[MyAppleMenu] Thursday, Feb 19, 2004

Thu Feb 19 21:05:00 EST 2004

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Feb 19, 2004

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Debuts "Tell A Friend" Feature In iTunes Music Store (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2196_0_1_0>

10% Off Digital Camcorders For .Mac Members (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/02/19/mac>

Helping Hand For Musical PowerBooks (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7969>
A trio of Australian musicians is making PowerBook music using a system on the surface even easier than GarageBand -- simply by using their hands.

Mac AIM 4.7 Adds Friendly Name, New File Sharing (Brad Cook, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/18/aim/?lsrc=mcrss-0204>

It's Mac From Now On! (Grace Chng, Straits Times)
<http://computertimes.asia1.com.sg/people/story/0,5104,1997,00.html?macsingapore>
Who makes a better Macintosh advocate than one who is a convert himself? Meet Mr Edward Fun, the new general manager of Apple Singapore, who is on a mission to convince the world - in particular, the Windows world -- of the Mac goodness.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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It's The Standard, Stupid (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/archives/2004/02/000074.php>
Ultimately it's not about the player. It's about the music you put on the player.

Tempers Flare Around The iPod (David Pogue, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/technology/circuits/19POGUE-EMAIL.html>
I already knew that a huge population of Windows bashers, and a huge population of Mac bashers populate the Internet -- but now I've met the iPod bashers.

Apple's Other Hardware Hit (Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2004/tc20040219_0887_tc056.htm>
As with the iPod, the hot Airport line of wireless-networking gear shows that ease of use and an eye for coming trends bring outsize gains.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Stuck On The iPod (Patrick Regnier, Money Magazine)
<http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/18/technology/ipods_0403/>
Steve Jobs just made me buy another iPod. And that ticks me off.

Cocktail 3.4.2 (Lars Dueck, Inside Apple)
<http://www.insideapple.com/article.php?id=23_0_1_0_M>
Cocktail delivered as promised and didn't disappoint me in the least.

iPod Losing Charge If Connected To A Sleeping Mac (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040219013416543>

Apple iPod Mini (Troy Dreier, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1529864,00.asp>
The Mini is as much of a pleasure to use as its big brother and even better dressed. The only question is whether Apple has gotten greedy.

A Band In Your Mac (Jim Akin, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/technology/personal_technology/7984914.htm>
GarageBand's greatest triumph may be its ability to give users at all levels of musical experience and ability (or lack thereof) a chance to be muscially creative.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Now Preening On The Coffee Table: The TiVo Remote Control (Katie Hafner, New York Times)
<http://nytimes.com/2004/02/19/technology/circuits/19remo.html?pagewanted=1>
In 1998, design engineers at TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that helped introduce the digital video recorder to the world, set out to produce a distinctive remote control. The result was a textbook blend of complexity and ease of use.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Navigating Digital Home Networks (Michel Marriott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/technology/circuits/19navi.html>
While the broad vision of a digital lifestyle is clear, the details of living it are still a bit blurry.

W3C Risks Patent Tussle In Standard Push (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5162070.html>
A pending industry standard for voice-activated computer commands is moving ahead, despite potential patent entanglements, dealing a black eye to investigators handling intellectual-property claims in the case.

University Unveils Robot Receptionist (Judy Lin, Associated Press)
<http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040219/D80QCJ280.html>
She might not be paid, but Carnegie Mellon University's newest staff member does all that a typical receptionist should: gives directions, answers the phone -- even gossips about her boss.

PKI's Alive And Kicking (Phil Libin, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-7355_3-5161272.html>
The good news is that the PKI debate is quickly fading away, as customers stop focusing on technology and start focusing on specific applications.

Notebooks To Dial Up Built-In Phones (Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5161489.html>
Manufacturers are going to start selling notebooks with integrated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) this year and later come out with notebooks with built-in cell phone capabilities.

It's Not Enough To Be Just A Phone Company (Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/business/19wire.html>
The industry is moving into an era of telecommunications megacarriers.

Microsoft, Sun Tackle Java From Opposing Vantage Points (Paul Krill, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/18/HNcreator_1.html>
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems this week are making moves in Java, with Sun looking to boost the platform and Microsoft attempting to lure developers away from it.

Yahoo Dumps Google Search Technology (Jim Hu and Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5160710.html>
Yahoo dropped Google as the default search technology provider for its U.S.-based sites late Tuesday, signaling the beginning of the end for the Web's most high-profile marriage of convenience.

Intel Pushes Hybrid Approach For Next-Gen Wi-Fi (Rick Merritt, EE Times)
<http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/OEG20040217S0040>
The proposed 100 Mbit/second version of 802.11 should embrace smart antennas, wider channels and advances in error correction and power efficiency, said James Wilson, a researcher in Intel's corporate R&D group.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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Black Hole's Vast Power Is Documented (John Noble Wilford, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/science/19BLAC.html>
New X-ray observations by orbiting satellites have given astronomers their first telling evidence that appears to confirm what had been only theory: that a star is doomed if it ventures too close to a supermassive black hole.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Forgotten $100m Tang Dynasty City (Loh Chee Kong, Today)
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/14611.asp>
Former 12-hectare theme park in Jurong sits as an 'eyesore' for five years in land-scarce Singapore.

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