[MyAppleMenu] Jul 27, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** IDC Confirms Apple Marketshare Up 10%
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12193>
Macworld UK

Apple's global marketshare has reached 2.5 per cent, multiple reports confirm.

*** Thought Out Settles With Apple, Agrees To Change Name Of iPod
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/07/26/thought-out-settles-with-apple-agrees-to-change-name-of-iped/>
Laurie A. Duncan, Unofficial Apple Weblog

*** Indies Get A Bigger Slice Of Apple Pie
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/07/26/indies-get-a-bigger-slice-of-apple-pie/>
Laurie A. Duncan, Unofficial Apple Weblog

*** Apple Prepares For Tokyo Music Event
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2005/07/26/tokyo/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Playlist

Apple Japan sent out invitations on Tuesday to select journalists inviting them to a special music event in Tokyo. The vent will take place on August 4 at 10:00 am at the Tokyo International Forum. The event could mark the beginning of an Apple iTunes Music Store in Japan.

*** Apple Releases iPhoto 5.0.4
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/07/26/iphoto/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

The new release "addresses an issue with browing photos that have been auto-rotated by a camera."

*** School Computer Project To Stay Up And Running
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1122368688177410.xml&coll=2>
James S. Young, The Express-Times

*** Henrico Residents Object To Public Sale Of Laptops
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784061032>
Olympia Meola, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Some say high school students in the county should have first pick.

*** iTunes Phone Not Announced; Coming In Next "66 Days"
<http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/23009>
Brad Gibson, iPodObserver

"On one of the 66 days left in the quarter -- we're not saying which one yet -- Apple, Motorola and our biggest operator partners around the world will announce and ship the first iTunes phone."

*** Two New Apple Stores To Open Saturday
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/two_new_apple_stores_to_open_saturday/>
DenniS Sellers, Macsimum

This Saturday will see the opening of two new Apple stores in Houston, Texas and Manhattan Beach, California.

*** Mac Mini Family Grows To Three
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12183>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

Apple has significantly improved its affordable Mac minis, doubling installed memory and adding Bluetooth and wiFi as standard to some models.

*** Apple Updates iBook With Faster Processor
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/07/26/ibook/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

Apple on Tuesday updated its consumer-level iBook line of notebook computers adding a faster processor and more memory across the line. The iBooks also include a scrolling TrackPad and the Sudden Motion Sensor, two technologies first introduced in the PowerBook.

[Opinion]

*** Apple Rumors. Apple Reality.
<http://www.salience.com.au/weblog/?p=7>
salience

If you're in the market for a new Mac, look at the [rumor] sites by all means, just don't base your purchase solely on their prognostications.

*** Apple's Image
<http://www.jason-preston.com/?p=64>
Jason Preston

*** Party Like It's 1975
<http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000591.html>
DrunkenBlog

It's amazing to me how, in mid-2005, so much of my computing experience is governed by a bizarre awareness of beginning or trailing periods, spaces, slashes, underscores and colons in file names.

*** A Video iPod? Don't Count On It
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2005/tc20050727_0483_tc120.htm?chan=db>
Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek

I'm betting Apple learned from [the iPod photo] experience and will use video to fortify its current iPod empire -- not build a new one. It means a device that, true to Jobs' oft-stated belief, isn't designed for watching full-length movies.

*** The Browser Wars Are Hereby Over!
<http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20050713/index.html>
David Strom, Tom's Hardware Guide

You have been put on notice: the browser wars are over. Moz doesn't matter. IE is irrelevant. Opera is doing a swan song. Why? In a word, iTunes.

[Review]

*** Macs Can Work With, Yes, Everything
<http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1122366971122720.xml&coll=1>
Al Fasoldt, The Post-Standard

Mac programs handle Windows documents just fine.

*** What Is FireWire (And How Best To Use It)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/26/firewire.html>
Francois Joseph De Kermadec, O'Reilly Network

*** Adobe Bundle Is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1839898,00.asp>
eWeek

[Sidetrack]

*** Be Thankful...
Heng-Cheong Leong

that these are only coconuts <http://www.flickr.com/photos/su-lin/28772631/> and not, say, durians.

*** The Missing Apple HQ Saga
Heng-Cheong Leong

You really want to see Apple's HQ in all its glory in MSN Virtual Earth? Robert Scoble reports that Microsoft is working feverishly <http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/07/25.html#a10753> to acquire/process and update the satellite images.

*** Be Aware
Heng-Cheong Leong

When you buy Macromedia stuff, beware of itchy fingers that put things that you don't want in your shopping basket <http://bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor/072605/adding_items>.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Motherhood And Apple Pie
<http://lesscode.org/2005/07/21/motherhood-and-apple-pie/>
Ryan Tomayko, lesscode.org

The good news is that there is a resurgence of interest in the web's basic principles that is somewhat oriented toward the business community.

*** Online File Sharers 'Buy More Music'
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1536888,00.html>
Owen Gibson, The Guardian

Computer-literate music fans who illegally share tracks over the internet also spend four and a half times as much on digital music as those who do not, according to research published today.

*** IBM Sees Future In Enterprise Collaboration
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1840846,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Jeffrey Burt, eWeek

*** More Daylight-Saving Time Means Problems For Developers
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/26/HNdaylightsavings_1.html>
Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service

A pending energy bill expected to soon gain approval from the U.S. Congress means some programmers will once again need to check over their software code for potential problems handling a calendar adjustment.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** 43 Years Of Tips, Taken And Given
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/27/nyregion/27juniors.html?ei=5088&en=87003f0f8e7f836e&ex=1280116800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122470654-+1D5hv7nMjoYKZCxrRrPCg>
Vincent M. Mallozzi, New York Times

Long before the cheesecake was famous at Junior's, the Brooklyn restaurant, Mary blevins was a popular item.

*** The Desire For Tallest Building Persists
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/27/arts/design/27tall.html?ei=5088&en=c8eb885f23edbead&ex=1280116800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122439292-ZVzqRmzs7zZ2VlC8x638Kg>
Robin Pogrebin, New York Times

For all the talk about jitters deterring potential tenants of a future Freedom Tower, the 9/11 terrorist attack ahs done little or nothing to diminish a global appetite to touch the sky.

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*** Harry Potter Is A Wizard In Other Languages Too
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-potter27jul27,0,2604018.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels>
Hillel Italie, Associated Press

The series is popular around the world, but the translations are more difficult than a flick fo the wand.

*** Spring Forward, Cut Back?
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2123403/fr/rss/>
Daniel Engber, Slate

Does daylight-saving time really save energy?

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Chair Game Ends On Musical Note
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/63600.asp>
Clement Mesenas, Today

Myanmar's decision, announced in restroom, has Asean ministers smiling.

[Opinion]

*** The Straits Times Bitch
<http://doubleyellow.blogspot.com/2005/07/straits-times-bitch.html>
Double Yellow's Musings

This entry is about censorship in our esteemed local newspaper. In particular, the censorship of the word 'bitch.'

*** The Guards Will Protect Us, But Who Will Guard The Guards?
<http://atypicalsingaporean.blogspot.com/2005/07/guards-will-protect-us-but-who-will.html>
Atypical Singaporean

Isn't honestly the best policy?

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** China Doll
<http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=27178&from=landingReviews>
Rocks From The Garden
<http://audio45.archive.org/3/audio/rftg2005-07-08.shnf/rftg2005-07-08d1t07_64kb.mp3>