[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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NetNewsWire Lite Update Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/07/netnewswire>
This release includes the latest applicable fixes and changes from the full version and now uses Web Kit for HTML rendering, gzip compression, and more.

Apple Japan Expanding Direct Sales Efforts (Nikkei Business Daily)
<http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/270366>
Apple Japan Inc is bolstering its direct sales structure in order to expand sales of personal computers and servers.

Road Paved For Liquid-Cooled Macs (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7028>
Start-up firm Cooligy yesterday announced a new processor-cooling technology, developed in cooperation with Apple, Intel, AMD and DARPA.

The Apple Store Coming To North Point Mall (Geoff Smith, NorthFulton.com)
<http://www.northfulton.com/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=%7BE8598418-DABB-47BD-85C7-7B2B22798C1C%7D>

Microsoft To Alter Web Browser For Ruling (Associated Press)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Microsoft%20Eolas>
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it will make technical adjustments to its Web browsing software as a result of an August ruling that the software giant infringed on a patent licensed by Eolas Technologies Inc.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple, Linux And BSD: The 'Other' Platforms (Rob Enderle, TechNewsWorld)
<http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31771.html>
The best thing to do is to stop complaining, then determine what is important to you and make a choice. Remaining with a status-quo Windows deployment is equivalent to making a choice.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Nisus Writer Express 1.0 (MacSofa)
<http://www.macsofa.com/more.php?id=95_0_1_0_M>

Spinning Around With The ShuttleXpress (Kirk McElhearn, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07384>
The ShuttleXpress wins out over the PowerMate for usability and flexibility.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Software Makers Promise Smoother Activation (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-5087695.html>
Software makers are getting smarter, but no less insistent, about product activation in the face of noisy customer protests, according to software executives.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Many Give The Slip To VeriSign's SiteFinder (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087287.html>
As legal and political challenges to VeriSign's SiteFinder domain name redirector mount, Chinese and other overseas network operators have taken technical steps to bypass the controversial service.

Spambusters (Neil Swidey, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2003/10/05/spambusters/>
Cyberwarriors of many stripes have joined the battle against junk e-mail. But the enemy is wily, elusive -- and multiplying.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Wanted: A Legible Voting Ballot (Jessie Scanlon, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2089310/>
Why it's time to redesign the ballot design process.

Lumps Of Labor (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/opinion/07KRUG.html>
Partisan politics aside, the growing lumpishness of American thinking about jobs is dangerous, in two ways.

A Slave To Health Insurance (David Finkel, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42036-2003Oct3.html>
More older women must work for money and benefits.

Raw Deal (Sarah Phelan and Steve Palopoli, Metroactive)
<http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/09.10.03/arnold-0337.html>
50 reasons not to vote for Arnie for governor.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Esquire Celebrates Canada (Russ Smith, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110004125>
A once-edgy magazine turns 70--and looks its age.

How Do You Train A Tiger? (Ed Finn, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2089389/>
No matter how docile a tiger becomes, you can never train away its predatory responses.

Jumpers (Tad Friend, New Yorker)
<http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?031013fa_fact>
The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Out Of The Matrix (Richard Rorty, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/05/out_of_the_matrix/>
How the late philosopher Donald Davidson showed that reality can't be an illusion.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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My Sister, My Surgeon, Myself (Julia Glass, Literal Latte)
<http://www.literal-latte.com/sister.html>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Publishers In Singapore Are Losing Readers (South China Morning Post)
<http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/Weekly2003/10.07.2003/Singapore3.htm>
Singapore Press Holdings and other newspaper publishers experienced a decline in readership in the year through June, Nielsen Media Research said, signaling they were losing readers to the Internet.

Goh Sees Better Singapore Outlook (Reuters)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/06/singapore.economy.reut/>
Singapore's economy posted a sharp rebound in the third quarter and the spurt may well boost 2003 growth above the official forecast of one percent, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong says in a media report.

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