[MyAppleMenu] Nov 18, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** Apple Plans Music Download Service In Japan -- Paper
<http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh43338_2004-11-18_01-00-35_t16822_newsml>
Retuers

The Nihon Keizai newspaper reported on Thursday that Apple aimed to offer more than 100,000 songs with an emphasis on Japanese music by March 2005.

[News]

*** Apple Updates G5 Firmware, Xserve RAID Admin Tools
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/11/17/appleupdates/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1104>
Brad Cook, MacCentral

*** U2 iPod Unboxed!
<http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=523320>
Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac

*** Lost Ellen Feiss Switch Ad Unearthed
<http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=523198>
Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac

Errol Morris has posted several of the never-seen-before Swtich ads to his website, including a new spot featuring the only breakout star, Ellen Feiss.

*** Freeverse Ships Big Bang Board Games
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/11/17/bbbg/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1104>
Peter Cohen, MacCentral

*** Apple Computer Says To Delist From Tokyo Bourse
<http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh26493_2004-11-17_08-08-18_t364062_newsml>
Retuers

Apple said the turnover of its shares had been small, making it difficult to justify high listing costs.

[Opinion]

*** iBetter? Haha
<http://james.seng.cc/archives/2004/11/18/ibetter_haha.html>
James Seng

If I own a Zen Micro, I would be spending my time hiding it from being seen.

*** Win Autographed Creative Zen Micros
<http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2004/11/win_autographed.html>
Mr Brown

Who wants to buy or win an MP3 player with some CEO's signature on it?

[Review]

*** Creating iPod Tattoos
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/11/17/ipod_tattoos.html>
Tony Williams, O'Reilly Network

Printing these things is more fraught with peril than you might think -- the problem is getting the size of the graphic right and getting your software to print the graphic at the top of the page. There are easy ways to get it done, however.

*** Eudora 6.2 Alternates Between Silly And Serious
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?14@18.dXxnaVKEQv7.0@.3c4f5c5c!discloc=.3c544b86>
Adam Engst, TidBITS

The... new features in Eudora 6.2 are more along the lines of what I know and love about the program.

*** Peace Of Mind For Notebook Data
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2004/11/17/cx_ah_1117tentech.html>
Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes

*** U2 iPod Impressions: Better Looks, Cleaner Audio?
<http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=5571_0_8_0_M>
Jeremy Horwitz, iPodlounge

Like a number of other recent Apple products, the U2 iPod just looks better in person than it does in official publicity shots.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** There's Only One Stuffing: Ask Any Cook
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/dining/17STUF.html?8hpib>
Julia Moskin, New York Times

Whether called stuffing or dressing, made with old crusts of corn bread or French-style pain au levain, moistened with Armagnac or applesauce, this unglamorous, gloriously flavored mixture is the true taste of Thanksgiving for many Americans.

*** How They Count The Enemy Dead
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2109871/fr/rss/>
Phillip Carter, Slate

Why's it so hard? Let us count the ways.

[Expressions]

*** Modernism 2
<http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041122&s=poem112204>
Doug Sanders, New Republic

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Life in the city

[Top Stories]

*** No Independent Media? Singapore Model Is Different
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,285560,00.html?>
Asad Latif, Straits Times

Singapore's reputation as a global city will not be affected by international media organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres ranking the republic as the lowest developed country interms of press freedom, claims Lee Boon Yang.

[News]

*** Singapore Economy Shrinks As Output Slips
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/17/bloomberg/sxsing.html>
Amit Prakash, Bloomberg

Singapore's economy sharnk at a 3 percent annual pace in the third quarter, mroe than initially estimated, the government said Wednesday, as waning demand for computer chips and printers curbed growth in manufacturing.

*** R&D Framework To Be Changed To Draw Private-Sector Funding
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,285591,00.html?>
Chang Ai-Lien and Natalie Soh, Straits Times

Singapore's research development framework will be transformed within two years to encourage more basic research and attract more private-sector funding.