[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Jan 14, 2004

Wed Jan 14 21:05:00 EST 2004

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Posts $63M Profit (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/14/q1results/index.php?redirect=1074090058000>
Jobs said in the statement announcing this quarter's results that Apple had an "outstanding quarter" and is kicking off the year "with strong momentum."

Booming Baritone Has His Audiences Swooning, But What Sets His Heart Singing Madly Is... His Macintosh Computer (Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/13/DDGL047P7R1.DTL>
[Thomas] Hampson confesses: He is a computer geek, and his passion for computers -- as well as golf -- is almost as strong as his passion for music.

MyAppleMenu : News
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New Apple Store Opens In Tucson Next Week (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/14/tucson/index.php?redirect=1074090062000>
Apple's newest retail store location comes to Tucson, Ariz. next week -- Apple Store La Encantada is due to open on Saturday, January 24th at 10AM.

iPod In Demand (ManchesterOnline)
<http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/business/technology/stories/Detail_LinkStory=78200.html>

Apple Computer Becomes More Entertaining (Lisa Schmeiser, Inverstor's Business Daily)
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=1/14>
Apple could be looking at a new way of doing business.

Apple Ripe For Strong Quarter (K.C. Swanson, TheStreet.com)
<http://www.thestreet.com/tech/kcswanson/10136617.html>
After years of being lumped in with the also-rans, it may be about time for Apple to crow a little.

One-In-Six Xmas iPods Sold In UK (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7673>
It appears that in the region of 125,000 iPods were sold in the UK -- the largest market for the product in Europe.

Analysts Have Faith In Apple (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7668>

Bringing Apple Back Into The Race (Chris Chong, Malaysia Star)
<http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/1/13/prodit/6933641&sec=prodit>
Thanks to IBM (once regarded by Apple as its greatest competitor) that Apple is back in the race.

iPod mini Color Ranking According To Amazon Customers (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/14/ipodmini>
The silver iPod mini was the top seller.

Seeing Red: Exploring Mars With Maestro (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2004/01/marsrover/>
If you're marveling over the incredibly detailed pictures of Mars sent back to Earth by Spirit, the Mars Exploration Rover, prepare to be blown away by what you can do with these images right on your own Mac.

IBM Releases New C/C++ Compiler For OS X (PC Pro)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=52314>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Tablet Mac Coming Your Way? (Chris Seibold, AppleMatters)
<http://www.applematters.com/comments.php?id=123_0_1_0_C>
To fully realize the usefulness of the features Microsoft demoed at the last Macworld there's going to have to be a tablet option... Or maybe not, this is speculation and worth what you paid for it.

HP Deal = QuickTime For Windows (Tom Negrino)
<http://www.backupbrain.com/2004_01_11_archive.html>
That's an awful lot of new machines that will come with QuickTime preinstalled.

The H-Bomb (John Gruber)
<http://daringfireball.net/2004/01/the_hbomb>
It's a big deal for HP, and it's a very big deal for Apple.

Mac Users Vs. Mac Whiners; A Schism In Macland (Steve Jack, MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/opinion_comments.php?id=P623_0_2_0_C>
I'm not suggesting we write Apple a blank check. What I am suggesting is that as Mac users, we support Apple, sign up for .Mac since it is going to become a much more important, useful, and integrated part of the OS, pay for OS upgrades if we want hundreds of new features, and basically act like Mac users.

Apple + HP = iPod Forever (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040114_0255_tc056.htm>
Despite critics who decry Apple's proprietary audio format, this deal shows that Steve Jobs's digital-music strategy is a winner.

The One Where I Visited Microsoft (Ted Landau, MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040113160711548>
Microsoft has no plans to abandon the MacBU. Period.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iPhoto Takes A Backseat To Music Again (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4184>
After spending some time with iPhoto 4 at Macworld, I concluded that iPhoto 4 is almost competent, but not thrilling.

Apple Pro Mouse Cable Issue? (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040114031306219>
"The cord that comes out of the mouse is not reenforced and is subject to bending and straining."

Dreamweaver MX 2004 For Mac OS X (Jackie Dove, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/13/dreamweaver.html>
Dreamweaver MX 2004, the recently released version, has some improvements that may affect your decision. We survey some popular new and cool features of MX 2004.

Xgrid -- A First Look At Apple's New Cluster Software (Yuval Kossovsky, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,88989,00%0A.html>
I can't stress enough how easy it was to set up this software and get Xgrid up and running.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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There's A Gaggle Chasing Google (Amit Asaravala, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61902,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
If you want to take a crack at knocking Google off its perch as the world's most popular search engine, you had better get in line.

Some Rental Cars Are Keeping Tabs On The Drivers (Christopher Elliott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/business/13gps.html?ei=5007&en=26015b027e143887&ex=1389416400&partner=TECHDIRT&pagewanted=all&position>
Car rental companies have come to rely on an emerging technology called telematics to keep tabs on their vehicles.

Techies Still Barred From The Boardroom (Graeme Wearden, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020654,39119065,00.htm>
UK companies are giving their IT managers greater responsibility, but are not often finding them a place at the top of the managerial tree.

Yahoo's Risky Antispam Gambit (BusinessWeek)
<http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040113_3442_tc047.htm>
It's bypassing the Internet's standards body and implementing its own tech solution, a unilateral move that many experts criticize.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Rebuilding Iraq Is Not Like Remaking Japan (Richard Halloran, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,230019,00.html?>
In Japan, the most important element in the American success was the late Emperor Hirohito, who shaped the Japanese attitude towards the occupation.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Tests Suggest Scientists Have Found Big Bang Goo (James Glanz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/14/science/14MATT.html>
At least three advanced diagnostic tests suggest that an experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory has cracked open protons and neutrons like subatomic eggs to create a primordial form of matter that last existed when the universe was roughly one-millionth of a second old, scientists said here on Tuesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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My Ringtone Symphony (Gavin Bryars, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1122439,00.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1122439,00.html>
As far as musicians and the concert-going public are concerned, mobile phones and digital watches are unwelcome, obtrusive and have had a rather bad press in recent times. But sometimes their presence can provide something more positive.

Finidng The Universal Laws That Are There, Waiting. (Edward Rothstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/10/arts/10CONN.html?pagewanted=all&position=>
The evidence does not make the law plausible; the law makes the evidence plausible.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singaporeans More Upbeat (Alexis Hooi, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,229925,00.html?>
For the first time in over a year, Singaporeans have become a whole lot more confident of their job prospects and the economy as a whole.

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