[MyAppleMenu] Apr 10, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, April 10, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** Apple Responds To Trojan Horse Advisory
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/04/09/appletrojan/index.php?redirect=1081536614000>
by Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral
"We are aware of the potential issue identified by Intego and are working proactively to investigate it. While no  operating system can be completely secure from all threats, Apple has an excellent track record of identifying and rapidly correcting potential vulnerabilities."

[News]

*** Apple To Have Major Presence At Drupa 2004
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/04/09/drupa>
by MacMinute
Drupa is Europe's trade show for pre-media and print production professionals.

*** OS X Trojan Horse Is A Nag
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63000,00.html?tw=rss.TEK>
by Leander Kahney, Wired News
Security experts on Friday slammed security firm Intego for exaggerating the threat of what the company identified as the first Trojan for Mac OS X.

*** Playfair Bullied Offline By Apple, Reappars On Indian Site
<http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/09/playfair_bullied_off.html>
by Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
It has been relocated to a server in India, and development continues apace.

*** Norton Antivirus 9.0.2 Availale, Trojan Update Coming
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/04/09/norton/index.php?redirect=1081536606000>
by Brad Cook and Peter Cohen, MacCentral

*** Solitaire Till Dawn X 1.3 Adds Ten New Games
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/04/09/solitairetildawn>
by MacMinute
Verson 1.3 adds ten new games, the ability to use your own digital photos as window backgrounds, and offers several other improvements and tweaks.

*** Details On The First Mac OS X MP3 Trojan Horse
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040409073009731>
by MacFixIt

*** PlayFair Shut Down
<http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1057246>
by MacSlash

*** MacShirt.com To Shut Down
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/04/09/macshirt/index.php?redirect=1081502164000>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral

[Opinion]

*** The Squandered G5
<http://www.drunkenbatman.com/drunkenblog-archives/000253.html>
by DrunkenBlog
We're seeing signs of a relapse with a G5.

*** Apple, PC-Only Policies, And Computers In Education
<http://lowendmac.com/lab/04/0409.html>
by Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac

[Review]

*** Useful Writing Tools
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/archives/2004/04/000146.php>
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Let's face it, we all get stuck for words from time to time. I'd like to take a moment to recommend a couple of tools that can help you create more diverting dispatches.

*** Managing Packages On Panther With DarwinPorts
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/09/darwinports.html>
by Ernest E. Rothman, O'Reilly Network

*** Launchers For Mac OS X
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/09/launchers.html>
by Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network
All of these applications offer serioius time savings, and can make a huge difference to problems with any regular Mac user's timesheet or lower arm nerve endings.

*** Laptop Of Luxury
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/09/1081326912250.html>
by Bill Bennett, Sydney Morning Herald

[Sidetrack]

*** A Piece Of History, Recreated 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/04/10/#20040410bg000001>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
So, do you have your Apple I<http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/09/apple_i_clones_for_s.html> clone already?

[Wintel]

*** The Once And Future King
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html>
by Robert X. Cringely, PBS
Now the only way Microsoft can die is by suicide.

*** Microsoft Offers Charity Free License For Old Stuff
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4690>
by Rick Jellifee, O'Reilly Network
Well done to whoever championed this in Microsoft.

*** How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_16/b3879009_mz001.htm>
by Jay Greene, BusinessWeek
To get the already-delayed follow-up to Windows XP out the door by 2006, it has decided to omit some of the most ambitious features.

See Also : Longhorn Getting Its Horns Cut?
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/04/09.html#a7193>
by Robert Scoble
The real story hasn't been written yet on Longhorn.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[Top Stories]

*** It Takes A Village
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/09/15OPcurve_1.html>
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Developer communities give small businesses well-deserved influence with vendors.

[News]

*** The Changing Face Of Open Source
<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3338411>
by Susan Kuchinskas, InternetNews.com
The second generation of open source projects responds to specific business demands, and the people building these applications are getting paid -- even if the code they write will be free.

*** The Screen *Is* The Application
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4691>
by Justin Gehtland, O'Reilly Network
The UI has to happen up front, and concurrent with everything else.

*** Is My Jo Still Relevant?
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/09/15OPconnection_1.html>
by Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld
Sorry, naysayers, but the skills to apply technology effectively will never go out of style.

[Internet]

*** AOL Unlocks The Content Gate
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63004,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Wired News
A behind-the-scenes technical change at America Online will allow the company to offer some of its content to non-subscriers in an attempt to broaden AOL's audience beyond its members-only "walled garden."

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Which Are Safer, Trains Or Planes?
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2098530/fr/rss/>
by Brendan I. Koerner, Slate
Despite all the grisly sounding data, the bottom line is that traveling by either rail or air is extremely safe and getting safer all the time.

[Life]

*** Taking Home A Hotel Room
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/travel/11prac.html>
by Terry Trucco, New York Times
For years, high-end hotels have quietly made much of their contents available for sale to guests who longed to take home not just a bathrobe but a silver tea service or desk chair -- legally, that is. Yet the last few years have seen a small-scale revolutoin in hotel retailing.

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Life in the city

[Top Stories]

*** Big NKF Reserves OK, Says Minister
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,245054,00.html?>
by Straits Times
Minister of State Balaji Sadasivan said NKF must have enough funds to ensure patients have uninterrupted treatment.