[MyAppleMenu] Saturday, Nov 8, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Nov 8, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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iTunes Forces Windows Users To Choose (Liane Cassavoy, PC World)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113336,00.asp>
Apple's program renders Musicmatch's Jukebox unusable.

Pittsfield Elementary School Receives iBook (Capital News 9)
<http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=46899>
A group of Williams Elementary kindergarten students is the first to get its hands on the 12 Apple iBooks, which are part of the new mobile lab.

Roxio CEO Chris Gorog Tells TechNewsWorld 'We Will Take Market Share From Apple' (Jay Lyman, TechNewsWorld)
<http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32082.html>
"We expect to be taking away market share from Apple on a weekly basis."

Microsoft Offers Windows Media Player 9 For OS X (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/07/wmp9/index.php?redirect=1068222119000>
"This new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media 9 content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the Web."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Tools Will Make Or Break The Platform (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/07/44OPcurve_1.html>
Microsoft and Apple reach out for the serious developers they were about to lose.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Reeling In What You Want From The Web (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001786075_ptrss08.html>
Many news sites have adopted RSS as an alternative or replacement for e-mail lists, or listservs, which are more and more frequently the victim of unintended spam filtering.

Panther Worth The Price For A Mac Upgrade (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001786073_ptmacc08.html>
Panther is worth the upgrade price if you want to increase efficiency and take advantage of an array of new and improved tools, plus its increased speed and stability.

For Mac, PC Users, Wireless Is Way To Go (Linda Knapp, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001786071_ptgett08.html>
Choosing keyboards and mice is a personal thing -- what feels comfortable to my fingers may not feel so good to yours. That said, I personally prefer the Microsoft keyboard for its size and spacing of keys and resting area for the heels of my hands. I also prefer the Microsoft mouse, mainly because my fingers want to manage more than one button.

Scripting Mac OS X (James Reynolds, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/07/scripting_osx.html>
This tutorial strives to share tips for administrators who are relatively new to the platform (but there are some good tips for veterans too).

Age Of Mythology (Greg Turner, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=449>

Panther On Slot-Loading iMacs And A 12" PowerBook (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/03/1107.html>
If you like some of the new features and have an extra $129 to spend, it's worth it. If you don't think any of the new features will benefit you, there's no point in spending your money. Go buy some more RAM instead.

Five Reasons Not To Buy An iPod (Eliot Van Buskirk, CNET)
<http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5102324-1.html>
Six-plus hours of battery life is not always enough; Jogging with a hard drive-basd player is not cool; The iPod is expensive; You want to make high-quality digital recordings; You want a choice in online music stores.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Can Microsoft Succeed With Tablet PC? (Paula Rooney, CRN)
<http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=45860>
On the first anniversary of the release of the Windows XP Tablet PC operating system, the question remains whether Microsoft's latest pen computing platform can succeed where others have failed before.

More VUlnerabilities For Internet Explorer (Gregg Keizer, TechWeb)
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16000637>
This time, hackers have posted exploits that can insert malicious code onto systems running Microsoft's Web browser.

Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster? (Kari L. Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61095,00.html>
Rumors about Microsoft's Wallop have been greatly exaggerated, mostly due to the blogging community's inability to penetrate the site's invitation-only front door.

Security Flaws Rankle Microsoft (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61138,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7>
For the first time, it seemed, flaws in Microsoft's software were translating into flaws in the company's business model.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Vote On Internet Tax Put Off (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14204-2003Nov7.html>
Proponents want to ensure that users are not subject to state or local taxes for going online, as they are for using telephone or cable service. But many states fear that the way the current bill is worded, all portions of the communications network that might be used to provide Internet connections, many of which are now taxed, would be free of taxation.

I Link, Therefore I Am (Jim McClellan, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1078077,00.html>
Networks should become so important to us, we become part of them.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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America's New Empire For Liberty (Paul Johnson, Hoover Digest)
<http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/034/johnson.html>
For America, September 11 was a new Great Awakening. It realized, for the first time, that it was itself a globalized entity.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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TV Dinners (Kristin Eddy, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/entertainment/television/7199445.htm>
The Food Network, perhaps more than any media, has changed the way Americans have come to regard chefs, the food industry and the possibility of becoming good cooks themselve.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Rise Of The 'New Poor' In Singapore (Daily Express)
<http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=22745>
Singapore, once a haven of full employment, is now grappling with the rise of a new phenomenon, the 'new poor', middle-income people who find themselves in a financial bind.

Singapore Allows Controversial Cadaver Display To Open (Associated Press)
<http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/11/8/latest/14844Singapore&sec=latest>
After more than a week of deliberations, Singapore's government on Saturday allowed a controversial exhibit of preserved corpses to be opened to the public, officials said.

Oral Sex Ruling Vexes Many (Tanya Fong and Glenys Sim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,218903,00.html?>
Yesterday's report about a policeman jailed for having oral sex with a willing teenager prompted many Straits Times readers to respond that the law was too unrealistic, and the punishment it prescribed too severe.

Civil Service To Cut Starting Pay (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,218814,00.html?>
New job-seekers hit, with steepest 20% cut for legal service recruits; serving officers' pay is also under review.

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