[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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iPod #1: Apple Continues MP3 Player Dominance In November (Brad Gibson, Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/12/30.1.shtml>
Apple continues to dominate the overall portable MP3 player market in the US with the 10GB iPod the number one selling device.

Dead iBook Owners Take Protest To Macworld Show (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/34676.html>
Faithful Apple users plan to put Quality Control issues center stage at the MacWorld show in San Francisco next week, to highlight a problem that Apple refuses to acknowledge.

 (Charles Moore, MacOPINION)
<http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/12/30/index.html>
While the year of the laptop hasn't passed without some rough patches, it has seen Apple replace its entire portable line with either new or substantially upgraded products, and introduced two additional very cool new ones.

iPod At Center Of Buzz (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/30/BUG3C406T61.DTL>
Rumors predict new affordable player at Macworld.

Mac.Ars Takes On 2003: The Year In Review (Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica)
<http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/mac/index.html>
2003 was a big year for Apple, and arguably its most successful in over a decade on a number of metrics.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Every App Has Its Day (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4109>
There are a few Mac applications that are ready to be reintroduced to the spotlight.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Have Your iSight Tested (Aoife White, ElectricNews.net)
<http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9385614.html>
Apple's iSight video camera is not a new idea but it is a solid piece of tech that does a simple job extremely well.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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The Fantasy And Reality Of 2004 (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61726,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
We asked a dozen experts in fields that are apt to touch all our lives this year -- privacy, defense, spam, security, open source, technology development, life online and human rights -- to answer this question: "What do you wish would happen in 2004, and what do you think will actually happen?"

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Social Networking Vendors Aim For The Enterprise (Matt Hicks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1423677,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Having started beta tests and raised funding, a string of vendors are ready to launch new offerings in the new year that promise to expand users' business connections.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Sex, Silliness In The Year Of Publishing Shamelessly (Peter Carlson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40112-2003Dec29.html>
A very weird year in magazines.

Thoughts On The Killing Of A Young Correspondent (Jay Rosen)
<http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2003/12/24/sander_speech.html>
I said earlier: He was a Dutch journalist, and young man of conscience, killed on assignment in East Timor on September 21st, 1999. That is one way of telling his story. I have given you four more: Sander as world citizen, Sander as dweller in the university tradition, Sander and the scruple of post-colonialism, Sander as soldier in journalism's conflict with the media. Others will tell their own tales today, different from mine, and that is all we can do.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Broccoli (Lara Vapnyar, New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?040105fi_fiction>
"Here's another one, seduced and abandoned," Nina's husband often said, pulling abunch of wilted, yellowed broccoli from the refrigerator shelf. He held it, pinched between two fingers, his handsome face contorted in disgust, as though it smelled.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore 2003 GDP Likely Up 1% After 4Q Rise (Izham Ahmad, Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/031230/15/3gyin.html>
In his New Year speech Wednesday evening, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong is expected to affirm a fragile recovery extended into the final quarter, taking full year expansion to the top end of the official 0.5%-1% forecast, economists said.

Will SingTel Get Its Wish? (Chan Chao Peh, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/12409.asp>
SingTel may finally fulfil its wish for higher local fixed line phone charges, if analysts' prognostications are anything to go by.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Where To Party? (Zul Othman, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/12394.asp>
Confused by your choices for the New Year?

Singapore Sweep Top Prize Is Now $2m (Nicola Cheong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,227568,00.html?>
When tickets for the next Singapore Sweep draw go on sale from Jan 8, the top prize will be worth $2 million, up from the current $1.5 million. Each ticket will cost $3, $1 more than now, but fewer will be printed, improving chances of winning.

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