[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Nov 4, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Store Ginza To Open November 30 (Peter Cohem, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/04/ginza/index.php?redirect=1067927826000>
On November 30, 2003 at 10AM, the Apple Store Ginza will open in Tokyo to become Apple's 73rd retail store location, and its first located outside the United States.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Hecht's Department Stores Now Selling ipod (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/04/hechts>

Xcode Developer Tools Get Updated (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/04/xcode/index.php?redirect=1067957652000>
1.0.1 addresses an issue in the Xcode IDE that could potentially lead to data corruption or the loss of files particularly when source files contain illegal characters.

REALbasic Gets Panther Support, New Features (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/04/realbasic/index.php?redirect=1067936879000>

Apple Releases New Panther Security Update (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/04/securityupdate>
The update addresses a potential vulnerability with the Terminal application in Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS X Server 10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.

Apple Launches 2003 Holiday Gift Guide (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/04/giftguide>
Apple has posted this year's Holiday Gift Guide, its annual collection of both Apple and third-party products that it recommends as gifts for Mac users for the holiday season.

A Brand New You (W. Eric Martin, Psychology Today)
<http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOArticle/PTO-20030902-000006.asp>
Apple's presentation of its brand as an attitude rather than a product advantage is an extension of the concept that advertising superstar David Ogilvy developed in the 1950s.

Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M Per Week (Palm Infocenter)
<http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=6194>
For the first time, total Bluetooth product shipments worldwide exceeded one million units per week, in 3rd quarter 2003, according to trackers.

Apple Pushing Media 'Core' For 3G Phones Here (Ho Ka Wei, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,218158,00.html>
A slice of Apple may be served up on your mobile phone as the California-based company is targeting the soon-to-emerge third-generation (3G) phone market in Singapore. Apple is banking on the simplicity of use of its 'core' or flagship media player, QuickTime, to make this happen.

Will Mac OS X 'Panther' Help Or Hobble Small Developers? (Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1370393,00.asp>
"There's plenty of opportunity for a motivated developer to produce a product." However, any developer hoping to come up with the sole solution in a product niche will be "invariably disappointed."

4,000 Greet Cleveland Apple Store Opening (Tamara Adrine-Davis, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/11/03.3.shtml>

Adding Style To Substance (Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7171782.htm>
It used to be that only high-end companies such as Apple or Sony cared about industrial design -- the distinctive look and feel of their products. But in an age when hardware has become a commodity, many more tech companies are coming to realize that aesthetics matter.

Musicmatch Tries To Stay Plugged Into iPod (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-5101569.html>
On Monday, Musicmatch sent an e-mail to its customers letting them know that, despite the arrival of Apple's iTunes for Windows, customers can still use its jukebox program to connect to Apple's iPod. However, the message warns them that if they install iTunes, Musicmatch's connection to the iPod will be severed.

Burton Announces New iPod Gear (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/03/burton>
Burton Snowboards today introduced a new line of products with built-in iPod controls, including a new backpack and three new jackets.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/31/43OPcurve_1.html>
Apple, Intel, and Microsoft gear up for technology's season of plenty.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Addressing Apple's Keynote (Chris Chong, The Star)
<http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2003/11/4/prodit/6415749&sec=prodit>
Depending on how you normally present your slides and what other software you've already got on your Mac, Keynote could be the presentation tool you've been waiting for all your life. Either that, or you'll find yourself feeling somewhat frustrated at the overly simple drawing tools and the lack of more advanced layout, animation and slide interaction tools.

Extensis Pxl SmartScale v.1 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/pxlsmart.shtml>
If you need to expand your images to very large sizes for printing, pxl SmartScale is a wise way to do it.

Apple's Bluetooth Keyboard V. MacAlly's NetKey Keyboard (Tito Jankowski, The Mac Mind)
<http://www.themacmind.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=392>
Apple's keyboard is the winner, but not by a lot. The MacAlly keyboard really falls short without the regular arrow keys, and the scroll wheel isn't terribly useful.

'Greatest OS Ever Invented' (David Frith, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7734482%5E15309%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>
This operating system is (mostly) terrific.

Classic Mac OS Servers Exploited By Spammers (Chuck Goolsbee, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07422>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Antitrust Pact Bounces Back To Court (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5101591.html>
Attorneys for Microsoft head back to federal court on Tuesday to defend a landmark antitrust settlement from a last-ditch challenge from the Massachusetts attorney general and other critics.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Red Hat: Stick With Windows At Home (Munir Kotadia, ZDNet UK)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101690.html>
Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose Windows instead.

Everyone's A Programmer (Claire Tristram, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/tristram1103.asp>
Software is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Charles Simonyi's solution? Programming tools that are so simple that even laypeople can use them.

