[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Releases G4 iBooks (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/22/g4ibook/index.php?redirect=1066804409000>
On Wednesday the company announced its revamped line of G4 iBooks, featuring the same type of central processing unit (CPU) that's found in its iMac and eMac systems. 

Apple Lowers eMac Price (Jim Darlymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/22/apple/index.php?redirect=1066804408000>
Apple on Wednesday announced they will reduce the price of its eMac line of personal computers.

MyAppleMenu : News
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NY School District Purchases 600 PowerBooks (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21684>

New Office Feature Could Shut Out Macs (PC Pro)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=49284>
A feature in the new version of Microsoft Office for Windows could prevent Mac users from being able to view some Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, as well as Outlook emails and Web content created using the Office suite.

Apple Tweaks iTunes For Windows (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-5095039.html?tag=nefd_top>
"iTunes 4.1.1 addresses an isolated incompatibility with Windows 2000 and older third-party CD burning software, as well as problems caused by corrupt MP3 files on some users' PCs."

Poll: Readers Want iPod Radio Next (Karen Haslam, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7126>
37 per cent of Macworld readers who voted in a recent poll believe that radio is the main feature lacked by the iPod.

iTunes In Canada, Not Soon (Macs Only!)
<http://www.macsonly.com/#10225>
"Discussions have only just begun and, while we would like to see [Apple] up and running as quickly as possible, it's impossible to say when our negotiations will be successfully concluded."

Low-Cost Supercomputer Put Together From 1,100 PC's (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/technology/22SUPE.html>
A home-brew supercomputer, assembled from off-the-shelf personal computers in just one month at a cost of slightly more than $5 million, is about to be ranked as one of the fastest machines in the world.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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iTunes For Windows And The 'Windows' Way Of Thinking (Adam Knight)
<http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2003/10/21/the_windows_way.php>
They are used to what they call "control" which is really that they're just used to having to do everything themselves.

Apple's Bridge To Tomorrow (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc20031022_2632_tc056.htm>
Its iPod music player is truly becoming a whole new platform, independent of Macs or Windows. That's giving Jobs & Co. new life.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Walt Rocks: Rating The New Music Sites (Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://ptech.wsj.com/solution.html>
Overall, I believe Apple's iTunes is the best combination of a music store and jukebox program for Windows users. It has an elegant, easy-to-use design, and a large music catalog. It loads and runs crisply on Windows, and is the only Windows downloading service that works with the best, and most popular, portable music player, Apple's own iPod.

Aliens Vs. Predator 2 (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/avp2.shtml>

Testing Apple's iSight (Chris Chong, The Star)
<http://star-techcentral.com/camera/story.asp?file=/2003/10/21/testing_apple_s_isight&sec=reviews&sid=678>
The iSight is a well-designed webcam with features which will be incorporated into other companies' webcams in the near future, no doubt. Pity then, that Apple didn't pull out all of the stops to make it more than just a very nice looking and expensive webcam; its automatic functions could have been a lot better.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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The Scobleizer Versus Cerberus The Hounds Of Hades (Edward Cones, Baseline Magazine)
<http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1357817,00.asp>
The most powerful piece of software inside Microsoft may be the $40 application from a tiny vendor called Userland that Robert Scoble uses to write his weblog.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Blog On (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2008-1025_3-5094753.html>
Nearly eight months after Google bought Blogger creator Pyra Labs, Williams is helping Google deploy the technology he built only as a side project in 1999 -- which is now part of a revolution in personal journaling.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Internet Radio Royalties Affirmed (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60906,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8>
Radio stations must pay royalties to recording companies and performers, as they do to composers and songwriters, when musical broadcasts are streamed over the Internet, a federal appeals court has affirmed.

Digital TV Ain't Gonna Be Free (Reuters)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60924,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7>
U.S. regulators in coming weeks will adopt strict limits on sending digital television programs over the Internet to avoid the problems now plaguing the music industry, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

Taking The Tedium Out Of Filing Travel Expenses (Suan Stellin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/business/21expe.html>
For many business travelers, the worst part of a trip comes long after passing through airport security, enduring tedious meetings and recovering from a sleepless night in a stuffy hotel.

Congress Looks For Ways To Slow Offshore Hiring (Grant Gross, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/20/HNcongress_1.html>
The U.S. government should stop buying foreign products and the U.S. Congress should enact other policies encouraging U.S. IT and other companies to stop sending jobs offshore, the chairman of the House Small Business Committee said Monday.

Online Ads In Europe Set For Comeback (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5094762.html>
Western Europe's bruised Internet sector is poised for a return to double-digit growth in online advertising this year, a level not seen since the tech bubble burst three years ago, according to a study released Wednesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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A 7-Game World Series Is Unusally Common (Kenneth Chang, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/sports/baseball/22PROB.html>
No one has a good explanation of why the World Series would reach seven games that often. The obvious difference between baseball and coin flipping -- that the two teams are not evenly matched -- would argue for fewer seven-game series, not more.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Inside The New SAT (John Cloud, Time)
<http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101031027/story.html>
America's college gatekeeper is changing dramatically. Get ready for advanced algebra, an essay -- and, yes, the return of grammar. An exclusive look at the new exam -- and how it may hurt some students' scores.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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11 (Philip Schultz, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2090047/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Censored And Original Versions Of Movies To Be Allowed (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,215946,00.html?>
But distributors would be required to wait a week before releasing a different version.

Free StarHub Wireless Broadband Access For Visitors To Singapore (Irene Ang, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/53489/1/.html>
As long as they stay connected to the StarHub mobile network.

Retailers Fail To Delay GST Hike (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,215846,00.html?>
The Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) has failed in its bid to get the Government to delay raising the goods and services tax (GST) to 5 per cent, an increase that is due to take effect in January.

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