[MyAppleMenu] Apr 25, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple's Harvest
<http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_3726640,00.html>
Janet Forgrieve, Rocky Mountain News

Apple credits those in-store experts with much of the success of its retail outlets, which in turn have helped turn around the 28-year-old company. So do analysts who cover the company.

*** McAfee virex 7.6 For Mac OS X Released
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/04/25/virex/>
MacMinute

*** No Crowing By Apple, But iTunes Set to Open
<http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15071934%255E8362,00.html>
Jennifer Dudley, Courier-Mail

Actor and sometime-musician Russell Crowe gave the strongest indication the music store would be launched here before the end of the month, telling John Laws' radio show listeners the website would host his latest solo music efforts.

*** iChat 3.0 Users Can Now Talk To MSN Messenger Users
<http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2005/04/ichat_30_users.html>
ubergizmo

This is now possible because iChat uses the open IM protocol Jabber.

*** DMB Caves To iTunes Distribution Method
<http://www.weeklydavespeak.com/news/DMB_Does_iTunes_042405.php>
Weekly Dave Speak

After over a year of trying to find a working digital distribution method for Dave Matthews Band has found a new home at iTunes.

*** You Just Never Know Who Might Be A 'Pod Person
<http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/24/or.ipod.0424.html>
Serena Markstrom, Oregon Register-Guard

[Opinion]

*** Of Course Macs Are More Expensive... Aren't They?
<http://www.classic45s.com/blog/2005/04/of-course-macs-are-more-expensive_24.html>
Musings From Mars

[Review]

*** Call Of Duty: United Offensive
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0505/rev.callofduty.html>
Helmut Kobler, MacAddict

*** iDive
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0505/rev.idive.html>
Roman Loyola, MacAddict

iDive manages your footage by using frame samples and customizable annoations so you know what's in each and every shot in your tape collection.

*** MTX: Mototraxfun
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0505/rev.mototrax.html>
Niko Coucouvanis, MacAddict

*** Picture Rescue
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0505/rev.rescue.html>
Gil Loyola, MacAddict

Under the right conditions, Prosoft's Picture Rescue can help you recover some of your photos from your camera's flash memory.

*** Primatte Chromakey 2.0
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0505/rev.chromakey.html>
Steven Parke, MacAddict

Digital Anarchy's Primatte Chromakey 2.0 is a clever Adobe Photoshop plug-in that slashes masking time.

[Wintel]

*** Creative Fails To Live Up To MP3 Hype
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/companies/story/0,4574,153255,00.html?>
Wong Wei Kong, Business Times Singapore

Today, Creative's boast of challenging Apple and its iconic iPod and ipod mini for leadership of the MP3 market is wearing increasingly thin. And it has to be asked if Mr Sim has badly mis-calculated.

*** Creative Technology Falls After Citigroup Cuts Rating
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aQrMwfphHVW4&refer=top_world_news>
Bloomberg

Shares of Creative Technology Ltd., a Singapore-based maker of digital music players, had the biggest drop in more than three years after Citigroup Inc. recommended selling the stock following a plunge in third-quarter profit.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Microsoft And the 24-Hour Linux Phenomenon
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/25/17OPopenent_1.html>
Neil McAllister, InfoWorld

Not only is Linux a formidable competitor in the server market, but now Microsoft actually paints itself as the underdog.

*** Girls' Night Logged On
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12654-2005Apr23.html>
Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post

Ditto, anyone? Women over 40 are the biggest players of games online.

*** Google Readies Banner Offerings
<http://news.com.com/Google+readies+banner+offerings/2100-1024_3-5682599.html?part=rss&tag=5682599&subj=news>
Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com

Google is taking a big step toward becoming an online banner-advertising network as the market for brand ads heats up.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Land Of The Dead
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1469597,00.html>
Svetlana Alexievich, The Guardian

On April 26 1986, the No 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station blew apart. Facing nuclear disaster on an unprecendented scale, Soviet authorities tried to contain the situation by sending thousands of ill-equipped men into a radioactive maelstrom.

*** A Hundred Cellphones Bloom, And Chinese Take To The Streets
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/international/asia/25china.html?hp&ex=1114488000&en=63e366184854b780&ei=5094&partner=homepage>
Jim Yardley, New York Times

The thousands of people who poured onto the streets of China this month for the anti-Japanese protests that shook Asia were bound by nationalist anger but also by a more mundane fact: they are China's cellphone and computer generation.

[Life]

*** For New York's Bagel Shops, Passover Week Is No Festival
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/nyregion/25bagels.html>
Eric Dash, New York Times

If it is hard to be a Jew on Christmas, it may be even tougher to run a bagel shop at Passover.

*** How To Get Out Alive
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1053663,00.html>
Amanda Ripley, Time

>From huiicanes to 9/11: What the science of evacuation revelas about how humans behave in the worst of times.

*** Art On The Move
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ca-digital24apr24,1,478370.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times

Computers have become integral to expression. Change and energy are tools. In this kinetic landscape, artists, museums and collectors all scramble to adjust.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Tech Slump Likely To Hit Singapore
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Tech-slump-likely-to-hit-Singapore/2005/04/25/1114281488234.html>
AFP

The slump in the global technology sector is likely to persist in the coming months, limiting Singapore's 2005 economic growth to the lower end of the 3.0-5.0 percent forecast range, the central bank says.

*** Malaysia And Singapore To Sign Agreement On Reclamation Work
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/25/nation/20050425071556&sec=nation>
Jane Ritikos and M. Krishnamoorthy, The Star

Malaysia and Singapore will sign a Settlement Agreement tomorrow, bringing an end to the dispute over the republic's land reclmation in the Straits of Johor.

*** MediShield Soon To Cover Those Over 80
<http://www.asia1.com.sg/st/st_20050425_313318.html>
Salma Khalik, Straits Times

*** Singapore Joins In Criticism Of 'Textbooks Whitewash'
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9f137c02-b395-11d9-ad2b-00000e2511c8.html>
John Burton, Financial Times

Singaproe's wartime past tended to be ignored by the long-ruling People's Action party, led by Lee Kuan yew, after it took power in 1959. One reason was that much of the wartime resistance to the Japanese occupation was conducated by communists, who emerged as the PAP's fiercest rivals for power after the war.

*** New MRT Line At Marina?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/46959.asp>
Tor Ching Li, Today

The Land Transport Authority has ocnfirmed that it recently conducted soil tests near the North East line Chinatown MRT station for a new link with SMRT's Marina Bay station.

*** Three Rs, Six Days
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/46943.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

Most schools have quietly swept the five-day week policy under the rug.

[Opinion]

*** Is Singapore A Nation Of Plastic Bag Junkies?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/46940.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

Its population of 4 million use a staggering one million bags a day, or 40 billion a year.

[Technology]

*** Apple's Tiger OS Set To Pounce In Singapore
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,153262,00.html?>
Roland Lim, Business Times

Mac OS X version 10.4 will be available at AppleCentres and Apple authorised resellers at $248 for a single-user licence.

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[Tunes]

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<http://www.bluetheband.com/index1.html>
Story Of Blue
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