[MyAppleMenu] Friday, Feb 27, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Feb 27, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Unveils 'Hometown' San Francisco Store (Ina Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5165802.html>
Apple Computer staged a press event Thursday to show off its latest store, the "hometown" shop the company has been waiting to open for four years.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Retail Store Report - San Francisco 2004 (OSXFAQ)
<http://www.osxfaq.com/apple_store_sf/index.ws>

Salling Clicker 2.1 Adds Symbian OS-Based Phone Support (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/27/salling/index.php?redirect=1077861005000>
The new version adds support for "smartphones" that use the Symbian operating system, including models from Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.

Apple Fans, Do You Feel Lucky? (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,62455,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Apple sold Lucky bags during the recent grand opening of its Tokyo store, and the concept proved so popular the company decided to bring the idea to San Francisco.

iPod Mini Sales Sky Rocket (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=8033>
The launch of the iPod mini is exceeding all expectations, worldwide iPod marketing manager Danika Cleary revealed.

Pathe Archive: History In The Makiing (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/uk/education/articles/pathe/>
The world-famous British Pathe archive is using Apple technology to adapt the first digital news resource of its kind, so that schoolchildren can download high-resolution, original footage of the Titanic, the D-Day landings or The Beatles, and use it to bring their school projects to life.

With $2.1 Billion, Steve Jobs In At No. 262 In Forbes' List Of The World's Richest People (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2233_0_1_0>

Apple Hopes To Have 80 Retail Stores By September (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/02/26/retailstores>
Seventy-six are now open and a new San Francisco establishment is opening this weekend in Union Square at One Stockton Street.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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A Date With An eMate (Chris Oaten, The Advertiser)
<http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,8806129%255E21669,00.html>
Whatever you may think about Apple and its products, there is one undeniable fact: Apple has been a driving force in personal computing innovation since introducing its first product, the original Macintosh computer, in 1984.

I Came, I Saw, iPod (Anna Kaufman, Daily California)
<http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=14350>
You've seen us. On the bus. In class. Walking across campus, strolling down Telegraph Avenue. We're everywhere. We're 'Pod people.

Bag Of Mystery! And Other Apple Store Tales (Jason Snell, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/archives/000083.php>
If you're one of the hearty souls who lines up early Saturday morning to be the first to enter Apple's San Francisco store, you will have the opportunity to purchase a Lucky Bag for $250. The Lucky Bag is a mysterious bag full of seven or eight products, all but one of them from Apple. Those products have a combined retail value of between $600 and $1000.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Hearts Of Iron (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=815_0_1_0_M>

iPod Mini Battery Tests (Jeremy Hortwitz, iPodlounge)
<http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=3108_0_8_0_M>

Halo (Tim Robertson, MyMac.com)
<http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1675>

Hard Rock Casino (Eric Ford, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=467>
Hard Rock Casino is one of the better casino simulations out there, and definitely one of the more realistic ones.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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The Luxury Of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (Eric Raymond)
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html>
GUI tools and voluminous manuals are not enough. You have to think about what the actual user experiences when he or she sits down to do actual stuff, and you have to think about it from the user's point of view.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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VeriSign Sues ICANN Over Delay In Services (Grant Gross, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,90551,00.html>
Domain name system overseer accused of overstepping its authority.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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The Passion Of The Christ (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/cst-ftr-passion24.html>
It is a film about an idea. An idea that it is necessary to fully comprehend the Passion if Christianity is to make any sense.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Surprises With Delays In Tax Cut (John Burton, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1077690750027>
Singapore on Friday announced a surprise dleay in plans to cut income taxes from 22 per cent to 20 per cent, athough corporate taxes were reduced.

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