[MyAppleMenu] Thursday, Dec 11, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Dec 11, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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2003 MacInTouch Reader Choice Poll (MacInTouch)
<http://www.macintouch.com/readerchoice2003.html>
As soon as we began to review the results for this year's poll it became clear that there was one standout winner: the iPod and iTunes, along with the revolutionary iTunes Music Store.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Offers New Promos To Education Customers (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/22443>
Apple is offering a special 20-pack bundle of eMacs for $950 each or a 20-pack of iBooks for $850 each, when purchased through the Apple Store for Education (Institutions).

iMovie Competition Winners Announced (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7482>
This aimed to identify the best short movies made using Apple's consumer video-editing application.

iPod Makes The Headlines (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7481>
Apple's iPod continues to attract global media attention as the company maintains its marketing push to get the product into people's pockets.

Apple Outstanding Tertiary Educator Award (Apple Press Release)
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0312/S00050.htm>
An exceptional lecturer has been acknowledged for his innovative approach regarding the use of technology in learning.

Mozilla Readies Next Release (Matt Hicks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1409434,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
The open-source project releases a beta version of Mozilla 1.6 as it prepares for a full launch by January.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Old Habits (John Gruber)
<http://daringfireball.net/2003/12/old_habits>
What to do about my Finder Cmd-N habit?

A Nasty Fix For Apple (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2003/tc20031211_2028_tc056.htm>
It didn't have to be this way. Properly trained support reps would have headed this problem off long before it blossomed into a subversive online antiadvertising campaign. And a better customer-support system in general could be a huge selling point for Apple, as users encounter increasing complexity in pulling together the various pieces of the digital lifestyle.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Newsreaders -- A Comparison: MacReporter And NetNewsWire (Apple-X.net)
<http://www.apple-x.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=643&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0>

Computer Can Be A Tool For Wishing A Cool Yule (Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press)
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend11_20031211.htm>
Does your computer have the holiday spirit?

Zoo Tycoon: Marine Maina (Eddie Park, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=452>
If you were a fan of the original game, this double expansion set should be more than enough to keep you happy. However, if your response to the original was at best lukewarm, Marine Mania isn't going to change your mind, no matter how many times an Orca juggles a ball on its nose.

Product Of The Year: Apple iTunes Music Store (Peter Lewis, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,558792,00.html>
Apple is almost single-handedly dragging the music industry, kicking and screaming, toward a better future.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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New Laws On Spam Come Into Force (BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3308989.stm>
New European laws banning the sending of unwanted e-mails -- spam -- come into force on Thursday.

For Hearing Aids, A Lesson From A Fly On The Wall (Anne Eisenberg, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/technology/circuits/11next.html>
Carrying on a conversation in a busy restaurant can be a challenge for anyone who wears a hearing aid. The devices amplify speech, but they amplify the general racket in the room, too. But a microphone that imitates the remarkably acute hearing of a tiny fly -- and gives it a boost with the latest in miniature lasers and signal processing -- may one day help solve this problem.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Out Of The Shadows (Jen Banbury, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/11/art/index_np.html>
Armed only with ancient film, scraps of paper, broken buildings and an irrepressible passion to create, Baghdad's artists are emerging from the long darkness of Saddam.

All That Noise For Nothing (Aaron Friedman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/opinion/11FRED.html>
Every day, car alarms harass thousands of New Yorkers -- rousing sleepers, disturbing readers, interrupting conversations and contributing to quality-of-life concerns that propel many weary residents to abandon the city for the suburbs. So there must be a compelling reason for us to endure all this aggravation, right? Amazingly, no.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Recuperation (Roddy Doyle, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?031215fi_fiction>

Minnesota (David Thoreen, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2092227/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Restoration Of National Monument Will Be Costly (Benjamin Ho, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,224853,00.html?>
If funds cannot be raised, the building may be de-gazetted -- a first for a national monument here.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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AirAsia Threatens To Undercut Tiger (Eddie Toh, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,102355,00.html?>
Fernandes not certain Tiger will be allowed to fly to Malaysia.

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