[MyAppleMenu] Jul 14, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Jul 14, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Macworld's Last Tango In New York (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59601,00.html>
Apple's devoted users are already mourning the demise of the Macworld Expo, even as they make plans to attend the show this week in New York.

MyAppleMenu : News
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iTunes 'Saving The Record Business, One Download At A Time' (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/14/itunes>

OS X Security Update Fixes Screen Effects Vulnerability (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/14/security/>
"Addresses a potential vulnerability when a password is required upon waking from the Screen Effects feature, which could allow an unauthorized user access to the desktop of the logged in user."

Country Group Lonestar Switches, With Mac Dealer's Help (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/14/lonestar/>
MacAuthority, the Nashville, Tenn.-based Mac dealer, is teaming up with the popular country band Lonestar in a new cmapaign aimed to raise awareness of Apple's "Switcher" campaign and the store's presence as an Apple Specialist.

Apple Booth "Wide Open" At Macworld CreativePro (Nick dePlume, Think Secret)
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/mwny03booth.html>
The lack of security is an apparanet confirmation that the Wednesday opening feature presentation from Apple will be devoid of product announcements.

Apple Launches 'Easy On Your Budget' Promo (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/14/applepromo>
"Get the Mac you've always wanted" for as little as US$19 per month with no payments until 2004.

iChatAV USB Camera Hack Out (Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2349>

Apple Store Coming To Lyndhurst (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
<http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/105792091429120.xml>

Big Apple To Host Macworld (Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/07/14/BU275076.DTL>
The East Coast's annual Apple Computer summer trade show kicks off today under a new name, but attendees might dub it "Macworld Lite."

Apple Gearing Up On Expo Paris (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6594>

Designed To Confuse (Victoria Shannon, IHT)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/102679.html>
New gadgets can intimidate consumers.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Web's The Place (Tim Bray)
<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace>
If you want to develop software, you can build for the Web and/or Unix and/or OSS platforms; or alternatively, you can be a sharecropper.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Mac Internet Service Offers 'WebSTAR On Xserve' Bundle (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/14/macweb/>

iSight, First Impressions (MacSofa)
<http://www.macsofa.com/more.php?id=34_0_1_0_M>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Privacy Rights Under Threat By Lawmakers (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6293890.htm>
In the constant battle to preserve what's left of our privacy and roll back some of the invasions we've already suffered, one reality is all too clear: Elected officials are not on our side.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Yahoo To Acquire Overture In Deal Valued At $1.63 Billion (Bob Tedeschi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/business/14CND-NET.html?ex=1373601600&en=90c1bc33263cd932&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND>
Overture, which makes money by selling top spots on search listing to advertisers and then distributing those "sponsored results" on MSN, Yahoo and other popular sites, has been rumored to be a candidate for a takeover for months.

Led By Intel, True Believers In Wi-Fi Say It Will Endure (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/technology/14WIFI.html>
Is the Wi-Fi boom about to bust? Even though that has lately become the fashionable view, the answer is probably no.

The Web's The Place (Tim Bray)
<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace>
If you want to develop software, you can build for the Web and/or Unix and/or OSS platforms; or alternatively, you can be a sharecropper.

Mono Playing Catch-Up (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1190702,00.asp>
While a 2-year-old project to develop an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net Framework is making progress, it's still a long way from prime time.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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20 Lies About The War (Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=424008>
Falsehoods ranging from exaggeration to plain untruth were used to make the case for war. More lies are being used in the aftermath.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Harry Potter And The Internet Pirates (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/technology/14BOOK.html?ex=1373515200&en=d30e1674cb91e3fd&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND>
JC, a 36-year-old Harry Potter fanin Kansas City, Mo., decided he was too old to go chasing after the fifth book in the pouplar series when it came out last month. Instead, he downloaded the book.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Pushes The Boundaries (CNN)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/07/13/singapore.bungee/>
In a bid to loosen up Sinapore's notoriously strict grip on society, residents will be allowed to jump -- bungee-jump that is -- and even chew "therapeutic" gum, but not without a doctor's prescription.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Guard Dog On Leash? (Lee Ching Wern, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/2989.asp>
Has tripartism shackled the role of the NTUC, workers ask.

Has Esplanade Overshot Budget? One Firm Alone Seeks $21m More (Vladimir Guevarra, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,199609,00.html?>
Some subcontractors involved in the project told The Straits Times that construction costs may have overshot its budget by as much as $90 million.

Closed MRT Station Running Up Power Bill (Chang Ai-Lien and Christopher Tan, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,199557,00.html?>
SbS says it would lose money by opening Buangkok, but it is paying for electricity, one of the biggest costs a station has.

Malaysian Media Blast Singapore Over Water (Reuters)
<http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-13-002101.asp?reg=PACRIM>
Smarting from criticsm by the island republic over the price Kuala Lumpur charges it for vital water supplies, a Malaysian government agency took out a full-page advertisement in leading newspapers.

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