[MyAppleMenu] Mar 15, 2004

Mon Mar 15 13:15:00 EST 2004

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, March 15, 2004

MyAppleMenu
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/index.html>
Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** Happy 10th Birthday, Power Mac!
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8173>
by Simon Jary, Macworld UK
The transition from Motorola's 680x0 chips to PowerPC was a shift nearly as challenging for Apple's engeineers as from OS 9 to OS X.

See Also : Ten Years Old: Apple's Power Mac Line
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/36256.html>
by Tony Smith, The Register

*** iTunes Music Store Downloads Top 50 Million Songs
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/03/15/itunesdownloads>
by MacMinute
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 50 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, not including songs redeemed from the currently-running Pepsi iTunes promotion.

[News]

*** Original Mac Design Team To Kick-Off Macworld Boston
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/03/15/original/index.php?redirect=1079331748000>
by Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral
"The Macintosh at 20 -- A Celebration of 20 Years of Innovation" will feature a panel of the original Mac designers Jef Raskin, ANdy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson and Jerry Mannock.

*** GraphicConverter 5.0 Released
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/03/15/graphicconverter/index.php?redirect=1079331605000>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
The new release of GraphicConverter supports lossless cropping of JPEGs, conversion to CMYK, and adds a browser search function, among other features.

[Opinion]

*** iPod Ad Sold My Wife On Black Eyed Peas
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/14.html#a7011>
by Robert Scoble
Who said advertising doesn't work?

[Review]

*** Program Allows Users To 'Konfabulate' OS X
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040315-9999-news_mz1b15mac.html>
by David L. Hart, San Diego Union-Tribune

*** iPod Mini: Small Is Beautiful
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,62649,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Leander Kahney, Wired News
Competing players stand little chance of unseating the iPod as the top player on the market: None is as cool, as slick, as pleasurable to hold, use or listen to as the iPod mini.

[Wintel]

*** European Union Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Microsoft.html>
by Associated Press
The EU wants to force Microsoft to offer computer makers a version of Windows without its own Media Player.

*** Microsoft Effort To Share Code Reaches Milestone
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/technology/15windows.html>
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
Today, Microsoft is announcing that its shared-source program has one million licensed participants, from lone software developers to large corporations.

*** Leaked Code Still Could Bear Malicious Fruit
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1548325,00.asp>
by Dennis Fisher, eWeek
The real danger isn't the vulnerabilities that crackers find and then post for all the world to see; it's the ones that they keep to themselves for personal use that have researchers worried.

The Tomorrow Weblog
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/tomorrow/index.html>
Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[Top Stories]

*** Can Silicon Valley, U.S. Lead In New Global Economy?
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010107.shtml#010107>
by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
Can Silicon Valley compete in a true global economy? Once, this would have seemed like a foolish question. No more.

[News]

*** MySQL Database To Get High-End Feature
<http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5173101.html>
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
MySQL palns to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another fails.

*** Making E-Mail Identity Work
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/12/11OPstrategic_1.html>
by jon Udell, InfoWorld
E-mail clients already have the tools necessary to whack most spam.

[Internet]

*** VeriSign Wins Internet Villian Award
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39146697,00.htm>
by Matt Loney, ZDNet UK
VeriSign won the most unwanted award on the IT industry's calendar for 2004, after snapping up Internet Villian at this year's ISPAs.

*** ID Carding On The Internet
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0315/p08s01-comv.html>
by Christian Science Monitor
The alcohol industry can do much more to limit young people's attraction and access to its websites.

*** Popularity Of Web Forces Travel Agents To Adjust
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0403130227mar14,1,157275.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed>
by James Gilden, Chicago Tribune
"Travel agents are becoming consultants rather than order takers. We're about value and making sure that everything works."

[Linux]

*** Big Business Opens Up To Linux
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1827627000&fp=16&fpid=0>
by Rodney Gedda, Computerworld Australia
If Linux was a niche operating system within the enterprise a few years ago, today it is gaining traction as a secure and reliable central business platform.

MyAppleMenu Reader
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/reader/index.html>
The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Journey To The 10th Dimension
<http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,591747,00.html>
by Michael Moyer, Popular Science
Physics can't find the biggest thing in the known universe, so it's looking beyond our paltry three dimensions.

*** Bashful Vs. Brash In The New Field Of Nanotech
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/technology/15nano.html>
by Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times
The federal government estimates that nanotechnology will have a $1 trillion economic impact by 2015. It may take that long to sourt out the business models.

[Life]

*** Times Regained
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?040322crat_atlarge>
by Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
How the old Times Square was made new.

*** To Die In Los Angeles
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-spago11mar14,1,974203.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine>
by Benjamin Bycel, Los Angeles Times
For a hungry doctor, Mom's death was just an interruption between courses.

SingaporeSurf
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/index.html>
Life in the city

[Top Stories]

*** Singapore To Partly Lift Gum Ban
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3512498.stm>
by BBC News
Singapore is preparing to partially lift its famous ban on chewing gum -- in order to comply with a free trade agreement with the United States.

*** Singapore Should Discourage Abortion To Lift Birth Rate: MP
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&ncid=751&e=7&u=/afp/20040315/hl_afp/singapore_population>
by AFP
The Singapore government should try to discourage abortions among pregnant married women as one way to address a severe baby shortage, a ruling party deputy has been quoted as saying.

[News]

*** Nightspots Confused About Rules For 24-Hour Licences
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,240300,00.html?>
by Arti Mulchand, Straits Times
Clubs keen on getting in on the action complain about quirks in rules covering exits and allowed areas.

*** A New World Now After Hotel Collapse
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,240266,00.html?>
by Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times
It's 18 years since Hotel New World fell adn the area has changed, but memories remain fresh for some.