[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Nov 16, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Nov 16, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Here Comes Apple (Jake K, AlwaysOn)
<http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=1586_0_5_0_C>
As the markets begin to understand the enormity and inevitability of Digital Media, it's clear that there will an unlikely beneficiary: Apple.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Tim Larkin: Composing Myst's Musical World (Bija Gutoff, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/audio/larkin/>
"With Apple technology, everything integrates so well."

School District Taps Into Laptop Technology (Dolores Orman, Democrat And Chronicle)
<http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1115KU2C4SU_HFLcompute151_news.shtml>
The Honeoye Falls-Lima school district is gearing up to launch in February a digital learning project that involves leasing laptop computers for middle school students to use in school and at home.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Discussion: Nonexistent Windows OS Superior To Panther (Slashdot)
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/14/1722210>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Crazy Golf (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=116_0_1_0_M>
At 12 holes, it's only a temporary fix, but it's better than another year of withdrawals.

Ultimate PC: One Piece At A Time, We Build 3 Dream Systems And Take Them For A Spin (Heather Newman and Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/business/guide16_20031116.htm>
Suppose money was no object. Just what would you buy if you could equip your personal computer with the biggest and the best, the finest and the fastest?

The Panther Report: Can A G3 Deliver The Goods With 10.3? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/11/207.htm#slow>
I'm pleased to report that the diehard Mac OS 9 user most likely isn't going to suffer worse performance on an iMac in this category, and, in fact, will find some things noticeably quicker when upgrading to Panther.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft's Latest Media-Playing Software Wins Grudging Praise (James Coates, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0311160128nov16,1,5269105.column?coll=chi-technology-hed>
With every .wma and .wmv I made reviewing the latest software, I couldn't help feeling that I was making a pact with the devil.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Intel Moves Deeper Into Supercomputing (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1001_3-5107682.html>
Intel plans to dedicate $36 million for basic research into improving the performance of supercomputers made from off-the-shelf parts as it continues to expand its reach in the very high end of the computer market.

Parents 'Confident' In Net Safety (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3271361.stm>
When it comes to keeping children safe on the internet, most parents now know what they have to do, says a survey.

Dmomesticating The (Electronic) Help (Cory Doctorow, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/magazine/16ROBOT.html>
When do-it-yourself meets the robots that were supposed to do it for you.

Weblog Spam (Mark Pilgrim)
<http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/11/15/more-spam>
Weblogs may turn out to be The Next Thing for spammers, the next vector to exploit.  And if that's true, then things are going to get really ugly really quickly.

Coming To A Location Very Near You (Ted C. Fishman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/magazine/16SCREENS.html>
Screens are bigger, screens are smaller, screens are everywhere.

You've Got Mail... From The Microwave (Paul Boutin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/magazine/16WAVE.html>
A peek behind the curtains of the networked home.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Do You Know Where Your Children Are? (Liza Mundy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27782-2003Nov11.html>
Most likely, they're watching PG-13 movies. Those would be the ones with the foul language, oral-sex references and torture scenes.

A Behind-The-Screens Look At Fleeting Airfare Availability (James Gilden, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-tr-internet16nov16,1,4086407.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Clicking on a bargain option doesn't mean you'll get it. Sometimes there's hidden competition at play.

Yes, It's A Mall, But A Far Cry From The Food Court (William Grimes, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/nyregion/16REST.html>
Some New Yorkers will go almost anywhere for a good meal. In a few months, however, the city's culinary adventurers will face what may be their steepest test yet.

Serious Dance In Los Angeles. No, Seriously. (Laura Bleiberg, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/arts/dance/16BLEI.html>
October represented something of a turnaround for Los Angeles, a city with a reputation for failing to support dance.

Squaring Off (David Hayes, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/magazine/16ENCOUNTER.html>
Inside the cult of speed spinners at the Rubik's Cube world championships.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Dunking In Army Started 5 Years Ago (David Boey and Li Xueying, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,220290,00.html?>
The training tragedy in August in which a 19-year-old soldier drowned in a combat survival course was no freak accident. Unauthorised dunking sessions like the one he suffered date back some five years, with the water getting progressively deeper, the Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Does Some Soul Searching Over Sex (Jason Szep, Reuters)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters11-15-170216.asp?reg=PACRIM>
Singapore, where prostitution is legal and oral sex is a crime, is doing some soul searching over morality, sexuality and the law.

Nel Construction: Shophouses Still Worse For The Wear (Tracy Quek, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,220273,00.html?>
"LTA should set a good example, because if a public authority looks like it does not take care of conservation areas, then what sort of ideas would private developers have?"

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