[MyAppleMenu] Mar 8, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** A Correspondent's Tongue-In-Cheek Report From Apple Hearing
<http://www.politechbot.com/2005/03/07/a-correspondents-tongue/>
Politech

Apple's orchard of terror.

*** A Perfect X
<http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/030805/perfect.html>
John Russell, Bio-IT World

Revenge is sweet for Apple, now savoring the rise of Mac OS X and Xserve in the lab, but this is still the platning. A difficult growing season lies ahead.

[News]

*** SXSW's Torrent Of Free Tunes
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66819,00.html?tw=wn_3culthead>
Katie Dean, Wired News

Music fans don't have to be in Austin, Texas, to hear hundreds of new songs from the South by Southwest music festival.

*** iPod Defeats Blue Screen Of Death
<http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3280>
Chris Mellor, Techworld

If your laptop crashes, what's the best way to recover the data on it? Well, one IBM engineer used his iPod.

*** iPod Aids Irish Pub Crawl
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11024>
Macworld UK

It's St Patrick's Day next Thursday and iPod users around the world will be able to find the perfect Irish pub with their iPod.

*** Teachers 'Will Want Mac Mini'
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11027>
Macworld UK

An article has appeared in a US education publication extolling the merits of the Mac platform and predicting that educators will want the Mac mini.

*** LinkBack Brings Back Data Linking
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08011>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

Have you ever pasted a graphic into a word processing document and later wanted to update it?

*** Sony PSP To Get Mac, Connect Support
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/03/07/psp/>
MacMinute

*** Individual Audio Programming Becomes The Latest Internet Craze, Putting Broadcasting Ability In The Hands Of The Many
<http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/07/features/story1.html>
Jason Genegabus, Honolulu Star-Bulletin

In the last six months, thousands of podcasts have sprung up on the Internet, including a handful from Hawaii.

*** A Download Away From Radio Stardom
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2NjI3OTImeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky>
Brian Kladko, North Jersey Media Group

*** Podcasting The Night Away
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2005/03/07/cx_ah_0307tentech.html>
Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes

For now, Podcasting is no threat to radio as we know it. But pay attention to it.

*** The ShuffleStation -- iPod Shuffle Portable Speakers/Charging Dock
<http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000540034846/>
Peter Rojas, Engadget

*** In The iPod Of The Beholder
<http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/03/07/features/gear/gea01.txt>
Eric Sorlie, Bismarck Tribune

More area teens are turning in the clutter of their CD collection for an iPod.

*** Firm Seeks Piece Of Apple Pie Via iPod Claim
<http://news.com.com/Firm+seeks+piece+of+Apple+pie+via+iPod+claim/2100-1041_3-5602764.html>
David Berlind and Jo Best, CNET News.com

A Hong Kong-based company wants 12 percent of all profits from iTunes and iPod sales, claiming it holds the patents to the DRM technology that governs the use of downloads through Apple's online music service.

*** Secret Diary Of An Apple Store Mac Genius
<http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000440034809/>
Peter Rojas, Engadget

There are only four posts up on it so far, but supposedly the higher-ups at Apple are none too stoked about "Genius-lime", the LiveJournal of someone who works at Genius Bar of one of the Apple Stores.

*** Merrill Lynch: Napster Not A Threat To iTunes
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/03/07/napster.not.a.threat/>
MacNN

"We do not see the small rise in absolute number of subscribers as taking share from Apple's iTunes."

*** Apple Gets Nod From Genomics Researchers
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/07/genomics/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0305>
Jim Darlymple, MacCentral

Apple made the short list of five companies that are "widely perceived to be the best qualified to implement new technologies that will advance genomics research."

[Opinion]

*** Why DRM Offends The Sensibilities
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08013>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

DRM, like all technology, is an embodiment of a legal rule, not a legal standard.

*** Apple: Here To Stay
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/desktops/story/0,10801,100184,00.html?source=x243>
Don Tennant, Computerworld

The best technology may not always win. But it's not going to go away, either.

*** Life's Random Musical Shuffle
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050307/FACTS07/TPTechnology/>
Joshua Katz-Rosene, Globe And Mail

The suffle option is essentially killing the album, which has long been the music-industry standard for popular music releases.

[Review]

*** Mac Mini A Great System For Certain Users
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/3194/>
Dennis Sellers, Macsimum

*** AppleWorks Cure-All
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/03/appleworkscure/index.php>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

The old chronometer tells me it's the early part of March in the late afternoon and therefore time to address one of AppleWorks' most common quirks.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft's 'Project Green' To Come In Waves
<http://news.com.com/Microsofts+Project+Green+to+come+in+waves/2100-1012_3-5603425.html?part=rss&tag=5602629>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

After making several acquisitions to get itself in the business applications game, Microsoft developed "Project Green," an effort that would bring the various products under a single code base in a few years.

