[MyAppleMenu] Jul 4, 2005

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MyAppleMenu
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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** iPod Still Hitting The Right Note For Retailers
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/ipod-still-hitting-the-right-note-for-retailers/2005/07/04/1120329384593.html?oneclick=true>
Bridie Smith, The Age

The iPod phenomanon that many thought would peak after the Christmas rush has maintained its momentum.

*** iTunes' Top Podcasts Are Wayne's World Wannabees
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11995>
Macworld UK

Nearly half of the top 100 podcasts subscribed to at iTunes were produced by independents.

*** Firefox For Intel Macs Ready To Roll
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11992>
Macworld UK

Firefox has been ported to work on Apple's new Intel Macs.

*** They Came With An Apple... And Left With An iPod
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/59562.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

Give a 30-cent apple in exchange for a slick MP3 player worth S$178?

*** The Battle For Eardrums Begins With Podcasts
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/business/yourmoney/03digi.html?ex=1278043200&en=d4c35012b853c2db&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Randall Stross, New York Times

[Opinion]

*** Windows Software: Ugly, Boring & Uninspired
<http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/c0508/44c08/44c08.asp&did=844&aid=27197>
Chris Pirillo, Comptuer Power User

The "coolest" software today seems only to have been developed for OS X.

*** Conflict Of Interest Developing In Podcasting! Apple Helping To Drive The Divide!
<http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/004560.html>
Geek News Central

Left a bad taste in my mouth.

*** Your iPod Or Your Life
<http://capitalregionpeople.blogspot.com/2005/07/your-ipod-or-your-life.html>
Capital Region People

The iPod has evolved into a lifestyle statement, and therein lies the danger.

[Review]

*** iTunes Podcast User Interface
<http://www.warp-whistle.com/blog/archives/4>
Warp-Whistle.com

The more I use the new podcast features in iTunes 4.9 the more I feel the program is standing in my way.

[Sidetrack]

*** Rumor Today: Say Hello To The Motorola E790 Apple iTunes Phone
Heng-Cheong Leong

Ryan Block <http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000887049175/>, Engadget: It might just be an engineering or a production sample, and we can't guarantee whether this will actually be the first iTunes phone or not, but we do know that we're looking at a pearly white E790 and that synchronizes with iTunes 4.9.

[Wintel]

*** Once Again, Microsoft Faces Antittrust Suit
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/technology/04soft.html?ex=1278129600&en=bce19a589ac8dc79&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
John Markoff, New York Times

Microsoft's efforts to extricate itself from antitrust disputes received another setback last week when the founder of the Go Corporation, a maker of a portable computer operating system in the 1990's, filed suit in federal and state courts last Wednesday.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** How Schools Can Get Free Software
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4642461.stm>
BBC News

The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.

*** Bloggers Fight For 'Shield' Law
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68072,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Randy Dotinga, Wired News

*** The Coming Web Security Woes
<http://news.com.com/The+coming+Web+security+woes/2010-1071_3-5772012.html?part=rss&tag=5772012&subj=news>
Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com

Our esteemed leaders in the U.S. Congress are vowing to enact new laws targeting data thieves, backup-tape burglars and other information-age miscreants. We should be worried.

*** Blogging While Browsing, But Not Buying
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/technology/04ecom.html?ex=1278129600&en=509f5fd0d5773e10&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Bob Tedeschi, New York Times

Online merchants are starting to test blogs in hopes of giving their stores more personality and giving customers a reason to return even when they're not in the mood to buy.

*** The Imps Of File Sharing May Lose In Court, But They Are Winning In The Marketplace
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/technology/04link.html?ex=1278129600&en=29c8d4a5bcb958a2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times

*** Profits, Not Jobs, On The Rebound In Silicon Valley
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/business/03valley.html?ex=1278043200&en=5844291bf3c1c4a4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
John Markoff and Matt Richtel, New York Times

Some economists are wondering if a larger transformation is at work -- accelerating a trend in which the region's big employers keep a brain trust of creative people and engineers here but hire workers for lower-level tasks elsewhere.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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<http://www.myapplemenu.com/reader/>
The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** The Mall That Would Save America
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/magazine/03PHENOM.html?ex=1278043200&en=0e6398940ae9f302&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Amanda Griscom Little, New York Times

A real-estate developer's vision of an environmentally correct shopping-and-tourist megalith.

[Life]

*** Presidential Books: A Space On The Shelf
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8443833/site/newsweek/>
Richard Wolffe and Tamara Lipper, Newsweek

Now, George W. Bush is mulling his own book.

*** Hello, May I Speak With A Human?
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1079517,00.html>
Patricia Marx, Time

When calling someone in the modern era, you never know who will answer.

*** Question Celebrity
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062800944.html>
Hank Stuever, Washington Post

Finally we're enjoying a golden era of Hollywood women speaking truth to power.

[Expressions]

*** Long-Distance Client
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/050711fi_fiction>
Allegra Goodman, New Yorker

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** SingTel Casts Wide Net And Snares Big Profit
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/04/business/singtel.php>
Wayne Arnold, international Herald Tribune

*** AirAsia Chief Predicts No-Frills Consolidation
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d0959d44-ec27-11d9-9796-00000e2511c8.html>
Jake Lloyd-Smith, Financial Times

*** Forget SIA-Qantas Merger
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/59569.asp>
Today

Aviation analysts have dismissed suggestions from top officials in Canberra and Singapore that Qantas and Singapore Airlines will merge, but say the two carriers' budget-airline offshoots would benefit from an alliance.

[Opinion]

*** Can A Trust-Based MRT System Work Here?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/59556.asp>
Lau Wah Yuen, Today

*** Wealth, Poverty And Scholarship
<http://blog.gerek.org/2005/07/wealth-poverty-and-scholarship.php>
Zuco's Blog

The Shuffle by MyAppleMenu
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<http://www.myapplemenu.com/podcast/>
Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Over And Over Again (Lost & Found)
<http://www.clapyourhandssayyeah.com/shows.php>
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
<http://www.clapyourhandssayyeah.com/mp3/lostAndFound.mp3>