[MyAppleMenu] Oct 12, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** The Seed Of Apple's Innovation
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041012_4018_db083.htm>
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Steve Jobs: "Our primary goal here is to make the world's best PC -- not to be the biggest or the richest. We have a second goal, which is to always make a profit -- both to make some money but also so we can keep making those great products. For a time, those goals got flipped at Apple, and that subtle change made all the difference."

[News]

*** iPod Users Go Into The Closet
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,65278,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Leander Kahney, Wired News
As Apple's iPod moves fast into the mainstream, many users shun the telltale white earbuds. Behold the closet iPod lover, some of whom are not too keen on the growing hordes of plebes with new iPods.

*** Microsoft Offers Office 2004 Service Pack 1
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/12/sp1/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1004>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
The service pack "addresses potential security issues and bugs that feedback played an important role in identifying."

*** Cherry OS Lets PCs Emulate Macs
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/12/cherryos/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1004>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral
It purportedly runs at about 80 percent of the performance of the host CPU, according to the developer.

*** Apple Remote Desktop 2.1 Update Released
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/10/11/appleremotedesktop/>
by MacMinute

*** Apple To Open First Delaware Store This Week
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/10/11/applestore/>
by MacMinute
The new Apple Store is located at the Christana Mall in Newark.

*** Piper Jaffray Takes Shine To Apple
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BE26EF58E%2DEA61%2D40ED%2DA79F%2D44DD06597CDC%7D>
by Rex Crum, CBS MarketWatch
With Apple's stock trading at more than twice where it was a year ago, Piper Jaffray raised the bar for the shares even higher due to an anticipated benefit from increased iPod sales.

*** All I Want For Christmas Is AN iPod
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/chi-041011ipod,1,7677027.story?coll=chi-technology-utl>
by Bloomberg
"It was really surprising. They didn't say music player. They said iPod. Teens want to be cool, they want their music, and the iPod is a cool way for them to get their music."

*** Giving Apple's AirTunes A Second Chance Thanks To NetTunes
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2004/10/nettunes/index.php>
by Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral
Shareware developer Dave Nanian made netTunes as a companion to AirTunes to solve the problems users of AirTunes encountered.

*** iPod US Marketshare Rises To 82 Percent
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/11/ipodshare/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1004>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral

[Opinion]

*** Use The iPod As A Trojan Horse? You Betcha
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/use_the_ipod_as_a_trojan_horse_you_betcha/>
by Dennis Sellers, Macsimum

*** Why Classical Downloads Have A Long Way To Go
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/10/11/bmfps09.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/10/11/ixartleft.html>
by Julian Lloyd Webber, Telegraph
Even if my son doesn't share my penchant for '60s crooners, he can hardly expect me to throw out my CDs just yet.

*** When Is Tiger Shipping?
<http://www.backupbrain.com/2004_10_10_archive.html>
by Dori Smith, Backup Brain
Is there any chance that some publishers know more than "the first half of 2005"?

*** Of Rumors And Ruminations
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2004/10/rumorrum/index.php>
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
The trick to adding new features is to do it in a way that doesn't complicate the iPod's interface.

[Review]

*** Will Linux Finish Off The Mac?
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5406365.html>
by David Berlind, ZDNet
The premium cost of Apple hardware hurts and OS X only runs on Apple hardware.

*** Device Records Radio For Later
<http://washingtontimes.com/technology/20041011-101859-2338r.htm>
by Mark Kellner, Washington Times
I believe the folks at Griffin Technology might want to refine the radioShark. I have every confidence that they can build an even better mousetrap, or radio program trap to be more precise.

*** Home Theater Harmony
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07848>
by Andrew Laurence, TidBITS
Logitech's Harmony Remote is a universal and programmable remote control. It's also expensive, with a suggested retail price of $200 and up. However, it's the only universal remote I've used that actually relegates the originals to a drawer.

*** Apple iMac G5
<http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Apple_iMac_G5/4505-3118_16-31077383-2.html?tag=top>
by Troy Dreier, ZDNet
Bargin hunters should look to the Apple eMac and power users to the Power Mac G5, but for anyone with a love of sleek, minimalist decor, this is the computer for you.

*** Virtual PC 7 Puts A (Sluggish) Windows PC On Your Mac
<http://lowendmac.com/mac2win/04/1011.html>
by Alan Zisman, Low End Mac

[Sidetrack]

*** We Don't Need No Music Subscription Service For Our iPods 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/10/12/#20041012bg000001>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
Podcasting to the rescue. :-)

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Ups Ante Vs. iTunes
<http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2004/10/12/cx_ah_1012microsoft.html?partner=rss>
by Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes

*** What Dell Needs: A Jazzier DJ
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2004/tc20041011_9975_tc119.htm>
by Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek
Its attempt to unseat Apple's iPod is falling way short, so a spiffy new player would help this holiday season. Will Dell have one?

*** MSN Fighting Messenger Difficulties, Virus
<http://news.com.com/MSN+fighting+Messenger+difficulties%2C+virus/2100-7349_3-5406282.html?part=rss&tag=5406282&subj=news.7349.20>
by Robert Lemos, CNET News.com

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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[News]

*** Experts Wonder: Is Telecom Dead?
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/12/HNtelecomdead_1.html>
by Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service
VoIP is changing the landscape of the traditional telecom market.

*** 7-Eleven Adopting Wireless Technology
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1674266,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
by David Koenig, Associated Press
Wireless handhelds for inventory and souped-up ATMs for customers all figure in the chain's IT moves.

*** Proxy Service Makes China's Blocks Useless
<http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=72629>
by Fons Tuinstra, E-Media Tidbits
The new service makes it difficult to distinguish between viewing a blocked or non-blocked website.

*** Storage Vendors Push Decentralization
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/11/41NNstoragetek_1.html>
by Bob Francis, InfoWorld
Customers ar emoving to manage and protect remote storage assets because of new regulations such as Sarbanese-Oxley.

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** A Lesson In Linguistics From The Mouths Of Babes
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/12/science/12lang.html?oref=login&ex=1255320000&>
by Michael Erard, New York Times
"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin," the three little pigs taunted the big bad wolf. When Ann aVan Valin was 4 years old, she pronounced the phrase "not by the chair of my hinny hin hin" and unwittingly advanced the study of children's language when she did.

*** How Technology Failed In Iraq
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/talbot1104.asp?trk=top>
by David Talbot, MIT Technology Review
The Iraq War was supposed to be a preview of the new U.S. military: a light, swift force that relies as much on sensors and communications networks as on heavy armor and huge numbers. But once the shooting started, technology fell far short of expectations.

*** At Mount St. Helens, The Big Eruption Is Of Data, Not Lava
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/12/science/12volc.html?oref=login&ex=1255320000&#38;en=81987a54c9331d79&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt>
by Kenneth Chang, New York Times
Technology developed over the last two decades "has allowed us to do a better job of monitoring and allowed us to interpret the data much more quickly."

*** Vote!
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2108029/fr/rss/>
by Jordan Elenberg, Slate
Why your ballot isn't as meanngless as you think.

[Expressions]

*** The Alpine Slide
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?041018fi_fiction>
by Rebecca Curtis, New Yorker

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore-KL Ties Better: Dr M
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/news/story/0,4574,131826,00.html?>
by Associated Press
Problems he created were 'now in the background' of the bilateral ties.

*** Singapore Tight Policy Seen Sticking
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/041011/15/3nos7.html>
by Hasan Jafri, Dow Jones
Singapore's central bank Monday held steady its policy for a gradual appreciation of the local dollar and downplayed the effect of high oil prices, suggesting the current monentary stance could remain in place beyond the next review in April.