[MyAppleMenu] Apr 11, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** iPod Shuffle Database Builder Lets You Avoid iTunes
<http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000390039631/>
Peter Rojas, Engadget

Want to use the iPod shuffle like a regular drag-and-drop flash-based MP3 player? You're in luck.

*** Class Action Suit Averted As Appeals Court Rules That Steve Jobs Is Not Psychic
<http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000340039523/>
Laurie Duncan, Unofficial Apple Weblog

A federal appeals court last week upheld a lower court's ruling that Apple investors cannot sue the company over the fact that the Power Mac G4 Cube didn't live up to Apple's predictions.

*** People Like To Own Their Music
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11277>
Macworld UK

A new report shows that consumers prefer downloading tracks to own, rather than to hire.

*** iPod Aids Study Of Jewish Law
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11275>
Macworld UK

*** HP Remains No. 1; Apple, Not Sun, Bright
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/living/community/11364954.htm>
Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News

Apple was the bright spot in hardware thanks to the iPod. The Cupertino company is now shipping more than four times as many iPods as Macintosh computers.

*** Apple Comptuer CEO Steve Jobs Named To 'TIME 100' List Of Most Influential People In World Today
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_computer_ceo_steve_jobs_named_to_time_100/>
MacDailyNews

*** In Britain, Apple's iTunes Fans Have Reason To Be Confused
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/technology/11apple.html?ex=1270872000&en=95ba9ec472e2f7ec&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Victoria Young, New York Times

[Sidetrack]

*** The First Pod
Heng-Cheong Leong

What's on George W Bush's iPod <http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000874964>? If you really must know: George Jones, Alan Jackson, and Kenny Chesney. And no "Fortunate Son".

*** And The Word Of The Day Is...
Heng-Cheong Leong

A New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/nyregion/11diary.html>' reader has this little tale to tell in the New York Times city blog...

My 10-year-old daughter, Kate, is quite an avid an dknowledgeable baseball fan. Recently, while she was reading The Times, she asked for help sounding out a word she wasn't quite sure of.

"I just know it's a baseball word," she said. I went over to help her.

The world was subpoena.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[Top Stories]

*** In The New Game Of Tag, All Of Us Are It
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7445653/site/newsweek/>
Steven Levy, Newsweek

Will free-style information tagging lead to anarchy? Early results are showing quite the opposite.

[News]

*** The Battle Between Tinseltown And Techville
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39168-2005Apr9.html>
Drew Clark, Washington Post

In America's courts, the companies that rely most on creativity and innovation are at each other's throats.

*** Dot-com Ads Make A Combeack
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/10/BUG1GC5M4I1.DTL&type=tech>
George Raine, San Francisco Chronicle

After the bubble burst in 2000, online advertising started a slow but steady rebound, and it's still climbing.

*** Vote With Your Feed
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/index.php?p=78&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog>
Steve Gillmor, ZDNet

This is the subscription economy we're talking about.. The contract is based on continued attention, not captured attention.

*** Microsoft Opens Research Lab For Licensing
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+opens+research+lab+for+licensing/2100-7337_3-5660785.html?part=rss&tag=5660785&subj=news>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

"We still hope the vast majority of Microsoft Research technology is going to end up in Microsoft products... [but] sometimes they come up with great ideas that really aren't part of our core business plans."

*** I.B.M. Hopes To Profit By Making Patents Available Free
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/technology/11ibm.html?ex=1270872000&en=b6f256b5189528dc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Steve Lohr, New York Times

Why has IBM shifted course recently, giving away some of the fruits of its research instead of charging others to use it? The answer is self-interest.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Why Einstein May Have Got It Wrong
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1456747,00.html>
David Adam, The Guardian

A century after Albert Einstein published his most famous ideas, physicsts will today commemorate the occasion by trying to demolish one of them.

[Life]

*** The Parachute Artist
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050418fa_fact>
Tad Friend, New Yorker

Have Tony Wheeler's guidebooks travelled too far?

*** A Culture Of Death, Not Life
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/opinion/10rich.html?8hpib>
Frank Rich, New York Times

Mortality -- the more graphic, the merrier -- is the biggest thing going in America.

*** Catholics In U.S. Keep Faith, But Live With Contradictions
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/international/worldspecial2/11catholic.html?hp&ex=1113278400&en=a3903d6edea971eb&ei=5094&partner=homepage>
Dean E. Murphy, New York Times

American Catholics have come to accept that being Catholic means living with inconsistency. The roughly 65 million Catholics in the United States no longer have as distinctive an identity as they did a generation ago, and as they assimilated more thoroughly into American society, their views on social and moral issues came to mirror those of other Americans.

[Expressions]

*** The Orlov-Sokolovs
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/050418fi_fiction>
Ludmila Ulitskaya, New Yorker

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Economy Performs Poorly
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10119884>
Reuters

Economists said the figures pointed to weakness ahead in Singapore's US$110 billion economy and added to pressure on the central bank to end its year-old tightening stance and ease policy at its semi-annual review on Tuesday.

*** Singapore Q1 GDP Shrinks 5.8% Quarter-On-Quarter
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/141995/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's economy contracted at an annualised rate of 5.8 percent in the first quarter, weaker than market forecasts, as biomedical manufacturing output fell, government data showed on Monday.

*** Walking The Last Journey With Dying Babies
<http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp050411_516.html>
He Wenxin, Liahe Zaobao

One photograph. A set of hand and footprints. A bunch of hair.

*** Singapore Press: We Have More Than Just Universal-Genting
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050411/15/3rtei.html>
Dow Jones

The executive chairman of Malaysia's hilltop casino resort, Genting Bhd, said Universal Parks and Resorts isn't the only ace the company holds to win the contest to set up an integrated resort here, the Business Times reports.

[Opinion]

*** Hefty HDB Resale Levy Makes It Hard To Downgrade
<http://www.asia1.com.sg/st/st_20050411_310595.html>
Lee Lay Choo, Straits Times

It makes little sense for us to downgrade, as we may be worse off than before.

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[Tunes]

*** What Happened To The Sands
<http://www.pascalgoespop.com/music.htm>
PAS/CAL, Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous
<http://www.pascalgoespop.com/01-PASCAL-The-Sands.mp3>