[MyAppleMenu] Jul 17, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Jul 17, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Few Customers Switching From Windows (Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6322053.htm>
It has been a year, and the masses aren't switching to Macs.

Apple's Manhattan Freak Show (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59645,00.html>
Shortly after the close of Gerg Joswiak's insanely tepid opener, Macworld suddenly took on the ambiance of the first day of summer vacation.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple To Open Burlingame, CA Store July 26 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/17/applestores>

6.5m iTunes Songs Sold In 61 Days (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6610>
Though sales have slowed since the service launched, Apple sells an average 100,000 tracks per day. It also sold 304,000 iPods during the quarter, up from 80,000 units in the March quarter.

Indie Auteurs Bond With Software (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59657,00.html>
Fans of Final Cut Pro, Apple's popular digital video-editing system, see themselves as more than just filmmakers. They're guerrillas fighting the banality of mainstream Hollywood.

Apple Opens Store On Promenade (Santa Monica Mirror)
<http://www.smmirror.com/volume5/issue5/apple_opens_store.asp>

Macworld Celebrates Electronic Artistry (Mike Musgrove, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2571-2003Jul16.html?nav=hptoc_tn>
You probably don't come to a computer industry trade show to take in the art, but Baltimore artist Robert McClintock hopes to make devotees at this week's Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo reconsider.

Missing Sync For Pocket PC Now Available (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/16/missingsync>
Pocket PC users can synchronize with iCal, Mac OS X Address Book and AvantGo, as well as transfer music and photos from within iTunes and iPhoto.

Why Macs Are A Bargin (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/16/1058035061496.html>
Whichever guru happens to light up your shrine, it remains a truth that computers keep getting cheaper as they become more powerful.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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The Macworld CreativePro Report (Ted Landau, MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030717081308588>
For its New York swan song, the Expo is going out more with a whimper than a bang.

Reporter's Notebook: Expo And NY Questions ANswered (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/17/notebook/>

Apple's Cheery iTune (Rick Aristotle Munarriz, Motley Fool)
<http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2003/mft03071703.htm>
Whether you consider CEO Steve Jobs the devil or a multimedia Midas, he's got Apple moving in the right direction.

Why Switch To Mac? (Steve Anglin, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3532>
I can think of the following reasons why few customers are switching from Windows.

Never Thought I'd Be Describing A Macworld As Intimate (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3523>
But this summer it is. And I'm really happy to be here.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Logitech MOMO Racing (Lucian Fong, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=386>

A Virtual Face-To-Face Encounter (David Colker, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-hm-sight17.txtjul17,1,829077.column?coll=la-headlines-technology>
The audio is even clearer than a telephone's, although there is a sound delay. And while the image is not nearly as good as one on TV, the iChat AV picture is a huge step up fromt he halting, postage stamp-sized images of previous video chat attempts.

More Than Just Talk (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac071703,0,370435.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
iChat AV and the iSight aren't exactly groundbreaking technology. But as it did with the iPod, Apple looked at the competition and determined it could do better.

Apple iSight Camera Focuses On Video Conferences (Associated Press)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/1998422>
The iSight camera and iChat AV software point to a silvery future beyond today's bleak reality.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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AOLS ettlement Dents Microsoft Earnings (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-1026940.html>
Despite beating sales targets, Microsoft reported lower fourt-quarter earnings than expected on THursday, hit by the costs of a legal settlement with AOL Time Warner.

State Says Microsoft Getting Off Easy (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1026499.html>
The Massachusetts attorney general's office said Wednesday that tougher penalties are necessary to prevent Microsoft from engaging in anticompetitive behavior.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Digging For Googleholes (Steven Johnson, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2085668/>
We're wrong to think of Google as a pure reference source. It's closer to a collectively authored op-ed page -- filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion -- than an encyclopedia.

Picking Up The Pieces (Douglas Heingartner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/technology/circuits/17shre.html>
Advanced scanning technology makes it possible to reconstruct documents previously thought safe from prying eyes, sometimes even pages that have been ripped into confetti-size pieces.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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A Hand-Held Portal To Musical Delights (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/technology/circuits/17conc.html>
At a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on Sunday at the Aspen Music Festival, a dozen concertgoers will fire up hand-held computers to sharpen their focus on the work's surging strings and titanic brass.

Exploding Universe Of Web Addressed (Jeffrey Selingo, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/technology/circuits/17next.html>
As Internet use has blossomed around the globe, and as more people sign on using many kinds of devices and stay connected for longer periods, the number of available IP addresses has dwindled to the point that some expect them to run out by 2005.

So That's Why I Can't Draw (Damian Whitworth, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-747467,00.html>
Eye-tracking technology could soon help us with everything from medicine to computers, but can it help a bad artist to draw?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Seeking Nirvana In A Dusty Bookshelf (James Verini, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-wk-cover17jul17.story>
They may look sleepy, but many used-book stores are thriving.

Hate Is A Useless Emotion (Bella English, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/197/living/_Hate_is_a_useless_emotion_+.shtml>
Experts confirm what many victims feel: Forgiveness can have the power to heal.

Free Press (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2085736/>
The Washington Post's grand plans to give it away.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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SARS More Widespared In Singapore Than Believed (Reuters)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SIN26632.htm>
SARS was more widespread in Singapore than earlier estimated because 32 suspect cases have now been confirmed as full-blown victims, the government said on Wednesday.

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