[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Feb 29, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Feb 29, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Store Openings: A Community Event (Dan Frakes, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/archives/000087.php>
Accoding to many of those in line, it's also the "community" that Apple store openings engender.

Jobs Opens San Francisco Apple Store (David Schloss, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/28/applestore/index.php?redirect=1077984004000>
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was joined by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former mayor Willie Brown to open the San Francisco Apple Store earlier today. Both Newsom and Brown praised Apple for its choice to locate the newest retail store in the revitalized Union Square district of San Francisco, while thousands waited outside for their chance to get in.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Little iPod, Able To Store Up To 10,000 Songs, Has Made Big Impact On Consumers (My-Ly Nguyen, Press & Sun-Bulletin)
<http://www.pressconnects.com/today/business/stories/bu022904s71487.shtml>
Make no mistake about it. Apple's iPod is for people who love music. Lots of music.

Laptop Program Causes Problems For School District (Associated Press)
<http://pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-13/107800044777261.xml>
A program intended to save teachers time by giving students laptops has caused classroom delays when the equipment malfunctions or students forget to bring the computers to class, a new study found.

Apple Opens Big San Francisco Store With Pomp (Spencer Swartz, Reuters)
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4460905>
How do you spend your 40th birthday and a sunny Saturday after a week of rain?

Cost Of Mini iPod Raises Questions (Brian Garrity, Billboard)
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=musicNews&storyID=4460987&pageNumber=0>
Is $249 a mass-market price tag for a portable music player?

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Customer Loyalty Is Deeper Than Just Hardware (Robert Scoble)
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/02/29.html#a6723>
Apple's loyalty comes from the overall experience. You gotta stand in line during an Apple store opening to get this.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Canvas 9: Illustration, Publication, Animation, And Presentation In One Program (Merrily Miller and David Rosenblatt, Mac Design Magazine)
<http://www.macdesignonline.com/issues/marapr04/reviews/canvas9.html>
Used with other high-powered programs such as Photoshop, Canvas is a tremendously efficient tool.

iceKEY (Apple Legal)
<http://www.applelegal.com/comments.php?id=146_0_1_0_C>
This is a great alternative for all who prefer the short key stroke travel and notebook keyboard feel, packaged in a full keyboard size form.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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When Journalists Blog, Editors Get Nervous (Steve Outing, Editor & Publisher)
<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/stopthepresses_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2092374>
Personal web logs are becoming a contentious issue in newsrooms across the country.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve? (Andrew Pollack, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/business/yourmoney/29biotech.html>
Many biotechnology companies appear to be taking fewer chances lately -- to the point that the industry seems to have lost its nerve, some experts say. The worry, of course, is that their increasingly chary approach to innovation will mean fewer breakthrough drugs.

The New Mouse: Microsoft's Aura Project And Personal Data (Steve Gillmor, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1540288,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000630>

Users Will Flip Out Over Message Tool (Charles Bermant, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001867212_ptinbo28.html>
Called Teleflip, it allows you to send a short text message (SMS) directly to a cellphone.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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How Movie Taglines Are Born (Jon Mooallem, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/02/29/how_movie_taglines_are_born/>
2003 was an off year for copy lines, those punchy epigrams printed above or below the film's title in posters and ads.

Accidents Happen (Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/29/CMG3K57PEI3.DTL>
On how reporting can get personal.

Joining The Debate But Missing The Point (Nathaniel Frank, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/opinion/29FRAN.html>
For a productive dialogue, we should be asking the question this way: is giving gays the right to marry good for society?

The Joy Of Gay Marriage (Frank Rich, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/arts/29RICH.html>
The San Francisco weddings mark a new high-water mark in one of the most fast-paced cultural tsunamis America has seen.

Are Malls Democratic? (Paco Underhill, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/02/29/are_malls_democratic/>
Shopping centers may resemble town squares, but civil rights and commercial interests don't always mix -- and freedom is often the loser.

Say no More (Jack Hitt, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/magazine/29LANGUAGE.html>
Languages die the way many people do -- at home, in silence, attended by loved ones straining to make idle conversation.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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2nd Language Ruling For Varsity Eased (Sandra Davie, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,237660,00.html?>
A sacred cow in education was slaughtered yesterday when the Education Ministry announced that students no longer need to count the grade for their mother tongue subject when applying for a university here.

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