[MyAppleMenu] Jan 23, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Jan 23, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Delays iLife Launch (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981885.html>
Apple Computer has delayed by a week the scheduled launch for iLife, its collection of programs for playing music, making movies, editing photos and creating custom DVDs.

Apple's Office Politics (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac012303,0,5290227.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
As crazy as this made-in-Cupertino-office-suite theory may sound, Apple has made a habit in recent years of making unexpected strategic moves, such as launching a chain of retail stores and building a portable MP3 player. Why not AppleWorks Pro?

Mac Users Find Glitches With Keynote (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981729.html?tag=fd_top>
Apple Computer originally created its new Keynote software to allow its boss, Steve Jobs, to make it through speeches without a hitch. But now that the company has released the presentation program to the public, early customers say it is anything but bug-free.

MyAppleMenu : News
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'We Will Build A Business-Friendly Environment': Apple Japan President (Nobuo Hayashi, NikkeiBP)
<http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/bp/227440>

Apple: First 'School Night At The Apple Store' Jan 29 (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1578>

Vintage PC's, Fondly Collected (Phil Patton, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/garden/23COMP.html?ex=1043902800&en=90827f4f649106d9&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
The holy grail of computer collectors is the Apple I, with only about two dozen in existence.

12" PowerBook In Stock At Apple Stores (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/01/22/12powerbook>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Chess Game With Microsoft: Check! (John martellaro, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/warpcore/jan03/wc-77.shtml>
Of course, all this is just a fantasy. A conjecture. And the Macworld San Francisco Keynote 2003 was just a smoke and mirrors show by a checkers player. Right?

Poll: Desirable 12-Inch PowerBook Edges 17-Inch (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5849>
Answering Macworld's online poll "Which PowerBook is for you", 39 per cent of readers plumped for the compact 12.1-inch PowerBook G4 - narrowly beating the preferences of the 34 per cent who'd rather have the new 17-inch PowerBook.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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The Little iTunes Book (Jon Gales, MacMerc.com)
<http://macmerc.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=43>

Nostromo n50 SpeedPad (Greg Gant, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=334>
Rarely are gamepads entertaining to use, but the n50 is an exception. The only thing holding it back from widespread adoption is the fact that it is designed for first and third person shooters. Fortunately Mac gamers can still get plenty of use out of it.

Switching From A PC To A Pair Of Macs (Kevin Webb, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/webb/03/0123.html>
Friend buys a Power Mac and an iBook -- and uses FireWire Disk Mode to tie them together.

The Next Front(ier) In The Disruption Of Traditional Media (Rusty Coats, American Press Institute)
<http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/news.cfm?id=832>
The power of RSS goes beyond websites to applications that are designed to parse headlines from numerous sources.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Appeals Java Ruling (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-981751.html>
Microsoft asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to shelve a lower court order that would force it to start incorporating Sun Microsystems' Java programming language into its Windows operating system.

Microsoft Loses Showdown In Houston (Byron Acohido, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-21-simdesk-cover_x.htm>
The nation's fourth-largest city rebuffed Microsoft's offer and has embraced an obscure competitor called SimDesk. SimDesk delivers software over the Internet at a fraction of the cost of Microsoft's Office, a software suite used on 94% of America's office personal computers.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Republican Senator Seeks Curbs On Computer Dragnet (Susan Cornwell, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/22/030122hngrassley.xml?s=REUTERS>
Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the Senate Finance Committee chairman, stopped short of embracing an attempt by Democrats to block all funding for the controversial Bush administration program, known as the Total Information Awareness project. But Grassley filed a proposal in the Senate that would limit the use of funds for the program to foreign intelligence purposes.

Laptops Cool Off With 'Smart' Heat Pipes (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981652.html>
A researcher at Sandia National Laboratories says he has created technology to disperse the heat generated within laptop computers more efficiently than today's cooling systems.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Are Linux Users Infringing On SCO's Property? (Beth Cox, InternetNews.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1573491>
A move by software company SCO Group that hints at possible legal action against companies that use Linux has grabbed the attention of IT execs.

Porn Strategy: Share And Snare (Steve Friess, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,57348,00.html>
The porn industry is learning a lesson the music industry refuses to hear: Piracy doesn't have to be a dirty word.

