[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Customer Resells iTunes Song (Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5074086.html>
A customer of Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store said he has successfully resold a he song purchased through the service, ending a weeklong exercise he hoped would highlight the legal and technical nuances of emerging digital music services.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple To Attend Government Video Technology Expo (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/09/10/gvexpo>

Apple To Showcase Products At Stuff LIVE 2003 (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/21030>

Flash Player 7 Released (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6869>
Macromedia has released the final version of Flash Player 7, and a selection of demos of its recently-upgraded MX 2004 products.

Apple Targets Euro Media Show (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6870>
Apple's growing focus on the digital-production market will be the central theme of a company presentation at Europe's biggest broadcast and media event, IBC.

Profiles in Success: University Of Washington: A Video Journey Of Nations (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/washington/>
When Scott Macklin left to shoot his documentary video, he had $12 and one credit card in his pocket. In his backpack were a few essentials: a digital camcorder, a Super 8 camera, and his PowerBook G4. During a ferry crossing, the credit card was lost. Eight-foot ocean swells also threatened to capsize the support boat in which Macklin was visiting Native American tribes and their villages. But thanks to Final Cut Pro, he was able to capture a ceremonial journey that few non-Native Americans will ever see. He even came home with his $12.

Schaumburg Schools Buying Thousands Of Laptops For Kids (Chris Fusco, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com./output/education/cst-nws-laptop08.html>
By fall 2004, each fourth- through sixth-grader in northwest suburban School District 54 will get an Apple iBook to use both in school and at home -- about 5,200 computers total. The idea isn't to have the machines replace textbooks, pens and paper, but to use them as research and writing tools that will lead to students performing better on reading and writing exams.

Microsoft Opens Up Video Standard (Reuters)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/964002.asp>
In an effort to spread the use of its technology, Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it will open the specifications for its video compression technology, which would allow other companies to make products based on its technology.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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A Mac-Style Spercomputer (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2003/tc20030910_7427_tc056.htm>
Virginia Tech is tying 1,100 G5s together to achieve top-dollar performance for a relative bargain, a ringing endorsement for Apple's latest machine.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Macromedia Contribute 2 (MacMerc.com)
<http://www.macmerc.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=75>

Zoo Tycoon (Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/zootycoon.shtml>

Top Ten Tips For Mac Conference Goers (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/09/conference_tips.html>
The following ten tips will help you get the most out of this (or just about any) Mac conference. So right after you book your flight on Southwest or JetBlue, refer to this list for your final preparations.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Windows Flaws Allow PC Takeover (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5074008.html?tag=fd_top>
Microsoft identified three vulnerabilities in Windows on Wednesday that could have a similar effect to that of the dreaded MSBlast worm of August.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Selling Online Content -- 25 Cents At A Time (Henry Jenkins, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins091003.asp>
A new twist on micropayments is raising the likelihood that you'll be able to pay tiny sums of money for small slivers of information.

The BBC's Lessons For America (Lawrence Lessig, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479642853&p=1012571727085>
If the BBC survives the pressures now bearing upon it from the intellectual property extremists, perhaps its Creative Archive will help the US think more creatively as well.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Switching On PC Is Too Technical For Many Users (Robert Jaques, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/32742.html>
The results of a study released this week confirms what the world's BOFHs and sysadmins have known for ages: that users are a dangerous menace who should not be allowed near anything more advanced than a fridge.

AOL's Appeal To Youth (David A. Vise, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51543-2003Sep9.html>
The fresh approach is a bid to hold onto more of its existing subscribers by appealing to their 6-to-12-year-old children with new online games and programming, called "KOL," which will be packaged as part of the basic AOL service.

New Parent-To-Child Chat: Do You Download Music? (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/technology/10MUSI.html>
As the record industry filed a barrage of lawsuits on Monday against people who copy music over the Internet, many parents across the country were caught unaware, accused of condoning an illegal activity they do not know much about -- and do not necessarily want to.

Yahoo: Would You Pay To Open Up IM? (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5073707.html>
In an attempt to gauge demand for paid services on its instant message application, Yahoo released a survey hinting that paid, interoperable IM services could be on the way for the portal giant.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Bush's Many Miscalculations (Fred Kaplan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2088113/>
On Sept. 11, the president was handed a historic opportunity. He ignored it.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Table For Four? Not So Fast, Pal (David Shaw, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-matters10sep10190418,1,7448132.column?coll=la-headlines-food>
Ask any serious restaurateur about his most nagging and costly problems, and I'll bet that within 30 seconds, you'll hear these two words: "No-shows."

The Horror Of 9/11 That's All Too Familiar (Richard Drew, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-drew10sep10,1,2941370.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>
One photo said it all, but for many it said too much. Now get the view of the man behind the camera.

Snacker's Paradise: Devouring Singapore's Endless Supper (R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/dining/10SING.html>
Singapore is one of the most food-mad cities in an ever more food-mad world, with more than 6,500 restaurants and 11,500 food stalls jammed into its 250 square miles. They offer Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka and Hainanese dishes -- all with roots in China -- plus curries from south India, tikkas from north India, Malay and Indonesian and Thai specialties, and adaptations and mixtures of all of them.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Blame The Labs? Not So Fast, Says MOH (Chang Ai-Lien and Salma Khalik, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,209133,00.html?>
NUS double-checks lab procedures while Environmental Health Institute rejects notion it could be the source of infection.

SARS Returns Or Lab Accident? Singapore Wonders (Jason Szep, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=3419072>
Is SARS, the deadly flu-like disease,  back? Is the world about to see a new epidemic or has Singapore  just suffered a freak, isolated lab accident?

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