[MyAppleMenu] Saturday, Nov 15, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Nov 15, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Aims At Teens With New iPod Site (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/11/14/ipodrocks/index.php?redirect=1068829759000>
iPodrocks.com is Apple's latest effort to win the hearts and minds of teen consumers interested in its iPod digital music player. It's a new Web site and a fierce bit of guerilla marketing that combines high-impact graphics and animation along with several popular music tracks, and is chock full of creative ways that teens can try to convince their parents of how much they want, need and deserve an iPod this holiday season.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61252,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Virginia Tech's "Big Mac" supercomputer is officially the world's third-fastest supercomputer.

Whatever Happened To Bluetooth? (Sumner Lemon and stephen Lawson, IDG News Service)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113404,00.asp>
Wireless technology has improved , but it may never be mainstream.

Image Conscious (J. Greg Phelan, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/14/1068674375583.html>
Album art decreased in size years ago in the move from vinyl records to CDs. But now, with downloadable music on the internet, is such art headed for obsolescence?

Apple To Open First Portland-Area Store (Portland Business Journal)
<http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2003/11/10/daily46.html?jst=b_ln_hl>
Apple Computer will open its first Portland-area store on Saturday in Washington Square, giving existing Apple dealers some competition.

Error In Downloading (Russ Britt and Steve Gelsi, CBS MarketWatch)
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B704337D5%2D796A%2D4E22%2D8B25%2D85BFEE92366E%7D>
Record, tech industries battle to make music pay off.

Windows Expert Slams Panther (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7283>
Windows apologist Paul Thurrott has dismissed Mac OS X as offering "nothing in the way of usability advancements over previous desktop operating systems."

Impending OS 9 iDisk Hitch (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7285>
"If you're using Mac OS 9 and AFP (Apple File Protocol) you'll need to download and install software that enables WebDAV for your operating system in order to maintain full access to your iDisk."

Microsoft CTO Lauds BlackBerry, iPod (Munir Kotadia, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,39020360,39117914,00.htm>
Less than six months after Microsoft launched its newest mobile OS, Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, Vaskevitch was keen to point out to the delegates how useful it is to have devices with specific functionality.

No iTunes For Now-Lah (Chan Lee Meng, Malaysia Star)
<http://www.star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2003/11/14/technology/6714815&sec=technology>
An Apple official said the company is "fully committed" to opening up its iTunes online music store to rest of the world, but would not provide a date.

Apple Offers iPod Battery Replacement Service (Macinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/14/ipodbattery>
Apple is now offering a US$99 battery replacement program for iPods that are more than a year old.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Never Thought I'd Say This: Why Apple Should Release Safari For Windows (Bill Palmer)
<http://www.billpalmer.net/com000032.html>

Discussion: iTunes For Windows Breaking Older iPods (Slashdot)
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/14/209239>

Capital For Mac Development (Brent Simmons)
<http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2696>
This is a sign of growing health.

The World Is A GUi Place: Apple And Longhorn (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45OPcurve_1.html>
You know you're using the right software when, night after night, you have that "oh crap, I was supposed to be home an hour ago" moment. OS X engages me that way without obviously working at it, just by respecting the fact that humans use their software.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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DeltaGraph 5 (Neale Monks, Applelust)
<http://www.applelust.com/reviews/archives/deltagraph/>
The more I used DeltaGraph, the more I liked it.

Miglia's AlchemyTV (Pierre Igot, Applelust)
<http://www.applelust.com/reviews/archives/alchemytv/>

Ghost Master (Ectal Greenhaw, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=428>
Ghost Master is a game that tries to get by on its premise alone, and it succeeds, despite a few minor flaws.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Security: More Than Just Technology (Wayne Rash, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45secadvise_1.html>
You have to design for good security, not just load a new program.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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MP3.com To Change Owner And Format (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cnet15nov15,1,2062635.story>
CNet buys the online music service from Vivendi. It will focus on providing news and information about digital music next year.

Commercial WiFi Hotspots In Hong Kong: Residents Only (Dan Gillmor)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001507.shtml>
Can you say "brain-dead business practices?"

AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent (Dan Gillmor)
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001506.shtml>
AT&T should be ashamed of itself.

Interview With LimeWire COO Greg Bildson (Lisa Rein, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/11/14/limewire.html>
P2P United is the   organization that paid 12-year-old Brianna LaHara's $2,000 RIAA   settlement after she the RIAA served her with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoena.

The World's Opportunity (To Take Over The Internet) (Dana Blankenhorn)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20031101.shtml#60048>
We don't know. That's what both exciting and scary about this.

Sony Leads eBook Venture (Yoshiko Hara, EE Times)
<http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20031114S0027>
Sony and 14 major publishing, printing and newspaper companies are planning a new eBook business that will focus on rental service based on OpenMG, Sony's digital rights management technology.

Loophole Claimed In New European Copyright Laws (New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994384>
The issue centres on a single word: "effective."

FCC Makes More Spectrum Unlicensed (Laura Rohde, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/HNfccspectrum_1.html>
Added spectrum availability is boon to unlicensed wireless broadband networks.

CNET To Buy, Retune MP3.com (Matt Hines and John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1027_3-5107696.html>
Internet media company CNET Networks announced Friday that it is acquiring the assets of online music distributor MP3.com.

Judge Shuts Garage Opener Copyright Suit (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1025_3-5107779.html>
An Illinois federal court has dismissed a garage door opener manufacturer's claim that a rival's replacement product violated copyright law.

AOL Shifts E-Mail Graphics Policy (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1024_3-5107785.html>
In an attempt to cozy up to marketers, America Online is letting some companies sidestep an e-mail control and have pictures show up in the messages they send subscribers.

Court Rules In Favor Of ICANN (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1038_3-5107909.html>
A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against the organization that oversees Internet domain names and addresses.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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No Exceptions For Democracy In China (Ellen Bork, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43054-2003Nov14.html>
And so the "China exception" to the Bush administration's democracy agenda was born.

Add 'Blog' To The Campaign Lexicon (Brian Faler, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42468-2003Nov14.html>
Blogs, those Web sites where thousands have posted their musings, rants and commentaries, have gone presidential.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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No Wiggle Room In A Window War (Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/nyregion/15AMIS.html>
A new state code that requires a minimum opening of 5.7 square feet for bedroom windows is colliding with Amish tradition, which prescribes a double-hung window of five square feet.

You Could Already Be A Winner (Laura Miller, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/review/16MILLERT.html>
Why do the choices for the National Book Awards finalists always strike so many observers as eccentric?

The Physics Of... Wrinkles: Lines Of Least Resistance (Robert Kunzig, Discover)
<http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-03/departments/scienceof/>
A general theory of wrinkling puts your face in touch with the universe.

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know (Charles Fishman, Fast Company)
<http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html>
The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?

Ann Cornelisen, 77, Writer On Improverished Southern Italy, Dies (Douglas Martin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/books/14CORN.html>
Ann Cornelisen, an American expatriate writer who brought spry and steely language to her evocative books about the poverty-stricken South of Italy, died on Wednesday  at her home in Rome, Ga.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Police Film Shows Gang Rape, Graphic Violence (Associated Press)
<http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?y=2003&dt=1115&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=Entertainment&pg=en_03.htm>
After demanding that an internationally acclaimed homegrown film be censored -- out of fear that it could spark gang fights -- Singapore police have produced their own movie that reportedly depicts suicide, gang rape and bloody street fighting.

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