[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple To Release Mac OS X Panther, Server Oct 24 (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/08/panther/index.php?redirect=1065598369000>
Both versions will be available on Friday, October 24, beginning at 8:00 p.m.

iCal, iSync Updated, New Features Added (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/08/icalisync/index.php?redirect=1065598382000>
iCal now features an improved interface, while iSync now adds complete calendar synchronization support for users of wireless phones that use the Symbian operating system.

New Season, New Editing System For 'Scrubs' (Elina Shatkin, Creative Planet Communites)
<http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/article_12144.shtml>
The advantage of switching to Final Cut Pro? The ability to be mobile.

MyAppleMenu : News
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More Upscale Stores (Shella Jacobs, Arizona Daily Star)
<http://www.azstarnet.com/star/wed/31008laencantada.html>
Bebe, L'Occitane and Apple Computers are among the 18 new retailers that just joined the list of tenants at the upscale La Encantada shopping center in the Catalina Foothills.

Southern California MacFair Returns November 14-16 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/08/macfair>
Over 30 exhibitors are participating including Aladdin Systems, Microsoft, MYOB, and Micromat.

In Server OSes, Microsoft Still Rules (Matt Hines, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5088233.html>
Despite growing competition from Linux, Microsoft continues to dominate the market for server   operating systems software, according to research from IDC.

Apple Offers 'Panther' Upgrade Special For G5 Owners (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/08/panther>

Age Of Mythology (Brad Cook, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2003/09/ageofmythology/>

School Leaders Not Sure About Laptops (WXMI FOX 17)
<http://fox17.trb.com/news/100603-wxmi-laptops,0,4891879.story>
Security, training, and maintenance are just a few points.

Vintage PCs Evoke Sweet Memories (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60721,00.html>
Organizers promise this weekend's Vintage Computer Festival will be the biggest and best yet. Attractions include a Commodore 64 supercomputer and a talk by an archaelogist on the drive to collect dinosaur hardware.

Omni Group On Lack of Game Ports (Andy Largent, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=8511>
Timothy Wood was nice enough to let us know they're in the middle of some large changes to their productivity applications like OmniWeb and OmniGraffle, which means they haven't been able to take on any ports of games.

Aladdin Updates StuffIt Engine 8.01 (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21455>
"The StuffIt Engine 8.0.1. update is designed to address only the problem relating to UNIX permissions."

Mobile FireWire 800/USB 2.0 Hard Drive Released (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/07/spark/>
Designed for portability, its silver chassis is just slightly bigger than a deck of cards.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Forget The Mac/PC Debate, Pinellas School Case Is Simple Mismanagement (Daniel Miller, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/10/08.1.shtml>
If the business world they want to model their school system after also makes million dollar purchasing decisions without doing any research, I recommend parents check out some good parochial schools.

Mac OS X: Still Widely Misunderstood (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#misunderstood>
As I said at the outset, I have no arguments with personal taste or with specific needs that Mac OS X simply doesn't satisfy. I just want you readers to look at the situation with an open mind, that's all.

Computers Are Too Much Fun To Turn Into TVs (Carl Skadian, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,213616,00.html>
Apple was on to something. It figured out that people want to make their computers the centre of their fun lives, not just the work life.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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15-Inch Aluminum PowerBook G4 (Ken "Caesar" Fisher, Ars Technica)
<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/laptop/powerbook/pbg4-1.html>
The 15" Aluminum PowerBook G4 is a balanced, capable laptop computer that is experiencing some significant first-production-run jitters.

Solac (Zack Lipowski, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=411>
Solace, while succeeding in spades visually, fumbles in the game play department, lacking overall replay value due to shallow mechanics and design.

The Devil's Advocate: 21 Reasons Why iTunes Sucks (John Kheit, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2003/20031007.shtml>
iTunes proved itself to be a pile of crap wholly unsuitable for the simple "digital hub" task of importing music.

Fast Picture Previews (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/07/picture_preview.html>
Mac OS X provides you with some handy builtin tools for photo previewing. And there are also a couple of free third-party utilities that enhance this process even more. So let's get to work and see what tools are available and how to use them.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Court's Call: Hands Off VoIP (Ben Charny and Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5088158.html>
Internet phone providers have won the first round in a clash with state regulators, providing needed momentum for the upstart industry.

Wi-Fi Economics: Into Thin Air? (Alison Diana, E-Commerce Times)
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31776.html>
Tully compared the current state of the Wi-Fi industry with the early days of the hospitality sector, when a few far-seeing hotels offered "free air conditioning" and "free HBO." Those perks are now a given -- and in a few years, Wi-Fi may be on the must-have list as well.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Press 'Shift' And Copy Away (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60734,00.html>
A Princeton graduate student said Monday that he has figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer: Press the Shift key.

