[MyAppleMenu] Apr 20, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple's Tiger Launch Prize Plans
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11368&Page=1&pagePos=2>
Macworld UK

The company's international network of stores including stores in Japan, the UK and across the USA will be offering store visitors attending the launch a chance to win great prizes, including a PowerBook G4; an iPod and "other prizes".

*** Microsoft Launches Windows XP Campaign With Ad Made On Apple Mac
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5518/>
MacDailyNews

"A picture launching [Microsoft's] big campaign designed to steal the thunder from Apple -- is made on a Mac!"

*** Apple Store Birmingham Opens April 29
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11365>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

The second European store opens at the Bullring Shopping Centre.

*** Apple To Settle Another Tiger Leak Lawsuit
<http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000530.html>
DrunkenBlog

*** Apple Paying For Cobb County Laptop Study, But With School System's Money
<http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/states/georgia/counties/houston_peach/11434384.htm>
Associated Press

Cobb County schools spokesman Jay Dillon emphasized that it would've been the company's responsibility to pay for the study regardless of which computer company the school system chose to provide the laptops.

*** Apple Releases Security Update 2005-004
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_releases_security_update_2005_004/>
MacDailyNews

*** Apple Updates Garage Band Jam Pack 4
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/04/19/jam-pack/>
MacMinute

[Opinion]

*** Safari And Rich-Text Editing: Still Waiting
<http://www.gilgamesh.ca/?p=234>
John Koetsier, gilgamesh.ca

*** Let Tiger Breed Before You Buy It
<http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1113813305170201.xml&coll=1>
Al Fasoldt, Syracuse Post-Standard

Big changes like that require a lot of testing, and no testing method works as well as testing by real users doing real things.

*** Dissent Within The Linux Rank And File?
<http://veraperez.com/archives/2005/04/19/763/>
Pedro Vera

I don't understand why the most popular Linux distributions have to be any harder to setup than FreeBSD or OS X.

*** iPod Security Of The Sock Kind
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/04/19/ipod-security-of-the-sock-kind/>
Scott McNulty, Unofficial Apple Weblog

Secure your iPod in a sock, you won't be sorry.

*** What Can PC Makers Learn From Apple?
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/19/pcmakers/index.php?lsrc=mwrss-0405>
Anne Kandra, PC World

>From the company's product design to hardware and software compatibilities to the pleasant Apple Store environment, there's an awful lot to like.

[Review]

*** Mac Mini Eye For The Linux-Windows Guy
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/04/19/mac_mini.html>
Todd Ogasawara, O'Reilly Network

The Mac mini's lower entry barrier convinced me that the time had come to buy and try a Mac OS X box. I'm convinced that a large percentage of first time Mac buyers buying a Mac mini are Try-ers like me.

*** Mac Mini
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050415.gtmacapr15/BNStory/AtPlay/>
Mathew Ingram, Globe And Mail

If you're looking for a small second (or third, or fourth) PC, the Mini is worth a look.

*** Mad Mac OS X Customization
<http://googlemancy.woodbetweenworlds.com/?p=37>
Googlemancy

*** Default Folder X 2.0 For Tiger
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?14@309.z54PaBIcYvg.0@.3c4f5c5c!discloc=.3c5ff999>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

*** Font Management Software: Several Third-Party Products Advance Beyond Apple's Font Book
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/reviews/fontmanagement/index.php?lsrc=mwrss-0405>
James Felici, Macworld

If you're having problems with corruprt font files, duplicate fonts, and mismatched PostScript printer and screen fonts, FontDoctor 7 is the best remedy.

*** iTunes' Sound Check And You
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2005/04/soundcheckyou/index.php?lsrc=mwrss-0405>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

*** Lord, Save (As) Me!
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/04/saveme/index.php?lsrc=mwrss-0405>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

If you're frustrated by OS X's Open and Save dialog boxes, you owe it to yourself to purchase Default Folder X.

[Sidetrack]

*** The Right Tool For The Job
Heng-Cheong Leong

Hey, we should always choose the right tool for the job. That's why it shouldn't surprise anyone that Microsoft's ad agency used a Macintosh to create the latest ad campaign for the Redmond company.

Yeah, "Start Something" with Windows XP. But to really finish the job, you'll need a Mac.

(Yeah, I know. Cheap shot. Sorry.)

:-)

*** The Black Screen Of Death
Heng-Cheong Leong

You know, it is so rare that the Mac OS X crashes that it's worth an upload over at Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ambimb/10089676/> when it does happen.

[Wintel]

*** Creative Q3 Profit Seen Surging On MP3 Sales
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050420/3/3s161.html>
Jennifer Tan, Reuters

Creative has produced some of the strongest contenders to the iPod, but Apple's product still leads the hard disk drive music player market by a wide margin. Apple has also encroached into Creative's market for MP3 players based on flash memory chips with the launch of the gum-stick sized iPod shuffle.

*** Robert Scoble's Guardian Angel Leaving Microsoft
<http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=7c0dfbad-d09b-422a-88c6-ec0b72dece22>
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life

I do think something should be done about Microsoft's current funk and it definitely should involve some executive heads rolling. I hope it doesn't take the stock hitting $10 before some action is taken.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Chris Shipley: Tech's Idea Capitalist
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11434075.htm>
Sam Diaz, San Jose Mercury News

She handpicks innovations to showcase at Demo show.

*** The Problem With Video Conferencing
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6889>
Jim Van Meggelen, O'Reilly Network

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The other things in life

[World]

*** God And The Fight Against AIDS
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17963>
Helen Epstein, New York Review Of Books

Do evangelical Christian groups have a role to play in fighting the AIDS epidemic? Maybe they do, but at the moment they are engaged in an unseemly battle with secular AIDS organizations over US government contracts that could derail what little progress there has been in combating the epidemic.

[Life]

*** United By A Love For Literature
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-litblog9apr09,1,5971942.story>
Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times

The Litblog Co-Op is a joint effort by bloggers to 'shine a light' on some lesser-known fiction treasures.

*** Leave It To The Wine Guy
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-matters20apr20,1,4025461.column?coll=la-headlines-food>
David Shaw, Los Angeles Times

One of the many great things about wine is that it's a pleasure most enjoyed when it's shared. The better the wine, the greater the pleasure of both drinking it and sharing it.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Zoo And Night Safari To Implement New Safety Measures
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/143561/1/.html>
Yvonne Ang, Channel NewsAsia

*** Singapore-Planned Casinos Not Seen As Big Threat To Genting
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/BTimes/Wednesday/Corporate/20050420011617/Article/>
Adeline Paul Raj, New Straits Times

Singaporeans are not Genting's core customers, accounting for only about 5 per cent of total visitor arrivals at the resort.

*** Singapore Casinos Won't Cut Macau Gaming Revenue, Analysts Say
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aykIrK0ax.u4&refer=asia>
Bloomberg

Singapore probably won't cut gaming revenue at Macau, because the cities are vying for different markets, analysts say.

*** Singapore Warns Asian Terror Group May Strike
<http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-04-19-voa22.cfm>
Nancy-Ameia Collins, Voice Of America

Singapore says an Asian terrorist group with links to al-Qaida is planning to carry out more attacks like the bombings on Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Millionaire Girlfriend
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs.htm>
Jonathan Coulton, Smoking Monkey
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/Jonathan%20Coulton%20-%20Millionaire%20Girlfriend.mp3>

*** A Laptop Like You
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs.htm?>
Jonathan Coulton
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/Jonathan%20Coulton%20-%20A%20Laptop%20Like%20You.mp3>