[MyAppleMenu] Thursday, Oct 2, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Oct 2, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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The Incredible Shrinking Studio (Mark McClusky, Wired News)
<http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Technology&storyId=787021>
Musicians are no longer tied to the studio when they want to make recordings. Now that laptops are so powerful, music can be made anywhere, freeing musicians and changing the music landscape.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Riding The Next Technology Wave (Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2008-7351-5085423.html?tag=mac.nn>
>From where he sits, John Sculley enjoys a panoramic view of the IT landscape.

Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory For Mac Ships (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/02/greetingcard>
Built on Nova's Print Explosion engine, Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh allows you to create store-quality greeting cards for every occasion.

NBC's Scrubs Adopts An All Apple Solution (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/02/scrubs/index.php?redirect=1065110728000>
Late last season the editors decided to give Final Cut Pro a try and are now using all Apple hardware and software for the production of the television show.

The Keys To Success? (Carolyn Bower, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/3A9B76C98C7181E286256DB30013985D?OpenDocument&Headline=The+keys+to+success%3F+>
At Hixson Middle School in Webster Groves, seventh-graders analyze poetry, research ancient civilizations, do math problems and explain gravity with the help of personal laptop computers.

TIBCO Threatens Developers Over Rendezvous (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21380>
Australian software developer Andrew Wellington reports that TIBCO has threatened him with legal action over the use of the term "Rendezvous" in marketing for an iChat-compatible plugin.

Parking-Lot Etiquette For The Wireless Keyboard (Ian Austen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/technology/circuits/02keyb.html?ex=1065758400&en=3ec35b8b753524e4&ei=5035&partner=MARKETWATCH>
Some wireless devices are like rude houseguests, always interfering with other gadgets under the same roof. But  Apple's new cordless keyboard and mouse are models of decorum, discreetly taking the measure of their environment and bending over backward  not to get in the way.

Apple May Jump On Hot Spot Bandwagon (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39116852,00.htm>
Apple is looking to jump on the UK's Wi-Fi bandwagon as a way of raising the profile of its wireless networking gear, according to information posted on the company's Web site.

Palm's Debt To Newton (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=6997>
Palm employs a major cadre of ex-Apple emigres, with company insiders saying the corporate headcount includes "a third" ex-Apple employees. Macworld UK caught up with two of these.

For The Stylish MP3 Player, A Sleek Protective Sleeve (J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/technology/circuits/02case.html?ex=1065672000&en=047e60cfc7df1da3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
To protect the player's sleek, scratchable exterior and the miniature hard-drive technology inside, Terforma has released a new case called the iSleeve.

Milwaukie Art Program Gains High-Tech Flavor (Tom Quinn, The Oregonian)
<http://www.oregonlive.com/metrosouth/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_south_news/1064922969178480.xml>
"Our kids have that same organic connection to technology -- a computer is like a pencil to them. Looking over their shoulders, you can tell these kids are excited, they're engaged."

Into The VoIP: Long-Distrnace Calling Via The Internet Comes To The Mac (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac100203,0,4438256.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
Imagine dumping your long-distance telephone provider because now your Mac can make all your long-distance calls.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Newtons, Palms, And Pocket PCs: Why Apple Needs A PDA (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/03/1001.html>
Apple has the technology to grow beyond their core market of personal computers and their new market in the music realm by introducing a PDA that meets the needs of Macintosh users. Or Apple can leave us where we are, caught between two solutions which don't provide the kind of solutions Mac users expect.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iSight (Robert Paul Leitao and Clayton Spayer, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/9.10/isight.shtml>
Is the iSight the same as being there? Heck no! But for people who would like to communicate in sight and sound across great distances it's an extraordinary product.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Internet Explorer Vulnerability Exploited Again (Gregg Keizer, TechWeb)
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201154>
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser have been exploited again, security experts said on Thursday, this time by a Trojan horse that redirected traffic from more than 100 popular Web sites to an IP address designated by the attacker. 

Microsoft Moves Beyond Patches (Ina Fried and Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5085251.html>
Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter."

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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E-Mail Is Broken (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/02/e_mail/?ref=http://images.salon.com/src/ads/care2/care2_3.html>
Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Newspaper Exploits Loophole To ID No-Call Registrants (Scott Hovanyetz, DMNews.com)
<http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=25139>
The national no-call registry is supposed to be accessible only to telemarketers for the purpose of scrubbing their calling lists, but a Connecticut newspaper found a way to determine whether people are registered without buying the list.

Why Blogs Could Be Bad For Business (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1052072,00.html>
In today's corporate culture, where knowledge is power, the information-sharing capabilities of weblogs may not be entirely welcome.

Predict The Future? You Can Bet On It (Peter Wayner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/technology/circuits/02mark.html>
Putting a price tag on future events, online marketplaces help distill hunches into numbers.

ICANN Seeks Views On VeriSign's Site Finder (Joris Evers, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/30/HNicann_1.html>
VeriSign Inc.'s Site Finder has come under further scrutiny from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). A committee of the Internet governing body is investigating whether the service hurts the Internet's stability.

3G Mobile Signals Can Cause Nausea, Headache -- Study (Reuters)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=7&u=/nm/20030930/tc_nm/health_mobile_damage_dc>
Radio signals for the next generation of mobile phone services can cause headaches and nausea, according to a study conducted by three Dutch ministries.

RIAA: P-To-P Vendors Must Filter Content (Grant Gross, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/01/HNriaafilter_1.html>
The U.S. recording industry called on peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors to filter out copyright content and a U.S. senator pressed the distributor of the popular Kazaa P-to-P software to cut off users who violate its end-user license agreement during a Senate hearing on file trading Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Violence Silence (Robert Weisberg and David Mills, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2089095/>
Why no one really cares about prison rape.

Nabobs Revisited (David Greenberg, Washington Monthly)
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0310.greenberg.html>
What Watergate reveals about today's Washington press corps.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Remember The Six Billion (Michael Shermer, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=0001AF03-A8B1-1F57-905980A84189EEDF>
For millennia we have raged against the dying of the light. Can science save us from that good night?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Saloon Pantoum (Kathy Fagan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2089046/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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S$9.99 AirAsia Tickets Being Sold At Singapore Post Offices (Johnson Choo, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/corporatenews/view/50367/1/.html>
Malaysia's AirAsia starts its budget flights from Senai to Kuala Lumpur from 22 October and tickets can be bought at five post offices in Singapore.

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