[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Pays Off $300M In Debt, Becomes Debt Free (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23493>

Poll: iTunes 'One Of Life's Essentials' (Karen Haslam, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7953>
Asked which Apple iApp they could not live without, over half of Macworld Online readers (57 per cent) named iTunes.

Rendezvous Support For Now Up-To-Date & Contact (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23490>

Finder Designer Talks Of iFile And Apple Advice (Dennis Sellers, MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/02/18/brucehorn>

PowerSchool Releases Student Information System 3.7 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/18/powerschool/index.php?redirect=1077087589000>
The new version adds features including an automated schedule scenario set-up, advanced scheduling features and more.

Macs And Viruses -- Are We As Safe As We Think? (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/18/virus/index.php?redirect=1077085984000>
Outside of the annoyance of receiving infected e-mails, however, Mac users are immune to such problems. Or are they?

Apple Speaks On iPod Mini Pricing (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7957>
"The size and capacity make iPod mini worthwhile."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Ugly Graphics In My Home (Noded)
<http://www.noded.com/archives/2004_02.html#000342>
Apple has been using a really horrible picture of lots of Pepsi bottles to advertise their iTunes give away.

A Proposition For Apple: Port Cocoa To Java (Fred McCann, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6054>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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LifeStage Professional 4 (Scott Dewbre, MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/newmd/mac/pages/reviews/livestage4/>
With its drag-and-drop interface and assortment of customization and scripting tools built in, LiveStage is an excellent product that should be part of any multimedia pro's library.

FileMaker To Oracle Migration With FmPro Migrator On Mac OS X (David Simpson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/17/filemaker.html>

Need For Speed: Cracking Open A PowerBook 17 (Ken Mingis, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,90256,00.html>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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End Of Moore's Law? Wrong Question (David Yen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1006_3-5160336.html>
As with football, it is not how hard you run that matters. It's about which team scores the most points.

Microsoft Heralds Web Services For Devices (Paul Krill, InfoWorld)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/mac/index.html>
Microsoft is leading a group of vendors proposing a specification intended to extend Web services to devices.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Fertile Ground (Eliza McCarthy, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2095569/>
Is there any way to predict a woman's reproductive lifespan?

With Close-Ups Of Mars, The Mystery Gets Lost In Space (Sarah Boxer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/17/science/space/17MARS.html>
Does Mars really look like southern Iraq?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore? (John Katzman, Andy Lutz and Erik Olson, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/03/katzman.htm>
How several well-known writers (and the Unabomber) would fare on the new SAT.

The Joy Of Cooking And Baking, Really (Nigella Lawson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/dining/18NIGE.html>
What I had not realized -- and bakers keep this a secret for obvious reasons -- is how easy baking is.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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The Diamond Cutter (Thomas Lux, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/lux/diamond.htm>

Light Years (Joan Swift, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/swift/lightyears.htm>

The Bell Zygmunt (Jane Hirshfield, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/hirshfld/zygmunt.htm>

1652 (Sally Ball, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2095623/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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School Means Study, Not Sales Quotas (Suresh Mark Kumar, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/14557.asp>
Our children should not be forced to raise funds for their schools.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Start of Price War Between Airlines? (VenSreenivasan, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/companies/story/0,4574,108345,00.html?>
Big network carriers with deep pockets may be turning to 'predatory pricing' to try to snuff out budget airlines.

Singapore's Baby Making Lessons (AFP)
<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FA677136-731E-46FC-8B15-9C7AD92F296E.htm>
Bathtub tutorials and a baby-making contest on television? Why not, says Singapore's self-styled sex guru, Wei Siang Yu, nicknamed Dr Love.

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