[MyAppleMenu] Saturday, Nov 29, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Nov 29, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Satisfied iPod Owner Creates His Own Web Page To Counter The Claims Of The iPod's Dirty Little Brothers (Bill Palmer)
<http://billpalmer.net/com000050.html>

The Golden Age Of Gadgets (Sonia Zjawinski, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/start.html?pg=2?tw=wn_tophead_3>
Ever since Apple's little MP3 player, the best toys come from the PC biz.

Boyzone Star Hosts Virgin iPod Bash (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7385>
Pop heartthrob Ronan Keating launched Apple's iPod Advent campaign at Virgin's London Oxford Street superstore last night.

Apple Leads Traffic To Computer Web Sites, Nielsen/NetRatings Reports (InternetRetailer.com)
<http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=10739>

Ive 'Hero' -- Official (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7391>
Apple's vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive has been proclaimed a 'Hero', winning a prestigious BIMA award.

iPod Wins A Prize (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7392>
Apple won a second BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) award last night -- iPod won the Special Award for Hardware.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Porting iChat (Spymac)
<http://www.spymac.com/comments.php?id=1177_0_5_0_M>
While porting iLife to Windows would be a bad idea, there is some merit in the idea of porting iChat.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Fast And Furious G5 (Chris Oaten, The Advertiser)
<http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,8003529%255E21669,00.html>
This is a genuinely impressive kit with loads of wow factor. In anyone's language.

Transitioning To PowerMail 4.2.1 (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/macnetjournal/transiti.html>
If you want a powerful and fast email client that works reliably with large volumes of mail, PowerMail is worth a look.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Probes New Explorer Holes (Reuters)
<http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/28/technology/microsoft.reut/>
Microsoft is investigating a report of seven new security holes in its Internet Explorer browser discovered by a Chinese researcher, a company spokesman said on Friday.

More Wintel news at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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What Is Google Worth? (Knowledge at Wharton, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2030-1069_3-5112098.html>
Anyone with an insatiable craving for a dot-com-era hypefest need not look far. The prospect of search engine firm Google's considering an initial public offering seems to have Wall Street salivating.

FCC To Look At Phone Firms' Use Of Internet To Carry Calls (Christopher Stern, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20032-2003Nov28.html>
The telecommunications industry, eager to find a route around a 100-year-old regulatory regime, has turned to a new path: the Internet.

Music Group Aims To Charge Internet Users (David Akin, CTV)
<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1069987965274_65397165///?hub=SciTech>
A group representing Canada's songwriters will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to force Internet service providers to pay them royalties for the millions of digital music files downloaded each year by Canadians.

The Internet: The New Political Ward? (Lydia Lim, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,222506,00.html?>
Non-Constituency MP Steve Chia claims the Internet as his constituency, while in the last month, the Government has responded to several issues first raised online. Is the medium coming into its own politically?

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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We Need To Get The Queen Bees (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/997080.asp>
"When America and Europe are divided, when Japan is hesitant," Lee cautions, "the extremists are emboldened."

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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A Change In The Weather (Laura Miller, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/books/review/30MILLERT.html>
In a rash of recent books, the post-boomer generation reflects on the underground radicals of the 60's and 70's.

Illness: Breaking Hollywood's One Remaining Taboo (Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001800659_hollywoodillness26.html>
Hollywood is a town whee everybody knows everybody else's business, from who's having an affair (and with whom), to where to go for the best Botox, to who has the juice to get your kid into the most elite private school. But there is one last taboo in Hollywood: being sick.

After The Yankees Go Home, A Neighborhood Shows A New Character (Alan Feuer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/29/nyregion/29YANK.html>
Famous places have secret lives. Like famous people, they reveal their private faces only when the lights go out and when the crowds have gone away.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Government Will Not Let Pilots 'Do Singaproe In': DPM (Rebecca Lee and Laurel Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/storyprintfriendly/0,1887,222509,00.html?>
Recalling what SM Lee said in 1980, DPM warns SIA pilots that their actions can put Singapore's well-being at risk too.

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