matter how badly corporate America screws the nation, politicians keep begging for more.

Lights, Cameras, Action? (Shawn Hubler, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-hubler3nov03.story>
It's the Arnold show now, but some say hard reality will kick in soon.

So Much For 'The Front Page' (Frank Rich, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/arts/02RICH.html>
The likes of a Glass and a Blair are true embarrassments to their peers. But the larger culture in which they thrived has done more longterm damage to the press than these individual transgressors, however notorious.

After The Flood (Jonathan Watts, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1073310,00.html>
The water has risen, 700,000 people have been relocated, and the Three Gorges dam is finally producing electricity. So is it the disaster everyone predicted?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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I See Naked People (Michael Leahy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30524-2003Oct28.html>
Megastars baring all, 'Girls Gone Wild,' nudists next door. Where is America's fascination with nudity taking us?

The Reluctant Retiree (Robert Sabbag, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2003/11/02/the_reluctant_retiree/>
Being Walter Cronkite is still a full-time job.

Please Touch The Art (Carol Kino, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/arts/design/02KINO.html>
Wouldn't it be nice if you could reach your hand into a museum display case, pluck out the rare book or manuscript inside, hold it and turn the pages? Recently, some museums have developed devices that allow you to do just that -- virtually.

The Case Of The Incredible Shrinking Blockbuster (Jesse McKinley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/arts/theater/02MCKI.html>
Less than three years after its incomparably auspicious opening, "The Producers," in the eyes of many on Broadway, has become an underachiever.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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SMU Chief Wonders If Singapore Is Moving Too Fast On Hub Dream (Teo Hwee Nak, Today)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/55252/1/.html>
Like one of those little signs that caution against over-speeding, a top educationist wants Singapore to think carefully before it hurtles down the road to becoming an education hub. His worry: Singapore is trying to do too much too fast and, if things don't work out, there could be a heavy price to pay.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Adult EZ-Link Cards To Cost More From Tuesday, $5 Non-Refundable Card Fee (Bridgette See, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/55370/1/.html>
The company that makes the cards, hopes this will stop people from buying cards and not using them.

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