[MyAppleMenu] Jul 4, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Jul 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Given A Choice, Dell Prefers The Apple Macintosh Too (Adamson Rust, The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10338>
Fails to eat own dogfood in PDF shocker.

Less Than Jake Performing At Santa Monica Apple Store (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/04/lessthanjake>

Apple To Open Walnut Creek, CA Retail Store July 12 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/04/applestore>

Product Managers: G5 '4.3 Billion Times Better Than G4' (Simon Jary, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=6548>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The More Things Change... (Larry Magid, CBS News)
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/03/scitech/pcanswer/main561722.shtml>
Looking back on 20 years of columns I can't help but be struck by how much has changed and how much has stayed the same.

I Spy With My Little iSight (Jason Deraleau, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3428>
The fact that a whole crop of apps have been developed for people who use multiple IM services is a true testament to the confusion of the instant messaging landscape.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple's iSight Produces Superior Images (Craig Crossman, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
<http://www.statesman.com/business/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/business_f35082ccf3be32ff00e6.html>
The new, way-cool little Web camera offers just about everything a user wants to see in a webcam.

The Mac Hardware Report: What About An Apple Wireless Keyboard And Mouse? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#wireless>

Can't Say Enough About iChat Videoconference (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/1979558>
iSight with iChat AV is the first idiot-proof system for engaging in video and audio chats with your friends and family over a broadband Internet connection.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Tim O'Reilly: Software Licenses Don't Work (Robert McMillan, IDG News Service)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/03/HNoreilly_1.html>
eBay will someday buy Oracle, open source licenses don't work, and the software market is about to change forever. These are three of the predictions O'Reilly, a well-known publisher of technical books and an open source advocate, had to offer.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Singapore Gets Behind Drive To Can Spam (Raju Chellam, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,86574,00.html?>
Singapore is looking into curbing the spread of spam as lawmakers in the West plan global laws to criminalise an activity that is clogging up e-mail and threatening to destabilise the world's computer networks.

There's A Bug In My Seat Cushion (Alan Cowell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/international/europe/04SEAT.html>
British scientists are working on an airline passenger seat studded with sensors that cabin staff can read for clues about their passengers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Powerful Pull Of Freedom (Dinesh D'Souza, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-dsouza4jul04,1,5613497.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>
It's not just material abundance that lures immigrants to the U.S. It's also the opportunity to be the architect of one's own life.

French Student Visitors Get The Cold Shoulder (Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/nyregion/04FREN.html?8hpib>
First it was French wines. Then French fries. Now it's French exchange students who are getting the cold shoulder from American families still smarting over France's opposition to the war in Iraq.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Wrinkle Cream For Old Movies (Bill Desowitz, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-desowitz4jul04194422,1,2296098.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Modern technology can make classic films look even better than new. But is that really a good idea?

Similar Solar System Found Only 90 Light Years Away (Dennis Overbye, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/science/04PLAN.html>
A team of British, Australian and American astronomers announced yesterday that they had found a hint of home 90 light years away in the constellation Puppis.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Frozen Rite (Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-martelle4jul04.story>
The suburbs they are a-changin', but for some the ice cream man still cometh, with a familiar ring of nostalgia.

A Novelist's Mental Architecture (Marcelle Clements, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/travel/04RITU.html>
One of the exquisite pleasures of writing a novel is creating a home for the characters -- and therefore for yourself, too, as their invisible but bossy guest.

Coffee Snobs Unite (Joshua Kurlantzick, Washington Monthly)
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.kurlantzick.html>
How Americans' bad taste in coffee is putting Juan Valdez out of business.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Uncle Grossman (John Skoyles, The Atlantic)
<http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/skoyles/grossman.htm>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Strange Laws And $1 Deals (Lee Han Shih, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/2496.asp>
This is the 21st century and the government is still using the "heads I win, tails you lose" method to acquire land from private owners. It is time for change.

Worst Is Over For Singapore: Economists (Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/latest/story/0,4574,86655,00.html?>
Singapore's economy is showing its first signs of recovery with an end to a three-month decline in the crucial manufacturing sector offering the greatest cause for optimism, economists said on Friday.

Govt More Open To Employing Gays Now (M. Nirmala, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,197934,00.html?>
Change has happened quietly, PM says, but homosexual acts are still an offence and some things gays want are a no-go.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Gets Behind Drive To Can Spam (Raju Chellam, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,86574,00.html?>
Singapore is looking into curbing the spread of spam as lawmakers in the West plan global laws to criminalise an activity that is clogging up e-mail and threatening to destabilise the world's computer networks.

Expert Warns Rising Number Of Stinky Feet In Singapore (Associated Press)
<http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/fri/jul4w7.htm>
The number of Singaporeans with foul-smelling, fungus-covered feet is rising and health authorities want to tackle the problem, a leading doctor in the famously tidy city-state said Thursday.

Life Will Never Be The Same In Singapore After SARS (Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/03/1057179092003.html>
Just as New Yorkers contextualise everything in before or after 9/11 terms, Singaporeans now measure their collective memory in a pre-or-post SARS scenario.

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