[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple PowerMac G5 With OS 10.3 "Panther" (Wilson Rothman, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/gadget/20031119/>
Bottom line for the Mac users: it only gets better from here on in. Bottom line for Windows people: getting a Mac doesn't mean switching. It just means having a little more fun.

MyAppleMenu : News
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MacExpo 2003 Starts Tomorrow In London (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/19/macexpo>

Apple Releases Security Updates For Panther, Jaguar (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/19/securityupdate>
In the release notes for the Panther version, Apple said the update includes updated OpenSSL and zlib "gzprintf()" function components. Apple said the Jaguar version includes the following updated components: gm4; groff; Mail w/CRAM-MD5 authentication; OpenSSL; Personal File Sharing; QuickTime for Java; and zlib "gzprintf()" function.

In Pleasanton, Teachers And Students Get Apples (Diana Reinhart, San Antonio Express-News)
<http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=320&xlc=1086659&xld=320>
Pleasanton decided to give out the laptops so that students graduate with the skills they need to live in a digital age.

Apple Computer Could Run Out Of Steam (Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/1119automarketscan04.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=>

Sun Cofounder Bill Joy Loves His Power Mac G5; Prefers Mac OS X To Linux; Has 'No Interest' In Windows (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2196_0_1_0_C>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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.Mac Benefits Confusion (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20031119015412317>
"I looked at that page also, but didn't feel deceived. I felt the page was saying, 'Look what you could have received if you had a .mac account' and [implying] that new subscribers would get equivalent offers in the future."

Apple Has Just Shot Itself In The Foot... Twice (Sean Foushee, MacNETv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=430_0_1_0>
How many Mac users will forgo purchasing the 2.0Ghz G5 during the Christmas season for the opportunity to purchase a similar machine and save $500?

Singles Make Comeback Online (Francis Volpe, The Sentinel)
<http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2003/11/18/editorial/francis_volpe/volpe01.txt>
Building your music collection a song at a time, a buck at a time, is most convenient of all.

Change In Spring Status (Brent Simmons)
<http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2699>
The unfortunate part is that the market doesn't always reward applications like Spring.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Safari 1.1 Cookie Theft (MacInTouch)
<http://www.macintouch.com/index.shtml#cookievul>

FileVault Security Loophole (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20031119015647768>

Customize FileMaker Menus With Fast Tasks (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/18/filemaker.html>

Hell Forze Over And Heaven Has Got The Funk (Jason Rainbows, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/rainbows/11.18.03.shtml>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Getting A Job In The Valley Is Easy, If You're Perfect (Matt Richtel and Laurie J. Flynn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/technology/19techjobs.html>
Employers are being extremely picky, the few jobs being offered pay less than they once did, and they do not come with the bountiful benefits and sterling opportunities of the 1990's boom, job seekers say.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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"Hope Is A Lousy Defense." (Spencer Reiss, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/billjoy.html?tw=wn_tophead_3>
Sun refugee Bill Joy talks about greedy markets, reckless science, and runaway technology. On the plus side, there's still some good software out there.

MSN Goes Hollywood (Sebastian Rupley, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1382038,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K0000530>
The business model is to offer video advertising services in lieu of charging subscription fees.

Nosy Wi-Fi Neighbors (Alexandra Robbins, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1382056,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K0000530>
The rise in home wireless networks has apparently spawned a new variety of Peeping Toms.

Group Wants Phone Number Plan Put On Hold (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1037_3-5108962.html>
A telephone industry association on Tuesday asked federal regulators to stop telephone number portability rules from taking effect on Nov. 24.

Cooking Spam At Comdex (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1121_3-5108935.html>
Forget about transforming IT or building business value -- the big push at this year's Comdex is keeping Viagra ads out of your in-box.

Sun And AOL Form StarOffice Pact For Cheap PCs (Ashlee Vance, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/34068.html>
Fresh off a major Linux desktop win in China, Sun Microsystems has found a PC friend closer to home with AOL now piloting a program to ship sub-$300 desktops running StarOffice.

China To Promote Own Alternative To DVDs (Ted Anthony, Associated Press)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1387987,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Seeking to compete on its own terms in the lucrative entertainment industry, China announced a government-funded project Tuesday to promote an alternative to DVDs and "attack the market share" of the global video format.

IBM Donates Code To Open-Source Project (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7344_3-5108886.html>
IBM has donated source code to an open-source project in an effort to create more sophisticated development tools for building graphical interfaces.

Verizon Details Internet Phone Plans (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-7352_3-5108908.html>
Verizon Communications will begin selling Internet telephony services to broadband customers early next year, a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Mourning In America (John B. Roberts II, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/opinion/19ROBE.html>
While the president writes letters to the families of soldiers who have been killed and meets privately with them at military bases, he has not attended an open memorial or a military service. That's a mistake.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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First, We Don't Say 'Yuck' ... (David Shaw, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-matters19nov19,0,3044708.column?coll=la-headlines-food>
And other hard lessons for a civilized meal with grown-ups.

How Much Is That Doggie In The Browser Window? (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/11/18/online_pet_personals/index_np.html>
Pets.com and its deluded ilk have gone the way of used kitty litter, but online animal rescue and adoption centers are thriving.

"If We Haven't Found Anyone Else By 40, Let's Get Hitched!" (Curtis Sittenfeld, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/11/18/marriage_pacts/index_np.html>
Are "marriage pacts" a mature, open-eyed approach to love -- or the ultimate in cowardly bet-hedging?

Why it's Better To look, Listen -- And Think For Yourself (Rupert Christiansen, Telegraph)
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/19/bartscol.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/11/19/ixartleft.html>
Trying to make art accessible makes it much less exciting.

Sartre Redux (Scott McLemee, Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i13/13a01001.htm>
A new generation of scholars explores the philosophy and politics of the founder of existentialism.

To The Table, And Be Slow About It (Regina Schrambling, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-thanks19nov19,0,251903.story?coll=la-headlines-food>
It's time to shift gears and remember this day is about celebration, not the mad rush.

The Second Coming Of Philip K. Dick (Frank Rose, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip.html>
The inside-out story of how a hyper-paranoid, pulp-fiction hack conquered the movie world  20 years after his death.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Making Purple (Dan Chiasson, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2091308/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Ez-Link Write-Off Drags LTA Into The Red (Christopher Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,220739,00.html?>
The cost of issuing ez-link cards has nudged the Land Transport Authority (LTA) into its first accounts deficit since it was formed in 1995.

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