[MyAppleMenu] Nov 11, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** Apple No Longer Reviewing Itself
<http://news.com.com/2061-1003-5447655.html?tag=rsspr.5447656>
CNET News.com

Apple products now appear without a rating.

*** French Court Won't Force Apple To Open Up iTunes
<http://news.com.com/French+court+wont+force+Apple+to+open+up+iTunes/2100-1027_3-5447124.html>
Estelle Dumout, CNET News.com

The French Competition Council has dismissed a case brought by Virgin's French arm against Apple for alleged abuse of market dominance.

[News]

*** iPod Socks Now Available For Order From Apple Store
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/11/10/ipodsocks/>
MacMinute

*** Google To Give Gmail POP3 Support, Plans Antivirus
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/11/10/gmail/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1104>
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

"We want to make it the best e-mail service in every single dimension so you have aabsolutely no reason to use any other."

[Opinion]

*** Little Black Disc Killers
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/10/1100021864240.html>
Garry Barker, The Age

U2's deal, in which the band will market its massive 400-track digital box set -- the entire U2 collection, including stuff not previuosly heard -- suggests the end of the CD as we, and the big labels, know it.

*** The Word On The Next iPod: Flash
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2004/tc20041111_0481_tc056.htm>
Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek

Despite denials from Apple, teh buzz is building that the company is ready to launch a digital music player that uses a memory card.

*** Apple's Inadequate Quality Testing
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/011012.shtml>
Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News

Apple's hardware universe is sufficiently small that Apple should be more dilligent than it appears to be.

[Review]

*** Build Your Own Blogging Application, Part 1
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/09/weblog.html>
Matthew Russell, O'Reilly Network

How to harness the power of Perl and Tcl/Tk along with your .Mac iDisk to build your own blogging application.

*** Bose's Pricey iPod Speaker Dock
<http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,118275,00.asp>
Tom Mainelli, PC World

The sleek, shoebox-size device produces solid sound, but at $299 it's rather pricey.

*** Log In, Rock On
<http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11320750%255E11869,00.html>
Danny Gorog, Herald Sun

The biggest advantage of iTunes, apart from ease of use, is that it supports iPod.

*** Four Options For Buying New And Used Macs
<http://lowendmac.com/evan/04/1110.html>
Evan Kleiman, Low End Mac

[Sidetrack]

*** One Toe In The Pod-O-Sphere
Heng-Cheong Leong

Shawn King, of Your Mac Life, tries out PodCasting <http://www.yourmaclife.com/article.php?story=20041110145800261>. Unfortunately, he missed out on one key feature of Podcasting: the automatic push to the iPod. What's missing? The actual MP3 file should be placed into the Enclosure field of the RSS feed, so that applications such as iPodderX <http://www.yourmaclife.com/article.php?story=20041110145800261> can automatically download the MP3 file, put into a special playlist in your iTunes, so that the next time you connect your iPod to your Mac, the MP3 will automatically upload itself to your iPod.

Look Ma, No hands.

*** And How About You?
Heng-Cheong Leong

And if you want to get into the pod-casting business, here's a new web site that teaches you how to podcast in three (relatively) easy steps <http://www.howtopodcast.org/>.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Skips Itanium With New Windows
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+skips+Itanium+with+new+Windows/2100-1006_3-5447042.html?part=rss&tag=5447042&subj=news.1006.20>
Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com

Microsoft will come out with a special version of Windows next year for clusters, but it won't run on Intel's most powerful server chip, at least for now.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Trying To Make The Pen As Mighty As The Keyboard
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/technology/circuits/11next.html?ex=1257915600&#38;en=3cffb930e8657ea4&%2338;ei=5088&%2338;partner=rssnyt>
Aaron Ricadela, New York Times

Researchers are devising new ways to interact with Tablet PC's and other pen-based computers.

*** The New Dot-Com Gold Rush
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5909>
Ted Wallingford, O'Reilly Network

*** Wanted By The Police: A Good Interface
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/technology/circuits/11cops.html?oref=login&ex=1257915600&>
Katie Hafner, New York Times

"Do you think if you're hunkered down and someone's shooting at you in your car, you're going to be able to sit there and look for CDontrol or Alt or Function?"

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The other things in life

[World]

*** On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue In A Landslide
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/14rich.html?oref=login&ex=1257915600&>
Frank Rich, New York Times

There's only one problem with the storyline proclaiming that the country swung to the right on cultural issues in 2004. Like so many other narratives that immediately calcify into our 24/7 media's conventional wisdom, it is fiction.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Facing AIDS Epidemic -- Health Ministry
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6779397>
Reuters

Singapore faces an AIDS epidemic, with the number of infections diagnosed expected to hit a rate of 1,000 a year by 2010, a health official said.

*** New Highway To Ease CTE Jams
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/topstories/story/0,5562,284368,00.html?>
Christopher Tan, Straits Times

Proposed North-Sourth Expressway next to CTE may run from Sembawang/Upp Thomson to city.