[MyAppleMenu] Saturday, Feb 14, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Feb 14, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple's iPod Mini Is A Big Deal In The MP3 World (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41488-2004Feb14.html>
This kind of painstaking perfectionism explains why the iPod continues to sell so well -- the rest of the industry runs on a "get it working, then move onto something else" mentality.

MyAppleMenu : News
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AvantGo, OS X Meet At Last (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/001429.html>
It took a while but the open-source community has come to the rescue.

Illustrating The Imagination (Barbara Gibson, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/design/mckean/>
"The major things that have changed are the tools and materials I've been able to use."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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A Little Software Developer (Allan Warner, Geek.com)
<http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Feb/fea20040213023861.htm>

Can iTunes Learn From Musicmatch? (Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/archives/000066.php>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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The iBook G4 (James Maguire, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Product_Review__The_iBook_G_&story_id=23114>
Except for a few quibbles, this is a hot box for a good price.

Home Automation With Mac OS X, Part 1 (Alan Graham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/13/home_automation.html>
Home automation is actually relatively affordable to set up. Anyone with very basic Mac OS X skills can design and program their own system.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Copyright Enters A Gray Area (Noah Shachtman, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62276,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
The Grey Album, which mixes music from the Beatles' White Album with lyrics from rapper Jay-Z's Black Album, is being hailed as a classic. EMI thinks it's a classic, too -- a classic case of copyright violation.

VoIP: It's Not So Easy To Listen In (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5159159.html>
Some Internet phone service providers say they're willing to cooperate with police seeking to wiretap conversations -- but they can't because of technical limitations.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Next PM -- The MPs' Choice (Tan Tarn How, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,235121,00.html?>
As Singapore goes through a change of prime ministers this year, there is a plan to have PAP MPs select their next leader. But why introduce it now when it has already been decided that Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be the new man in charge?

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