[MyAppleMenu] Jul 1, 2003

Tue Jul 1 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Store Stylishly Reinforces Brand (Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0306290360jun29,1,1742742.story>
Even if you know that the Apple Store is doing everything it can to seduce you with the illusion of a perfectly ordered, clutter-free computing world, it's one very stylish seduction -- one that most of us probably won't mind repeating.

The Jobs Uniform (Leigh-Ann Jackson, American-Statesman)
<http://www.statesman.com/life/content/auto/epaper/editions/tuesday/life_entertainment_f3104385054c11ec1071.html>
Black mock turtleneck, jeans. What does the look of Steve Jobs say about the Apple Computer CEO?

MyAppleMenu : News
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NASA Library Exhibit Uses Flat-Screen iMacs (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19998>

Jobs Holds On To Top Spot In Forbes CEO Ratings (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/01/forbes>

Apple Site A Hot Spot For Quick Visitors (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/01/hotspot/>
Apple showed a unique audience of 3.6 million for the week ending June 15.

Mozilla Releases Last 'Fat' Browser (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136842,00.html>
The new release of Mozilla's open-source browser marks the end of a five-year-old regime, as the project prepares to shift to a leaner, simpler code base.

Next Byte's A Corporate Apple (Fleur Doidge, iTnews)
<http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=10&Art_ID=12302>
"Mac is a fantastic smaller business computer -- cheap to run, easy to get up, and most people run them for over three or four years rather than [getting new ones] every 18 months."

Zoo Tycoon In Duplication (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/30/aspyr>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Store Envy (Vern Seward, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/columns/justathought/2003/20030701.shtml>
I guess pain and envy is part of the Apple Experience, too.

What Are The Prospects For G5 PowerBooks? (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/06/30/index.html>
If "The Year Of The Laptop" is more than a throwaway quip of Steve Jobs', Apple needs to follow through with some excitement and innovation in revamping their older portable lines. It just won't be G5 powered... yet.

MacHack 2003 Vignettes (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07253>
I'd like to pass on a few vignettes of what it's like for me to be at MacHack, along with a few behind-the-scenes pictures from each.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iTunes And The Technology Beyond MP3 (Phillip D. Long, Sylllabus)
<http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7895>
AAC is simply a better approach to digital sound encoding.

The Tattered World Of Font Management (Gene Steinberg, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/etech/etechmain.html?gannet_story=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/eteam/mac_reality_check.html>
The arrival of Panther, or using one of those commercial font managers, will help make the process of dealing with your fonts a whole lot easier.

Secrets Of The PowerPC 970: Why The G5 Runs So Fast (Chris Lozaga, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/myturn/03/0701.html>

Optimizing Disks Is A Waste Of Time (David Shayer, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07254>
For most people, most of the time, there's simply not enough to gain by optimizing your disk to bother doing it.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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The Magazine That Launched A Decade (Gary Wolf, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50311,00.html>
With an empty bank account, an army of interns, and a borrowed photocopier, Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe created Wired and, in the process, helped trigger the digital revolution.

Mozilla Releases Last 'Fat' Browser (Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK)
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136842,00.html>
The new release of Mozilla's open-source browser marks the end of a five-year-old regime, as the project prepares to shift to a leaner, simpler code base.

Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster (Jakob Nielsen)
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030630.html>
The easier it is to find places with good information, the less time users will spend visiting any individual website. This is one of many conclusions that follow from analyzing how people optimize their behvaior in online information systems.

Targeted Ads Way Off The Mark (Adrian Holovaty)
<http://holovaty.com/blog/archive/2003/06/30/0159>
As web advertising systems become sophisticated enough to allow for ultra-targeted advertising based on content, online ad programmers should keep in mind that targeted ads aren't always appropriate. Sometimes they're infuriating.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Monkey See, Monkey Speak: Facial Expressions As A Guide To Speech (Henry Fountain, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/science/01MONK.html>
Humans, even infants who cannot yet speak, pick up visual cues from the movement of the lips and other parts of the face to help understand what it is they are hearing. Now there is evidence that this ability may go back a long way.

The Mystery Of Itch, The Joy Of Scratch (Abigail Zuger, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/health/01ITCH.html>
An itch demands a scratch, but science has barely begun to scratch the surface of why an itch itches, and how to make it stop.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Magazine That Launched A Decade (Gary Wolf, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50311,00.html>
With an empty bank account, an army of interns, and a borrowed photocopier, Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe created Wired and, in the process, helped trigger the digital revolution.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Book On Water Talks Is Singapore's Latest Underhanded Tactic (Sa'odah Elias, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/7/1/nation/odsinga&sec=nation>
Singapore's move to publish a book to give its version on the stalled water talks with Malaysia, has prompted Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar to question whether the republic is trying to mislead citizens from both countries.

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