[MyAppleMenu] Apr 11, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple Introduces Apple Remote Desktop 3; Now Optimized For Intel-Based macs
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_introduces_apple_remote_desktop_3_now_optimized_for_intel_based_macs/>
MacDailyNews

*** Microsoft Offers Apple Birthday Wishes
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=14336>
Macworld UK

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit team is offering its own personal congratulation message to mark Apple's thirtieth birthday month.

*** Boot Camp Users Reporting Serious Crashes
<http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-6059694.html?part=rss&tag=6059694&subj=news>
Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com

The common crisis is that after partitioning their hard drives and installing Windows XP -- which seems to work fine -- people find they can no longer boot back into OS X.

*** Apple Talks To Airline In-Flight Entertainment Developers To Bring iTunes To Seatbacks
<http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/04/10/Navigation/177/205915/Apple+talks+to+airline+in-flight+entertainment+developers+to+bring+iTunes+to.html>
Flight International

Aircraft in-flight entertainment system providers have held talks with Apple on the possibility of licensing its iTunes media download software for airlines' own sysems, enabling passengers to use frequent-flyer miles to download music and videos on to iPod MP3 players in-flight.

*** TVMicro: TV Tuner About As Big As An iPod Shuffle
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/10/tvmicro/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

[Opinion]

*** WinOnMac Smackdown: Dual-Bot Versus Virtualization
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08495>
Robert Movin, TidBITS

*** Working With Windows
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/04/windowstips/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

Still plauged by unanswered questions, I spent the weekend doing some more Windows XP tinkering. Here's a summary of what I discovered.

[Review]

*** Pacifist Still A Winner At 2.0
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08493>
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS

*** QBeez 2
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=683>
Michael Scrpelli, Inside Mac Games

QBeez is near to flawless.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Say Hello To Voiceprinting
<http://www.techreview.com/BizTech/wtr_16684,295,p1.html>
Duncan Graham-Rowe, MIT Technology Review

Voice biometrics is poised to add more security to phone-based transactions in Europe.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Word Count: Are There Really 988,968 Words In The English Language?
<http://www.slate.com/id/2139611/>
Jesse Sheidlower, Slate

The problem with trying to number the words in any language is that it's very hard to agree on the basics.

[Expressions]

*** The Trojan Sofa
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/060417fi_fiction>
Bernard Maclaverty, New Yorker

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Taiwan Lawmaker Wants Singapore To Invite Him To Explain 'Dumb' Remark
<http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20060411p2g00m0in014000c.html>
Associated Press

A Taiwanese lawmaker Tuesday challenged Singaporeans to invite him to their city-state so he can explain why he called them "dumb," which infuriated many people in Southeast Asia's most carefully ordered society.

*** Singapore's Biotech Pipeline Show Promise
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SIN224801.htm>
Reuters

For analysts it is still too early to say whether Singapore will succeed. But after several years of scientific toil, the first signs of progress are emerging as a slew of firms take new drugs to clinical trials, and new medical gadgets to the market.

*** Singapore Dollar Falls As Central Bank Keeps Currency Policy
<http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=avqe2LSYkMa4&refer=home>
Bloomberg

Singapore's dollar had the biggest drop in a month as the central ban maintained a policy of favoring a "gradual appreciation" to keep inflation at bay amid forecasts for faster economic growth this year.

*** Singapore MAS Maintains Monetary Policy
<http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nSIN276656&imageid=&cap=>
Reuters

Sinapore's central bank on Tuesday it will maintain its policy of a "gradual and modest appreciation" of the Singapore dollar.

*** Talks Have Not Broken Down
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/4/11/parliament/13924386&sec=parliament>
The Star

Talks between Malaysia and Singapore, due to proceed to the next stage, are not expected to resume soon.

*** Progres Cash? Pay Taxes First
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/112157.asp>
Lin Yanqin, Today

If you owe Iras money, you may find arrears taken from payouts.

The Shuffle by MyAppleMenu
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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Superstition / I Wish
<http://www.demoulin.com/mp3/wcu.lasso>
Western Carolina University Pride Of The Mountains Marching Band
<http://www.demoulin.com/mp3/Pride%20Of%20The%20Mountains%20Marching%20Band/4%20Years%20Of%20Pride/19%20Superstition;%20I%20Wish.mp3>