[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Jan 27, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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A Very Personal Computer (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/01/27/EDG7G4H1BD1.DTL>
Not too many 20-year-olds can say they changed the world, but the Bay Area-born Macintosh personal computer was revolutionary from the time it first blinked from its tiny 9-inch screen.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Gates: Windows 'By Far The Most Secure' System; Tries To Use 'Mac OS X Secure Through Obscurity' Myth (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2029_0_1_0>

Bare Bones Offers BBEdit Maintenance Update (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/27/bbedit>

'Steer Clear Of Apple,' Urges Napster Boss (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7772>

Virgina Tech To Upgrade Supercomputer To Xserve (Reuters)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040126/tech_virginiatech_apple_1.html>
By moving to the thinner servers, the supercomputer will consume less power and generate less heat, said Srinidhi Varadarajan, assistant professor of computer science, college of engineering, at Virginia Tech.

The Mac At 20: An Interview With Bruce Horn (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07516>
Let me introduce you to another member of the original Macintosh team, Bruce Horn, who was responsible for a number of the key aspects of the Mac and who has continued to write innovative code.

Apple Releases AirPort 3.3 With WPA Support (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23129>
Provides "support for the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) specification for the AirPort Extreme base station and AirPort Extreme and AirPort clients.

Mac OS X Lawsuit Deal Gets Final Approval (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/26/lawsuit>
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday gave final approval for the class-action settlement that will allow some Mac OS X owners to get a refund for the operating system.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Which Format Will Win? (Heather Green, BusinessWeek)
<http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_05/b3868007_mz001.htm>
Apple will have to be innovative if it doesn't want to be marginalized once again.

Mac.Ars Takes On The iPod mini (Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/mac/index.html>
Will Apple's pricing and strategy be successful?

Why No Love For Apple? (Dana Blankenhorn)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20040101.shtml#67574>
Apple gave up on the mass market in the 1980s, even before John sculley joined.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple Program Can Turn Anyone Into A Musician (Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend27_20040127.htm>
You think video games are addicting? Try Apple's new $49 music composition program, GarageBand.

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Mark Lowe, Mac Game Database)
<http://www.gamedb.com/ssps/0/8/00051>
If you consider yourself a FPS gamer, you must buy this title.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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What's Labor Going To Do About Offshoring? (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/01/27/amy_dean/index_np.html>
The increasing move of white-collar jobs overseas is inevitable, says one longtime Silicon Valley activist. So the fight for workers' rights has to go global.

Can CAN-SPAM Can Spam? (Brady Johnson, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07517>
Put bluntly, CAN-SPAM tells spammers that they can spam, so long as they are careful to drive their truckloads of spam through the truck-sized loopholes in the statute.

Gates Reveals His 'Magic Solution' To Spam (Jo Best, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5147491.html>

Report: Tech Funding Still On The Decline (Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5147593.html>
The investment money flowing into technology companies dropped for the third consecutive year in 2003, according to a report released Monday by VentureOne.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Power Rangers (Joshua Micah Marshall, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?040202crat_atlarge>
Did the Bush Administration create a new American empire -- or weaken the old one?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Building A New Career Is A Snap (Daniel Terdiman, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62047,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Three talented -- and lucky -- candidates earn dream jobs as Lego master builders in a two-hour, on-the-spot competition.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Delicate Wives (John Updike, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?040202fi_fiction>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Fewer Singaporeans Took The Enterprise Route Last Year (Chuang Peck Ming, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,106275,00.html?>
But Republic ranks much higher in 'entrepreneurial- like' activity in existing firms.

Gays' Latter On Oral Sex Fails To Convince MPs (Soh Wen Lin and Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,231960,00.html?>
Legislators advise: Drop emotional approach.

Singapore Unveils Bird Flu Battle Plan (Sharmilpal Kaur, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,231916,00.html?>
Measures include more checks on poultry farms and close monitoring of Malaysian imports; mass culling if cases found.

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