In The Name Of National Security (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-5101121.html>
In incident after troubling incident, federal agencies have been quietly censoring information that previously had been available on their Web sites and otherwise curbing public oversight.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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VoIP Providers Face Price War (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5101663.html>
Internet telephony companies already offer major cost savings over traditional telephone services, but now they're challenging one another for the title of cheapest of the cheap in an increasingly brutal battle for customers.

Novell To Acquire SuSE Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5101680.html>
Longtime Microsoft foe Novell has signed an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM, the most powerful backer of the Linux OS, will make a $50 million investment in Novell.

Technology Gets In Its Own Way (Jube Shiver Jr., Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-interference4nov04,1,7936987.story?coll=la-home-leftrail>
Digital poltergeists are afoot these days as an explosion of garage door openers, television remotes, cellular phones and other wireless devices create quirky and potentially dangerous interference in the increasingly crowded airwaves.

Making The U.S. Safe For Spam (Matthew Honan, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/11/04/can_spam/index_np.html>
By a vote of 97-0, the Senate passed a bill to stop junk e-mail. Too bad it won't do anything of the sort.

The Many Shapes Of Tomorrow's PC (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2003/tc2003114_2291_tc134.htm>
Sure, it'll be faster and more powerful. It'll also be far more oriented to specific tasks and take wireless broadband networks for granted.

Should You Buy A TV From A PC Maker? (Liane Cassavoy, PC World)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113009,pg,1,00.asp>
Dell and Gateway may be able to offer more-sophisticated products at a lower price.

Comdex's Past May Be Its Biggest Obstacle To Survival (Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,86756,00.html?SKC=home86756>
The corporate IT community appears not to have gotten the message that Comdex/Fall is being recast as a scaled-down event focusing exclusively on IT professionals. And that's bad news for show organizers who are pinning the event's survival on the new direction.

Taiwan's Tech Boom Is For Real (Bruce Einhorn, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2003/tc2003113_3406_tc058.htm>
Unfortunately, so is the possibility of a bust, according to some analysts, who think local outfits' stocks are way too high.

Red Hat Cans Linux Distribution (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1371219,00.asp>
Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. on Monday made clear its intention to focus on the enterprise space, telling customers that it will no longer be maintaining or releasing any of the its Red Hat Linux line after the end of April 2004.

Are Taxes On The Way For Net Access? (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5101346.html>
A federal moratorium on Internet access taxes expired over the weekend, leaving state governments free to levy new taxes on Americans' dial-up, wireless and broadband connections to the Net.

Taking On The DMCA (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2008-1025_3-5101389.html>

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Mission Demolished (Eric Boehlert, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/04/iraq/index_np.html>
Bush and Co.'s Iraq adventure grows bloodier by the day -- thanks to the delusional hawks who planned only for a victory parade.

The Crusaders (Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2003/11/02/the_crusaders/>
A powerful faction of religious and political conservatives is waging a latter-day counterreformation, battling widespread efforts to liberalize the American Catholic Church. And it has the clout and the connections to succeed.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials Safety Is Hard To Pin Down (Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/technology/03nano.html>
When researchers fashion nanomaterials so small that their dimensions can be measured in molecules, the unusual and potentially valuable characteristics of those materials tend to show up immediately. But as businesses race to exploit those benefits, investors and policy makers are finding that pinpointing the potential environmental and health impacts of nanotechnology could take years.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Why Are Kenyans Fast Runners? (Brendan I. Koerner, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2090658/>
There are a few popular theories, which break along nature-versus-nurture lines.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Tooth And Claw (T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?031110fi_fiction>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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The End Of Free Cards (Joy Frances, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/9367.asp>
The fact that EZ-Link could not provide answers to some of the questions also showed that the company had not thought through all the relevant points.

No 10 'Helped Leader's Wife To Jump NHS Queue' (Alex Spillius, Toby Helm and Celia Hall, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/04/nlee04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/11/04/ixportaltop.html>
Both Downing Street and the Foreign Office denied intervening in any way to accelerate the treatment for Mrs Lee who had collapsed while staying at the Four Seasons Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Is This Too Ghoulish For The Public? (Kelvin Wong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,218276,00.html?>
Show of preserved bodies ready but MDA yet  to give green light; public sensitivity said to be a concern.

No, This Is Not Competition (Cheng Shoong Tat, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/9368.asp>
Craving up a natural monopoly does not bring benefits to consumers.

Autocractic Leader Still Wields Power (Robin Gedye, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/04/nlee104.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/11/04/ixnewstop.html>
Although Lee Kuan Yew handed power to a prime minister 13 years ago, he still wields considerable influence at the age of 80.

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