[MyAppleMenu] Oct 14, 2004

Thu Oct 14 13:15:00 EDT 2004

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, October 14, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[News]

*** 'Touch Me, Touch Me,' Macs Get Interactive
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9898>
by Macworld UK
A new touchscreen system for 17-inch PowerBook G4's ships next month.

*** This Is Not An iMac!
<http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=479654>
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
Hordes of clueless customers at a French computer store are unable to distinguish between the flat-screen iMac G5 and Apple's flat-screen Cinema Displays.

*** MSN Messenger, Remote Desktop Connection Client Updated
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/10/13/msnmessenger/>
by MacMinute

*** Apple To Open Six 'Mini Stores' This Saturday
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/10/13/ministores/>
by MacMinute
The smaller stores will have a completely new layout and design, and will allow Apple to get its products in front of more people in "interesting locations."

*** Apple Reports $106 Million Profit; Ship 2 Million iPods
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/13/appleprofit/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1004>
by Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral
"We are thrilled to report our highest fourth quarter revenue in nine years."

[Opinion]

*** The Competition Killer
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2004/10/4qresults/index.php>
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
Apple announced fourth quarter financial results that clearly demonstrate the iPod's domination of the personal digital player market. And by domination, I don't mean that Apple simply has a comfortable lead over the competition, I mean that, for the most part, there is no competition.

*** Mac Takes Honors As Best Unix Desktop
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1675775,00.asp>
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek
GNOME is nice, KDE is fine and the forthcoming Looking Glass may be wonderful, but the best Unix desktop is the one in the Macintosh.

*** Business Motivation
<http://www.kottke.org/04/10/business-motivation>
by Jason Kottke, Kottke.org
Much has been made of Apple's paltry OS/hardware market share, but when  you think about it, when a designer label can capture even 5% of a market that competes heavily on price, that's an impressive achievement.

[Review]

*** iPod Tested
<http://www.wcpo.com/wcpo/localshows/dontwasteyourmoney/2ba47187.html>
by John Matarese, WCPO.com

*** CherryOS First Impressions
<http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=479527>
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
The new CCherryOS Mac emulator for Windows XP is not an outright fraud, but whether it works aas advertised, I can't yet say.

*** Screen Spanning iMac
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2004/10/imacscreenspanning/index.php>
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Apple has disabled extended desktop mode in Open Firmware. The key is that if this feature can be disabled in Open Firmware, it can also be enabled in the same way. The trick is how to do it.

*** Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=429>
by Dustin Smith, Inside Mac Games

[Sidetrack]

*** Genius Bar? Your Bar Is Too Low 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/10/14/#20041014bg000002>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
Owen Rubin<http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?do=something&id=849> discovered that some geniuses at the genius bar are not really up to the mark.

*** Apple Creates Computers... 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/10/14/#20041014bg000001>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
while the other guys do a part at a time, and hope that everything fits together.

What's the point of creating the world's smallest Windows computer<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/technology/circuits/14stat.html?oref=login&ex=1255406400&#38;en=886ad511edc5a1fb&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt>, when you have to use hacks to read web pages?

*** Rumor Today: Music Giant Readies Canadian Launch 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/10/14/#20041014bg000003>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
National Post<http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=db69b6ed-dcec-4029-b3b8-425bbdc194ae>: iTunes, Apple's hugely popular online music service, is gearing up for a Canadian launch that could come as early as next month, music industry sources say.

[Wintel]

*** Spyware Targets Only Windows Users
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5743>
by Preston Gralla, O'Reilly Network
Anti-spyware maker Webroot Software said that it hasn't detected a single piece of spyware targeted at Macs or Linux machines.

*** Putting Yor PC In A Pocket
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/technology/circuits/14stat.html?oref=login&ex=1255406400&#38;en=886ad511edc5a1fb&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt>
by David Pogue, New York Times
Thanks to some of the very advances in miniaturization that make hand-held gadgets possible, a couple of former Apple laptop designers have devised the world's smallest Windows XP computer: 4.9 by 3.4 inches and less than an inch thick.

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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[News]

*** Will Wireless Rewrite The RFID Landscape?
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1675316,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
by Evan Schuman, eWeek
With dramatically greater range and faster deployment -- and with item-level tagging possible by next year -- one former Boeing engineer thinks wireless may solve retail RFID headaches.

*** Smaller Can Be Better (Except When It's Not)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/technology/circuits/14mini.html>
by Michel Marriot, New York Times
Some of the smallest gadgets raise a new question: how small is too small?

*** Putting Yor PC In A Pocket
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/technology/circuits/14stat.html?oref=login&ex=1255406400&#38;en=886ad511edc5a1fb&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt>
by David Pogue, New York Times
Thanks to some of the very advances in miniaturization that make hand-held gadgets possible, a couple of former Apple laptop designers have devised the world's smallest Windows XP computer: 4.9 by 3.4 inches and less than an inch thick.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** When A Kiss Is Not Just A Kiss
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/752xbofx.asp>
by Matt Labash, Weekly Standard
Reality TV comes to the Arab world.

[Expressions]

*** The Donkey
<http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi%3D20041018%26s%3Dpoem101804>
by William Logan, The New Republic

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Play! Entertainment Gets Licence To Distribute Rrestircted DVD Titles
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/111710/1/.html>
by Chua Chin Chye, Channel NewsAsia
Play Entertainment, which rents DVDs through automated dispensers, has obtained a licence from the Media Development Authority to distribute restricted DVDs.

*** Singapore Opposition Leader Says Court Blocked His Efforts To Avoid Bankruptcy?
<http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=23421>
by Associated Press
His party said when Chee Soon Juan tried to file the affidavit Wednesday, court officials told Chee that he had to file two separate documents for the two former premiers. It added Chee was told by Judge Kan Ting Chiu last week that he only needed one affidavit.