[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Oct 26, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Oct 26, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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The Lowdown On Downloads (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15017-2003Oct25.html>
In iTunes, Apple has accomplished what has eluded the entire PC market -- it's shipped a free, elegant, easy-to-use program that copies CDs in either AAC or MP3 format, offers numerous, thoughtful ways to organize a music library, lets you buy music conveniently, plays back Web radio and burns CDs and even DVDs -- and does it all without turning your desktop into a billboard for other products and services.

Macs less Susceptible To Problems From Bugs (Walter Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/7107612.htm>
Not everybody can, or should, jump to Apple. But if you're tired of the virus wars, the Mac can be an island of serenity.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Proteron Posts LiteSwitch X Update, Memo To Apple (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/10/26/liteswitchx>
Proteron today also posted a public memo to Apple Computer regarding the company's "assimilation of third party software into the Mac OS."

Darwin 7.0 Released (Slashdot)
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/2244252>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Why I Chose Not To Buy Panther (Bill Palmer)
<http://www.billpalmer.net/#com000019>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Virtual PC (MacReview)
<http://www.macreview.com/Productive/PCemulation/VirtualPC/VirtualPC.html>

TextEdit Rocks Under Panther (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/October2003.html#note_1917>

The Panther Review (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/10/204.htm#review>
I do not get the impression of a release that was rushed to market. Rather, Panther is a highly developed operating system that provides both superior performance and stability, with new, powerful features that will make your Mac user experience more fun and more productive. And that's a hard combination to beat.

Some Additional Panther Notes On Incompatibilities (Macs Only!)
<http://www.macsonly.com/#102510>

Apple's New Panther Takes Huge Leap Forward (Charles Arthur, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=456862>
Although it might seem like just a decimal point, the change in Mac OSX -- from 10.2 -- is as dramatic as the difference between a jaguar and a panther, the respective versions' code names inside Apple.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Office 2003 Power Comes At A Cost (Stacy Cowley, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/25/42NNoffice_1.html>
Office 2003's advances will come at what could be a steep cost, as increased reliance on other Microsoft products threatens to hike licensing costs.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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As Silicon Valley Reboots, The Geeks Take Charge (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/business/yourmoney/26vall.html>
Silicon Valley, the entrepreneurial hub of the nation's high-tech economy, is rebooting, just as a computer does after it crashes. And this time, the geeks are the ones with the upper hand.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Bringing Down The Internet (Jonathan Adams and Fred Guterl, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/985295.asp>
What if hackers were motivated not by loneliness or greed, but by malice? Some experts now think a global cybercrisis is inevitable.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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An Economy Of Aesthetics (George F. Will, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14553-2003Oct24.html>
Unbounded, imaginative desiring can be a problem for democratic governance. However, it certainly is both a cause and a consequence of a democratic culture.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Pillowfight (Benjamin Jaffe Shepard, Cortland Review)
<http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/23/shepard.html?ref=home>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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PM Goh: We Were Too Lax On Surpluses (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,216610,00.html>
Indeed, he admitted, the Government even slackened in its fiscal discipline during the good years and spent too much of its surpluses in some areas.

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