[MyAppleMenu] Oct 11, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, October 11, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** Sampling A World Of New Ways To Grapple With The Web
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/opinion/11mon3.html?oref=login>
by Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times
Microsoft still has an enormous lead in market share when it comes to browsers. But we've come, in the browser world, to that memorable moment we came to long ago in the world of telephones. America woke up one day and discovered that you don't need a Ma Bell telephone to use Ma Bell.

[News]

*** Rocking The Music World
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/9889947.htm>
by Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News
Digital technology has changed everything about the art of making music.

*** Moviemaking Comes To St. Vincent College
<http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/westmoreland/s_260520.html>
by Jennifer Reeger, Tribune-Review
"We wanted to break the stereotype that you had to be in communications to make a video."

[Opinion]

*** Why Microsoft's Media Center Is Stuck On The Edge
<http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39169785,00.htm>
by ZDNet UK
In another corner is Mr White. He sells Apple computers that consumers love, but which have never reached the critical mass of the PC. He has suddenly got a huge hit on his hands in the form of the iPod.

*** A Metric Assload Of Journey Tunes
<http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/008091>
by Matt Haughey, A Whole Lotta Nothing
If 1 in 10 people have an iPod in the morning... what's the estimated total temporary storage of music, across all of Manhattan each and every morning?

[Review]

*** Airburst Extreme
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=2469_0_1_0_M>
by Kirk Hiner, Applelinks
Airburst Extreme is manic fun; an adrenaline rush that is simultaneously maddening and joyous.

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

[News]

*** Kill Voice Spam Before It Grows
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_hellweg101104.asp?trk=nl>
by Eric Hellweg, MIT Technology Review
Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail -- and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.

*** Americans Leery Of Buying Prescription Drugs Online
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/9889954.htm>
by Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News
Just 4 percent of Americans have ever purchased prescription medicine online.

*** New Service To Give Remote Access To Digital Media Anywhere
<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/technology/9891236.htm>
by Associated Press
In a move sure to raise the eyebrows of Hollywood and its partners, a California startup unveiled a new service Monday that allows subscribers to remotely access their digital media files -- even watch live television -- from any gadget with an Internet connectioiin.

*** India Emerges As Innovation Hub
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65269,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Manu Joseph, Wired News
Generations of indians have grown up recounting jokes about how the only contribution their nation has made to the world is the invention of zero. Innovation was something other people did. That's no longer the case.

*** Mainframes Make Their Comeback
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1667151,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
by Jeffrey Burt, eWeek
Mich of the mainframes' rebirth is due to the companies' efforts to enhance them with the newest technology.

*** Ultrawideband: Wireless Whoopee
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65297,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Reuters
Think of it as Wi-Fi on steroids.

[Internet]

*** A Day In The Life Of... Craig Newmark
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/10/LVGU693SFD1.DTL>
by Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle
S.F.'s noble nerd changes the world with quiet mix of social activism and technology.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The Case For Fearmongering
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041018-713226,00.html>
by Charles Krauthammer, Time
Do candidates alarm people when they talk of danger? They should.

[Life]

*** Truth Or Dare
<http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-01/author/>
by Suzanne Lebsock, Common-Place
If historians want to be believed on the big things, we should exercise care on the little ones.

*** Can I Get You Some Manners With That?
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6212743/site/newsweek/>
by Christie Scotty, Newsweek
So often it was the 'professionals' who looked down on me who were lacking in social grace.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Economy Loses Ground
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3732290.stm>
by BBC News
Singapore's economy shrank over the summer, weighed down by soaring oil prices, official figures have shown.

*** Punk Rises As Singapore Lossens Grip
<http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-singapore-punk,0,6367856.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines>
by Gillian Wong, Association Press
Even in famously disciplinarian, squeaky-clean Singapore, underground punk rock is belting out its anti-establishment message.