[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Sep 26, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Sep 26, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Doin' The Logo-Motion (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,60597,00.html>
The world-famous Apple logo is getting a new look. Purists may not approve, but the designer of the original Apple logo, Rob Janoff, likes what he sees.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Nisus Thesaurus 1.0 A Free Download (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/26/nisus/index.php?redirect=1064562435000>
After a period of beta testing, Nisus Software has released Nisus Thesaurus 1.0, an electronic thesaurus that automatically integrates with any Service-aware Mac OS X application including Nisus Writer Express, Mail, TextEdit and Safari.

Apple Adds Free iBlog, VersionTracker Plus To .Mac (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/09/25/mac>
Apple has added three new exclusive gifts for .Mac members -- a free copy of the iBlog weblog software, a free VersionTracker Plus subscription and a US$30 discount on SmartDisk hard drives.

Porting Linux To The iPod (Howard Wen, O'Reilly Network)
<http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/25/bernardleach_interview.html>
With Linux on iPod, you can play (to a limited degree, as of this writing) MP3 and Ogg files under Linux on your iPod. This is possible thanks to the work of just one man, Bernard Leach, a 30 year old software engineer in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Tokyo U Buying 1,150 iMacs (The Right Story) (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2580>

'1984' In 2003? (Ray Baltes, Hampton Chronicle)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10216212&BRD=1980&PAG=461&dept_id=177415&rfi=6>
Comparisons to George Orwell's "1984" may be inevitable, but parents of Hampton-Dumont students now have a powerful new tool to help keep track of their student's performance.

Apple Financial Results Coming Oct 15 (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/25/financial/>
Apple will announce its fourth quarter and end-of-year financial results on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and will Webcast the announcement at 2 p.m. Pacific.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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How The iPod & iTunes Changed My Life (Bob LeVitus, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/rantsandraves/2003/20030926.shtml>
I love it every time I use it, which is to say every single day. If you don't have a 'Pod yet, you don't know what you're missing.

Do You Want A Cheap Mac? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#mac>
You can argue lower support costs and superior standard equipment till you're blue in the face, but the initial purchase price still hurts.

Panther OS Brings Touch Of Old, Much of New (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2120561>
Panther isn't expected to be out until later this year, but here's a taste of what you can expect when it leaps onto the scene.

The Fudge Factor (Jarrod Spiga, APC Magazine)
<http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/69CC32D58C25DEE2CA256DA9001C58C9>
Hardware manufacturers and system builders use benchmarking to show how well their products perform, but the figures aren't always what they seem.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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DiskWarrior 3 (Gary Coyne, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/diskwarrior-x.shtml>
There isn't a Mac out there that couldn't benefit from owning and running DiskWarrior.

Should A Windows User Buy An iPod? (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/AnchorDesk/4520-7298_16-5082496.html?tag=adts>
I can tell you that the iPod is an absolutely wonderful device on a Mac and 10-15 percent less wonderful on Windows. That is still wonderful enough for many of us.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Critic Dismissed By @Stake (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5082649.html>
A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that works closely with the software giant.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Do-Not-Call Listing Remains Up In Air After Day Of Twists (Sheryl Gay Stolberg with Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/business/26CALL.html?hp>
In a swift display of bipartisan unity, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation today aimed at allowing a national do-not-call registry against unwanted telemarketing to take effect next week as planned. But hours after the vote, which effectively rendered moot a federal judge's injunction against the registry, a second judge declared the program a violation of free speech.

Publicize The Internet (Britt Blaser, Escapable Logic)
<http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2003/09/25.html#a204>
The Internet must be publicized because it's way too vulnerable to privatization.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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How The 'Old Web' Morphs Into The 'New Internet' (Mark Sigal, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3799>
It's interesting to me to imagine how much gravitational pull AOL once had, and what they have now.

Legislators Take Shots At Spam (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60589,00.html>
Legislation to ban or limit spam is proliferating almost as rapidly as the e-mails that promise to provide a slim, wealthy, well-endowed, sexually satisfied life. But antispam advocates disagree over whether legislation such as the recently passed United Kingdom and California antispam laws will slow the flood of spam, due to loopholes that could be easily exploited by bulk e-mailers.

Shutting Of MSN Chat Rooms May Open Up IM (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5082677.html>
In announcing it would shutter free chat rooms, Microsoft highlighted problems with spammers and pornographers. But analysts said there may be benefits for the software giant, which is trying to shunt customers to paid services across its network.

Librarians To P2P Critics: Shhh! (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5082684.html>
The five major U.S. library associations are planning to file a legal brief Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios. The development could complicate the Recording Industry Association of America's efforts to portray file-swapping services as rife with spam and illegal pornography.

Nokia Pictures Wearable Photo Gear (Dinesh C. Shama, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5082245.html>
Nokia on Thursday announced that it's planning to launch new products that will let consumers take pictures from camera phones and transfer them onto tiny digital lockets and bracelets.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Who's Poor? Don't Ask The Census Bureau (Jared Bernstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/opinion/26BERN.html>
The problem is that the official definition of poverty no longer provides an accurate picture of material deprivation.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Bionic Office (Joel Spolsky)
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html>
Most software managers know what good office space woul dbe like, and they know they don't have it, and can't have it. Well it's my own damn company and I can do something about it, so I did.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore As Sollywood? (Tony Sitathan, Asia Times)
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/EI24Ae01.html>
Singapore, technologically streets ahead of the rest of Asia, is still faced with the oxymoronic conundrum of being a creative vortex or an authoritative straitjacket. The media, ever ready to be seduced, are contemplating the unlikely possibility that the government has mellowed.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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KL Argues Reclamation Case (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,211545,00.html?>
Malaysia began its case before an international tribunal to put an immediate stop to Singapore's reclamation at Pulau Tekong and Tuas, by arguing that the works were encroaching on its territorial waters. The reclamation was also causing irreversible damage to its marine environment, it alleged in its arguments before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

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