[MyAppleMenu] Aug 29, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Aug 29, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple's Newton Just Won't Drop (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,54580,00.html>
Apple killed the Newton handheld computer in 1998. It should have gone away, but thousands of fans still use it and keep its applications current.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Aple Woos Wobbly Windows Users (Clive Akass, vnunet.com)
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134634>
Jobs does have something to shout about.

Apple To Have Retail Store At New Orlando, Florida Mall (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0208/29.store.php>
Look for an upcoming Apple retail store at The Mall at Millenia, a 1.2 million square foot, two-level center slated to open in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 18.

Newton's Return: A Hit And A Myth (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,54690,00.html>
The resurrection rumor has surfaced at least nine times since 1998, when Apple discontinued the device.

UK X 10.2 Shortage 'Proves OS's Success' (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5183>
Despite shipping delays to some locations, dealers who have been able to supply product agree: "Jaguar was well received by all, and sales exceeded our expectations."

Apple Offers Summer Pack Deals (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5184>
Apple UK has launched the Summer Pack discount deals, which offer collections of hardware and software at "generous" discounts.

AOL To Launch Next Version Of Netscape Browser (Reuters)
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-media-netscape.html>
AOL said it plans to launch its new Netscape Web browser on Thursday, marking its latest effort to challenge the dominance of Microsoft Explorer as the standard tool for surfing the Internet.

Two Photoshop Utilities Released For Jaguar (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16159>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac OS X: The Tide Is Turning (Chris Worrell, osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/19240.html>
For many smaller companies with no in-house IT support, the stability of Mac oS X would be a godsend.

Apple Struggles With Lame Ducks (Jack Schofield, CW360)
<http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQSESS=0Z74966&REQAUTH=0&2149REQEVENT=&CARTI=115345&CARTT=4&CCAT=1&CCHAN=4&CFLAV=1>
Mac OS X is a winner, but Apple is hamstrung by slow chips and a 1970s business model.

Tech Turf Wars (David Futrelle, CNN/Money)
<http://money.cnn.com/2002/08/28/technology/techinvestor/futrelle/index.htm>
Apple's products may only appeal to a narrow niche of PC buyers, but Apple at least seems to understand what the Mac faithful want.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Multicast Routing And Rendezvous (Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1920>

Video-Capture Cards (Anton Linecker, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/09/reviews/video.html>
If you work with uncompressed video, these four professional cards can help you take Apple's Final Cut Pro to the next level.

Mac OS X Jaguar Update Needs Tweaking (Jon Frott, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3958581.htm>
People who should avoid Jaguar for a few weeks include those who need to access printers and scanners and customized Mac networks that might not be ready for the upgrade.

Mac OS X Upgrade Makes Robust Case For Making A Switch (Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/84634_macosx29.shtml>
The experience is less technical, more intuitive and overall more productive. This is ironic, since Mac OS X is based on Unix, the rugged operating system originally designed for supercomputers, servers and workstations.

The iMac-Like PC (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/technology/circuits/29STAT.html?ex=1031198400&en=642ca66091938d8c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND>
The iMac itself, a graceful piece of art whose astonishingly thin screen floats in air on a gleaming chrome elbow, sells well enough. But whenever a Windows PC maker tries something similar, buyers stay away in droves.

Help For Help In Jaguar (Terrie Miller, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1914>
First I got the spinning beach ball of death and had to force-quit Help. Then it degraded into a simple "Application unexpectedly quit" error whenever I tried to load Help.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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New Windows Flaw Threatens PC Services (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-955843.html>
Microsoft said Wednesday that a critical flaw in most versions of the company's Windows operating system could allow malicious attackers to corrupt the digital certificates that PCs use to connect to network services.

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Making A Mesh On The Move (Peter Rojas, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,781909,00.html>
A new way to give us fast mobile net access spells further trouble for 3G.

See The News Of The Future At Starbucks (Steve Outing, Editor And Publisher)
<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1641201>
Wi-Fi and tablet PCs finally arrive.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Multicast Routing And Rendezvous (Rob Flickenger, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1920>

Spam--It's Worse Than Ever (Robert Lemos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-955842.html>
Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography, money-making schemes and health products, and there's little relief on the horizon.

Liberty Alliance Adds Technical Muscle (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-955444.html?tag=cd_mh>
The Liberty Alliance Project added a new member on Wednesday, boosting its efforts to establish an online authentication plan to compete with Microsoft's Passport online ID system.

Whe The Cellphone Is The Home Phone (Simon Romero, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/technology/circuits/29PHON.html>
In what may be the start of an alarming trend for the nation's largest telephone companies, the total number of business and residential telephones lines declined last year for the first time since the Depression.

Root Technology Protects CD-ROMs From Illegal Copying (Yoshiko Hara, EE Times)
<http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20020828S0020>
Hudson Soft's and JVC's Root encryption technology -- so-called because it is intended to prevent illegal copying "from the roots up" -- features special encryption keys which are hidden in software that's pressed onto a CD-ROM and cannot be read with ordinary procedures.

Satellite Radio Flopping - A Lesson For The Web? (Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits)
<http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/2002_08_25_tidbitsarchive.htm#85390675>
Internet users may well find similar but not-quite-as-good content for free that's good enough. It won't be easy for many Web publishers to get online users to pay up.

Smile, The Videophone's Ringing (Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/2002/08/20/0820tentech.html>
Maybe it simply hasn't been offered in a way that gets consumers interested. Perhaps Vialta's Beamer will change that. 

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Meet Mr. Anti-Google (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/index.html>
A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic."

One Small Step For Man... (Steven E. Landsburg, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070182&device=>
... and one giant leap for economists: How we figured out why people walk up staircases but not up escalators.

When Economics Shifts From Science To Engineering (Hal R. Varian, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/business/29SCEN.html>
Economists are increasingly being called on to give advice on a variety of market and market-like mechanisms, making economics look more like engineering than it does pure science.

See The News Of The Future At Starbucks (Steve Outing, Editor And Publisher)
<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1641201>
Wi-Fi and tablet PCs finally arrive.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Cat People Vs. Dog People (Laura Miller, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/08/29/pets/index.html>
Who is more annoying?

These Images Really Leap Off The Page (Ginny Chien, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-wk-family29aug29.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
Who needs words in a book when menacing dinosaurs, funny bugs and Curious George spring forth from the pages?

'Lucky Jack' Aubrey's Latest Port: Hollywood (Ken Ringle, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51533-2002Aug22.html>
Can Russell Crowe handle sea saga's great surprise?

Bloomberg News Humbled (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/opinion/29SAFI.html>
Let me see if I can write today's column without getting sued.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Bloomberg News Humbled (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/opinion/29SAFI.html>
Let me see if I can write today's column without getting sued.

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