[MyAppleMenu] Apr 30, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Steve Jobs' Review Of His Biography: Ban It
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/30/technology/30apple.html?ex=1115524800&en=ace2439d10a3869a&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS>
Katie Hafner, New York Times

As far as advance publicity goes, Jobs and Apple could not have done a better job in generating buzz for the book in Silicon valley and elsewhere.

*** Crowds Gather At Apple's Second UK Store
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/mac/0,39020393,39196894,00.htm>
Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK

Birmingham-based Apple fans had plenty to be excited about on Friday -- the opening of the company's second European store and the arrival of the Tiger operating system.

*** Cobb County Board Approves Apple Contract
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/04/29/cobb.county/>
MacNN

*** Crowds For Tiger Release Anything But tame
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/29/tigerevent/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Channing Joseph, Macworld

*** Analyst Sits Down With Apple Executive Team
<http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1044>
Kasper Jade, AppleInsider

After meeting with members of Apple's executive team this week, UBS Investment Research said sales of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger could potentially double that of Panther and that a refresh to the iPod product line is on the way.

*** Apple's Tiger Unleashed In San Francisco
<http://news.com.com/Apples+Tiger+unleashed+in+San+Francisco/2100-1016_3-5690618.html?part=rss&tag=5690618&subj=news>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

Mac fans let out a collective roar Friday night, with thousands of eager shoppers turning out at Apple stores across the globe to scoop up Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

*** London Line For Tiger Event
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/04/29/london-line-for-tiger-event/>
C.K. Sample, III, Unofficial Apple Weblog

That's a lot of London Mac geeks. Cool.

*** FileMaker Pro 7 To Get Automator, Dashboard Features
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/04/29/filemaker/>
MacMinute

*** Apple Loses Henrico Laptop Bid
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/29/henrico/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

It's a crushing defeat for Apple, which made headlines four years ago when it won a contract to outfit Henrico County's middle schools with its own iBook laptop.

*** Apple Store Birmingham First Pictures
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11464>
Macworld UK

[Opinion]

*** 50,000 Blogs Talk About The iPod Each Day
<http://www.kullin.net/arkiv/2005_04_01_mc.html#111477943116059573>
Hans Kullin, Media Culpa

Few products the last few years can show the same phenomenal growth rate as the iPod.

*** Tiger World Premiere Recap
<http://www.kissmybrass.net/archive/entry/106>
Jaron Brass, KissMyBrass.net

The most fun was the hour-long demonstration of Automator I gave to several store guests.

*** Russel Lied To Me
<http://www.drakk.net/?p=698>
Drakk.net

*** RSS, Tiger Safari And The Bandwidth Bottleneck
<http://www.gigaom.com/2005/04/28/rss-tiger-safari-and-the-bandwidth-bottleneck/>
Om Malik's Broadband Blog

*** So, When Will KHTML Merge All The WebCore Changes?
<http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/1001>
Zack Rusin, KDE Developer Journals

Code in safari is hugely inconsistent and changes are always interdependent.

*** King Lear, Meet Steve Jobs
<http://news.com.com/2061-10787_3-5690313.html?part=rss&tag=5690313&subj=news>
Charles Cooper, CNET News.com

*** Is Apple A Rule Breaker?
<http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05042909.htm?source=mptoppromo>
Rick Munarriz, Motley Fool

You have to love just about everything that Apple is doing these days -- and it is once again laying down the bread crumbs for everyone else to follow -- but Apple is also now a respected juggernaut with a $30 billion market cap.

*** Will Consumers Hear Tiger's Roar?
<http://news.com.com/Commentary+Will+consumers+hear+Tigers+roar/2030-1069_3-5690315.html?tag=nl>
Ted Schadler and Charles Golvin, Forrester Research

Any consumer product -- movie, automobile or operating system -- must be promoted to put the benefits front and center in consumers' minds.

