[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003

Wed Jul 30 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Tinderbox 2.0 Offers Major Speed Boosts (Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/July2003.html#note_1470>

Educational Gold Mine Is Waiting Inside Computers (Heather Newman, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/newman30_20030730.htm>
What can parents do to make the laptop as meaningful at home as it is in the classroom?

Apple To Sell Macs At Best Buy (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-5057736.html?tag=cd_mh>
Apple plans next month to launch a pilot program with Best Buy in which the retailer will carry various Mac models at "a few" locations, similar to a program that Apple has with CompUSA.

iTunes Headed To PC, Biz Mulls Download Prices (Billboard)
<http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1944430>
Apple says it is on pace to launch a Windows-based version of the iTunes Music Store by the end of the year.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Fighting The Itch To Change Email Clients (Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/macnetjournal/July2003.html#note_1467>
The problem with the temptation to switch email applications is that no Internet-based application is harder and more complex to switch that an email app.

Poll: 10.3's Metal Gets Brush-Off (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6666>
A fifth of Macworld Online readers say they "hate" the brushed-metal user interface (UI) of Mac OS 10.3, while almost half are ambivalent.

Why iTunes Has Bands On The Run (Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2003/tc20030730_8330_tc056.htm>
Music fans are making their feelings clear: Online services such as Apple's put consumers in control of what they buy, not artists.

BuyMusic.com Ripping Off Artists (Jody Whitesides, MacSlash)
<http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/1510211&mode=thread>
What [BuyMusic.com] don't tell you that [it's songs] come from musicians/bands that were not asked for permission, and who will likely not see a penny of any sale made through BM.

Keep Your Marketing Department Out Of My iPod (Jason Kottke)
<http://www.kottke.org/03/07/030729keep_your_ma.html>
Will everything I "own" in the future be dependant on a service for its continued operation?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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iPhoto Has A New Buddy (Simon Aughton, MacUser UK)
<http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=45502>
Put simply, the utility allows you to create more than one iPhoto library and in any location either on your hard drive, a server or an iDisk.

Apple PowerBook G4 (12-Inch) (John Blazevic, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1202317,00.asp?kc=PCAV103039TX1K0000565>

Apple iMac (John Blazevic, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1201734,00.asp?kc=PCAV103039TX1K0100563>
Though not for power users, the iMac is suitable for the graphic designer, artist, director, or musician in the making.

The Care And Feeding Of Your iPod (J.D. Biersdorfer, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/29/ipod_battery.html>
To keep the music playing as long as possible, here are ten things to consider about the battery and how to use its power effectively.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Prowling The Ruins Of Ancient Software (Sam Williams, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/30/software_archaeology/index_np.html>
Famous programs from just a generation or two ago are in danger of disappearing from human ken, forever.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Publishing For The Little Folks (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59807,00.html>
The RedPaper is an experimental online information exchange that blends self-publishing with micropayments. An author's success depends on how popular poetry, police files and recipes are.

FBI Targets Net Phoning (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5056424.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed>
Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month.

Open Source Flying (Matthew Langham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3579>
As the market for Open Source software expands and companies rush to define new areas they can create business in -- what is there to be learned from other high-premium goods that have since become a commodity?

The Dark Side Of Blacklisting (Kym Gilhooly, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,83384,00.html>
The reason for the disillusionment is that companies whose IP addresses were put on the list but were innocent of wrongdoing found it extremely difficult to get off the list

Secret Networks Protect Music Swappers (Powell Fraser, CNN)
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/29/private.fileshare/index.html>
They are the country clubs of the file-sharing world, exclusive Internet networks that require knowing the right people and having a wealth of content on your hard disk to get into the clique.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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The Classified Truth (Robert Scheer, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/scheer/2003/07/30/911_report/index_np.html>
Even the censored version of the 9/11 report makes it clear the U.S. focused on the wrong nation.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Breaking The Chinese Menu Code (Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-media30jul30,1,231097.story?coll=la-headlines-food>
To outsiders, authentic Chinese restaurants are like some maddening puzzle, equal parts tantalizing and frustrating. You know you want more than beef with broccoli, but how do you order that wonderful-looking stuff that guy is eating at the next table? And what the heck is it? Now along comes Carl Chu to the rescue.

Trading Places (Carol Kino, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2086136/>
Cultural property disputes are reshaping the art world -- but how?

The Problem With FX (Devin Gordon, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/943726.asp>
Now that the bar on special effects has been raised so high, is it impossible to clear?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Quiet Night (Robert Wrigley, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2086278/>

MyAppleMenu Reader: EOF
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Fifteen Ways To Leave Your Lover (Simon Jeffery, Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1008140,00.html>
Following an Islamic court decision last week that allowed a Malaysian man to serve a divorce on his wife by text message, we review some of the strangest -- and cruellest -- ways to get shot of that special someone 

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Is The 14th Most Expensive City, Says Survey (Daniel Buenas, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,89359,00.html?>
Although the cost of living here has dropped, Singapore remains one of the 15 most expensive cities in which to live, according to the latest report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Singapore Bans 'SEX' On The Roads (Ananova)
<http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_804300.html>
The government has changed the car registration system to prevent number plates featuring rude words.

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