[MyAppleMenu] Jul 22, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Macworld CreativePro Best Of Show Winners Announced (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/22/bos/>
Best of Show picks are products making their Macworld debut that Macworld's editors felt stood out from the pack.

Corel Buy-Out Is 'Best Option' (Lindsay Bruce, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6626>
Investment firm Vector Capital has made an offer to acquire Corel for $97.5 million in an attempt to stabilize the software company. The move will transform Corel into a private company.

The New Workstations (Linda Romanello, Creative Planet Communities)
<http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/article_10401.shtml>
The big guns of visual workstations -- Apple, SGI, and HP -- have designed products that are packed with new features that run the gamut in performance and price and, best of all, have been designed specifically for the content creation pro.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Macworld Expo New York 2003: Highly Concentrated (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07279>
If you could get people to stop talking about how small the show floor was, they seemed pretty happy about what they'd seen.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Eight Flat-Panel Monitors: With Accurate Color And Wide Viewing Angles, Two LCDs Stand Out From The Crowd (James Galbraith, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/08/features/eightflatpanelmonitors/>
If your Mac has an Apple Display Connector, you'll be happy with the 20-inch Apple Cinema Display. If you're looking for something a little more flexible, the NEC MultiSync LCD2080UX offers comparable performance with greater compatibility and adjustment options.

G4 Cube Dusted Off, Given New Life (Mark Kellner, Washington Times)
<http://washingtontimes.com/technology/20030721-093418-5303r.htm>
The Cube still worked fine after about 18 months in storage. Instead of consigning this "relic" to the scrap heap or a page on eBay, I thought it might be interesting to see what upgrades work best.

PowerBook Is Rugged On The Road (Mike Wendland)
<http://www.mac-mike.com/archives/000231.html>
I'm back from a 281-mile bicycle ride  called the Michigander and about the only thing that worked perfectly was my Apple PowerBook G4 12-inch laptop.

Unreal Tournament 2003 (Michael Yanovich, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=387>
What's there to say about this game? It's not groundbreaking, it's not original -- but it's one fantastic sequel!

Three Spam Management Tools (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/misc/03/0721.html>

A Complee Review Of The Apple iSight (Tom Robinson, MacTeens)
<http://macteens.com/reviews_more.php?id=211_0_2_0_C>
The iSight is a superb product... once you get used to the dysfunctional mount.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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US Navy Dumps Microsoft, Makes Network The Weapon (Doug Mohney, The Inquirer)
<http://inquirerinside.com/?article=10581>
The new way of fighting is built around Internet standards, including web pages, routers, Ethernet, instant messaging, and chat rooms. Casualties appear to be both expensive customized systems and Microsoft software.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Hotels' High-Speed Internet Often Has A Catch (Susan Stellin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/business/22INTE.html>
Analysts and business travelers offer something of a reality check on the message of faster connectivity that is being pushed by the hospitality industry, saying that although such service is becoming more common, it is not something laptop-toting business travelers can count on when they check in.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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>From Lotus To Linux (Peter Galli, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1200097,00.asp>
Software pioneer Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, is keeping busy as chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation.

Debate Flares Over Weblog Standards (Cathleen Moore, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/18/28NNrss_1.html>

Java 1.5: The End Of Java? (Erb Cooper, O'Reilly Network)
<http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/261>
With Java looking more and more like C, I'm starting to wonder what my reasons are for not switching to C#.

US Navy Dumps Microsoft, Makes Network The Weapon (Doug Mohney, The Inquirer)
<http://inquirerinside.com/?article=10581>
The new way of fighting is built around Internet standards, including web pages, routers, Ethernet, instant messaging, and chat rooms. Casualties appear to be both expensive customized systems and Microsoft software.

SCO: Buy License, Avoid Suit (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59701,00.html>
The SCO Group said Monday it is offering commercial Linux users a license that will protect them from forthcoming legal action by the software maker. The company also said in a statement that all commercial Linux users are software pirates.

Amazon Plan Allows Text Searches Of Many Books (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5049506.html>
Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according to several publishing executives involved.

Years Of Software Gloom Ahead? (Munir Kotadia, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5049469.html>
The software market continued shrinking last year and is unlikely to recover in real terms until 2007, according to a report from the London-based research group Ovum.

IT Outsourcers Take Vertical View (Matt Hines, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-5050729.html>
Companies that offer information-technology outsourcing services are increasingly emphasizing vertical markets, according to an IDC report released Monday.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Who's Unpatriotic Now? (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/opinion/22KRUG.html>
By cooking intelligence to promote a war that wasn't urgent, the administration has squandered our military strength.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The Power Of The Moon (Nigel Holloway, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/global/2003/0721/042.html>
The tides are as predictable as night and day, and they're powerful, too. Now there's a way of using their kinetic energy to produce electricity.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Cash. Fame. Pressure. And Garlic. (William Grimes, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/arts/television/20GRIM.html>
"The Restaurant," despite its manipulations, opens a window that even professional food writers rarely get to look through. It makes clear, whether consciously or unconsciously, the unholy alliance of creativity, money and public relations that dominates New York's restaurant economy.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Slow Start To Fast Food On Wheels (Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,200814,00.html?>
The first operator of a food van to open for business under a new scheme was left with nearly three vanfuls of bee hoon, nasi lemak, cakes and fritters at the end of her first day in business.

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

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