[MyAppleMenu] Dec 13, 2004

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[News]

*** Home-Brew iPod Ad Opens Eyes
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66001,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Leander Kahney, Wired News

Homemade ads will play a big part in marketing, just like blogging is shaking up the news.

*** Hitting Replay: Jobs Makes Apple Relevant Again With iPod's Success
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BE2D579B2%2DD0E8%2D4C42%2D8A6E%2D4750ACB2B21A%7D>
Rex Crum, CBS MarketWatch

Jobs' vision has been as admired as it has been constantly questioned.

*** Apple's iTunes Feels The Bite
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3125993a28,00.html>
Reuben Schwarz, New Zealand Stuff

The long-awaited expansion of Apple's iTunes online music store into New Zealand and Australia appears to have hit a snag with Web addresses itunes.co.nz and itunes.com.au now registered by third parties.

[Opinion]

*** MarsEdit Report
<http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3004>
Brent Simmons, Inessential.com

In the spirit of Gus Mueller's after-development report on VoodooPad 2.0, here's mine on MarsEdit 1.0...

[Review]

*** Choosing A Mac Computer For The Holidays
<http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041213/1035656.asp>
Phillip Robinson, Knight Ridder Newspapers

PC owners too often struggle with their "lower-cost" machines because they don't realize that important parts were left out. They assume everyone has to suffer through using a computer. Not so. Ask a Mac owner.

*** iTunes Music Stores Takes Paypal
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?14@563.4HhpaalTRWM.0@.3c4f5c5c!discloc=.3c555202>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

I'm concerned that this process requires so many different steps with modality and sequence: a non-Apple principle.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** M.I.T. Technology Review Adopts More Serious Tone
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/business/media/13mit.html?oref=login&ex=1260594000&#38;en=400a0e9109701612&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt>
Victoria Shannon, New York Times

Now Technology Review, which was introduced in 1899 with such titillating headlines as "The Function of the Laboratory" and "Applied Science and the University," is getting a makeover with help from a refugee of the latest tech bubble.