[MyAppleMenu] Jul 9, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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.Mac Users Get Bookmarks Service, New Backup, More (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/09/mac/>
You can keep your bookmarks in sync so they stay up to date while you're on the road.

Like Peas In An iPod (Daniel P. Finney, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/Entertainment/Music/E9B84998E0B8BE3186256D5A00043853?OpenDocument&Headline=Like+peas+in+an+iPod+>
The iPod is the player of choice for digital music heads.

With iChat, Who Needs A Phone? (Alex Salkever, BusinssWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2003/tc2003079_0737_tc056.htm>
Jobs' latest innovation could hasten a coming age when anyone who wants to can use their PC to bypass traditional phone services.

MyAppleMenu : News
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PowerBook Added To Portable Digital Media Lab (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/09/portable/>

Microsoft Woman Uses Mac OS Rather Than XP (Adamson Rust, The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10403>
We suppose it could just be an Asus M3N, which looks spookily like the Powerbook, but we think we should be told.

Apple Exhibiting At IBC, Siggraph (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/09/ibcsiggraph>

Apple Cuts Keyboard, Mouse Prices To $49 (Nick dePlume, Think Secret)
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/keyboardmouse49.html>
Apple Store order summaries for the Power Mac G5 describe the system's input devices as "Keyboard Wired" and "Wired Mouse" -- designations that have not been used by Apple in the past when referring to its input devices.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Treading The Line: Are Apple's Applications Helping Or Hurting? (Stephen Van Esch, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/scope/03/0709.html>

Why Laptops Shouldn't Replae Desktops (David COursey, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2914222,00.html>
Of course, it's possible to lose data on a desktop. But I think the average desktop is a much more secure data repository than the average notebook.

R.I.P. C&G (Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/03/07/09/index.html>
Perhaps the software distribution model of business is dead.

Apple Raises The Ante (Paul Gilster, News Observer)
<http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2679851p-2484858c.html>

A Tool For Apple (Matthew Haughey)
<http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007138>
Moving from one powerbook to another is a lot more difficult that I thought it'd be.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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A Week With An eMac Finds It An Excellent Value (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/03/0709.html>

Special Report: Troubleshooting Safari 1.0 (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030709090723245>

Apple's iSight Is Out Of Sight (Christopher Allbritton, Popular Mechanics)
<http://popularmechanics.com/technology/telecom/2003/7/apple_isight/>
By manufacturing the camera, the software and the computer, Apple is able to create a smooth experience that is out of sight.

Analysis: x86 Vs PPC (Nicholas Blachford, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3997>

Dot Mac Reloaded (Michael Brewer, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/08/dot_mac.html>
Dot Mac is getting ready to go through some more changes along with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). However, the release of Panther isn't all that's happening towards the end of the year.

Epsilon Tahari: Reign of The Machines (Galen Wiley, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=383>
If you have the skills, or the serious patience, Epsilon Tahari will keep you going at it for weeks on end. If you're new to the genre, and are expecting a game you can just pick up and play, you might be thoroughly disappointed.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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All The New Kids On The Blog (Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://www.msnbc.com/local/pisea/129927.asp>
Blogs, as they're known, are a phenomenon across the Internet, but for big companies such as Microsoft, they bring both opportunity and risk.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Being Invisible (Will McCarthy, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_invisible.html>
Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe.

Talking Computers Nearing Reality (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-1023966.html>
Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, many researchers and executives say.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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A Nation Of Scared Sheep (Louise Witt, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/09/lying/index_np.html>
Why don't Americans care that Bush may have lied to them about Iraq? The answer lies deep in our reptilian brains.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Iran Twins Die Trying To Live Separate Lives (Wayne Arnold and Denise Grady, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/international/asia/09TWIN.html>
They wanted to see each other face to face, they said, and to pursue independent lives. And so Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29-year-old Iranian twins who were born joined at the head, asked doctors to go ahead with a risky operation to separate them. Neither survived.

Kathleen Raine (Janet Watts, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,993610,00.html>
Singular poet who stood as a witness to spiritual values in an age that rejected them.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Luna (Patricia Traxler, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2085307/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Swallows Its Pride Over Gum (Edward Alden, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1057562238570>
Singapore government's health offiicals had agreed that Wrigley's Orbit brand of sugar-free gums could be sold without a prescription.

Iran Twins Die Trying To Live Separate Lives (Wayne Arnold and Denise Grady, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/international/asia/09TWIN.html>
They wanted to see each other face to face, they said, and to pursue independent lives. And so Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29-year-old Iranian twins who were born joined at the head, asked doctors to go ahead with a risky operation to separate them. Neither survived.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore On Hygiene Blitz After Sars (Reuters)
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21449/story.htm>
Desperate to ward off the deadly respiratory virus, undercover police have nabbed more than 80 people for spitting since May when the government began a nationwide "Singapore's OK" campaign to improve public hygiene.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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