[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2004

MyAppleMenu : News
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Music From iPod Ads Now Available From iTMS (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/03/09/ipodads>
Two songs featured in the latest iPod television commercials are finally available for purchase from the iTMS months after the ads began airing.

Pocket PC iPod Imitator Gets Apple's Attention (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/03/09/pbop/index.php?redirect=1078843549000>
The developer changed the layout of the software so the touch pad is now located between the menu and the buttons. Starbrite also changed pPod's name to pBop.

Apple: FileMaker 7 (MacIntouch)
<http://www.macintouch.com/index.shtml#i.2004.03.09.fm7>

Napster CEO: Apple Will Buckle Under AAC Pressure (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23756>

Apple Refuses French MP3 Tax (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/03/09/ipodtax>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Sony + Apple = Disaster (Sandy McMurray, Apple Matters)
<http://www.corante.com/apple/archives/002310.html>
Long-time Apple watchers have been down this road before, and it's still a bad idea -- for both companies.

It's Two... Two Companies In One (Ted Laudau, MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040309000805980>
Is Apple primarily a hardware company that makes software, or a software company that makes hardware?

The Future Is Now At Apple! (Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4542>
Apple is now free to release more innovative products than ever, products that consumers will be willing to try and adopt now that the more "traditional" part is secured.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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The Perfect Player? (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/technology/8143732.htm>

Age Of Mythology (Bill Stiteler, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=881_0_1_0_M>

BlogStudio Publishes To .Mac (Jim Dalrymple, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/archives/000097.php>
If you're interested in blogging with your .Mac account, BlogStudio deserves a look.

iPhoto 4: Change In CD Burning Behavior From iPhoto 3 (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040309012056482>
"When the CD is actually burned, the amount of data actually written to the disc is much less, due to the missing originals."

DEVONthink Thinks, So You Don't Have To (Matt Neuburg, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07575>
DEVONthink is inexpensive, flexible, easy, intuitive; it features straightforward arranging and fast, powerful searching; it lets you edit snippets; it sotres links to files on disk.

Sharing And Accessing The iDisk Public Folder (James J. Rogers, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07574>
Your iDisk contains a Public folder to share and distribute files with other people.

Mariner Write 3.5 And Mariner Calc 5.2: Strong Application Undermined By Inconsistent Compatibility With Microsoft Office (Jeffery Battersby, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2004/03/reviews/marinerwrite3x5andmarinercalc5x2/?lsrc=mcrss-0304>
As stand-alone programs, both perform perfectly. But when viewed from the perspective of interoperability with Word and Excel, Write and Calc are overshadowed by the more feature-rich and considerably less expensive AppleWorks.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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In Search Of The Deep Web (Alex Wright, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/09/deep_web/index_np.html>
The next generation of Web search engines will do more than give you a longer list of search results. They will disrupt the information economy.

Trouble On Silicon Valley's Doorstep (Karen Southwick, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2008-1012_3-5171606.html>

Lingering Job Insecurity Of Silicon Valley (Steve Lohr and Matt Richtel, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/technology/09jobs.html>
Building software is "becoming the equivalent of blue-collar work."

ICANN President Wants Group To Focus On Internet Basics (Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service)
<http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,90895,00.html?from=homeheads>
The goupd is facing a number of disputes that could expand its role.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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The Networks' Expandable Hour (Lisa de Moraes, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33755-2004Mar5.html>
Welcome to the brave new world of program scheduling in which a show that's supposed to end at 10 p.m. may end at 10:03.

The Perpetual Adolescent (Joseph Epstein, Weekly Standard)
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/825grtdi.asp>
Few are the restaurants that could any longer hope to stay in business if they required men to wear a jacket and tie.

Won Over By A Writers' Writer (Alex Beam, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/03/09/won_over_by_a_writers_writer/?rss_id=Boston%20Globe%20--%20Living%20/%20Arts%20News>
Charles Portis is the greatest writer you've never heard of. It's the curse of the "writers' writer."

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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StarHub Launches Prepaid Broadband Service (Raju Chellam, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,110251,00.html?>
$2.50 a day for five to 25 days per month.

SLF Drops Offices, Homes From Controversial Ang Mo Kio Project (Andrea Tan, Business Tan)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,110266,00.html?>
The Singapore Labour Foundation confirmed that it will drastically scale down its controversial Ang Mo Kio Town Centre development due to the 'prevailing oversupply'.

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