[MyAppleMenu] Dec 1, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** iTunes Now Selling Band Aid Song
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4057641.stm>
BBC News

iPod owners can now download the Band Aid single from iTunes after Apple reached agreement with the charity. But the single is now on sale for 79p -- the usual cost of a song from iTunes -- with Apple donating a further 70p to the charity for each song downloaded.

[News]

*** New Browser Flaw Out
<http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3440971>
Sean Michael Kerner, InternetNews.com

The bug has been called the Infinite Array Sort Denial of Service Vulnerability and causes the affected browsers to execute an infinite JavaScript array sort. That operation in turn effectively causes a DoS on the browser in question and causes it to crash by exhausting stack memory.

*** Podcasting Takes Off
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11514234%5E15309%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>
David Frith, The Australian

[Review]

*** Apple iPod Socks
<http://www.ipodlounge.com/reviews_more.php?id=5685_0_6_0_C>
Jeremy Horwitz, iPodlounge

'Hip' younger buyers (especially girls) and holiday shoppers will be Apple's primary target, and if the socks are vaguely popular, theyc ould become a cheaper replacement pack-in for Apple's iPod mini belt clips or iPod fabric cases.

*** Five Favorite Annoyances
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/30/macannoy_1.html>
John Rizzo, O'Reilly Network

Here are five of my favorite Mac annoynaces and their solutions.

*** Why Install Linux On Your Mac?
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/30/linux.html>
Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network

If you wish to go further, to take maximum control of your computer, and do so on some of the best quality hardware around, Linux makes a lot of sense on a Mac.

*** More Of The Same?
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2004/11/hpod2/index.php>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

You've long suspected that Apple's iPod and the HP-branded iPod are identical. Learn the shocking truth that, well, yeah, they're pretty much the same.

[Sidetrack]

*** Logical Conclusion
Heng-Cheong Leong

No, I cannot claim credit <http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/11/26/#20041126bg000001>, because this is probably a very logical thing for Apple to do: sell the tune at 79p and donate the rest. And I think a lot of people probably came to the same conclusion on what Apple should do.

:-)

*** In The Meantime, Here Are Some Cool Podcasts
Heng-Cheong Leong

November came and gone, and there is no iTMS <http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000327022119/> in sight for our friends up in Canada.

Or maybe Steve Jobs has switched to a different calendar. For example, in the Chinese calendar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar>, it's still only the twentieth day of the tenth month. Still a lot of time for Apple to get their act together.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Trust Your Employees, Says Microsoft
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/30/mobile_trust/>
Lucy Sherriff, The Register

British managers need to learn to trust their staff if the UK is to realise the full potential benefits of mobile and flexible working.

*** Firefox Is The Success Story In Tech Right Now
<http://microsoft.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000647022180/>
Scott Granneman, Unofficial Microsoft Weblog

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Feet On The Floor, Please
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/nyregion/01manners.html?oref=login&ex=1259557200&>
Sewell Chan, New York Times

The proposed regulations, totaling 3,900 words, traverse the fuzzy boundaries between public and private space, extending rules of etiquette into the realm of mass transit and specifying proper conduct with a degree of precision that may surprise many passengers.

*** A Culinary Oasis
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041206/usnews/6mess.htm>
Julian E. Barnes, U.S. News

It's no mirage. How one man's enterprise makes the chow line a dining experience.

[Expressions]

*** Unthought
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2110245/fr/rss/>
J. Allyn Rosser, Slate

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Using Residency Bait To Lure Rich Foreigners
<http://www.turkishpress.com/business/news.asp?id=041201071811.snl0hgov.xml>
AFP

Rich foreigners can gain immediate permanent residency in Singapore if they park five million Singapore dollars in local financial instituions, under a new scheme unveiled by the city-state's central bank.

*** Singapore Warns Taiwan-China Conflict Likely, Fears Fallout
<http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asiapacific/detail.asp?GRP=C&id=55078>
Jack Lloyd-Smith, Associated Press

The chances of armed conflict across the Taiwan Strait are high, Singapore's government said Tuesday, warning that such a confrontation would derail Asia's economic growth.

*** HK Press: PSA Takes HK Port Stake For HK$2.6 Billion
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/041130/15/3owre.html>
Dow Jones

PSA International will pay at least HK$2.6 billion for majority control of Asia Container Terminals, giving Singapore's state-owned port operator the strategic foothold in Hong Kong's port that it has long coveted, reports the South China Morning Post.

*** PSA Gains Foothold In HK Port Operations
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/topstories/story/0,5562,288068,00.html?>
Nicholas Fang, Straits Times