[Review]

*** Apple Takes Major Leap With Tiger
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,101412,00.html?source=x253>
Michael Gartenberg, Computerworld

Want to see what the future of personal computing looks like? Don't wait for Microsoft to show you; go out and get yourself a copy of Apple's latest operating system release, OS X Tiger. It's that good.

*** Apple Mac Mini: This Impressive Small System Could Tempt You To Become A Mac User
<http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120650,00.asp>
Richard Baguley, PC World

The Mac mini provides an elegant way to enter the Mac universe without having to spend too much.

*** Everything You Need To Know To Install Tiger
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/04/29/tiger.html>
Francois Joseph De Kermadec, O'Reilly Network

With just a little bit of organization and some light thinking, we can turn this relatively mundane step (installing an operating system) into a pure moment of machine-tweaking, Mc-optimizing hypomania.

*** StickyBrain 3.4: Fast And Easy-To-Use Information Manager Puts Data At Your Fingertips
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/reviews/stickybrain34/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Robert Ellis, Macworld

StickyBrain 3.4 may be the ideal freedom information manager, especially if you need something that excels at capturing information from other applications and putting it at your fingertips.

*** Software We Can't Work Without: Secrets Of Mac Superheroes
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/features/tipswithout/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Rob Griffiths, Christopher Breen, Jeffery Battersby and Adam C. Engst, Macworld

Here's the lineup of apps our distinguished panel of experts fire up every day on their own machines.

*** Giving OS X A Voice: Tiger Boosts OS X''s Accessibility Features
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/features/tigervoiceover/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

With Tiger, Apple seriously steps up the scope of Universal Access' powers.

*** survey: Mac Users Ready For Tiger
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/29/tigersurvey/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

*** Weather Or Not
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/04/weatherornot/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

*** Griffin AirClick USB: Affordable Remote Control For Mac And PC Works Through Walls
<http://playlistmag.com/reviews/2005/04/airclickusb/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

Griffin's done good work here. If you'd like to be untethered from your computer, the AirClick USB is an excellent way to go.

[Sidetrack]

*** Tiger, Tiger
Heng-Cheong Leong

Did you meet any tiger <http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/tiger/index.html>s while checking out Mac OS X Tiger?

*** iTable
Heng-Cheong Leong

Some of us are busy installing Tiger, some of us are busy catching up on life. And then there are those who built iTable <http://blog.23corner.com/2005/04/30/538/>s.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Cities Should Think Carefully Before Jumping On WiFi Bandwagon
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11523026.htm>
Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News

While cities should have the right to build municipal wireless systems if their elected officials so choose, eager politicians need to think twice about what makes fiscal sense.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Who Needs This When The Classics Are Already Bursting With Sex?
<http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=4ZODDVNAB3MG5QFIQMFCM5WAVCBQYJVC?xml=/arts/2005/04/21/bmsex21.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/04/21/ixtop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=32572>
Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph

Forget naked flesh and heart-throb tenors -- the real eroticism is in the music.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** $7m Plan Unveiled To Enhance Chek Jawa Experience
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/145193/1/.html>
Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia

*** Museums, Ad Nauseum?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/48036.asp>
David Chew and Lorraine Lim, Today

Facing uninspired attendances and a seemingly apathetic public, Singapore's historical monuments need 'restoration.'

*** HK Disneyland Not Threatened By Singapore's Integrated Resorts
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/145215/1/.html>
Derek Cher, Channel NewsAsia

Disney says the growing tourism market in Asia offers huge opportunities for resorts and theme parks in this region.

*** Redang Gets Daily Flights From Singapore
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/30/nation/10830364&sec=nation>
The Star

Tourist arrivals by air to the island of Redang is expected to double to 25,000 a year following the launch of another daily flight -- this time from Singapore.

[Opinion]

*** Are They On Drugs Or Something?
<http://www.theswanker.com/macammacam/2005/04/are_they_on_dru.html>
Macam-Macam

Singapore hang the little guys who ferry the drugs, yet wine, dine and do business with people who made their fortunes from the very same trade?