[MyAppleMenu] Jun 19, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, June 19, 2004

MyAppleMenu
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Mac News for Mac Users

[News]

*** Jeffrey Aaronson: Roundabout Route To Photography
<http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/aaronson/>
by Barbara Gibson, Apple
"A lot of people think digital photography is going to be so much easier because of the immediacy and because you can go back and rework something. But you still have to master the tools and then follow your heart."

*** Byte Of Apple Pie
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,4386,256798,00.html>
by Richard Lim, Straits Times
Proving that an Apple lifestyle store can succeed, AppleCentre at Orchard celebrates its second anniversary with a basket of goodies and discounts.

*** Composers Creating Music Entirely By Computer Do Battle At Local Nightspots
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/178119_laptopbattle17.html>
by D. Parvaz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Welcome to the latest genre of e-music, where musicians aren't limited by what they can extract from traditional instruments, and the whole deal takes place on a portable piece of technology.

*** Faces Of The Week: Steve Jobs
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3816707.stm>
by BBC News
When Steve Jobs founded the Apple computer company, he changed the face of computing. And this week his revolution in how we buy and listen to music expanded with the European launch of Apple's online store, iTunes.

[Opinion]

*** The Brouhaha
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5092>
by Kyle Rankin, O'Reilly Network
Apparently part of the autorun process on the new Beastie Boys CD is to silenetly install a copy protection system on Windows and Mac -- a aystem that apparently includes a uninstaller for Windows, but not Mac OS.

*** Word 5.1 Plus
<http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/06/18/159325.aspx>
by Rick Schaut
If you sit down with a bunch of people and ask them what they want in a word processor, they start from Word 5.1 as the baseline, but they'll, almost always, want something more.

*** Apple Needs A New 'Mac LC' For Market Growth
<http://www.architosh.com/news/2004-06/2004c-0618-op-mac-lc.phtml>
by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, Architosh

[Review]

*** More LDAP In Mac OS X Server
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/18/ldap.html>
by Tony Williams, O'Reilly Network

[Wintel]

*** Clueless In Seattle
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040617.html>
by Robert X. Cringely, PBS
Can there be some psychological basis to Microsoft court behavior?

*** Microsoft's New Rules Of Engagement
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/18/25OPcurve_1.html>
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Redmond is giving developers access to unreleased tools and its top-level technical staff.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[Internet]

*** Google To Publishers: Some Butter For Your Bread
<http://news.com.com/Google+to+publishers%3A+Some+butter+for+your+bread/2100-1024_3-5239494.html?part=rss&tag=5239494&subj=news.1024.20>
by Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
Google is pushing two new services for independent Webmasters as a way to help expand its search and advertising business.

[Linux]

*** There's No Such Thing As A Free (Software) Lunch
<http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=153>
by Jay Michaelson, ACM Queue
What every developer should know about open source licensing.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** On 9/11, A Telling Seven-Minute Silence
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53548-2004Jun18.html>
by Joel Achenbach, Washington Post
Presidents of an earlier era did not have to contend with so many cameras and microphones and the endless appetite for material to put on 24-hour cable news channels.

[Life]

*** Decyphering The Grammar Of Mind, Music And Math
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/19/arts/19CONN.html>
by Edward Rothstein, New York Times
The appeal of a more abstract way of thinking about music may be growing. There is a search for timeless laws and principles; it may be that something can be learned from the listener in the locked room.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Plans To Turn Marina Basin Into Reservoir, Watersports Centre
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/90663/1/.html>
by Joanne Leow, Channel NewsAsia
The Public Utilities Board has announced plans to turn the Marina Basin into a freshwater reservior and a watersports centre in five years' time.

[Technology]

*** Byte Of Apple Pie
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,4386,256798,00.html>
by Richard Lim, Straits Times
Proving that an Apple lifestyle store can succeed, AppleCentre at Orchard celebrates its second anniversary with a basket of goodies and discounts.