Parents Censor Airline Films (Steve Creedy, Herald Sun)
<http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5877007%255E401,00.html>
In a world first, Singapore Airlines is upgrading the software on aircraft fitted with its video-on-demand systems to allow content to be blocked to individual seats.

The Next Front(ier) In The Disruption Of Traditional Media (Rusty Coats, American Press Institute)
<http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/news.cfm?id=832>
The power of RSS goes beyond websites to applications that are designed to parse headlines from numerous sources.

Why Wi-Fi Doesn't Always Work (Daniel Miller, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2909323,00.html>
If Wi-Fi is going to be one of the Next Big Things in personal technology, it'll have to work securely out of the box more often than not.

Sun Expands Linux, Open-Source Offerings (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,840945,00.asp>
At the show in New York, the Santa Clara, Calif., Unix systems maker added to its software stack, now offering seven products in the Sun ONE family on Linux.

Red Hat Chief Speaks Out (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,841237,00.asp>
Proprietary software applications often result in bad architecture, which locks in users and is a cause for concern, Red Hat chief technology officer Michael Tiemann told delegates listening to his keynote here at the LinuxWorld conference Wednesday.

Real's Open-Source Code Lacks MPEG-4 (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981654.html>
RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the industry standard MPEG-4.

Dell Throws Weight Behind Clusters (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981597.html>
 Dell Computer is adding more hardware to its high-performance clusters, aiming to up the number of computers that share heavyweight computing jobs.

Linux Brings In Big Bucks (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981633.html>
IBM and Hewlett-Packard garnered billions of dollars in revenue from Linux-related products in 2002, the companies said this week.

Standards Body Tackles Business XML (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981650.html>
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has joined with consortia from the insurance, publishing and human resources industries to develop and promote XML (Extensible Markup Language) standards particular to each industry.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Fickle Evolution: Winged, To Wingless, To Winged (Carol Kaesuk Yoon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/science/life/21EVOL.html>
An international team of researchers reports evidence that wingless stick insects have re-evolved wings at least four times in the history of the group.

Master Key Copying Revealed (John Schwartz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/business/23LOCK.html>
A security researcher has revealed a little-known vulnerability in many locks that lets a person create a copy of the master key for an entire building by starting with any key from that building.

Because It's There: Putting Everest Online (Nancy Gohring, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/technology/circuits/23sher.html?8hpib>
This year, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent of Everest, climbers on the mountain will have the chance to connect with the world below by e-mail. That is because Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of the only surviving Sherpa to have accompanied Hillary on that famed climb, is planning to build the world's highest Internet cafe at base camp.

The Next Front(ier) In The Disruption Of Traditional Media (Rusty Coats, American Press Institute)
<http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/news.cfm?id=832>
The power of RSS goes beyond websites to applications that are designed to parse headlines from numerous sources.

The Reality Of Race (Sally Lehrman, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002A353-C027-1E1C-8B3B809EC588EEDF&catID=2>
There's hardly any difference in the DNA of human races. That doesn't mean, argues sociologist Troy Duster, that genomics research can ignore the concept.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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No Purebreds In Publishing (Martin Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/books/23BOOK.html>
Lingering questions after the upheaval at Random House last week: What constitutes literary publishing?

Meanwhile: On The Queen's English, The Sun Also Sets (Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, International Herald Tribune)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/84024.html>
When younger Singaporeans do say something in English, they often mean something very different.

Deep Thinkers Missing In Action (Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor)
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0121/p17s02-lehl.html>
Even at elite campuses, some students and faculty fret over anti-intellectualism.

Blondes Prefer Gentleman (Michelle Cottle, The New Republic)
<http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=life&s=cottle011703>
Forget romance. The obvious purpose of this show is to confirm all the worst stereotypes about the shallow, bitchy, gold-digging, back-biting ways of women.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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I Miss My Pants (Gavin Williams, Rocketpack)
<http://www.rocketpack.org/i_miss_my_pants.html>
I miss my pants.They appear to be somewhat lost.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Meanwhile: On The Queen's English, The Sun Also Sets (Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, International Herald Tribune)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/84024.html>
When younger Singaporeans do say something in English, they often mean something very different.

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