[MyAppleMenu] Apr 26, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** Discord Over Jobs Biography?
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11491026.htm>
Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News

John Wiley & Sons, a leading publisher of technology books, said Apple has removed all its titles from the shelves of Apple stores in apparent retaliation for the upcoming publication of a biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

[News]

*** iTunes UK Becomes Music Retail Leader
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11414&Page=1&pagePos=1>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

Apple's iTunes Music Store could today theoretically command as much as 35 per cent of the UK singles market following the combination of the digital and physical singles charts.

*** Welcome To Campus; Have An iPod
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504260178apr26,1,7753902.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true>
Brendan McCarthy, Chicago Tribune

Freshmen at Duke get music gadgets, DePaul has free cable, and schools feel it's expected.

*** iPods Claiming Market Share
<http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/16/6451.html>
BizCommunity.com South Africa

*** Apple Extends WWDC Early Registration
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/04/26/wwdc-early-registration-extended/>
MacMinute

Apple has extended its early registration for WWDC to May 6, 2005. This means attendees can still save US$300 off the regular price.

*** 'Real' Threat To Apple's iTunes, Napster
<http://www.nypost.com/business/45327.htm>
New York Post

RealNetworks will announce today that users of its popular music subscription service, Rhapsody, can transfer their tunes to portable devices, a move that could threaten the popular iTunes service.

*** Apple Releases GarageBand 2.0.1
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/25/garageband/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

*** Apple Continues To Cut Shipping Lead Times
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/enterprisetech/2005/04/25/0425automarketscan04.html?partner=rss>
Forbes

Piper Jaffray reiterated an "outperform" rating and $52 target price on Apple, saying Apple's product availability continues to improve as evidenced by the shorter lead times for many products.

[Opinion]

*** iPod's Dirty Little Secret And The Power Of The Internet
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/opinion/42328.html>
Rob Enderle, TechNewsWorld

*** Finder's End?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6932>
Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network

Throw it all into the one place, and use Spotlight and the equally entracing Smart Folders feature to keep everything in order, and find what you need, when you need it. Finder, RIP?

*** Sirius Satellite Radio Still Has iPod Envy
<http://www.corante.com/newyork/archives/2005/04/25/sirius_satellite_radio_still_has_ipod_envy.php>
Dominic Basulto, Corante

*** Apple Mythology And Desktop Security
<http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=1110000275OO>
Paul Murphy, CIO Today

If security concerns are your most important driver for desktop change, and Microsoft Office compatibility is your most significant barrier, then switching to Macs actually offers you the best of all possible worlds.

[Review]

*** A Shiny New NoteBook
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08079>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

*** iMac G5: Up In Smoke
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08080>
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS

This is the story of how my iMac G5 joined the legion of machines that recently have spontaneously failed, and how the problem was resolved.

*** Importing Safari Bookmarks
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/04/safariin/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

I have an answer that not only imports the bookmarks, but offers the added benefit of allowing you to use Terminal, thus upping your Geek Studliness Quotient by a full seven points.

*** The Comic Life
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2005/04/comiclife/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

Regardless of your level of design expertise, you'll surely find Comic Life to be fun. It's one of the coolest products I've seen this year.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft: 'Trusted Windows' Still Coming, Trust Us
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Trusted+Windows+still+coming%2C+trust+us/2100-1029_3-5681603.html?tag=nl>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

After nearly a decade, Microsoft's vision for how to protect especially sensitive information within Windows remains largely that -- a vision.

*** Microsoft Dreams Up Low-Cost Mini-Tablet PC
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+dreams+up+low-cost+mini-tablet+PC/2100-1012_3-5681655.html?tag=nl>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

*** Gates Offers Longhorn Appetizer
<http://news.com.com/Gates+offers+Longhorn+appetizer/2100-1016_3-5683686.html?tag=nl>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Feds Rethinking RFID Passport
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67333,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Kim Zetter, Wired News

Following criticism from computer security professionals and civil libertarians about the privacy risks posed by new RFID passports the government plans to begin issuing, a State Department official said his office is reconsidering a privacy solution it rejected earlier that would help protect passport holders' data.

*** Why $100 Computers Are On The Way
<http://news.com.com/Why+100+computers+are+on+the+way/2008-1036_3-5684006.html?part=rss&tag=5684006&subj=news>
John G. Spooner, CNET News.com

*** Services Market Puts Squeeze On IT Departments
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020654,39196295,00.htm>
Andrew donoghue, ZDNet UK

IT departments are increasingly having to compete with external services companies and the rise of 'industrialisation', say analysts.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Climate Of Denial
<http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/mckibben_introduction.html>
Bill McKibben, Mother Jones

One morning in Kyoto, we won a round in the battle against global warming. Then special interests and pseudoscience snatched the truth away. What happened?

*** Filibuster On The Cross
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2117394/fr/rss/>
Timothy Noah, Slate

Why the Christian right would be nuts to eliminate the filibuster.

[Life]

*** We'll Map Manhattan
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/01COHENHO.html?8hpib>
Randy Cohen, New York Times

I propose to create, with the help of the Book Review's readers, a literary map of Manhattan -- not of its authors' haunts but those of their characters, a map of the literary stars' homes.

[Expressions]

*** Where I'm Likely To Find It
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/050502fi_fiction>
Haruki Murakami, New Yorker

*** Few Shall Answer
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2117233/fr/rss/>
C. Dale Young, Slate

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Rejects Death Row Appeal
<http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/521480%3fformat=html>
Reuters

Singapore's president has rejected an appeal by the teenage children of a 38-year-old man on death row, saying he would not receive clemency and underlining the country's tough stand on drugs trafficking.

*** Singapore Announces 14 Bidders For Casino
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89MS7N01.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down>
Associated Press

Singapore has invited 14 companies and consortiums to bid for the right to build and operate the city-state's two planned casinos.

*** Malaysia's Dispute With Singapore Over Land Reclamation Fully Resolved
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/144527/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

*** Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Returns To Old Lion's Den
<http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/25/content_437338.htm>
China Daily

Modern Singapore's founding father puts his seal on warmer relations with neighbor Malaysia this week when he makes his first visit to the Malaysian capital since 2001, when ties were badly frayed.

[Opinion]

*** Suspects Are Guilty... Otherwise They Wouldn't Be Suspects!
<http://almostinfamous.blogspot.com/2005/04/suspects-are-guiltyotherwise-they.html>
Almost Infamous

Certain presumptions drafted under Singapore law are drafted or interpreted in a kiasu way. It captures more than what is necessary. It erodes safeguards to allow the convenience greater operation than is originally intended. Can we really afford to take shortcuts like this?

*** 5-Day Weakness
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/47179.asp>
Paulin Straughan, Today

The five-day week initiative requires all segments of society to make adjustments and even, in some cases, sacrifies for the sake of Singapore families.

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Podcast Star
<http://thisandthatpodcast.com/>
Jeff Oestreich
<http://www.thisandthatpodcast.com/podcasts/PodcastStar.mp3>

*** One a.m.
<http://www.bushwalla.net/music.htm>
Bushwalla
<http://www.bushwalla.net/mp3/fm949/live-on-fm949sd_One%20AM.mp3>