[MyAppleMenu] Dec 9, 2004

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/>
Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Maroon 5 Makes Room On The iPod For Schoolwork
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/technology/circuits/09ipod.html>
Mark Glassman, New York Times

At the Brearley School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the iPod went from a "want" to a "must have" this year when its use was incorporated into foreign-language and classics courses.

*** iPod Photo Keynote Software Debuts
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10381>
Macworld UK

*** Apple Web Hole Still Open
<http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=2770>
John E. Dunn, TechWorld

Apple has still not properly fixed the HFS+ filesystem named fork vulnerability discovered last week, according to the companyt hat first noticed it, NetSec.

*** Laptop Program Leads Denali Schools Chief To Job With Apple
<http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2583873,00.html>
Kirs Capps, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

When Denali Borough School Superintendent Bob Whicker spearheaded a one-to-one computer student laptop initiative here, the new program did not go unnoticed outside the borough.

[Review]

*** iPod Gift Week: Software
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2004/12/giftweeksoftware/index.php>
Chirstopher Breen, Playlist

*** Too Many Tunes
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2004/12/tootunes/index.php>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

"I have too many songs in iTunes!"

*** iPod Gift Week: Accessories
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2004/12/giftweekaccessories/index.php>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

[Sidetrack]

*** The Birth Of The Now-Dead Machine
Heng-Cheong Leong

>From patrickWeb <http://www.patrickweb.com/weblog/archives/2004_12.html> comes t he story of the birth of IBM ThinkPad.

The Tomorrow Weblog
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/tomorrow/>
Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Password Imperfect
<http://news.com.com/Password+imperfect/2100-7355_3-5475264.html?part=rss&tag=5475264&subj=news.7355.20>
Robert Lemos, CNET News.com

For years, Microsoft has hammered away at the security flaws in its desktop operating system. Now the company is looking to plug another security hole: weak passwords.

*** The Call To Voice
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/12/wo_brown120804.asp?trk=top>
Eric S. Brown, MIT Technology Review

Voice over IP may be built upon broadband, but it doesn't need to follow the same anti-competitive path. In fact, the VoIP business could remain wild and wooly (and cheap).

MyAppleMenu Reader
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/reader/>
The other things in life

[Life]

*** The Whys Of Art
<http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/dec04/rconquest.htm>
Robert Conquest, New Criterion

Changes in art and cultural history have never been easyt o assimilate to politcal or economic changes. But perhaps we have enough evidence to show that particular sub-ideologies, combined wtih or supported by a bureaucratic upsurge, have cuased, or been associated with, what appear to be downhill trends.

*** The Plot Against Sex In America
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/arts/12rich.html?oref=login&ex=1260334800&>
Frank Rich, New York Times

When they start pushing the panic button over "moral values" at the bluest of TV channels, public broadcasting's WNET, in the bluest of cities, New York, you know this country has entered a new cultural twilight zone.

SingaporeSurf
==================================================
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>
Life in the city

[News]

*** It's No Go For Planned Christmas 'Gay Party'
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,289447,00.html?>
Tanya Fong, Straits Times

A Christmas party, organised for the past two years by local subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based gay online portal, has had its licence application for thisyear's party turned down.

*** Tuition Fees Go Up At NUS And NTU
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/topstories/story/0,5562,289440,00.html?>
Sandra Davie, Straits Times

Undergraduates at the NUS and NTU will pay nearly 5 per cent more -- an extra $280 per year -- when the acadmic year begins in August.