[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Feb 3, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Where Does Apple Go From Here (David Yoffie, HBS Working Knowledge)
<http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=3877&t=marketing>
Macintosh market share continues to decline, but the iPod and iTunes are hit products. Where does Apple Computer's future lie?

MyAppleMenu : News
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MacHack Renamed ADHOC, Expands Beyond Just Mac (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/03/adhoc/index.php?redirect=1075819052000>
This year, the event has been renamed theAdvanced Developers Hands On Conference (ADHOC), and has been expanded to include related technologies like Unix, Palm OS and more.

Apple's Ad, Offerings Out Of iTune (Stephen Lynch, New York Post)
<http://www.nypost.com/business/17145.htm>

Enterprising Apple Increases Direct Touch (Sarah Stokely, ARN)
<http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=16465989&fp=16&fpid=0>
Some resellers claim that the vendor's push to get its business development team in front of customers is coming at a cost to partners.

Apple Ranks Number 2 In Global Brand Poll (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/02/03/globalbrand>

Ambrosia Releases Snapz Pro X 2.0 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/03/snapz/index.php?redirect=1075787978000>
The new version sports dramatically improved performance in capturing video and other changes as well.

NetNewsWire Updated To v1.0.8 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/02/03/netnewswire>
This release adds confirmation for quick-subscribing, disk caching for NetNewsWire Lite, and several other bug fixes and tweaks.

Apple Acknowledges Email Delivery Problems With .Mac (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23244>
Apple today acknowleged problems with email delivery for members of .Mac service, resulting in loss of some email.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Defends Its iLife (Tim Beyers, Motley Fool)
<http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2004/commentary040203tb.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y&bounce=y&bounce2=y>
Apple's long-term prospects may be unclear, but the company could do well over the next year.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple iPod Is Just What The Doctor Ordered (Stephen Williams, Newsday)
<http://www.newsday.com/business/columnists/ny-plgear3653669feb03,0,7879460.column?coll=ny-business-columnists>

Life Balance: Balanced Software For Unbalanced People (Jeff Porten, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07529>
Like many people, I have been in search of the Holy Grail of personal organizers for years.

OmniWeb 5 Public Beta (John Gruber)
<http://daringfireball.net/2004/02/omniweb_5_public_beta>
OmniWeb 5 has the potential to be a very big deal.

Toast 6 Titanium (David Weeks, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1337>
If Roxio can clean up some loose ends with Toast Anywhere, and improve the documentation, this will be the perfect CD/DVD burning package.

iFire (Andrew Kator, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/10.02/ifire.shtml>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Is Ad-Supported RSS The Next Big Thing? (Janis Mara, InternetNews.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3307961>

Microsoft Balances Patents, Standards (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-5152665.html>
As Microsoft and other large companies actively embrace open standards as a way to expand the market for Web services and other technology, they walk a fine line between promoting the adoption of standards and protecting valuable proprietary software.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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>From Programming To Delivering Pizza (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/03/mcjobs/index_np.html>
Sure, there are jobs to be found in the so-called economic recovery. You want extra cheese with that, sir?

Cruising All The Way To The Buffet (Dave Barry, Miami Herald)
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/7841543.htm>
And so a few weeks ago, we set out on a sea voyage from Fort Lauderdale, knowing that it would be five days, and roughly 153 meals (included), before we would reach our destination: Fort Lauderdale.

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