[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004

MyAppleMenu : News
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Microsoft's Office XML Lags On mac (matthew Cooney, Computerworld New Zealand)
<http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/6E0DEE420F766E7ECC256E21007B9E28?OpenDocument>
Without better XML support companies with mixed Macintosh and PC desktops could be faced with the choice of not adopting the XML features or limiting them to Windows desktops only.

iTunes Under Net Patent Threat (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7726>
E-Data, a company that claims a patent covering music downloads, has secured a global agreement with digital music providers -- and may already have moved to enforce its patent against Apple.

AppleCare Opinions Divided (Karen Haslam, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7723>
"Prior to December is was a breeze. Now customers are telling us they have been kept on hold for over an hour."

IMSI Acquires Aladdin Systems For $8 Million (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23056>

Laptop Initiative Lets Students Learn Online (Nancy Foster, Hutchinson News)
<http://www.hutchnews.com/past/12-20-2003/region/region4.html>
The laptops will allow students Internet access anywhere on school grounds without using a phone line.

Apple Store Opening In Aventura, FL On Jan. 31 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/20/applestore>
The new Apple Store, located at the Aventura Mall, will be Florida's sixth.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple 's iTunes Might Not Be Only Answer To Ending Piracy (Kevin Maney, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2004-01-20-piracy_x.htm>
Why, in this era of eBay, is all music priced the same?

Apple Delivered (Michael Sidoric, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2009-1081_3-5144040.html>
Dell may have the hype and PR. But Apple delivered.

FUD On Your Apple Opinions (Song Tan, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2009-1081_3-5144042.html>
The commentary denigrates the achievement of Virginia Tech, its staff and its volunteers.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Puting On The iMac Inches (Dvae Bullard, Herald Sun)
<http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8435909%255E11869,00.html>
While bigger screens aren't always better on notebook computers, they sure are when it comes to desktops.

Command-Tabbing Across The Universe (Industrie Toulouse)
<http://toulouse.amber.org/archives/2004/01/20/commandtabbing_across_the_universe.html>
The application switcher in Panther is simple yet quite powerful.

How To Set Up Encrypted Mail On Mac OS X (Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/20/mail.html>
Apple just added support for S/MIME in the latest Mail version, the one that ships with Panther.

Linux On Mac: A POWER Programmer's Primer (David Mertz, IBM DeveloperWorks)
<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pmac.html>
Your favorite operating system isn't only for x86.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Linux Reaches Beyond Its Roots (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61986,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
So what's next for Linux? Desktop domination and broader use as an embedded operating system in consumer devices, as well as -- of prime concern to many independent open-source developers -- broadening out-of-the-box support for Linux from major business applications and hardware vendors.

Slammer: One Year Later (Paul Roberts, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/19/03NNslammer_1.html>
Watershed worm spurred policy changes for enterprise security.

E-Mail Gets Context (Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/19/03NNemail_1.html>
Collaboration vendors ePeople and Kubi Software are attempting to transform e-mail communications into reusable and trackable corporate knowledge.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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City Streets Provide A Version Of Old-Fashioned Ice Capades (Nora Krug, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/nyregion/21ice.html>
It was one of those days when it was indeed advisable to walk on the sunny side of the street.

A Gastronomic World Within each (Regina schrambling, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-cyber21jan21,0,3624046.story?coll=la-headlines-food>
On the Internet, you can find the most exotic, authentic recipes. Need a special ingredient? It's in cyberspace too.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Budget Cuts For Ministries As Deficit Widens (Bryan Lee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,231178,00.html?>
Government ministries will have their budgets cut by 2 per cent in the coming financial year, following heavy spending on help packages for the Sars outbreak and the economic downturn in 2003.

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