[MyAppleMenu] Jul 7, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Jul 7, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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G5 Energizes 64-Bit Race (Peter Coffee, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1184889,00.asp>
With the arrival two months from now of Apple's new desktop machines and their 64-bit CPUs, the race to the next generation of mass-market processing power suddenly has a third horse running hard.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple, Pixar Hit New 52-Week Highs (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/07/aapl>
Shares of Apple moved to a new 52-week high Monday, with the stock currently trading at US$20.01.

BookEndz Docking Station For 12" PowerBook Shipping (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/07/bookendz>

Apple Gets US 'League' Soundtrack Rights (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/07/lxg/>

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Will Not Be A 64-Bit OS (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31600.html>
Apple and its developers can take advantage of the 970's 64-bit addressing and datapaths without having to maintain a new codebase for the G5 alongside code intended to be run on older processors.

Readers Note Unexplained .Mac iSync Outage (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20038>
"It appears that .Mac's iSync service has been unavailable since the evening of 7/3 for a large number of users."

Apple Store Coming To Aventura, FL (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/07/applestore>

Ecast Shuts Online Music Store Service (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rioport3jul03,1,6584700.story>
Online music distributor Ecast has closed its downloadable music operations, saying it couldn't afford to spend the marketing dollars to compete with Apple and other suppliers of songs online.

Apple To Open Walnut Creek, CA, Store July 12 (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/07/walnut/>

Adobe Tries To Create Image Of A Moneymaker (Laurie J. Flynn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07ADOB.html>
Bruce Chizen, chief of Adobe Systems, is hoping to find ways to capitalize on the company's strong brand name.

Adobe Pares Mac Support (David Becker, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1046_3-1023167.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Adobe will announce a new version of Premiere on Monday. The new Premiere Pro will work only on PCs running Windows XP, ending years of support for the Mac OS.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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What About The Mac Version? (John B. Virata, Digital Producer)
<http://www.digitalproducer.com/2003/07_jul/editorials/07_07/whataboutmac077.htm>
Is Apple painting itself into a corner and forgoing third paty developers to move ahead all by itself?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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How I Photograph Big Events Using Wireless, iPhoto2, And A Canon 10D (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3439>
Thanks to the evolution of digital photography and wireless connectivity, the costs for end to end delivery is about half of what it would be with film-based photography.

Three Glitches In Safari 1.0 (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/10/03/0707.html>

Safari 1.0 (Molly Wood, ZDNet)
<http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/review/41/2/4969.html>
Try Safari if you're really sick of Internet Explorer. But if secure browsing is your concern, you should hold off or consider Camino.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Blogs In The Workplace (William O'Shea, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07NECO.html>
Corporate web logs are catching on. Are they performing a useful business communications function, or simply giving bores and blowhards one more opportunity to blather?

Uneasiness About Security As Government Buys Software (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07BLOW.html>
A whistle-blower who develops software for the National Security Agency says that much of the work is subcontracted to China, raising serious national security risks.

A Simpler, More Personal Key To Protect Online Messages (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07CODE.html>
A Silicon Valley start-up company on Tuesday plans to unveil a new approach to sending secure electronic messages and protecting data, a simpler alternative to current encryption systems, which use long digital numbers, called public keys.

Chipmaker Sandbridge Packs In Standards (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-1022238.html?tag=cd_mh>
Sandbridge Technologies said Monday that it's the first chipmaker to pack an entire world of cell phone standards into a single handset.

Reverse Engineering In Limbo (Grant Gross, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/04/26NNreuse_1.html>
The legality of reverse engineering, generally defined as reversing software's machine code back to the source code to build or improve new offerings, is now in question.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Hong Kong To Delay Anti-Subversion Bill (Philip P.Pan, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17432-2003Jul6.html?nav=hptop_tb>
Though the residents cannot elect their chief executive, or even a majority of their lawmakers, they had forced the government to back down simply by marching through the streets.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Harry Potter And The Childish Adult (A.S. Byatt, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/opinion/07BYAT.html>
What is the secret of the explosive and worldwide success of the Harry Potter books? Why do they satisfy children and -- a much harder question -- why do so many adults read them?

Capturing The Cultural Revolution (Alan Riding, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/arts/design/07REVO.html?8hpib>
A photographer who documented the cultural revolution in China is for the first time making public his remarkable visual testimony of that violet era.

In Search Of The Perfect Cup, The Old Coffee Pot Is Passé (Deborah Baldwin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/nyregion/07COFF.html>
Not long ago, coffee fanatics were thrilled to be within walking distance of fresh cappuccino. But soon that did not cut it.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Benefit Of The Doubt (Tobias Wolff, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030714fi_fiction>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Iranian Twins Face Second Night Of Separation Surgery (Katherine Espina, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3045360>
Iranian twin sisters fused at the head faced a second night of life-threatening surgery Monday as doctors made slow progress in the operation.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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A Kiss, And Twins' Marathon Begins (Lee Hui Chieh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,198442,00.html?>
Ladan and Laleh in good spirits at the start of landmark surgery; if all goes well they will be separated by this morning.

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