[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Dec 26, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Dec 26, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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The Year Apple Saved Music (Mike Prevatt, Las Vegas Mercury)
<http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Dec-25-Thu-2003/22850642.html>
If there's one dominant "person" or "artist" of the year, it belongs to Apple.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Bible Software For The Mac (Charles W. Moore, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=360_0_1_0_M>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Signs Of Recovery: Domain Names Once Again Fetch Top Dollar (Anick Jesdaun, Associated Press)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1422694,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
One more sign the technology sector is rebounding: An Internet domain name is again commanding seven figures.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Online Data Conflict With Desire For Privacy (May Wong, Associated Press)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30795-2003Dec25.html>
Some fear misuse of personal information that is readily accessed on Internet.

Microsoft Aims To Make Spammers Pay (Jo Twist, BBC News)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3324883.stm>
A group of researchers at Microsoft think they may have come up with a solution that could, at least, slow down and deter the spammers.

Why Machines Should Fear (W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American)
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=30&articleID=00007A46-F8C5-1FD3-B58083414B7F0000>
Once a curmudgeonly champion of "usable" design, cognitive scientist Donald A. Norman argues that future machines will need emotions to be truly dependable.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Making Memories In Real Time (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/travel/escapes/26RITU.html>
"We're on vacation. We should be being on vacation, not looking at pictures of ourselves on vacation."

A Very Merry Equation (Marcus du Sautoy, Telegraph)
<http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2003/12/24/ecfequ24.xml&sSheet=/connected/2003/12/24/ixconn.html>
The festive season throws up all manner of mathematical enigmas.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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High-Tech Quirkiness Restores Radio's Magic (Stephen Holden, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/arts/music/26SATE.html>
Music beamed by satellite has resurrected the thrill of musical discovery that has all but vanished on what is called terrestrial radio.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Foreign Sports Talent Scheme To Be Made More Rigorous (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/print/63650/1/.html>
Announcing changes to the scheme, in place since 1997, the Ministry of Community Development and Sports said National Sports Associations must now submit comprehensive plans if they want to bring in foreign talent.

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