*** Yahoo Readies iTunes Rival For Launch
<http://news.com.com/Yahoo+readies+iTunes+rival+for+launch/2100-1027_3-5603157.html>
John Borland and Jim Hu, CNET News.com

Web giant Yahoo is poised to launch a new digital store and music player, aiming to compete more directly with Apple's successful iTunes service, according to sources familiar with the project.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[Top Stories]

*** Slump Wears On Valley's Spirit
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11071105.htm>
Chris O'Brien and K. Oanh Ha, San Jose Mercury News

So far, the valley hasn't lost its famous sense of optimism, its faith that technology and innovation will lead to a better future. But that faith is being tested by a downturn far more grim than anyone could have predicted.

[News]

*** Wiki Becomes A Way Of Life
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Daniel Terdiman, Wired News

Here are some of these power Wikipedians, and a look at what drives them to give so much to a community of strangers.

*** Security's New Face: 3-D Recognition
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11073611.htm>
Dan Lee, San Jose Mercury News

*** Blog Tool Writing Its Own Story Of Success
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-golden7mar07,1,2982515.column?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times

Perhaps the best way to illuminate the phenomenon is by introducing Ben and Mena Trott, both 27, respectively the chief technical officer and president of the San Francisco company Six Apart.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Sex, Lies And Spies: This Isn't News?
<http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-op-tent6mar06.story>
John Aravosis, Los Angeles Times

The lack of cverage plays into the hands of the White House.

[Life]

*** I Shopped Them All
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/opinion/08baldrige.html?ex=1268024400&en=3d72418730f218a9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Letitia Bladridge, New York Times

Sometimes I feel as though my life has been defined by the department stores I have known and loved, but these stores may soon exist only in my memories.

[Expressions]

*** Della
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/index.ssf?050314fi_fiction>
Anne Enright, New Yorker

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*** Editing Proverbs
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6614>
Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network

I was writing an email and went to say "don't count your chickens before they've hatched" and then my internal editor kicked in. The ghost of WIlliam Strunk leaned over my shoulder and whispered "omit needless words!"

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Life in the city

[News]

*** MPs Raise Concerns About Healthcare Costs, Medisave
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/136261/1/.html>
Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia

*** Singaproe Widens Smoking Ban To More Public Spots
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SIN305592.htm>
Reuters

Singapore said on Tuesday it would widen its ban on smoking to include bus shelters, public toilets, swimming complexes, stadiums and community clubs by oct 1, as part of its aggressive anti-tobacco campaign. This may be extended to pubs and bars by year-end, while a decision on areas like hawker centres and coffee shops will be made by then, said a spokeswoman from the National Enviornment Agency.

*** Church Reveals Gambling Problem That Plaugued Man Who Jumped To His Death
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/136278/1/.html>
Yvonne Cheong, Channel NewsAsia

A compassionate family man who loved helping the elderly, but a man who had a weakness for gambling -- this was the picture painted by pastors of 40-year-old Simon Lee, who jumped to his death from a flat at Tampines.

*** Singapore Will Pursue Financial Opportunities In Middle East
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/3/8/latest/21895Singapore&sec=latest>
Associated Press

*** Singapore On Target To Achieve Self-Sufficiency In Water
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/136279/1/.html>
Hasnita A. Majid, Channel NewsAsia

Environemnt and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim said that Singapore is well on its way to self-sufficiency in water -- even beyond 2061 when Singapore's second water agreement with Malaysia ends.

*** Urban Dwellers Go Rural At Singapore's Hot New Tourist Attraction
<http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/todaysfeatures/2005/March/todaysfeatures_March16.xml&section=todaysfeatures>
AFP

With organic vegetables on sale rather than branded handbags and a quiet rural setting instead of Orchard Road's bustling malls, a small group of farmers in ultra-modern Singapore is fast becoming one of the city-state's surprise tourist attractions.

*** Orchard Road Area May Soon Undergo Major Change
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/38765.asp>
Today

Several new initiatives put out by the Urban Redevelopment Authority could pave the way for the Orchard Road area to be among the first to undergo a significant transformation.

*** Morgan Stanley Says Doubtful If Singapore Casino Can Attract Enough Foreigners
<http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=616&topicId=12552&docId=l:262921599&start=3>
AFX News Limited

Morgan Stanley said it doubts if the proposed casino in Singapore will attract a critical mass of foreign gamblers, given the prevailing competition in the region.

[Opinion]

*** Employent And Globalisation
<http://sg-comment.blogspot.com/2005/03/employment-and-globalisation.html>
Singapore Commentator

On a more fundamental level, we need to ask whether the almost-single-minded pursuit of economic growth is realistically compatible with the true wishes of individual Singaporeans.

[Entertainment]

*** The Lion City Is On The Loose
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/Singapore/The-Lion-City-is-on-the-loose/2005/03/05/1109958154239.html>
Sheriden Rhodes, Sun-Herald

The day is for business, but the night belongs to great food and long, cool cocktails.

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[Tunes]

*** Woman King
<http://www.ironandwine.com/IWwoman.html>
Iron & Wine, Woman King
<http://subpop.dev.slam.cc/downloads/free/Woman_King291.mp3>

*** Lion's Mane
<http://www.ironandwine.com/IWcover.html>
Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank The Cradle
<http://subpop.dev.slam.cc/multimedia/Lions_Mane206.mp3>