Music Label Cashes In By Sharing (Chris Ulbrich, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60732,00.html>
As the major record companies scramble to put a lid on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like Morpheus and Kazaa, an upstart California record label is trying to revolutionize the industry by taking the opposite approach: making file sharing the heart of its business.

Finally, Something Good On German TV (Thomas Hazlett, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2089424/>
Berlin has digital television. Why can't the U.S. follow?

Court Allows U.S. To Enforce No-Call Rule (Bloomberg)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/business/08CALL.html>
A federal appeals court let the Federal Trade Commission enforce its do-not-call program against telemarketers yesterday, while the agency appeals a judge's ruling that declared the rule unconstitutional.

If It's Broke, Fix It (Seth Godin, Fast Company)
<http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/75/sgodin.html>
Put yourself in your customers' shoes, see what's broken about what you do, and fix it.

What's The Frequency, Hamish? (Steve MacLaughlin)
<http://www.strathlachlan.com/blog/2003/10/whats_the_frequ.html>

'Datacasting' Refuses To Die (Elisa Batista, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60716,00.html>
Rather than build their own networks or rely on more-modern methods -- like cable, satellite and broadband Internet connections -- to deliver video on demand, so-called datacasters rent analog airwaves from television and radio stations to push their products.

Microsoft Extends Support For Its Java Machine (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5087678.html>
Microsoft will continue to support its Java virtual machine through September 2004, a nine-month extension that will make it easier for customers to find substitutes for the software.

Google CEO Speaks Out On Future Of Search (Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5088153.html>
Personalization has become an ever more important part of search, as a means to deliver more accurate results to users, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive officer, said Tuesday.

FCC Issues Cell-Swapping Guidelines (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1037_3-5087945.html>
Telephone regulators issued a series of guidelines Tuesday to help cell phone carriers meet an upcoming deadline to let customers switch to rival companies but keep their old phone numbers.

VeriSign Changes Tactics On Security (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5087978.html>
VeriSign has integrated its various security services as part of a new initiative that aims to get businesses on the offensive when it comes to protection.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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California Partisan Split Becomes A Great Divide (Dean E. Murphy, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/national/nationalspecial3/08RECA.html?hp>
Now that the recall is happening, the state of California is deeply conflicted about whether it represents democracy at its best or worst.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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The Writer Who Began With A Hyphen (Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59256-2003Oct7.html>
Jhumpa Lahiri, between two cultures.

Sushi Rice, California's New Gold Rush (Kay Rentschler, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/dining/08RICE.html>
>From a hardscrabble start-up bolstered by government subsidies in the 1930's, it has become a $500 million industry that is second only to Thailand in exports of premium rice.

A Defining Moment (Don Aucoin, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/10/07/a_defining_moment/>
Updating the dictionary calls for a way with words.

The Changing Tune Of The TV Theme Song (Emily Nussbaum, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/arts/television/05NUSS.html?ex=1065931200&en=fcf69266cfe8df02&ei=5062>
A great television theme song is more than just a jingle: it's a chunk of happy shrapnel lodged in the brain, creating nostalgia for even the worst TV series.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Epic Simile (Elizabeth Arnold, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2089428/>

A Swooning Couch (Diane Ackerman, Five Points)
<http://www.webdelsol.com/Five_Points/issues/V7n3/ackerman.htm>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Can Continue Reclamation Work Around Tuas, Pulau Tekong: International Tribunal (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/51296/1/.html>
Noting the change in Malaysia's position, and agreeing with the arguments put forward by Singapore, the tribunal gave Singapore the go-ahead to continue its reclamation work.

Aust Lobby Fails To Save Singapore's Historic Changi Prison (Australian Boradcasting Corporation)
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s962735.htm>
Citing the "scarcity of land in Singapore", a department spokesman said the current cluster of prisons at Changi needed to be redeveloped to make way for new prison facilities that can house about 23,000 inmates.

Changi Prison Won't Be Flattened (K.C. Vijayan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,213548,00.html?>
Heeding calls to retain historic link to World War II, authorities agree to preserve part of jail after prisoners move.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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UN Court Rejects Malaysia Plea On land Reclamation (Reuters)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters10-08-133443.asp?reg=PACRIM>
A U.N. maritime court on Wednesday rejected a Malaysian request that it order Singapore to suspend land reclamation in the Strait of Johor but told the island state to ensure dredging did not harm the environment.

Ruling Today: Will Singapore Have To Stop Reclaiming? (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,213544,00.html>
Tonight, Singapore finds out whether it must suspend all reclamation works around Pulau Tekong and Tuas immediately.

Decision On Singapore Reclamation Work Today (K.Y. Pung, the Star)
<http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/10/8/nation/6442477&sec=nation>
Malaysia will know today if the world maritime court here will order Singapore to halt its reclamation projects in the Straits of Johor.

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