[MyAppleMenu] Aug 10, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, August 10, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** SIGGRAPH: Apple Introduces Production Suite
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/08/10/production/?lsrc=mcrss-0804>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
Apple on Tuesday introduced Production Suite, a new package that combines together Final Cut Pro HD, Apple's recently released Motion software, and DVD Studio Pro 3.

[News]

*** SIGGRAPH: Apple Releases Motion
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/08/10/motion/?lsrc=mcrss-0804>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
Motion uses "Behaviors" -- procedural animation techniques that simulate gravity or wind, attraction and repulsion between multiple objects and other activities.

*** iTunes Music Store Tops A Million Songs In US
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/08/10/itunes/?lsrc=mcrss-0804>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
Apple said that iTMS is the first commercial online music download service to offer a million song catalog.

*** Apple Gives Money For Old Macs
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9368>
by Macworld UK
Apple UK is offering businesses a rebate on old Macs if they trade them in for new models.

*** Punching At iTunes
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040816-678631,00.html>
by Time
How rivals are taking aim at Apple's dominance in digital music.

*** Roxio Selling Software Division, Focusing On Music
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/08/09/roxio>
by MacMinute
Sonic will purchase essentially the entire Roxio software operation including Roxio's CD and DVD recording, authoring, photo and video editing application products including Easy Media Creator, PhotoSuite, VideoWave, Easy DVD Copy and Toast.

*** Apple Releases Mac OS X V10.3.5
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/08/09/1035/?lsrc=mcrss-0804>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral

[Review]

*** Making A DVD With Just 1 Mac And 7 PC's
<http://blogs.msdn.com/decheung/archive/2004/08/10/211714.aspx>
by Dennis T Cheung
The results were absolutely astounding. And all it took was a farm of 7 PCs, 1 Mac, and about 48 man-hours.

*** On Track With Route 66
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07767>
by Jonathan Jackel, TidBITS
With a little work and attention to how people use maps for a variety of purposes, Route 66 could become a first class product.

*** EyeHome: So Close, Yet So Far
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07766>
by Andrew Laurence, TidBITS
The convenience of having one's digital pictures on the TV is a blessing, as is dialing up a digital movie on a moment's notice. Music playback works, but it plaes in comparison to the SlimServer software on the Squeezebox from Slim Devices. If you can get past the interface, the EyeHome functions quite well.

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The other things in life

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*** Vanishing Act
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2104947/fr/rss/>
by Chris Forhan, Slate

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Life in the city

[Top Stories]

*** Same Faces In Singapore Reshuffle
<http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/singapore.cabinet.reut/>
by Reuters
Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's prime minister-designate, has appointed a new government of mostly old faces to tackle pressing problems ranging from a low birth rate to the loss of jobs to fast-growing China.

[News]

*** Singapore's Lee Stays In Finance Job; Goh Takes MAS
<http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aHdGJVpWixJs&refer=asia>
by Bloomberg
Singapore's incoming Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and incumbent Goh Chok Tong shared the top economic posts in a Cabinet reshuffle, suggesting continuity in policies that fuelled the fastest growth in four years.

*** Singapore's Lee To Be 'Minister Mentor'
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/9363149.htm>
by Associated Press

*** Changing Of The Guard In Singapore
<http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/singapore.pm/>
by CNN
In a final speech to the nation, Singapore's outgoing Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong declared his "chapter closed."

*** 6,000 At Singapore Pride Despite Ban On Homosexual Sex
<http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2004/08/09/6>
by Christopher Curtis, Gay.com
Despite a ban on homosexual sex, some 6,000 people showed up Saturday for the start of a three-day gay and lesbian festival in Singapore, making it Asia's largest gay event, according to organizers.